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January 24, 2006
Still More Border Disorder
WorldNetDaily reports that the intolerable situation at the Mexican border continues to spiral completely out of control:
Texas law enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents engaged in an armed standoff with Mexican military personnel and drug smugglers just inside the United States along the Rio Grande yesterday afternoon.
According to a report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, Calif., both Texas law enforcement and the FBI stated nearly 30 American agents were part of the incident.
Chief Deputy Mike Doyal of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department told the paper Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States.
Border Patrol agents called for backup after seeing that Mexican Army troops had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border — near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso.
Doyal said Hudspeth County deputies and Texas Highway patrol officers arrived shortly afterward.
"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal told the Bulletin. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."
Of course not. That's what the US Army is for.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 24, 2006 4:16 PM
Comments
Wanna see the Mexican economy implode? Watch it if events like this ever escalated into formal diplomatic fisticuffs.
Posted by: Hoodlumman at January 24, 2006 7:46 PM
I had no idea it was this bad. It is completely unacceptable for our Border Patrol to be thrown to the wolves like this. President Bush needs to resolve this, and now.
Linking......
Posted by: Scott D at January 25, 2006 2:39 AM
I have a two word solution for the Border Disorder.
LAND MINES
Posted by: Barb Dwyer at January 25, 2006 10:50 AM
