Invasion

Can you imagine the "ZOMG Imperialist American Bullies Outrage!!!1!one!" this would have elicited if the roles had been reversed?

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist.

Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified.

It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers.

The local Border Patrol union's website characterized this sort of thing as something that "has been going on for years" and laments that the Federal Government "will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States.'"

Oh, and am I the only one who's less than impressed by the Mexican government's response to this?

Ricardo Alday, spokesman at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said Tuesday that Mexico and the United States are engaged in "an all-out struggle to deter criminal organizations from operating on both sides of our common border."

"Law enforcement operations have led, from time to time, to innocent incursions by both U.S. and Mexican law enforcement personnel and military units into the territory of both nations, and in particular along non-demarcated areas of our border," he said.

Yeah. Both U.S. and Mexican personnel. Whatever you say, Ricardo.

No need to secure that border, though.  Nope.

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