On a summer day in 2010, 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez and his friends were playing near their home in Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua, Mexico.
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According to Border Patrol, children throwing rocks is considered an imminent threat that must be met with deadly force. For real.
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A report by a former police commissioner and and DOJ official outlined the Border Patrol's deadly practice:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2736697-Frazier-Report-Combined.html …
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The Border Patrol agent that killed Sergio Hernández by shooting him across the border got to keep his job.
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And, because Sergio Hernández was a Mexican in Mexico, and not a U.S. citizen in the U.S., he has no standing in U.S. courts.
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Again, this happens ALL. THE. TIME. Talk to people who live near the border on the Mexican side. The stories are terrifying.
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This November, for the first time ever, a Border Patrol agent faces trial for the 2010 killing of a Mexican. He was indicted last October.
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Border Patrol's been killing children on the Mexican side for *decades* and this was the first indictment. Ever.http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/446866267/in-a-first-border-agent-indicted-for-killing-mexican-teen-across-fence …
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Now I want you to compare this with what happens on the Canadian border, where there's often no fence to keep white Canadians out.
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The Border Patrol doesn't drive up and down the Canadian/U.S. boundary to taunt children and shoot them dead. Trust me'd hear about it then.
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Just a couple of days ago, a couple of Canadian kids crossed the border... playing Pokémon lol:http://abcnews.go.com/US/teens-inadvertently-walk-us-canada-border-playing-pokemon/story?id=40818363 …
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The story is kinda funny. Two kids are out playing a game and sort of cross the U.S. border without even knowing it.
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And I'd let it go completely, if it wasn't for the fact that it illustrated the clear difference between the borders in the north and south.
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Canadian kids can CROSS INTO THE U.S. and the Border Patrol will call their mom. Mexican kids DON'T EVEN CROSS and murdered for existing.
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You already know that if Mexican kids are playing Pokémon and accidentally cross into the U.S. border they'll automatically be criminalized.
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Skin color can determine the degree to which a child gets to live a childhood. That's too true on the borders—both of them.
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