Saturday, February 25, 2006

Border incursions by Mexico continue

Yuma (AZ) Sun - Courts and Police:

"Last month, the Inland Valley (Calif.) Daily Bulletin reported that there had been 216 incursions into the United States by Mexican soldiers since 1996, citing a Department of Homeland Security document the newspaper obtained. The story said the Mexican military had crossed over in the Yuma area 24 times during that period."

The above nugget is part of a story about an unmarked Mexican government helicopter crossing the border and flying up the Colorado River for, according to the US and Mexican governments, about a half mile inside US airspace. Our government accepts the Mexican official position that it was a civilian craft operated by the Federal Judicial Police (analagous to our FBI) although American civilians who observed the craft thought the occupants were in army uniforms. Either army or police, they had no business crossing the border - and why unmarked?

Anyhow, the revelation that there have been 216 incidents that our government knows of and admits to of Mexican soldiers crossing our border in 10 years means we have one of these incidents every 17 days! Who's minding the store?

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