Posted on 12/19/2005 10:01:28 AM PST by thorshammer
Border Patrol fears conflict with Mexican military Agent: 'It's like we're having a battle … that no one speaks of'
Posted: December 19, 2005 12:42 p.m. Eastern
By Jon Dougherty © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Border Patrol agents stationed along the nation's southwestern frontier increasingly are fearful of encountering armed and potentially hostile military units from Mexico.
Also, agents say, officers are hamstrung in their response, citing concerns the U.S. government is often too deferential to Mexican authorities.
"It's like we're having a battle on the border that no one speaks of," one agent told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin newspaper in Ontario, Calif.
"The Border Patrol lives in constant fear of pleasing the consulate general of Mexico," the agent continued. "It's one of the things that's most mystifying to line agents" because the U.S. is one of the most powerful countries in the world but appears to be more interested in accommodating Mexico City, the agent said.
Indeed, the confrontations have become so routine the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued written orders that agents carry with them regarding "what to do" if confronted by Mexican military units, many of which are in the employ of Mexico's powerful drug cartels.
According to the "Military Incursion" cards, "Mexican military are trained to escape, evade and counter-ambush if it will affect their escape." Therefore, the card says, Border Patrol agents should follow recommended procedures in case they encounter armed Mexican military units.
The paper said the cards also instruct agents to hide from Mexican military operating in their areas. Rather than engage in contact, agents are ordered to "Avoid it."
One Arizona agent described the units to the paper, saying they "are active Mexican military that have sold out to the cartels."
"We talk about cooperation with the Mexican government," the agent continued, "but most of them seem to be on the take. The [Bush] administration, the DHS, they are very hushed about this."
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., head of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, told WorldNetDaily in a 2002 interview he was concerned about a rising number of incursions occurring along the U.S. southwest border.
Noting that elements of the Mexican military were posing a threat to American agents and civilians along the border, he said, "We're no safer today than we were on Sept. 12," in reference to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Tancredo said he began making trips to the border because he became alarmed over increasing reports that border personnel were being shot at on a regular basis, as well as chased and targeted by "rogue elements" of the Mexican military. He said such units either were loyal to Mexican-based drug lords or operating outside the scope of their military mandate.
WND has reported that as early as November 2000, Mexican troops had fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents on American soil.
U.S. authorities also have known for some time that elements of Mexican military and law enforcement units have been corrupted by drug cartels.
"In actuality, law enforcement in Mexico is all too often part of the problem rather than part of the solution," Anthony Placido, the Drug Enforcement Administration's acting assistant administrator for intelligence, told a House panel earlier this year. "This is particularly true at the municipal and state levels of government."
The murder of Kris Eggle ... a park ranger in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona on August 9, 2002, was little noted by the media, although the press has paid considerable attention to the deaths of illegal aliens on the border.
By contrast, Ranger Eggle was shot down by Mexican drug dealers who were using Organ Pipe as a route for their smuggling. Only 28 when he was murdered, Eggle was a valedictorian and an Eagle Scout who joined the National Park Service because he loved the outdoors. (Organ Pipe is considered to be the most dangerous of the national park system: 200,000 illegal aliens and 700,000 pounds of drugs were intercepted at the park in 2001.)
Thanks for that....I probably won't have time to read it today.... : (
We won't deal with terrorists -- it only encourages them -- but we kowtow to one of the most corrupt, top to bottom, governments in history. "Cheap," taxpayer-subsidized labor is a powerful narcotic.
IMO, the "cheap," taxpayer-subsidized labor crowd has their fingers crossed hoping and hoping a volunteer border watch group will be involved in some kind of "shoot out." They are ready with the "Davidian" option used by the Clinton DoJ. To wit, stories planted accusing the "vigilantes" of all kinds of crimes and dangerous intent.
"This is your brains on 'cheap,' taxpayer-subsidized labor."
/jasper
Cool.
Thanks for the link!
The Border Patrol has taken down the Mex military and Federales on numerous occasions. I don't where this run and hide crap scomes from. It will be a cold day in hell before I flee from corrupt Mex MIl on my own soil. I carry an M-4, a combat load of ammo and a .300 WSM. for back up. No, there aint gonna be no running just examples being made.
I don't know why it takes being clubbed over the head (metaphorically speaking) before these people wake up. Did your neighbor say why he supported illegal immigration in the past? I am curious how an educated man can be so dumb.
The borders should have been secured on 9/12/01. Apathy doesn't quite explain it!
BTTT
My Sentiments!
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