Posted on 01/15/2011 11:26:14 PM PST by Nachum
In the ghost town of Fort Quitman, 80 miles southeast of El Paso, four US road workers were up at dawn attending to "shovel ready" jobs by filling potholes with gravel. Unfortunately, "at least one Mexican gunman," who probably just wanted a chance to do jobs Americans won't do, "fired a high-powered rifle across the border," barely missing the workers.
"The bullets struck private land ...about half a mile from the border fence." Thankfully, the quartet escaped unharmed. "Mike Doyle, Chief Deputy of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office, said after the fact, a rancher spotted a white pickup fleeing the area on the Mexican side at 10:30 a.m. -- the time the shots were fired."
According to Doyle, "Drug cartels use this busy smuggling corridor in between the Quitman Mountains and mountains in the northwestern part of Chihuahua State to traffic marijuana and sometimes cocaine." The chief deputy explained the incident by saying: "The gunman might have shot at the road workers to distract them or get them to flee."
So in other words, criminal interlopers tried to get American workers to disperse from territory where they had every right to work and exist in order to "get them outside [the] area?"
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Give me some water ‘cause I shot a man on the Mexican border
Cool, cool water
Give me some water
I need a little water
Like Bugs Bunny said, “This means war.” Whether or not the Obama administration understands it. The border has been plagued with this kind of thing. If Mexico won’t make it stop, then someone else will have to. I think they’ll be forced to make it stop if (when) a more conservative president takes the helm in Washington.
Hudspeth County, Texas. Third largest county in Texas as I recall, and something like 0.7 persons per square mile. That is hostile country, I’ve been down there a time or two, mostly passing through on the greenstamp or camping up in the Guadalupe Mountains. Not much but ocotillo and prickly pear cactus and rocks.
Predator drones and Hellfire missiles is the only way to control the border down there.
We need a guy like Col. Jesup( a few good men) to take over security in El Paso.
Bush (all of them), Obama, McCain, Grahamnesty, Martinez...etc...probably just can’t wait to give the shooters amnesty. Heck they probably will try to lock up the road workers because they were shot at
The border needs to be sealed, and 100% of all Illegal Aliens deported. Anything else is Amnesty
We need a congress that knows how to be statesmen and protect our borders.
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