EAGLE PASS, TX — Sunday morning at 9:55 a.m., a U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned to the Eagle Pass station shot a subject, according to a statement from the Customs and Border Patrol.
Border Patrol agents guard the Texas-Mexico border at several locations in southwest Texas, including the Eagle Pass and Del Rio, the headquarters for the Del Rio Sector.
According to CPB, the Border Patrol agent was assaulted by the subject while the agent was attempting to arrest him. The incident happened near the Rio Grande, the river that divides the two nations.
The injured suspect was transported to a San Antonio hospital for treatment, CBP said. No details of the subject’s name or current medical condition were released.
CPB said the FBI, the DHS Office of the Inspector General and CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility are investigating.
The Border Patrol Agent used his CBP-issued service weapon in the shooting, the spokesman stated.
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If this “subject” is a illegal alien (Mexican National in SA live speak) they need to be treated in Mexico. Or if its more our half of the border that the shooting occured then treat them at the closest hopsital ever to the incident. All that is gonna happen now is he will get treated, bond out or escape, disappear into San Antonio, and YIPPIE! Another violent surprise from down south who will get benefits , the right to vote democrat , do more violence , and spawn more anchor babies. REPEAT WITH ME KIDDOS ...
BUILD
THAT
WALL
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PermalinkAt least on the Rio Grande. Now before you explode, I'm very much in favor of air-tight border security. We do need to have absolute control over who crosses into the USA, and I'm really not sure why some Honduran immigrant getting shot while assaulting a CPB agent is even a news story.
But, I suggest that all the wall proponents take a very close look at the Rio Grande from the Gulf to El Paso on Google Earth. Not exactly, or even close to a straight line. As the crow flies it is 677 miles from Brownsville to El Paso, 833 miles by road, but the total length of the river is 1248 miles.
Obviously, the most cost-efficient wall would be as straight as possible, but thousands of landowners would be deprived of many more thousands of acres of pasture, farmland or commercial hunting land. Do you think farmers and ranchers are going to take that sitting down? I doubt it.
Then there is the environmental impact, the totality of which would require studies that would take decades to complete. And I'm not sure an effective wall for deterring immigration that has nominal impact on wildlife is even feasible.
Out on the western Texas river, in and around the Big Bend area, much of the river has a natural, almost impenetrable wall. Vertical cliffs in excess of 1000' are not uncommon in that area, I've kayaked most of it. Do you and the other "Wally's" propose to build a 20' wall on top of one of those? Sounds a little absurd, doesn't it.
It's very easy to just chant "build that wall", but the reality is that it will, in all likelihood, never be built from the Pacific to the Gulf. It seems much more feasible to build it from the Pacific to El Paso, but the tunneling technology in use now to smuggle people and drugs would require an incredibly expensive seismic detection system to ferret them out. Over, under, around or through, they'll get across regardless of what we build. Increase enforcement manpower, increase monitoring technology, and we'll catch more illegal entrants.
The bigger question is, what can we do to reduce their desire to come here? That's the real dilemma.....
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PermalinkThe San Angelo Wing will soon respond!
"Open Borders or Die, Beto Lives"
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PermalinkLet's wait for the investigation to terminate. We all saw what jumping the gun got us when the Border Patrol agent died near Van Horn.
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