Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 06/07/2010 4:25:45 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
U.S. Border Patrol Agents Subjected to 528 Assaults from January – June 2008, Statistics Show U.S. Border Incursions on the Rise in 2008 and 2009
(Washington, DC)
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that on March 22, 2010, it received records from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) concerning Mexican Government incursions and encounters along the U.S. border. The documents which are incomplete and do not contain all of the relevant data nonetheless indicate an increase in the number of incursions in 2008 and 2009. Judicial Watch’s analysis of the data shows:
•76 Mexican Government incursions from January 2008 to December 2009 (data missing from February 2009)
•50 Mexican Government incursions in 2008 alone, which is double the number of incursions from the previous year
•528 assaults against CBP agents from January –
(Excerpt) Read more at judicialwatch.org ...
I’ve wondered about them. They did some good work in the 1990’s.
The cartels find it cheaper to hire the Mexican Army to escort drug smugglers north and, if intercepted, the Mexican Army puts up a blocking force to stop Border Patrol Agents from closing and apprehending. The drug smugglers go south and try again later. Before hiring the army, the drug smugglers would be intercepted and drop their load and run, costing the cartels a bunch, so, they hired the Mexican Army.
They’re still shining that flashlight on the dark corners of politics
or they Shuck and Dive. They create a diversion in one location to draw the border agents in while the real shipment goes through another location
That too, but most incidents thus far have been escort duty.
ping
and make Arnold Secretary of Homeland Security
Give them an inch and they’ll take a kilometer.
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