The five suspects, one male, one female and three minors, while attempting to gain entry through a Customs checkpoint, attracted the attention of TSA officials, who ordered the immigrants to step out of the line. When they refused to cooperate, the officials opened fire and killed all five.

“They was obviously foreign and awful suspicious looking,” the transportation security officer in charge, Bubba Hogg, described the suspects. He remained skeptical of the opinion that the immigrants may have been confused by not being able to understand what the officials were saying. “Them that don’t speak American ain’t got no business coming to America,” Mr Hogg said.

This is the largest incident of its kind in terms of lives lost since the TSA gained “shoot on sight” rights in 2014.

NEUTERS