Below are some newsbits I located recently. Old, but (pardon the pun) newsworthy.

I did look in more recent news. Sadly, the illegal immigrants who went into the Arizona ranch were awarded the ranch in court - over the ownership of the legal American who owned it. Oh, he hit one of the illegals, apparently. Lucky break. Someone breaks into my house, I won't hit him, I'll shoot him.

So I looked for 2008 news regarding the border. And it's even worse than in 2006. And I have found where just this past August, of 2008, Mexican soldiers took an American Border Patrol officer into custody - ON AMERICAN SOIL! Although they crossed a barbed-wire fence and other border material, they claim they were lost and State Department and our 'border czar' W. Ralph Basham bought it. In fact, the Oct 14, 2008, Washington Post article titled "Mexican soldiers crossed clear line", they write: Mr. Basham, who oversees the Border Patrol, said that while most incursions into the United States by Mexican military or law enforcement authorities take place in remote areas where the international border is poorly marked, "that was not the case in this particular incident." But, there are no repercussions to the soldiers, the commanders (wasn't someone looking for these lost soldiers?), or to their government? The article continues,

He also described the tactics used against the agent, including the pointing of automatic rifles at him, as "unacceptable," adding that the incident had been "thoroughly documented by the Department of Homeland Security." He said the matter has since been sent to the State Department "with a request for diplomatic action."

At the time of the incident, the State Department described the incursion as a misunderstanding, saying the Mexican soldiers did not know where they were and needed to make certain that the detained agent was who he said he was. It was the same general statement the department had made in dozens of other suspected incursions by members of the Mexican military. (read: the State Department is doing what they always do to protect the citizens of America - NOTHING)

Excuse me? Did you see that, too? "In most incursions..."???? So this isn't an isolated case? Now anyone wonder why gun sales are up? The Mexicans are testing our borders... And the Obamination is wanting to make nice with their president. Ha! After a little more research, I found out that between Oct. 2007 and Oct. 2008, there were 42 reported incursions by uniformed Mexican soldiers and/or police. Reported. I'm feeling just a little uneasy about that.

Please don't misunderstand - I am not anti-Mexican, or anti-foreigner, anything like that. I AM pro-American, and believe our laws, including those of our sovereignty, should be enforced. That is all. Pretty simple, really.

Border News

"These people [mexican narco-terrorists] pretty much have taken control of the border and they're expanding it to New Mexico and Arizona. They want to take control of the whole border, and they pretty much have control right now." -Sheriff Rick Flores, Webb County (Laredo) Texas, 4 April 2006
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Commenting on the barrage of gunfire coming at deputies from across the Rio Grande in July 2006: "This is one of the reasons that I do not allow my deputies to patrol the riverbanks or levies close to the river, because we do know there are drug gangs and human trafficking gangs that will not hesitate to shoot in our direction to get us out of the area." - Sheriff Lupe Treviño, Hidalgo County , Texas, 17 July 2006
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"The weapons we possess are like water guns compared to what they have... It's not just illegal immigrants. Something more frightening is happening." - Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzales, Zapata County, Texas, 26 July 2006
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"If the criminal aliens can put 400,000 unarmed protestors on the streets of Phoenix to DEMAND that we Citizens give them our respect, then they can certainly put 40,000 armed rioters on the streets when the Citizens tell them all to go to Hell." -"Argonaut", Former National Coordinator for Border Rescue

Automatic weapons fire from mexico, Texas Deputies fired upon by narco- terrorists - KRGV TV, 12 July 2006

Uniformed narco-terrorists kidnap and murder private citizens on the Rio Grande, Hidalgo County Sheriff's Deputies pinned down by automatic weapons fire from across the Rio Grande (video)

Cross-Border Military Incursion in Texas - KFOX TV, 31 January 2006: Armed, uniformed foreign troops cross the Rio Grande near El Paso, caught on videotape

Terrorists from mexico land a military helicopter on US ranch
- Arizona Republic, 3 February 2006

Heavily-armed, uniformed, masked bandits invade small Arizona ranch