19 June 2007

Smugglers set fires at border areas

{Ok, now they have done it - now Al Gore will have to come out in favor of the fence to save the planet.}


http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20070619-121814-2527r

U.S. Border Patrol agents seeking to secure the nation's border in some of the country's most pristine national forests are being targeted by illegal aliens, who are using intentionally set fires to burn agents out of observation posts and patrol routes.

   
In the Coronado National Forest in Arizona, with 60 miles of land along the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Forest Service firefighters sent in to battle fires or clear wild-land fire areas are required to be escorted by armed law-enforcement officers.