About 600 detained in MS immigration raid Sorry, Postville -- it looks like this might be the biggest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- East LA Handyman Accused Of Massacre Of 19 In Baja Drug War EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Neighbors in East Los Angeles were surprised over the weekend to learn that the handyman next door was a suspected drug lord believed to have participated in the massacre of 19 men, women and children in a Baja California drug war 10 years ago. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group of illegal aliens rescued in desert A group of 14 illegal aliens found in distress near the Barry M. Goldwater Range in Maricopa County were rescued by Border Patrol Agents and the Maricopa Search and Rescue Team. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man Scams Illegal Immigrants CANTON, Ga. -- Cobb County Police charged an Atlanta man with bilking undocumented immigrants out of thousands of dollars. Police say he promises them drivers licenses, but leaves them high and dry at the Department of Driver Services.

Mexico has tried to stop Texas from putting a killer from Mexico to death. It does not matter that he crossed our borders and killed Americans.

President Bush ordered Texas not to carry out the will of the people and the court. The supreme court ruled that President Bush could not order Texas to comply with his orders or Mexico. Now the UN is trying to order Texas to stop the court orders to put the killer to death. Why would anyone want to save a killer and why is Mexico going to the extreames to protect this killer?

ubject: Mexican army invades U.S., holds border cop at gunpoint

MEXICAN ARMY INVADES U.S., HOLDS BORDER COP AT GUNPOINT

Tell Congress We Need a Fence.

Alert: Mexican army soldiers invaded U.S. territory and held a member of the U.S. Border Patrol at gunpoint, according to a report from the union representing the guards.

"Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years," a statement from Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council said.

"They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States,'" the group said.

The organization reported the Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent was held Sunday at gunpoint near Ajo, Ariz.

"Mexican military personnel crossed over the border and pointed rifles at him," the union said. "Backup units arrived from the Ajo Border Patrol station, and the Mexican military personnel eventually returned to Mexico."

An investigation by Judicial Watch that revealed dozens of armed incursions by Mexican soldiers and police into the U.S. during fiscal year 2007. Congress does nothing!

The report obtained by the Washington-based organization that investigates and prosecutes government corruption documented 29 confirmed incidents along the U.S.-Mexican border involving Mexican military and/or law enforcement personnel during that time.

"These documents not only show the dangerous and chaotic situation at the Mexican border, but also the complicity of some Mexican government agents in violating U.S. law," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said at the time of the report.

"The U.S. government must begin to take these incidents more seriously, publicize them and take measures to bring the crisis at our border under control," he said.

Referring to Sunday's encounter, the Border Patrol union said it was "fortunate that this incident didn't end in a very ugly gunfight."

The situation isn't altogether new, the union said.

"A few years ago the Mexican military went a step further and put a .50 calibre rifle round through the rear window of a Border Patrol agent's patrol vehicle south of Ajo. Nothing was ever done. Nobody was ever held accountable. Particularly galling is the fact that the Mexican military often pulls these stunts in Humvees donated to them by the American taxpayers (although they were apparently on foot this time)," the union said.

According to a report in the Washington Times, it was unclear exactly what the Mexican soldiers were doing inside the U.S., but the report said law enforcement authorities long have said Mexican soldiers have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers.

The National Border Patrol Council represents nonsupervisory personnel among the federal agency's estimated 16,000 agents.

Ricardo Alday of the Mexican Embassy in Washington told the Times his nation and the U.S. are pursuing "an all-out struggle to deter criminal organizations from operating on both sides of our common border.'

"Law enforcement operations have led, from time to time, to innocent incursions by both U.S. and Mexican law enforcement personnel and military units into the territory of both nations, and in particular along non-demarcated areas of our border," he told the newspaper.

But local law enforcement authorities are worried. Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. of Zapata County, Texas, founded a coalition of sheriffs demanding the U.S. and Mexican governments investigate incursions.

He said the problem needs to be solved before "someone gets killed."

On the Post's forum page, a participant said, "I'm surprised the Bush administration doesn't arrest and convict the border agents involved like they did agents [Ignacio] Ramos and [Jose] Compean. Don't worry, soon we won't have borders anyway. We'll be the North American Union, and will be nothing more than a third world oligarchy just like good 'ol Mexico."

Added another, "My brother-in-law, a very wise man, suggested years ago that we build a half-mile wide trench the length of the Mexican border with guard towers every 100 yards, fill it with all the chemical and nuclear waste we have, and then shoot anything that glows in the dark. He was right."

The Judicial Watch report for 2007 had cited earlier incidents such as one at the Fort Hancock Station in El Paso:

"[Troopers] attempted to apprehend three vehicles believed to be smuggling contraband on I-10 as the vehicles approached the border, [troopers] stated that a Mexican Military Humvee armed with a .50 caliber weapon and several soldiers were seen assisting smugglers return to Mexico Officers then noticed several armed subjects dressed in fatigue type clothing unload the contraband into the Humvee. These subjects set fire to the stalled vehicle before leaving the area." (WND)

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Mexican Military Escorting Drug Runners Across Border D.C.�s Official Response to Agents: �Keep Low Profile�

By James P. Tucker Jr.

The U.S. Border Patrol has warned agents in Arizona of incursions by Mexican soldiers �trained to escape, evade and counter-ambush,� a Washington newspaper reports.

The warning to Border Patrol agents in Tucson comes after increased sightings of what authorities described as heavily armed Mexican military units on the U.S. side of the border. The warning asks the agents to report the size, activity, location, time and equipment of any units observed.

Agents were cautioned to keep �a low profile,� to use �cover and concealment� in approaching the Mexican units, to employ �shadows and camouflage� to conceal themselves and to �stay as quiet as possible.�

Salvador Zamora, a Border Patrol spokesman, confirmed that a �military incursion� warning was given to Tucson agents.

Rafael Laveaga, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, denied that Mexican military personnel are crossing into the United States. He said some drug smugglers headed �both north and south� wear uniforms and drive military-type vehicles, and might have �confused� U.S. authorities.

�Give me a break,� said T.J. Bonner, a 27-year veteran of the Border Patrol who heads the National Border Patrol Council. �Intrusions by the Mexican military to protect drug lords happen all the time and represent a significant threat to the agents. Why else would they be in the area, firing at federal agents in the United States?� Bonner asked. �There is no other explanation.�

He also dismissed claims that Mexican troops had entered the United States by mistake. �Every country�s military has a [global positioning system] nowadays, including Mexico�s. If the border is so poorly marked, why don�t the thousands of Border Patrol agents working 24-7 along it ever seem to get lost?�

A total of 216 incursions by suspected Mexican military units have been documented since 1996�75 in California, 63 in Arizona and 78 in Texas, according to a Department of Homeland Security report.

Foreign troops crossing the U.S. border and firing upon U.S. law enforcement constitute an act of war, yet the feckless U.S. government can only issue �a warning� to its officers who patrol the 2,000 mile border with Mexico.

The reports of incursions come on the heels of legislation passed by Congress in December, which provides $2.2 billion to build 700 more miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, makes illegal immigration a felony and enables U.S. soldiers and police to enforce immigration laws.

The Mexican government has complained about the proposed border fence extension, likening it to the Berlin Wall, and has argued that illegal immigrants from Mexico must have the right to seek jobs in the United States.

However, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio Garza shot back a blunt response, saying: �There is no human right to enter another country in violation of its laws. . . . Illegal immigration is a threat to our system of laws and an affront to the millions around the world, including in Mexico, who play by the rules in seeking to come to the United States.�

Garza also dismissed the Mexican government�s claim that Americans are �anti-immigrant.� In 2005, he said, the United States issued 36,000 immigrant visas, 80,000 work visas and 940,000 visitor visas to Mexican citizens who sought to enter the United States legally. On the other hand, he said, there were over 1 million reported arrests in the United States of illegal immigrants from Mexico.

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