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    BP: Mexican troops pulled guns on agent

    BP: Mexican troops pulled guns on agent

    U.S. patrolman driving on Ariz. side of border; show of arms called ’scare’

    Brady McCombs
    Arizona Daily Star

    Four men dressed in Mexican military clothing briefly held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint early Sunday morning on the Arizona side of the Mexican border.

    The incident occurred just before 2 a.m. near the international line south of Papago Farms in an area about 85 miles southwest of Tucson on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, said Mike Scioli, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.

    The agent was driving along the dirt border road looking for footprints when he encountered four men dressed in desert camouflage military clothes and armed with assault rifles. They pointed their rifles at the agent and yelled at him to stop and not to move, Scioli said.

    The agent responded by saying in English that he was a Border Patrol agent. Then he said it in Spanish.

    After about four minutes, the four men lowered their guns and crossed back into Mexico.

    The agent had radioed for backup, and the arrival of more agents spurred the soldiers’ retreat into Mexico, said Brandon Judd, vice president of Local 2544, the local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council, the border agents’ union.

    Border Patrol officials are sure the men were legitimate Mexican military personnel, Scioli said.

    The agency has no doubts that the four men were in the U.S., he said.

    The international line is clearly delineated at the spot where the incident occurred, Judd said.

    Scioli added: “Something like this could have gone ugly really fast.â€
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    I GUESS ITS GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE SOMETHING BAD TO HAPPEN ON THAT BORDER WITH MEXICO BEFORE OUR GOVERNMENT TAKE ACTION. BY THAT TIME ITS GOING TO BE TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. WE ARE IN NO WAY BEING PROTECTED BY OUR OWN ELECTED OFFICIALS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. WHY HAS OUR GOVERNMENT FORSAKEN US IN ORDER TO PANDER TO MEXICO? THEY JUST SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING. THATS HOW THEY GO THEIR NAME "THE DO NOTHING CONGRESS" AND NOW THAT IS ALMOST ELECTION TIME THEY ARE ALL TELLING ONE LIE AFTER THE OTHER JUST SO THEY CAN GET ELECTED AGAIN. OUR COUNTRY IS IN A VERY BAD STATE NOW AND THERE A QUITE A FEW FIGURE HEADS AND MORONS WHO THINK THAT THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER HOW SAD FOR THEM.

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    This whole world of Corruption that Dubya bring during his time in office has taken a marked toll on all border agents and most police . Our guys fully trained ,ready to do their job can't . The Drugs must make it though . And were "Giving" Mexico 1.4 Billion to use against thanks to Senator Dobbs hacking and rewrite of the first bill which Mexico Whined about .
    People we do have some real Bums and Thieves in Office today. Worst lot i can ever remember and getting worst by the day . Classless money changers
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    Glenn Beck had a border patrol agent on who said the incursions by Mexican military were most likely a diversionary tactic. When the border patrol agent called for help, it removed other agents from their positions and the drug runners had a clear path across the border. The Mexican military is clearly in cahoots with the drug dealers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ReggieMay
    Glenn Beck had a border patrol agent on who said the incursions by Mexican military were most likely a diversionary tactic. When the border patrol agent called for help, it removed other agents from their positions and the drug runners had a clear path across the border. The Mexican military is clearly in cahoots with the drug dealers.
    HOW SHAMEFUL OUR GOVERNMENT LETS THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN AND NOTHING IS NEVER DONE ABOUT IT. JUST ABOUT ALL OF OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE IN BED WITH SOME ELSE OTHER THAN THEIR HUSBANDS OR WIVES. ITS A PITY THAT WE CAN DO A REAL GOOD JOB PROTECTING BORDERS FOR OTHER COUNTRIES AND LEAVE OURS WIDE OPEN FOR PEOPLE FROM MEXICO AND OTHER COUNTRIES TO COME AND GO AT WILL..GEORGE W. BUSH HAS GOT TO BE THE BIGGEST FOOL OF ALL TIME.

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    Monday, August 11, 2008
    Official questions Mexico at border
    Jerry Seper

    A Republican congressman who played a key role in the government's efforts to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border says the Mexican military's holding of a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint last week "raises serious questions" about Mexico's presence and activities in the area.

    "The fact that the Mexican military is operating in such close proximity to the border, without any identifiable purpose, calls into question its activities and raises concerns about the vulnerability of our southern land border," Rep. Duncan Hunter of California said in a letter Friday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff

    "When considering the frequency of incursions and the threat these encounters pose to our Border Patrol agents, it is critical that we take the necessary steps to ensure that Mexican military and law-enforcement personnel do not cross into the U.S. without our knowledge or consent," he said.

    The letter was in response to an incident Aug. 3 during which a Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona about 85 miles southwest of Tucson. The soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist.

    The agent was not identified.

    It is not clear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, although U.S. law-enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers.

    But officials at the State Department and the Border Patrol in Washington described the incursion as a "momentary misunderstanding," saying the Mexican soldiers did not know where they were and needed to make certain that the agent was who he said he was - although rank-and-file Border Patrol agents in Arizona said he was dressed in uniform and was driving a well-marked, white-and-green agency vehicle.

    The incident occurred on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation, a major alien and drug-smuggling corridor.

    Veteran Border Patrol agent Edward "Bud" Tuffly II, who heads the Tucson office of Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council, said incursions by the Mexican military have been "going on for years." He said, "It is fortunate that this incident didn't end in a very ugly gunfight," he said.

    Mr. Tuffly said the Mexican military personnel who crossed into the United States last week did so after passing vehicle barriers that have been erected by Homeland Security along the border. He said they had to know where they were.

    "Anyone who doesn't know that still believes in the tooth fairy," he said.

    Mr. Hunter noted there have been 43 reported Mexican military incursions on the border in the past 10 months and more than 200 since 2006. In the letter, he asked what action the Homeland Security and State departments were taking "to address the incursion... and limit or prevent the likelihood of similar incidents in the future."

    He also noted that under the Secure Fence Act passed in 2006, construction of double-layered border security fencing was required from Calexico, Calif., to Douglas, Ariz., by May 30, 2008. He said that if Homeland Security had completed that segment of fence, rather than avoiding the deadline and supporting a revision in the law, the recent incursion on the Arizona border would not have occurred.

    "Reoccurring confrontations with Mexican soldiers, much like the drug smugglers and illegal immigrants that attempt to cross into the U.S. through Mexico each day, further illustrate why fencing and other infrastructure remains so important to the security and enforcement of our border," he said.

    "Implementing infrastructure in problematic regions of the border, including those prone to military incursions, will serve to clearly identify our shared land boundary with Mexico, better protect our Border Patrol agents and help prevent illegal border crossings."

    The NBPC represents all nonsupervisory personnel among the agency's 16,000 agents and has been concerned about a dramatic increase of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border - much of which is aimed at Border Patrol agents. There were more than 200 assaults against Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector from Oct. 1, 2007, to June 30. The sector is responsible for 262 miles of the 1,952-mile U.S.-Mexico border.

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