Posted on 05/27/2006 2:54:36 PM PDT by Larousse2
How could I didn't hear about an Armed Standoff on MSM nightly nooze?
Article Launched: 1/23/2006 11:00 PM
Police face Mexican military, smugglers
Armed standoff along U.S. border
By Sara A. Carter and Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Staff Writers
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.
Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States, said Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department.
******Mexican Army troops had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border -- near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso -- when Border Patrol agents called for backup. Hudspeth County deputies and Texas Highway patrol officers arrived shortly afterward, Doyal said.
"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal said. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."
An FBI spokeswoman confirmed the incident happened at 2:15 p.m. Pacific Time.
"Bad guys in three vehicles ended up on the border," said Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman with the FBI's El Paso office. "People with Humvees, who appeared to be with the Mexican Army, were involved with the three vehicles in getting them back across."
Simmons said the FBI was not involved and referred inquiries to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE did not return calls seeking comment.
Doyal said deputies captured one vehicle in the incident, a Cadillac Escalade reportedly stolen from El Paso, and found 1,477 pounds of marijuana inside. The Mexican soldiers set fire to one of the Humvees stuck in the river, he said.
Doyal's deputies faced a similar incident on Nov. 17, when agents from the Fort Hancock border patrol station in Texas called the sheriff's department for backup after confronting more than six fully armed men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. The men -- who were carrying machine guns and driving military vehicles -- were trying to bring more than three tons of marijuana across the Rio Grande, Doyal said.
Doyal said such incidents are common at Neely's Crossing, which is near Fort Hancock, Texas, and across from the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
"It happens quite often here," he said.
Deputies and border patrol agents are not equipped for combat, he added.
****"Our government has to do something," he said. "It's not the immigrants coming over for jobs we're worried about. It's the smugglers, Mexican military and the national threat to our borders that we're worried about."
Citing a Jan. 15 story in the Daily Bulletin, Reps. David Dreier, R-Glendora, and Duncan Hunter, R-San Diego, last week asked the House Judiciary Committee, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the House Homeland Security Committee and the House International Relations Committee to investigate the incursions. The story focused on a Department of Homeland Security document reporting 216 incursions by Mexican soldiers during the past 10 years and a map with the seal of the president's Office of National Drug Control Policy, both of which were given to the newspaper.
Requests by Dreier, chairman of the House Rules Committee, and Hunter were made in jointly signed letters.
On Wednesday, Chertoff played down the reports of border incursions by the Mexican military. He suggested many of the incursions could have been mistakes, blaming bad navigation by military personnel or attributing the incursions to criminals dressed in military garb.
Mexican officials last week denied any incursions made by their military.
But border agents interviewed over the past year have discussed confrontations those they believe to be Mexican military personnel.
"We're sitting ducks," said a border agent speaking on condition of anonymity. "The government has our hands tied."
I guess those Mexican Military and their tanks I saw on TV after Katrina had just made a wrong turn! ~Larousse2.
- Sara A. Carter can be reached by e-mail at sara.carter@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-8552.
- Kenneth Todd Ruiz can be reached by e-mail at todd.ruiz@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-8555.
Have you given any thought to the numbers of unprotected American Citizens with their loved ones serving in Iraq, not home to protect their families and friends; additonally, those who are very young; very old; the sick and the disabled---who's going to fend for those unprotected ones?
The Washington Weasels? Not a chance!
Roanoke Co. finds evidence of gangs
The sheriff's office said an investigation turned up data on eight national and eight local groups
While Roanoke police have sent mixed signals on whether the city has gangs, the Roanoke County Sheriff's Office has identified suspected members of 16 gangs throughout the Roanoke Valley, including the Bloods and Crips.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-66914
How cool are we?! ;)
Scary, huh?
M-13, I have read, and it was confirmed by a Freeper out West, has murder as a part of their initiation.
What are those weasels in Washington doing to protect the safety, security and the rights of American citizens.?
Nada, I'd argue, except for Sessions, and the U. S. Rep. (begins with a "T") from Colorado.
Dinner list of sell-outs, I'd say.
What a surprise--NOT! Why should any American citizen be surprised that the mexican army is providing an escort service to those entering our country ILLEGALLY? Good job Pres. Bush and the senate.
Gee, Homeland Security isn't returning phone calls. I wonder why.
We can all sleep more soundly now ---NOT!
That's a good one:-)!!!!
ROTFLMAO!
I'm shocked!
I'm assuming, you mean the information contained herein???
I've spent days researching the information contained herein.
I know you and others are well aware none of this information is being reported on MSM "Nightly Nooze."
I'm outraged, as I think every Conservative should be!
Well, I was being a bit sarcastic. Just more evidence that our border security is in a shambles.
No problem. I notice many Freepers have a edge to their voices these day, such as GRRRRRRRRR!
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