San Ysidro border crossing closes after shooting

[nadinbrzezinski]

Source: AP

San Ysidro border crossing closes after shooting
U.S. officers fire at three vans carrying more than 70 suspected illegal immigrants as the vehicles try to speed north through the checkpoint. At least four people are hurt.
San Ysidro Port of Entry



September 23, 2009




The nation's busiest border crossing was closed and declared a crime scene Tuesday after at least two U.S. agents attempted to stop smugglers from speeding through the San Ysidro Port of Entry by firing their weapons at three vans loaded with suspected illegal immigrants.

Port Director Oscar Preciado said it was the first time officials had shuttered the 24-lane border crossing to vehicular traffic since President Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-border23-2009sep23,0,1977503.story

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Ok my memory might be failing, or perhaps the PIO... but didn't the full border close after the 9.11 attacks?

That said, this tells me things are starting to get really ugly down south... or the coyotes have too much "cargo."

[grantcart]

1. Its already getting very bad

they are using large numbers of children who live in TJ and go to San Diego schools to carry drugs

[timo]

2. Texas

pretty bad here and just going to get worse!

[damntexdem]

3. Hey, they're probably smuggling people. Better shoot up the vans.

Good thing they weren't flying in.

[Raine]

4. They closed it 9.11

I'm in Los Angeles and I remember hearing on the news that the border was closed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I was in Hawaii and I remmeber they said that on CNN-I

they completely sealed the border.

Point of order, not on CNN

Thanks for confirming my addled memory