US Border Patrol Agent Shot, Killed In Arizona

[vailpass]

Murdered on our territory by foreign hostiles. Re-deploy our military troops to the border now. Federal government says border security is under their authority? Then act.

U.S. Border Patrol agent shot, killed in Arizona near Mexico border

by Cassondra Strande and D.S. Woodfill - Oct. 2, 2012 10:18 AM
The Republic | azcentral.com

One Border Patrol agent was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting early Tuesday near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to authorities.

Three agents were on foot at about 1:30 a.m. about 7 miles east of Bisbee responding to a ground sensor that had triggered, said Carol Capas, a Cochise County Sheriff's Office spokesman.


Capas said the agents reported over the radio that they had come under fire as they were following a trail into the area. Earlier reports from authorities stated erroneously that they were on horseback.

When deputies arrived, one of the agents had died and another suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries, she said.

No suspects were in custody, and Capas she could provide any details on the shooters including how many there were, or what they were doing in the area.

The injured agent sustained non-life-threatening wounds and was flown to a hospital, according to Crystal Amarillas, a spokeswoman for the Tucson Sector Border Patrol.

George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a work union representing border agents called the National Border Patrol Council, said the injured agent had undergone surgery at the University of Arizona Medical Center and is doing well.

Border patrol has not identified the agents involved.

The shooting is being investigated by the FBI and the Cochise County Sheriff's Office. The deceased agent left behind a wife and two children, he said.

U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, who represents the eighth district, released a statement saying "This morning I spoke to Border Patrol leaders for the Tucson Sector to offer my condolences to the men and women of the Border Patrol. My thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and colleagues of the agent who today made the ultimate sacrifice for his country."

"This is a powerful reminder that our borders are far from secure and that every day the courageous men and women of the Border Patrol put their lives on the line while protecting the citizens of Arizona and the United States," the statement said. "We need to redouble our efforts to secure the border and ensure the safety of Border Patrol agents."

Beth Kempshall, state director of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a counter-narcotics entity, said the shootout occurred in "a traditional smuggling corridor for the Sinaloa Cartel."

Marc Denney, a Cochise County Sheriff's commander over the Border Alliance Group Task Force, said the shooting occurred in a known smuggling area. "Basically ambushed," he added. "It's rough terrain. Rocky and very hilly. A lot of low-lying brush."

Denney said law enforcement were swarming the area this morning, looking for suspects. "There's hope that we'll be able to track them," he said. "But there is enough of a gap that they may have had time to go south" across border into Mexico.

All three agents were assigned to the Brian Terry Station, Amarillas said. The station is located in Naco and was named in September in honor of a slain border patrol agent.

Terry, 40, was the last U.S. Border Patrol Agent killed on duty. He was shot in a shootout in December 2010 about 13 miles north of the border at Nogales.

Two guns found at the scene were bought by a member of a ring that was being monitored in the government's gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that has led Congress' investigation of Fast and Furious, said the shooting is "a tragic reminder of the dangers the brave men and women who guard our borders face every day... Authorities must investigate the full circumstances of this shooting. I urge everyone to think of the families of these agents and avoid drawing conclusions before relevant facts are known."

The tragedy prompted immediate calls for increased enforcement from border security hawks.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the agents' families at this difficult time," said Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.. "Violence along Arizona's border cannot be tolerated by the federal government any longer. The federal government must commit the necessary resources to secure the border, because that's simply not happening right now."

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[RNR]

Originally Posted by RubberSponge

Good luck with that. We did covert operations with US soldiers in Colombia during the 80's and 90's. We are still there in many ways and cocaine is more potent, more prevalent and cheaper than it was then. The majority of coca production just moved. Until you can cover every square inch of the globe militarily, you're just swatting at flies.

Again, history proves that.

Bullshit, you are right we are only swatting flies. If we target people of interest inside the boarder and land serious strikes you are kidding yourself if you think that does not change the game~

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Just out of curiosity, but how are the cartels not seen as terrorists? Why have we not gone after them as hard as we are capable of? It's not like Mexico wouldn't welcome it.

If they're such a problem, why don't we send our military into Mexico and **** their shit up?

Just seems odd to me, is all. We can wage war on a country thousands of miles away, yet can't handle the far more important problem right here in our backyard.

The conspiracy theorist is me says that the Cartels are more powerful than the Mexican government, and Obama probably has them on speed dial.

It's against Mexican law. They take the no foreign military thing pretty serious.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

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Cartels aren't in the high grade weed game. That's a Cali, Colorado, and increasingly every where else thing. Cartels bring the mexi brick and hard drugs. Most of their profit comes from meth.

High grade weed is produced domestically.

[Pawnmower]

Friendly Fire Looks like it could be......

[RubberSponge]

Originally Posted by RedNeckRaider

Bullshit, you are right we are only swatting flies. If we target people of interest inside the boarder and land serious strikes you are kidding yourself if you think that does not change the game~

You post is so full of unrealistic expectations that it's almost impossible to respond without shaking my head and thinking you only have a news channel view of the drug cartels.

Killing people does not change anything. And once again, history proves that.

[RubberSponge]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

And it's all reactionary. It's an attempt to fight the infection instead of killing the pig and not letting the infection spread to begin with.



uhmmmm....yeah, that was kinda my original point. So why are they not treated as Terrorists and why do we not pursue them the way we do in the ME?

You can sit there and say, "Oh Military force will never work"...well.....what we're doing now sure as hell isn't working either.

We're so hung up on trying to fix the ME....the country we should be trying to fix is Mexico.

And Mexico actually WANTS to be fixed.

It's not an infection, it's evolution. People have a natural desire for intoxicants. That is never going away.

Why are they not treated as terrorists? Are you willing to jail every drug abuser as if they give material support and are a terrorist sympathizer to terrorist organizations? No of course not because that is silly. Same way with labeling drug dealers terrorists, it's silly. Drug dealers are nothing more than businessmen that cannot survive in a legitimate market.

Uh, military force is what we are using now. It's not working. But somehow you think ramping it up a few notches is somehow going to stop or slow down the flow of drugs. It will not. The profit is too great for them to stop. Hundreds of billions a year is made off drugs worldwide and a few more bombs isn't going to make a dent in any of it.

[FAX]

Just notice this thread ... I guess killing border agents is a job that Americans just won't do.

Man this pisses me off. Can somebody please explain to me why our borders are still completely wide open? Anybody?

I suppose it isn't politically correct to get angry over having some freaking foreign bastard cross the border and murder one of our citizens for fun and profit, but there comes a time when enough is enough.

Find some balls. Close the freaking border. Period. Legalize pot. Re-schedule everything else. Wipe out the gangs. If somebody is wearing gang colors, lock them up. Deport every freaking asswipe who can't produce papers.

Problem not solved, but damn sure alleviated.

FAX

[KChiefer]

Originally Posted by WoodDraw

"Border Patrol agent’s death was likely a result of friendly fire, investigators say"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...y.html?hpid=z2

WTF!

[RubberSponge]

Originally Posted by FAX

Just notice this thread ... I guess killing border agents is a job that Americans just won't do.

Man this pisses me off. Can somebody please explain to me why our borders are still completely wide open? Anybody?

I suppose it isn't politically correct to get angry over having some freaking foreign bastard cross the border and murder one of our citizens for fun and profit, but there comes a time when enough is enough.

Find some balls. Close the freaking border. Period. Legalize pot. Re-schedule everything else. Wipe out the gangs. If somebody is wearing gang colors, lock them up. Deport every freaking asswipe who can't produce papers.

Problem not solved, but damn sure alleviated.

FAX

Looks to be friendly fire...

Cost vs. benefit. Period. To completely close the southern and northern border which is roughly 8500 miles long is simply not feasible. Why do people have to go off the deep end with this stuff? Bombing, deportation. Just move the profit center. Put the profit into your hands and not the criminals. Legalize everything. Let Darwin and personal responsibilty reign supreme.

As far as gang colors go, better not wear your Chiefs jersey in the world you're advocating. Chiefs colors are notorious gang colors. What do you think that KC on a ballcap could possibly stand for?