Thread: Border Agents Pelted With Rocks As Assaults Skyrocket

Brittany M. Hughes | 6 hours ago

Border agents with the Weslaco Station in Texas were assaulted with rocks from across the Mexican border, marking nearly half a dozen instances of agents being hit with objects while on duty in just the past month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported Monday. The agency reported:

For the fifth time in a month, Border Patrol agents were assaulted by subjects throwing rocks.

This incident occurred Thursday afternoon when Weslaco Station Border Patrol agents assigned to the Riverine unit were patrolling the Rio Grande near Hidalgo, Texas. Agents reported that several subjects on the Mexican side of the river began throwing rocks at them. No force was used against the subjects, who eventually dispersed and departed the area. The agents were unharmed in the incident and no damage to the boats was reported.
The news comes less than a week after Border Patrol Chief Mark A. Morgan told a Senate committee that assaults against border agents were up 200 percent over last year, and that two agents had even been killed while protecting the border in the last four months alone.

Morgan added that more than 7,400 border patrol agents have been assaulted since 2006.

MRCTV reported in October that assaults against border agents have skyrocketed recently amid an increasing wave of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. CBP data reveals that as of August 31, there had already been 489 reported assaults against border agents so far in FY2016.

Incidents of agents being hit with rocks and other debris – even from the other side of the border – are far from uncommon. While apprehending an illegal alien border crossers back in October, an agent with the Calexico border station was hit in the shoulder with a concrete block thrown by an assailant on the other side of the border fence, CBP reported.

A week later, a second agent with the same border station was struck under the eye by an illegal immigrant who’d crossed into the United States unlawfully.

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/border-age...ults-skyrocket

I'm sure our border agents are proud to do their job.

Dispatch the F-14s and bomb these people...this is an act of war!

by BOB PRICE
6 Dec 2016
Hidalgo, TX

Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector were assaulted by rock-throwing foreign nationals for the second time in a week.

Agents assigned to the Weslaco Station Riverine Unit were patrolling near Hidalgo, Texas, when they observed several subjects on the Mexican side of the river. As the boat drew within range, several foreign nationals began throwing rocks at the agents, according to information obtained by Breitbart Texas from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

The agents did not respond with any use of force despite the threat of severe injury or death from the assault. The people on the Mexican side of the river eventually left the area.

No damage was done to the boat and the agents on-board were not injured, officials stated.

Just one week earlier, agents working this same area on Thanksgiving day faced a similar encounter, Breitbart Texas reported. In this incident, a group of three foreign nationals began throwing rocks at the agents on the riverboat. Again, no agents were injured and the boat was not damaged.

The following day, a Border Patrol agent and a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper were each shot near the border town of Fronton, Texas. The DPS trooper was shot in the leg and was transported by helicopter to a hospital in McAllen, Breitbart Texas reported. The wound was not life-threatening. Investigators could not initially determine if the two were shot intentionally or if they were hit by stray bullets from a gun battle on the Mexican side.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/...saulted-rocks/