U.S. Border Patrol Agents in 'Firefight' With Mexican Gang

See there is no problem along the Border !

If those rotten Border Patrol agents would just stop being so mean , then they would have never been shot at !

Noe move along .



Foxnews
SAN ANTONIO -- U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and giving chase to a truck along the Rio Grande, U.S. authorities said Monday.

No Border Patrol agents were hurt during the "fire fight" early Saturday in Mission, agency spokeswoman Rosalinda Huey said. She did not say whether Border Patrol gunfire hit anyone, citing the ongoing investigation.

"The firing they received came from the Mexican side," Huey said...


It was at least the second time in three months that Border Patrol agents in Texas have fired into Mexico. In June, a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy after authorities say a group trying to illegally enter Texas threw rocks at officers near downtown El Paso.

Reports of bullets whizzing across the border from Mexico also are on the rise. At least eight bullets have been fired into El Paso in the last few weeks from the rising violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where drug violence has killed more than 4,000 people since 2009, making it one of the deadliest cities in the world.

23 people slain along Mexico-US border

Just another day In Jaurez !


AFP
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Twenty-three people were killed in about 24 hours in Chihuahua state plagued by drug violence on the US border, authorities said Saturday.

Between late Friday and Saturday 13 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez, across from the US city of El Paso, Texas, Chihuahua state prosecutors said.

One of the incidents in which the murders took place involved a car theft, and a couple was killed in a violent assault at a shopping mall, officials said.

Another 10 people were murdered in other locations around Chihuahua state, prosecutors added.

Cartel wars gut Juárez, a onetime boom town

And the real sad thing about this is they are all coming here to the States .

It is real sad that the Mexican people that live in the States don't even want to go to Jaurez , the Place is that violently insane !

And even sadder , that some in our Government don't even recognize that there is a problem !



El Paso Times

CIUDAD JUÁREZ - This violent border city is turning into a ghost town.

Bloodshed from Mexico's warring drug cartels has sent those with means fleeing this former boomtown. Restaurants have moved north to Texas. The dentists who served Americans with their cheap procedures have taken their equipment south. Even the music is dying here.

"The musicians haven't left yet, but they do their shows in El Paso now," says Alfonso Quiñones, a Juárez concert promoter who is trying to organize a jazz festival in the city.

No solid number exists for the exodus, a matter of debate among Juárez's leaders. But the city's planning department estimates 116,000 homes are now abandoned. Measured against the average household size of the last census, the population who inhabited the empty homes alone could be as high as 400,000 people, representing one-third of the city before the violence began.

Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Biggs Army Airfield

I could not get any closer to the shuttle than about 3/4 of a mile ( rough guess ) they keep the thing parked way back from everybody !

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ElPasoTimes
EL PASO -- U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, riding atop a modified 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, landed at Biggs Army Airfield shortly after 11:15 a.m. Monday.

Atlantis, which landed May 24 at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a 5.3 million mile journey in space, is headed to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

"The pair will fly to Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas and spend the night there before resuming the cross-country trip tomorrow," according to a NASA news release.

NASA officials said that while in the region, Atlantis will conduct a flyover of the White Sands test facility.

The astronauts aboard the shuttle recently finished a 13-day trip in space to repair the Hubble space telescope.

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Build the fence and shut up O.K.

My problem with this article is the fact that not one person in it even thinks about the people who's Constitutional Right's are being violated by their opposition to A border fence that will help keep Illegal immigrants from crossing into this country out , I have rights to!!!
And I am opposed to the opposition of the Border Fence !
I have a right to a safe country !
I have the right to demand action be taken to stop the flood of illegal immigration!

El paso times AUSTIN -- El Paso County will ask the nation's highest court to rule in a case officials hope will halt construction of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, County Attorney Jose Rodriguez said Tuesday.

"This is an unconstitutional delegation of authority," Rodriguez said, referring to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's use of waivers to circumvent more than 30 laws that could slow construction of the 670-mile fence.

The county, along with the city, the Tigua tribe, the local water irrigation district and environmental groups filed the lawsuit in June. The suit alleges that Chertoff's use of waivers to complete the fence by the end of this year was unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Frank Montalvo dismissed the lawsuit earlier this month, ruling that Chertoff did not violate the Constitution "because 'Congress constitutionally delegated its authority in the Waiver Legislation.' "

Rodriguez said the next legal step to continue the fight was to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.

"We definitely are proceeding with the appeal," he said.

The lawsuit might not stop the fence building, but El Paso County Commissioner Veronica Escobar said the case makes an important statement.

What these people fail to understand is the fact that an overwhelming amount of people in the U.S, want a fence ON THE BORDER , to help stop the flood of illegal immigrants, who overburden the legal taxpayers of this country !!! If they insist on their way then I insist that they cover the cost of all expenses incurred By illegal immigrants in their area !!!! I DO NOT WANT MY TAXES GOING TO COVER THESE COSTS !

"If government can find a reason to waive our constitutional rights on this

occasion, then it certainly opens the door for them to do that again," Escobar said.

Mayor John Cook said the City Council has not yet voted to continue pursuing the case, but he expected that it would.

Even if fence construction is not stopped, he said, the lawsuit would help the city understand which federal laws apply on the border.

"The point is we don't know which laws we can enforce," Cook said.

Tigua Lt. Gov. Carlos Hisa said the fencing project would impede the tribe's access to water in the Rio Grande that the Tiguas have used for centuries to farm and conduct ceremonies.

"We just want our concerns to be heard and to be taken into consideration before the fence goes up," Hisa said. "We've basically been asked to shut up."

El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 joined the lawsuit because the fence would impede its access to maintain eight miles of canals that provide irrigation water to about 20,000 acres of farmland in the Lower Valley, said executive director Jesus "Chuy" Reyes.

"We need to do everything we have to do to protect the water users," he said.

Department of Homeland Security officials did not return phone calls seeking comment for this story.

The El Paso County lawsuit is similar to one filed by the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife over Chert off's use of waivers to build fencing in Arizona.

The Supreme Court declined earlier this year to hear that case.

Oliver Bernstein, Sierra Club spokesman, said the El Paso lawsuit might have a better chance because the timing and circumstances are different.

Fence-building expenses have grown higher than the DHS expected. The Bush administration is drawing to a close. The federal government is considering spending nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer money to buy bad loans that have put the nation in a financial crisis.

"More opposition and more attention to this project is going to help slow it down," Bernstein said, "so that hopefully a more rational administration can look for other ways to balance border security and the environment and human rights."

So in other words "waste more taxpayers money anyway, cry and whine because you are trying to farm a fucking desolate wasteland called a DESERT, and say it should not be done because "GEORGE BUSH " is spending money elsewhere!" Give me a break ,these hippies need to get out in the real world and see what it is really like ! I have lived on both coasts and as far north and as far south as can be , the world does not revolve around El Paso , even with a fence life will go on !!! Hopefully with a few less illegal's .