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Mexican Army Stands off Law Officers in Texas

In an apparent standoff Texas law enforcement officers were involved with Mexican military forces in a standoff. The Mexicans in military dress set up an automatic weapon 200 yards on our side of the border.

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."

Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West, whose officers were involved in a similar incident last year, said he is certain that Mexican authorities know who was involved.

I can't say that I can blame them for not wanting to engage them, A deputy is typically armed with a sidearm and maybe a shotgun and a Taser Aparrently the e 2 SUV's were loaded with marijuana and the Mexican authorities were assisting them getting back to the border and guarding them as they unloaded their pot.

U.S. officials who pursued three fleeing SUVs to the Mexican border saw what appeared to be a Mexican military Humvee help one of the SUVs when it got stuck in the river, he said.

When that didn't work, a group of men dressed in civilian clothes started unloading what appeared to be bundles of marijuana from the SUV, and the stuck vehicle was then torched, he said. A second SUV had a flat tire and was left behind in the United States and its occupant ran across the border, he said.

Glancey said he could not confirm whether the armed men seen at the site were Mexican Army, police officers, or drug dealers, and would not detail what markings deputies may have seen on the men’s uniforms or the Humvee.

Now this isn't the first incident. Last november there was a simular incident involving Hudspeth County Sheriffs Department. One involving a dumptruck 3 tons of marijuana and an armed confrontatation with Mexican authorities last November. Nonetheless Homeland security seems lacksidaiscal about the incursions. Emphasis mine.

Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West, whose officers were involved in a similar incident last year, said he is certain that Mexican authorities know who was involved.

After the newspaper reported on Mexican military crossings earlier this month, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the report was overblown and most of the incursions were just mistakes.

In eastern California, Arizona and New Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border is largely unmarked. But in Texas, the Rio Grande separates the two countries and even when dry, is a riverbed about 200 feet wide.

In November, Doyal said Border Patrol agents in the border town of Fort Hancock called for help after confronting more than six men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. The men allegedly were trying to bring more than three tons of marijuana across the Rio Grande, Doyal told the newspaper.

Yea Right! Shades of Pancho Villa. Homeland security, Governor Perry, and President Bush don't seem to be willing to do anything about armed incursions into this country. Seems like some one in our gorvernment should be willing to protect our borders besides the Sheriffs and Deputies of Hudspeth County. If arming them with machineguns and RPGs is what it takes, then "get `er done".
Update: Michelle Malkin has more. and Rhymes with Right has a say in this

posted by Liberty @ 7:24 PM