No reason to be in your own country?

A U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Ysidrio, California apparently shot a Mexican national today, during a rock-throwing incident.  The shooting victim probably was throwing rocks, but whether he deserved to be shot is for others to work out.  This happens from time to time (and probably will continue to happen) but what makes this shooting so different is that the  border wall in that area tends to meander into both countries in that area, and the Mexican appears to have been in Mexico.  I’m sure others will be commenting on that.

What bothers me is the statement by Supervisory Border Patrol agent Daryl Reed:

Reed said there is no other reason for people to be in that area other than to conduct illegal activity.

Excuse me?  I’ve commented before that the Border Patrol, and Homeland Security, is of a mindset that denies American citizens who are near the border their basic rights as citizens.  Who is Hell is Daryl Reed to tell other countries where their own citizens can, and cannot, congregate?

Perhaps he needs to do a bit of reading.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948):

Article 13.

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.