More information from the hardest-working immigration reporter in the business:

Two convicted former El Paso Border Patrol agents accused by the U.S. Attorney of not filing a report when they shot a Mexican drug smuggler were prohibited by their own agency’s firearms policy from doing so, according to documents obtained by the Daily Bulletin.

The documents obtained from the Inspector General’s office also demonstrate that “all nine agents on the scene at the time of the shooting – including two supervisors – knew shots had been fired.”

I really am trying to take Andy’s analysis seriously, but every day it seems more likely that that these (and other) agents have been prosecuted as a gesture to the Mexican government — the Bush Administration’s version of New York prosecutors’ search for the Great White Defendant.