Expect Arizons to turn into an equivalent of the middle east

Violence against border agents at record pace – Terrorism & Security – MSNBC.com

The State Department also is warning U.S. citizens about the violence, alerting the public about “the continuing unsettled public security situation” along the border. The warning says there is “violent criminal activity fueled by a war between criminal organizations struggling for control of the lucrative narcotics trade” and that the “criminals are armed with an impressive array of weapons.”

“Make no mistake, these [criminals] are organized,” said George McCubbin, a border agent and southwest vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing border agents. “They will try and create a confrontation in one area as a diversion, knowing we’ll send agents to respond, in hopes that they can sneak through uncovered areas,” McCubbin said.

Range of violence
The violence against border agents runs the gamut from physical assaults, where a suspect actually fights with an agent, to “rockings” in which agents and their vehicles are pelted with rocks or chunks of cement blocks, to vehicles being used to try and run agents down, to shootings.

The “rockings” have gotten so violent that border patrol agents now ride in “war wagons,” vehicles that are custom fitted with steel screens, said Joe Brigman, a border patrol spokesman in the Yuma, Ariz. sector.

So where is George Bush and overlord Vicente Fox in all this?

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noted by R. Blanchette