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.
It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers. “Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years,” union Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. “They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of ‘Oh well, they didn’t know they were in the United States.’ “It is fortunate that this incident didn’t end in a very ugly gunfight,” said the local’s posting.
So, who will be the first to shoot the messenger?
#58, Bobbo,
Geeze, our minds must be working in sync today. Although my posts seems later, I was up and down trying to get some dinner on the stove and doing some digging after #53 Jag’s post.
#60, peahead,
#59 as soon as you make the one where the US has been invited to help.
By my reckoning, Cuba has invaded 0 countries. But they have been invited into several others.
#58 – bobbo
Thanks for doing pedro’s homework.
#62 Sure, and pigs are fliying in those countries were cuba has been “invited”. It’s time for you to move there. fidel rewards his minions very well, as long as they stick to his neverending changing scrip.
#63 Like anything wikipedia, that list is quite incomplete. Not that what’s there is not true, just lacking a lot more places and in some cases, cuba’s involvement is repoted much later than it actually started.
#65 – pedro
So… create the list.
There’s that old joke about solving three problems at one time…
Florida has an alligator problem, New Orleans has a flooding problem, and the US has the Mexican border problem.
Dig a deep trench the length of the Mexican border, dump all of the dirt at and around New Orleans so it never floods again, and put the alligators from Florida in the trench with some water. Problems solved. =p
But really, I’m not sure what the best answer is on the border issue. I do know that it’s not cool having Mexican military and Mexican gangs going where ever they please into the States.
#65, peahead,
So, if you don’t like Bobbo’s reply, or mine, why not post the correction yourself?
Tell us unknowing people, how many countries HAS Cuba invaded since 1959? Please.
Come on man, its MEXICO, not Russia. It would be like if Canada invaded. We just can’t take it seriously.
All mexican military equipment is american made. They get training from the USA. No wonder they’re so aggressive and willing to ignore human rights.
So your argument Jager is that 2 wrongs make a right?
We’re not discussing if the US has invaded any other sovereign nations or what the CIA has done. And please, not stating that your arguments are false, provide proof of these things and we can discuss them. So since that isn’t part of this discussion, your arguments don’t hold water. That is the equivelant of the “he started it” argument that children use.
What we’re discussing is what should be done about THESE incidents.
gringo faggots
All your base are belong to us.
Hahaha, you are funny. Mexico cannot invade U.S. Well, the Zapatistas rule over and upon United States and rule over and upon Obama Barrack,whose the Zapatistas are the rulers of the United States and want to possess United States and the White House and as they rule over and upon the cops. Because they rule them over them and upon them. The zapatistas rules over America, United States! Mexicans are the Zapatistas of the world. Few of the Mexicans are Catholics. Sure. It is true. The cops, the authorities and the government obeys the Zapatistas Mexicans. The people rule. The Zapatistas rule!