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US Border Patrol Open Fire at Group Hurling Rocks from Mexico
WOAI San Antonio ^ | March 3, 2006 | AP

Posted on 03/03/2006 6:43:55 PM PST by Mulder

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent in El Paso shot at a group of people hurling rocks at him from across the Rio Grande on Thursday. No one was injured.

Robert Boatright, assistant chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol in El Paso, said the group of suspected illegal immigrants threw the rocks after running back across the river from the United States when they spotted the agent. They threw the rocks from about 25 yards away.

The agent, who Boatright did not identify, fired at least once.

Ciudad Juarez police officers went to the area but did not find anyone, Boatright said.

Thursday's confrontation, reported in the midst of the federal trial of two agents accused of unlawfully shooting a suspected drug smuggler and trying to hide the crime last year, is one more example of the rising danger along the U.S.-Mexico border, Boatright said. More than 770 assaults were reported last fiscal year, compared with just 396 in 2004.

The incident also coincided with a U.S. Senate hearing about increasing violence along the border.

So-called "rockings," as Border Patrol officials describe incidents like Thursday's, have become so prevalent in recent years that the federal agency has erected high-impact plastic glass barriers in spots along the Rio Grande where agents can park their vehicles in and around El Paso. Agents in some parts of the border are even starting to see "flaming rocks" - rocks wrapped in cloth, soaked in alcohol and lit on fire.

"We've had rock assaults where there was certainly sufficient velocity to break a windshield," Boatright said.

"Nobody did get hurt today but rocks can cause severe damage to someone's skull or face."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; bang; banglist; borderlist; immigrantlist
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1 posted on 03/03/2006 6:43:57 PM PST by Mulder
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To: Travis McGee; Squantos; neverdem; Eaker; archy; B4Ranch

The war on the border escalates....


2 posted on 03/03/2006 6:44:53 PM PST by Mulder (“The spirit of resistance is so valuable, that I wish it to be always kept alive" Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Mulder

>A U.S. Border Patrol agent in El Paso shot at a group of people hurling rocks at him from across the Rio Grande on Thursday. No one was injured.


The Border Patrol agent needs to go back to the shooting range and practice on hitting a target.


3 posted on 03/03/2006 6:46:27 PM PST by teacherwoes (To a liberal diversity is finding different people who agree with them)
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To: Mulder
Border Patrol should begin to carry wrist rocket slingshots ,to be able to give return fire in like kind
4 posted on 03/03/2006 6:47:39 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Mulder

"We've had rock assaults where there was certainly sufficient velocity to break a windshield," Boatright said.

"Nobody did get hurt today but rocks can cause severe damage to someone's skull or face."

Boatright, is an idiot.


5 posted on 03/03/2006 6:47:44 PM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Mulder; archy; Lurker; Jeff Head; SLB

Time to call a special meeting of the Ernest T. Bass Rock Chuckin Society to counter this attack on the CONUS !

Now where did I leave the plans for that trebuchet ??!?!


6 posted on 03/03/2006 6:49:13 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Mulder

Never bring rocks to a gun fight.


7 posted on 03/03/2006 6:52:53 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Mulder
A U.S. Border Patrol agent in El Paso shot at a group of people hurling rocks at him from across the Rio Grande on Thursday. No one was injured.

Once again, GWB's fault.

The agent should have been shooting back with Ma Duce.

You bring rocks, we choose to use the M2.

Rock throwing stops. They may be illegal but I'm betting they ain't stupid.

8 posted on 03/03/2006 6:53:23 PM PST by LasVegasMac (High octane gas and lots of horse power.....Let's do it!)
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To: Mulder

One thing I recall from reading the Iliad, is the ancient Greeks considered rocks to be perfectly good weapons, in fact Homer seemed to consider them particularly effective.


9 posted on 03/03/2006 6:53:52 PM PST by yarddog
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To: yarddog

9/10 Muslims on a budget prefer rocks.


10 posted on 03/03/2006 6:58:33 PM PST by Renderofveils (Qur’an 8:39 “So, fight them until all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.”)
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To: Graybeard58

somebody had to say it!


11 posted on 03/03/2006 7:00:46 PM PST by NonLinear (He's dead, Jim)
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To: Renderofveils
Yes the price is certainly right.

Of course I would prefer a gun but rocks can still be deadly.

12 posted on 03/03/2006 7:01:07 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Squantos
What was it that David slew Goliath with?

A rock can be a deadly weapon, especially if it's propelled by the old style sling shot.

Deadly force should be met with deadly force IMO.

L

13 posted on 03/03/2006 7:03:29 PM PST by Lurker (Cuz I got one hand in my pocket and the other one is flipping off a liberal.)
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To: Mulder
"Agents in some parts of the border are even starting to see "flaming rocks" - rocks wrapped in cloth, soaked in alcohol and lit on fire.

Good reason to shoot!

15 posted on 03/03/2006 7:05:53 PM PST by stopem (The Good Lord gave you two ends to use, one to sit with and one to think with.)
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To: yarddog

Homer didn't have a M16


16 posted on 03/03/2006 7:06:38 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (Buy Danish!)
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To: Squantos
Now where did I leave the plans for that trebuchet ??!?!

Right here.

17 posted on 03/03/2006 7:07:08 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Conservative4Ever
Homer didn't have a M16

Well he was blind so I guess he would have needed a phaser set to wide angle.

18 posted on 03/03/2006 7:08:58 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Conservative4Ever
Homer didn't have a M16

I suspect Homer wouldn't have qualified anyway....

19 posted on 03/03/2006 7:13:16 PM PST by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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To: Snickersnee
Homer needs gun training.

He should have popped a couple of them at least.

20 posted on 03/03/2006 7:20:39 PM PST by oldtimer
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