By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
When Mexican teenagers are shot at the American border, can American families sue in U.S. courts?
The U.S. Supreme Court will try to answer that question, it announced Thursday in deciding to take a case involving a Border Patrol agent who was in Texas when he shot across the border and killed a 15-year-old boy in Mexico, The Associated Press reports.
The family of Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca said the teenager was playing a game with friends when he was shot in the head by Agent Jesus Mesa Jr.
Mesa said he pulled the trigger because he was under attack by rock throwers.
The Supreme Court took the case in February 2017 but sent it back to a lower court for more proceedings.
At the time, the Trump administration argued the right to sue in U.S. courts “should not be extended to aliens injured abroad.”
