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   From: blood-on-obamas-hands@azcentral.com   
      
   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-   
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