Posted on 11/10/2006 8:43:20 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
MONTERREY, Mexico — U.S. Border Patrol agents chasing after suspected drug traffickers on the Texas border allegedly crossed into Mexico and engaged in a brief standoff with Mexican police officers. No shots were fired, a Mexican official said today. Jose Luis Delgado, a police officer in the town of Guadalupe, about 25 miles southeast of Ciudad Juarez, said he and two other officers responded Thursday afternoon to a report that a pickup loaded with marijuana had been abandoned in the Rio Grande when they encountered several U.S. Border Patrol agents on Mexican territory. Ciudad Juarez is located across the border from El Paso.
Delgado said he and the two other officers arrived to the scene with their weapons drawn. "When we arrived (the U.S. officials) drew their weapons," Delgado said in a telephone interview, adding that no shots were fired. Delgado said about 20 or 25 U.S. Border Patrol officers had formed a human chain along the shallow waters of the river and were unloading the packages from the vehicle when he identified himself as a police officer and asked the U.S. officials "wearing green uniforms" to leave because they were in Mexican territory. "They even asked us to turn the car over to them, but I said no," Delgado said.
The U.S. officials returned to the U.S. side of the border and a few remained there until Mexican officials towed the car, Delgado said. Rogelio Garcia, a spokesman with the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso sector, confirmed that U.S. agents seized about 300 pounds of marijuana from a pickup that at least two suspected drug traffickers abandoned in the river before running into Mexico. Garcia said he couldn't confirm whether the pickup was on the Mexican side of the border because the matter "is still being investigated." Garcia said U.S. agents began chasing the pickup fitted with a camper shell in Fort Hancock when the driver crossed the river into Mexico about three miles west of the Fabens port of entry.
Garcia said the area, where the river is about 2 feet deep, is commonly used by drug traffickers. Rene Medrano, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office in Chihuahua, where Guadalupe is located, said state investigators seized 1,445 pounds from the 2005 Chevrolet pickup, which was reported stolen in El Paso. He said the truck was stuck in mud about 115 feet from the banks of the Mexican side of the river. Medrano said he couldn't corroborate the alleged incursion of U.S. agents into Mexico because "when state officials arrived, U.S. Border Patrol agents were on the U.S. side." Medrano said the case has been turned over to federal officials.
Associated Press writers Marina Montemayor in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Alicia A. Caldwell in El Paso contributed to this report.
They should have set it on fire and said adios.
God forbid any American cross into Mexico illegally.
They were just smuggling the drugs that Americans don't want to smuggle. What's the problem?
All joking aside, I'm very concerned how the next Congress deals with all of the illegal immigration issues, and if amnesty for illegals does pass, which seems likely, how do we not completely lose this country! It's crazy that this issue has even gotten as far as it presently has, and I don't like what may be coming throughout the U.S. soon if amnesty for illegals does become acceptable. What's Rep. Tom Tancredo and his immigration reform allies next moves on this issue?
Responded to a report????
Call me cynical but, I bet they were in on it.
Blow in place.... after photographing the VIN number for intelligence.
Must have been a nice one. Probably now being driven by a police officer.
Don't Mexican forces routinely - excuse me, "accidentally" - violate the US border? What a third-world @#$%^&hole.
I'd have to agree with that.
MEXICAN STANDOFF
The drug smugglers probably called the Mexican police to ask them to help keep the Americans away from the drugs.Mexican law enforcement acts like the armed escort of the criminal smugglers.
We are being invaded daily, nothing new here...
Mr' Chertoff is on top of it,, we'll have it fixed in a year or two..
Starting in January, the dems are going to pander-pander-pander to all the latino voters they believe they are starting to lose to buy them a victory in 2008. They will promise free healthcare, free childbirthing, basically free everything if they vote democrat in 2008. All this will be paid for by the US taxpayer.
This means a complete open borders policy and amnesty program.
Shamnesty. Pushing for 20+ million future dumocrats and their dependents to have a "pathway to citizenship". GWB will succeed in dismantling what is left of the Republican party, piece by piece, bit by bit.
Simple mathematics....look what happens in 2012, 2016, 2020. Anyone out there have a plan to make 30+ million future republicans and their dependents materialize out of thin air?
I didn't think so.
We've got a 20% -30% chance to get "our guy" into the white house in 2008. After that, stick a fork in us, we're done for at least a generation.
Please, prove me wrong...Please.
This is exactly why I'm annoyed at all of the conservative voters throughout the U.S. who are still saying that last Tuesdays election was just a "temporary setback" for both Republicans at every political level and for conservatives at every political level! All conservatives need to do all that they can truly do to prevent this now probable "tidal wave of trouble" for this entire country from really happening thanks to both favoritism towards illegal immigrants and thanks to the upcoming overpopulation growth of both legal immigrants and illegal immigrants combined! Where's the Endangered Species Act for the Republican Party, for the entire U.S. existence, and for all of American conservatism?
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