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.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Border Patrol agent stops runaway truck; 12 held

UNION-TRIBUNE

May 11, 2007

EAST COUNTY: A Border Patrol agent steered his vehicle into the path of a runaway pickup with 11 undocumented immigrants in the bed after the driver jumped out early yesterday, authorities said.

No one was injured in the collision, which was minor.

Agents tried to stop the Dodge pickup westbound on Old Highway 80 near Kitchen Creek Road, five miles east of Pine Valley, at about 5 a.m., a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said.

The driver reportedly slowed down, jumped out and ran, as did a front-seat passenger.

The driverless pickup gained speed as it crossed the center median toward oncoming traffic, until an agent maneuvered in front of the pickup and let the vehicles collide.

The front passenger and the 11 people in the pickup bed were arrested, but the driver escaped. –P.R.

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