Posted on 06/12/2018 2:22:39 PM PDT by tcrlaf
The U.S. Border Patrol says an agent has been wounded in a shooting in southern Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border.
A Border Patrol statement says the agent was taken to a hospital Tuesday morning for treatment but provides no information on the agent's injuries or the circumstances of the shooting.
The statement says the shooting happened south of the community Arivaca (ayr-uh-VAH'-kuh) at 4:30 a.m. and that several people referred to as subjects of the investigation were taken into custody.
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Probably shot by one of Barry’s tattooed-face, “unaccompanied minors”.
Another of Pelosi’s Divine children.
An earlier posting but not much info either.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3662623/posts?
Arivaca, AZ is a major corridor for alien and narcotics smuggling. Although it is somewhat remote smugglers can quickly access interstate 19 and be in the Tucson area in less than an hour. The area is actively patrolled by BP agents, but frequently there simply aren’t enough available to provide adequate coverage. The area has an extensive network of sensors that indicate entries of people or vehicles, but if agents aren’t in the immediate area smugglers are often no longer in the area of the activation. Shooting incidents are becoming more common and unfortunately an agent was injured. I hope he’s ok.
We need to designate the area a free-fire zone, and position snipers. Issue RPGs for vehicles that don’t want to stop.
So the BP officer was taken down under a hail of gun fire? Why was he out there alone? If there was insufficient BP officers to join him, why not a couple armed soldiers? No excuse for sending one person out alone like this.
The statement that those involved “can quickly access interstate 19” is not that certain. Arivaca is an isolated community. There is a single two lane asphalt road from Arivaca to Amado and Interstate 19, and the road is interdicted by BP. One of the problems is that Arivaca was settled by many anti-social types who want nothing to do with the law. The town has no law and is rather perfunctorily served by county sheriffs. Lawbreakers find it a comfortable place to live. The BP probably had a run-in with a ring moving a valuable drug shipment. Likely very valuable.
I say put up a few trailers on the border and have the Democrats unarmed without a security detail stay there for a few months. It is disgraceful what law abiding property owners are facing in this country.
Yah, i was looking at ranch land to buy there last month but after serious research decided it was a bad play, even though there's some pretty country. There is increased BP and National Guard presence tho, and some kind of ramped up surveillance include drone overflights and sensors. Perhaps in a few years there will be an improvement.
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