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Title: Border patrol agent held at gunpoint Officers fear Mexican military encounters will turn violent
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URL Source: http://washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... ss-into-us-hold-guns-to-agent/
Published: Aug 6, 2008
Author: Jerry Seper
Post Date: 2008-08-06 19:38:55 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 127
Comments: 5
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist. Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified. It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers. "Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years," union Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. "They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States.' "It is fortunate that this incident didn't end in a very ugly gunfight," said the local's posting. The NBPC represents all nonsupervisory personnel among the agency's 16,000 agents. Border Patrol spokesman Michael Friel did not return calls for comment Tuesday. State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson said Tuesday that the department had no information on the incident, and referred further questions to the Border Patrol. "It is not an incident that we are aware of," she said. Ricardo Alday, spokesman at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said Tuesday that Mexico and the United States are engaged in "an all-out struggle to deter criminal organizations from operating on both sides of our common border." "Law enforcement operations have led, from time to time, to innocent incursions by both U.S. and Mexican law enforcement personnel and military units into the territory of both nations, and in particular along non-demarcated areas of our border," he said. -Snip
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
This is so much BS - any other country would counter these incursions with extreme prejudice ie: deadly force. and not worry another minute about it. WTF is wrong with US? I'm really tired of our weak-shit gov.
They are NAUers that can only succeed by knocking down America: freedom and liberty are antithetical to their mission. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I don't know how to thank Jorge Arbusto for the kindness he's shown by letting mexico get away with their shitty antics. Complete silence on this border incursion by ARIZONA SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN. Ask little Arizona Johnny what he intends to do about this ongoing situation if he becomes POTUS: www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
And when the Minutemen formed, Bush called them vigilantes. He isn't my president. He never was.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist.
#2. To: Rotara, JT, all (#1)
#3. To: lodwick (#2)
WTF is wrong with US?
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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"They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States.'
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
Complete silence on this border incursion by ARIZONA SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN.
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