American Road Workers Shot At From Mexican Side Of The Border

[twyacht]

Read or scan to the end of the article, and read the response from Gov. Perry's spokesperson, and the Border Patrol Spokesman.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/dodging_bullets_in_el_paso.html

Jeannie DeAngelis
In the ghost town of Fort Quitman, 80 miles southeast of El Paso, four US road workers were up at dawn attending to "shovel ready"  jobs by filling potholes with gravel.   Unfortunately, "at least one Mexican gunman," who probably just wanted a chance to do jobs Americans won't do, "fired a high-powered rifle across the border," barely missing the workers.

"The bullets struck private land ...about half a mile from the border fence." Thankfully, the quartet escaped unharmed.  "Mike Doyle, Chief Deputy of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office, said after the fact, a rancher spotted a white pickup fleeing the area on the Mexican side at 10:30 a.m. -- the time the shots were fired."

According to Doyle, "Drug cartels use this busy smuggling corridor in between the Quitman Mountains and mountains in the northwestern part of Chihuahua State to traffic marijuana and sometimes cocaine."  The chief deputy explained the incident by saying: "The gunman might have shot at the road workers to distract them or get them to flee."

So in other words, criminal interlopers tried to get American workers to disperse from territory where they had every right to work and exist in order to "get them outside [the] area?"

Francisco "Quico" Canseco, R-Texas said: "It is completely unacceptable that Americans at work, doing their job in America, come under gunfire from across the border in Mexico. Our border is not secure from violence that threatens American lives. Securing our border against the cartels and their violent threat must be a top priority."

After the shooting, two Texas Rangers and Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West and Chief Deputy Doyle were at the scene looking for the bullets with a metal detector, which when weighed against the alternatives is preferable to a medical examiner digging bullets out of heads.

"The U.S. government built narrowly spaced steel poles north of the Rio Grande to fence the border in that West Texas area. The slots are not wide enough for people to cross, but small objects can fit between the 15-foot-tall poles." Thus, the lone gunman must have been dedicated to scattering the workers because nothing deterred his squeezing the gun barrel through or shooting off the bullets.

This particular shot across the border initiated Hudspeth County into an elite group. "In El Paso, stray bullets from a drug-related gunfight hit City Hall in June. Another stray bullet struck a University of Texas at El Paso building in August."  And to date, newlywed David Hartley's body has yet to be recovered after being shot by Mexican gunmen on Falcon Lake, a border area near Laredo, Texas.

After the bullets missed the US four workers, the men were escorted away from the scene, which successfully accomplished the original intent of the shooter:  Disperse the crowd and clear the area so as to drive unhindered right on through to Texas. Moreover, and much to the relief of the high-powered rifleman, Border Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks assured drug- and gun-runners, as well as marauding banditos with high-powered rifles, that Border Patrol does not plan to deploy additional agents to the area. Brooks vowed: "There is no beefing up in any way."

Governor Rick Perry's spokeswoman, Katherine Cesinger, said that "If these reports are true, it is yet another incident of border violence and spillover. It goes back to the need for the federal government to provide more resources to the border, which is certainly feeling the effects of the escalating violence in Mexico."

Nevertheless, not all is lost.  Texas could follow Arizona, a state that recently chose to address violent behavior by distributing "Together we Thrive" tee shirts.

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I can't believe we don't have our own "high-powered rifles" by Texas NG,or somebody, on the hilltops, to shoot the hell back.

1/2 mile? Chey-Tac, McMillian, or Barrett, are just getting warmed up. Geez, just like the Somali pirates....we don't do nuthin'...

[r_w]

RETURN FIRE!!!

Mr I shot a coyote on my morning run Perry.

[Big Frank]

If their government can't stop it, we should declare war and stop it ourselves.

[rojawe]

Heck the American Government probably gave the BG the gun and ammo to shoot at the workers, obama and czars at work

[TAB]

trust me, all the workers  will be arming themselfs right now.   There are 3 trades you really don't ever mess with

1 iron workers
2 Paving(AKA road way)
3 brick layers.

Picking a fight with any of these three will mean you have the entire crew on your ass.

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[twyacht]

I think a paving truck makes a fine platform for a Barrett.

We don't have any Caucasian brick layers here in S. Florida anymore.

The iron workers and pipe fitters, even welders, that are worth their salt are all subs from somewhere else.

[TAB]

damn shame about the brick layers.

The mason I use all the time is killer.  the crew is all legal, whats scary is he has 3 mason, but only 1 hod carrier.  A black guy that is scary strong and is paid twice what the masons are.  The guy can grab a 80 lb bag of morter and rip it in half strait down the middle.  Normally its 2-3 hod carriers per mason.  this is the 1st guy I've ever seen that can keep 3 masons going all by himself.  normally thats like a crew of 5-7 lol.

[tombogan03884]

We never had "American" mason's. The old timer's were all Italians  

[MikeBjerum]

Isn't firing across a border at the citizens of another country an act of war?  If the Mexican government does not stop this action are they not condoning the action and thus declaring war? 

I suggest a small armed ground force, with air support at the ready.  If a work crew is fired on, the ground force responds with equal force.  If the ground force is unable to solve the issue across the border we call in the Apaches!

[tombogan03884]

IIRC Pancho Villa was not representing the Mexican Govt. when he drew a US Army expeditionary Force down on his head.