Thread: Cartel suspected as high-caliber gunfire sends Border Patrol scrambling on Rio Grande

Cartels suspected as high-caliber gunfire sends Border Patrol scrambling on Rio Grande

By Jana Winter
Published July 19, 2014 FoxNews.com

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EXCLUSIVE: RINCON PENINSULA, Texas -- U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com.

The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of the Rincon Peninsula across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico, at about 8:30 p.m., sources said. Bullets ricocheted into an area where Border Patrol agents were positioned, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com.

Border Patrol sources confirmed Gohmert's account, and said the shots may have been fired by .50-caliber weapons.

"We don't have any armor that can stop a .50-caliber round, so our Border Patrol agents had to take cover when the rounds were richocheting around them," said Gohmert, who has been in the area for the last week to get a first-hand look at the border situation.

"When the shooting stopped, about 40 to 50 people came out on the U.S. side and turned themselves in. So clearly the rounds were being fired to suppress every effort to stop anybody intervening with anyone or anything coming across," Gohmert added. "We have no idea what or how many or whom came across with the other illegal immigrants."

Sources said they believe the gunfire came from members of Mexican drug cartels, which include former military members trained in shooting that type of weaponry.

Border Patrol sources said the rounds were clearly identifiable because .50- caliber weapons make a distinctive noise when fired. Sources said they also believe this is the first time that Border Patrol agents have taken direct fire from the Mexican side of the river in this area.

"I don't know why we're out here like sitting ducks," one Border Patrol source said. "We need help."

As of Saturday evening, a Border Patrol spokesman did not immediately return FoxNews.com's request for comment.

The Rio Grande sector has been the busiest part of the 2,000-mile border with Texas in recent months as a surge of illegal immigrants, many from Central America, has poured in to the U.S. in the mistaken belief that U.S. policy allows for them to remain in America once they make it in. More than 60,000 unaccompanied children had crossed in the last nine months. But Border Patrol officials have warned that the deluge has left the border largely unattended, and vulnerable to cartel infiltration.

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We need for Congress to react to an act of war as the Israelis did, and respond furiously to Mexico! This is not the first time, but possibly the worst, and don't you expect that they will become worse than this. THE TIME TO STOP THIS CRAP SET UP IN NOV. '86 TO OCCUR IS NOW! Republicans, admit the error, and declare war before we lose some border patrol or all of them. Then what will stop the cartels from walking into the United States with their arms, taking cities down before Congress can get an act together? This Congress will ask them, "If we give you TX and New Mexico can we achieve peace?" YES, without question I do believe that this Congress is that sick!!! Dumb, but look who we have in Washington. Teddy Roosevelt would have had the United States Marines there BY NOW!

Our congress is debating about whether we even need a few National Guardsmen there? With incidents as this being part of the norm, how smart is that of Congress? Every damned one of them is derelict of duty to the United States of America!

Fifty caliber fire is very serious fire, lethal up to two miles, I belieive.

BP: Shots heard in Mexico were not directed at Border Patrol agents

by Action 4 News Staff
Posted: 1 hr, 1 min ago

Reports have surfaced that shots were fired from the Mexican side at US Border Patrol agents.

Action 4 News reached out to US Border Patrol and they confirm shots were fired south of Granjero.

The incident happened on July 18th around 8:00 in the evening.

“Shots were not directed at agents,” according to Border Patrol Spokesperson Omar Zamora.

However, Fox News reported, "Bullets ricocheted into an area where Border Patrol agents were positioned, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com."

Border patrol agents are always advised to “utilize their ballistic vests and work in teams,” Border Patrol said.

Action 4 News will provide further information once further details are released.

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