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   TUCSON, Ariz. -- The U.S. Border Patrol says one of its agents has   
   been wounded in a shooting in southern Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico   
   border.  A Border Patrol statement says the agent was taken to a   
   hospital early Tuesday for treatment.   
      
   The statement says the shooting happened south of the community   
   Arivaca at 4:30 a.m. and that several people referred to as "subjects"   
   were taken into custody.   
      
   CBS News has learned that the agent was shot several times as he may   
   have been patrolling the area alone -- which sometimes happens because   
   of limited resources. Authorities said the agent was shot by "bad   
   guys" and clarified that the agent didn't shoot himself and was not   
   shot by a rancher nearby.   
      
   Officials also said the area is known for migrant and drug smuggling   
   and was featured on "Cartel Land."   
      
   The statement says the FBI and the Office of Professional   
   Responsibility of U.S. Customs and Border Protection are   
   investigating.   
      
   Rep. Martha McSally, R-Arizona, tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the   
   agent survived the shooting.   
      
      
   Martha McSally   
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   @RepMcSally   
    Relieved the U.S. Border Patrol Agent shot on duty this morning near   
   Arivaca, AZ survived. Praying for full recovery & to find assailant.   
   Thanks to the @CBPArizona team who responded so quickly. A reminder   
   that border patrol agents & CBP officers are on the frontlines every   
   day.   
      
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   Arivaca is southwest of Tucson and about 10 miles from the border.   
      
   Jim Chilton, a fifth-generation Arizona cattleman who runs the   
   50,000-acre ranch, told The Associated Press in an interview that the   
   Border Patrol sent him an email saying the agent was alone when he was   
   wounded on the ranch and was struck in the leg and the hand.   
      
   Several bullets also struck the agent's protective vest, which   
   probably saved his life, Chilton said.   
      
   "Without it, he probably would not be with us today," said the   
   rancher, who is a well-known Arizona backer of President Trump's   
   efforts to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.   
      
   "There's no wall at the boundary. It is just a four post cattle fence   
   that anyone can easily crawl under. We need to close up that gap in   
   the border fence and station more agents in forward positions along   
   the border," Chilton told CBS affiliate KOLD-TV. There are great   
   agents here, but they are in Tucson. You wouldn't have a football team   
   line up 10 yards from the line of scrimmage would you?"   
      
   The Border Patrol official who the rancher said wrote the email, Lisa   
   A. Reed, did not immediately respond to an email seeking confirmation   
   of the details Chilton provided. Border Patrol spokesman Chris   
   Sullivan declined to comment.   
      
   About 200 trails meander over Chilton's ranch and he said the area   
   where the shooting happened is along the most traveled trail. One   
   14-mile side of his ranch is separated from Mexico by a four-strand   
   wire fence.   
      
   "We have drug runners coming through our ranch and this has become a   
   very dangerous situation," Chilton said.   
      
   U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol,   
   reports hundreds of assaults on its law enforcement personnel across   
   the United State each year, but they rarely involve agents getting hit   
   by bullets.   
      
   During the U.S. fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017, there were 786   
   assaults on the Border Patrol agents nationwide and 93 in the Tucson   
   Sector that includes Arivaca area, the agency has said.   
      
   Some cases involved people on the Mexican side of the border throwing   
   rocks at agents on the U.S. side, or would-be smugglers firing at   
   agents and missing as the smugglers try to get away from the agents.   
      
   Agents with the Tucson Sector Border Patrol arrested a 21-year-old   
   U.S. citizen near Amado, Arizona, last Christmas eve after he fired at   
   them during a high speed chase that ended when he lost control of the   
   vehicle and rolled over. He was transporting two migrants in the U.S.   
   without authorization.   
      
   Two teen boys were arrested last year in the shooting of a Border   
   Patrol vehicle south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. The agent inside was   
   not hurt.   
      
   In December 2010, agent Brian A. Terry was shot and killed near Rio   
   Rico, Arizona, while trying to arrest a group of armed people who had   
   been preying on migrants.   
      
   Agent Robert Rosas was shot and killed in an ambush on patrol along   
   the Mexico border near Campo, California in July 2009, and Agent   
   Alexander S. Kirpnick was shot and killed as he and his partner tried   
   to arrest a group of drug smugglers just north of the Mexican border   
   in Arizona in June 1998.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-patrol-agent-wounded-in-shoo   
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