BajaNomad - Mexican Military gets lost and crosses Bridge #2 (Nuevo Laredo) into the USA! (with video)

Mexican Military gets lost and crosses Bridge #2 (Nuevo Laredo) into the USA! (with video)

Woooosh - 6-24-2011 at 10:47 AM

Can you imagine sitting in the line in San Ysidro and seeing a the Mexican Military min-convoy roll up to the booth? Geesh. What are the contingency plans? What if they had opened fire on the inspectors? What if they weren't military at all? What a potential mess. This really isn't good that they can roll up to the inspection booths and through... is it?

http://www.pro8news.com/news/local/Mexican-troops-cross-into...

Mexican troops cross into the United States at Bridge Two
Story Created: Jun 23, 2011
Story Updated: Jun 23, 2011
A convoy of three military trucks loaded with Mexican soldiers crosses the border at Bridge Number Two clearly violating international law.

It happens as Customs and Border Protection inspectors try to figure out what to do.

A CBP spokesperson says they got on the phone with Mexican authorities after being alerted that the military trucks were heading their direction loaded down with soldiers and weapons.

Mexican leaders say the soldiers, who had just been deployed to Nuevo Laredo, didn't know the area, got lost and then made their way through Bridge Two.

It's important to note that CBP did not tell us about the potentially serious situation. It came from another law enforcement agency.

Some callers to our newsroom were upset inspectors allowed the Mexican military to get so close to all those inspection booths over at Bridge Number Two.

Some noted had it been Mexican drug lords they could have taken inspectors by surprise and easily crossed the international border deeper into the United States.

JESSE - 6-24-2011 at 10:54 AM

LOL!! @ "Some noted had it been Mexican drug lords they could have taken inspectors by surprise and easily crossed the international border deeper into the United States."

Yeah, like Mexican drug lords are going to dress up like soldiers and cross to the US to conduct a raid :lol:

Woooosh - 6-24-2011 at 11:16 AM

Hardly, huh? Imagine Mexico's response if this were the other way around. I do think the BP needs a plan for this. I would have bailed out of my car and run for cover.

baja1943 - 6-24-2011 at 11:35 AM

Anyone thats familiar the physical setup of that crossing knows the story is ridicules. About as newsworthy as a bajanomad being busted at the border with illegal Viagra.

Woooosh - 6-24-2011 at 12:06 PM

I'm about as close as I want to get to that armpit...

Puckdrop - 6-24-2011 at 12:37 PM

Maybe they were looking for a Tim Hortons. The secret of the Tim Bits are out, run for the border :spingrin:

mtgoat666 - 6-24-2011 at 12:46 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
A convoy of three military trucks loaded with Mexican soldiers crosses the border at Bridge Number Two clearly violating international law.

swooshi:
they crossed a bridge, but did not cross the border.
what law was "clearly" broken?
what law says army vehicle may not drive on public roads?

swooshi, please verify this crap before you post it.

Woooosh - 6-24-2011 at 12:54 PM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666

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Originally posted by Woooosh
A convoy of three military trucks loaded with Mexican soldiers crosses the border at Bridge Number Two clearly violating international law.

So you think it would be OK for the Mexican army to cross at San Ysidro and take the U-Turn loop back into Mexico? I don't.

"A convoy of three military trucks loaded with Mexican soldiers crosses the border at Bridge Number Two clearly violating international law." That's pretty clear to me.

[Edited on 6-24-2011 by Woooosh]

mtgoat666 - 6-24-2011 at 01:03 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
So you think it would be OK for the Mexican army to cross at San Ysidro and take the U-Turn loop back into Mexico? I don't.

why not? sounds pretty harmless.

Woooosh - 6-24-2011 at 01:09 PM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666

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Originally posted by Woooosh
So you think it would be OK for the Mexican army to cross at San Ysidro and take the U-Turn loop back into Mexico? I don't.

why not? sounds pretty harmless.

not if you have a pacemaker!

BajaGringo - 6-24-2011 at 01:21 PM

The problem is that once you get into the wrong lane and merge into the border traffic, there are rarely any options to turn around or get out of the line. After looking at the video in the link my instincts would have told me (if I was there) that they were hunting down somebody in the line.

I would have probably been thinking along Woooosh's idea of running for cover...

JESSE - 6-24-2011 at 03:49 PM

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Originally posted by BajaGringo
The problem is that once you get into the wrong lane and merge into the border traffic, there are rarely any options to turn around or get out of the line. After looking at the video in the link my instincts would have told me (if I was there) that they were hunting down somebody in the line.

I would have probably been thinking along Woooosh's idea of running for cover...

True. Once you get on that lane, theres no way out like it used to many years ago. A few months ago i got caught in a similar situation at the san ysidro border, and i had to do a 1hr wait, and then like a fool tell the inspector i made a wrong turn and i didn't have my passport.

lizard lips - 6-24-2011 at 05:36 PM

It was a bridge they crossed over. Half of the bridge is in the United States so actually they did cross over into the US. Did they do this illegally? Who cares. There have been reports of the Mexican Military crossing over into the US a lot at different border locations but never at a customs booth!

DENNIS - 6-24-2011 at 05:38 PM

Didn't some of our armed MPs do the same thing a while back at San Ysidro?
Jeeeeezo.....these arn't invasions.

Woooosh - 6-24-2011 at 06:20 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
Didn't some of our armed MPs do the same thing a while back at San Ysidro?
Jeeeeezo.....these arn't invasions.

Didn't they take those wrong-turn soldiers to jail for entering with guns? Think so.

let the headline read "The Shoddy Bridge Over River Journalism"

Mulegena - 6-24-2011 at 07:00 PM

The US media once again overstepping, or would it more aptly be said "under-cutting" their professional standard by floating callers' quips as their editorial opinion.

Has the new ethic of US journalistic reporting really bottomed out by resorting to the sensationalization of events? Why is this the manner in which current events are reported? Why have the high ethical standards of journalism for which the US was once respected become sub-standardized?

The handling of this event by the news media won't engender respect and cooperation between the US and Mexico, in my opinion, but create fodder to further alienate the relationship between neighbors. The journalistic spin on today's event, and I don't give it further weight by calling it an international incident or refer to a violation of international law, was really crafted to engender fear and disrespect in the minds of many Americans.

People tend to fear and even dislike that which confuses them. If they are not offered a credible explanation of that which they question they hold that fear and in time embellish it. We look to our leaders to give us explanation and guidance. The vehicle through which this is delivered is the media which bears a great responsibility in the formation of ideology of those who receive its information. To accurately report the facts as they are is the duty of a reporter. Editorial journalistic opinion is another arena. Of late this distinction is blurred.

Just report the facts and leave it at that, imo.

This is your Baja editorial reporter writing from the beautiful Central Pacific Coast.

Woooosh - 6-24-2011 at 07:08 PM

Don't Mexican Military trucks have "reverse"?

mulegemichael - 6-24-2011 at 07:28 PM

of course we all know that there are NO american undercover folks in baja...right?...so with that in mind, i think it really really unfortunate that mexico would have the audacity to send their troops north across our border...especially when it involves a bridge!..fer gawds sake.....ok...i'm done..

Anything to declare????

bajaguy - 6-24-2011 at 08:21 PM

Shoulda sent 'em to secondary!!!! :lol:

BajaGringo - 6-24-2011 at 08:48 PM

:lol:

Depreator - 6-24-2011 at 08:54 PM

Hey people this in nothing new in the Texas border area. Incidents like this happen alot. Some time ago a Mexican Navy helicopters violate us air space all the time. Same reasons always given, "We were lost" blah blah blah. To me not a big deal, but maybe our state department should make it one, because if OUR military was to enter mexico it would be a very big deal. Just my opinion.

DENNIS - 6-24-2011 at 09:11 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
Didn't they take those wrong-turn soldiers to jail for entering with guns? Think so.

Could be, but probably only as a matter of procedure. I doubt they kept them long or the world would have known about it.

These mistakes are made in public so there has to be some chest-thumping involved. They can't just open a box of beer and welcome them like any other tourist. Sht-happens.

Hey Mulegena..........when the press starts lying about the day's events, send up the red flag, but as long as they stick to the facts, regardless of how they spin them, lets let the First Ammendment take care of it. We shouldn't be telling the press how to do their job because what you may end up with is no press at all.
It's your dime......buy the fish-wrapper, or don't.

krafty - 6-24-2011 at 09:15 PM

such a non story. :yawn:

but you guys are hilarious

JESSE - 6-24-2011 at 09:36 PM

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Originally posted by Depreator
because if OUR military was to enter mexico it would be a very big deal.

Actually it happens more than you think, but things get settled right there without a problem.

mtgoat666 - 6-24-2011 at 10:42 PM

reminds me of GWB. he "accidentally" misinterpreted flimsy data and mistakenly ordered military cross a few bridges and enter a country called iraq. i think he too said "oops."

Brian L - 6-25-2011 at 09:04 AM

No, his underling (Cheney), was told by Haliburton to do it, it was no "mistake"

Woooosh - 6-25-2011 at 10:59 AM

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Originally posted by Brian L
No, his underling (Cheney), was told by Haliburton to do it, it was no "mistake"

not so sure Cheney was the "underling" of that pair.

!!!!eet es our sovereignty!!!!

EdZeranski - 6-28-2011 at 08:32 AM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
Didn't some of our armed MPs do the same thing a while back at San Ysidro?
Jeeeeezo.....these arn't invasions.

Yes, November 1999. It was one Marine MP going to pick up service men held at the border but got crossed up in traffic. The Mexicans made a BIG deal about it with the usual posturing and chest thumping howls about Mexican sovereignty. It took a while to get the Marine back, He was held in prison for a couple of weeks. The negotiation for his release had to go al the way to Presidents Clinton and Zedillo to get the 4-9 year prison term dropped.

EdZ KG6UTS
OB, Borrego and Baja!!

accident??

EdZeranski - 6-28-2011 at 08:37 AM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666
reminds me of GWB. he "accidentally" misinterpreted flimsy data and mistakenly ordered military cross a few bridges and enter a country called iraq. i think he too said "oops."

Accident? Hell no, it was on purpose! I was there and proud of it...don't remember a bridge though ~8^0

EdZ KG6UTS
OB, Borrego and Baja

BajaGringo - 6-28-2011 at 08:44 AM

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Originally posted by EdZeranski

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Accident? Hell no, it was on purpose! I was there and proud of it...don't remember a bridge though ~8^0

EdZ KG6UTS
OB, Borrego and Baja

We are all proud of you and thank you for your service Ed. But going into Iraq/ Afghanistan will always be a big and costly mistake IMHO. Bin-Laden was sitting in a nice house in Pakistan...

drarroyo - 6-28-2011 at 08:49 AM

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Originally posted by EdZeranski

Accident? Hell no, it was on purpose! I was there and proud of it...don't remember a bridge though ~8^0

EdZ KG6UTS
OB, Borrego and Baja

sorry you were misled.
appreciate the service though

[Edited on 6-28-2011 by drarroyo]

Woooosh - 6-28-2011 at 09:45 AM

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Originally posted by drarroyo

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Originally posted by EdZeranski

Accident? Hell no, it was on purpose! I was there and proud of it...don't remember a bridge though ~8^0

EdZ KG6UTS
OB, Borrego and Baja

sorry you were misled.
appreciate the service though

[Edited on 6-28-2011 by drarroyo]

Vietnam vets will fully understand how that feels.

mtgoat666 - 6-28-2011 at 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by EdZeranski
I was there and proud of it...

proud of your service or proud of the decision to invade????????

did you happen to come home with any of the missing plane loads of $100 bills????

EdZeranski - 6-28-2011 at 03:12 PM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666

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Originally posted by EdZeranski
I was there and proud of it...

proud of your service or proud of the decision to invade????????

did you happen to come home with any of the missing plane loads of $100 bills????

Both actually and it was only a helicopter ~8^)