A Mexican grandmother waits for justice for boy shot at border fence

A US border patrol agent, Lonnie Swartz, is on trial in Arizona for the manslaughter of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, 16, who he shot and killed through slots in the steel fence

The day after the Day of the Dead, Taide Elena arranged flowers at her grandson’s grave in Nogales, Mexico.

The tightly packed graveyard was quiet, save a few Día de los Muertos latecomers, among them, a woman cleaning the neighboring grave. “Was yours the car accident next to the technical college?” the woman asked.

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