Via Reuters
A U.S. Border Patrol helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing after illegal immigrants pelted it with baseball-sized rocks, damaging a rotor, a spokesman for the agency said on Thursday
There were no injuries as the helicopter’s pilot was able to set the aircraft down just north of the All American Canal on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, Border Patrol spokesman Michael Gramley said.
Yankees player scouts were trying to assertain the distance the rocks were thrown, the better to decide whether they should sign the kid as a pitcher or outfielder.
Gramley said agents on the ground caught 17 people who had crossed to the north side of the canal but most of the 10 seen throwing rocks escaped back across the border. Mexican authorities were contacted but did not arrest them, he said.
10 people were sent back to Mexico, 5 were arrested and sent to jail, 2 were sent to the Single A ball for evaluation.
Are you listening, Gov’t? Time to make the border a Class A priority?
More than half the 330,000 illegal immigrants in North and South Carolina are employed — and no employer has been fined, even though it’s against the law to knowingly hire an undocumented alien, The Charlotte Observer reported Friday.
But no employer in the Carolinas has been fined in at least two years, the newspaper reported. Nationwide, only three "notices of intent" to fine employers were filed in 2004, even though an estimated 7 million illegal aliens have regular jobs.
If we have hard numbers like that, why aren’t we DOING something about it, starting with sending their butts back to where they came from?
