This many bullets makes it hard to miss!
Posted on 03/03/2006 6:43:55 PM PST by Mulder
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent in El Paso shot at a group of people hurling rocks at him from across the Rio Grande on Thursday. No one was injured.
Robert Boatright, assistant chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol in El Paso, said the group of suspected illegal immigrants threw the rocks after running back across the river from the United States when they spotted the agent. They threw the rocks from about 25 yards away.
The agent, who Boatright did not identify, fired at least once.
Ciudad Juarez police officers went to the area but did not find anyone, Boatright said.
Thursday's confrontation, reported in the midst of the federal trial of two agents accused of unlawfully shooting a suspected drug smuggler and trying to hide the crime last year, is one more example of the rising danger along the U.S.-Mexico border, Boatright said. More than 770 assaults were reported last fiscal year, compared with just 396 in 2004.
The incident also coincided with a U.S. Senate hearing about increasing violence along the border.
So-called "rockings," as Border Patrol officials describe incidents like Thursday's, have become so prevalent in recent years that the federal agency has erected high-impact plastic glass barriers in spots along the Rio Grande where agents can park their vehicles in and around El Paso. Agents in some parts of the border are even starting to see "flaming rocks" - rocks wrapped in cloth, soaked in alcohol and lit on fire.
"We've had rock assaults where there was certainly sufficient velocity to break a windshield," Boatright said.
"Nobody did get hurt today but rocks can cause severe damage to someone's skull or face."
Get a missile to target these "terrorists". They won't dare to throw rocks again.
I wonder what Marty Robbins would think of this...
High pressure hose with ammonia in it....or raw sewage from a RV dumping station...just start spraying it on Mexico...
They dump theirs on us...we dump ours on them...payback time
Maybe shrillary can go down there and dispatch a few illegal miscreants with a fast flung ash tray or two.
...or her bad breath, lol.
Time to get tough with the illegals.
I can not believe that the Mexican government is supporting civil lawsuits against American property owners.
Something stinks in this whole ordeal.
25 yards? Flamethrower!
This is a very poor start to what really needs to be done. The Mexican military has performed (by all accounts) at least 200 armed incursions onto US soil in the last ten years. Why have they not been taken under fire? This is what is demanded by the US Constitution. Here is the solution. Popular it ain't.
#1 Build the frickin' Berlin Wall, but better.
#2 Bring home most of the US troops currently stationed under NATO and let the EU take care of itself.....not to mention saving us a load of $$$ (which we can put into construction) while at the same time adroitly spanking the Eurotrash for not backing us up as allies should. I guess the Korean contingent should stay put given the realities of that situation.
#3 Replace all Border Patrol agents on the southern border with US troops, with rules of engagement that allow ....no....mandate shoot first, shoot often against any armed incursions. Put the Border Patrol on the northern border as a short term panacea.
#4 Give the US landowners on the border instructions and classes on use of military night observation gear, military commo gear and "Call for Fire" radio procedures. Use them as in place recon elements. Should they spot border crossing intruders they are able to whistle up a quick reaction force consisting of both air and ground assets. Divisions pulled from USAEURA (US Army Europe) could be permanently stationed at Fort Hood for maintenance and rotated into the border regions. Everybody should be fully armed and loaded fer bear. I'll bet that after the first five or so successful ambush ops on our side of the border, the rate of incursions will drop significantly.
I hear a lot of crap about the futility of building a barrier. Some activists communist politicians here, keep chanting this line about building a 50 foot fence will only grow 51 foot ladders....let me tell you folks, the Berlin Wall, once erected...worked. It worked because it was a layered fortification with guards and mines and dogs and patrols. That is what will be needed. If we hope to stay free it is our only choice.
Thanks for the ping.
One of the guys in my unit brought one with him when we deployed to Iraq. He even mounted one of the laser sights for pellet guns on it. He fired ball bearings from it at Iraqi kids who threw rocks at our vehicles. That dude was a great shot.
If we could some how convince her to part with ol' Krusty, we could position it strategically on the border, and the stench would keep them on the other side of the river.
I honestly don't know how to reply definitive to this.
I have check marks in both columns on this issue. Maybe once I'm Stateside again, with a few new perspectives, I might tackle this.
All I can relate, is this: since 2001, ARNG/ANG units have been involved with the borders and internal security. It's nowhere near the tempo it needs to be, for your scenario to come about - and for obvious reasons.
Given the current administration's relationship with our southern neighbors, do you truly think something will change prior to 2009?
The immigrant's offspring in me wants to remind of this: the Berlin Wall, and the rest of the Iron Curtain, were erected by Leftists, at the height of their power. It was not to keep the forces of capitalism out. It was to keep those in bondage to Socialism, in.
Yep. First rocks, then clubs and pretty soon we'll be up to spears and swords.
That would be a pretty long pistol shot. The Rio Grande is not the Mississippi, but it's not really narrow either. Obviously within rock throwing distance, but that could be 50 or 100 yards, which is a good long pistol shot.
LOL :)
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