Assaults on border agents increase

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Lorraine Rivera
KVOA
December 15, 2008

The U.S. Border Patrol says agents in the Tucson Sector are seeing an increase in assaults along the border.

Last fiscal year agents were assaulted 261 times; the year before that there were 216 assaults reported. Agent Mike Scioli says the 22 percent increase is a sure sign the smugglers are frustrated by increased manpower, infrastructure and technology.

There are 3,100 agents patrolling Arizona’s 262 linear miles of border with Mexico.

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Scioli described some of the attacks, “It starts with a rock and when we talk about rocks they’re about the size of my hands. Other things range from Molotov cocktails to, it’s gross, but honestly, they’ll even throw deceased animals over in bags and then we’re talking about physical assaults out in the desert.”

Agent Mario Escalante says the smugglers become desperate.

“We’re cutting into their lucrative job. It’s such money making you can say industry because it’s so well organized,” says Escalante.

There is however some good news, so far this fiscal year, since October, the agency is a reporting only 15 assaults on agents, that’s a decline compared to the same time last year.

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December 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Why is it that we feel bad nowadays for the criminal??? There was a time when the bad guys were frowned upon and good men did all they could to stop them and put them away. For all of you out there that think because of a few bad eggs the whole lot is bad, shame on you for not learning anything from your mother and father whom I would go out on a limb to say probably didnt think like you think now. What a heartfelt disappointment you must be to them, raised as an American to respect the authorities for the job they do on your behalf, probably taught to be a patriotic individual that should be proud of his nation, educated for free by way of the freedonm bought and paid for though trial and error on the bloody battle fields of war to see to it that you were not forced to speak German or wear the balck spider on your arm whether you wanted to or not. Then you have to audacity to rant and rave because you got a bum deal one time by a couple of men who let their authority over you go to their head and you feel like you should what??? be re-embersed finacially, you should be able to what??? kill them for what they did, you should what??? be able to beat them for having offended you or robbed you, shoot man wake up and smell the BS your shoveling through your own self pity, many an American has undergone hardships through no fault of their own, but they arent on this site whining about it or looking for revenge or self pity, my heart just aches for you , poor baby, lets call mommy and have her bring us some hot cocoa to sooth our injured ego!!….

Nuff said,

Duke
roaddog Says:
December 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
This is gonna be the next step and the next distraction from the nau.The sacrifice from border agents lives will mean nothing to them. They expect it to happen and welcome the deaths. They’re nothing but pawns in the scheme of things.
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