THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

And rightly so. When you have had a peaceful relationship with your neighbor for over 100 years, you don't expect your citizens to be in hazard of their lives when they are in the other country. Unfortunately, the Mexican administration has been counting the number of its citizens being killed by IS LEO's and decided that enough is enough!

For the second time in barely two weeks, Mexico has reacted angrily to the killing of an unarmed Mexican immigrant by municipal police officers in the United States.

Mexico’s Foreign Secretariat issued a statement Wednesday condemning the Grapevine, Texas, police department for the fatal shooting of a Mexican national, Rubén García Villalpando, 31, on Friday and complaining that the police department had waited four days before notifying the Mexican consulate in Dallas of his death.

The statement called the delay a “notorious violation” of a global 1963 treaty that orders nations to notify other states promptly when one of its citizens is slain.

García’s death at the hands of Grapevine police occurred 10 days after police in Pasco, Wash., fatally shot another Mexican immigrant, Antonio Zambrano Montes, sparking street protests and fears of another “Ferguson moment” over alleged police abuse of minorities.

Neither Garcia nor Zambrano was armed.

Mexico is growing increasingly vehement in its protests of what it calls “disproportionate use of force” by law enforcement officers in the United States against immigrants.

At the request of McClatchy Newspapers, a Foreign Secretariat spokesman, Salvador Musalem Santiago, issued a tally that said 75 Mexicans have been slain by law enforcement in the United States since Jan. 1, 2006.

He said agents of the U.S. Border Patrol had killed 26 Mexicans. The rest were slain by local or state police or highway patrol officers, or other law enforcement agencies, he noted.

In only nine cases have Mexican relatives been offered compensation for the fatal shootings, Musalem said.

75 in nine years is a lot, even if they come from a hot bed of criminality like Israel or Russia. About the only positive from this is that the majority of the victims were actually in the United States at the time they were shot.