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    2 US Border agents shot, 1 killed, near major drug cooridor in Arizona Read more: ht

    2 US Border agents shot, 1 killed, near major drug cooridor in Arizona



    DEVELOPING:Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot, one fatally, Tuesday morning in an area south Arizona known as a major drug-smuggling corridor, authorities said.


    The identities of the agents were not immediately released, but the shooting occurred at the Brian Terry Station near Naco, Ariz., which is just south of Tucson. The station was named after an agent who was killed in the line of duty in December 2010. The area is considered a remote part of the state and sources tell Fox News that the shooting occurred about eight miles from the border.
    The injured agent was airlifted to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.


    The search for the killer is being led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office.


    Two weeks ago, the station was named after Brian Terry who died in a shootout in December 2010 not far from Tuesday's shooting.


    Two guns found at the scene were bought by a member of a gun-smuggling ring that was being monitored in the Fast and Furious investigation. Critics have knocked U.S. federal authorities for allowing informants to walk away from Phoenix-area gun shops with weapons, rather than immediately arresting suspects.

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    2 US border agents shot, 1 killed, near major drug corridor in Arizona
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    Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot, one fatally, Tuesday morning in an area in south Arizona known as a major drug-smuggling corridor, authorities said.

    The identities of the agents were not immediately released, but the shooting occurred at the Brian Terry Station near Naco, Ariz., which is just south of Tucson. The station was named after an agent who was killed in the line of duty in December 2010. The area is considered a remote part of the state and sources tell Fox News that the shooting occurred at 1:50 a.m. local time and about 8 miles from the border.

    The agents who were shot were on patrol with a third agent, who was not harmed, according to George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing about 17,000 border patrol agents.
    McCubbin said he had no further information regarding the shooting.

    The injured agent was airlifted to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. The injured agent was shot in the ankle and buttocks, the Department of Homeland Security said.

    The search for the killer is being led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cochise County Sheriff's Office.
    Two weeks ago, the station was named after Brian Terry, who died in a shootout in December 2010 not far from Tuesday's shooting. Terry was the last agent fatally shot while on duty.

    In Terry's shooting, two guns found at the scene were bought by a member of a gun-smuggling ring that was being monitored in the Fast and Furious investigation. Critics have knocked U.S. federal authorities for allowing informants to walk away from Phoenix-area gun shops with weapons, rather than immediately arresting suspects.


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    I just received a text from a friend who is a border patrol supervisor at the Ajo Arizona station not far from the Naco station. He said they are currently searching for 4 suspects involved in the killing of the agent.
    "Where is our democracy if the federal government can break the laws written and enacted by our congress on behalf of the people?"

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    Our hearts and prayers go out to the family members of these brave agents.

    And our pledge goes up to hold all of these politicians responsible for the lax security at our borders accountable through ALIPAC's efforts!

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    Make contact with Univision and work with them as much as possible.

    Use any means to get the word out.

    Fight like your lives and land are at risk.

    Ask any Apache how these lands were taken from them.
    Same old deal unlimited illegal immigration from South of the Border in search of gold.
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    You can bet if another fast and furious rifle is located in this shooting the press will down play the event. Yes, DHS the border is secure.
    I'm old with many opinions few solutions.

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    Just as long as no illegals were injured.We cannot have that. They just want to come here and work, well and collect benefits, and run drugs and drink and drive and kill people. Just honest good working people.

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    Border Patrol agent shot, killed on patrol in Ariz

    By Associated Press
    Originally published: Oct 2, 2012 - 1:16 pm



    BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) - A Border Patrol agent was shot to death Tuesday in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 firefight with Mexican bandits that spawned congressional probes of a botched government gun-smuggling investigation.

    The agent, Nicholas Ivie, 30, and a colleague were on patrol in the desert near Naco, Ariz., about 100 miles from Tucson, when shooting broke out shortly before 2 a.m., the Border Patrol said. The second agent was shot in the ankle and buttocks, and was airlifted to a hospital.

    Authorities have not identified the agent who was wounded, nor did they say whether any weapons were seized at the site of the shooting.

    The last Border Patrol agent fatally shot on duty was Brian Terry, who died in a shootout with bandits near the border in December 2010. The Border Patrol station in Naco, where the two agents shot Tuesday were stationed, was recently named after Terry.

    Terry's shooting was later linked to the government's Fast and Furious gun-smuggling operation, which allowed people suspected of illegally buying guns for others to walk away from gun shops with weapons, rather than be arrested.

    Authorities intended to track the guns into Mexico. Two rifles found at the scene of Terry's shooting were bought by a member of the gun-smuggling ring being investigated.

    Critics of the operation say any shooting along the border now will raise the specter those illegal weapons are still being used in border violence.

    "There's no way to know at this point how the agent was killed, but because of Operation Fast and Furious, we'll wonder for years if the guns used in any killing along the border were part of an ill-advised gun-walking strategy," Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said in a written statement.

    The Terry family said that the shooting was a "graphic reminder of the inherent dangers that threaten the safety of those who live and work near the border."

    No arrests have been made in the shooting. Investigators suspect that more than one person fired at the agents.

    Cochise County Sheriff's Office and FBI, which are both investigating the shooting, declined to say whether investigators have recovered guns or bullet casings at the scene of the shooting.

    Authorities set up a checkpoint on a dirt road about seven miles southeast of Bisbee. A Border Patrol truck and another vehicle carrying two portable toilets were allowed to drive past the roadblock.

    Agents at the checkpoint declined to comment and barred reporters from going further. Two helicopters from federal immigration agencies could be seen from a distance circling the area. And a fugitive-chase team could be seen staging on a roadside.

    The area near the shooting is scattered with houses, trailers and ranchettes. Mesquite trees and creosote bushes dotted the landscape, and a mountain range stands nearby to the west.

    The U.S. government has put thousands of sensors along the border that, when tripped, alert dispatchers that they should send agents to a particular location.

    The agents were fired upon in a rugged hilly area about five miles north of the border as they responded to an alarm that was triggered on one of the sensors, said sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas.

    It is not known whether the agents returned fire, Capas said.

    The wounded agent is in stable condition and should be released from the hospital later Tuesday, said George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing about 17,000 border patrol agents. The agents who were shot were on patrol with a third agent, who was not harmed, McCubbin said.

    The Border Patrol said Ivie worked for the agency since January 2008 and grew up in Provo, Utah.

    Twenty-six Border Patrol agents have died in the line of duty since 2002.

    Bisbee-area residents expressed a mix of concern and frustration about the shooting, along with recognition that the border can be a dangerous place.

    The region has seen its share of violence in recent years, including the Terry shooting and the slaying of a well-known rancher in 2010. That killing is, in part, credited with pushing Arizona lawmakers to pass a law that requires officers, when they stop someone, to check the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally.

    "There is no security on the border- none," said Edward L. Thomas, who owns rental properties in Bisbee.

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    Gov. Jan Brewer statement on fatal border shooting

    By KTAR Newsroom
    Originally published: Oct 2, 2012 - 12:56 pm

    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer issued the following statement on the fatal Tuesday morning shooting of Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie:

    "Arizona has lost another Border Patrol agent.

    "In the dark hours before daybreak, one agent was killed and another injured while on-duty along Arizona's southern border. It is believed they were responding to an alerted ground sensor in a remote area near Bisbee, a short distance north of the border. In a tragic coincidence, these agents were assigned to Brian Terry Station -- newly dedicated and named for a U.S. Border Patrol agent murdered under similar circumstances in Arizona less than two years ago.

    "More recently, in May 2011, we lost two more agents -- Eduardo Rojas, Jr. and Hector Clark -- when they were killed in a vehicle accident while pursuing suspected drug smugglers near Gila Bend.

    "What happens next has become all-too-familiar in Arizona. Flags will be lowered in honor of the slain agent. Elected officials will vow to find those responsible. Arizonans and Americans will grieve, and they should. But this ought not only be a day of tears. There should be anger, too. Righteous anger -- at the kind of evil that causes sorrow this deep, and at the federal failure and political stalemate that has left our border unsecured and our Border Patrol in harm's way. Four fallen agents in less than two years is the result.

    "It has been 558 days since the Obama administration declared the security of the U.S.-Mexico border ‘better now than it has ever been.' I'll remember that statement today."

    Gov. Jan Brewer statement on fatal border shooting - Phoenix News - KTAR.com
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    Gov. Brewer: Righteous Anger, Not Just Tears, for Slain Border Agent

    Tuesday, 02 Oct 2012 04:19 PM
    By Todd Beamon

    Read more on Newsmax.com: Gov. Brewer: Righteous Anger, Not Just Tears, for Slain Border Agent

    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said on Tuesday that her state is in mourning over the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent and the wounding of another. And she laid blame squarely on the Obama administration's policies. “But this ought not only be a day of tears,” Brewer said. “There should be anger, too. Righteous anger – at the kind of evil that causes sorrow this deep, and at the federal failure and political stalemate that has left our border unsecured and our Border Patrol in harm’s way." [Full Story]

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