Mexico testing US border security or another accident?

[doobie]

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4A005Z20081101?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Mexican troops invade the US (again), we let them go... If they had fully automatic weapons, they should have been prosecuted in violation of the NFA. Oh yeah I forgot, agents of another government are special and don't need to follow the same laws as Subjects of the US.  If I mis-stepped into MA with my pistol, I'd be a felon.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. border police arrested seven Mexican soldiers after they accidentally strayed over the international boundary into Arizona, authorities said.

The U.S. Border Patrol said agents encountered the troops in a Humvee a short distance north of the border near Yuma, in far west Arizona, early on Friday.

"The Border Patrol agents on scene established a dialogue with the subjects, who identified themselves as members of the Mexican military," the Border Patrol said in a news release.

"The ... agents informed them of their presence within the United States. Upon notification, the subjects were peaceably taken into custody," it added.

The soldiers, who were assigned to the 23rd Regiment Motorized Cavalry of the Mexican Army, said they had become disoriented while on patrol and had accidentally crossed the international boundary, the Border Patrol said.

After relieving them of their arms, agents took the soldiers to the San Luis, Arizona, port of entry where they were processed and repatriated to Mexico, along with their weapons and vehicle.

The incursion was the second by Mexican troops in recent months.

In August, a group of four Mexican soldiers briefly held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint in a remote stretch of the Arizona desert after they mistakenly strayed north across the border.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Hey!   If ya want yer CIA agents in Mexico, ya gotta put up with the occasional military invasion of Arizona!

[Russell Kanning]

maybe they are doing more patroling and are finding more Mexican Army techila induced wanderings

[Puke]

How is a truck load of lost Mexican soldiers an invasion?

The border doesn't really exist. It would be very easy to end up on the wrong side.

[William]

"In August, a group of four Mexican soldiers briefly held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint in a remote stretch of the Arizona desert after they mistakenly strayed north across the border."

What does that tell you? That if you've got four guys with machine guns...

[doobie]

How is a truck load of lost Mexican soldiers an invasion?

The border doesn't really exist. It would be very easy to end up on the wrong side.

Same with me accidentally crossing over into MA with my pistol, still makes me a felon even if I didn't know.

[Puke]

Same with me accidentally crossing over into MA with my pistol, still makes me a felon even if I didn't know.

True, but it doesn't make it right in either circumstance.

[Josh]

Good thing they were Mexican soldiers. Were they U.S. citizens they'd be dead.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

Mexican troops invade the US (again), we let them go...

I didn't detain them, so I didn't let them go.

If they had fully automatic weapons, they should have been prosecuted in violation of the NFA. Oh yeah I forgot, agents of another government are special and don't need to follow the same laws as Subjects of the US.

Why should they be prosecuted? Who did they hurt by taking a car ride?

If I mis-stepped into MA with my pistol, I'd be a felon.

Yeah, that's sick. All the more reason to secede! Maybe those damned Americans will put up a fence and protect your from their tyranny.