Gary S. Whitfield, a Border Patrol agent, with his pellet gun punctures a rubber raft carrying three free-market workers crossing the All-American Canal between the republic of california and Baja California Norte.  Two of the FMWs survive; the third does not.

       [added 5/7/2023]

Subsequent Events:

10/22/1999                    3/6/2008

References:

“Border Patrol Agent Who Sank Raft Carrying People to Resign,” Los Angeles Times, 14 December 1999, A14.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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