How many gunfights, how many dead border agents will it take to get a border that is SECURE? If you vote for even ONE candidate who is NOT for complete fencing, moat, whatever on the border, the blood is on YOUR HANDS!
CNN UPDATE: 3 suspected drug smugglers shot in Texas http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/09/texas.border.shooting/index.html
Washington (CNN) — At least three suspected drug smugglers were shot and wounded early Thursday morning when gunfire broke out between them and a U.S. state and federal law enforcement officers along the Rio Grande near Penitas, Texas, authorities said.
Officials released only sketchy details of the incident, which began when officials spotted a suspicious vehicle on the U.S. side of the river along with two boats believed to belong to a drug cartel, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Three law enforcement patrol boats arrived at the scene, west of McAllen, to interdict the drug runners and a large load of drugs, but they received heavy gunfire from the Mexico side, authorities said. The law enforcement officers returned fire, striking at least three of the smugglers.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said Wednesday afternoon she could not provide additional details, saying operations were continuing. Mange said law enforcement officers received minor injuries not related to the gunfire.
At least three of the suspected smugglers were struck by gunfire, Mange said, but she said she could not disclose whether anyone had been apprehended nor comment on the extent of the people’s injuries.
Mange said federal and state officers were participating in a multi-agency operation when the incident occurred.
U.S. Federal Officers Fired On By Mexican Drug Runners From Across Border Into Texas
BROWNSVILLE — A shootout on the Rio Grande between U.S. law enforcement officers and Mexican drug runners left at least three of the drug traffickers wounded, the Department of Public Safety said Thursday.
DPS spokeswoman Tela Mange said the gunfire broke out somewhere in Hidalgo County early Thursday but could not be more specific for security reasons and said she had no information on whether any of the U.S. officers were wounded.
It is not the first time shots have been exchanged along the Texas-Mexico border. Since January of last year, DPS has tracked at least a dozen incidents of shots being fired from Mexico and into Texas, with U.S. officers shooting back in some cases.
Illegal immigration is declining but not from terrorist countries
SWAIN & SHARAD: Radicals Lay Siege to Our Border
By Carol M. Swain and Saurabh Sharad
On Jan. 25, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano gave a talk at the University of Texas at El Paso in which she touted the Obama administration’s success at protecting the southwestern border. “Illegal immigration is decreasing, deportations are increasing, and crime rates have gone down,” she claimed. Recently, shocking developments have highlighted the need for a refocused immigration debate that places national security and identification of current illegal aliens above any discussions of legalizing America’s current population of illegal aliens.
Three days after Ms. Napolitano spoke, the U.S. Border Patrol captured Said Jaziri, a radical Islamic cleric, hidden in the trunk of a car 50 miles east of San Diego. Mr. Jaziri, one of the imams who had called for the death of the Danish cartoonist behind the drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, purportedly paid a Mexican human-trafficking cartel $5,000 to smuggle him into the country. The court set his bail at $25,000. There is little to prevent him from posting bail and disappearing into the countryside, where he most certainly will find refuge among sympathetic supporters.
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