How would Ezekiel Hernandez feel about Bush's decision to send thousands of National Guards and later private security companies to the US-Mexico Border?
Ezekiel Hernandez, an 18-year-old goat herder and a US citizen, was shot in the back and killed with an M-16 on May 20, 1997 by US marines deployed to enforce Operation Gatekeeper - a drug trafficking control effort along the border. The Marines were 230 yards away from Hernandez, who was herding goats near his home in Redford, Texas, a border town. The Marines claimed self-defense, which was accepted by authorities. No Marines were charged ever of this killing.