Is It Time Yet?

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RINCON PENINSULA, Texas -- U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com.

The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of the Rincon Peninsula across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico, at about 8:30 p.m., sources said. Bullets ricocheted into an area where Border Patrol agents were positioned, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com.

Border Patrol sources confirmed Gohmert's account, and said the shots may have been fired by .50-caliber weapons.

"We don't have any armor that can stop a .50-caliber round, so our Border Patrol agents had to take cover when the rounds were richocheting around them," said Gohmert, who has been in the area for the last week to get a first-hand look at the border situation.

"When the shooting stopped, about 40 to 50 people came out on the U.S. side and turned themselves in. So clearly the rounds were being fired to suppress every effort to stop anybody intervening with anyone or anything coming across," Gohmert added. "We have no idea what or how many or whom came across with the other illegal immigrants."

Sources said they believe the gunfire came from members of Mexican drug cartels, which include former military members trained in shooting that type of weaponry.

Border Patrol sources said the rounds were clearly identifiable because .50- caliber weapons make a distinctive noise when fired. Sources said they also believe this is the first time that Border Patrol agents have taken direct fire from the Mexican side of the river in this area.

"I don't know why we're out here like sitting ducks," one Border Patrol source said. "We need help."

The Rio Grande sector has been the busiest part of the 2,000-mile border with Texas in recent months as a surge of illegal immigrants, many from Central America, has poured in to the U.S. in the mistaken belief that U.S. policy allows for them to remain in America once they make it in. More than 60,000 unaccompanied children had crossed in the last nine months. But Border Patrol officials have warned that the deluge has left the border largely unattended, and vulnerable to cartel infiltration.
 
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"We don't have any armor that can stop a .50-caliber round

First of all, just try googling the above and see how little results there are.

Is it time yet? My guess is that's it's going to take several border agent deaths before anyone does anything.

Of course it doesn't stop the head of DHS going on NPR to tell everyone how horrible our agents are.

It's no wonder there is such low moral in that department. I wouldn't be surprised if they all walked off in mass.
 
First of all, just try googling the above and see how little results there are.

Is it time yet? My guess is that's it's going to take several border agent deaths before anyone does anything.

Of course it doesn't stop the head of DHS going on NPR to tell everyone how horrible our agents are.

It's no wonder there is such low moral in that department. I wouldn't be surprised if they all walked off in mass.


Just to clarify ... the military does have armor, both on vehicles and a new version for body armor, that will stop .50 cal rounds ... however, they won't authorize its use by Border Patrol because 1) it's expensive, and 2) we don't want to appear to be militarizing the border. In the meantime, people die ...

However, even that is misleading ... there are several hand-held weapons (.400 mag or 500 S&W) that have more stopping/penetrating power than the standard .50 cal ... due to increase velocity.
 
First of all, just try googling the above and see how little results there are.

Is it time yet? My guess is that's it's going to take several border agent deaths before anyone does anything.

Of course it doesn't stop the head of DHS going on NPR to tell everyone how horrible our agents are.

It's no wonder there is such low moral in that department. I wouldn't be surprised if they all walked off in mass.
Still waiting for some action on the one murdered with one of BOs fast-n-furious rifles.

heres one
http://kitup.military.com/2011/07/inventor-says-armor-can-take-multiple-50-cal-hits.html
 
People with half a brain know what Fast and Furious was about.

Same tactic they are doing with the thousands of illegals pouring over the border.

Manufactured crisis. Of course in the case of the F&F agents death, and ATF whistleblowers, they were found out before a crisis occurred.

What's happening with the illegals is working, so far. Sure hope it blows up in their face like the IRS targeting did.
 
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People with half a brain know what Fast and Furious was about.

Same tactic they are doing with the thousands of illegals pouring over the border.

Manufactured crisis. Of course in the case of the F&F agents death, and ATF whistleblowers, they were found out before a crisis occurred.

What's happening with the illegals is working, so far. Sure hope it blows up in their face like the IRS targeting did.
The disease tsumani will. Its building.
 
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