We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges!

[Ray]

Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.

Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States, said Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department.

Mexican Army troops had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border -- near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso -- when Border Patrol agents called for backup. Hudspeth County deputies and Texas Highway patrol officers arrived shortly afterward, Doyal said.

"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal said. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."

An FBI spokeswoman confirmed the incident happened at 2:15 p.m. Pacific Time.

"Bad guys in three vehicles ended up on the border," said Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman with the FBI's El Paso office. "People with Humvees, who appeared to be with the Mexican Army, were involved with the three vehicles in getting them back across."

Simmons said the FBI was not involved and referred inquiries to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE did not return calls seeking comment.

Doyal said deputies captured one vehicle in the incident, a Cadillac Escalade reportedly stolen from El Paso, and found 1,477 pounds of marijuana inside. The Mexican soldiers set fire to one of the Humvees stuck in the river, he said.

http://michellemalkin.com/index.htm

[flipflop]

Price of Lids goin up

[Beattledog]

I agree with you that this is not acceptable.  The military and National Guard should be activiated to stop this.

Today, in this state, the homeland securtiy raided a driver's license testing center.  There were so many illlegal aliens at the site that they had to call for a bus to take all of them away.   They will be deported.  Employess at the test site were taking bribes to get the illegal aliens certificates in this state.    One of the men was Pakistani.  

Beattledog

[surfscum]

How hard is it to guard a border?  We either lack the will or those in charge are corrupt or have a secret agenda.

[ColombiaExpert]

"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal said. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."

It's time for an "international incident" with Mexico, and the U.S. should not hesitate to pull the trigger first.

[pablo]

Lost in the debate over whether we can legally tap the conversations of terrorists abroad and their contacts in the United States is why there is anyone here willing to pick up the phone.

The arrest in January 2005 of Noel Exinia and Cesario Nunez appeared on the surface to be just another drug bust. But court documents obtained by the Brownsville (Texas) Herald show the necessity of surveillance of overseas call and e-mails.

They also show why Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape warning of a new attack that Homeland Security won't be able to stop should be taken seriously.

Both Exinia and Nunez eventually pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges, including moving more than a quarter-ton of cocaine from Mexico through the Rio Grande Valley and on to New York City. But court documents filed in Exinia's case contain details of a December 2004 incident where he allegedly tried to secure transportation for 20 Middle Eastern men waiting to enter the U.S. from Puebla, Monterrey and Chiapas in Mexico.

As the Herald reported, "Recorded conversations authorized under the U.S. Patriot Act and a court order captured the (suspect) referring to the 20 men as 'gente de Osama,' or 'Osama's people.' " During a Jan. 5, 2005, conversation, Exinia described the men as "Iraqis," ages 25 to 33, who were willing to pay $8,000 for transportation past Border Patrol checkpoints in South Texas and into the U.S. interior.

Could they have been terrorists? Coast Guard Adm. James Loy, who was acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security before the swearing-in of Michael Chertoff, told the Senate Intelligence Committee last year: "Several al-Qaida leaders believe operatives can pay their way through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons." Recent information, he added, showed "al-Qaida has considered using the Southwest border to infiltrate the United States."

They may already have. According to Olivia Albrecht of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., "Many of the people who have been identified as communicating with terrorist networks abroad have entered this country by means of illegal or fraudulent immigration, suggesting an illegal immigration problem so great in this country that the system cannot properly screen applicants and safeguard among terrorist-connected entrants."

In August 2004, as Leo W. Banks reported in the Tucson Weekly, Arizona rancher William Kolbe, brother of Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe, in whose district he lives, was chasing some wild animals off his property when he found a backpack hooked to the barbed wire fence behind their house.  In the backpack was a diary largely written in Arabic. Looking through the book, Mrs. Kolbe noticed two names and two numbers — one listing in Canada, the other in Iran — with the beginning numbers being the international calling codes for those two countries.
 
Rep. Solomon Ortiz, a Democrat from Corpus Christi and former sheriff of Nuences County, said the information found in court documents underscores the U.S.-Mexico border's vulnerability to terrorist infiltration. "We know there are terrorist cells in the United States," he told the Herald. "These guys are coming through the back door."

Ortiz reports that local ranchers have found clothing native to the Middle East and items such as Sudanese money in the South Texas brush and that al-Qaida is trying to use the MS-13 gang (Mara Salvatruchas) "to move high value al-Qaida operatives across the border for a large sum of money."

Is Osama so confident in his latest tape because he knows a new group of Mohammed Attas are already here and in place, having snuck across our southern border?

The price of liberty, it has been said, is eternal vigilance. The back door to the United States remains unlocked, and al-Qaida knows it. Not everybody coming here is looking for a better life. Some may be coming here to end ours as we know it.

Source: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=68871_0_10_0_C

[Brazilophile]

Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.

In a related newscast, the Mexican government is publishing maps for its citizens that indicate the best places along the border to cross into the US.

[CelticUrge]

Ironically, the group providing the maps is based in Tucson, AZ here in the good ole' USA.

http://www.humaneborders.org/news/news4.html

There is contact information available on the web site if you want to join or send them a letter.

[Ray]

the Mexican government is publishing maps for its citizens that indicate the best places along the border to cross into the US

And I'm sure those maps have already been translated into Arabic and distributed throughout the Muslim world  :shock:

[CelticUrge]

Mexico Halts Border Maps Hand-Out

Miguel Angel Paredes, spokesman for the federal Human Rights Commission, said the government wanted to "rethink" its plan because human rights officials in border states expressed concern that the maps would show anti-immigrant groups — like the Minutemen civilian patrols — where migrants likely would gather.

"This would be practically like telling the Minutemen where the migrants are going to be," Paredes said. "We are going to rethink this, so that we wouldn't almost be handing them over to groups that attack migrants."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060126/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_migrant_maps

[Ray]

"This would be practically like telling the Minutemen where the migrants are going to be," Paredes said. "We are going to rethink this, so that we wouldn't almost be handing them over to groups that attack migrants."

Huh? Groups that attack migrants? What a stupid flocking idiot!

[CelticUrge]

Do you recall the scene in the first Batman movie (or recent vintage). They knock him out for a brief moment and the henchmen says "check his wallet".

I guess the groups that prey on the poor migrants are attempting to steal their wallets full of cash. Only if they are walking back into Mexico. But why walk, when you can just wire the money instead?

[Bob_S]

"This would be practically like telling the Minutemen where the migrants are going to be," Paredes said. "We are going to rethink this, so that we wouldn't almost be handing them over to groups that attack migrants."

Huh? Groups that attack migrants? What a stupid flocking idiot!

Shhhh!  That's exACTLY what we want them to think!  :wink:  :twisted:

[RexB]

You gotta love Robin Williams...even if he is nuts. He came up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace, But i have not heard of a plan for Peace. So here is Robin Williams plan.

1)"The US will apologize to the world for our interference in their affairs, past & present. You know: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys;' we will never interfere again.

2)"We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Phillipines. They dont want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.  

3)"All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days, the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4)"All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need anymore cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5)"No foreign students over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a D and it's back home, baby.

6)"The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy-wise. This will include developing non polluting sources of energy, but will require temporary drilling for oil in the Alaska wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for awhile.

7)"Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filing up the storage sites would be enough).
 
"If there is famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not interfere. They can pray to Allah, or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement, or whatever they need. Besides, most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9)"Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair-weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lock up for illegal aliens.

10)"All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE..

"""Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?""""

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer Saying,"Give me your tired, your poor,your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat, and she's yelling " YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?"