Victor Avila: U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement Agents Jaime Zapata

Federal Agent Dept: The sister of the federal agent who was wounded said Wednesday she hoped the lawsuit will force the government to answer their questions, according to Montreal Gazette. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Brownsville names nearly two-dozen defendants, among them the agents' supervisors, the company that armoured their vehicle and gun shops that allegedly sold two of the weapons used in the attack. It claims Zapata and Avila never should have been sent on the dangerous mission, their armoured sport utility vehicle was flawed and at least two of the guns used in the attack were bought in the United States and eventually smuggled to Mexico and mCALLEN, Texas - The families of a U.S. Customs Enforcement agent killed in a 2011 ambush on a Mexican highway and another agent who survived filed a lawsuit seeking to hold the U.S. government and nearly two-dozen other defendants accountable in the attack. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila were attacked on Feb. 15, 2011, in their armoured sport-utility vehicle near San Luis Potosi, Mexico, shortly after picking up some equipment from another agent. Zapata died and Avila was seriously wounded in the attack. Mexican authorities say a drug cartel mistook them for rivals. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.