So the standoff was only ended after the border patrol agents drew their guns? So they were being "held" by the 2 Mexican soldier-sized military invasion and they kept their guns? And they didn't draw them earlier (and shoot the other poor dumb bastards) why? This story doesn't make a lot of sense.

This sort of thing has been going on since the sixties. The cartels pay the Mexican military very well to help them cross our border. Not only do they have the Mexican military in their pockets, they also have many of our own in their pockets. During the 80's it was so bad that daily murder's were withheld from us. The cartel's would hire our military officials to commit murder under the smoke screen of many reasons other than drugs. While I am against this administration, I do not have blinders on. Most people can be bought for the right price on both sides of the border. While these Mexican military men did cross our border and we are told it was due to them chasing drug runners, they more than likely were seen by someone who was not in their pocket. These things happen weekly, monthly, yearly. There was a time in this country when we did not live by commercialism. We lived by budgets, within our means and nothing was freely given by our government to anyone. Since welfare began in our country things have gone down hill. People no longer worry about working for what they have, teach their children that they too must work if they are going to eat, work or not have a place to live, work or not have utilities, work or have no clothing, work and respect yourself, work and present yourself as a person of worth, work and hold your head high, work two jobs if you need more than one income provides. Set positive goals other than if you cannot afford it, charge it, or spend all you want because your government will make those whom do work pay for you not to work.
I realize that went away from the topic but honestly it didn't. Should people be taught the very things I listed they could not be bought easily. Instead we now live in a country that has become crippled by their government. It will take a very long time to undo the damage but it must start some where and soon. Should a single one of those involved in this incident had self respect, honor and courage, this would not have happened. All it takes is one person to stand up for what is right, live it, teach it and others will follow. What do our fellow countrymen believe? Live and let live? Are we not all responsible? Remember while we are not responsible for the actions of others we are all responsible.

I think it's time to give the TSA some real jobs on the border with Mexico. Get them out of all the airports and leave us alone to efficiently travel in our 'free' country. (Just don't allow anyone you care about in the area being patrolled by TSA.)

Gotta Love what our, and the world's. ridiculous "War on Drugs" and other prohibitions result it.
It completely corrupts what otherwise may be decent law enforcement personnel - from the bottom to the top.

Footnote -
The Nuremberg Trials established that . . .
Legislation is not the same as law
Legislation must be moral to be lawful
“Government” actions that violate moral rules are criminal

No one in authority is taking the border seriously on either side. One day this kind of incident is going to escalate beyond ability to contain... Why aren't we training our military along the borders and on our coastlines instead of stationing many of them in foreign lands like Germany and Japan?

As a person born and bred in Texas, but living in Florida now, it is time for another Battle of San Jacinto.

if they were after drug smugglers why aren't they working with our border patrol making then aware of the situation. cooperation exists between the drug smugglers from mexico and recipients on the usa side of the border. things go deeper than we know.

How much weaker can we be?

This is what happens when reason trascends reality or, on the other, it just goes out the window. Why is this not the case with the French Canadian border? Haven´t the French during colonial and the XIXth Century had conflicts with the British and later "american" part of the continent, as did the Spanish-Mexican ones? These questions aren´t hard to answer, yes/yes would be the simple and easy way. But I would add that every conflict has it´s singularities.

The Spanish colonization of North America was real, with occupants and the Roman Catholic Church converting natives into catholics and, therefore, second class citizens. The apolalyptico version of what is considered a savage and bloody colonization of Mexico and the rest of America isn´t entirely wrong for "south of the border" none would celebrate thanksgiving. In Tenochtichlan there weren´t any free tribes, it was the capital of the Aztec Empire. Same with the Mayans and the Incas further South. Natives, unlike the Aztecs, were hostile to the occupation of their land and the Church´s aid in colonization was crucial, they introduced a new phenomena to the concept of colonization: guilt. But it was still a very difficult conquest, that extended well into the XIXth Century and the beginning of the XXth.

Mexico and the prior Spanish Colonies had long before occupied and exploited what is now the state of California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and the entire south western region of the US. The gold rush were all Spanish-Mexican mines that usually never made it back to spain (the gold), becoming victims to piracy at sea or worse, corruption in america. A great part of the federal reserve is Spanish Mexican gold, as a matter of fact.

But there´s much more. The names of this region´s states are spanish ones, Texas meaning "tejas", which is what great part of the soil was used for: the colonial terracota shingle or "teja". The fact that today many illegals are Mexicans and the border policies are so strict is due to many things, some even amoral and in clear dissadvantage to the people "south of the border". This isn´t a race or cultural issue, let´s not confuse things. This is an economical and political issue.

It´s wrong, I agree, that Mexicans should do this. But isn´t also wrong that they were robbed of their mines and gold, used as cheap labor in the states and left to starve in the waste lands beyond the great texan oil reserve (which is all "american", no doubt about it)? For an official Federal Trooper to attack a border policy isn´t just mear mayhem...

Here we go again! I have have a solution but it might be seen as slave labor. Here it is: At the Az. border set up all the FEMA trailers to house all illegal aliens crossing into Arizona. Give them tools to first dig their own wells and septic pounds for the camp then have them start producing mud bricks for the Great Wall of Arizona. Then can have their own gardens to help feed themselves. Then after a month or so send some back across the the border to make room for new illegals. In a few years there will be a border wall to rival the Great Wall of China all constructed by illegal aliens. This could eventually deter them crossing the border both from the fact that they will become indentured laborers and the wall will stop them after it is completed.We could lower the population of illegal aliens in AZ Jails and Prisons with the wall building solution.

The U.S. agents shoot across the Mexican border and kill children; a group of "officers" beat a man to death in front of an American crowd yelling at the officers to stop at the Tijuana border with San Diego on the American side, and the list goes on. Does one suppose this causes some unhappiness south of the border?