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To: Lane3 who wrote (7014)	6/6/2000 8:04:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

More fodder for the border wars. Mexican offers $10,000 for slaying of border agent THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Mexican activist yesterday offered $10,000 to anybody who kills a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The move was immediately condemned by the Mexican government and called a publicity stunt by local officials. U.S. officials also opened an investigation into the bounty offered by Carlos Ibarra Perez, the spokesman for an advocacy group that calls itself the Citizen Defense Committee. Ibarra, 60, said too many illegal entrants are being slain by federal agents and private landowners while making their way into the United States. "They (the Border Patrol) are massacring people," Ibarra said at a news conference in Reynosa, Mexico, just across the border from McAllen, Texas. " And now we're ready to defend ourselves." Mounting tension among undocumented entrants, federal authorities and border residents has been more evident in recent months. Two weeks ago, a Border Patrol agent in nearby Brownsville shot and killed an illegal entrant during a struggle on the banks of the Rio Grande.