Posted on 07/14/2011 9:49:34 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
McALLEN At least three shots were fired across the Rio Grande last Thursday, nearly striking two men working on a riverside pump station.
The bullets hit Hidalgo County Water Improvement District 3s pump station, just feet from where the employees were working, about 3:30 p.m., said Othal E. Brand Jr., the water districts general manager. Both men escaped unharmed.
Brand said Border Patrol agents were called to the scene. A Border Patrol spokesman said theres no record of the incident, but that wouldnt be unusual given the circumstances.
Asked how District 3 will react, Brand said he didnt have an easy answer.
Well, the old South Texas way is just to give them a gun, Brand said. Ive told them, Yall want to carry a gun, yall can carry guns.
Border Patrol vehicles frequent the area surrounding District 3s pump station, located immediately west of International Boulevard near Hidalgo. Its located south of the border wall on the Rio Grande.
Nearly all Rio Grande Valley cities and utilities depend on local water districts to pump water from the Rio Grande to reservoirs and treatment plants across the region. Employees often work alone at pumps just yards from Mexicos northern border.
In November, three people crossed the river and threatened a Delta Lake Irrigation District employee who was clearing brush near the districts pump. They told him to stop clearing brush and said theyd be back later to make sure hed stopped, said Troy Allen, the districts general manager.
They didnt brandish any weapons, but to him that was threat enough, Allen said.
Allen said he called Border Patrol, but the men werent seen again.
Since then, we havent had any problems, Allen said.
On Nov. 12, 2009, several men crossed the border and attacked a Donna Irrigation District employee working at the districts pump, located west of the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge. The men broke a window in the mans car, but he escaped without injury.
The assailants also ransacked the districts pump station before stealing a cell phone, a small refrigerator and a lawn mower.
Luckily, they didnt do any damage to our building or our pump there, though they did take a few items, Zapata said.
Such incidents arent new for the Valleys water districts.
A wooden barricade near Hidalgo County Irrigation District 2s pump shields transformers and other electrical equipment from gunfire, said Sonny Hinojosa, the districts general manager. Its been around for at least 16 years.
I remember when we used them, Othal.
But Napolitano and her boss claim the border is safer than ever. Jerks, all.
Mexicans are getting away with everything because they know this bunch in Washington will stand by them..They are just like the blacks who murder and brutalize old people..I saw tapes of the black bastards beating up old men one was a old black man and it showed the whole beating someone used their cell phone to record it..The smart ass black man beat the life out of the old man..You could see him and his girlfriend on the video..but so far no arrest..they wanted his car and took it..drove away slowly..The scum bag would have been in another world if I had of been around..People were just standing around and watching the poor old man being beaten..Sick bunch of bastards need to be hunted down like the dogs they are.. Obama generation of black and Mexican bullies..
Perhaps we need some more men of the quality of Charlie Askins Jr or Bill Jordan for border work. But then, the downstream cities would be complaining of floating Mexican bodies clogging their pump intakes.
So?? Fire 300 Back!
Ping!
If the barricade's that good, how about fitting it with ports through which employees can get behind and answer incoming fire in like manner?
I always have my CCW on my person, even in my office here in S. TX. When I’m working near the border, I take my Mini 14. I even have a pistol on my desk at my office. Lots of folks down here don’t like us. Had a Mexican in a pickup try to run me down on my Harley a couple of years ago in Corpus Christi.
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