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Title: Authorities take gunfire on border (Texas Rangers Recon shoots 3 drug mules)
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Yahoo/AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110609/ap_on_re_us/us_border_shootout_2
Published: Jun 9, 2011
Author: PAUL J. WEBER
Post Date: 2011-06-09 19:41:25 by Hondo68
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Keywords: Texas Rangers Recon, drug-laden boats, on the Rio Grande
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SAN ANTONIO – Texas authorities said suspected drug runners in Mexico began shooting at U.S. law enforcement agents from across the Rio Grande on Thursday, forcing the U.S. officers to return fire and injuring at least three of the suspects on the other side of the border. Few details about the early morning shootout in Hidalgo County were immediately available. The shootout began after U.S. agents patrolling in boats tried to seize a drug load on the Rio Grande, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said. Mange said she could not disclose whether any U.S. officers were struck or injured. She said the agents came under "heavy fire" but would not say how long the ensuing shootout lasted. Authorities said Mexican officials were notified about two "drug-laden" boats that were abandoned after the shootout. U.S. Border Patrol referred questions to the DPS, which used its elite team of Texas Rangers Recon agents in the attempted drug seizure. It is not the first time shots have been exchanged along the Texas-Mexico border. Since January of last year, DPS has tracked at least a dozen incidents of shots being fired from Mexico and into Texas, with U.S. officers shooting back in some cases. No U.S. authorities have been reported hurt in those cases.
Poster Comment: Will hObama prosecute the Texas rangers for shooting drug runners, like Bush did to BP agents Ramos and Compean? 
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