Posted on 08/14/2008 4:56:09 AM PDT by kellynla
The men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol guarding the Southern land border come into constant contact with drug and human smugglers, criminals and migrants. Every so often, they even encounter Mexican military personnel making unauthorized incursions across the border into the United States.
The most recent Mexican military incursion occurred last week on the Tohono Oodham Indian Reservation in Arizona. According to reports, the Mexican soldiers crossed the border in a military vehicle and held a Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before escaping back to Mexico.
While the agent who was temporarily detained by the Mexican soldiers was not injured, there is no question that this incident could have ended differently -- especially when the soldiers and agent were armed, and backup was on its way to assist the officer. Nonetheless, this incident raises serious questions about the presence and activities of the Mexican military on the border.
A State Department spokesman, responding to the incursion in Arizona, said the incident stemmed from a momentary misunderstanding. This statement is difficult to accept when there have been more than 40 incursions on the U.S-Mexico border since October of last year and over 200 similar encounters since 1996. Clearly, Mexican military incursions are far from a rare occurrence.
The Departments of State and Homeland Security, which have downplayed these encounters in the past, have an obligation to forcefully address this incident and the likelihood of future incursions. We must convey to Mexico that we will not tolerate their soldiers crossing into the U.S. without our knowledge or consent. More importantly, we must continue building fencing and other infrastructure in problematic areas of the border, including those prone to incursions.
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That’s assuming the people would let it happen.
Then we can build a park and name it for the leader of the renegades, as we did for Pancho Villa—yep no joke there is a Pancho Villa State Park at Columbus, NM. I drive by it every once in a while and it annoys me to no end.
A state park named after Pancho Villa? You’re kidding me!
That’s like naming the U.S. Navy base in Pearl Harbor after Yamamoto.
Not kidding, unfortunately. We have to be the craziest people on earth- we pretend Mexico is our friend and it is all good. NOT.
http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/prd/PanchoVilla.htm
“A State Department spokesman, responding to the incursion in Arizona, said the incident stemmed from a momentary misunderstanding. This statement is difficult to accept when there have been more than 40 incursions on the U.S-Mexico border since October of last year and over 200 similar encounters since 1996.”
Hunter speakin’ the truth...again.
DH Bump. And what do you think the chances of Russia acting during a Hunter presidency would be? Zilch.
What night is Duncan Hunter speaking at the GoP convention 8-? I see Rudy got a slot.
Shoot the bastards.
Thanks, but I’m in Shanghai, China currently. No Blockbusters here. I’ll have to go the Google route.
It’s tolerated because big drug money can pay off a lot of people to look the other way.
If only they had defended the border that day. The smuggler would be in jail and they'd be at work.
Go away, quisling.
Good old Todd, friend to the invasion of the U.S., friend to anyone but the U.S. when it comes to the economy and friend to foreigners taking over the U.S.
Wrong, old buddy. I want a nice big wall. And agents who don't screw up and let smugglers escape.
Then they should have shot him, right?
Catching him and throwing him in jail would have been fine.
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