Border chase mass-casualty crash: The case for a wall builds

American Thinker ^ | 06/18/2018 | Monica Showalter

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The press is reporting another mass-casualty crash near the Texas-Mexico border, based on a Border Patrol vehicle chasing a smuggler's car loaded with illegal aliens, driving at 100 miles per hour.

Five people were killed and several others were injured on Sunday in a high-speed car chase involving Border Patrol and an SUV allegedly carrying illegal aliens from Mexico into Texas.

NBC News reports that at around 11 a.m. on Sunday, immigration officials stationed near the town of Big Wells in southwest Texas spotted three SUVs they believed to be smuggling undocumented immigrants [sic]. Agents stopped two of the cars, they said, but chased after a third, which was reportedly speeding along Highway 85 at around 100 miles per hour.  Border Patrol agents and a local sheriff's deputy chased the car until it ran off the road, ejecting several passengers.

"Border patrol was pursuing a vehicle, a Chevrolet Suburban, and one of my deputies assisted and took over the pursuit just west of Big Wells," Dimmit County Sheriff Marion Boyd told ABC News. "The vehicle was traveling around 100 miles per hour and from what we could tell the vehicle ran off the road, caught gravel, then tried to recorrect and that caused the vehicle to turn over several times."

To ordinary Americans, the fault here is completely that of the smuggling syndicate's driver, who, like a bank-robber, was driving at an illegal speed in an attempt to get away with an even bigger illegal activity.

[freedumb2003]

Somehow this headline makes me think of the end of “Vanishing Point.”

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[robroys woman]

You mean where he changed cars and wheels just before he hit? :-D

[dfwgator]

That’ll buff right out.

[rockabyebaby]

Five less ILLEGALS we have to feed/clothe/house etc etc etc

[Gasshog]

Don’t Mess With Texas.

[1Old Pro]

The press is reporting another mass-casualty crash near the Texas-Mexico border, based on a Border Patrol vehicle chasing a smuggler's car loaded with illegal aliens, driving at 100 miles per hour

I'm surprised the media is getting to this story as they are going wall to wall hype about babies being torn from their mother's breasts and locked in cages.

[NEMDF]

To liberals and dems..... the fault here lies with the patriotic Americans who believe the illegals need to stop invading our country, and with President Trump, and with the evil ICE and border control employees, and the evil GOP who support the existing laws.

[GMMC0987]

ONG, it’s time to build the wall... even if it only saves one life!

[robroys woman]

I actually feel bad for the people involved. Whenever I see a situation like this I think, “There but for circumstance go I.”

I thank God I don’t have to deal with what these folks had to deal with. Yes, even the people trafficking in this sort of thing.

Thing is, when we actually ENFORCE our laws, in a very real way we protect those who would think of breaking them, but don’t because the likelihood of success is so poor.

When we let them do it in legion, human nature tells us that a lot of them will do it. And they are certainly motivated by what life has dealt them.

[BeauBo]

Looks like they were coming from Piedras Negras (Black Rocks). Just five or ten miles of good barrier would make a big difference around there.

Frankly, other parts of the border are so much worse, the Piedras Negras/Eagle Pass might not get barrier for years at the current rate of $1.6 billion per year.

[rockabyebaby]

When you commit a crime, you get what you deserve.

[BeauBo]

“Thing is, when we actually ENFORCE our laws, in a very real way we protect those who would think of breaking them”

That’s the case with all these kids folks are bring too. For years they’ve been told that bringing kids will get them a free pass around the law.

[libstripper]

I've owned and driven full sized SUVs for about the last 20 years. High speed twisting, turning maneuvers are a super NO-NO for all of them, but especially the older ones like this deceased Suburban. It's astounding how long it took the driver to lose control at 100 m.p.h. with that vastly, recklessly overloaded vehicle. If the driver survived, he should be prosecuted for capital felony murder.

[bgill]

Play stupid games... If they’d obeyed the law, they’d be alive today.

[logi_cal869]

Heh. Yeah, 0bama’s cages. lol

[partyrepub]

A bird, a plane, oh never mind it’s just flying burritos!

[freedumb2003]

>>You mean where he changed cars and wheels just before he hit? :-D<<

In the good old days we just took it for granted we say what the director wanted to see.

LOL!

Now I have to go find that in the IMDB “goofs.”

:)