Mexican Army invades Arizona again
Paging General Pershing. General John “Black Jack” Pershing to the Arizona desk:
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist.
Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified.
I figured this news would send the blogosphere through the roof. On my usual prowlings I see one squawk from the Jawa Report.
Did we just give up on this whole “border” thing?
P.S. The State Department was, of course, ready with a clear and strongly worded statement:
State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson said Tuesday that the department had no information on the incident, and referred further questions to the Border Patrol. “It is not an incident that we are aware of,” she said.
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No worries, Nicole, when a dirty bomb goes off in Phoenix, you probably won’t be aware of that “incident” either.
I just do NOT understand how these repeated incursions continue to go unnoticed by any media except bloggers! We are being invaded from the south, and yet no one seems to think this is a problem!
Can someone please explain this to me?
Yea, it made the front page of the Washington Times this morning. I was glad to see a major paper covering this act of war. Too bad our so called leaders don’t do anything about these frequent aggressions, over 200 in the last 10 years!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/06/soldiers-cross-into-us-hold-guns-to-agent/
Beyond the realm of believability .
Mexican soldiers crossing the border into our country. The unbelievable part is that, they weren’t arrested and put in a POW camp. They went back home alive.
Call me silly, but I believe that constitutes an invasion. Am I wrong.
AMERICA, WAKE UP !!!!
Ahem, “a well regulated militia…” Gee what chould that have meant?
I like Condi but I think our State Department needs to be scrapped. Start from scratch. There’s no other way to fix it. All new faces, from janitors up.
As for the bold Mexicans, warning shots need to be fired, figuratively, then literally. And if that doesn’t work, well…
President Bush extended the Mexican Trucking program yesterday by executive order while congress is on recess, so we move one more step closer to a North American Union. Then there will be no border anyway.
And if that doesn’t work, well…
screw da pooch?
“State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson said Tuesday that the department had no information on the incident, and referred further questions to the Border Patrol. “It is not an incident that we are aware of,” she said.”
Translation: “Listen, we really don’t give a sh*t, and I have more important things to do than talk to plebs like you.”
My advice to Arizonans: buy American made firearms, practice regularly, keep them clean and within reach.
Unacceptable.
Wonder how Mexico would react if a bunch of US Marines crossed the border and held one of their ’soldiers’ at gunpoint for a while, then just cruised back into the USA when they were good and ready… you can BET every liberal in the country would be screaming for blood at the imperialist aggressors.
My gf works for Customs and Border Protection, working on building ports of entry, as part of Homeland Security here in D.C. You should hear the stories of the complete and utter boobs she works with. It’s absolutely staggering the people she tells me about who are pulling down 6-figure gov’t salaries.
I like to tell her no matter who gets elected, she’ll be out of a job.
Is this a sign we’ve already lost the country to the corrupt-o-crats?
State Department doesn’t care about violation of border? Check.
Border Patrol Admin. structure doesn’t report the incident at high levels? Check.
Total demoralization of those that attempted to fight back? Check?
Somewhere, Mao and Stalin are smiling…
Let me see… now if I was the Governor of Arizona, & armed uniformed foreign nationals were… Ohhh this
couldshould get ugly.I watched this story on Lou Dobbs. He was the only one that carried it.
Customs & Border Patrol makes no mention of it on their web site, but if you go to local 2544 Tuscan Az. site the guys there are pi$$ed off at the lack of support by HQ.
http://www.local2544.us/
Madchef, the problem 99% of the rest of the US gives it a big yawn. As long as that situation continues, Local 2544 is little more than target practice for the Mex Army, thugs/drug runners, etc.
“Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz.”… Ajo, is very close to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. I’ve been camping and hiking there several times, and it is a wonderful place. However, due to it being situated on the border with Mexico, you need to be in the campground before dark. It’s also where Park Ranger Kris Eggle was murdered while pursuing members of a drug cartel hit squad who fled into the United States after committing a string of murders in Mexico.
Enough is enough… something has to be done now.
I posted a Lou Dobbs video on my site about this a couple of hours ago.
Members of the MEXICAN MILITARY? Oh, you’ve got to be f*cking KIDDING ME! God, are we going to have to go down there and secure the boarder OURSELVES?
Madam President pls see previous.
Ahem, “a well regulated militia…” Gee what chould that have meant?
However, we can’t afford lawyers… if apprehended, remember to state that your actions were to prevent global warming & offer to sell the book/movie rights.
Congress won’t fix the border situation. That is why I am always armed. MY fellow Americans need to do the same and practice regularly and keep plenty of ammo on hand.
I call this an invasion. So why isn’t war being declared?
Inspires confidence, doesn’t it? I mean, the State Department would rather bend over for the likes of Iran, North Korea, and the UN. What’s one more dent in the overwhelming ego that is the State Department.
No, I’m sure that Ms. Thompson and her cohorts would rather treat Mexico more like a dysfunctonal family member rather than the mess of a third world country it really is.
So much for territorial integrity, right?
The officer who had guns pointed at him, he is in jail right?
I mean, isn’t that what we do when our border patrol agents have guns pointed at them?
ACLU is sending laywers to Mexico to file a complaint as well - right?
Congress is send another $1.6 BILLION to secure the border too?
So many questions…
Come on-guys-
Calderon stated that Mexico has no borders-the State Dept. says there are no borders-SOO
OOOO-The U.S. has no borders-
The royal elite have spoken!
So you’re saying I could get my own squad together and head to Mexico armed to the teeth and then come back across my own border but not through a checkpoint and have my squad point their guns at a border patrol agent and then head back to Mexico and not face any charges and not cause a peep in the news? (i r run on sentence rel gud)
Yup, sounds like our nation has total control over who comes in with weapons or not across our border and challenges our sovereignty. What’s it going to take, five hundred thousand Iranians storming the border for homeland security, the border patrol, Dhimmicrats and open borders RINO’s to wake up to reality?
This isn’t rhetorical anymore… that’s an invasion.
For some reason the American people continue to elect people who are content to let this happen. Damned if I can explain it.
And BTW, I notice all the Lefties who were screaming about the sanctity of Iraq’s sovereignty don’t give a tin $hit about ours.
While Pelosi and Reid are doing nothing and getting paid - how about those two babysitting on the border.
Perhaps they can sing campfire songs in spanish.
That just doesn’t quite have the same ring as “a day that will live in infamy” somehow.
Nice to know they’re on top of the situation. :::shaking head here:::
As the man sez, “Dude!”
Is it just me - shouldn’t the outcome here have been some Mexican POWs, if not casualties?
Well apparently The State Department is now calling it an “accident” SEE HERE
A typical Bush intelligence report. When you send troops to guard the borders without bullets as Bush did can one but wonder the intent of our government. Perhaps borders without bullets is the new military so long worked oh by Bush. Toyota pickups with 50’s mounted in back remain for a real CIC to deploy, it ain’t Bush.
I heard about it on the local news in Phoenix. They said it was just a simple mistake in geography. Apparently, the Mexican
Reconquistassoldiers thought that our guy had wandered over to their side, so holding him at gunpoint was a perfectly reasonable reaction. No story here. Let’s move on to So You Think You Can Dance.It is time to declare September ‘NFW Amigo’ month, shoot everything that crosses the border except at the legit points - one month will probably straighten this whole misunderstanding out.
What State really thinks.
As long as its allegations/reports/etc., there is a possibility to deny.
What every BP agent on the border should do is carry a cell phone with picture/video capability, get pictures or video, and post it on Youtube.
Pictures/video are worth a thousand words, just none of them helpful in denials.
Where is the fence? Isn’t it supposed to stop vehicles at the border? At least that is what they advertise.
It’s important to remember these Mexican military folks were merely conducting counter-counter narcotics trafficking operations, and that bimbo Agent just HAD to be nosing about where he didn’t belong on the north side of the fence. Much ado ’bout nuthin, of course.
The largest part of the State Dept. must be the “Bureau of Strongly Worded Statements”, located next to the “Ignorance of Incidents” Unit.
The reason this is all very maddening isn’t because of our highly nationalistic prejudice against foreigners, hardly, Americans are the most welcoming people on the earth.
Americans are also caring and generous to a fault except when they’ve realized that our generosity has been taken advantage of.
We suffer from a PC double standard, we’ve been duped into tolerating the aggressions of an actual highly nationalistic society that has a very one sided view of their place in our part of the world and that our society has been turned into woosyfied shadow of its former self brought to us directly from damage caused by the suicide disease, liberalism.
Paraphrased from:
For me.
Its the enforced double standard, the guilt of watching it happen and the seeming inability to change something so wrong that makes us so angry.
Of course we can change it, using the same methods that have given the opposition so much power, organization.
Contributing really is great therapy.
this is a perfect reason to build military bases closer to the boarder so they can respond with some ass kicking fire power.
JamesFelix said:
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Well said, sir.
No, it would then be time to “take off the gloves”.
The soldiers crossed the border? What border? We have a border down there?
Without incident???? the incident had already taken place! When soveriegn ccountry’s military personel crosses the border of another soverign country and takes ANYONE hostage, let alone a uniformed member of their secuity force, it is a MAJOR International Incident. To say that none occurred is a gross mistatement of facts.
Well miss…you have just BEEN made aware of it, thus the proper response should have been that you will be looking into it and taking all the corrective measures allowed by National and International law. PERIOD!
And as for Pershing? I am still awaiting his appearance in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or at least someone who can think along the same lines as far as ending the Islamic War of Aggression and Religious Bigottry and Intolerance
The MSM is not going to cover it until there is enough blood (illegal blood) to garner sympathy for the criminal element. Their goal is to open the borders so they will have more liberals to watch their tripe and to vote for their socialist candidates.
We’re screwed ‘08. (DRAFT NEWT)
This is literaly an act of war.
#34,
FOX News f & f just reported the Mexican Gov. said it was just an accident…
Maybe the Arizona National Guard could send a few Apaches down to the border to deal any other “mistakes” the Mexican Army makes.
Otherwise, I guess the Minute Men have a new mission.
We should get Steve from the other forums to go down there. Provided his parents let him go out later than 8pm on a school night, but..he loves violence. let him teach the mexicans a thing or 2
With the stories I’ve heard of the Mexican military protecting drug runners, who’s to say a shipment wasn’t coming through and this was just a distraction?
I think Mexico has done more harm to the USA than Iraq ever did or ever would have. We should have invaded Mexico and rebuilt their government.
Our government is an absolute failure. Please do not rely on them for your families safety.
Just heard this report on Fox 10 here in the PHX area. It reported it as a misunderstanding on the part of the Mexican military. News reported they didnt know who they were detaining and they let him go after some interrogation.
Funny, Huh?!
I have an idea. Since mexicans are so eager to come here, lets take the usa to them!!! We have plenty of room on the flag for a few more states. That would make 81 states and we would have only a small border area to patrol. hmmmm
It reported it as a misunderstanding on the part of the Mexican military.
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Sure nudge nudge wink wink.
“It is not an incident that we are aware of,” she said.”
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Wasn’t that “an incident that we DONT WANT TO BE
pushed the wrong button! Sorry
Wasn’t that “an incident that we DON’T WANT TO BE aware of… Sounds more accurate.
Know that you know, what will you do?
So Where is McCain? Shouldn’t he be squawking? Where is Bush? Shouldn’t he be filing a protest?
Question, the other 40 times this has happened this year alone, were they also accidents? All 40? If so we need to introduce the mexican army to a map and a little invention called a compass. They are in dire need of land navigation classes. Either that or we need to start shooting the forgien soldiers invading american soil.
Mister P, For that matter where are any of our “leaders” in washington? I’ll settle for any of them, reguardless of party, screaming about this.
And this doesn’t count those who are just dressed as military. Who controls our southern border again? HELLOOOOOO
Multi-culturalism was a great mistake.
The !@%$!@#s in Washington won’t care unless and until the Mexican Army is in the streets of DC.
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Are you afraid they’re taking orders from Hugo Chavez to impose Shiria law on Arizona?
Must have been a big drug shipment coming through. The coke addicts on K Street, Wall Street, The Hamptons, Hollywood, Marin will be happy.
And if the Border agents life a finger to do their job….
George W. Bush and company will promptly throw them in PRISON for it.
Its happened before.
As much money as we send down there, maybe the mexican army IS ON OUR PAYROLL???
Only as fearful as you making sense or having a point
So no, im going to sleep pretty easy over this one
Zing!
I too like Condi, BUT…
code for
“How else are we going to safely sneak all those illegals into the country?”
Condi Rice at State is too busy contemplating a much-hoped-for Obama presidency to be concerened with this trifle…
Our Gov’t can find a cow with mad cow disease coming into the US , but is not aware of Mexican soldier coming across our border. This isn’t the first time this has happened. This really gives me a warm fuzzy about terrorists bring over a bio or nuke weapon. It’s astounding that we don’t have better communications on our borders and manned even better. Since there are alot of folks out of work, the gov’t could hire more agents to cover every square inch of the border. We just need to “shoot on sight”. I want to place a bet on which city become the first US city to be nuked or contaminated with biohazards. WTF is homeland security doing. Can’t get that thumb out of your ass?
Some how I just don’t find that excuse very plausible. Via the AZ Republic this morning…
The incident Sunday was the Mexican military’s 43rd incursion across the U.S. border since October, the agency said. The incident took place just north of the border in sight of the new border fence.The soldiers held their weapons on the agent for several minutes until he identified himself in Spanish, whereupon they lowered their guns and walked back across a gap in the fence, Scioli said.AZ Republic
Does anyone else believe they didn’t know that they were on American soil? They were keeping him occupied while someone else was conducting business down the road. DUH!!
Someone needs to make out a boilerplate press release starting:
“Bandits disguised as Mexican Military personnel …”
Put the Mexican government in the position of either claiming them (thus escalating the incident) or accepting the definition of the intruders as not being theirs.
George W Bush tear down that WALL
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399163,00.html
see-dub, you probably should’ve checked with the Border Patrol prior to posting this story. You’re a reporter, yes?
Hmmmm….they came through a gap in the fence huh? So they must have known where they were right?
They should have been shot….or in the very least swarmed upon by our BP, arrested and interrogated.
Our own State Department is one of our biggest enemies. Behind the scenes, they continue to do more damage to this country than anyone realizes.
But just like another poster said above…“So You Think You Can Dance” is on the front burner of peoples minds and not the sovereignty of their nation.
LGM
I think you mean SHARIA law.
No, this is about international agreements, LGM. Mexico gets aid to help stop illegal border crossings and they need to own up to their end of the deal.
They most certainly do with Guatemala, so what are people supposed to think?
Reconquista, that’s what.
Perhaps the Dept. of Homeland Security should order some new Chevy Tahoes with this on top:
That will make anyone stop and think for a minute.
I think the Mexican army got lost and was proceeding to the “Mexican Town”. (sarc)
If you google map “mexican town, az” you get directed to Ajo, AZ….. he he he.
The State Department has just announced that they have accepted an apology from Mexico for the attack on the Alamo. “It was just an accident, a simple mistake in geography”, they explained.
State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson said she was not aware of any incident at the Alamo. But since no one at the Alamo had filed a complaint, they were accepting the explanation and returning Texas to Mexico as had been demanded in the letter of apology.
In a related story, Japan has issued a statement claiming the attack on Pearl Harbor was just an innocent mistake by pilots who were a little off course…
It’s time to grab the torches and pitch forks. Boston Tea Party 2, anybody?
MAKES ME WANT TO HANG MY HEAD AND CRY! I am ALWAYS ARMED and READY with CHUCKIES (Schumer) MOST HATED FN 57X28 with 61 ROUNDS (3mags 1Chamered) READY for ACTION with SS192 ROUNDS… I do not even live anywhere near that BORDER, but I live the OTHER BORDER and well you have to always be prepaired…. I have finally reached the POINT where thoes who know me do not ask “WHY” anymore and depended on me to be ready for them.. Whatever… They are in the PROCESS of EDUCATION on the BASIC FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS we have not to mention the FACT that they are realizing that the GOVERNMENT is not WORRIED about them or their RIGHTS, SAFETY and or FREEDOMS…
What I am so lost about is WHERE IN THE HELL ARE THE LEADERS of thiS GREAT COUNTRY WHO BELIVE IN FREEDOM AND RIGHTS. Where are the SAM ADAMS, TOM JEFFERSONS and GEORGE WASHINGTONS (remember George was a LEADER who would rather not be but, did what he knew NEEDED to be DONE and gave it ALL HE HAD) of this day and time??? Is the MSM so pwoerfull that they have SHUT OUT these kind of LEADERS??? Or are their just NONE AROUND??? I belive that their are many GREAT MEN and WOMEN like thoese listed but they are kept out of the light by the MSM and when the rise up through the back channels like the BLOG-O-SPHIER and some how shut down and out and made to be viewed as a nut job??? I am not saying that I am one but any movement NEEDS a VOICE and FACE to LEAD and INSPIRE theose of us who are EDUCATED in the areas of FREEDON and RIGHTS are HERE, READY, MANNED, ARMED,ETC………….
On August 7th, 2008 at 5:57 pm, John Ansell said:
John, yes. I feel that we are almost at that point… and sadly, I find myself wishing for it.