Posted on 12/19/2018 6:15:42 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Border Patrol agents tracked an ultralight aircraft as it crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and made it 30 miles into the country early Tuesday morning — and when they got to the landing spot, they found two Chinese men who had been smuggled in by the aircraft.
The ultralight had escaped, lifting back off and returning to Mexico, but agents say they did manage to nab a Mexican man waiting in a vehicle near the landing zone in southern California, apparently ready to pick up the Chinese men and deliver them to their destination.
Experts said they had seen ultralights, small aircraft powered by lawn mower-sized engines, used to drop loads of drugs in the U.S. But they were surprised to see them being used to ferry illegal immigrants.
“It’s disturbing,” said Chris Harris, who retired this year after a two-decade career as a Border Patrol agent in San Diego and who suggested it could be a way for cartels to get dangerous people across the border. “If you want to get some operatives in this country very quickly, that’s a way.”
Gloria I. Chavez, chief patrol agent in the El Centro sector of the Border Patrol, agreed that ultralights pose a threat to “national security.”
“These aircraft are able to carry small payloads of dangerous cargo or dangerous people,” she said.
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shoot them down burn them down...WTF am I paying for drones which can kill terrorists more than 10 miles away in Afghanistan and we cant hit these assholes in our backyard??
Just trying to do the laundry Americans won’t do...
start shooting them down
yup, RAT laundry no doubt...
with all the ways to get into the country, going that route screams very, Very bad men
“Heck, a 12-gauge could take out one of those things.”
hmmm ... what is the range of a 12 gauge ...
Declades ago planes would fly across line , sometimes 300 miles inland. They would and on makeshift landing strips on flat desert. Dump people and drugs and fly back unimpeded.
Maybe still do.
I’ve seen the documentaries. If true, POTUS should declare a national emergency and use the military to secure the border, including building the wall and doing whatever it takes to detect and shoot down these invaders.
So obvious. Snipers every 100 yards along the border. Leave the bodies there to rot, a sign for the ones who try to follow
Watch as some leftist federal black robed tyrant declares, “You can’t do that ! They have a right to invade us !”
If Trump shut down the border for national security reasons, the cries from both sides of border and from the constituants of every senator and congressman would be heard around the world. The laws would get fixed really quickly.
It would take a will of iron and a backbone of steel.
He would probably be destroyed, but he would be a hero.
It is so dangerous on the border.
Many nations around the world would handle this with lethal force.
We should have a Double wall, with evenly placed C-RAMS, military bases placed in strategic locations proximal to the border, and go lethal.
This is total retard. Every enemy in the world will be trying to exploit this, while laughing their heads off.
A 30 foot strong wall will stop 95%+ of illegals walking across the border. That is a great start to control flow of illegals coming across the border. The other 5% do not require a 5000’ high wall, but only needs good electronic surveillance.
Any aircraft entering United States is foreign invasion and becomes a matter for the US military to take immediate action.
Looking for a job with Feinstein?
heh heh heh heh... not out of the realm of possibilities
Simple, shoot them down. Put an immediate stop to this new tactic.
Should put a bounty on any shot down and recovered. Bet we’d see thousands of Americans with shotguns to patrol every foot of that border.
For some reason, Trump does not have the balls to act. He remorsefully said Never Again last time. What happened?
I feel like I should be here.........
That was a Jeh Johnson joke.
I’ve known for decades what an autogyro is but 000’s head of DHS didn’t!!!
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