Badlands: Fox News exposes blatant attacks on border lawmen by gangs and traffickers

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Fox News: Report reveals ‘disturbing trend’ of brazen attacks against border security by gangs, drug and human traffickershttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/3...sturbing-trend-brazen-attacks-against-border/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/3...sturbing-trend-brazen-attacks-against-border/

EXCLUSIVE: A game warden hit in the head with a rock while trying to seize a raft. Police officers wounded in an hours-long standoff with a gang member wanted for murder. Criminals spewing obscenities and death threats at local cops before asking for – and receiving – medical treatment.

And that was just last week.

A weekly report distributed by a Texas state agency to senior law enforcement officials paints a grim picture of the Mexican border, where authorities regularly confront illegal immigrant gang members and draw automatic gunfire from across the Rio Grande, and where local, state and federal authorities fight a never-ending battle against drug smugglers.

The most recent Border Operations Sector Assessment report compiled by the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Border Security Operations Center, dated July 25 and obtained by FoxNews.com, details local and federal authorities encountering smugglers carrying millions of dollars’ worth of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine, some of which was found in vehicles filled with biblical passages and religious items; federal agents being assaulted and shot at; gang members brazenly approaching people in their homes; and ranch workers witnessing men crossing into the U.S. wearing camouflage and carrying long guns and automatic weapons.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REPORT

The most disturbing fact for me was that, in the week of July 16-23 -- seven days -- Border Patrol officers and other law enforcement agencies apprehended 6,028 would-be illegals, and 4,152 of them were not from Mexico. Most were from Central American countries, but there were also Russians, Moroccans, Chinese, Cubans and Indians, as well as many from other nations.

In addition, authorities seized $478,879 in U.S. currency, confiscated over seven tons of pot with a street value of nearly $6.4 million, and also took more than a million dollars’ worth of cocaine and methamphetamine off the arrestees.

One week. Just one week. And no one wants to secure the border.

 

[Gina B]

So they each had an average of only $79.44 cash on them to live off? Interesting.

OTOH, if the U.S. keeps the profits, that's quite a good haul at 7 1/2 mil per week seized. They could set up some decent border control with that. Sell the marijuana to Colorado and legalized states, the cocaine to hospitals, etc.. Make it work.

 

[exscentric]

Come on its about the kids!:BangHead:

Gov Perry had a comment of the thousands of murderers and rapists that have been through Texas jails.

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

So they each had an average of only $79.44 cash on them to live off? Interesting.

More likely most of them had none, and a few -- the gang members, drug traffickers and common criminals -- had thousands each. I'm guessing, but the vast majority of the illegals coming across the border have little more than the clothes on their backs and the address of their nearest U.S.-resident friend or relative.