Posted on 05/01/2014 12:34:32 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
SASABE, SONORA - Has a unit of Mexican Army soldiers who patrol right on the Arizona border gone rogue?
This small group has attacked U.S. citizens, and even challenged U.S. federal agents within the U.S. A News 4 Tucson investigation into the dangerous world of rogue soldiers in mexico's military.
In January, soldiers from this lonely outpost of the Mexican Army drew their guns on U.S. Border Patrol agents just 50 yards into the United States. Then in March, they opened fire on Javier Jose Rodriguez, a young Tucson man visiting family in Sásabe when he was driving around the town early on a Saturday morning after drinking beers with friends. Rodriguez was shot in the arm and in the side, he spent three weeks at University of Arizona Medical Center.
The United States' reaction has been tepid, angering people who live and patrol along the Arizona border. U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) revealed details of the January encounter between soldiers from this base and the Border Patrol. In a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Coburn said a lone agent encountered two Mexican soldiers 50 yards inside the U.S. The agent and the soldiers drew their weapons; the soldiers carried G-3 rifles.
"From what I understand, this has happened hundreds of times before," says Sylvia Longmire, a border security analyst whose recent book, Border Insecurity, details the challenges and failings of some Homeland Security operations along the Arizona-Sonora border. The soldiers told the agent they'd gotten lost while pursuing a drug smuggler.
"However, I believe there was some confusion as to whether that's what the Mexican Army was doing because there was no evidence found by the Border Patrol of any drug smugglers in the area," Longmire said.
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Send the BLM. They have experience rustling cattle.
This looks like a job for da-da-da-dum! The BLM!!
People who enter Mexico should *always* expect the worst.I'm far more concerned by US citizens of any sort,Border Patrol or common citizen,being fired upon while in the US.I occasionally visit a town in northern Vermont that borders on Quebec.In fact when there I go to a place *right* on the border (you can easily see the signs posted by the Canadian Immigration Patrol) and yet the Canadians have never fired on me.
It’s the Russians!!!!
Could use a Blackjack Pershing, but he would have been run out of this Army.
No wonder Obama won't touch 'em.
When I travel from DFW to Phoenix to visit GrannyBuckeye, I take the northern route through New Mexico instead of the southern route through El Paso.
The last time I did take the southern route, I stopped at a McDonalds just this side of the U.S. border for a break. From my truck in the parking lot, I watched a very large transfer of drugs between two 18-wheelers. Armed men were watching from a stand of Mesquite nearby. They weren’t trying very hard to hide.
Yes.
Exterminate them. Exterminate all the brutes.
There’s nothing rogue about the unit.
They’re doing what the Mexican government (i.e., the smugglers) want them to do: push as far into the U.S. as they can to establish just how far they can go without being challenged.
That will tell them what they and their masters control. If it involves a little softening up - like shooting some of the locals - then fine. If the Gringos don’t respond, all is good.
For them.
A fence will stop that. /s
Naw. They own the local police chief and sheriff typically. Another fine by product of Affirmative Action. Usually some guy whose last name ends in "-ez".
Was driving down I-8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend last year. Saw a party of about 8 dressed in black walking along the highway, backpacks with water. Maybe armed, maybe not.
Clearly had just crossed, waiting for their ride. No concerns, out in the open.
Ho hum. Just another day on the "border".
Sásabe is in Arizona.
This is what happens when you have a weak leader. Soon Mexico will be demanding the whole Southwest be returned to them and Obammer will be happy to comply. The rogue army is just a test to see what happens.
They also might be doing what Obama's open borders agents want and further enable the invaders.
Well, it used to be....
This story's byline is "SASABE, SONORA".I always thought that "Sonora" was one Mexico's provinces.Or am I missing something here?
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