Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca Won’t Be the Last to Die
A Border Patrol agent on the US side of the border shot into Mexico territory and killed a fifteen-year-old boy — but last week, the Supreme Court decided that Border Patrol cannot be sued for the boy’s death. It’s a particularly grotesque example of the brutal, unaccountable violence that is the norm along the US-Mexican border.
The US-Mexico border wall is seen in Organ Pipe National Park south of Ajo, Arizona, on February 13, 2020.Sandy Huffaker / AFP via Getty
Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca was playing chicken.
At just fifteen years of age, in a dried-out desert basin separating the United States and Mexico, he and his friends on the Mexican side of the border dared each other to run towards the border fence and touch it before running back to the other side.
From the American side, US Border Patrol (USBP) agent Jesus Mesa Jr put a bullet through the teenager’s head.
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