News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Sector rife with violence, retiring chief says

By Lynn Brezosky / Associated Press
Article Launched: 04/07/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

EDINBURG, Texas -- Rising violence against Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley is the biggest challenge facing the sector today, a retiring Border Patrol sector chief said Friday.

Rio Grande Valley sector Chief Lynne Underdown, 49, spoke to reporters after announcing her retirement following 27 years with the Border Patrol.

She recalled her alarm in December 2005 when unseen assailants on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande were shooting at agents on boat patrol, where they were at "maximum exposure."

"This is not a position you learn on," she said.

Since then, agents have repeatedly been shot at, including two incidents this year in an area of the river near Donna. No one has been injured.

The violence was a predicted outcome of more agents making more drug seizures and frustrating the cartels on the other side of the border, Underdown said.

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