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-Land of the Free
War Breaks Out on Border: USA Chopper Struck by Gunfire from Mexico
2015-06-06
[Breitbart] Breitbart Texas has learned that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter was shot down or forced to initiate an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas due to receiving gunfire from the Mexican side of the border. The helicopter was interdicting a narcotics load and working alongside agents from the U.S. Border Patrol, who operate under the umbrella of the CBP. The helicopter was operating in the Laredo Sector of Texas, immediately across the border from the Los Zetas cartel headquarters of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Stock photo, not identified as the aircraft from the incident.
The helicopter was in U.S. airspace and participating in the interdiction of a narcotics load coming from Mexico into the United States.

A federal agent who spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity said, "U.S. Border Patrol agents were attempting to intercept a drug load. A law enforcement chopper was assisting Border Patrol agents. The chopper received gunfire from the Mexican side of the border. The chopper had to do an emergency landing due to the gunfire."

Border Patrol agent and National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 President Hector Garza confirmed that he received unofficial reports on this matter that indicate the information provided to Breitbart Texas by the unnamed federal agent is accurate.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Update from FOX, from CBP.

Not much new, but 5 rounds.
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-06-06 20:05  

#3  I wouldn't mind a squadron of Apache Helicopters roaming the Rio Grande.

It is a target rich environment and think of the useful training it would give our Army Aviation guys before they go to the main events in the middle east.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2015-06-06 11:46  

#2  Need to upgrade the attending NEWS choppers...
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-06-06 05:11  

#1  Border Patrol agent and National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 President Hector Garza confirmed

....and the American public receives a confirmation of the incident from a Union Steward. We are just so buggered.

Obviously the borders need to be closed due to the illegal traffic, both drugs and people. I doubt any action will be taken however. Drugs have become a staple of urban commerce. Illegal immigrants are replacement democratic voters. Look for more, not less.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-06-06 04:50  

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