September 23, 2009   Current Site Visitors -> web tracker

Shoot 'em up at the San Ysidro POE
What Was So Important to the Coyotes?
Rick Oltman -- CAPS -- September 23
Shooting victim about to be transported
     What was so important that there had to be a shoot 'em up at the San Ysidro check point on Tuesday?
    Did the smugglers actually think that by running the port of entry with three vans that one would actually get through? Did they expect that even one vehicle would make it far enough to disgorge its illegal alien cargo in an era of border cams, pursuit vehicles and helicopters? Three cowboys went off the hook and decided to give it a shot?
    As clichéd as the saying is, think outside the box for a moment.
    Call them criminals, call them brazen, but don't ever call smugglers stupid. Their extraordinary success rate of accomplishing approximately 4 million illegal entries a year along our southern border should dispel any notion of their incompetence.
    So, the question I asked myself the second I heard the news report was, "Why the big diversion?"
    Three vans, 74 people, careening vehicles, shots fired, agents scrambling, injuries. Sounds like a massive diversion to me, requiring everybody on the shift to respond to the scene.... Read More...
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