Thread: ACT OF WAR? Mexican Military Crosses Border; Fires on U.S.

ACT OF WAR? Mexican Military Crosses Border; Fires on U.S.

June 27, 2014 By Jennifer Burke

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Earlier this week, TPNN reported on a disturbing trend occurring at the U.S-Mexican border. There have been numerous instances of the Mexican Army crossing the border into the United States and firing on American citizens. Mexican official described these incidents as done by ‘rogue agents,’ but a recent event calls into question the truthfulness of that claim.

KVOA News 4 in Tucson reports that in the early morning hours on Thursday, a Mexican military helicopter crossed the border and fired upon U.S. Border Patrol Agents. This happened in an area where Arizona borders Mexico west of the San Miguel Gate on the Tohono O’Odham Nation.
Reportedly, after the helicopter fired upon the Border Patrol and returned, officials in Mexico contacted U.S. officials to apologize.
Border Patrol indicated that no one was injured during this direct attack on U.S. Border Patrol Agents by the Mexican Military.
The president of the Border Patrol Union in the Tucson Sector Local 2544, Art del Cueto, previously addressed this growing trend of the Mexican Army crossing into America and going into attack mode against American citizens and federal agents.

“I mean, it’s very nerve-wracking. A lot of these encounters happen in the middle of the night where, you know, the lighting is low and you don’t know who you’re encountering. You’re sitting there and seeing a group of guys coming up to you and they’re all carrying long-arms, you don’t know what you’re encountering.” Cueto continued saying, “When you see our own government putting more emphasis on the rights of individuals who are in this country illegally already instead of trying to help out the agents and seeing these intrusions and taking them seriously, it’s very frustrating.”

Meanwhile, as U.S. Border Patrol agents are contending with increased attacks by the Mexican Military on American soil, they are increasingly being taken away from their patrol job duties to babysit and tend to the tens of thousands of illegal alien children who are crossing the border into the United States.

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How about we issue the BP some good ear plugs and then do some super-sonic flyby's of the mexican border. Don't need to fire a shot and would send the msg loud and clear for all to stay out.

The Mexican government is OWNED by the drug cartels but no on will admit it. If they did they would have to acknpowledge that we are being invaded by a Narco state and actually do something about the invasion.


'We never crossed the border': Mexican officials deny helicopter flew into Arizona and blame shooting on drug smugglers

• The Mexican chopper was involved in an anti-drug smuggling operation
• Two US agents in the Arizona desert were shot at but not injured
• US authorities are investigating

By JESSICA JERREAT and ROSEMARIE LENTINI
PUBLISHED: 17:38 EST,
28 June 2014


Mexican officials have denied one of their helicopters flew into Arizona on Thursday, and blamed the gunfire on the drug smugglers they were tracking.

The U.S. had claimed earlier this week that the Mexican helicopter had crossed into Tucson and fired at two agents before going back across the border.

A border patrol spokesman said on Friday that Mexico had called to apologize for the incident, but the country's attorney-general's office has now changed tact.



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Dispute: Mexico is denying claims that one of its helicopters, not pictured, crossed the U.S. border and fired near government agents on Thursday

A Mexican official disputed claims that the helicopter strayed into U.S. airspace, and said the crew were at least 100m away.

Tomas Zeron, director of the Mexican attorney general's investigative office, told CNN they were involved in an investigation 'on the border'.

'I do not think we crossed the border because we brought our navigation. But it was just 100 meters from the border.'

He blamed criminals for the shooting and said several were arrested after the incident, which came during an investigation into drug smuggling and people trafficking.

Zeron also gave no indication that an apology for the shooting was needed, and said Mexican authorities had done nothing wrong.

Vivian McLoughlin, of the U.S. Border Patrol, had confirmed on Friday that the Mexican helicopter crossed the border at 5.45am on Thursday.

No further details were given by the border agency, but a spokesman said it was being investigated.

KVOA-TV reported the chopper fired over Tohono O’odham Indian Nation in the Arizona desert, before flying back to Mexico. The agents were not injured.



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Location: Authorities said the Mexican military helicopter fired two shots over Tohono O'odham Indian Nation in the Arizona desert near the border, before flying back to Mexico early Thursday morning

This was not the first time the Mexican military has veered across the international boundary.
In January, US border agents confronted two heavily armed Mexican soldiers who crossed 50 yards inside Arizona, the Los Angeles Times reported. A standoff ensued, but nobody was hurt.

In 2011, more than 30 uniformed Mexican soldiers in military vehicles crossed the Rio Grande without authorization in an incident that was believed to be inadvertent.
According to a recent Washington Times story, the US Department of Homeland Security says that Mexican police or troops have crossed over the border around 300 times during the last decade, and were armed in around half of those incidents.


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