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Title: U.S. Lawmen vs. Mexican Military - Texas Sheriff’s Deputies Face Off Drug Runners
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American Free Press
URL Source: http://americanfreepress.net/html/mexican_drug_drop_stymied.html
Published: Feb 6, 2006
Author: Fred Lingel
Post Date: 2006-02-02 01:11:28 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: Sheriff’s, Military, Deputies
Views: 72
Comments: 6
By Fred Lingel US. lawmen confronted several men in military uniforms and a camouflaged Humvee with .50-caliber machine guns who had crossed into Texas and forced an armed standoff along the Rio Grande. Arvin West, sheriff of Hudspeth County, said the incident occurred about 2:19 p.m. Jan. 24 when his deputies chased three SUVs driving north from a border area of Interstate 10. The pursuit, which began near Sierra Blanca, ended for one of the vehicles when it blew a tire and the driver fled, West said. Deputies seized 1,400 pounds of marijuana from that vehicle. The southbound pursuit continued for the other two vehicles and the deputies were joined by two Texas state troopers. They encountered several men dressed in combat fatigues. They “appeared to be soldiers in a Humvee vehicle with what appeared to the officers as having .50-caliber machine guns,” West told The Washington Times. STUCK IN THE RIVER One of the vehicles made it into Mexico, but the other got stuck in the river, where men in civilian clothes offloaded what appeared to be bundles of marijuana, West said. The truck was then set ablaze by the “soldiers.” No shots were fired and no injuries were reported. The incident is “just another example of what we have been saying all along: This is a serious problem and it’s not going to go away,” said T.J. Bonner, a veteran Border Patrol agent and president of the National Border Patrol Council. “The U.S. government has got to put its foot down and take decisive action,” said Bonner, whose union represents all 10,000 of the agency’s non-supervisory personnel. “It would be nice if the Mexican government would address the problem, but it won’t even admit there is one.” The Mexican government insists that the men in “Mexican military-style uniforms” were drug smugglers, not Mexican soldiers. “These were not Mexican soldiers,” said Mexico’s presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar. “It is known that these are drug traffickers who use military uniforms and they were not even regulation military uniforms.” Mexico’s government also makes the claim that when Mexican military or law enforcement does cross the border into the United States, it is usually a mistake. In this case, however, that explanation falls flat. Unlike in eastern California, Arizona and New Mexico, where the U.S.-Mexico border is largely unmarked, the Rio Grande in Texas separates the two countries. Even when dry, the riverbed is about 200 feet wide. “When you see a Humvee vehicle with a .50 caliber machine gun on it, this leads you to believe this is not a vehicle being used by the drug lords, but in fact is part of the Mexican military. I think, of course, the Mexican government knows about this,” said Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez. “It’s been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it’s been going on for years,” Chief Deputy Mike Doyal of the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Department told local news. “When you’re up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us.”
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Military-Style Operation Thwarted by Local Law Enforcement
“When you’re up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us.”
What they need right NOW for these situations is a Barrett .50 BMG with a nice big range finder scope on it and blow these bastards to kingdom come with one API round into their fuel tank. Guaranteed to work every time. :D
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Not to worry, I'm sure further budget cuts are at hand for the BP.
We've been challenged, and we've risen to those challenges. We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace. - W
in Chandler, AZ a suburb of phoenix where they have normal single family homes being dominant they have public schools where spanish is the only language spoken by teachers all day long, no english at all. english speaking students who are required by the government to attend this particular school are told they must speak spanish in order to understand the lessons. they have english speaking students sitting silent all day long with no education, education for the spanish speakers only.
Un-freaking-believable. Nice way to insure the destruction of our country as we knew it.
I met an american family who are in that situation in chandler. they have a nice single family house that cost over 300 grand. it is in a neighborhood of similar houses. there are few apartment complexes. and in the local public schools where they're required by law to send their kid, the language is spanish and it is spanish only. no bilingual education, spanish only. the three kids from that family that I met said they just sat in school all day long and listened to gibberish that they could not understand. and I cannot believe that the majority of the students don't speak english. almost all of the mexicans speak english as a first or second language. this is a decision by the government to prefer spanish for reasons that are questionable. though I witnessed this myself I realize that it is not really real. because it was not on tv.
“The U.S. government has got to put its foot down and take decisive action,”
#2. To: Dakmar (#1)
#3. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
#4. To: Red Jones (#3)
they have english speaking students sitting silent all day long with no education, education for the spanish speakers only.
#5. To: lodwick (#4)
#6. To: Red Jones (#5)
The voters of Chandler need a new board, judging solely on this pic -
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