Posted on 10/31/2005 7:32:40 AM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN YSIDRO, Calif. — Assaults against U.S. Border Patrol agents nearly doubled along the Mexican border over the last year as patrols cracking down on drug trafficking and migrant smuggling encountered increasing resistance ... rocks, Molotov cocktails and gunfire.
At least 687 assaults against agents were reported during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, up from the previous year's total of 354 and the highest since the agency began tracking assaults across the Southwest border in the late 1990s, according to Border Patrol officials.
Most assaults occurred near urban smuggling havens such as Nogales, Ariz., and Tijuana, but cross-border skirmishes took place from remote California deserts to the banks of the Rio Grande in Texas.
In many attacks, smugglers hurled softball-size rocks or fired high-powered slingshot devices loaded with marbles and ball bearings. Some tried to run over agents with vehicles.
In some cases, smugglers and migrants fought with agents and tossed wooden pallets to block their pursuers. Dented and damaged vehicles, windshields shattered, sat in Border Patrol parking lots.
In Tucson and San Diego, the most violent sectors, agents reported being shot at 43 times — up from 18 the previous year. No agents were killed, but three were shot in the leg. At least 20 more were hospitalized, many with head injuries from rocks.
Agents fatally shot five suspected smugglers in the Tucson and San Diego sectors. In one recent case, officials said, an agent struggled with and killed a man who was armed with a semiautomatic weapon and was suspected of waiting to pick up migrants.
Officials attribute the increased number of assaults to rising frustration among drug and immigrant traffickers, who have seen traditional smuggling routes blocked by the border buildup. About 11,000 agents — more than ever — patrol the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
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Time to send our troops down to the border and declare war on Mexico.
It will never, ever happen though.
Sounds like war to me.
I would hope Vicente Fox will take care of this..before We the People of the United States tire of these attacks on our Country.
LOL
I like the "send our troops down to the border" part - but the "declare war" stuff is a little too much...
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
This sounds more and more like the Israeli / palestinian conflict every day. I guess we should be glad the illegals aren't interested in blowing themselves up yet.
This is getting nasty.
Impossible. We ain't got no steenkin' borders.
There have been lots of wars fought over smaller provocations. There once was a time when the govt held our sovereignty as a sacred trust
Rifles with high power scopes will cure the problem.
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Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Support our Minutemen Patriots!
Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!
We can't do that because it would work, however, all is not lost. We're gonna put up signs warning those Mexicans that it's against the law to assault border patrol agents. That ought to scare 'em straight! ;^)
On one stretch of border near San Diego, rock-throwing and other violent acts have become so common that officials plan to erect signs warning that assaulting agents is against the law.
I think types of aggressive behavior like this are an act of war on part of the Mexican government.
Mexico is conducting a "war by other means" against the United States. Ask any Border Patrolman. If you don't buy it, tell me.....how many Mexican cities are now "ethnically American", and have American politicians ruling over them?
War can be conducted in many ways. The Mexican Caudillo's are using their strength - millions of people - and exploiting our weaknesses: U.S. civil rights laws and political correctness that stops us from retaliating against them.
And that is the real reason that "violence on the border is increasing". The thugs smell weakness....so they go for the throat. They aren't afraid of U.S. law enforcement anymore. And included in the ranks of the thugs is the entirety of the Mexican "government".
They might also be smelling resolve for the first time. It's about time we stood up to them and protected our borders...
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