J Otto Pohl, a blogger who lives by the US-Mexico border, reports a large increase in activity over the last few days.
I live about a dozen miles north of the Mexican border. In the last twenty four hours the Border Patrol has dramatically increased its activities in this area. Today in town I saw three rather than the usual one Border Patrol vehicles and rather than just sitting at the corner they were chasing down vehicles with their sirens. At the ranch the stepped up reconnaissance by the Border Patrol is even more apparent. Frequent sorties by low flying Border Patrol helicopters have been passing overhead on their way to the mountains southwest of us. I do not know exactly what is going on. I am quite sure it is the kind of thing that does not get covered in the media. Rather some historian will piece together the evidence decades from now when the relevant archives are declassified.
I’d imagine it has something to do with this recent armed confrontation in Texas betwen border guards and men apparently from the Mexican army.
Suspected drug runners dressed in Mexican military-style uniforms who were involved in an armed confrontation with Texas lawmen were using a Mexican military-issue Humvee and weapons, the Hudspeth County sheriff said Friday.
“It was military,” said Arvin West, whose officers were involved in the standoff. “Due to the pending congressional hearings I can’t comment further.”
[...] A California newspaper reported this month that Mexican military units had crossed into the United States 216 times since 1996. It cited a Department of Homeland Security document, but department Secretary Michael Chertoff has said many of those incidents were just mistakes.
Curious. And just a little alarming for US security if armed men, be they Mexican drug runners or Islamic terrorists, can penetrate the border with such ease, and so blatantly.