Armed standoff along U.S. border

This just in from our pal "The Uncooperative Blogger"

In a previous article I reported how the Mexican Army was crossing the U.S. border helping Mexican smugglers. Well the Daily Bulletin reports:

Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas on Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.

Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States, said Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, of the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Department.

Mexican Army troops had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border — near Neely’s Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso — when Border Patrol agents called for backup. Hudspeth County deputies and Texas Highway patrol officers arrived shortly afterward, Doyal said.

“It’s been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico
that it’s been going on for years,” Doyal said. “When you’re up against mounted
machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us.”

An FBI spokeswoman confirmed the incident happened at 2:15 p.m. Pacific Time.

Doyal said deputies captured one vehicle in the incident, a Cadillac Escalade reportedly stolen from El Paso, and found 1,477 pounds of marijuana inside. The Mexican soldiers set fire to one of the Humvees stuck in the river, he said.

Doyal’s deputies faced a similar incident on Nov. 17, when agents from the Fort Hancock border patrol station in Texas called the sheriff’s department for backup after confronting more than six fully armed men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. The men — who were carrying machine guns and driving military vehicles — were trying to bring more than three tons of marijuana across the Rio Grande, Doyal said.

Doyal said such incidents are common at Neely’s Crossing, which is near Fort Hancock, Texas, and across from the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

“It happens quite often here,” he said.

Deputies and border patrol agents are not equipped for combat, he added.

“Our government has to do something,” he said. “It’s not the immigrants coming over for jobs we’re worried about. It’s the smugglers, Mexican military and the national threat to our borders that we’re worried about.”

Citing a Jan. 15 story in the Daily Bulletin, Reps. David Dreier, R-Glendora, and Duncan Hunter, R-San Diego, last week asked the House Judiciary Committee, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the House
Homeland Security Committee and the House International Relations Committee to
investigate the incursions. The story focused on a Department of Homeland
Security document reporting 216 incursions by Mexican soldiers during the past
10 years and a map with the seal of the president’s Office of National Drug
Control Policy, both of which were given to the newspaper.

Requests by Dreier, chairman of the House Rules Committee, and Hunter were made in jointly signed letters.

Of course Mexico denies it, and the Mexican loving Bush administration made excuses about poor navigation or criminals dressing as the Mexican Army. The navigation argument is about the lamest I have ever heard, it is hard to miss the fact you just crossed the Rio Grande River! It also implies that the Mexican army doesn’t know how to navigate in their own country; please. Mexican criminals dressing up as Mexican Military is possible, but it is also possible that it is the Mexican Army. Regardless we have an armed invasion occurring on our southern border and the Bush administration is sucking its thumb! WAKE UP PEOPLE! We have got to put the military on our southern border NOW!

Hat Tip: U.S. Border Watch

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