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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
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to the United States included
viewing the body of her son,
who was shot and killed by
police in Washington state in a
case that has sparked protests
and calls for a federal investi-
gation.
The woman from tiny Par-
otita, Mexico, said Tuesday
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should go to prison.
Antonio Zambrano-Mon-
tes was shot to death Feb. 10
after allegedly throwing rocks
at police near a busy intersec-
tion in Pasco, an agricultural
center along the Columbia
River. His death is under in-
vestigation.
Montes-Rivera, 60, spoke
to The Associated Press
through an interpreter during
an interview at a library.
She said she watched vid-
eo of the shooting in Mexico
and rushed to the television in
a futile effort to help her son,
one of her 16 children. She
said she wished she could take
his place.
“She saw him lift his hands
to stop the bullets,” said Fabi-
an Ubay, who translated for
Montes-Rivera. “She ran to
the TV to try to stop it.”
Police say the night of the
shooting,
Zambrano-Mon-
tes was acting erratically and
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They said a stun gun failed to
subdue the 35-year-old agri-
cultural worker.
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stops, turns and faces them.
Multiple “pops” are heard,
and he falls to the ground.
The Franklin County cor-
oner has ordered an inquest
into the death, which is being
reviewed by a regional task
force. Federal authorities are
monitoring the investigation.
AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios
In this Feb. 19 photo, a photo of Antonio Zambrano-Mon-
tes, is displayed at a memorial in Pasco at the site where
Zambrano-Montes, an unarmed man who was fatally
shot by police.
Montes-Rivera said Tues-
day she was not aware of any
erratic behavior in her son’s
past.
“He was cheerful, a hard
worker,” the mother told the
AP. He came to the United
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work and help out his family,
she said.
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attorney, Benjamin Crump,
has said Zambrano-Montes
was in the country illegal-
ly and spoke little English.
Crump also represented the
family of Michael Brown, a
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in Ferguson, Missouri.
Montes-Rivera arrived in
Pasco on Monday and went
straight to a funeral home to
see her son’s body. Crump
said she fainted there.
“She hadn’t seen him for
10 years,” said Ubay, who is
serving as a family spokes-
man. “The next time she’s
seen him, he’s dead.”
Montes-Rivera has had no
contact with law enforcement
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who are in paid leave, “she
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to go to prison,” Ubay said,
“so their mothers can miss
their sons, as well.”
The last time Montes-Ri-
vera spoke with her son was
Dec. 30, when she asked him
to come home for a visit. He
replied that he needed to make
more money to do that.
The Mexican government
is paying for Zambrano-Mon-
tes’ funeral home expenses
and to transport the body back
to Mexico, according to the
Mexican counsel in Seattle.
Mexico’s president earlier
criticized the shooting.
Zambrano-Montes’ death
has sparked two weeks of pro-
tests in Pasco.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Days from
a Homeland Security Department shut-
down, Senate Republicans sought a way
out Monday by splitting President Barack
Obama’s contested immigration measures
from the agency’s funding bill.
It was not clear whether the gambit by
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
would succeed ahead of Friday’s midnight
deadline to fund the department or see it
shut down.
It was far from certain whether it would
win any Democratic support, and House
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any funding bill for the Homeland Securi-
ty Department that does not also overturn
Obama’s executive actions on immigra-
tion.
But with Senate Democrats united
against a House-passed bill that funds the
agency while blocking the president on
immigration, McConnell said it was time
for another approach.
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the House-passed bill failed 47-46, short
of the 60 votes needed. Three previous
attempts earlier in the month had yielded
similar results.
A spokesman for House Speaker John
Boehner, R-Ohio, welcomed McCon-
nell’s move, though without predicting its
chances of success in the House.
“This vote will highlight the irrespon-
sible hypocrisy of any Senate Democrat
who claims to oppose President Obama’s
executive overreach on immigration, but
refuses to vote to stop it,” said Boehner
spokesman Michael Steel.
McConnell left unclear whether a vote
overturning Obama’s immigration moves
would be followed by a stand-alone vote
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to fund the Homeland Security Depart-
ment — an omission not lost on Senate
Democrats.
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land Security runs out, he’s bringing a bill
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Security,” said Adam Jentleson, spokes-
man for Senate Minority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev.
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warned the nation’s governors that states
would feel the economic pain of a Home-
land Security shutdown, with tens of thou-
sands of workers in line to be furloughed if
the agency shuts down at midnight Friday,
and many more forced to work without
pay.
“It will have a direct impact on your
economy, and it will have a direct impact
on America’s national security,” Obama
told governors as they visited the White
House as part of their annual conference.
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the Senate majority last November, Mc-
Connell vowed there would be no govern-
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threatened to shut down the Homeland
Security Department and undermine GOP
promises that they would show the nation
they could govern.
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viding Senate Democrats who have been
united against the $39.7 billion House-
passed legislation that funds the Homeland
Security Department through the Sept. 30
end of the budget year, while also rolling
back Obama’s executive actions granting
work permits to millions of immigrants in
this country illegally.
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