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UT Brownsville Campus Closed By Cross-Border Gunfire
The campus of UT Brownsville and Texas Southmost College will be closed through the weekend after bullets from a shooting on the Mexican side of the border struck a recreation center and a car.
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BROWNSVILLE (September 5, 2009)—The campus of the University of Texas Brownsville and Texas Southmost College will remain closed through the long Labor Day weekend after bullets from a shooting on the Mexican side of the border early Friday afternoon struck a wall of a recreation center and a car.
No one was injured, but the campus was closed down after the shooting.
An emergency posting on the school’s Web site says the campus, the new library and labs will be closed until Tuesday and classes have been canceled until Tuesday.
Soccer games scheduled Saturday were moved to the Brownsville Sports Park.
The shooting began around 1:30 p.m. Friday.
Area residents told The Brownsville Herald they heard gunshots and loud explosions for more than an hour.
Brownsville is across from Matamoros, Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Field Supervisor Eddie Perez says there were no plans to close any of the international bridges between Brownsville and Matamoros.
The school, which serves more than 12,000 students, has been part of the University of Texas System since 1991.
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We need to send some Texas ranchers to town to stop some of this. Some of them have more trigger time then combat troops in Iraq.
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It's not so much the border fence will do any good, since all the shooting took place in Matamoros, Bullets go through fences quite easily. Rather, the question is, what is Mexico going to do about these cartels that are taking over the country? This is like Chicago back in the days of Al Capone. Where is Mexico's Eliot Ness? I'm pretty certain that most Mexicans don't want their country torn apart by drug violence, anymore than we would. I have friends there that I worry about. This is what spending billions of dollars on an unwinnable war(the war on drugs)does.
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Central Texas is already so full of trash, you can't help but wonder how long until all the mess south of us overflows into here.
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