Border Patrol Agent Killed In The Line Of Duty

It's a dark day for my profession. Another brother in arms has been murdered. Now tell me again how the border issue isn't a huge problem.

A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent was killed Saturday when he was struck by a car driven by a suspected narcotics smuggler, officials said.

Luis Aguilar, 32, who was assigned to the Yuma, Arizona, border patrol station, died Saturday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner W. Ralph Basham said in a statement.

"Agent Aguilar's death serves as another stark reminder of the risks our front-line agents and officers face each day," Basham said.

Aguilar was trying to place spike strips in the path of two vehicles believed to have illegally entered the country from Mexico when one of the vehicles hit him, agent Michael Bernacke, a spokesman for the agency's Yuma sector, told The Associated Press.

Both vehicles drove back across the border into Mexico, the AP said. (H/T - CNN)

What are the chances that the Mexican government will cooperate in the homicide investigation? My guess is that there's a better chance that Ron Paul will face Dennis Kucinich in the general election. At this point, I would be in favor of bringing the troops home from Iraq . . . so we can station them along both borders, with orders to shoot to kill.

But that's just me; I have been called a "right wing nut job."