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Thread ID: 12835 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-03-22
2004-03-22 19:43 | User Profile
Tucson Citizen: [url]http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=031904a1_convoy[/url]
**Smuggler convoy called a first here
6 trucks with 165 people stopped; 6 vehicles escape**
GABRIELA RICO [email]grico@tucsoncitizen.com[/email] March 19, 2004
In an unprecedented move along the U.S.-Mexico border, a convoy of 12 pickup trucks packed with suspected illegal immigrants barreled through the Tohono O'odham Nation and tried to run down approaching Border Patrol agents.
Agents stopped six of the vehicles Wednesday night and found 165 people stashed in the beds of the trucks, said Greg Maier, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector.
"Smugglers are getting desperate in their attempt to enter the United States illegally," said David Aguilar, chief patrol agent of the Tucson sector. "Their options are dwindling, and now they are making bold and dangerous moves to get their human cargo over the border."
This type of daring convoy has not been seen before by the Border Patrol, he said.
An anonymous caller to the Border Patrol station in Casa Grande alerted agents to the convoy near the town of San Miguel, west of Tucson, Maier said.
When agents caught up with the vehicles, the drivers changed direction and scattered.
One of the trucks got stuck in sand, and agents were approaching it on foot when the driver of a second truck gunned his engine and headed toward the agents, Maier said.
Agents shot at the oncoming truck, which changed direction and darted back into Mexico, along with three of the other pickups from the group.
Four of the trucks, which were turned over to Tohono O'odham police, had been reported stolen, Maier said.
Another truck was found abandoned a short while later, and agents are investigating whether a second abandoned vehicle found yesterday was part of the convoy, he said. The other trucks escaped into Mexico.
The 165 people were still being processed yesterday, and their nationalities were unknown last night, he said. None of them reported any injuries, and none of the agents was hurt.
2004-03-22 22:07 | User Profile
The 165 people were still being processed yesterday, and their nationalities were unknown last night, he said. None of them reported any injuries, and none of the agents was hurt.
Oh, their nationalities were unknown. Mexicans. That's all there is to it. Unreal. They're just letting us get ready for more of this, let us know that it's unstoppable. Uncle Shmuel has to load up the US with as many beandogs as possible before CW II. It won't help.
2004-03-23 00:14 | User Profile
No need for the US to go overseas looking for trouble, the trouble is coming to us.
Is time for the military to take action on this matter, now is not a matter of a few illegals but an open invasion by the people from a foreign country.
As a kissing cousin to those people I do feel sorry for them but now is to much, you can push someone only so far before that person does something about it.
2004-03-23 20:30 | User Profile
Border control in the US can be organized very cheaply -- just reward vigilantes/bounty hunters for every messican turd caught, or evidence thereof. Shiit, just letting people do it for free will solve the problem.
2004-03-23 21:42 | User Profile
Lets see. Illegally entering the country, vehicle theft (guess from where), attempted murder of a border patrol agent, human smuggling, destruction of public/private property....etc, etc, etc.
Nice list of crimes both small and feloneous. Now watch your newspapers carefully and see how many of these "undocumented immigrants" ever gets so much as a traffic ticket.
Yep. A bounty of $5 for each invader brought in by enterprising citizens would be cheaper and far more effective.