[DH]

There is much more to this story than the radio announced. It happened here in Alice, Texas yesterday. The INS stopped a pickup truck loaded with 19 illegals, most of whom were Chinese. When stopped, they all jumped out and started running away. Only 11 were caught and the rest are still being chased in the brush around Alice.

Now, the good part. Some of the ones caught were showing signs of SARS and were flown to Laredo for testing. At last report the tests proved negative.

Their pickup truck is still here at the Sheriffs impound yard with a banner around it to keep people away from it.

Hopefully, we will catch the other ones but this clearly proves how useless our border patrol is in actually stopping anything from coming across the border.

[txdoda]

What about the other 9,981, that are est. to cross our southern borders DAILY.....with only 20/30 % apprehended ??

[nanny]

It happened here in Alice

Oh, Alice always sounds like home. Spent some really good time there as a child. My grandparents, and many other relative are buried there.

My cousin and I would beg a nickle to buy gas for his scooter and we would tour the town. I guess you realize that was a long time ago.

[texastoo]

DH,

I am really interested in this as I live on this border. I think most people assume they came across from Laredo because of the Laredo Border Patrol. However, looking at the map, they could have come across at Brownsville all the way up to Laredo. Also Alice is north of the Falfurrous check point. Therefore, they made it across the border and the checkpoint.

[Axenolith]

Whew, thank God, they probably only had drug resistant TB...</sarcasm>