Texas Lawmen-Cartel Shootout

[Alpha Mare]

The Texas Department of Public Safety is reporting a shootout occurred this morning between U.S. law enforcement and a Mexican drug cartel.

The shootout happened as a multi-agency Texas Ranger Recon Operation were attempting to interdict a large drug load along the Rio Grande, the DPS is reporting.

The incident happened in Mission, near the Chimney Park area.

Authorities said three suspected drug runners were injured in the shootout.

Among the agencies involved in the shootout were U.S. Parks and Wildlife, Texas Rangers and the U.S. Border Patrol.

Brownsville Herald

My brother lives right there, on Bryan. He called to say he won't be teasing me about not visiting any more.

[IassaFTots]

This makes me so mad I could spit.   

And people still are not concerned. Would love to see a statement from our Guv on that.   

[DLR Pyro]

This makes me so mad I could spit.   

And people still are not concerned. Would love to see a statement from our Guv on that.   

Their statment would advise Americans to stay out of the area.

[IassaFTots]

Their statment would advise Americans to stay out of the area.

That area is our state, not another country.  How bad does this crap have to get before someone does something?

[Doktor Howl]

That area is our state, not another country.  How bad does this crap have to get before someone does something?

Down here in Tucson, this isn't abnormal.  It hardly even makes the news, anymore.

[IassaFTots]

Down here in Tucson, this isn't abnormal.  It hardly even makes the news, anymore.

And that is a cryin shame. 

[thundley4]

And that is a cryin shame. 

Criminal shame is more like it.

[IassaFTots]

Criminal shame is more like it.

Well yeah, I was a bit emotional earlier.  It F#!N pisses me off.  And WHY is this not on anyone's agenda, is beyond me.  Why anyone isn't frying over this pisses me off.  Ok, I guess I am still emotional.  But, you gotta understand, I live in Texas.  At minimum, 9 hours from the border, but 5 minutes from the friggin Mexican bus station, across the street from one of many Dallas County Day Labor Centers.  Yeah, we have DLC's to keep loiters away from friggin parking lots.  What. The. Hell.  ?????

[Alpha Mare]

Our men on the border

Excellent (and lengthy) article.

"We take the threat of spillover violence very seriously,” and “we're prepared to deal with [it] in the event it occurs. There are contingency plans to respond. But we have not yet seen that violence spill over into the United States,” CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin said, reiterating what Napolitano and other DHS officials have and continue to say.

 â€œYou’ve got to be f------ kidding me … right? A remote, worst-case scenario? For the love of God, it’s already happening! Doesn’t anyone get it around here, for Christ’s sake?” roared a senior DHS official in Washington, DC on condition of anonymity because of the politically sensitive nature of the official’s position.

“For example,” McCraw said “if we were to use only index crimes as reported through the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting system, it would not include essential variables such as extortions, kidnappings, smuggling incidents, corruption, smuggling-related trespassing and vandalism, arrests of aliens from countries with strong terrorist networks, seizures of cartel drugs, weapons and bulk cash on the ten major smuggling corridors throughout Texas, cartel command and control networks operating in Texas, increases in cartel-related gang activity, death squad members living in Texas, cartel-related killings of US citizens in Mexico, cartel-related violence along the border directed at US law enforcement and the recruitment of Texas children in our border region to support cartel operations on both sides of the border.”

US intelligence and law enforcement officials told Homeland Security Today “there’s a strong case to be made” to officially declare TCOs as terrorist organizations, as one said on background – especially in light of intelligence [like has been reported by Homeland Security Today] that some of Mexico’s TCOs have established mutually beneficial relationships with Islamist jihadist groups long entrenched in Latin America.

[DLR Pyro]

Well yeah, I was a bit emotional earlier.  It F#!N pisses me off.  And WHY is this not on anyone's agenda, is beyond me.  Why anyone isn't frying over this pisses me off.  Ok, I guess I am still emotional.  But, you gotta understand, I live in Texas.  At minimum, 9 hours from the border, but 5 minutes from the friggin Mexican bus station, across the street from one of many Dallas County Day Labor Centers.  Yeah, we have DLC's to keep loiters away from friggin parking lots.  What. The. Hell.  ?????

I understand you are emotional and pissed off, but come on, the press is really, really busy enlisting private citizens to assist them as they carefully screen each and every of the 24,000 of Sarah Palin's emails that were recently released.  Surely you can't expect them to drop that serious investigation to look into a matter as trivial as a foreign force invading our Country and shooting it out with U.S. Law Enforcement on U.S. soil?

[Doktor Howl]

And that is a cryin shame. 

The Tucson/Nogales area has been a free-fire zone for 130 years.  This really isn't anything new...Except that it's drugs heading North instead of cattle heading South.

[IassaFTots]

I understand you are emotional and pissed off, but come on, the press is really, really busy enlisting private citizens to assist them as they carefully screen each and every of the 24,000 of Sarah Palin's emails that were recently released.  Surely you can't expect them to drop that serious investigation to look into a matter as trivial as a foreign force invading our Country and shooting it out with U.S. Law Enforcement on U.S. soil?

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking.