Fleeing Vehicle Kills Border Patrol Agent

Agent Was Trying To Stop A Vehicle That Had Illegally Entered The Country From Mexico

(CBS/AP)  A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed Saturday when he was struck by a fleeing vehicle along the border in southeastern California, agency officials said.

The agent was trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the country from Mexico when he was hit, said agent Eric Anderson, a spokesman for the agency's Yuma sector. The incident happened in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area about 20 miles west of Yuma at about 9 a.m.

Details of the incident are still under investigation and Anderson said the agent's name was being withheld until relatives were notified.

"Mexican authorities are using every means at their disposal to arrest the people responsible" for the slaying, Mexico's Foreign Relations department said in a statement.

"I am outraged by this tragic loss," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a statement. "I have spoken to the Mexican ambassador who gives me both his condolences and deep assurance that their government will be resolute in tracking down the perpetrators, and bringing them to swift justice."

"The agent attempted to impede their progress," Anderson said. "We don't really know what happened then - he was either struck or run over by the vehicle, which resulted in the loss of one of our agent's lives."

Witnesses told the Yuma Sun newspaper that agents were chasing a Hummer and a Ford pickup on Interstate 8 when the vehicles turned into the dunes and fled toward Mexico. The agent was trying to place spike strips in their path and was struck by the Hummer.

The Imperial Sand Dunes are the largest dunes in California, extending north of the border for 40 miles and averaging five miles wide.

The area is popular with off-road vehicle enthusiasts but also is frequently used by smugglers trying to bring people or drugs into the country from Mexico.

[mdk2dude]

Please send a copy of this to that dummy I voted for president Mr. Bush. He puts our border agents who are protecting us with thier lives and allows scum from Mexico to get away with murder. Please send it with my request to release those poor border patrol agents that were just doing thier job and are now in jail.

[incog-nito]

Nancy_Naive: Why don''t you direct your rant against George Bush, the "amnesty" president?

[jody1641]

With voters voting for canidates that are pro-path to citizenship, we''ll only have more of this. South Carolina just gave the go-ahead to McCain. I find it intolerable to have to vote for anyone who does not take the border seriously. Listen up MCCain whoever told you that "most americans" believe that we want a path to citizenship is wrong. We WANT a fence!!! How about giving live ammo to border agents. Won''t take long and the problem will not be over-whelming to our border patrol. Or maybe criminals will start using the argument for breaking into someones house as a defense. If nothing happens to those breaking our laws then surely the laws shouldn''t affect them either. Before you vote look at their stance on immigration!!.WQAD.com had a great poll to help you select a canidate based on your beliefs, check it out.

[ontheleft]

The enforcement of the immigration laws is a joke. The businesses want the workers here and the politicians are looking the other way. We might as well build a immigration superhighway from Mexico to every corner of the U.S. and just bus them in by the millions.

[luigi999-2009]

Get the fence built NOW! And while they''re at it add a moat for good measure!

[ssm9451]

We need to start lying down land mines on all our borders!!

[cbsblogger]

You would think that out of the many millions of us that feel the same frustration that Lou Dobbs because of the inaction of our government on illegal immigration, that we could scrape together a million or so to march on the capital and get them thinking that we really are sick and tired of their inability to do their job. It would have been fixed if we didn%u2019t have a bunch of incompetent empty suits such as G.W. Bush, Chertoff and pro amnesty gang in Congress such as McCain, Kennedy, Pelosi, Lindsey Graham.

[swwils]

This border deal is becoming way out of hand,and it is being shuffled around and nothing is being done.That was the reasoning behind making the Homeland Security I thought.

[nodemotwit]

[nodemotwit]

UFGDB. We are so ill served by the current political scum on both sides, Repubs and Dems. We can drop at Tril $ on Iraq but can%u2019t spend a few hundred Bil to build an Israeli-style security wall (forget the %u201Cfence%u201D) on our southern border, or properly staff and arm our Border Patrol. We need a statesman or a stateswoman running this country, not a politician, and the latter is all I see on the horizon. We are so hosed. Illegal aliens are a problem, yes, but drug runners and the crime they bring to both sides of the border are as big if not bigger problem. Build the wall. The drug runners will be forced to fly it in and their un-registered flights north will be more visible on more modern radar. Let the F16%u2019s on airline-hijacked-by-terrorist standby shoot them down for practice. And it will also become too expensive for the illegals that are the grist of the coyote trade. Harshly prosecute the US business that employ illegals. Give a selected number on non-American [who do not want to be Americans, who have no intention of ever becoming Americans, who call "gringos" prejudiced (but, strangely, Viva La Raza! is OK...)] work permits and let them enter legally and work legally.

[standlee5]

How long are we going to put up with this. We want action and we want it now. Congress WAKE-UP and do your damm job. We have drug runners, gun smugglers, slave traders, gangs lords freely moving over the border and the poor border patrol is outnumbered with no help at all from this lame azzz govt.

[standlee5]

The blood of this man is on the hands of all the lame azz congress who are too PC to get tough on illegal immigration. Stop this invasion NOW.

[standlee5]

"Mexican authorities are using every means at their disposal to arrest the people responsible" for the slaying, Mexico''s Foreign Relations department said in a statement


I''d be laughing if I wasn''t furious and outraged.

[standlee5]

Stop this invasion NOW then DEPORT

[brianbwb-2009]

The agent got hit by a hummer? A HUMMER?

That was some big money involved, these weren''t just your everyday migrant workers.

Because of this, expect that neither the US or Mexico will bring the owners of the vehichle to justice.

[piercetheval]

LO SIENTO, SENORS AND SENORAS, MI NO SABRE NADA, MI NO QUEIRO SABRE NADA. QUE ORA ES?? answer: It''s time to build a great wall of califarizonewmexas across the southwest once and for all. We could mak it a WPA program [as we will surely see that return] as for something for the millions of destitute Americans to do after the economy finally tanks this year.

[cowboy1942]

Another tragedy due to illegals! If this brave agent, who was doing his job, had survived,the liberals probably would have tried to arrest him for obstructing traffic or some other ridiculous charge! Hopefully, our government will care for this agent''s family,since he gave his life while protecting our country!

[me4usa]

NEVER THOUGHT THE FENCE WAS THE WAY TO GO
I WAS WRONG
this wont get any better till we have one

[stevesemper]

TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, WILL YOU BUILD THAT FENCE? WHAT ON EARTH IS YOUR PROBLEM ? YOU HAVE THE DUTY TO PROTECT AMERICA, WHAT ON EARTH IS IT GOING TO TAKE FOR YOU TO DO THIS? STOP THE ANCHOR BABY DROP TO CITIZEN SHIP, GET THESE ILLEGAL BLOOD SUCKERS OFF THE AMERICAN SOCIAL SYSTEM. YOU ARE KILLING AMERICA, GET OFF YOUR REAR END AND ENFORCE THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY. PUT THE MARINES ON THE BORDERS WITH ORDERS TO SHOOT. STOP THIS EVIL CALLED THE UNDOCUMENTED. SEMPER FI STEVE.

[Krazcarl]

Untill the Mexican goverment takes care od it''s citizens this will not end a fence will drive them to boats for you know it they will parachute in dig more tunnels we found a few of them. Illegal imagration is big business in Mexico and remember the great wall of China didn''t prevent invasion if you think spending millions of dollars on a fence will keep them out your wrong. Just fine and confiscate the property of those that hire illegals it will go away overnight the solution is simple.

[uscitizenvet]

Build the fence with plenty of razor wire. Install thermal imaging detection with remote viewing cameras and when unauthorized entry is detected, dispatch a team of officers and then SHOOT TO KILL !

[krotec54]

Tom Tancredo should get back in and run for Presidential candidate.
He will build the Fence and will give no "amnesty" for illegal workers.

[truthspeake2]

I say lets build a 700 mile moat and put alligators in it...

[hungry1968]

Another tragedy due to illegals! If this brave agent, who was doing his job, had survived,the liberals probably would have tried to arrest him for obstructing traffic or some other ridiculous charge!

Posted by cowboy1942 at 07:27 AM : Jan 20, 2008





You must be referring to the two agents that the CONSERVATIVES have left rotting in prison because they shot the drug dealer smuggling drugs and guns across the Mexican border.

Right?

You''re implying that the "liberal" state of Texas, and the "liberal" Bush regime, are not responsible for NOT recusing these two agents that were doing their jobs, and it''s the fault of the "liberals" that they''re still in jail, right?

Amazing how blinded you GOP, swastika wearing, neo conservatives view the world through your rose colored glasses.

[hungry1968]

There is already a fence in many places that is poorly maintained. Until Republicans are required to Hire Americans First No fence will stop illegal immigration.

Posted by beecuster at 08:12 AM : Jan 20, 2008




That''s why Bush wanted the "Illegal Alien Amnesty Plan" passed last summer - so the illegal aliens could come over here and build the fence.

[underdogus]

Just fine and confiscate the property of those that hire illegals it will go away overnight the solution is simple.

Posted by crzmeat......I agree with you!! but noooo we love CHEAP labor,$$$$.. our Nation is one of the biggest consumers of ILLEGAL of drugs too, soooo its the old supply n demand simple as that.... cheers!

[batpoo]

Had this border guard survived, Mexican authorities would have tracked down the perpetraters only to hand them over to prosecutor J. Sutton to be used as witnesses. The border guard, no doubt, would have been charged for jay walking.
It is so dispicable that GW Bush hasn''t been impeached on one of several crimes against his own country. Democrats are the most spineless, gutless, and downright useless political parties in world history. The GOP may be one of the most evil, self serving, and akin to the KGB in world history.
If any of this doesn''t wake up Americans to the fact that neither party ever works for the people but only for special interests, then say good-bye to a once strong and sovereign nation.
These parties couldn''t slap you in the face any more than they do, in making a case for an independent to take office in the next election.

[ralan40]

I''m waiting for the determination that this border patrol agent taunted these people and, like the incident in the San Francisco Zoo, is the sole cause of the situation.

[underdogus]

It is so dispicable that GW Bush hasn''''t been impeached on one of several crimes against Posted by batpoo REALLY? are you ready for a REVOLUTION, or ANARCHY? everything is BUSH FAULT you BA STARD!!!

[nukeem123]

I''''m waiting for the determination that this border patrol agent taunted these people and, like the incident in the San Francisco Zoo, is the sole cause of the situation.




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Posted by ralan40

Whatever you moron. If you hate the people who keep the peace so much that you would spit such ridiculous stupidity out of your lips...then one of two things is true...either you are an illegal ******* greaseball yourself or you are a piece of *** dope running and using criminal who is just angry that the police and federal agents throw your worthless punk azz in jail....dipsh1t

GET A LIFE IDIOT!

[linfinster]

OK This is tragic! But since I really don''t know all the political ins and outs of who is and isn''t trying to get our borders secure I''m not going to start pissing about any fault other than the driver of that vehicle.

[johngoodnews]

Killing the agent was a major mistake, bozaleros.

[prinzowhales]

Gee, I wonder how they woul have ever gotten through the "virtual fence" Mafiosi Giuliani supports or America''s secure borders that Bush and the Israeli-''American'' Chertoff have been guarding...

"Open Borders: McCain would have sure stopped them...

How fairs the Drug War under Bush and his Pet Congress?------Opium Production has been restored in Afghanistan and the drug lords control the quisling regime in Kabul, two CIA drug/rendition planes have gone down in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine on board, two US Border Patrolmen have been imprisoned for shooting a drug dealer who tried to run them down and now a Border Patrolman has been murdered trying to do his job.

Americans! You are governed by Pigs and Scum and Vermin and YOU LIKE IT!!...as your support for Clinton, Obama, Hucksterbee and McCain show!

[linfinster]

I think we need to build that wall along our Mexican border and then extend it to the city of New Orleans. Build it nice and high, put all the perps, rapist, and murderer''s there and let them live together. No rules. Every 2 years kill off the top elite who have managed to get control so that it evens things out again. Then make our prisons for the less dangerous criminals. Anyone who kills while in prison goes strait to New Orleans for LIFE!

[nukeem123]

oops...i meant organism

[prinzowhales]

While the culprits who murdered the Border Patrolman goes free, we know the names of the criminals who have imprisoned. Ignacios Ramos and Jose Compean are in isolation at the Yazoo City, Miss. Penitentiary in solitary confinement...

The real criminals Bush, Gonzalez and US Attorney John Sutton, belong behind bars.

Bush the liar, Gonzalez the perjurer and John Sutton, the US Attorney and his office, whose malfeasance and nonfeasance in the prosecution of the case led to a conviction. Meanwhile, these two worthies, Gonzalez and Sutton stand accused of failing to prosecute the Texas Youth Commission officials who sexually abused children as documented by a 2005 Texas Ranger investigation. The claim made was that the youths would have to have sustained bodily harm for a prosecution...which is simply a G-- D--- lie...Why aren''t these b*stards and the pederasts under the jail!!?? Where is CBS on this case?

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=181685&Disp=17

[jeepmanjr]

A total tragedy and completely avoidable. Cheap labor and a government who is unwilling to address it are the culprits. I put responsibility directly on the shoulders of our politicians, law makers and anyone who hires illegal aliens. This makes me sick!

There are reasons why these people enter our country illegally. We have a government who tolerates, even encourages it. Hang the carrot, then try to nab them before they get to it. They make it through the front line and they''re home free. Why don''t they just take away the damned carrot? Billions of dollars of resources squandered for "operational control of our nation''s borders" and lots of other neat sounding rhetoric. Nothing has changed folks! The illegal alien population is higher than it''s ever been in US history. Look around...! Unfortunately, agent assaults are higher than they''ve ever been as well.

When are Americans, not *.americans, going to end ignorant toleration? There is a big wealth of information to be had regarding the negative impact illegal aliens have on this country. Please explore it.

I wonder...Had the Border Patrol agent ran over the Mexican would the media coverage be different? Would it be in more headlines? Would there be protests. Would our flag be flown upside down. Would the Mexican interest groups be forming lynch mobs? Would our own government seek prosecution of the agent?

Eh...I think it may already be too late! Can you say, "Viva La Raza"?

[underdogus]

...and sharks and piranas and every other flesh eating and tearing organization we can think of...then offer $50 bucks a head to any and all who shoot down the worthless ******* scum crossing the border illegally to come here and spread their diseases and commit crimes.
Posted by nukeem.... wow hold on sparky.. fer your info MEXICO is the WORLD''S no.9 Exporter of crude oil, shipping an average of 1.7 MILLION barrels PER DAY in 2007, and a TOP-THREE SUPPLIER TO THE UNITED STATES!! and buys roughly 80% of MEXICAN exported oil..our ECONOMY is going down the toilet..are ye ready to pay MORE at the PUMP? $$$$$$ think about it IDIOT!!!

[cfin5]

I think it''s pretty clear to our Border Agents that saying "HALT" is about all they had better do to these thugs or they''ll get the "NIFONG" treatment and then sent to Solitary Confinement in a Federal Penitentiary. And don''t hold your breath for a presidential pardon either,......your sqrewed and how.

[jeepmanjr]

"wow hold on sparky.. fer your info MEXICO is the WORLD''''S no.9 Exporter of crude oil, shipping an average of 1.7 MILLION barrels PER DAY in 2007, and a TOP-THREE SUPPLIER TO THE UNITED STATES!! and buys roughly 80% of MEXICAN exported oil..our ECONOMY is going down the toilet..are ye ready to pay MORE at the PUMP? $$$$$$ think about it IDIOT!!!"

Posted by underdogus at 10:52 AM : Jan 20, 2008
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I''m sure that the family of this agents really gives a *** about oil prices at this moment.

[jumkey]

Heh. You''re all funny.

We "tolerate" illegal immigration because "we" make billions of dollars from cheap labor.

Not all of us of course, just mainly the giant wealthy corporations. Of course, that wouldn''t be possible without a willing group of mindless sheep (mostly conservative Republicans) who worship the power and authoritarian nature of the American corporate structure. I don''t understand it myself, but then again I''m rational.

[jumkey]

Shoot people looking for work bhappy2-2?

Genocide much there Adolf? I''d be easier to build a bunch of ovens, know what I mean?

Sure ya do.

Hey, anyone know how we got most of the western US? No? Well we started a war under false pretenses with Mexico and stole the land from them. California, Arizona, New Mexico...we stole it all. So actually WE''RE the trespassers, the Anglos.

History''s a ***, ain''t it?

[prinzowhales]

jumkey--What is this ''we'' thing?--I don''t make one thin dime off of illegals...Most people don''t. And, as they use more in social services than they provide in revenues, as a taxpayer, I''m stuck with the bill.

[underdogus]

THEN ALLOW THEM TO SHOOT TO KILL Posted by bhappy2-2......what the fluck ANOTHER WAR??? ghesss what an IGNORANT SCHUMCK!!! go back to your porn sites!!

[bhappy2-2]

Shoot people looking for work bhappy2-2?
Posted by jumkey

Shoot ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS for being ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS! As for how we got OUR Southwestern states,
"The peace treaty, which was ratified on May 30, 1848, turned the entire Southwest over to the United States."
THEY GAVE IT TO US UPON OUR VICTORY! SPOILS OF WAR that are now part of The United States of America.
This means these are ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS, not "people looking for work". THIEVES, DRUG DEALERS, MURDERERS, CHILD MOLESTERS, RAPISTS, GANGS, ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS! KILL THEM ALL!

[underdogus]

IF AMERICANS WEREN''T SO LAZY, WE WOULD BE WORKING THE JOBS THAT THEY "TAKE" FROM US!!!!

[bhappy2-2]

ghesss what an IGNORANT SCHUMCK!!! go back to your porn sites!!

Posted by underdogus

Let me guess; you know all about ignorance and being a schmuck from YEARS of SELF-TRAINING, right? You ignorant @sshole, ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS are taking over and IGNORANT @SSHOLES LIKE YOU ARE ALLOWING IT! We need to set up a network of AMERICAN CITIZENS along the border and SHOOT these ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS and ALL of their supporters. Bunch of TREASONOUS BAST@RDS!

O.K., I have wasted enough time on dogpoopunderus, now back to the chore of addressing NORMAL people.

[underdogus]

Prinzowhales hey you "prinzo" since you want ISRAEL to give back their land to the Palestinians...give MEXICO their land.....right?

[underdogus]

CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA,NEW MEXICO,TEXAS,COLORADO,YOU''RE LUCKY THEY''RE NOT MUSLIMS!! ha ha haaa

[bhappy2-2]

Prinzowhales- Maybe someone should inform dogpoopunderus that we BOUGHT the land from Mexico after we won the war.
"The treaty called for the annexation of the northern portions of Mexico to the United States. In return, the U.S. agreed to pay $15 million to Mexico as compensation for the seized territory."

Not that dogpoopunderus would understand, he is too busy supporting ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS!