Posted on 07/20/2014 6:44:05 PM PDT by lbryce
U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com.
The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of the Rincon Peninsula across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico, at about 8:30 p.m., sources said. Bullets ricocheted into an area where Border Patrol agents were positioned, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com.
Border Patrol sources confirmed Gohmert’s account, and said the shots may have been fired by .50-caliber weapons.
“We don’t have any armor that can stop a .50-caliber round, so our Border Patrol agents had to take cover when the rounds were richocheting around them,” said Gohmert, who has been in the area for the last week to get a first-hand look at the border situation.
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Campaigning or golfing are two sure bets.
Border Patrol/Government Union: means no strike option, the closest they can come to strike is brown flu sick out.
Favorite fighter. Then do what Israel is doing now. The kids do have a right to be warned first though. We’ll see if the cartels do what Hamas is doing to their families.
Mexico is a criminal state, and it needs to be treated like one, with sniper teams and artillery embedded along the border to respond to hostilities.
They have been firing at us for years and the idiots in DC keep turning a blind eye. They have killed our own border patrol agents and we do NOTHING.
Yes it is war and unfortunately WE are the only ones who think so
Pick up your phone....Alex wants to chat
General Winfield Scott screwed up in 1848 when the Treaty of Vera Cruz gave Mexico back part of its country. We should have kept the whole thing and turned it into a prosperous set of individual states like the ones we kept.
It’s too late now.
Be careful what you wish for. Obama might just send in those A-10's in in support of the illegals. After all, those militia types are pesky critters.
Did the Border Patrol shoot back? If not, then WHY not?
Should we call the White House and tell them? Who knows how long it will take the NYT, MSNBC or CNN to cover this.
That is what they should do for that marine stuck in the Mexican jail out west. Close all the land ports in AZ and CA and tell the Mexicans the next person to cross that bridge is going to be that Marine with all his stuff. They need those bridges open more than we do.
But then who would change diapers and make runs to the store for formula and baby food?
Lou Dobbs in his novel “Border War’ states that if you want to keep your job as Border Patrol agent, you cannot actualy protect the border.
Whoops. Sorry for the HUGE picture. Mods can you delete that link? Thank
Or not, Hooya.
If we would just give them teddy bears, they would stop shooting at us. Get Glen Beck back down there.
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