The FBI has initiated a civil-rights investigation into the shooting of an underage alien smuggler in El Paso. Of course, any time deadly force is used, there needs to be an investigation. And since the teenager died on the Mexican side of the border, it’s obviously a matter of some diplomatic import. But how can there possibly be a civil rights investigation? A Mexican in Mexico by definition cannot have any American civil rights (as opposed to human rights, which is a different thing). It reminds me of the line from the Monty Python episode where a man in a bowler hat says, “To boost the British economy I’d tax all foreigners living abroad.” Are we now giving civil rights to all foreigners living abroad?