Armed Mexican Troops cross the border again

[MOUNTAINORACLE]

TUCSON REGION
Mexican troops stray across border
Armed unit says it was lost when found near Yuma
By Brady McCombs
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.01.2008
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Seven armed Mexican soldiers aboard a military Humvee were taken into custody early Friday morning on the Arizona side of the U.S-Mexican border near Yuma in what officials called an unintentional and non-hostile incursion.
The U.S. Border Patrol received a report about 8 a.m. Friday of a Humvee heading north along the Colorado River, said Michael Lowrie, Border Patrol Yuma Sector spokesman.
Border Patrol agents went to check it out, and Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine sent a helicopter, Lowrie said.
They confirmed that the Humvee was within the United States, he said. They spotted the vehicle about one-quarter-mile east of the U.S. Mexican border, which runs north-south along the Colorado River. They were on the west side of the Salinity Canal, an irrigation canal that runs parallel to the Colorado River to the east.
Agents talked with the soldiers and determined they were from the Mexican army and that they were lost, Lowrie said.
They were apparently out doing military maneuvers and didn't realize they were on the U.S. side, Lowrie said.
"They were disoriented and ended up on our side," Lowrie said.
The seven soldiers relinquished their assault rifles and allowed agents to take them into custody without incident, Lowrie said.
They were taken to the port of entry in San Luis where officials ran background checks on each of them. None had criminal or immigration violations, he said.
At about 1 p.m. Friday, they were returned to Mexico, Lowrie said.
It is the second reported incursion in the last three months along the Arizona-Mexico border.
About 2 a.m. on Aug. 3, four men dressed in Mexican military clothing briefly held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint on the Arizona side of the Mexican border on the Tohono O'odham Nation.
That incursion occurred near the international line south of Papago Farms in an area about 85 miles southwest of Tucson.
The agent was driving along the dirt border road looking for footprints when he encountered four men dressed in desert camouflage military clothes and armed with assault rifles. They pointed their rifles at the agent and yelled at him to stop and not to move.

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This is getting old; with GPS's and all the modern means of being at the correct location. This could have been an international incident with bloodshed.... The Aug 23 incident when army pointed rifles at the agent all hell should broken out---to me that's a terrorist threat and a lot of jail time should have been given.


oracle

[synergy]

Yet another reason for a concrete wall. Don't they have the money for GPS's?

[ThomasJ]

Unintentional my ass. The first thing I would do as president would be to put troops on the border.

The Aug 23 incident when army pointed rifles at the agent all hell should broken out---to me that's a terrorist threat and a lot of jail time should have been given.

I disagree. That is not a terrorist threat; that is an act of war.

[MOUNTAINORACLE]

Unintentional my ass. The first thing I would do as president would be to put troops on the border.


I disagree. That is not a terrorist threat; that is an act of war.

I also consider it an act of war; but I was trying to nice to our neighbors to the south


oracle

[Pa. Patriot]

Lost?!?

Tip for mexican troops: When in doubt, head SOUTH.

[MichaelJ]

I'll save the political pissing and posturing for those better versed in it. I'm more concerned why a Border Patrol Agent was out by himself. Shouldn't they have at least a partner, or another agent within reasonable distance to them?

[mojo]

Why were they "training" so close to the border?

[WVneighbor]

Tip #2: If you cross a river, stop.

[brewguy]

so it is ok for us to do missle attacks in countries we are not at war with but for them to drive into our country is an act of war?


We need to get our foriegn policy straight..

[mikey]

Unintentional my ass. The first thing I would do as president would be to put troops on the border.

ThomasJ for President!!!