Mexican gunman fires across border toward U.S. workers

Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:34 am » by **Constabul**

Mexican gunman fires across border toward U.S. highway workers

FORT QUITMAN, Texas - At least one Mexican gunman fired toward U.S. road workers 25 miles east of Fort Hancock, Texas, about 10:30 a.m., said Arvin West, sheriff of Hudspeth County.

County employees were working on the Indian Hot Springs Road, a county road that runs almost adjacent to the western Texas-Mexico border.

They heard three to four rounds of shots coming from the Mexican side and departed the area.

West said the four workers were not injured. The Texas Department of Public Safety said troopers escorted the workers and their equipment out of the shooting scene with no injuries. They did not know how many road workers were repairing the Indian Hot Springs Road at the time.

West said his sheriff's office and the Texas Ranger Division were investigating the shooting. West said drug smugglers use that area to traffic narcotics and appeared to have fired their guns to scare the road workers away.

Hudspeth County sheriff's chief deputy Mike Doyle said a rancher spotted a white pickup truck fleeing the area on the Mexican side, about three-quarters of mile from where the workers were filling a hole in the road.

One of the four workers said he heard eight shots from a high-powered rifle.

Border Patrol officials in the Marfa, Texas, sector said the Texas Department of Public Safety spotted a vehicle on the Mexican side.

"We did respond after we were notified by DPS," said spokesman Bill Brooks. But Border Patrol is not investigating.

"There is no beefing up anyway," he said.

Two Texas Rangers, West and Doyle arrived about 4 p.m. at the scene where the four country road workers saw the bullets hit. They were looking for the bullets with a metal detector.

The rancher who lives the closest said he did not hear gunfire. He did not want to be identified by name.

Indian Hot Springs Road is an unpaved road that runs about half a mile from the border. Fort Quitman is west Texan ghost town 25 miles east of Fort Hancock and 80 miles east of El Paso. The area where the bullets hit is privately owned and lent to Hudspeth County to store the gravel and rocks used to fill holes left by last year's rains in the area.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry's spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said the governor's office had yet to confirm the incident.

"If these reports are true, it is yet another incident of border violence and spillover," Cesinger said. "It goes back for the need for the federal government to provide more resources to the border, which is certainly feeling the affects of the escalating violence in Mexico."

U.S. Rep. Francisco "Quico" Canseco, who represents the area, was angered by the report.

"It is completely unacceptable that Americans at work, doing their job in America, come under gun fire from across the border in Mexico," Canseco said. "Our border is not secure from violence that threatens American lives. Securing our border against the cartels and their violent threat must be a top priority."

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_17087113

Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:08 am » by **Thebluecanary**

Seriously, this stuff is getting out of hand.

You just wanna go down there and be a contractor and kick a bunch of ass.

Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:11 am » by **Oxygen**

thebluecanary wrote:Seriously, this stuff is getting out of hand.

You just wanna go down there and be a contractor and kick a bunch of ass.

Oh I am sure Blackwater is hiring.

Peace

Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:12 am » by **Constabul**

Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:16 am » by **Constabul**

oxygen wrote:
thebluecanary wrote:Seriously, this stuff is getting out of hand.

You just wanna go down there and be a contractor and kick a bunch of ass.

Oh I am sure Blackwater is hiring.

Peace

actually it is Xe services now.
:badair:

Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:18 am » by **Constabul**

Btw Blue, i put into perspective the number of stories i have shared since nov.
this was the post i put em in check out the number, and one of em has three events listed in it.
the-unreported-war-in-mexico-t40652.html

Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:24 am » by **Stratafire**

Xe is no more.. it was bought by another company ("skinny" is it was Sold To Monsanto).

Folks this is a problem in itself, since a private firm needs no warrant to perform certain "duties".. if it was sold to monsanto, then monsanto is another private "window dressing" for the spooks and NSA, it gets around the Constitutional limitations of the government..

Xe already sold its private "air force" awhile back, so this is "not" good news, the firm is now a "front" for government operation involving civilian situations here in the USA..

Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:45 am » by **Dragonraptor**

I have talked to my father about the problems with the Mexican border. He retired from the military after serving in the army and national guard for 38 years. He feels that the time has come to let the National Guard take over border patrol along with border crossing period and would be ideal to solve many of the problems they are having. Myself im not so sure it would be a good idea. What do you guys think?