Hudspeth County to be exact – right next to El Paso.
Thursday evening, U.S. Border Patrol agents tried to pull over a dump truck on I-10. The driver drove toward the Rio Grande and fled on foot when the truck got stuck in the river bed.
According to Hudspeth County Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, the border patrol agents were unloading the marijuana they found when “the dump truck driver returned with armed men, some of whom drove ‘official looking vehicles with overhead lights.'” Chief Deputy Doyal said some of the men appeared to be dressed in Mexican military uniforms.
“It’s a very serious incident,” Doyal said. “We are very fortunate … no one got hurt. Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an international incident, or start shooting.”
As the showdown was taking place, a BULLDOZER appeared and dragged the truck (and remaining marijuana) across the border.
I’m sitting on about four fences with this issue. For those of you who don’t know, I lived in Texas for a while. I have this map of the Republic of Texas in 1845 hanging up in my apartment. My last name – Milam – is the name of the giant pink “county” in the middle of the map.
My point is that I have some roots in this state.
Part of me, the 1845 part, says “Don’t Mess With Texas, Baby!” and almost hopes there is some gunfire. OK, not almost hopes – wants there to be gunfire. You can take Melissa out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of Melissa.
Another part of me is very concerned not just for my country, but for the Americans and Mexicans who work and live along both sides of the border.
Will it take a “real” war – one covered live on TV – for all of America to realize the destruction that is the War on Drugs?
Posted by Melissa Milam.
