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."
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.
Amen to that.
Your post is worthy of a bump and a repeat reading!
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!
That would be the rated “G” version of what I was thinking.
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!!!
Aren’t you completely uninformed.
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.
Now you've moved from “uninformed” to “idiot” stature.
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.
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.
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.
Sorry, I'm not part of the Union, BushBot.
It's time for George "RINO" Bush to close the borders, that will take care of business.
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.
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