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The headline says Gunmen Force Troops Off Border Watch but the story confirms that they ran because they were told to run:
Gunmen Force Troops Off Border Watch - washingtonpost.com
The Associated Press
Friday, January 5, 2007; 7:34 AMTUCSON, Ariz. -- National Guard troops at an observation post near the Mexico border were forced to flee a group of armed people, who later ran into Mexico, authorities said.
Armed Mexican gunmen advanced to "within yards" of a National Guard observation post on the U.S. Mexican border. The Guardsmen ran away.
Guardsmen overrun at the Border
Channel 12 News, Arizon
Jan. 4, 2007 02:44 PMA U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona's border with Mexico.
My family and I just returned to Mexico from a trip to my home state of Oklahoma where I was able to catch up on some of the developments in my hometown alma mater, where I was a student from 1st grade to 12th grade.
John Derbyshire writes in the New English Review on the question "Will the United States Survive Until 2022?"
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01/04/07 - Two Readers Differ On Third Parties
From L. Long in Tucson:
In decades past, people actually moved to California for the superior education, from K-12 through college, and the other opportunities that would benefit their children. Today, middle class people are fleeing Mexifornia to find communities still recognizable as America, where it's not necessary to place youngsters in private school to have them speak English all day.