Mexican military incursions into U.S.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief article)

On January 15, the Daily Bulletin of Ontario, California, reported that the Border Patrol has recorded 216 incursions by Mexican military and police into the United States since 1996, including incidents of armed confrontation, where U.S. citizens and law enforcement came under fire from the uniformed Mexicans. When the Daily Bulletin's report received national attention, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff dismissed mounting congressional concerns, stating, "I think the stories are overblown." According to Chertoff, most of the incidents were innocuous events involving Mexican forces that had unintentionally strayed across our ill-defined border. Then, on January 24, another "overblown" event occurred, when Texas state and county law enforcement officials came face-to-face with men in Mexican military uniforms, armed with heavy machine guns on Humvees, escorting drug smugglers across the Rio Grande.

Hudspeth County Sheriff deputies and ...