Assaults on Arizona Border Agents Increase

[rick_reno]

3x the numbers of shootings this year vs. last year and almost 2x the number of assaults. I sure hope President Bush, the greatest leader of our time, fixes this illegal immigration problem soon. I know he's got a plan and given his history of excellence I'm sure it's a good one.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/24/D8E3966O1.html

U.S. Border Patrol agents working the Arizona-Mexico border were victims of twice as many attacks this past fiscal year compared with the previous year, officials say.

The Border Patrol's Yuma and Tucson sectors recorded 365 assaults on agents between Oct. 1, 2004, and Sept. 30, 2005, up from 179 attacks reported for the same time period the year before, officials told The Arizona Republic.

Nationwide, agents were assaulted 687 times, up from 349 a year earlier.

Officials say the growing number of attacks reflects the increased influence of criminal gangs and the profits they can make smuggling migrants across the border.

Agents' vehicles are protected against rocks, the most common threat, and the Yuma sector has the first vehicle deployed along the border that can withstand gunfire. There were 45 shooting incidents recorded during the last fiscal year along the Arizona border, up from 15 the previous year.

 

[stealthmode]

terrible

 

[Spot77]

and the Yuma sector has the first vehicle deployed along the border that can withstand gunfire.

I'll bet our military has hundreds of these that could be deployed along our borders.


Spot77
Married to the daughter of a LEGAL Mexican immigrant.

 

[El Tejon]

Nothing new to those of us in the gun culture, that border area has a long history of violence.

We just need to bring back real men. Maybe clone Harlon Carter?

We could use Harlon on the Mexican border AND at Waples Mill in Ol' Virginny.

 

[ken grant]

Border

Need a 1000 men like Charles Askins,but I think it would be impossible to find that many like him.

 

[Art Eatman]

There was a fun event downriver from El Paso, a week or so back. The BP found a dumptruck with a load of Progressive Pall Mall stuck in the mud on the US side of the Rio Grande. They got some local law to help them unload the truck.

After about 1/3 had been unloaded, a group of Mexican men in cammies showed up and pointed their FALs at the US guys. That stopped the unloading process. Then a bulldozer showed up. Chained on to the dumptruck and pulled it back to Mexico.

The BP said the smugglers had been using the dozer to make crossings for dope trucks...

But, no shots were fired, so that makes everything okay in the eyes of TPTB.

, Art

 

[El Tejon]

A bulldozer? That's quite a stealthy vehicle that leaves no tracks.

BP can't be troubled to get out of their SUVs and walk up and make an arrest? Wierd stuff indeed.

 

[Biker]

Well, that might create an international incident. We can't be offending Jorge Bush's best friend Vincente, now can we?
Biker

 

[longeyes]

Hey, small price to pay for "cheap labor."

 

[Biker]

Well, at least we're "getting stronger" at a high rate of speed!
Biker

 

[modifiedbrowning]

Art, was the truck on US soil when the Mexicans showed up? I've seen some reports that suggest the truck made it back into Mexico before the BP started unloading it.

 

[armedandsafe]

The reports I read said the truck was IN the river, so who can tell, without a tape measure?

Pops

 

[aquapong]

I'm moving to AZ on Sunday, and my stepdad keeps encouraging me to apply for the BP along with the other pd's I plan to try out for. I keep telling him I have my reasons not to, but he keeps pressing. I wouldn't be able to A: have my superior tell me to allow IA's to cross the border because we have no way to ship them back or the current administration considers it a low priority or B: get shot at or get rocks thrown at me and me not create "an international incident." The BP agents are really getting their hands tied behind their back, and I want no part of it.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Yeah, well, they're just doing jobs Americans don't want to.

 

[Jeeper]

Yeah, well, they're just doing jobs Americans don't want to.

Jobs we dont want and jobs we arent willing to pay a lot to have done.

 

[Biker]

Jobs we dont want and jobs we arent willing to pay a lot to have done.

Let's qualify this statement. Jobs we don't want? Wrong. Jobs we can't afford to do because illegals get a lot of under the table bennies to do them that US citizens aren't elligible for.
As for your second statement, the primary beneficiaries of illegal labor are big Ag and the corps. I'm quite capable of mowing my own lawn and if I have to pay $5 a head for lettuce in order to save a butt-load of taxes and forced multi-culturalism, I'm way down for that.
Biker

 

[longeyes]

Illegal aliens were estimated to cost California upwards of $5 billion last year; it could be twice that. Ten billion fazools buys a whole lot of lettuce.

 

[TMAS]

OK

Jobs we dont want and jobs we arent willing to pay a lot to have done.

Jobs like roofers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers, etc...?

 

[gunfan]

Let's qualify this statement. Jobs we don't want? Wrong. Jobs we can't afford to do because illegals get a lot of under the table bennies to do them that US citizens aren't elligible for.
As for your second statement, the primary beneficiaries of illegal labor are big Ag and the corps. I'm quite capable of mowing my own lawn and if I have to pay $5 a head for lettuce in order to save a butt-load of taxes and forced multi-culturalism, I'm way down for that.
Biker

I can live with that!

Scott

 

[denfoote]

Maybe my wife and I should forgo that little trip to Yuma we were gunna take!!

 

[Sindawe]

Jobs like roofers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers, etc...?

Lets not forget jobs like airframe and powerplant mechanics, nucler power station workers and my personal favorite, THE FREAKING BORDER PATROL!!! :banghead:

... if I have to pay $5 a head for lettuce...

$5 for a head of crunchy water? Frell that, I'll buy a HID light, a hydroponics set up and grow my own lettuce.

 

[Tady45]

BUSH, and the Republican party, could care less about our lawless borders...I lived in San Diego for 17 years..I know the story...This is why (among on things) the Dept of homeland Security is such a joke :banghead: When we get hit next, and Yes it's a matter of when, not if, it will come from the unsecured borders....NO QUESTION! Thank God, the 2nd admt is held in such esteem, by this administration...

 

[Waitone]

Hey, Chertoff said we are gonna get'em all. Back off and give our leaders some breathing room. Illegal immigration is a complicated problem what with all the bribery, kick-backs, under-the-table payoffs, foreign campaign contributions, construction contracts, and who-knows-what-else. So let's exercise a little understanding and stowe the cynicism for the next few months. The president has the master plan and we should all sit and wait expectantly.

 

[AStone]

the heat is on

U.S. Border Patrol agents working the Arizona-Mexico border were victims of twice as many attacks this past fiscal year compared with the previous year, officials say.

This was part (~ 27%) of why I moved norte a few years ago.

Alaska is looking better with extra warming.

Nem

 

[CAnnoneer]

The president has the master plan and we should all sit and wait expectantly.

Yes, let us all join in prayer and praise the worthy efforts of our Grofaz!