Posted on 11/15/2007 7:15:54 AM PST by SUSSA
Alien and drug smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border have spawned a rise in violence against federal, state and local law-enforcement authorities, who say they are outmanned and outgunned.
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Assaults against Border Patrol agents have more than doubled over the past two years, many by Mexico-based alien and drug gangs more inclined than ever to use violence as a means of ensuring success in the smuggling of people and contraband.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff acknowledges that although the department has begun to make progress against "the criminals and thugs" operating along the U.S.-Mexico border, "we are beginning to see more violence in some border communities and against our Border Patrol agents as these traffickers ... seek to protect their turf.
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But many agents think they are viewed as "expendable" by the managers within Homeland Security and the Border Patrol. They say that while the number of agents overall has increased dramatically over the past year, the actual number of line agents has not seen a corresponding jump.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
They won’t send the guard because the guard will expose the corporations using cheap Mexican labor on the U.S. side of the border. Border security is bad for business don’t you know?
RIOT ACT
“This outrageous fact begs the question. Why?”
I’m convinced there are far too many in office who are making money—drug money. Always follow the money.
We also need to start demanding of every candidate—a pee test. It’s the only explanation for all the crazy votes in DC. that have begun to defy explanation.
Bush has the National Guard polishing hubcaps on "Border Control" vehicles fifty miles inland from the invasion.
I can’t wait for the next ten years of primaries.
It’s time to drain the swamp... and inject some real conservative blood where there is none.
George Bush will be remembered as the American president who knowingly stood by while our country’s place in the sun was surrendered.
I regret ever having voted for this man!
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If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Would anyone object if our forces pursued the attackers cross-border into Mexicorruption?
Would that be "invading" Mexicorruption? I don't think so especially if Mexicorruption cannot or refuses to do anything about the attacks on Americans on our side of the border.
To BP:
- Don’t use your service weapons
- Start shooting back with your own personal weapons
- shoot to kill and make sure the criminals are dead
- If you get Suttoned/Nifonged stand together and none of you saw or heard anything about certain incidents (it must have been a drug war)
- If push comes to shove, ask how did our “authorities” hear about and investigate the incidents when criminals are killed and not investigating incidents of BP deaths and injuries?
- I bet your section will quiet down OR the Mexican army will interfere openly. That will be an International Incident and will wake up the sleepy Americans. We should learn from stopping the amnesty bill(s) that the cowards and traitors heard our voice, this time they will hear a roar to deploy our troops to protect our citizens
BP, you’re not expendable, God bless.
Here is a link to a commentary that links the border violence with U.S. Atty Sutton prosecution if its defenders:
http://www.geocities.com/readerswrite/commentaries/Blessings_of_the_Liberty.htm#Addendum_4
Thanks for the link.
Mexican Soldiers Regularly Cross Border
by Tom Fitton (more by this author)
Posted 09/12/2006 ET
Judicial Watch recently obtained documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that detail more than 226 Mexican government incursions between 1996 and 2005 — an average of 25 per year. (An incursion is defined by DHS as, “the unauthorized crossing of the U.S.-Mexico border by Mexican Government Personnel.”) It seems that armed Mexican soldiers and Mexican police officers are regularly crossing our border with little or no consequence.
The records obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act consist of annual intelligence summaries of “Mexican Government Incidents,” compiled over a nine-year period. They were designated as “limited official use” by the DHS, requiring “special protection against unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure.” After reading the documents, I can understand why the federal government would want to keep a lid on them.
The intelligence summaries provide detailed maps of the incursions, along with descriptions of other documented “incidents” involving Mexican government personnel and Border Patrol agents. The records describe incidents involving shots fired on both sides of the border, unmarked helicopters invading U.S. airspace, drug smuggling, and confrontations between U.S. Border Patrol agents and armed members of the Mexican military. Here are a few highlights:
* MEXICAN MILITARY ENCOUNTER (ARMED/THREATENING) RIO GRANDE VALLEY/BROWNSVILLE — “As the boat proceeded to go down river towards the scene, the [Border Patrol] Agent on board advised via radio that several Mexican soldiers were pointing their rifles in his direction. The Agent decided for his safety and the safety of the crew to turn back, but advised that the soldiers were still aiming at them.” (2005)
* MEXICAN MILITARY SIGHTING — TUCSON/DOUGLAS STATION — “The [Border Patrol] Agents were returning to their assigned area when they heard four distinct gunshots coming from Mexico. The gunshots were fired when the Agents were approximately 10 feet away.” (2005)
* MEXICAN MILITARY SIGHTING (ARMED) LAREDO/ZAPATA: “This boat, which appeared to be a Mexican Military boat, was providing security and escort for the two others that were later found to be transporting 2,716.53 pounds of Marijuana.” (2003)
Border Patrol agents have a difficult enough job as it is stopping the flow of illegal aliens without having to worry about running into squads of Mexican soldiers working to move drugs across our border. I would hazard a guess we don’t have this problem with the Canadian armed forces in the north. The federal government should take these incursions seriously and take measures to stop them. As these documents show, it is a joke to think we will ever receive any help from the Mexican government in helping to police the southern border.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=16963
Much as I love your suggestions they undermine the rule of order and the principle of right versus wrong that the Border Patrol take an oath to.
Sometimes it really sucks being the good guys.
These incursions, well known to readers here, are hardly ever reported in a way that the general public learns about them. I suspect if they did some very powerful people would be changing their underwear while concocting cover stories...those who weren’t fleeing the country.
We need a revived UnAmerican Activities Committee in the worst way. Lord knows the the list of active traitors is only getting longer with each passing day.
Agreed, but it will never happen because the scum is in both parties.
Don’t know if you recall or have read, but the original hearings actually foiled Soviet plans to subtly subvert our government despite the circus the media and “higher education” has made of it since. We won, communists lost and the tenured hippies will never quit trying to rewrite history until they give up their last cannabis-laden breath.
Now we have a whole new slew of scalawags motivated by campaign contributions, drug deal rake-offs and promises of power. I think we’re in a lot more trouble than we were fifty years ago.
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