Monday, August 18, 2014

Kids 'forced to swim Rio Grande as diversion'

In an effort to divert Border Patrol from their smuggling, Mexican drug cartels are forcing children and other illegal immigrants from Central America to swim across the Rio Grande, at the risk of drowning, rather than cross a bridge and surrender to U.S. authorities, according to a veteran Border Patrol agent. “The Rio Grande is getting more dangerous every day,” said Chris Cabrera, an agent for nearly 13 years and a vice president in the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307. Cabrera also told WND that Mexicans on the south side of the border were firing weapons now on a daily basis at Border Patrol agents patrolling the Rio Grande in boats. “U.S. law enforcement doesn’t matter to them,” he said. The intent of the gunfire isn’t necessarily to hit the agents, Cabrera explained, but to clear the area so the smugglers can run their cargo across without getting apprehended. “That seems to be happening more and more all the time,” he said. Cabrera said agents suspect .50 caliber rounds are being fired at Border Patrol on the river from Mexico...more

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