importing swine ? Mexican nationals attempting to cut through border fence

importing swine ? Mexican nationals attempting to cut through border fence

Chance border visit surprises Mexican nationals attempting to cut through border fence



Traveling with three international media correspondents during one of his routine trips to survey the progress of the international border fence being erected along the California-Mexico border, Minuteman Project president Jim Gilchrist observed four Mexican nationals setting up what appeared to be a gasoline-powered metal cutting machine last week.

“The group was apparently preparing to cut through the old, unreinforced border fence in Campo, California ,” Gilchrist said.

Britt Craig of the Campo Minutemen organization, who routinely accompanies Gilchrist on the fence surveys, summoned nearby U.S. Border Patrol agents who said they would set up an observation point for that area of the fence. One agent surmised that the group was going to cut a hole in the fence large enough to drive a vehicle through laden with either illegal aliens or drugs, or both.



The Mexicans, in their early twenties or younger, retreated back into Mexico about 100 yards to a cluster of boulders, leaving the machinery under a tree about 30 feet from the border fence. There were large plastic bags stacked against one of the boulders. Gilchrist said none of the men appeared to be armed.



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