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War at the border: the recent murder of Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar highlights the increasing border violence.(BORDER PATROL)
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When Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar went to work on January 19, he likely thought he would face a usual day, if any day can be called usual for his line of work. But he had said goodbye to his wife and children for the last time. In California's Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area at the border, near Yuma, Arizona, a drug smuggler driving a Humvee mowed down the 32-year-old father of two when he attempted to place spike strips in the road to stop the vehicle.
"There was no slowing, there was no stopping anything. The hummer was just --boom--going through," witness Julie Breinholt told the local television station. The indelible image of vehicular homicide burned into her 15-year-old daughter's brain: "I saw it just hit him and then he rolled under the truck and it just took off."
Another illegal alien. Another dead American. Another day at the border with Mexico.
An agent shot his way out of a similar showdown with another illegal alien a week after Aguilar's murder. Neither the murder nor the gun battle will be the last. Along with border incursions by Mexican soldiers and police, the murder is another example of Mexico's continuing war not just against American sovereignty but also the Americans who patrol the border.
The Border Patrol is under siege. It is undermanned and underfunded. Often, it is outgunned. No one disputes these truths, which invites the question of why the Bush administration and Congress won't help the men at the border's lonely outposts, particularly given what the government recently published on the subject.
Since 2005, when matters were bad enough, attacks on Border Patrol agents increased every year, as the Department of Homeland Security admitted in a report released in December. Most of the assaults occur at the border in California and Arizona, the agency reports, and "on the southwest border, there were 384 total assaults recorded during fiscal year 2004. Over fiscal year 2005, there were 687 attacks. ...
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- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 31, 2008 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) January 24, 2008 700+ words
...a man for the weekend killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Agent Luis Aguilar, 32, was placing spike strips in the path...struck and killed him on Saturday, according to Border Patrol authorities in Arizona. Mexican federal and...
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- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony September 1, 2009 700+ words
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