AP: Texas-Mexico border standoff reported (update 2)

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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas -- Texas law enforcement officers faced off with men dressed as Mexican Army soldiers and apparent drug suspects near the U.S.-Mexican border Tuesday, after three SUVs attempted to flee state authorities, officials said.

"These were not Mexican soldiers," Aguilar said at a news conference. "It is known that these are drug traffickers using military uniforms and they were not even regulation military uniforms."

Chief Deputy Mike Doyal of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department said that Mexican army personnel had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border, the Daily Bulletin newspaper reported earlier.

"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.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MEXICO_BORDER_CROSSING

[BushOut06]

1. Looks like Pancho Villa is at it again

I'm sure bushie will put those brown-skinned subspecies in their place :sarcasm: :patriot:

[fasttense]

2. Bush wont touch this. His corporate masters make too much money off

the backs of the illegals. What's a little armed drug incursions if his masters get to keep their huge profits. Money is all, greed is god, can't have a few restless drug couriers stop the flow of money.

[murray hill farm]

3. This is the year for Mexico to elect a new president..

and we will see more and more of this...and border issues will be more and more in the news as the election gets nearer. The USA uses the "border issue" as one..well the most...presented issue in attempt to manipulate mexico politically. The real issue is oil and the fact that mexicos oil is nationalized..and the growing trend in central and south america's socisalized leanings politically. If the new president..and he will be..one with holds the socialist phylosophy, then the ongoing attempts to get mexico to change their nationalized oil to a public one (which the usa can then control) will not be realized by the USA. we can expect to see border issues increase..as well as statements of "humanitarian" statements that mexico does not care about its middle class and about poverty in mexico, etc. and blah, blah, blah...because they restrict capitalism...but it really is all about the oil. the usa could not function without cheap mexican labor..which continues mainly due to the allowing of massive numbers of "illegals"..which are easier to exploit than one who is legal...but this is not the presented issue..drugs, of course. It is all such a sham.

[phusion]

17. Hi mexicoxpat!

thanks for your analysis...I agree with you that this is mainly an issue over oil.

So you think AMLO will win the Presidency in July? I guess that's the way the polls are looking, huh?

Not good news for Washington... :evilgrin:

[murray hill farm]

18. Hi...yes AMLO will win the presidency...

Not good news for Washington, but good news for Mexico..and Mexico will still maintain its basic working relationship with the usa re: the oil agreements..and the USA is not ready to do any real interference, just veiled insults..and even that is done with some care..Mexicans do not deal well with insults..especially political ones. The Usa/Mexican tension will grow more tense though....and the border issues will get less attention once both the 2006 Mexican and USA elections are over.

[ugarte]

4. Run for the hills! La reconquista has begun!

rofl

[yellowcanine]

5. I say give Texas back to them if they promise to take Bush also. (Just

kidding, Texas Dems.)

[truthisfreedom]

6. they can have the ranch, of course.

[yellowcanine]

8. I seriously doubt they would settle for a pig farm. Throw in Tom DeLay?

[txaslftist]

14. Delay for breeding stock?

If it's a pig farm, I mean...

[barb162]

10. That sounds good except I would ask the citizens of TX first

But if they just take the entire Bush family, that's the best solution, LOL!

[Kralizec]

16. Who asked them the first time around?

Nobody did, we just threw them off.

[barb162]

20. Then maybe we should all go back to our country of origin

all 300 million of us

[Kralizec]

24. Of course not.

Don't be so extreme. The frist step is to truly realize and be humble with the truth of your origins, ask forgiveness, and go from there.

[AnneD]

13. Frankly,

I think we might have more democracy becoming a state of Mexico.

[Kralizec]

15. Why not?

But the the Mexicans need to give it back to the Indians.

[Bridget Burke]

7. The evil cargo? Marijuana....

More info in this story.

www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3610528.html

Too bad we can't pay the farmers directly, so they could improve their lot in their own country. And improve our mood, as well. But the middle men on both sides of the Border make too much money to allow decriminalization.

[barb162]

9. This story highlights the lawlessness going on at that border

If they want to bring something in this country let them do it the legal way, through Customs. It could just as well be heroin, cocaine....

[Bridget Burke]

12. Sorry, they won't be allowed to import pot legally in the near future.

But I can see why you're getting worried up there in Illinois!

[barb162]

19. Chicago is one of the main dropping of points direct from MX

for illegal drugs

[Bridget Burke]

25. Really!

Too bad for Chicago's potheads, then.

[High Plains]

23. The lawlessness is largely a result of drug prohibition.

As a nation, we want our drugs, as our insatiable demand demonstrates. But as a polity, we don't want ourselves to have our drugs. Bingo! Instant cross-border black market.

Actually, I agree with you. The stuff should be coming through Customs--legally.

[booksenkatz]

11. Viva Max!

[MisterP]

21. Bush: "Can't weh jost annuhx Mecksicker?"

[MisterP]

22. working link:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/25/D8FBOSCO3.html