Mexican Army Invading U.S.

NewsMax.com ^ | March 7, 2003 | Phil Brennan

[Tailgunner Joe]

It’s the war nobody wants to talk about – well-armed Mexican soldiers storming across America’s southern border, sometimes with guns blazing.

“We are in state of war,” Edward Nelson, chairman of U.S. Border Control, told Soldier of Fortune magazine. “And we are fighting enemies who have brought the battle to our shores. If ever there was a time for the United States to put troops on the border, it is now.”

In a blockbuster exposé, the magazine’s Rob Krott wrote in the March issue that over the past five years, there have been 120 documented incidents of Mexican military/police incursions, sometimes resulting in the arrest of Mexican Army personnel on U.S. soil by Border Patrol agents.

Thousands of Mexican soldiers, often ill-trained draftees, have been moved up to the border allegedly to fight narcotics smuggling, and many times these armed men cross the border chasing drug traffickers.

“Anytime you have the Mexican military running around with all these weapons and military gear it’s quite frightening.” Says Raleigh Leonard, a Border Patrol public information officer.

Krott cites incidents such as the one in March 2000 where soldiers in two Mexican Army Humvees fired on Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, and another in October, when 10 Mexican soldiers fired at a Border Patrol helicopter in California.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, claimed in a May 2002 press release that there were 23 incursions by Mexican authorities in 2001 alone.

And in a letter to Soldier of Fortune magazine, a Border Patrol agent stated that “The vast majority of the American people are totally oblivious that armed forces of a foreign nation routinely violate the sovereignty of the U.S.”

Shockingly, the agent revealed, “Our government is aware of these incidents, but refuses to take any steps to stop these flagrant violations.”

Krott cites a series of incidents that have taken place this year.

- Humvees full of troops pointing a rifle at Border Patrol agents;

- Incursions by “groups of six to eight armed men, possibly Mexican cops wearing black bulletproof vest and carrying machine guns;

- A Chevy Suburban hit five times by gunfire and containing 22 “undocumented migrants,” eight of whom suffered gunshot wounds fired from a Mexican Army vehicle, which then fled back across the border to Mexico.

Incredibly, some of these “anti-drug trafficking troops” are themselves trafficking in drugs, Krott reveals. “Many U.S. law-enforcement officials working along the border acknowledge the involvement of Mexican military troops and police in narcotics trafficking and migrant smuggling business,” he wrote.

“Many Mexican police agencies along the border are in the pay of the narcotraficantes and the corruption extends to high-ranking key Mexican military officers.”

Krott adds that “Drug cartels spend $500 million a year to pay off corrupt Mexican generals and police officials.”

Said Congressman Tancredo: “There’s no doubt Mexican military units along the border are being controlled by drug cartels, and not by Mexico City. The military units operate freely, with little or no direction, and several of them have made numerous incursions into the Unite States.”

Trancredo warned that “unless we open our eyes and recognize that what’s happening along the U.S.-Mexican border is real, one of our guys is going to get killed.”

[dinok]

Lets not offend our Mexican neighbors. They may just vote against us in the UN...(this after we bailed out their failing economy in the 90's with $40 billion.)
Anything for their vote.

[meenie]

We have troops all over the world but let this sort of action go on at our borders. You can tell the make of a man by the care he takes of his own. Our politicians are showing they do not measure up to this standard. Our trade deals, border security, and yes, our defense has been compromised by the elite of both parties.

Their sole object is to line their own pockets and those of their pals. The government in this country stinks to high heaven. They get by with this sort of shenanigans because we have so many illiterate and apathetic voters. God help us if people don't start waking up and demanding decent treatment and fairness.

[SUSSA]

The first time their military invaded our nation; we should have gone after them. Bush should tell the joint chiefs to go in there and make Sherman’s march to the sea look like a Sunday school picnic.

[RedWhiteBlue]

I don't buy the claim that they are doing these things while chasing drug runners. I think they are on the payroll of the drug runners, and they are doing these things to create a diversion so that the drug runners can slip through while our border patrol is otherwise busy.

[Quix]

PING FYI

[NewRomeTacitus]

We have a winner! For correctly identifying what is going on you may choose either what's behind the curtain (another million invaders) or what's in the box (continued betrayal by our politicians). Buzzz! Ah, too late. Now you'll have to accept those two plus watch your children's future flushed away.

[panaxanax]

You can tell the make of a man by the care he takes of his own.

I wish I'd have said that.

Mr. Bush,
Secure our borders today. We are at war. Hello.....

[DumpsterDiver]

"We are in state of war," Edward Nelson, chairman of U.S. Border Control ...

I've got nothing against News Max but I think the article should've mentioned that U.S. Border Control is an immigration reform citizens lobby. The article could leave one with the impression that it's a government agency.

Other than that, shut down those borders!

[Mr. Mojo]

It's long past time that we build a wall from San Diego to Brownsville that makes the Great Wall of China look like a picket fence. ...Long past.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[Ecliptic]

Maybe this mess is too little for the President....but what about Mayors, Senators, Governors??? Know why?? Politics of course..they don't want to alienate the hispanic voters..it will take multiple murders, I fear, before anything is done.....

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Krott cites incidents such as the one in March 2000 where soldiers in two Mexican Army Humvees fired on Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, and another in October, when 10 Mexican soldiers fired at a Border Patrol helicopter in California.

If I ran the border, Mexican officials would know where to go to collect their comrades' body parts after such incidents...

[nonliberal]

Troops on the border will NOT happen during the current administration.

Tancredo 2004!

[nonliberal]

[YOMO]

Remember the Alamo.

[BBell]

500 million? Thats alot of dough in Mexico. It seems that would be like drug lords spending 5 billion to buy off officials here. Imagine the impact of that.

[BBell]

unless of course thats 500 million pesos

[JSteff]

"- Humvees full of *troops* pointing **a rifle** at Border Patrol agents"

Did they take turns with the one rifle? Times are tough in the Mexican Army.

[JSteff]

Maybe they are and that is why no one spanks the mexicans for entering our territory.