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3 border agents shot at in 2 weeks
Arizona Daily Star ^ | October 5, 2002 | Tim Steller

Posted on 10/05/2002 9:48:56 PM PDT by Selmo

Three U.S. Border Patrol agents have reported being shot at in separate incidents west of Tucson since Sept. 23.

Only once did an agent return fire, agency spokesman Ryan Scudder said. No agents were injured, and it was unclear whether anyone was struck by the agent's gunfire.

In the first incident, about 2 a.m. on Sept. 23, an agent was driving west along the border, about a mile east of San Miguel Gate, when he heard three shots fired from the Mexican side of the border, Scudder said. One round struck the left rear side of the agent's marked Chevrolet Tahoe.

The agent left the area and did not return fire, Scudder said. The agent did not see any people or vehicles in the area where the shots originated.

San Miguel Gate is a popular but informal border crossing on the Tohono O'odham Nation, about 30 miles south of Sells and 65 miles southwest of Tucson.

At about 4 p.m. on Sept. 26, an agent was driving south toward Serapo Gate, another informal crossing on the reservation, about 20 miles west of San Miguel Gate. Another vehicle going south passed the agent, and someone fired at the agent as that vehicle passed, Scudder said.

That agent returned fire, but it was unclear whether he struck the vehicle or anyone inside, said Scudder, who did not have a vehicle description.

About 3 a.m. Tuesday, an agent working on foot had just discovered a group of border crossers in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument when he heard a gunshot, Scudder said. The agent also said he heard a bullet ricochet off a rock.

Agents searched for eight hours but could not find evidence of the bullet or the shooter, Scudder said.

The three incidents were the latest in a series of gunfire attacks on agents in Southern Arizona this year. Tucson Sector agents reported being fired on at least seven times in the fiscal year that ended Monday, Scudder said.

In March, a drug smuggler fleeing back to Mexico fired repeatedly on agents near Naco.

In May, an agent working near Papago Farms, about 100 miles southwest of Tucson, reported being fired on by Mexican soldiers driving a Humvee.

In July, an agent working in the same area reported being chased and fired on by men in a pickup, and returning fire. No one is known to have been hit in any of these three incidents.

But in August, a man believed to be a drug smuggler shot and killed National Park Service Ranger Kris Eggle as he worked alongside Border Patrol agents in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. In that case, Eggle's killer, Panfilo Murillo Aguila, was then shot to death by Mexican officers on their side of the border.

Edward "Bud" Tuffly, the president of the agents union in Southern Arizona, said agents are wondering whether there will be a response to the shootings.

"If something is being done, they're not being told about it," Tuffly said. "That has a demoralizing effect on the agents."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; border; donutwatch; illegals; immigration; mexico
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To: Risa; FreedomFriend
"Who would ever have thought that he'd ignore the pleas for help from the border patrol, abandoning them to a hopeless situation and possible death, or that he'd ignore the pleas of help from the American citizens who live in those areas and fear stepping outside at night, because they may be shot by armed foreign nationals, smuggling mexicans and drugs?"

This sums up my thoughts on this. I'm sickened by the goings on along the southern border, and furious that we're not only not stopping it, but not making Mexico pay the price for the damage already caused.

41 posted on 10/06/2002 4:59:18 AM PDT by Paulie
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To: janetgreen
And for that reason, millions of Americans will not vote Republican in '04. I will vote third party. Those of us who supported Bush have been made fools of because of his inability to cut the umbilical cord with Mexico.

Amen to that.

42 posted on 10/06/2002 5:12:48 AM PDT by Under the Radar
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To: Risa
Who would ever have thought that he'd ignore the pleas for help from the border patrol, abandoning them to a hopeless situation and possible death, or that he'd ignore the pleas of help from the American citizens who live in those areas and fear stepping outside at night, because they may be shot by armed foreign nationals, smuggling mexicans and drugs?

Your post is worthy of a bump and a repeat reading!

43 posted on 10/06/2002 5:18:19 AM PDT by ET(end tyranny)
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To: FreedomFriend
This is about Globalism. I'm pretty sure about that. "Free Trade", the free flow of goods and peoples across boundaries, the "trade of the Americas", a "Pax Americana", and later an Americas styled currency.

The second lat in trilateral? The Amero? Followed by a pacific or Asian grouping with one currency.

Then down the road a few years, why hey, we don't need three currencies. And since there are only 3 currencies we should all just use one currency. So much easier, and so much easier to implement now!

44 posted on 10/06/2002 5:22:51 AM PDT by ET(end tyranny)
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To: alphadog
I'll say it...Bush is a RINO

That would be the rated “G” version of what I was thinking.

45 posted on 10/06/2002 5:35:25 AM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: FreedomFriend

Remember Dashole's UNION he is protecting from Homeland Security???...It is a branch of the same lousey "protected" bunch provinding US the "good for government work" work ethic, endorsed and protected by Colleen Kelly the UNION president!

WE must get Homeland Security...FIRE the lowest of low Federal Union members who end up working the southern borders, and get IQs,work ethic and EQUIPMENT (requiring the IQs) down on the borders and managed by a NO NONSENSE boss who can FIRE the bumbling morons.

The UNIONS are so beholdened to the Democrat party they are too worried to "FIRE UPON" future Democrat party voters spilling over the voters. GOODNESS the same UNION led bunch want to have watering holes in the desert to placate the "illegal familes" here in the USA when MORE family members wander over our borders...the INS and the Border Agents are NOTHING more than an extension of the DNC.

I am tired of people BLAMING Bush or ANY elected official because of the UNIONS' strangle hold on FEDERAL UNION workers. The Democrat's lip lock on the Unions is the setting up a two against one war when GW or anyone has to address the REAL problem on the borders..."Half ass union attitudes in the name of protection...."

REMOVE the UNIONS from the Federal Government NOW!!!

46 posted on 10/06/2002 5:36:28 AM PDT by antivenom
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To: antivenom
...the INS and the Border Agents are NOTHING more than an extension of the DNC.

Aren’t you completely uninformed.

47 posted on 10/06/2002 5:42:02 AM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: Selmo
"That has a demoralizing effect on the agents."

Give me a break...how can anyone "demoralize" half ass "good enough for government work" low life Federal unions members...I thought the criteria of hiring a border agent is to find a Federal Union member approved to carry a gun but too damn stupid to find a job anywhere else in the "Federal Gov'ts Circus of Union Memebers Cush Job" market...BAN all UNIONS in the FEDERAL Government NOW!

Let's get old fat ass Colleen Kelly's butt down on the border and have her EXPLAIN what the UNION thinks "ought to be done" in the name of the UNION she represents.

48 posted on 10/06/2002 5:42:44 AM PDT by antivenom
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To: antivenom
Give me a break...how can anyone "demoralize" half ass "good enough for government work" low life Federal unions members...I thought the criteria of hiring a border agent is to find a Federal Union member approved to carry a gun but too damn stupid to find a job anywhere else in the "Federal Gov'ts Circus of Union Memebers Cush Job" market...

Now you've moved from “uninformed” to “idiot” stature.

49 posted on 10/06/2002 5:45:49 AM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: antivenom
Let's get old fat ass Colleen Kelly's butt down on the border and have her EXPLAIN what the UNION thinks "ought to be done" in the name of the UNION she represents.

Gee... if it was up to the UNION members, the border would be secure, but George "RINO" Bush wants open borders. This HOMELAND security department is a farce to grab more power. Get a clue.

50 posted on 10/06/2002 5:50:58 AM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: Marine Inspector
Sure looks like a farce around here this weekend (sarcasm!). We got an Islamofascist affiliate running around with a rifle shooting people in front of Jewish owned businesses or in Jewish neighborhoods.

Then, there were those planes aimed at us, and one actually hit a major public building around here.

It's time for the Senate to get off it's tail and wrap up this business.

51 posted on 10/06/2002 6:21:46 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: MissAmericanPie
Washington cannot be allowed to turn a blind eye to our borders. It will be a HUGE issue in 2004.

I agree ... but it should be a HUGE issue today ... for November's elections! It would have been a HUGE issue in 2000 if Buchanan had been allowed into the debates.

52 posted on 10/06/2002 6:22:26 AM PDT by bimbo
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To: Marine Inspector
HMMMMMM...later you union troll! BWAAHAAHAAHAAA!!!
53 posted on 10/06/2002 6:27:00 AM PDT by antivenom
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To: Selmo
Sounds like guerilla warfare.
54 posted on 10/06/2002 6:34:11 AM PDT by Salvation
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To: antivenom
HMMMMMM...later you union troll! BWAAHAAHAAHAAA!!!

Sorry, I'm not part of the Union, BushBot.

55 posted on 10/06/2002 6:59:24 AM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: muawiyah
It's time for the Senate to get off it's tail and wrap up this business.

It's time for George "RINO" Bush to close the borders, that will take care of business.

56 posted on 10/06/2002 7:00:46 AM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: Marine Inspector
Oh Bush has a clue. Bush knows! To do something means loss of those precious few Mexican votes and contributions. ALL politicians will sacrifice the citizen for their few moments in the sun.
57 posted on 10/06/2002 7:08:20 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Free the USA; backhoe; Carry_Okie; Teacher317; NorseWood; c-b 1; cynicom; WhiteGuy; ...
ping.

Anyone wanting ON or OFF this Border List, please freepmail me.

thanks
58 posted on 10/06/2002 7:10:14 AM PDT by madfly
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To: Marine Inspector
Actually shutting down the borders won't do a thing to resolve the terrorism. They just arrested 6 American born AlQaida terrorists - 4 in Portland and 2 elsewhere, and we have this guy wondering around the DC area killing people.

Now, here's what would really help this country out - just ship everybody back home whose people arrived after 1828! Can you imagine the wide open vistas that would give us, and everybody could live in a really great house. We could let the Louisiana Territory revert to it's natural conditions and the Mississippi River dams and controls could be blown up as just so much useless concrete.

59 posted on 10/06/2002 7:10:49 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Selmo
BUMP
60 posted on 10/06/2002 7:21:16 AM PDT by I_Love_My_Husband
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