When common sense is stood on its head

Would someone please explain the new rules of good neighborliness to our Border Patrol so that they know what to do?

A brush fire breaks on the U.S. side of the border in Arizona, somewhere south of Sonoita. It is heading south across the border. Border Patrol agents work to control and extinguish the fire but it crosses into Mexico. Admittedly there isn't much on the other side, except more brush, but the agents are in "hot pursuit" - so to speak - and continue battling the blaze so that it does not run unchecked through the Mexican countryside. Once the fire was out, they returned to the U.S. side.

What do you get for being a good neighbor?

MEXICO CITY - Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the United States objecting to an alleged incursion into Mexican territory by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona trying to extinguish a fire, the country's Foreign Relations Department said Tuesday.
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"The Foreign Relations Department has expressed to the U.S. Embassy via a diplomatic note, its rejection of the incursion," the Mexican government's news release said.

We apologized, of course. A pity. You wonder what diplomatic note would have issued had we let the fire run its course.

Which is what we recommend should it happen again.