Thread: Border peril prompts Amado school meeting

Published: 06.05.2008

Border peril prompts Amado school meeting
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

The U.S. Border Patrol will host a meeting tonight at an Amado elementary school that was forced into lockdowns on two occasions recently due to dangerous border-related activity nearby.
The meeting at Sopori Elementary School, just west of Interstate 10 on Arivaca Road, will begin at 7 p.m. in the library. It is about 45 miles south of Tucson.
In late April and early May, Sopori Elementary was put on lockdown twice.
In the morning of May 7, a man with blood coming from his head was found by Border Patrol agents lying in the road at the entrance to the school.
The man, who was flown to University Medical Center with with life-threatening injuries, had been thrown from or jumped out of a pickup truck carrying marijuana that agents had tried to pull over on the Interstate 19 frontage road.
On April 28, the school went on lockdown after agents tracked footprints of drug smugglers to a nearby house. Agents contacted the school principal and decided to put students on lockdown in case the drug runners had weapons.
Agents found nine people inside the house and 200 pounds of marijuana. They didn't find any guns. The school returned to normal operations shortly after.
If you go
When: Thursday.
Where: Sopori Elementary School, 5000 W. Arivaca Road.
Time: 7 to 8 p.m.
What: Meeting regarding dangerous border-related activity near an Amado elementary school.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/242310

the wild wild west

Well now don't we feel so good about how safe our children are in the public school system these days

Right now lockdown may be the best defense schools have, but how long does everyone think it will be before someone desperate, and armed, decides to get into a school and manages to do so?

Originally Posted by azwreath

Right now lockdown may be the best defense schools have, but how long does everyone think it will be before someone desperate, and armed, decides to get into a school and manages to do so?

Or that something will happen to one of these kids on the way home!

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

Originally Posted by azwreath

Right now lockdown may be the best defense schools have, but how long does everyone think it will be before someone desperate, and armed, decides to get into a school and manages to do so?

Or that something will happen to one of these kids on the way home!

Hi there SOSAD!!! Hope you've been well!!!

You're right about that. Smugglers are dangerous individuals with absolutely no regard for human life. If they thought it would do them any good, they would not hesitate for a minute to hijack a school bus, take hostages in a school, or grab some poor child walking home from school.

And, with nothing to lose, combined with the disregard for life, it is not unreasonable to assume that they would not hestitate to do harm.

This is the kind of stuff I try very hard not to think about at night or it literally keeps me awake.

School walls, doors and windows do not stop bullets.