Illegal Aliens Try to Shoot Their Way Into This Country

[Stephen Frank]

Who said illegal aliens are decent, law abiding people? Jerry Brown, Boxer, Obama and the other apologists for law breakers.

Wonder what they said about the gun fight started by the illegal aliens yesterday, hire them to cut meat, paint fences?

Illegal aliens are criminals, no matter how nice they smile, period.

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[ilbegone]

Steve,

Read past the attention grabbing headline.

Three vans full of 70 illegals tried to crash through the port of entry, drawing fire from American ICE and CBP personnel. No mention of illegals firing weapons.

There was no "gunfight"

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San Ysidro border entry point closed after gunfight
September 22, 2009 | 6:41 pm
U.S. authorities have closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry on the border with Mexico after a gunfight there early Tuesday.

San Ysidro is the nation's busiest border crossing. Roughly 40,000 vehicles cross there daily from Mexico.

Three vans loaded with suspected illegal immigrants tried to speed through the crossing Tuesday afternoon, drawing gunfire from at least two U.S. agents, authorities said.

Three people in the vans and a traveler in a nearby car were injured in the failed attempt to cross into San Diego from Tijuana. About 70 people inside the vehicles were taken into custody, according to authorities.

Smugglers on occasion attempt to run the port of entry but rarely in such an apparently coordinated fashion. Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection fired their weapons at the vehicles, authorities said.

-- Richard Marosi

[AyatollahGondola]

Steve,

Read past the attention grabbing headline.

Three vans full of 70 illegals tried to crash through the port of entry, drawing fire from American ICE and CBP personnel. No mention of illegals firing weapons.

There was no "gunfight"

I realy don't know how you'd classify this one. when one side uses firearms, and the other uses automobiles. Cars kill more people than firearms in general terms I think

[ilbegone]

I realy don't know how you'd classify this one. when one side uses firearms, and the other uses automobiles. Cars kill more people than firearms in general terms I think

True. A lot more people are killed in car accidents than plane crashes, but that knowledge doesn't comfort those who are afraid to fly. People are much more afraid of automatic weapons than they are criminally reckless behavior with potential mass carnage involving vehicles.

There's always the the old saying about bringing a knife to a gunfight, or pondering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Or martial law in Arizona based on unrelated incidents of an unarmed Arizona Guardsman in Kingman standing on a corner wearing an orange vest and a 5 minute video of a couple of circling gunships across the freeway in a less densely populated area of Arizona.

If you are going to have a cause, you need some credibility. You don't blow whatever presence you may have in an uphill fight by representing a coordinated gate crashing as a full blown terrorist assault involving firearms, only because of a failure to read beyond the headline.

Otherwise, you look like an A**hole, and no one listens.

[AyatollahGondola]

That's true, but then again, we are getting our version of this from media sources that have been generally biased in their display of the facts

[ilbegone]

Sure, the media is very biased. But I don't personally know an eye witness of the incident either, and I don't believe there would be enough of a motive for the media to substantially change the incident from a full blown firefight to a gate crashing with two agents firing at the vehicles. The incident as described is similar to a police officer firing at a driver who attempts to run the officer over.

Sensation sells. If there was a firefight, there would be mention of it in the article. It would have been all over Tv. It couldn't have been covered up, not in what is perhaps the busiest border crossing on the border.

The headline itself is either a unwitting error in accuracy (Editor didn't READ the print) or an exaggeration to draw attention.

To run with that headline degrades credibility and is representative of subjective prejudice.

[ilbegone]

Bumping up.

[joazinha]

The border war is starting to get TOO real!

[ilbegone]

This is the last post I'll make on this particular thread.

Here is an article which has more detail on the incident: http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=11179439


Please note:

When the agent stepped back into the booth to run the license, all three vans drove quickly into the U.S. side.

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a Customs and Border Patrol agent fired shots across nine lines to try to stop the vans, he said. There was no return fire.

The Article with an update tacked to the front.

Two drivers arrested after border crossing shootout

SAN DIEGO (AP) - San Diego police have arrested two of the three drivers who tried to storm their immigrant-filled vans past border inspectors. The driver of a third van has fled to Mexico.

Police say the two unidentified drivers are in federal custody, along with 74 people who were inside the three vans.

Police say federal agents on Tuesday afternoon shot and wounded the 31-year-old male driver of one van and a 42-year-old male occupant when the vehicles tried to cross at the San Ysidro port of entry connecting San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.

Authorities say one of the vans then smashed into a truck, injuring a 37-year-old male van passenger in the head.
A 30-year-old passenger in the truck was treated at a hospital after complaints of pain.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.


SAN DIEGO (AP) - U.S. authorities shut down the nation's busiest border crossing for about four hours Tuesday afternoon after federal agents fired shots at three vans filled with illegal immigrants whose drivers tried to storm past inspectors, officials said.

Three people were shot and injured in the vans crammed with dozens of illegal immigrants, authorities said, and one of the vans smashed into another vehicle as it tried to bypass border inspectors, injuring a fourth person.

One person who was injured remained in critical condition Tuesday night, authorities said. The others were expected to recover. The 74 people who were inside the vans were taken into federal custody.

San Diego police spokesman Lt. Kevin Rooney said the van drivers tried to storm past inspectors at the San Ysidro port of entry and enter the U.S. without stopping.

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a Customs and Border Patrol agent fired shots across nine lines to try to stop the vans, he said. There was no return fire.

"It was human smuggling, definitely," ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack said.
The San Ysidro port of entry connects San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. About 40,000 vehicles cross into the U.S. at the port each day, and it has 24 northbound lanes.

Those lanes were closed after the 3:30 p.m. incident, causing a rush-hour traffic jam as drivers on the Tijuana side were turned back.
Motorists were told to make their way through Tijuana's crowded streets to San Diego's only other border crossing at Otay Mesa, about five miles to the east.

Eight northbound lanes were eventually reopened around 7:30 p.m.
Rooney said the three vans pulled into the same lane, and the first driver gave his license to a border agent.

When the agent stepped back into the booth to run the license, all three vans drove quickly into the U.S. side.

"They got caught in traffic, and the last one tried to back up. The other two drove wildly looking for an open space to drive through," Rooney said. "That's when they encountered the three agents, who all ended up firing from different vantage points."

The San Diego Police Department's Homicide Unit will investigate the shooting.

[joazinha]

Even though there was NO return fire on the part of the illegals, these criminal foreign invaders are STILL guilty!