Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R) has described a recent and disturbing event that took place down at the U.S.-Mexico border, where the Senator says the Mexican military “drew their guns” on a U.S. border patrol agent.
Anyone thinking that such an incursion, or the dozens more that have occurred over the years, are mere accidents, is only fooling themselves.Here is how the whole incident went down:
A Border Patrol agent went to the scene after two individuals were spotted crossing the U.S. border. The agent found them 50 yards north of the border and “positively identified two subjects looking like Mexican Military.”
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When the agent made contact, both the agent and the two individuals drew their weapons — they were carrying “G3, 7.62 caliber battle rifles.”
The two explained to the U.S. agent that they were pursuing three subjects in the area. Yet the U.S. agent noticed that the names they gave “did not match the name-tapes on their military uniforms.” The individuals returned to Mexico after more CBP personnel made their way to the scene.-Fox News
When the U.S. agent identified himself, and the two individuals identified themselves as part of the Mexican military’s 80th Battalion, the situation “apparently cooled off.”
Buzzfeed, which first reported the incident, gives a descriptive accounting of the incident
Mexico positions its military along the border, why shouldn’t the U.S.?