Thread: Mexico Criticizes U.S. Border Patrol Agents

Mexico criticizes U.S. Border Patrol agents
By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched:11/14/2006 12:00:00 AM MST


Mexican officials are upset that U.S. Border Patrol agents crossed the border into Mexico without permission while chasing drug smugglers last week.
On Monday night, the Mexican attorney general's office, known as the PGR, announced it was investigating the "probable incursion of North American police into Mexican territory."

Border Patrol officials admitted the incursion on Monday.

The agents followed a fleeing pickup truck into the river "no more than 25 feet across the border" Thursday afternoon, Robert W. Gilbert, the chief patrol agent for the patrol s El Paso sector, said in a statement Monday.

The incident occurred Thursday afternoon when Border Patrol agents chased a marijuana-loaded pickup that got stuck in the Rio Grande near Fabens. Police officials from the Mexican village of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos said that when they arrived at the scene, they found the agents on the Mexican side of the river and had a brief standoff.

Jose Luis Delgado, a police officer in Guadalupe, said he and two colleagues responded to

a report of an abandoned drug-laden truck with their guns drawn. "When we arrived (the U.S. agents) drew their weapons," Delgado said.
The PGR said it was told by the police officers that when they arrived at the scene, they saw about 15 Border Patrol agents, who pointed at them with rifles and were attempting to hook up the pickup to chains to pull it.

Border Patrol officials said they were investigating. They said agents retrieved 300 pounds of marijuana from the truck before Mexican officials took over.

The city of Juárez issued a statement "condemning that authorities from other countries enter a national territory without respect for sovereignty."

City official Jorge Alvarez Compeán said Mexico should formally complain to the United States.

Even though the intent was to stop drug smuggling, "The end does not justify the action," Alvarez said.

Guadalupe police met with Mexican federal police in Juárez on Monday to discuss the incident and review photographs allegedly taken at the scene, federal police officials said. State police said they took out 1,441 pounds of marijuana from the truck, a 2005 Chevrolet that was reported stolen in El Paso in May. The truck's two occupants fled into Mexico.

In January, Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West accused Mexico of incursion into U.S. territory after an armed standoff over another drug-filled vehicle stuck in the river near Sierra Blanca.

Mexico denied West's accusations that Mexican military were involved in that standoff.

Louie Gilot may be reached at lgilot@elpasotimes.com; 546-6131.

The Associated Press

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Good, the Americans should have kept going all the way to the Mexico City!

"The city of Juárez issued a statement "condemning that authorities from other countries enter a national territory without respect for sovereignty."

Do ya think if they respected our sovereignty at least for a moment, then I could take this complaint seriously. I have a nice cup of shut the **** up for Juarez.

Do unto others.

The city of Juárez issued a statement "condemning that authorities from other countries enter a national territory without respect for sovereignty."

City official Jorge Alvarez Compeán said Mexico should formally complain to the United States.

You know what I feel like saying? Get used to it you morons. We'll march right in whenever we feel like it.

Mexican officials are upset that U.S. Border Patrol agents crossed the border into Mexico without permission while chasing drug smugglers last week.

Here's a tissue mexico, now get over it. Your scum bag federalies cross into American soil all the time while you are escorting drug cartels.
Unbelieveable the hypocrasy of these people.

Give them a whole box of tissues. Make their day, Sippy !

Originally Posted by sd_hog

"The city of Juárez issued a statement "condemning that authorities from other countries enter a national territory without respect for sovereignty."

Do ya think if they respected our sovereignty at least for a moment, then I could take this complaint seriously. I have a nice cup of shut the **** up for Juarez.

Agree completely. They are hypocritical aren't they! How is it wanting to secure our borders makes us inhumane, and yet they don't tolerate illegal immigration into Mexico.

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The city of Juárez issued a statement "condemning that authorities from other countries enter a national territory without respect for sovereignty."

They didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them!