132 ATTACKS ON BORDER PATROL IN 2005. Why?

Question

15 shootings and the attacks are increasing.

" During the first half of fiscal 2005, the sector recorded 132 assaults on agents, including 15 shootings. In fiscal 2004, there were 118.


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Answer 1

Because there are heavily armed cartels that are running drugs from Mexico and South America. If the drug runners that are doing the violence don't deliver their goods, they don't get paid to run the drugs, so they shoot at the people trying to stop them.

Answer 2

I live in Arizona and its because of this that my husband and I joined the Minute Men.Thank you for this link

Joe Sampino salutes the Arizona desert sunset with a swipe at the sweat under his cowboy hat at the end of another 80-degree day. He folds his arms and squints at Mexico, about 100 yards away. It's mid-April. The former police officer from upstate New York is one of about 1,000 U.S. citizens who came to Arizona to participate in the Minuteman Project, an all-volunteer effort that set up camps along 26 miles of this border to observe and report illegal immigration.

Sampino's camp, one of about two dozen, is along Border Road, a dusty, winding, red dirt path west of Douglas, a town of 14,000 about 100 miles south of Tucson. The road cuts through one of the most heavily traversed corridors that undocumented migrants use to sneak into the United States. In this part of the endless rocky desert, the two countries are separated only by a feeble, rusting, and in some places, broken barbed-wire fence.

Sampino says he felt compelled to join the Minuteman Project although he had never done anything like it before. He believes illegal immigration is out of control.

"I don't want to be here," he says. "The only reason I'm here is because the government has refused to do the job that we asked them to do and that they're required to do under the Constitution."

James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, says U.S. citizens are going to carry out a "bloodless revolution" to seal the borders. During their monthlong stay on the border in April, Minuteman volunteers reported activity to the Border Patrol, but were not permitted by project organizers to make contact with illegal immigrants. Organizers say the effort helped the Border Patrol catch 349 border-crossers. They say their camps deterred countless others, proving that a large enough presence along the border can stop illegal activity. Thus emboldened, organizers plan to set up camp in other border states, both southern and northern.

Of the 1.1 million illegal immigrants the Border Patrol picked up in fiscal 2004, about 500,000 were caught in the Tucson Sector, the highest number on any border. That's up from 350,000 in 2003. Violent confrontations between agents and drug runners and immigrant smugglers have reached record levels. During the first half of fiscal 2005, the sector recorded 132 assaults on agents, including 15 shootings. In fiscal 2004, there were 118.

Doing the job our government wont do.

Answer 3

I understand the rate went WAY up in 2006 since the National Guard was stationed there.

Answer 4

That is not bad when you consider that thousands make it across. You had 535 shooting in New York alone in 2006. Whats the PROBLEM?

Answer 5

It's 2007 now, let it go.

Answer 6

i dunno know!!!