Posted on 08/27/2019 10:38:39 AM PDT by BeauBo
Armed smugglers allegedly associated with the Gulf Cartel were responsible for the onslaught of automatic fire that endangered the lives a Border Patrol Marine Unit in early August, as it policed the banks for drug smugglers and human traffickers along the Rio Grande Valley River, in Texas.
Department of Homeland Security investigators recently uncovered that it was to prevent the Border Patrol boat from trampling or breaking an underwater pulley line devised by the cartel to transport large quantities of cocaine into the United States, according to a For Official Use Only law enforcement sensitive document obtained by SaraACarter.com...
The U.S. Border Patrol agents, assigned to the Rio Grande City Station Marine Unit, were patrolling the Rio Grande near Fronton, Texas. They reported they were fired upon from the Mexican riverbank and witnessed four subjects with automatic weapons who shot over 50 rounds at them. The boat was hit several times but no one on board was injured, according to the CBP at the time...
The Gulf Cartel was utilizing the underwater pulley system to move the shipments without detection across the river when the Marine Unit entered their area...
As the cartel members began to “recover the bundles of cocaine on the pulley line, members of CDG began to fire at the USBP marine unit,” the report states. “CDG fired upon the Marine unit to prevent it from crossing and breaking the pulley line.”
(Excerpt) Read more at saraacarter.com ...
Three miles was contracted there (which currently have no barrier at all), and they are expected to start work in the next few weeks. Survey markings are already in place.
Other areas in the Valley require massive levee wall, which takes a lot more time and work before bollards go up. Out toward the Western end of the Rio Grande Valley though, the River bank is higher on our side, and regular border wall can be used.
Did wereturn fure?
“and witnessed four subjects with automatic weapons who shot over 50 rounds at them.“
Why aren’t all of the shooters dead?
L
Any of those PBR’s still operational? Last one I saw was at the UDT/SEAL Museum in Ft. Pierce this past winter.
“Why aren’t all of the shooters dead?”
They may have only been firing warning shots (no one was injured).
The Narcos outnumbered the Border Patrol, and were on land, where they could take cover and hide from view. The Border Patrol Officers were exposed like sitting ducks in the open water.
God only knows how many kids or other civilians might have been in the bushes at the time as well.
If III Corps along with it’s artillery assets were down there (as they should be), they could have used one or two batteries of 155mm or a section of MLRS to eliminate the cartel assets firing upon the CBP.
“They may have only been firing warning shots (no one was injured).”
The article clearly states the BP boat has holes in it. Poor aim should not be confused with warning shots.
“God only knows how many kids or other civilians might have been in the bushes at the time as well.”
Tough noogies. Don’t hang out with people who shoot at cops and you’ll have nothing to worry about. Personally I think a few bullet ridden corpses on the Mexican side of the river would send a very strong message.
L
It is likely that a III Corps Engineer unit will swing through that area next year sometime, and run a few rolls of concertina over the new bollards going in there.
Emplacing concertina is a standing component of the Military deployment to support the border, and they have been systematically emplacing hundreds of miles of concertina. It really hardens the bollards against ladder and rope attacks, which are their primary vulnerability.
That barrier is likely going to divert the narcos elsewhere - it goes in with a powerful package of sensors, alarms and persistent surveillance.
Sounds like we need to dredge the river for pulley lines. I wonder how many more there are.
I wonder if we already do.
I wonder who wrote the book of love.
If III Corps along with it’s artillery assets were down there (as they should be), they could have used one or two batteries of 155mm or a section of MLRS to eliminate the cartel assets firing upon the CBP.
Isn’t this the precise reason Texas Dept of Public Safety has gun boats with about 6, M240s on them?
The President needs to allow the modification of the ROEs down there.
The long-term solution to this type of situation is to tell Mexico that any shooting at our guys from their land will result in the permanent taking of the spot from whence the shots were fired, plus a half mile radius around it. No exceptions. If that means bulldozing Mexican buildings, so be it. The Mexican government needs to do their part to patrol their northern border... or risk losing chunks of it. If we end up controlling both banks along the entire Rio Grande, that’ll teach Mexico a valuable lesson.
I’m really getting tired of the socialists (AKA Dems) standing in the way of protecting America. They need to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.
Need some M134’s on them
Nice boats with nice machine guns. Three outboards with 300 h.p. each? That’ll get up and scoot right along.
Close friend was a SEAL. Said they had problems with them due to the fact that everything in the mini-gun is electric and water.
That was some years ago, so maybe those kinks were worked out.
If so, then, YES .... M134s.....lots of them....enough to take every tree and bush along the river bank, back about 100yds on the south side of the river.
From an OLD Swift Boat sailor, you got it exactly right!!
Those border patrol boats should all be armed with either Quad .50s or several miniguns, so that they are never afraid to return fire, and so that the cartels are afraid to shoot at them.
I see everyone here thinks they should have opened up and returned fire and Killed all of them.
I think we need F-18’s with Napalm on standby
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