Posted on 08/08/2011 3:00:16 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
"Yesterday, a Mexican Military helicopter landed at the Laredo airport. it has some residents wondering just how safe our border is."
"I just really worry for my family. Without security, everyone would come in here unauthorized and make a lot of chaos."
The Mexican officers apparently landed at the Laredo airport after mistaking the landing strip for the one in Nuevo Laredo. One woman doubts it was a mistake.
"Well I am a little upset that it happened. I think they knew what they were doing. I don't think it was a mistake. I think they were here to find out maybe what's going on."
This isn't the first time Mexican Military have breached international protocol by being on this side of the border. In June, a truck full of Mexican Military soldiers were seen waiting to cross the border at bridge two. Many residents are wondering how much they will get away with.
"I think it worries us all. i think maybe people are trying to see how far they can take things and what they can possibly get away with. i think we should be aware, concerned and take precautions so they don't happen."
Mayor Raul Salinas says everything is under control and being a former FBI agent, he'll make sure it stays that way.
"I want to make sure that people understand that we have a safe community...we're taking precautions to ensure safety of our citizens."
Salinas says that mistakes happen and it's a good thing we have law enforcement keeping a close eye on everything.
"We have the right resources, personnel, boots on the ground...we ask Washington how important our border is."
The mayor adds that he will speak with the authorities in Mexico to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
"I will be having a conversation later this afternoon to make sure they understand our concerns and that appropriate action is being taken by Mexican authorities.
Customs and border protection says they are conducting a thorough investigation to secure our border remains safe and secure. Lauren Kendrick Pro 8 News.
Paging, President Obama!
Sounds like we need to hand out some RPGs to border Texans.
Didn’t some Mexican soldiers cross the border a while back? What “reaction” to that, was what? Exactly??
After thousands of hours flying helicopters, I can see how this could happen unless you have a GPS unit. If you don’t have a GPS you have the guy in the left seat madly folding and unfolding a map and directing you to a safe place to land.
OOPS!! LOL
I would think the Texans could simply go to their local BATFE offices to get those.
Say 6 or 7 of these things loaded with troops landed 10 miles inland and started killing off the populace.20 minutes later another , bigger , wave.Could be a good movie plot.
They only distribute those to Mexicans.
“Mayor Raul Salinas says everything is under control and being a former FBI agent, he’ll make sure it stays that way. The mayor adds that he will speak with the authorities in Mexico to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen again.”
Yeah, clown. It’s working great. Start shooting them out of the air and in the trucks and then it will be under control. And then “this kind of thing doesn’t happen again.”
Pretty damned hard to mistake Laredo for Nuevo Laredo, even without a GPS or map since the Rio Grande seperates them quite distinctively.You don’t even need a mag compass. Just look for the giant Mexican flag on the south side of the river and fly to it.
Amen!
They drove across twice in the Lower Valley.
No harm, no foul. Adios, muchachos!
We already have a potential army of illegals here.
The air port is more than two and one half miles from the border, and helicopters don’t exactly fly very fast. The Taliban can take out our special forces helicopter and we can’t even enforce our own air space. I’m hugging my gun and bible.
My guess is it’s just a way of delivering drugs. They obviously bypassed customs. The real question is did someone on this side of the border know it was going to happen in advance.
Hey stuff gets dropped out of helicopters and trucks all the time.
“Border? We don’t need no stinkin’ border.”
Barack Hussein Obamaloon
We were invaded again, and this time it was official.
They probably are asylum-seekers — and who could blame them, really? Thanks SwinneySwitch.
BFLR
Me.
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