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Guardsmen overrun at the Border

12 News
Jan. 4, 2007 02:44 PM


National Guard unit stormed while patroling the border
Border attack raises security concerns

A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona's border with Mexico.

According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state's West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The site is manned by National Guardsmen. Those guardsmen were forced to retreat. advertisement




The Border Patrol will not say whether shots were fired. However, no Guardsmen were injured in the incident.

The Border Patrol says the incident occurred somewhere along the 120 mile section of the border between Nogales and Lukeville. The area is known as a drug corridor. Last year, 124-thousand pounds of illegal drugs were confiscated in this area.

The Border patrol says the attackers quickly retreated back into Mexico.

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/borderstory0104-CR.html
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  • buschmaster
    possible
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
    possible
    But why? From what I understand, they can just walk across
    anywhere, with no intervention.
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  • sarge_3ad
    I suppose our Guardsman are out there patrolling without ammunition too?
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  • kristov
    I thought that the new multi-billion dollar border-fence was supposed to solve any such problems.
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  • hicap47
    quote:Originally posted by sarge_3ad
    I suppose our Guardsman are out there patrolling without ammunition too?


    When the posting of the National Guard along the border was first announced, it was stated that they would be unarmed......
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  • tsavo303
    this is not true-
    guardsman work in office roles only
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  • Smokeeater 38
    quote:Originally posted by tsavo303
    this is not true-
    guardsman work in office roles only



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    What offices have 81mm mortar's in then? That was what I got to play with for 6 years.



    I would believe they had no ammo, which is just stupid. [:(!]
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  • tsavo303
    I am talking about the border supplement role
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  • buschmaster
    there have been reports of actual skirmishes between what was thought to be mexican army regulars, and (US border patrol? nat. guard?) a few years ago. they, the drug gangs, and coyotes know there are some things they can get away with. why they would do something like that is unknown, especially when it would surely make us come down on them on that part of the border. but this wouldn't be the first time it's happened.
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  • sheepdip
    Friday , January 05, 2007




    TUCSON, Ariz. - National Guard troops at an observation post near the Mexico border were forced to flee a group of armed people, who later ran into Mexico, authorities said.

    The troops, who are not allowed to apprehend illegal border crossers, withdrew safely and no one was injured, said National Guard Sgt. Edward Balaban.

    U.S. Border Patrol officials are investigating the 11 p.m. Wednesday incident and trying to determine who the armed people were and why they approached the post near Sasabe, in the desert corridor between Nogales and Lukeville. Balaban said the troops didn't know how many people were involved because it was so dark.

    That area has been the busiest in the Tucson Sector for marijuana seizures. Agents have seized 124,000 pounds of marijuana there since Oct. 1, said Rob Daniels, spokesman for the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector.

    "We don't know if this was a matter of somebody coming up accidentally on the individuals, coming up intentionally on the individuals, or some sort of a diversion," Daniels said.

    With more Border Patrol agents and National Guard troops patrolling the Arizona section of the U.S.-Mexico border, it has become more difficult to smuggle drugs and people across and "that heightened frustration may have been connected to what took place last night," Daniels said.

    Balaban said officials would investigate and then determine whether to change any procedures for troops at the border.

    Since arriving in mid-June, the Guard has assisted the Border Patrol by manning control rooms, repairing roads, fences and vehicles, and spotting and reporting illegal border crossings to the Border Patrol. President Bush said last spring he would have up to 6,000 National Guard troops deployed to assist the Border Patrol.
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  • pickenup
    They were just testing.
    Now that they know the Guard will run...............
    Wouldn't you?

    Now, maybe they will ARM the Guard.
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