Three migrants have been arrested on suspicion of attacking and killing a Mexican border official who was asked to produce identification, authorities said.
The federal agent, identified as Luis Alberto Olivas García, was ambushed Monday at a checkpoint in the northern state of Chihuahua across the border from El Paso, Texas, Mexico's National Immigration Institute said.
The slain immigration officer suffered obvious head injuries from the assault, and his body also had “signs of violence,” authorities said.
Two Venezuelan men were taken into custody late Monday, according to the country's law enforcement authorities.
Mexico's immigration authorities said in a separate statement that a third suspect, a Colombian national, was also detained in the fatal incident.
No charges had been filed as of late Monday.
Jorge Almendarism, Chihuahua's Ministry of Security, said the agent had just been recognized for 30 years of federal service at the time of his death. told the New York Times.
Olivas García's death marks a rare case of deadly violence against a staff member, weeks before President-elect Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration is expected on January 20th.
Deaths also occur along with hundreds of migrants waited in a long line Outside an immigration center in southern Mexico on Monday, trying to legally enter the United States before President Trump returns to power.
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