Pulling The Trigger

Are Border Patrol agents too quick to pull the trigger? The Department of Homeland Security inspector general is investigating. Agents have killed at least 16 people along the Mexico border in the past two years. The most recent incident was in October when agents shot and killed a teen they said was scaling a border fence so he could bring drugs into the United States. They accused him of pelting rocks at officers but not of having a gun. The boy's family said he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The case has outraged Mexican officials. There are more than 18,000 border patrol agents in the Southwest alone.