Texas Officers Involved in Standoff at Border

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Texas Officers Involved in Standoff at Border
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

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

Andrea Simmons, an agency spokeswoman in El Paso, told The Associated Press that Texas Department of Public Safety troopers chased three SUVs, believing they were carrying drugs, to the banks of the Rio Grande during Monday’s incident.

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We really need to stop putting up with this ****. Maybe a couple of AC-130U Spectres patrolling the border could do some good. Find targets using the FLIR system, and ‘dissuade’ them from entering our country with some 40mm goodness… 👍
 
From yesterday’s Speech by the President:

We’re a country of law, and we must enforce the border. And we spend a lot of time in Washington, D.C. analyzing the border issues, and strategizing with Congress about how to do a better job including the following things: One, increasing the number of Border Patrol agents; two, increasing the use of technology on the border, so that you can see people coming through drones, for example, and then be able to rally the Border Patrol to stop people from coming across.

Some physical barriers, particularly in urban centers, are now being constructed. Some berms – there’s parts of our border, where, literally, you can just drive across and there’s nothing. You know, it’s just nothing – land, and in you come. And it’s hard – the demarcation zone is different, and it makes it hard for people to enforce the border. Secondly, when we detain somebody at the border, we’ve got to have a rational policy to help back up the people we’re paying to enforce the border. And by that I mean if you’re somebody from Central America, for example, caught coming into our country that the policy has been to give you a notification to report back to a judge, and they’ll hear your case. Well, guess what? A lot of them don’t come back. They’re here because they’re trying to better their lives, and they’re going to move into our society as best as they can. And they’re not going to return back. So we’re ending what’s called “catch and release,” and we’re beginning to provide more detention space for our Border Patrol to be able to say to people – particularly from Central America and South America – you’ve come illegally, we’re sending you back home.

whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060123-4.html

You all really should listen to the whole speech:

President Discusses Global War on Terror at Kansas State University
 
It would appear that we need some bodies on the U.S. side of the border for convincing proof.
 
I have often thought instead of funneling more money into border patrol operations when use it as practice for the air force and give them good air support. I like the AC-130 idea.
 
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pnewton:
I have often thought instead of funneling more money into border patrol operations when use it as practice for the air force and give them good air support. I like the AC-130 idea.
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Some good tanks wouldn’t be a bad idea either, or the National Guard to host some ‘manuvers’ in the vicinity.
 
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Some good tanks wouldn’t be a bad idea either, or the National Guard to host some ‘manuvers’ in the vicinity.
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Randolph AFB could cover most of the Texas coast alone. It’s even a training base.
 
I wonder if Fox’s story will change if we put the firepower in place and we do leave a few bodies on the ground. A-10’s are quiet, fairly fast, relatively cheap, and have enormous firepower. Equip some of them with night capability and turn them loose.
 
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I wonder if Fox’s story will change if we put the firepower in place and we do leave a few bodies on the ground. A-10’s are quiet, fairly fast, relatively cheap, and have enormous firepower. Equip some of them with night capability and turn them loose.
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A10’s are quiet?:confused: Not the ones at Warminster. They use to have training sessions there for the A-10s and the flight path was right over our build about 5 miles away. You could tell when they were having training.

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A10’s are quiet?:confused: Not the ones at Warminster. They use to have training sessions there for the A-10s and the flight path was right over our build about 5 miles away. You could tell when they were having training.

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Quiet compared with helicopters or F-15’s and 16’s. You usually don’t hear them coming, just passing overhead or going away. By then, it’s too late.
 
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