Posted on 05/23/2002 11:07:42 AM PDT by goldylight
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Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., accused the Mexican army Tuesday of staging a "military incursion" Friday night into southern Arizona that ended with Mexican soldiers firing shots at a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle. Lori Haley, an Immigration and Naturalization spokeswoman, confirmed that an incident occurred in a remote area near Ajo, Ariz. A U.S. agent spotted three Mexican soldiers in a Mexican Humvee on U.S. soil and was attempting to leave the area when the rear window of his vehicle was apparently shattered by gunfire, she said. The agent was leaving the area "in an effort to avoid a confrontation" with the Mexicans, she said. "Because of the seriousness of the incident" Haley said, U.S. authorities launched a formal investigation and are asking Mexican authorities to do the same. The Mexican government previously has rejected Tancredo's charges that Mexican police and military units frequently cross the border. Tancredo, who leads a group of lawmakers opposed to liberalizing immigration laws, has said U.S. officials believe the incursions are related to drug trafficking. The Republican from Littleton said he fears gunplay between U.S. and Mexican authorities unless officials stop the incursions. "Unless we open our eyes and recognize that what's happening along the U.S.-Mexico border is real, one of our guys is going to get killed," he said. The INS confirmed the incident, but Tancredo's version differed somewhat. He said 10 soldiers were involved and the shot damaged more than the Border Patrol's rear window. He also said the Mexicans came 10 miles into the U.S before they were spotted. Tancredo said U.S. agents believe the shots were fired because Mexican authorities were pursuing drug dealers into the U.S. "They are saying they had interdicted a huge shipment of drugs," he said. "Therefore everyone was antsy." But "regardless of the circumstances, they had happy trigger fingers," he said. The U.S. vehicle was "clearly marked" and should have been recognizable, he said. The agent told him, " "As far as I am concerned, that (incursion) should be an act of war,' " Tancredo said. On May 3, Tancredo wrote Mexican President Vicente Fox demanding that he halt "incursions" by Mexican law enforcement officers into the U.S. Fox didn't respond. |
All you have to do is convince them to hang around while
the National Guard goes and get its tank. Oh, yeah.
Frankly, I would like to see good relations with our Mexican neighbors, but good relations start with mutual respect. And so long as they refuse to respect our borders, and our rights in our own land to preserve our own land for our own people; mutual respect will be impossible. [This is just one more problem, directly caused by too much of that form of "Liberalism," that is really Socialism in sheep's clothing.]
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Maybe the uniformed Mexican soldiers were the drug dealers, and shot at the INS for this very reason. I doubt that even the Mexican military shoots suspected smugglers on sight, or that it is too "antsy" to tell the difference between a smuggler and an INS officer. Nor does shooting at a fleeing INS vehicle sound like standard policing behavior.
Nice to see that the INS's standard policy when confronted by deadly force is to flee. Makes me less than comfortable knowing that this undermanned agency is all that is "defending" our borders.
Forget Pershing and MacArthur...we need Davie Crocket and Jim Bowie!!!
Sure, as long as you mean the Davie Crocket "pocket nuke" and the Jim Bowie knife.
Bush: Read my lips - I'm a conservative.
I caught that too. What is up with that? Leaving to avoid a confrontation?!
I'd send the 9th Infantry Division into Mexico with orders to take Mexico City and pacify everything in between. If they encounter any resistance, I'd make Sherman's march to the sea look like a Sunday school picnic.
This is another act of war. The Mexican's are invading our country and nobody is doing a thing about it. Their military just comes here and shoots at anyone they please and our government yawns and sends them more aid. What we need to do is respond with such force that no country even thinks about attacking us again for a hundred years.
About time a US lawmaker used those words!
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