{"id":54056,"date":"2014-07-20T09:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T13:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54056"},"modified":"2014-07-20T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T13:53:21","slug":"gohmert-large-caliber-weaponry-fired-at-border-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54056","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert: large caliber weaponry fired at Border Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/07\/20\/cartels-suspected-as-high-caliber-gunfire-sends-border-patrol-scrambling-on-rio\/\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert has told them that Border Patrol agents came under fire from a .50 caliber rifle along the frontier last night;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of the Rincon Peninsula across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico, at about 8:30 p.m., sources said. Bullets ricocheted into an area where Border Patrol agents were positioned, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com. <\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol sources confirmed Gohmert&#8217;s account, and said the shots may have been fired by .50-caliber weapons. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have any armor that can stop a .50-caliber round, so our Border Patrol agents had to take cover when the rounds were richocheting around them,&#8221; said Gohmert, who has been in the area for the last week to get a first-hand look at the border situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the shooting stopped, a couple of dozen illegal immigrants surrendered to the agents. Gohmert says that the gunfire was meant to suppress any effort to stop the illegals from crossing the border.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why we&#8217;re out here like sitting ducks,&#8221; one Border Patrol source said. &#8220;We need help.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Help, like some A-10s or Apache helicopters. Or some armed drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert has told them that Border Patrol agents &hellip; <a title=\"Gohmert: large caliber weaponry fired at Border Patrol\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54056\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert: large caliber weaponry fired at Border Patrol<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}