Naco, Arizona Shooting: Border Patrol Agent Killed,

[LilOlLady]

Naco, Arizona Shooting: Border Patrol Agent Killed,
At Least 1 Injured

Two U.S. Border Patrol Agents were shot, one fatally, in a morning gunfight in southern Arizona, according to Fox News.
The names of the agents were not immediately known, but the shootout occurred near a station in Naco.
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Naco, Arizona Shooting: Border Patrol Agent Killed, At Least 1 Injured

Obama, when do you plan to get serious about protecting border patrol agents and the border in stead of sending troops to the Middle East they should be on our borders

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[waltky]

Wonder if he was shot with a Fast & Furious gun?...

Border Patrol agent shot dead, another wounded in Arizona
2 Oct.`12 - One U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot dead and another wounded while on patrol early on Tuesday in Naco, Arizona, the Border Patrol said.

The wounded agent was airlifted to hospital with non-life-threatening wounds following the shooting at 1:50 a.m. local time, the Border Patrol said in a statement.

Officials withheld the name of the dead agent pending notification of family.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cochise County Sheriff's Office were investigating, the Border Patrol said.

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[waltky]

Congressional inquiry already starting...

Grassley Questions If Border Patrol Shooting Connected to Fast and Furious
October 2, 2012 – It could take years to know if the recent shooting of two U.S. Border Patrol agents – one of whom was killed – has any connection with the Justice Department’s gunwalking program known as Operation Fast and Furious, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday.

One Border Patrol agent was killed and another wounded in a shooting early Tuesday in Naco, Ariz., at about 1:50 a.m. MST Tuesday, the Associated Press first reported. The shooting was near the Border Patrol station named for slain agent Brian Terry, who was murdered in December 2010. Two guns from Operation Fast and Furious were found at his murder scene. “Border Patrol agents put their lives on the line every day to stop the border crossers and drug cartel members who venture illegally into the United States,” Grassley said in a statement Tuesday.

“There’s no way to know at this point how the agent was killed, but because of Operation Fast and Furious, we’ll wonder for years if the guns used in any killing along the border were part of an ill-advised gunwalking strategy sanctioned by the federal government,” he said. “It’s a sad commentary. We all mourn for the Border Patrol agent who was killed near the border station named after another fallen hero and fellow agent, Brian Terry,” Grassley added.

The agents who were shot were on patrol with a third agent, who was not harmed, according to George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing about 17,000 border patrol agents, the AP reported. The last U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot on duty was Terry.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that has been investigating the Fast and Furious scandal, called the shooting “a tragic reminder of the dangers the brave men and women who guard our borders face every day.” “Just last month, I attended a ceremony with agents based at the Bisbee station naming it in honor of their fallen colleague, Brian Terry,” Issa said in a statement Tuesday. “My prayers are with the family of the agent who lost his life today and his wounded colleague.” “Authorities must investigate the full circumstances of this shooting,” Issa added. “I urge everyone to think of the families of these agents and avoid drawing conclusions before relevant facts are known.”

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Obama Calls Family of Slain Border Agent Ivie
October 3, 2012 — Investigators were scouring a rugged area near the U.S.-Mexico line looking for evidence in the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent.

Nicholas Ivie and a colleague were on patrol in the desert near Naco, about 100 miles from Tucson, when gunfire broke out shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Border Patrol. Ivie, 30, was killed. The other agent, whose name hasn't been released, was hospitalized after being shot in the ankle and buttocks. It was the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 firefight with Mexican bandits that spawned congressional probes of a botched government gun-smuggling investigation.

At a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Naco, an FBI official said the agency was still processing the crime scene and that it might take several days to complete. The FBI and the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, which was also investigating, declined to say whether investigators have recovered guns or bullet casings. No arrests have been made, but authorities suspected that more than one person fired at the agents.

Agents and deputies were searching the area on ATVs, horseback and on foot with up to four helicopters overhead in the southern foothills of the Mule Mountains that's considered a known smuggling area. "It's been a long day for us but it's been longer for no one more than a wife whose husband is not coming home. It's been longer for two children whose father is not coming home, and that is what is going to strengthen our resolve" to find those responsible and enforce the law, said Jeffrey Self, commander of Customs and Border Protection's Arizona joint field command.

Ivie lived in Sierra Vista with his wife and their two young daughters. President Barack Obama called Ivie's family Tuesday to offer condolences and to express his gratitude for Ivie's "selfless service to his nation," a White House statement said. Obama made it clear that the administration "was doing everything it could to locate those responsible."

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[waltky]

2 suspects nabbed in killing of Border Patrol officer...

Mexican troops arrest two in killing of U.S. border agent: officials
Wed Oct 3, 2012 - Mexican troops arrested two men on Wednesday suspected of involvement in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot dead in Arizona while responding to a tripped ground sensor, Mexican security officials said.

The agent who died was among three who were patrolling on foot about 5 miles north of the international border when gunfire erupted well before daybreak on Tuesday. A second agent was also wounded while the third, a woman, was unharmed. The agents involved in the incident had been patrolling in an area near the border town of Naco, well-known as a corridor for smuggling, and the Cochise County Sheriff's department has said that tracks were found heading south after the shooting. The two suspects detained in Mexico were arrested in a Mexican military operation in the city of Agua Prieta, in Mexico's northern Sonora state, a few miles (km) from the spot where Nicholas Ivie, 30, was shot dead, a Mexican Army officer, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

A Mexican police official in Naco, across the border from the Arizona town of the same name, confirmed the arrests, which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday. The killing marked the fourth death of a Border Patrol agent in a violent confrontation in Arizona in less than two years and reignited concerns about border security in a state that is already at the forefront of the national immigration debate. The violence drew sharp words from Republican Governor Jan Brewer, a vocal foe of President Barack Obama's administration on immigration. She said it should lead to anger over "the federal failure and political stalemate that has left our border unsecured and our Border Patrol in harm's way."

Authorities on the U.S. side of the border combed rugged terrain looking for clues into the shooting near Naco, which remains a smuggling corridor despite the construction of a tall, steel fence along the border. "We're still out there collecting evidence," said Brenda Nath, a Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman in Phoenix, declining to say what had been found so far. Cochise County Sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas could not immediately comment on the arrests in Mexico, saying that she had not received any information about them. Nath also declined to comment on word of the arrests. Ivie, a border agent since 2008, was found dead at the scene. The wounded agent, who has not been publicly identified, sustained non-life-threatening injuries and has been released from the hospital, the border patrol said on Wednesday.

The agents had been responding to a sensor, which picks up movement or vibrations in areas authorities suspect are used by drug traffickers and illegal immigrants. When an alert is triggered, agents have the option to respond. The agents were assigned to the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station, named after an agent whose 2010 death in the line of duty in Arizona borderlands was linked to a botched U.S. operation to track guns smuggled to Mexico. Two Border Patrol agents were killed last year in an accident during a car chase with smugglers near Phoenix.

Mexican troops arrest two in killing of U.S. border agent: officials | Reuters

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Naco, Arizona Shooting: Border Patrol Agent Killed,
At Least 1 Injured

Two U.S. Border Patrol Agents were shot, one fatally, in a morning gunfight in southern Arizona, according to Fox News.
The names of the agents were not immediately known, but the shootout occurred near a station in Naco.
More from the Associated Press:

Naco, Arizona Shooting: Border Patrol Agent Killed, At Least 1 Injured

Obama, when do you plan to get serious about protecting border patrol agents and the border in stead of sending troops to the Middle East they should be on our borders

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Obama has deported more illegals than any other prez and put more Border Patrol Agents on our southern border than any other prez.

 

[Quailman]

Obama has deported more illegals than any other prez and put more Border Patrol Agents on our southern border than any other prez.[/QUOTE]

Too bad obama didn't have this agent on the border where he should have been, instead of 5 miles away, maybe he would be alive today. If obama was doing his job, thousands of Americans would not have been victims of wetbacks in the last 4 years.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Obama has deported more illegals than any other prez and put more Border Patrol Agents on our southern border than any other prez.

Too bad obama didn't have this agent on the border where he should have been, instead of 5 miles away, maybe he would be alive today. If obama was doing his job, thousands of Americans would not have been victims of wetbacks in the last 4 years.

Do you rw's ever bother to think before you write?

Do you really believe that it would be mitts fault, if he were prez and a Border Patrol agent was five miles away from where he should have been?

 

[waltky]

Border Patrol agent was a hero...

Family of slain Arizona Border Patrol agent: 'He was a hero'
October 4, 2012, In the field, Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie was the officer who once carried a pregnant woman for a mile and a half after finding her in the desert barefoot and bleeding.

At home, he was the father who played with his young children, ages 1 and 4, pulling them around in a trailer. Growing up in Utah, Ivie was the youngest of his siblings, but they all looked up to him. This was how Ivie’s relatives, including more than two dozen members of his extended family who flew in from Utah, want the American people to remember the 30-year-old agent who was fatally shot while on patrol Tuesday near the border town of Naco, Ariz. On Thursday, family members flanked Ivie’s widow, Christy, some holding her hand and embracing her as two brothers answered questions during a news conference in Sierra Vista, the southeastern Arizona town where he lived.

Ivie’s widow and brother Joel — also a Border Patrol agent who worked horse-patrol duty alongside Nicholas — silently observed the news conference. “Joel loves what he does. Nick did what he loved,” said brother Rick Ivie. “There is always a concern, but we try not to dwell or focus on that.” Chris and Rick Ivie said they were so overcome with grief that they don’t have time to be angry at whoever killed their little brother. Instead, they said the family is focusing on Ivie’s widow and children. They described the slain agent as a man who loved the outdoors and horses. He led a life of service, his brothers said. It originated as a follower of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He went on mission in Mexico City and learned Spanish, became a leader in his local church and joined the Border Patrol in hopes of helping protect his nation. “He was a hero,” Chris Ivie said. Ivie, who was on horse-patrol duty at the time, and two other agents were responding to reports of a tripped ground sensor when they were attacked early Tuesday morning. One of the other agents who was also shot is recovering at home, Customs and Border Protection officials said. The third agent was not injured. Authorities did not release their names. The Ivie family members said their thoughts were with the two agents. The killing sparked a manhunt along the barren desert terrain known for human and drug smuggling near the Mule Mountains. The FBI and Cochise County sheriff's department are investigating the case.

A high-ranking U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said Mexican law enforcement authorities have detained several people, but the detainees have not been tied to the shooting in the U.S. “There is nothing to say that anybody picked up so far is linked directly to it,” said the official, who requested anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. A Mexican military official said authorities have interrogated the detainees, who were found with drugs and weapons just south of the border where the agents were shot, but thus far have found no evidence of a connection. Ivie was stationed at the Border Patrol station in Bisbee. That station was recently named after Brian Terry, another Border Patrol agent slain in the same area two years ago during a shootout with bandits. Two guns used in Terry's shooting were later linked to the federal government's “Fast and Furious” gun-tracking operation.

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[waltky]

Did friendly fire kill Border Patrol agent?...

Feds examine whether 'friendly fire' killed Border Patrol agent
Oct 5, 2012 - Investigators have told NBC News that they cannot rule out the possibility that Border Patrol agent Nicolas Ivie, who was shot to death Tuesday morning, may have been a casualty of "friendly fire." NBC's Mark Potter reports.

Federal investigators have told NBC News they are examining whether the shootings of Border Patrol agents early Tuesday morning were the result of friendly fire – officers accidentally shooting each other. Initial reports from U.S. and local officials blamed the shootings on armed criminals. Agent Nicholas Ivie, 30, was killed and another agent was wounded in the incident.

Mexican police said Thursday that they arrested two suspects in a Mexican military operation in the city of Agua Prieta, in Mexico’s northern Sonora state, a few miles from where Ivie was shot, Reuters reported. Ivie was responding to desert sensors that track movements in a remote area five miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, near Naco, Ariz., authorities have said. He was with two other agents, one of whom was wounded and released from the hospital after undergoing surgery. The third agent, a woman, was unharmed. Ivie was a father of two who grew up in Utah and was active in the Mormon Church. He had been an agent for four years.

It was the first fatal shooting of an on-duty Border Patrol agent since December 2010, when Brian Terry was killed in a shootout with bandits near the border. Terry's shooting was later linked to the government's "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling operation, which allowed people suspected of illegally buying guns for others to walk away from gun shops with weapons, an attempt to track the weapons.

Two Border Patrol agents were killed last year in an accident during a car chase with smugglers near Phoenix. Regarding the more recent case, Investigators caution that that have reached no conclusions and still have lots of work to do. But they said they cannot rule out that it was a friendly fire incident.

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Border Patrol Agent Killing: Friendly Fire?
Oct 4, 2012 - FBI looking into the theory

Authorities are looking closely at the possibility that a friendly fire accidental shooting is at the heart of the incident that killed Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie and wounded a second agent, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News. A third agent was unharmed in the incident.

The FBI Phoenix field division would only say in a statement that, “Due to the sensitive and ongoing nature of this investigation, the FBI is unable to provide any further details at this time.”

The scenario that is being examined is whether the fatal shooting happened in the “fog of war” following some type of encounter. Additional forensics are being done on ballistics and additional interviews are being conducted to determine if the matter can be resolved in the coming days.

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[Quailman]

Obama has deported more illegals than any other prez and put more Border Patrol Agents on our southern border than any other prez.

Too bad obama didn't have this agent on the border where he should have been, instead of 5 miles away, maybe he would be alive today. If obama was doing his job, thousands of Americans would not have been victims of wetbacks in the last 4 years.

Do you rw's ever bother to think before you write?

Do you really believe that it would be mitts fault, if he were prez and a Border Patrol agent was five miles away from where he should have been?[/QUOTE]

Unlike yourself(Typical Libertard), I place the responsilibity whatever it lies. That means IF was Bush,Reagan, Lincoln, or Romney was responsible, so I would admit it. None of them was president for the last four wasted years. Figure it out.