Posted on 06/17/2008 8:12:04 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
Deming, N.M. – On Saturday, El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents discovered that they may have been the target of more acts of violence after discovering an apparent booby trap made of wire on a remote border road near Deming.
On June 14, agents assigned to the Deming Border Patrol Station received a call from a local rancher who informed them of a discovery she made of some wires stretched across a patch of dirt roadway. The wires had been pulled tight and set to a height that could have had dire consequences for agents or anyone riding on an all-terrain vehicle. The road is commonly used by narcotics traffickers as well as Border Patrol agents operating on ATV’s, horse patrol officers and agents in service vehicles. The two thin wires were set across the road and fastened to a border fence post, then wrapped around a mesquite bush in an attempt to conceal it.
Earlier this year, a similar scenario was discovered in the San Diego Sector Border Patrol. This most recent incident exemplifies the constant dangers that Border Patrol agents are subjected to on a daily basis while securing our nations borders.
In fiscal year 2007, the volume of assaults on agents rose in the El Paso Sector by more than 32 percent. So far this year, assaults on agents have increased by approximately 26 percent.
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“So far this year, assaults on agents have increased by approximately 26 percent.”
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That’s OK, we’ll just increase shooting back by 26%.
The policy on the border for our agents should be....shoot first...don’t bother asking questions later.Why risk harm to any of our people?
NM PING
Ping.
Good thing family values don’t end at the border. Good Lord, what if a migrating illegal would have gotten hurt on this contraption within our borders? The ACLU would have made sure someone pays…I wonder who.
Do what our Land Rovers used to have welded onto the front of them in Northern Ireland. A piece of angle iron, with notches on it, facing forward to snap anything across the front or at least warn the driver that there was something there.
The Army used to do that with jeeps. It is a sound idea with crap like this. The news release mentions a similar IED (let’s call it what it is) in the San Diego sector earlier this year.
This is really interesting to me; this happened not far from me.
The ironic thing is when this type of trap was found in San Diego I asked Border Patrol agents in this area if they had been told about the SD incident about a week after it happened and they said no. I printed out the article and gave it to them. I could not believe the agents in the field had not been warned all across the border about the possibility of encountering a trap like this. It would seem to me to be important info to share with the men in the field. I guess the powers that be didn’t think it would happen anywhere else- but they can think again.
Shooting back..LOL...that's a good one. Do Campean and Ramos ring a bell? There will be no shooting back.
Read the news release archives. Numersous stories about weapons and arms caches as well as stories of illegal aliens in Arizona trying to get explosives from unexploded ordnance on military ranges.
I heard about this story on a local talk radio programme and searched the news for it. Nada. So, I went to the USBP site and found it after some searching (it was not in the big news of the day, but buried in a bunch of news releases for the week).
Domestic terrorism committed by outside agents.
Lock and load, boys.
From the BP blotter for 1 June 2008:
Tucson Sector - Border Patrol agents assigned to the Tucson, Arizona Station arrested an illegal alien and seized three hand guns, a sub-machine gun with a loaded magazine, binoculars, an unknown amount of 9mm rounds, a hand held radio, and a knife. Agents stopped a 1999 Chevy Metro near Sahuarita, Arizona when the subject and two other individuals ran from the vehicle into the brush. A search of the vehicle produced the weapons and the aforementioned contraband. The subject was found after agents and an A&M air unit conducted a search of the area. The other two individuals were not found.
Points out once again the need to get a fence in place covering the entire border as quickly as possible.
From the 3 June blotter:
Tucson Sector - Border Patrol agents assigned to the Tucson, Arizona Station seized an abandoned AK-47 assault rifle with three fully loaded magazines, two boxes of .223 cal. rounds, two boxes of 9mm rounds, and arrested three illegal aliens near Arivaca, Arizona. Border Patrol agents, assisted by agents from A&M, were following the footprints of five to six unidentified subjects. As agents approached the subjects, the subjects absconded on foot. Three of the subjects were found hidden in the brush and were determined to be illegal aliens.
I doubt that story but it is a self limiting activity if true.
Reasons why this is correct, but will never happen:
1) Ramos and Compean - shot an illegal drug dealer in the butt and now are doing 10 years
2) Look at the corporations who support La Raza, MeCHA and LULAC (Wal-Mart, Ford, Ford Foundation, B of A, etc.)
3) The SPP
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