On Mar. 14, shortly after 10 p.m. local time, "two Mexican army Humvees carrying about 16 armed soldiers drove across the international boundary and into the United States near Santa Teresa, New Mexico." There the vehicles pursued a Border Patrol vehicle, which was "outfitted with decals and emergency lights (that were activated for much of the pursuit) over a mile into the United States."
The lead Mexican army vehicle, the Border Patrol council said, contained nine soldiers "armed with seven automatic assault rifles, one submachine gun, and two .45 caliber pistols," and was eventually apprehended by other Border Patrol units. The second Humvee, however, "pursued a Border Patrol agent on horseback and fired a shot at him. The soldiers then disembarked their vehicle, fired upon one more Border Patrol agent and chased another agent before fleeing [back] to Mexico in their vehicle."
U.S. Border Patrol agent Union officials said the members of the lead Mexican army vehicle were debriefed and eventually allowed to return to Mexico with their arms and vehicle.
Though the incident "is the most serious to date," the council said, "it is but one of hundreds of incursions that have been reported over the past several years," and it has led union officials to call on Congress and the Clinton administration to deal with it.
(snip) "That was no accident," Joseph Dassaro, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, told reporters in El Paso, Texas. "The Mexican military was well into U.S. territory for way over a mile and chased and fired at agents."
As confirmed by Border Patrol officials, the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico's biggest drug gangs, has indeed placed a bounty of $200,000 on U.S. lawmen.
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A foreign military unit comes into the U.S. and fires on government officials. This is an act of war by any standard. We should have responded with overwhelming force the very next day.
No nation can let a foreign military come into the country and shoot at citizens. This just shows how far our society has degenerated, that we allow this and the people are not up in arms about it.