AZMEX I3 13-2-18

AZMEX I3 13 FEB 2018


Previously Removed Convicted Rapist Apprehended by Border Patrol Agents
Release Date: February 12, 2018
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/previously-removed-convicted-rapist-apprehended-border-patrol-agents

TUCSON, Ariz. –Border Patrol agents assigned to the Tucson Station arrested a Honduran national on Friday morning and discovered his 2001 felony conviction for rape in California.

Agents patrolling near Arivaca, Arizona found and arrested 44-year-old Wilmer Avila-Gamez, a Honduran national, for being illegally present in the United States. During processing, agents conducted a records check on Avila and discovered a April 2001 felony conviction in Santa Ana, California for "Rape by Force."

Avila will remain in federal custody pending prosecution for criminal immigration violations involving re-entry of an aggravated felon.

All persons apprehended by the Border Patrol undergo criminal history checks using biometrics to ensure illegal immigrants with criminal histories are positively identified.

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Note: as usual, it is about illegal migrants.
Thx

Migrant deaths still high, despite decrease in border apprehensions
BY GRISELDA ZETINO
FEBRUARY 13, 2018 AT 5:10 AM

http://ktar.com/story/1946120/migrant-deaths-still-high-despite-decrease-in-border-apprehensions/

PHOENIX — The number of migrants who died trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border rose last year despite a significant drop in border apprehensions, a new report by the United Nation's migration agency found.

The report by the International Organization for Migration showed 412 migrant deaths were reported along the southern border in 2017.

Of the migrant deaths reported last year, five were children, 22 were women, 269 were men and 116 have not been identified.

The number rose slightly from the previous year, when 398 migrant deaths were reported.

"Migrant deaths are up by a small percentage – 3 to 4 percent by my calculation – over the previous year," Joel Millman, a spokesman for the organization, told KTAR News 92.3 FM.

"Nonetheless, to have apprehensions be so much lower and still have deaths be much of the same, in fact a little higher, is worth noting, which is why we put the report out."

Last year, U.S. Border Patrol saw a 44 percent drop in apprehensions. The agency detained 341,084 migrants trying to cross the southwest border in 2017, compared to 611,689 in 2016.

Millman said Texas saw the biggest increase in migrant deaths. A total of 191 migrant deaths were reported last year, up 26 percent from 2016.

He said the increase is mainly due to heavy rainfall last year, which made crossing the Rio Grande in Texas more dangerous.

"We believe that people who trafficked migrants would go back to places that they always regarded as shallow and safe and easy to cross," he said. "Instead, they weren't and people were carried off and drowned."

In Arizona, the number of migrants who died trying to cross the border stayed about the same. According to the IOM report, 160 migrant deaths were reported in the Sonoran desert last year and 163 the previous year.

Millman said the main causes of death for migrants trying to cross the border through Arizona include dehydration and hyperthermia.

"Conditions across the desert have always been deadly," he said.

The report's count of migrant deaths was determined using data from various sources, including coroners, medical examiners, and sheriff's offices in U.S. border counties. Media reports from the Mexico side of the border were also used.

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Don't forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134

"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister

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