Posted on 06/09/2011 11:47:49 AM PDT by markomalley
Texas authorities said suspected drug runners in Mexico began shooting at U.S. law enforcement agents from across the Rio Grande on Thursday, forcing the U.S. officers to return fire and injuring at least three of the suspects on the other side of the border.
Few details about the early morning shootout in Hidalgo County were immediately available. The shootout began after U.S. agents patrolling in boats tried to seize a drug load on the Rio Grande, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said.
Mange said she could not disclose whether any U.S. officers were struck or injured. She said the agents came under "heavy fire" but would not say how long the ensuing shootout lasted.
Authorities said Mexican officials were notified about two "drug-laden" boats that were abandoned after the shootout.
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Maybe NATO would like to throw in with us in this fight.
Thanks for today’s pings SwinneySwitch.
Thanks for the ping! It is getting to the point where these open hostilities need to be met with ever increasing superior firepower and less politics. I can think of no other nation on earth that would put up with this crap.
I have a good feeling that thigns are getting more and more out of control if things like this are starting to happen with increased proclivity and ferociousness...
The recent supoena;s Congressmand Issa is about to issue for the ATF’s failed “Gunwalker” program is going to blacken a lot of eyes of those knuckleheads who armed up the cartels recently...And had the gall to blame civilian purchases and gunstore venues for the firearms getting into Mexico...
I honesly see a DMZ type solution to be the ony way to get this under control, if it can be allowed to work...
You miss the point here. The reason the Obama Administration started Gunrunner was so the could blame civilian purchases and gun store venues for the firearms getting into Mexico.
Remember that last year there was a big media push by the Obama Administration on a parallel effort to impose new gun control measures using pretext that US gun stores were selling guns to gun runners who supplying them to drug cartels to fuel the violence in Mexico.
In reality, we now find that American gun store owners were actually alerting the BATF and the Justice department to the fact that the gun store owners thought that the buyers were illegally purchasing the guns, perhaps to smuggle them into Mexico for illegal purposes.
The BATF instructed the guns stores to sell the guns despite the objections of the gun store owners.
Telebizion aka the foolaide dispenser.
But...but...according to Homeland Security head Napolitano and The ONE, the border has never been safer.
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