[BlueNgold]

Please provide secondary confirming sources other than WND ... this sounds big, but I want more details.

[Bikers4Bush]

I hope the family shoots the mexican soldiers dead the next time they come calling.

[Modernman]

There's a lot of holes in this story. Why would Mexican police randomly take an American family away at gunpoint? What do they have to gain?

[Cicero]

I don't entirely disbelieve it, because there have been incidents in the past, but I agree that we need to see a better source.

[applemac_g4]

The irony of it is that over 100 years after the fact, the good people of Texas could still pick up their rifles and kick the s*it out of the Mexican Army. :^)

[RandomUserName]

From the El Paso Times, 12/14/03

Mexican officers made arrest in U.S., boys say

The FBI office in El Paso has looked into the claims last month by a family of four in the border ranching community of Candelaria, Texas, that Mexico law enforcement officers crossed the Rio Grande into the United States to kidnap them, FBI officials said.

The alleged kidnapping took place Nov. 24, when Ladislao Rivas-Escarcega, 39, his wife and their two sons said they were shooting a .22-caliber rifle by the river.

It isn't clear how long the family was allegedly held in Mexico. After their release, the boys alerted officials at their Presidio school.

FBI officials said they have closed the case because the alleged victims were safe and because there were no other witnesses to the incident.

- Nothing to see here. Move along.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

It does'nt matter WHY the mexican swine did this,they committed an illegal act.The only way this will ever stop is if the Americans get a belly full of our own stupid laws.

[Guvmint_Cheese]

Wow, I worked on a project in Candelaria six years ago putting outhouses in. A bunch of trailers and cinder-block "homes." There's a little foot bridge over the Rio Grande there where folks go back and forth. Never thought I'd ever see that place in the news. Probably the remotest place in Texas.

[Dante3]

the Mexican Army has on numerous occasions crossed into the US, in most cases probably to help drug dealers.