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Article: Border Patrol agent fired on near Mexico; Soldier in latest incursion suspected.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2002
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Byline: Stephen Dinan, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Mexican soldiers entered U.S. territory Friday in the latest in a series of armed incursions and appear to have shot at a Border Patrol agent.
Bill Strassberger, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said the agent was patrolling when he saw what he believed were three Mexican soldiers in a military Humvee on the U.S. side of the border south of Ajo, Ariz., Friday evening.
To avoid a confrontation, the agent did a U-turn in his Chevy Tahoe, which was marked with the patrol's green-and-white design, and drove away. As he was driving away, the vehicle's rear window was shattered by ...