MEXICAN SOLDIERS CROSSING US BORDER!!!!
Recently I wrote about as many as 20 Mexican military personel crossing our border and confronting US law enforcement officers with guns, before being chased back across the border.
This incident was quickly followed by the Mexican government stating that these men were not Mexican military personel but rather were drug smugglers in Military uniforms!!
However the Mexican government has now ordered their troops NOT to come within 2 kilometers of the US border without authorization.
Funny..... if the Mexican military wasn't there, why have they now been ordered not to go back???
The folowing is an actual account of the incident by the US law enforcement officers who were there:
"If it rattles like a snake and looks like a snake, it's probably a damn snake," Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West said. "There's no doubt it's Mexican military."
Monday's border incident began when Texas authorities tried to stop three SUVs on an interstate highway near El Paso. The vehicles fled toward the border, where people in Mexican army-style uniforms with army-style weapons in an army-style Humvee appeared to be waiting for them on the other side of the Rio Grande.
The state officers and sheriff's deputies had their guns drawn, as did the smugglers, but no shots were fired.
The encounter happened at about 2 p.m. east of the town of Fort Hancock.
Sheriff's deputies, later joined by joined by DPS troopers and Border Patrol agents, spotted and tried to stop the three sport utility vehicles, which fled toward the border.
A Cadillac Escalade in the convoy blew a tire and its driver fled, West said. Authorities found 1,475 pounds of marijuana inside the vehicle.
The two remaining SUVs made it to a spot known as Neely's Crossing, about 15 miles downstream from Fort Hancock, West added.
There they met a military-style Humvee on the U.S. side, armed with a heavy machine gun, which quickly crossed the shallow water into Mexico, deputies reported.
A Toyota 4Runner made it across the river, but a Ford Expedition that followed it got stuck. "It was on their side of the river, so we just sat there and watched them," West said. What they saw was uniformed men guarding the vehicles with automatic weapons.
After three failed tries to tow the stuck Expedition with the Humvee, men in civilian clothing unloaded what looked like bundles of marijuana and set the SUV ablaze, West said.
All the U.S. authorities could do was take photos, which West said was evidence that military or pseudo-military crossings do occur.
"When you see someone in green military-style uniform and a green Humvee protecting what appears to be a load of narcotics, and the individuals in uniform flank that vehicle to the left and the right, it makes you wonder who they are," said Rick Glancey, the interim executive director of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition.
"I think the United States government should demand an answer from Mexico as to what was going on in Hudspeth County," he said.
"There is no doubt that it was Mexican military, because I've seen them and I've dealt with them all my life down here," said Arvin West, sheriff of Texas' Hudspeth County, whose officers filmed Monday's incident using cameras he bought to back up his allegations.
Local authorities in Texas and U.S. Border Patrol officials have been even more strident in their criticism, saying the incursions by Mexican soldiers are common and worrisome.
They also have condemned federal officials for not taking the matter seriously enough.
West, the county sheriff, said such incursions occur several times a month, and that he and others have been trying to get federal officials to focus on the problem.
"I'm sick and tired of the federal government calling us liars," said West, a Democrat re-elected last year.
"Just about every time we catch a big load (of marijuana), every time we chase them back, Mexican soldiers are there. "They're sitting there with Humvees and state-of-the-art military equipment. We're sitting there with patrol cars. We're sitting there with limited high-powered rifles and sidearms versus machine guns," West said.
Stay tuned for more updates!!!!
This incident was quickly followed by the Mexican government stating that these men were not Mexican military personel but rather were drug smugglers in Military uniforms!!
However the Mexican government has now ordered their troops NOT to come within 2 kilometers of the US border without authorization.
Funny..... if the Mexican military wasn't there, why have they now been ordered not to go back???
The folowing is an actual account of the incident by the US law enforcement officers who were there:
"If it rattles like a snake and looks like a snake, it's probably a damn snake," Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West said. "There's no doubt it's Mexican military."
Monday's border incident began when Texas authorities tried to stop three SUVs on an interstate highway near El Paso. The vehicles fled toward the border, where people in Mexican army-style uniforms with army-style weapons in an army-style Humvee appeared to be waiting for them on the other side of the Rio Grande.
The state officers and sheriff's deputies had their guns drawn, as did the smugglers, but no shots were fired.
The encounter happened at about 2 p.m. east of the town of Fort Hancock.
Sheriff's deputies, later joined by joined by DPS troopers and Border Patrol agents, spotted and tried to stop the three sport utility vehicles, which fled toward the border.
A Cadillac Escalade in the convoy blew a tire and its driver fled, West said. Authorities found 1,475 pounds of marijuana inside the vehicle.
The two remaining SUVs made it to a spot known as Neely's Crossing, about 15 miles downstream from Fort Hancock, West added.
There they met a military-style Humvee on the U.S. side, armed with a heavy machine gun, which quickly crossed the shallow water into Mexico, deputies reported.
A Toyota 4Runner made it across the river, but a Ford Expedition that followed it got stuck. "It was on their side of the river, so we just sat there and watched them," West said. What they saw was uniformed men guarding the vehicles with automatic weapons.
After three failed tries to tow the stuck Expedition with the Humvee, men in civilian clothing unloaded what looked like bundles of marijuana and set the SUV ablaze, West said.
All the U.S. authorities could do was take photos, which West said was evidence that military or pseudo-military crossings do occur.
"When you see someone in green military-style uniform and a green Humvee protecting what appears to be a load of narcotics, and the individuals in uniform flank that vehicle to the left and the right, it makes you wonder who they are," said Rick Glancey, the interim executive director of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition.
"I think the United States government should demand an answer from Mexico as to what was going on in Hudspeth County," he said.
"There is no doubt that it was Mexican military, because I've seen them and I've dealt with them all my life down here," said Arvin West, sheriff of Texas' Hudspeth County, whose officers filmed Monday's incident using cameras he bought to back up his allegations.
Local authorities in Texas and U.S. Border Patrol officials have been even more strident in their criticism, saying the incursions by Mexican soldiers are common and worrisome.
They also have condemned federal officials for not taking the matter seriously enough.
West, the county sheriff, said such incursions occur several times a month, and that he and others have been trying to get federal officials to focus on the problem.
"I'm sick and tired of the federal government calling us liars," said West, a Democrat re-elected last year.
"Just about every time we catch a big load (of marijuana), every time we chase them back, Mexican soldiers are there. "They're sitting there with Humvees and state-of-the-art military equipment. We're sitting there with patrol cars. We're sitting there with limited high-powered rifles and sidearms versus machine guns," West said.
Stay tuned for more updates!!!!
posted by loki at 11:09 PM
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