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Border Patrol agent shot, killed on duty in Ariz.
NACO, Ariz. (AP) — A Border Patrol agent was shot to death Tuesday in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 firefight with Mexican bandits that spawned congressional probes of a botched government gun-smuggling investigation. The agent, 30-year-old Nicholas Ivie, ... No arrests have been made, but authorities suspect that more than one person fired at the agents. "It's been a long day for us but it's been longer ...
2 Border Patrol Agents Shot, 1 Killed
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Do you think Mexico is getting a bad rap & wants to hire a public relations firm to improve its image?
MEXICO CITY – Gunmen slaughter 19 men at a rehab clinic. Sixteen bodies are dumped in a northern city. Twelve police officers die in an ambush. Soldiers kill 15 gunmen outside a tourist town.
All this in less than a week, yet President Felipe Calderon believes Mexico is getting a bad rap and wants to hire a public relations firm to improve its image. He might want to start with convincing his own countrymen, who are frustrated by assurances that the drug war is going well.
"No matter how much the authorities want us to believe that they are winning this fight, the reality and the perception is that, on the contrary, its a lost battle," said Miguel Jimenez, 21, a student in Morelia, the capital of Calderons drug-plagued home state of Michoacan. "Day after day, its demonstrated with the increasing violence."
Calderon passionately defended his military-led offensive against cartels this week, pledging not to withdraw the thousands of soldiers and federal police battling gangs across the country.
He acknowledged violence has surged — often claiming innocent lives — but insisted it was a war worth fighting and that things are going as planned.
"The strategy is advancing in the necessary direction that was established from the start," Calderon wrote in a long essay posted on his offices website this week. "Some analysts say that it was a mistake to fight crime, that we should not have provoked them. I think this perspective is mistaken."
Calderon said cartels are infiltrating every walk of Mexican life, from police and politics to businesses cowered by extortion demands. He insisted there is no choice but to fight them. If there is more violence, he said, it is because drug cartels are reeling and splintered. And his government is embarking on long-term solutions, including U.S.-backed training of thousands of police and prosecutors in modern investigative techniques.
Some Mexicans agree.
The essay "was received with skepticism among commentators in the press and radio, where it has been commonly accepted that the strategy has failed," wrote columnist Hector Aguilar in the Milenio newspaper Wednesday. But "among the critics, there is nobody proposing an alternative to Calderons strategy."
But others are tired of hearing the same arguments from the president and seeing little difference on the ground.
"How long is Calderon going to believe that this war will be won or lost by sacrificing lives?" wrote Milenio columnist Ciro Gomez. "Or, as he said last night, that things will change in the medium term?"
The problem is the sacrifice is proving too much for many Mexicans who get caught in the crossfire.
In the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo on Tuesday, soldiers chased down a group of gunmen who opened fire on their patrol. The gunmen crashed their car into a house where a woman was looking after her three grandchildren. A battle erupted, leaving one soldier and four of the gunmen dead. The grandmother and the children escaped unharmed.
Bernardo Carrizales, the youngsters father, watched in horror from his house across the street.
"When I saw the crash, I ran to get my children but the soldiers wouldnt let me through and I was screaming because they were shooting at the house," Carrizales said. "Later, they let me through and I saw my mother splattered with (someone elses) blood and my three children behind her."
That wasnt the worst shootout Tuesday. In the picturesque tourist town of Taxco, south of Mexico City, soldiers battled suspected cartel members holed up in a house, leaving 15 of the gunmen dead and forcing residents to cower in their homes.
Farther west in Nayarit state, Gov. Ney Gonzalez ordered schools to close early this year because of rising violence, including shootings that killed 30 people in the Pacific coast state over the weekend. He said children should be home so parents "wont fret and worry about what is happening on the streets while the governor imposes order."
The bloodshed continued Wednesday: In the border city of Ciudad Juarez, four men and two women were shot to death as they left a drug rehab center. In another northern town, Apodaca, the tortured bodies of four police officers and one ex-cop were dumped in public. Threatening messaged had been impaled on their bodies with knives.
Critics see a disconnect between whats happening on the streets and Calderons rhetoric.
While soldiers fought in Taxco, Calderon was in Southern Baja California to inaugurate a hotel. He announced a plan to hire a public relations firm "to demonstrate what our country has to offer, which is a lot, to any visitor of the world."
"His political nose has been compromised," said George Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William & Mary in Virg
Answer: I wonder how much effect it would have. The country has a bigger army of drug and human smugglers than the police or military. They are the country's elite and power-holders. Fox really destroyed that country in my opinion by letting it go unabated for so long.
Category: Immigration
Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie killed, another wounded near Naco
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Slain Border Agent Identified, Drug Traffickers Suspected
His partner was not immediately identified. A third agent was ... “Border Patrol agents on patrol in Naco, Ariz., were involved in a shooting Tuesday at 1:50 a.m.” U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. “One agent died from his ... Cochise County Deputy Chief Rod Rothrock told ABC News affiliate KNXV, “Due to the time of day and the location, we suspect some kind of narcotics trafficking, but at this point that is speculative.” “Cochise County has been ...
Why are people saying that the Rancher killed in AZ was killed by an illegal?
When this crime is still under investigation. They dont have any leads or evidence yet. Why do people insist on saying like they know what really happened?
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http://www.redcounty.com/arizona-rancher-murdered-illegal-immigrant-who-flees-mexico/38211
This article was posted Monday, March 29, 2010
An Arizona rancher who was a fixture in the community was brutally murdered by an alleged illegal immigrant on Saturday night. The Arizona/Mexico border rancher, Robert Krentz met a cruel end after he went out in the middle of the night to investigate strange noises.
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The death of an Arizona rancher - Updated
The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office offered little information into the late-Saturday shooting death of 58-year-old Robert Krentz, whose family began the Krentz Ranch more than 100 years ago
The Sheriff’s Office, aided by the U.S. Border Patrol, had no suspects Sunday and continued to follow leads, Capas said. She declined to comment on reports from neighbors and border activists that Krentz’s death was related to smuggling in the area.
Answer: A lot of Americans are known to flee to Mexico after committing crime to.
http://www.mexicocrimestatistics.com/article/Convicted%20sex%20offender%20sentenced%20for%20fleeing/?k=j83s12y12h94s27k02
Convicted sex offender sentenced for fleeing
A youth chess teacher who moved to Belize when he was supposed to be serving probation in Colorado as a convicted sex offender has been sentenced to 12 years to life in prison.
Robert Snyder was sentenced Tuesday in Fort Collins.
Snyder spent two years in jail in a pedophilia case and was supposed to register for special sex-offender supervision after he was released in August 2008. Instead, authorities say, he fled the country.
Category: Immigration
Are supporters aimming to have border patrol agent arrested & who will they believe agent or illegal alien?
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY - There is an ongoing investigation into a shooting involving a border patrol agent that happened Tuesday morning.
The shooting took place in Santa Cruz County in a remote area northwest of Pena Blanca Lake.
The Santa Cruz Sheriffs Department said two agents on horse patrol saw a group of about a dozen suspected illegal immigrants.
Deputies tell News 4 a witness claims one of the alleged illegal immigrants fell or was bumped by a horse and thats when the agent shot the man in the stomach. That man is in stable condition.
The attorney for the Border Patrol agent tells a much different story. Attorney Jim Calle calls this shooting very unusual. He says his client only opened fired when one of the suspected illegals threw rocks at him.
Calle says the 30 year-old man didnt listen to the Border Patrol agents orders and took off running. He says the agent told the man to stop running and eventually caught up with him.
Calle says, "The alien went down and picked up a rock...and when your five feet away from somebody whos on horse back, if you pick up a rock of this size (Calle gestured to a rock about the size of a melon) you have one intent which is to do serious bodily harm or to kill this agent."
The attorney says the agent was able to get the man to put the rock down but says the situation quickly took a turn for the worse.
"All that alien did at that point was side step about five feet or four feet to the agents right and start to pick up yet another rock at this point hes just about four feet away so he had no opportunity to do anything but fire his weapon which is what he did," Calle told News 4.
According to Calle, no other law enforcement witnessed the shooting but one woman who was part of the group of suspected illegals claims she was able to see the shooting happen from up to 150 yards away.
He says, "She may have seen some things that which in fact are consistent with the actual events but she was so far away she would not have seen the alien picking up the rocks."
The agent is on administrative leave for 72 hours. News 4 spoke with Border Patrol, the FBI, who is the lead investigating agency, and the U.S. Attorneys Office. All told us they could not comment on an ongoing investigation.
The FBI spokesman says once their investigation is complete they will turn their findings over to the US Attorneys Office.
http://www.kvoa.com/news/border-patrol-shooting-under-investigation/
Answer: No. you can't assume what side "supporters" will take.
If those agents are found to be guilty for what they're being accused of, no one should be on their side.
Category: Immigration
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When deputies arrived, one of the agents had died and another suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries, she said. No suspects were in custody, and Capas she could provide any details on the shooters including how many there were, or what they were doing in the area. The injured agent sustained non-life-threatening wounds and was flown to a hospital, according to Crystal Amarillas, a spokeswoman for the Tucson Sector Border Patrol. George McCubbin ...
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Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie killed, another wounded near Naco
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and another wounded in a shooting Tuesday morning near Naco, the agency said. Nicholas Ivie, 30, was killed after he and two other ... The wounded BP agent, who has not yet been identified, was airlifted to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. He underwent surgery and was in stable ... No suspects are in custody, Border Patrol spokesman Brent Cagen said before noon. "There's still an ongoing search in the area," ...
Bush pressed to pardon border agents but will he ?
Two California congressmen, one of whom introduced legislation this year calling for a congressional pardon for two U.S. Border Patrol agents, say that if President Bush can commute the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, he can order pardons for the agents.
"If the president of the United States is going to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby, he should immediately accompany that with a pardon for Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and 2008 presidential candidate.
"If Scooter Libby is going to receive this treatment, and there very well could be a compelling reason for the presidents actions, agents Compean and Ramos should then be provided a full pardon," said Mr. Hunter, whose bill has 100 co-sponsors. "Mr. President, pardon our Border Patrolmen."
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, said Libby was convicted of obstructing the investigation of a crime, "yet no one has been charged with a crime" in the case. However, Mr. Rohrabacher said, while Mr. Bush rightly showed mercy to Libby, he "does not seem to have the same mercy for the average men and women holding the front lines of our borders.
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070703/NATION/107030085/1002
Isnt it weird that the US would even make such a thing even remotely like a crime. A fleeing drug guy that is killing our kids and we can’t shoot at him? What a world. I guess open borders are really that important to them.If not pardon,why not at least commute the rest of their sentences. It should be easy to do out of concern for their health and safety........Are there any other Presidential candidates speaking about this, aware of this, trying to correct this injustice? We have a Coast Guard, we need a Border Guard, a military entity, with new rules of engagement etc. The Border Agents should be released, yesterday, and Sutton should replace them in prison. What Sutton has done is insured that Border Agents will stand down now and we will all be less safe as a result. Agents are not permitted to pursue fleeing suspects? Anyone else here tired of watching our brave soldiers fight wars and our Border agents try to secure our borders with their hands tied behind their backs? Anyone else here feel like voting for Duncan Hunter?
Answer: I'm tired of the soldiers and the border guards getting a raw deal, they put their lives on the line for our country and are then arrested? Before we were so PC in WWII they were told to shoot anything that moved! That's what war is. Don't tie the hands of those you send out for defense. I have to trust the training that our men receive and that they are equipped with all things necessary to fulfill the position in which they find themselves. Do you think that Al-Queida says don't shoot to kill? Come on, a war is not a disagreement, it's a war. And the Border Agents that did their jobs should be commended not criticized. Give those guys a medal not a jail sentence. This PC crap achieves nothing! We are far too lenient in our approach to other countries, as well as our own, look at the number of illegals we have! It's ridiculous. I'd rather vote for Tom Tancredo!
Category: Immigration
Giffords, Palin & the slain judge fought for secure borders. Why blame Palin rather than murderous cartels?
First: I blame ONLY the shooter for the shooting.
but...
SECOND: The hysteria that followed is epic and terribly misplaced, at best.
Giffords fought against her party, demanding completion of the fence and more border patrol agents; demanding protection of our 2nd Amendment rights and States Powers.
Judge John Rolls overturned lower courts decisions in upholding Tenth Amendment States Powers.
If we were to suspect ANY accomplice, why would it be yet another advocate of Secure Borders like Palin (of whom Im no great fan) who has never shot anyone? If were gonna play this sicker-than-sick blame game why not at LEAST pick a murder-ready co-conspirator like the cartels who actually have something to gain in the Congresswomans district?
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Answer: "Your country doesnt only have terrorism from outside its borders but clearly a hategroup with Palin and her followers. Very wrong and very scary."
-Are you so daft that you actually think Palin is responsible for this guys' actions? The nut was a schizophrenic. I am no fan of Palin, but she isn't any different than the rest of those snake oil salesmen in congress.
Category: Politics
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