Border patrol agent killed- More violence from Mexico spillsover

[Yankeefan2009]

More Americans are getting killed and Obama couldn't care less:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/border-patr...ry?id=12401948

A member of an elite U.S. Border Patrol tactical team was shot and killed Tuesday night reportedly during a violent gun battle in a remote Arizona canyon just north of the U.S. border with Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.

Agent Brian Terry, 40, was in pursuit of bandits who prey on illegal immigrants and drug smugglers as they try to enter the U.S. when his team encountered a group of suspects, some of whom opened fire.

"They said he shot one of them, and then one came up behind him and shot him in the back with an AK-47," the agent's stepmother Carolyn Terry told ABC News, relating what she was told by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

"Brian was still able to call for assistance, and the helicopter was there within minutes and they life-flighted him," she said. "The chaplain told me he died en route, but we don't know."

National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner said Terry encountered the bandits with three other agents when the gunfight began.

"We can't believe it," said an emotional Terry. "He was coming back for Christmas on Friday. He had his ticket bought and everything."

Officials have detained four suspects in conjunction with the shooting and are still pursuing a fifth, CBP said in a statement. Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement officers have been fanning out across the area with K9 teams to track down the suspect.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the Terry family for their tragic loss," said CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin. "Our commitment to Agent Terry and his family is that we will do everything possible to bring to justice those responsible for this despicable act."

The incident occurred in an area known as Peck Canyon by Rio Rico, Ariz., which is north of Nogales and south of Tucson, along

Interstate 19.

The corridor is known as a funnel for illicit flows of immigrants, drugs and weapons. And as border security has tightened, officials say, the area has become more dangerous and rife with bandits.

"These are just common thugs, they really have no sense of morals," Bonner said of the bandits. "Illegal aliens who are coming across are carrying their life savings with them...and so these bandits are well aware of that and they take advantage of that."

Gary Gay, former mayor of Patagonia, Ariz., said that the rugged, dark canyon area has provided cover for the bandits to act. "Sometimes they even steal the dope right off the mules before they can get it up to Tucson," he said.

[Yankeefan2009]

Good thing Obummer and his cronies filed a suit against SB1070. No doubt that they want to keep Americans from protecting themselves from the Mexican filth that is invading this country every day.

[BorderBob]

Good thing Obummer and his cronies filed a suit against SB1070. No doubt that they want to keep Americans from protecting themselves from the Mexican filth that is invading this country every day.

You are such an ignoramous! What exactly do you think Agent Terry was doing in Peck Canyon last night but hunting the bandits that prey on illegals and the citizens that live in that desert. He gave his life doing the job that you claim this government is not doing.

Show some respect. Offer your prayers for his family and for the rest of the dedicated men and women going out alone each night. Let him be buried at least before you serve up your xenophobic, uninformed crap!

Rest easy Agent Terry, we will take it from here.


b.b.

[PickOranges]

The Mexicans get most of their arms from US dealers. Just like they do in our cities.

I said it before.. There are no gun factories in the inner cities or in Mexico that sell any guns that act on this violence. They are the only ones that "BUY AMERICAN" from our gun dealers

US export more arms than any other country both legal and illegally.

Who do you think owns the planes and have the pilot licenses? Who owns the ships and are longshoremen that bring the drugs to fill our youth's addictions ? I don't think it is that black guy on Fillmore Ave..

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/26borders.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/200...?ref=smuggling

Our biggest threat is ourselves..

[run4it]

The Mexicans get most of their arms from US dealers. Just like they do in our cities.

I said it before.. There are no gun factories in the inner cities or in Mexico that sell any guns that act on this violence. They are the only ones that "BUY AMERICAN" from our gun dealers

US export more arms than any other country both legal and illegally.

Who do you think owns the planes and have the pilot licenses? Who owns the ships and are longshoremen that bring the drugs to fill our youth's addictions ? I don't think it is that black guy on Fillmore Ave..

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/26borders.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/200...?ref=smuggling

Our biggest threat is ourselves..

We have a Winnah!

Dry up the demand and the supply will go away.

Oh yeah, and what BB said too. The more you try to supress and criminalize, the more violent it will get (see: drug war, prohibition, &etc). I'm not saying we shouldn't enforce immigration law, but there needs to be firm, fair, just, and easily understandble immigration policy; and most importantly we need to ensure equal enforcement of and protection for ALL parties.

[Save Us]

We have a Winnah!

Dry up the demand and the supply will go away.

Oh yeah, and what BB said too. The more you try to supress and criminalize, the more violent it will get (see: drug war, prohibition, &etc). I'm not saying we shouldn't enforce immigration law, but there needs to be firm, fair, just, and easily understandble immigration policy; and most importantly we need to ensure equal enforcement of and protection for ALL parties.

Maybe except that I don't think that they have that same problem in the caning land of Singapore..

You break the law....you die.

Eventually you naturally select for intelligence... that action X begets consequence Y.

Yeah I know it's oversimplification.

[Yankeefan2009]

ODD you haven't heard a PEEP from Obama about this because it would damage his amnesty agenda.

Obama would rather comment about a white cop arresting a black man than the death of an honorable agent. Disgusting!!!

Rumour has it that these agents were carrying beanbag rounds, which if true, is absolutely dispicable.

RIP agent Terry

[Yankeefan2009]

Enough is enough. SHUT THAT BORDER DOWN.How many more BP agents are we going to lose before this Government stops playing the PCness game? The U.S. Government needs to learn from the Israeli's in the way they handle the border problem in their country. In every border state build small military bases.Name these bases after fallen BP agents. If the country can send BILLIONS over seas,then by GOD they can build these bases to protect our country,not only from ILLEGAL ALIENS but drug runners and terrorists.

[Yankeefan2009]

You are such an ignoramous! What exactly do you think Agent Terry was doing in Peck Canyon last night but hunting the bandits that prey on illegals and the citizens that live in that desert. He gave his life doing the job that you claim this government is not doing.

Bandits ARE illegal immigrants. That's why we call them bandits and not thieves or robbers. The criminal alien that was wounded in the shooting, who was in the country illegally after having been removed at least twice before, also has priors for agg assault LEO.

God damn Liberal idiot.

[Save Us]

Bandits ARE illegal immigrants. That's why we call them bandits and not thieves or robbers. The criminal alien that was wounded in the shooting, who was in the country illegally after having been removed at least twice before, also has priors for agg assault LEO.

God damn Liberal idiot.

Southern Border security is not a top priority for the US in my opinion.

If it were there would be no issue.

[Rhiannon]

Bandits ARE illegal immigrants. That's why we call them bandits and not thieves or robbers. The criminal alien that was wounded in the shooting, who was in the country illegally after having been removed at least twice before, also has priors for agg assault LEO.

God damn Liberal idiot.

If they are stealing the Mexican illegals life savings what good is it going to do them here? They are taking it back to Mexico most likely. Or sending it home to Mamma..who probably runs a meth lab. Makes no sense to think they arent illegals too. Shut the border down! Shoot them if they dont come through the legal checkpoints and border crossings. This is a travesty.