Border Breaches by Mexican Government

By Douglas V. Gibbs

A recent shooting of a 15 year old illegal alien raised the question on whether or not the border patrol agent that fired his weapon crossed the border to do so, even if it was a few feet. Mexico seems overly concerned about America closing the border to illegal aliens into America, yet hold a very strict position that no American may cross into Mexico, especially if the person is a government agent.

Fact is, while expecting us to abide by their laws and wishes, Mexico has refused to abide by ours.

Mexico has, in fact, crossed the border numerous times, despite our laws saying they can't.

According to Jim Kouri of Examiner.com, Tom Fitton, president of public-interest group Judicial Watch, states that Mexico's President Calderon, after complaining about the possibility (despite the evidence to the contrary) that a border patrol agent may have crossed the Mexican border by a couple of feet, should have taken some time to explain why Mexican government officials, including members of the Mexican military, continue to flood across the border and attack U.S. Border Patrol agents.

On March 22, 2010, Fitton's group of legal experts obtained records from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) concerning Mexican government incursions and encounters along the U.S. border. The documents were incomplete and included huge gaps in the data, but nonetheless indicate an increase in the number of incursions in 2008 and 2009.
Analysis of the data by JW staff shows:

76 Mexican Government incursions from January 2008 to December 2009 (data missing from February 2009)

50 Mexican Government incursions in 2008 alone, which is double the number of incursions from the previous year

528 assaults against CBP agents from January – June 2008

11 assaults against National Guard troops from January – June 2008

By comparison, CBP statistics previously obtained revealed 25 incursions in Fiscal Year 2007. Overall, Judicial Watch has documented 226 Mexican government incursions between 1996 and 2005.

I wonder what would be Mexico's response if a flood of Americans entered Mexico, demanded the government help them settle by providing free entitlements and health care, demanded their kids be accepted in Mexico's schools with special programs specifically for Americans, and insisted that every government form also be in English? Would Mexico embrace the new "immigrants" with open arms?

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Mexican government border incursions on the rise - Examiner