He is allowing this to happen because he can't get his Amnesty BS passed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39772666/ns/world_news-americas
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexican soldiers battled gunmen in two cities across the border from Texas Wednesday, leaving two people dead and prompting panicked parents to pull children from school and factories to warn workers to stay inside.
Authorities said one of the two people killed in the city of Ciudad Juarez was a Texas National Guard soldier, according to local reports.
The U.S. Consulate in the city of Nuevo Laredo warned American citizens to stay indoors. A statement by the Consulate said there were reports of drug gangs blocking at least one intersection near the consulate in the city across from Laredo, Texas.
Assailants in a third city, Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, threw a grenade at an army barracks.
The local government and witnesses in Nuevo Laredo reported several blockades in addition to the one mentioned in the U.S. Consulate's statement.
Violence has soared this year in northeastern Mexico amid a split between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs.
Cartel gunmen frequently use stolen cars and buses to form roadblocks during battles with soldiers. Witnesses in Nuevo Laredo said gunmen forced people from their cars to use the vehicles in the blockades.
Shootouts also erupted in Reynosa, across from McAllen, causing a huge traffic jam in the highway connecting the city with Monterrey and Matamoros.

National Guardsman killed

The local governments of Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo warned residents to stay inside through a series of Twitter and Facebook messages.
By the evening, the Nuevo Laredo government said in a Twitter message that the "situation of risk" had ended, and most of the vehicles blocking the roads had been removed.
The city government said federal authorities reported no fatalities, but the El Paso Times said a man had been shot in Ciudad Juarez, and that his father had told the FBI he was in the Texas National Guard .
Family members identified the man as 21-year-old Jose Gil Hernandez Ramirez of El Paso, Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for Mexico's Chihuahua state attorney general's office, said according to the El Paso Times.
Chihuahua state officials also told the newspaper that Ciudad Juarez residents found Ramirez and another man, Rafael Ramirez Reza, 42, dead on the street with multiple gunshot wounds.
A third man had also reportedly been shot and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Special Agent Michael Martinez, a spokesman for the FBI, told the the El Paso Times that the FBI was investigating.
A spokesman for the Texas National Guard also said they were working to confirm the report.
"At this time we're essentially auditing our people so that we know where they all are, but I really cannot confirm anything," Col. Bill Meehan told the El Paso Times.
Officials at the press office of the Mexican Defense Department said they had no immediate information on the shootouts.
Witnesses and reporters at the scene said four shootouts erupted in Nuevo Laredo, including one behind a Walmart store near a residential area.
Bullet casings litter the scene
Bullet casings from assault rifles littered the scene, and at least one house and two cars had bullet holes. Apolinar Rodriguez, a resident of the neighborhood, said he thought he heard grenade blasts.
"They are fighting with everything they have," he said.
Parents rushed to schools to pick up their children. Factory managers at one industrial park closed their gates, ordered their workers not to leave and canceled night shifts.
"We were not allowed to leave for two-and-a-half hours," said Eva Lara, a worker at one factory.
A Red Cross worker, who asked not to be named for security reasons, said four people were injured after assailants hurled a grenade at the barracks in Matamoros. He said no one was seriously hurt.
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Mexico's northeastern border with Texas has become one of the most violent fronts in an increasingly bloody drug war.
Shootouts in the middle of cities erupted frequently, and in the most horrifying attack, 72 migrants were massacred near Matamoros in August, apparently because they refused to work for the Zetas.
Several mayors and the leading gubernatorial candidate for Tamaulipas state — where Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros are located — have been assassinated.
Nationwide, more than 28,000 people have been killed in drug gang violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers to battle the cartels in their strongholds in northern Mexico and along the Pacific coast.”

...in MEXICO

He was on duty in Texas.

nothing in the article says he was killed while 'on duty in texas'

he was found dead IN MEXICO

US troops are on duty 24/7.
That's why they aren't paid hourly.

oh please,,they have personal life like everyone else

If I were President the moment I heard one of our troops were hurt or killed in this chaos in Mexico, I would send in forces to neutralize that town. Screw our force agreements with Mexico.