Mexican border shootout

[Angelhair]

4 hurt in border crossing shootout | vans, san, three, border, diego - News - OCRegister.com


Wednesday, September 23, 2009
U.S.-Mexico border reopens after 4 hurt in shootout
Vans filled with illegal immigrants tried to slam through San Ysidro barriers.
The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO – U.S. authorities shut down the nation's busiest border crossing for about four hours Tuesday afternoon after federal agents fired shots at three vans filled with illegal immigrants whose drivers tried to storm past inspectors, officials said.

Three people were shot and injured in the vans crammed with dozens of illegal immigrants, authorities said, and one of the vans smashed into another vehicle as it tried to bypass border inspectors, injuring a fourth person.

One person who was injured remained in critical condition Tuesday night, authorities said. The others were expected to recover. The 74 people who were inside the vans were taken into federal custody.

San Diego police spokesman Lt. Kevin Rooney said the van drivers tried to storm past inspectors at the San Ysidro port of entry and enter the U.S. without stopping.

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a Customs and Border Patrol agent fired shots across nine lines to try to stop the vans, he said. There was no return fire.

“It was human smuggling, definitely,” ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack said.

The San Ysidro port of entry connects San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. About 40,000 vehicles cross into the U.S. at the port each day, and it has 24 northbound lanes.

Those lanes were closed after the 3:30 p.m. incident, causing a rush-hour traffic jam as drivers on the Tijuana side were turned back.

Motorists were told to make their way through Tijuana's crowded streets to San Diego's only other border crossing at Otay Mesa, about five miles to the east.

Eight northbound lanes were eventually reopened at about 7:30 p.m.

Rooney said the three vans pulled into the same lane, and the first driver gave his license to a border agent.

When the agent stepped back into the booth to run the license, all three vans drove quickly into the U.S. side.

“They got caught in traffic, and the last one tried to back up. The other two drove wildly looking for an open space to drive through,” Rooney said. “That's when they encountered the three agents, who all ended up firing from different vantage points.”

The San Diego Police Department's Homicide Unit will investigate the shooting.

 

[WillowTree]

well well well. oh janet where the fuck are ewe?

 

[LilOlLady]

My brothers live in Tucson and have to carry a gun because the illegal aliens crime is so bad. Bars on windows and door, etc.

 

[hjmick]

And now I hear the administration will be pulling 384 agents from the U.S.-Mexico border.

 

[SW2SILVER]

Illegal aliens practice non-violence and love everyone. All they want is acceptance ?That explains why I had to wash the blood off my front side walk ….Well, no, instead, despite all this fraternity of illegal immigrants , I see slaughter, bloodshed and a BUTTLOAD OF EUPHIMISMS. Just immigrate legally, dickwads. Oh, boo- hoo, pitty the poor poor Mexican, he can't do THAT because he can just sneak in and say, " I AM HISPANIC, SUCK MY DICK" and hide in a group of “HISPANICS”. It absolves them of all sins, they think, or perhaps they think we are stupid, I don’t know. And all those ethical qualms disappear in a cloud of racial accusations. Racism! Ever hear of that boy that cried " wolf'?

 

[mdn2000]

and so Obama will use immigrants to divide and conquer the USA for Obama's Marxist ideals.

 

[JW Frogen]

There is only one solution, we have to get Mexicans fighting a civil war over which is better, soft or hard tacos.

Unleash 'Operation Old El Paso'.

 

[mdn2000]

Mexico is a failed nation, millions of refugees fleeing crime, corruption, and war in southern mexico.

Shame we appease this failed government.

 

[JW Frogen]

Mexico is a failed nation, millions of refugees fleeing crime, corruption, and war in southern mexico.

Shame we appease this failed government.

Once the Spanish destroyed the Aztec open heart surgery market it was all down hill.

 

[mdn2000]

Spanish, the Mexicans speak the language of the European conqueror and claim we stole the southwest, brilliant. Mexicans are racists, all the politicians and rich are of "pure" spanish blood, they despise the poor indians of mexico, thats why the indians must flee to the greatest nation of the world, uneducated indians of mexico get it but Marxis-Obama and his supporters do not.

 

[Angelhair]

Feds: No plans for fewer SW border agents | www.azstarnet.com ®

Feds: No plans for fewer SW border agents
But US still seeks reinforcements on Canadian line
By Brady McCombs
Arizona Daily Star

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.26.2009

There'll be no decrease in the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents on the Southwest border when the new fiscal year starts next week, but the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that it is trying to add agents along the border with Canada.
Homeland Security hopes to increase the number of agents on the nearly 4,000 miles of U.S.-Canada border in the coming years but will not sacrifice security along the Southwest border with Mexico to get there, said Matt Chandler, acting deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.
"Our duty is to execute the mission at both borders," Chandler said. "It's important to national security at both borders."
The number of agents on the Southwest border — 17,415 currently — will not decrease even as the agency continues to add agents to the northern border, Chandler said.
Several media outlets reported that 384 agents would be moved to the border with Canada at the beginning of fiscal year 2010, which starts Thursday. But Chandler said those reports are inaccurate and don't reflect the most current information.
Chandler said the report comes from a budgetary document that didn't take into account recent deployments to the Southwest border.
There are currently 1,881 Border Patrol agents on the northern border. Homeland Security has set a goal of having 2,212 by the end of fiscal year 2010, Chandler said.
The Border Patrol's ranks have increased exponentially in recent years, from about 12,000 agents in 2006 to about 19,000 in 2009, a Government Accountability Office report shows.
The U.S.-Canadian border is the longest undefended border in the world, according to a 2008 GAO report. Recommendations from the 9/11 Act of 2007 required that the secretary of homeland security submit a report to Congress to address the vulnerabilities along the northern border.
That report, delivered to Congress in February 2008, did not fully meet legislative requirements, the GAO report shows. While the report identified vulnerabilities and initiatives to address them, it did not include the resources needed.

 

[Fatality]

well well well. oh janet where the fuck are ewe?

she was driving the van

 

[SW2SILVER]

Feds: No plans for fewer SW border agents | www.azstarnet.com ®

Feds: No plans for fewer SW border agents
But US still seeks reinforcements on Canadian line
By Brady McCombs
Arizona Daily Star

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.26.2009

There'll be no decrease in the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents on the Southwest border when the new fiscal year starts next week, but the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that it is trying to add agents along the border with Canada.
Homeland Security hopes to increase the number of agents on the nearly 4,000 miles of U.S.-Canada border in the coming years but will not sacrifice security along the Southwest border with Mexico to get there, said Matt Chandler, acting deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.
"Our duty is to execute the mission at both borders," Chandler said. "It's important to national security at both borders."
The number of agents on the Southwest border — 17,415 currently — will not decrease even as the agency continues to add agents to the northern border, Chandler said.
Several media outlets reported that 384 agents would be moved to the border with Canada at the beginning of fiscal year 2010, which starts Thursday. But Chandler said those reports are inaccurate and don't reflect the most current information.
Chandler said the report comes from a budgetary document that didn't take into account recent deployments to the Southwest border.
There are currently 1,881 Border Patrol agents on the northern border. Homeland Security has set a goal of having 2,212 by the end of fiscal year 2010, Chandler said.
The Border Patrol's ranks have increased exponentially in recent years, from about 12,000 agents in 2006 to about 19,000 in 2009, a Government Accountability Office report shows.
The U.S.-Canadian border is the longest undefended border in the world, according to a 2008 GAO report. Recommendations from the 9/11 Act of 2007 required that the secretary of homeland security submit a report to Congress to address the vulnerabilities along the northern border.
That report, delivered to Congress in February 2008, did not fully meet legislative requirements, the GAO report shows. While the report identified vulnerabilities and initiatives to address them, it did not include the resources needed.

I will sleep better to-night knowing that despite all these wetters I live with, they are not removing border guards from the south. No, they are adding more gards to the north. Are you kidding me? Well, that is nice. Whew! Let's do something about illegal aliens from Canada. Despite twelve million Latin Americans from Latin America. Let's worry about Canada. There's realism for ya.