News Mexico Fires on Border Patrol

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When one country crosses another?s sovereign border and launches an assault on that country?s citizens, it usually grabs headlines because such action is typically viewed as an act of war.

Apparently this is not the case when the Mexican government acts aggressively toward its U.S. counterparts along the southwestern border.

Based on documents obtained from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), Judicial Watch has uncovered the details of an incident on June 26, 2014, in which a Mexican government helicopter crossed into U.S. airspace and opened fire on U.S. Border Patrol personnel located in a clearly marked position. The CBP documents were released in response to a July 9, 2014, Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

There?s history here. Going back a decade, Judicial Watch has forced both the Bush and Obama administrations to release documents detailing intentional border incursions by Mexican military and other government personnel.
DHS records show that Mexican military incursions occur quite often and regularly go unpunished by the U.S. government. For instance, the DHS documents reveal 226 incursions by Mexican personnel into the U.S. between 1996 and 2005. In 2007 alone, 25 such incursions occurred along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Earlier this year a serious incursion occurred in Arizona, in which two heavily armed and camouflaged Mexican soldiers crossed 50 yards over the border and held Border Patrol agents at gunpoint in a tense confrontation.

These new CBP records provide details on the 2014 incident.

[US Border Patrol] Agents from the Tucson Sector Foreign Operations Branch were parked approximately 100 yards north of the border on the U.S. side when they observed a Mexican LEA helicopter cross north into the U.S. for approximately 100 yards.

The agents then heard and observed two rounds being shot from the helicopter which landed approximately 15 yards to the side of one of the unmarked Border Patrol Vehicles (FOB) they were driving. Also, there were two marked vehicles at the scene next to the unmarked as well.

A total of six Mexican law enforcement helicopters flying near the Represito Ranch were observed by the four agents. Two agents were driving two marked Border Patrol vehicles and two additional agents were in a third, unmarked vehicle when one of the helicopters flew directly north and crossed into the U.S. approximately 100 yards.

The helicopter immediately turned back south into Mexico and landed at the Represito Ranch where Government of Mexico (GOM) officers exited the aircraft. Five GOM officers walked north and approached the International Border Fence where the incident had occurred, and subsequently made contact with the agents.

The GOM officers apologized for the incident and stated that the incident had been reported to their main office in Mexico City, D.F.

Mexico Fires on Border Patrol

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