[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')olice: Cartel claims they have kidnapped Border Patrol agent

A person claiming to be a member of a cartel said they have kidnapped a border agent and threatened the agent's life, according to police.

Border Patrol is making contact with all personnel in the Rio Grande Valley sector at this time.

They have now confirmed that all agents working the day of the threat have been accounted for.

Now, they are working to verify all those off-duty at the time of the threat are safe.

The caller dialed 9-1-1 yesterday and said they have kidnapped a Border Patrol agent, La Joya Police Chief Geovanni Hernandez confirms.

The La Joya Police Department contacted Border Patrol and the FBI, Hernandez said.

A Border Patrol spokesperson did not confirm the threat, but they did confirm the agency is doing an accountability check of all agents stationed in the RGV sector.

Right now there are more than 3,000 Border Patrol Agents stationed in the Rio Grande Valley.

Action 4 News will continue to follow this story.

Check back for updates.

Statement from Border Patrol:

As of 10 am local time all on duty RGV sector agents have been accounted for. At this time RGV sector has not been able to corroborate the authenticity of the phone call received by the La Joya Police Department. Nevertheless through an abundance of caution the sector continues to pursue existing protocols to account for all RGV sector agents. The sector is also communicating with the CBP office of internal affairs, FBI, the La Joya PD and the government of Mexico regarding the original call. The sector employs approximately 3100 agents.
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1141227#.VJ2P2ADE8

[BobInget]

I knew it. Eventually someone would notice. Mexico is at war, with itself.
Most Americans, unlike any Canadian provence, actually know how to find Mexico on a map. This makes invasion simpler. There are Greyhound Buses leaving LA bound for Mexico hourly, for any of you Irish Catholics who feel the need to take action, rat now.

Since the US is already at war in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, soon Venezuela,
Mexico is a next logical place to invade. Looking into it but i'm fairly certain,
Mexico is closer, easier to locate than any of those other 'foreign' places.

This is the first time in centuries US (and Canadian) Catholics boys can make difference. Why should Muslims have all the excitement in Syria and Iraq?

If Mexican gangs walked off with one of our Wall Monitors, I, like six strings,
say 'go get em boys'!

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . . Sixstrings

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hat would be a time for some gunboat foreign policy and move the army into mexico and clean that place up.

[basil_hayden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Scrub Puller', 'Y')air . . . Sixstrings

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hat would be a time for some gunboat foreign policy and move the army into mexico and clean that place up.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BobInget', 'S')ince the US is already at war in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, soon Venezuela,
Mexico is a next logical place to invade. Looking into it but i'm fairly certain,
Mexico is closer, easier to locate than any of those other 'foreign' places.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('basil_hayden', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Scrub Puller', 'Y')air . . . Sixstrings

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hat would be a time for some gunboat foreign policy and move the army into mexico and clean that place up.

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That would be a time for some gunboat foreign policy and move the army into mexico and clean that place up.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'T')oo late for that. You'd have a Mexican rebellion on your hands in the US if you attacked Mexico.

[Sixstrings]

There's a possibility here that kidnapper could be a nutcase, and there was no kidnapping, except for the fact that authorities believe the man is cartel for sure.

What they have to do is account for every border agent, and that's a lot of people and state authorities too. Really there should be some system to account for personnel quickly, one would think -- use text messages on peoples phones, something.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')exas investigating claim that Mexican cartel kidnapped Border Patrol agent

The man called back eight more times on Christmas, Hernandez said, repeatedly cursing at and threatening dispatchers in Spanish.

The man mentioned a Border Patrol agent on the ninth and final call.

In a voice recording released by La Joya police, a man’s voice is heard speaking in Spanish, saying he has a Border Patrol agent.

Hernandez says he believes the man’s claimed affiliation with a cartel, which authorities are not identifying, is legitimate, but Border Patrol officials say they are still trying to authenticate the kidnapping claim.

Oscar Zamora, a Border Patrol spokesman, says the agency is reaching out to more than 3,000 agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector, which includes La Joya, “out of an abundance of caution." Zamora says the agency has accounted for all on-duty agents, but officials are still trying to confirm the whereabouts of all off-duty agents, a task that has proved challenging with many of the agents off for the holidays.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-texas-border-patrol-threat-20141226-story.html

[SeaGypsy]

How naive are you really 6? The cartel system has been operating in the USA for more than a while, I guess you may have seen the Godfather movies? Do you think Hollywood just made that stuff up?

In a similar time frame mafia/ cartel activity crackdown has been the trend in the first world, it has thrived in the developing countries. Anywhere the main source of income is in contraband will be a population ripe for gangsterism. For as long as the USG keeps up the absurdity known as the war on drugs, these populations will keep producing & marketing contraband at massive markups, with a scale of profit worth dying or killing for.

I don't believe there is any aggression based solution to the Mexican situation, the soldiers of the cartels being run of the mill community members, an overwhelming military confrontation would see these forces simply melt & fade into the backdrop; re-emerging as soon as the coast clears.

There are two huge intractable issues here, drug profits & movement of people. No government or likely government in the USA is about to admit the war on drugs is a trillion dollar failure which cannot win. No government has a realistic solution to the human trafficking issues on the border. The more crackdown on either, the more profits to those able to exploit holes in the system.

Have a look at the maps of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, compare the area dominated by IS or the Taliban, with the areas of Mexico dominated by drug cartel militia. The latter covers areas many times larger. The logistics of trying to secure these regions are fundamentally impossible.

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . .

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a')n overwhelming military confrontation would see these forces simply melt & fade into the backdrop; re-emerging as soon as the coast clears.

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Seriously man, Americans will not tolerate this, we will not have our South turn into Mexico -- it's not about their language or skin color, what I'm talking about is the cartel system and that will not be allowed.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'H')ow naive are you really 6? The cartel system has been operating in the USA for more than a while, I guess you may have seen the Godfather movies? Do you think Hollywood just made that stuff up?

[Sixstrings]

Protests against the cartel murder of 43 students continue. Protesters blame the government for it, a government and military that is controlled by the drug cartels murdering and kidnapping, beheading, warring and running amok:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'â')€˜Here are the murderers’: Mexico protesters storm & graffiti military base

Protesters in Mexico, marking three months since the disappearance of 43 students, have turned their anger on a military base in the city of Iguala. They knocked down a door at the facility and left its walls covered in graffiti.

READ MORE: Mexico feds directly involved in student massacre, witness torture – independent probe

Protesters threw petrol bombs, fireworks and stones at the facilities of the 41st Infantry Battalion of the Mexican Army on Friday, La Prensa reported.
http://rt.com/news/218047-mexico-protests-iguala-base/

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Scrub Puller', 'T')hey can't get it through their thick heads that fighting insurgents and cartels is impossible and all the training and hardware is useless to the extent that we have what, hundred million dollar aircraft? . . . expending fifty thousand dollar munitions to take out clapped out Toyotas and the like.

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If this crap spreads more into the US, then it really may be necessary for the USA to regime change and throw the whole government out of Mexico and start fresh, there may be no other way to get rid of the cartel-controlled -- they are mostly all on the cartel payroll now, they've all gotta go.

[dolanbaker]

It appears to me that if the US attacked Mexico that it would trigger an uprising leading to a civil war in the "Mexican quarter" of the US.

[SeaGypsy]

Don't try to tell me I don't know something I am sure I know about 6, I track extremists for a hobby & your neighbours there are only barely outdone by ME salafists. You have no answers is your answer, just noise.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dolanbaker', 'I')t appears to me that if the US attacked Mexico that it would trigger an uprising leading to a civil war in the "Mexican quarter" of the US.