Posted on 10/08/2005 2:56:45 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
Yuma County sheriff's deputies will now be patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border in a surplus British military armored personnel carrier.
The $18,000, nine-ton, six-wheeled vehicle is needed because of increased attacks against deputies and U.S. Border Patrol agents by drug and migrant smugglers, sheriff's and patrol officials said. The agencies frequently work together.
The Border Patrol's Yuma sector also has a new armored car, this one a 4 1/2 ton vehicle picked up from the Baltimore police. It's set to go into service in a few months.
Law enforcement officers in the border region are increasingly subject to rock throwing, gunfire and being rammed by fleeing vehicles.
In the first six months of 2005, 167 assaults, 104 rock throwing incidents and six cases of officers targeted by gunfire have been documented by the agencies in the Yuma region, sheriff's Maj. Leon Wilmot said.
In August, a rock thrown by an illegal immigrant forced a Border Patrol helicopter to land west of Yuma. The rock hit the rotor blade of the A-Star chopper, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing. No one was hurt.
Wilmot said he hopes the armored personnel carrier deters the violence, and stops those who try to ram their way to freedom.
"Hopefully, when they see this, they'll know they just can't run into this and get away," Wilmot said.
Border Patrol spokesman Michael Gramley said federal officers already use "war wagons" pickups with detention compartments in the back and metal grates on the windows to protect agents from rock throwers.
But the new military vehicles will be the first capable of withstanding gunfire.
I kilometer equals 1000 meters equals about 1100 yards or
5/8 of a mile.
"200 yards is plenty and can include a 25 yard mine field."
Yup, that would work. I was thinking of keeping the beaten zone in the good ol' USofA.
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Nice, but this is just a can of Raid. IMO and in all seriousness, the gov't needs to use the Harriers to drop live ordnance once in a while (folks...it IS OUR HOMEland), and that'll deter the rock throwers and illegals.
Tanks!
With the Mexican Army firing on US soil, an armored car is wise. Hello, Washington! Anyone listening?
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Support our Minutemen Patriots!
Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!
It would be better to put the wall 50 feet inside with a razor wire fence on the line and a road between, to be patrolled by armored vehicles. Even then the ranchers would have to be reimbursed.
The wall should be of concrete 30 feet high with watch towers every quarter mile.
Even though American citizens need an armored car to protect them at that border, those in charge in Washington are blind to the problem for fear of offending precious third world Mexico.
NO MORE VOTES FOR OPEN BORDERS/GLOBALIST POLITICIANS, NO MATTER WHICH PARTY THEY'RE CRAWLING IN.
If they do, ( let's hope that they don't), it would be "interesting " to see what Washington's response would be.
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