Posted on 10/09/2006 8:03:10 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
FLOUR BLUFF - A truck packed with 10 illegal immigrants pulled up to the Flour Bluff gate of Naval Air Station - Corpus Christi Saturday morning. They said they were lost.
When a security officer told them to pull over, they took off. The truck driver drove through the security gate and left the truck near a vacant housing area. All 10 inside bailed out and started running.
Security personnel quickly apprehended the seven men and three women. Base officials saud they don't think the illegals had any idea they were actually approaching a Navy base.
"I think what happens is some of these people get lost," Bob Torres of NAS-CC Public Affairs said. "It's when they hit a military gate like this, and they see people with firearms, they kinda panic."
It's believed there were only 10 inside the truck. Border Patrol agents took custody of those individuals.
If I had a nickle for every time I got lost and crashed a gate at a military installation.
Ping!
Amazing is not even the word for it. I am sure they were lost but WOW. I bet if I get lost in Mexico and crash a gate into a Mexican Military secured area I would probably be filled with bullet holes.
We really need to stop this invasion, there are just so many reasons. Enough already.
I dunno about the NAS, but alot of the Army bases use contract security guys as guards. The MP's are kinda busy now.
Duh.
Yep! They could have been terrorists with bombs strapped around their waists.
All military installations should be protected by trained military security, be it MPs, or Security Forces, or whoever. Is that fact that the Military is outsourcing security? Any articles?
I agree. First thing they should have assumed was that the truck might have been filled with explosives and that this was a purposeful attack on US soil and the soldiers in the military base.
Just crashing the gates at Naval bases that Americans won't...
I cannot believe it is cheaper to use private security, than to use military personnel. This is disgusting; convicted felons guarding sensitive Military installations.
I have read other reports on FR of illegals "accidently" entering military facilities near the border. If you are lost that is one thing; crashing through the gate at a military facility when asked to stop is security violation that demands force in kind.
It's no fun
Being an illegal alien
Yeah you and I would have been shot no questions asked..
You are a riot! I was just about to shut my eyes and go to bed, but that chuckle got me wide awake...
This just infuriates me to words not acceptable here...I am furious....YX
Illegal aliens should have to pass some kind of written exam before entering the country.
"Is that fact that the Military is outsourcing security?"
The military has been outsourcing Security for DECADES...
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