Mexico Protests Border Patrol "Incursion" Into Mexico to Put Out Fire
Dozens of Mexican Incursions into U.S. Not Mentioned
"Mexico complained to the United States in a diplomatic note on Tuesday
after learning that U.S. Border Patrol agents crossed into its territory a day earlier to extinguish a fast-spreading brush fire. Reacting quickly after winds blew a grass fire into Mexico, U.S. Border Patrol agents followed the flames across the border with two water trucks, Mexico's foreign ministry said. The ministry cited a U.S. government report it received on Tuesday," the AP reports. "After extinguishing the fire just inside in the state of Sonora, the U.S. agents, normally responsible for nabbing illegal Mexican immigrants, returned to their side of the border with their equipment, according to the report."
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