U.S. Border Patrol & Mexican Booby Trap Decapitation Countermeasures

EL PASO, TEXAS (AP) -- U.S. Border Patrol agents have discovered a booby trap of thin wires stretched along a patrol road in a remote stretch of desert in southern New Mexico that could injure or kill border patrol officers.

Saturday's discovery is the second wire trap found at the U.S.-Mexico border this year.

The trap, two sections of thin wire strung tight across the road, was spotted Saturday night by a local rancher, Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said Tuesday.

The 1/4 -inch wires were tied to a cattle fence along the border, strung across the road and affixed to a mesquite tree in a stretch of rugged desert about 100 miles west of El Paso.

One wire was about four feet off the ground, and the second appeared to sit about a foot from the ground.

"It's alarming," Mosier said. "Any time you have a booby trap and the cover of darkness, it makes for a dangerous formula."

Mosier said the trap was found about 8:30 p.m. Agents working the area believe the wires were put in place about an hour earlier, just as the sun was starting to set.

The nearest Mexican town is the village of Las Chepas, a ramshackle collection of small houses and abandoned buildings routinely used by smugglers as a staging ground.

In February, agents in San Diego found a wire strung from the Mexican side of a border fence, through a small hole in the fence and across a patrol road. The wire was set up to be pulled tight from the Mexican side of the border.

In both cases, the wires were put in areas routinely patrolled by agents on all terrain vehicles and horseback.

Mosier said it's not unusual for agents to find obstacles, including metal spikes, along patrol roads. But he said the wires, which could have been deadly for an agent patrolling on an ATV, show a new level of violence.

"This is the first time I can recall a booby trap," Mosier said.

"But smugglers have never been short on creativity."

The latest effort to stymie Border Patrol efforts comes amid an alarming rise in violence in northern Mexico as rival drug cartels jockey for power.

(Copyright ©2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

I call fair use on the ABC Border Patrol footage. It is only an excerpt from the full ABC Border Patrol segment, and it is included in my video for constructive criticism purposes.

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[MexicanXBackstab]

seal and machine gun the borders. deport ALL illegals AND their "families" AND their employers. anyone causing any problems in border areas should be machine gunned PERIOD. americas FOOL immigration policies and COWARDLY FEAR OF BEING CALLED BIGOTS OR RACIST has lead to americas downfall thru mass immigration, and at this stage, ANY IMMIGRATION AT ALL. you FUCKING SPICS attack and critize americans and yet you CHOOSE to live in form gangs breed like cockroaches and take welfare IN AMERICA.

[matthewjdenn]

Wow.

[matthewjdenn]

MexicanXBackstab,

I'm all for securing the borders and making illegal immigrants pay for their illegal entry into the United States, but you can't just machine gun all the Mexicans causing problems in the border areas. All of us except for Native Americans are essentially immigrants or descendants of immigrants. You are spot on about many Mexicans forming gangs and drawing welfare in America, though.

[toxxxic22]

adrockisdead, Your an Idoit

[matthewjdenn]

Don't you mean, "You're an idiot?" You might want to spell "you're" and "idiot" right when you are insulting someone else's intelligence.

[toxxxic22]

its the interwebs, who cares enough to check spelling? if you wanna get that anal about it, I suggest, you play chicken with a train on foot.

[matthewjdenn]

Dude, I normally don't mind if someone has a few typos. Honestly. But when you're trying to insult someone's intelligence it's usually a good idea to be able to spell "idiot" and "you're" right. Just food for thought. I'm a neutral third party here just making an observation.

[BigBootieJohn]

We should switch to tanks instead of quads.

[Naughtytimeted]

I don't advocate everyone smoking pot. It's addictive, causes laziness and apathy, and is detrimental to learning and personal development. It's a personal choice, but the people should be free to make that choice. It's a plant, not a manufactured drug. I think big pharma should be illegal. They've killed more people than pot ever could, because pot's not dangerous like their thousands of pills and "medicines" which have more side effects than the conditions they supposedly treat.

[Naughtytimeted]

The Mexican AND U.S. governments are in bed with the drug cartels. Why do you think cannabis is still illegal? Because there's profit to be made! If it were legalized, the cartels would instantly have their vast majority of income disappear, and neither corrupt gov't would profit from what profits all the "common" people. If the U.S. legalized pot, the "war on drugs" would be over.

But agencies get funding according to need. The more violence & gangs, the more funding gov't agencies get.

[planb1532190]

how does that booby trap work?

[scott30428]

@MexicanXBackstab you would have been a great nazi back in the 1940s. idiot.

[Watchinthefoolshere]

Border Patrol shoots and kills 15 year old that should NOT have been trying to cross the border but its ok for them to do this kind of thing in ADDITION to shooting our border agents. Only makes us racist...not them. Par for the course.

[calman1951]

@looneyrz Since You state that the drug cartels have declared war on US Customs/B.P.The US needs to eliminate these cartels.And since Mexico cant do it Our military should-with or w/out Mexicos permission

[filmputzer]

Its time for the US to secure the borders and airports with deadly force, The world is exploding into revolutions, Our safety and national security is at stake. We need to become Isolationist again building and manufacturing our products and rebuild our own economy again, Let these banana republics murder each other while we guard our borders to keep our country secure

[kaizer4519]

as long as a high demand for drugs still present in the US and the drug delares can distribute the drug so easy in the US (I ask myself how can they sell tons of drugs in the US almost without problems) this will never stop

[ProviderMR]

look at this gringos freaks lol that's why we kill you when you come here.