AZMEX EXTRA 29 APR 2018
Note: Update to AZMEX EXTRA 28-4-18
Comment: From the good guys at Borderland Beat. ( http://www.borderlandbeat.com )
Much more info in this one. Several good photos, additional details, etc. The gold plated AK included.
No mention so far on origin of these weapons, some earlier accounts claimed they were Russian.
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=110969
If actually Russian, they could likely be real AK's, not the semi-auto clones available in the U.S.
Should the Russian source be correct, it will be very significant. Not to mention troubling.
Another possibility? From Venezuela?
RPG's are a whole other problem.
Thx
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas: Huge Confiscation of CDN "war weaponry"
Fotos Posted by Char for Borderland Beat Info from "#LaVozDelPueblo" and SEDENA Bulletin
Ready for War Expensive and new including RPGs
by Chivis
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/04/nuevo-laredo-tamaulipas-huge.html#more
On Friday, in an operation by SEDENA, a massive confiscation of weapons was seized.
In the operation Marina bullet (ballistic) vests were also seized. The cache belonged to Cartel de Noreste, CDN,
The action occurred Veracruz Street in the Colonia of Madero behind the Colegio America in Nuevo Laredo.
There were four operations at four safe houses.
Check out weapons on following page.
"As a result of the monitoring of information related to arms trafficking, an anonymous citizen report was received," the Secretary of National Defense indicated in a bulletin.
The anonymous report also allowed the Army to free a family of five members who were kidnapped, and the capture of alleged criminals.
The seizure was presented by the Eighth Military Zone in the facilities of the 16th Motorized Cavalry Regiment, but most of the reporters did not attend due to threats from organized crime, which demanded that the information not be published in local media.
With respect to the four safe houses, the following seizures were made, including weapons, drugs, vehicles and the properties themselves;
Event #1
44 long weapons (new), 29 cartridges, 142 porters (magazines?) , 2 detainees, 2 vehicles, heroin, and 141.697 kilos of meth
1 property.
Event #2
22 long weapons, 9 short weapons, 1 Barret rifle, 1 RPG rocket launcher, 2 grenade launchers, 1 defensive hand grenade, 1 grenade. 40 mm 1 cal rocket 85 mm. For RPG Rocket Launcher, 689 loaders ( magazines?), 38,090 cartridges.
1 detainee, 5 released, 2 vehicles, 1 property
Event #3
91 long guns, 1 Barret rifle, 5 grenade launcher attachments, 4 .223 "caliber guns, 2,180 AR-15 rifle magazines, 773 AK-47 rifle magazines, 11 AK-47 rifle magazines, 62,000 .223 caliber cartridges ", 11,700 caliber 7.62 mm cartridges. 2,500 cartridges. 308, 120 cartridges cal. 50
1 property
Event #4
49 long weapons, 2 attachments grenade launchers, 5 handguns, 800 magazines for AR-15 rifle, 830 magazines for AK-47 rifle, 5 magazines for AK-47 rifle, 32 magazines for small arms, 6 magazines for G-3 rifle, 24,000 caliber 7.62 cartridges, 47,000 .223 caliber cartridges, 468 50-caliber cartridges, 32 RPG 85 caliber (mm) rockets, 9 40-caliber (mm) grenades, 13 TNT explosive charge tubes.
1 property.
This was the house of the second seizure. Several kidnapping victims were discovered in the home.
End
Monday, April 30, 2018
Sunday, April 29, 2018
AZMEX I3/2 29-4-18
AZMEX I3/2 29 APR 2018
Humanitarian crisis in Central America impacts Sonora
By: EDUARDO LÓPEZ | 04/29/2018 6:20
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Sonora/29042018/1335227-Crisis-humanitaria-de-Centroamerica-impacta-a-Sonora.html
RELATED INFORMATION
Continued delivery of aid to migrants
Support migrant bazaar in Obregón
Migrants: A long journey to an uncertain destination
Central American migrants try to cross to the US illegally
Help comes from Los Angeles for Central American migrants
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
The exodus of Central Americans fleeing violence and poverty in their countries, generates about 300 per day to Mexico, which has become a humanitarian crisis that impacts Sonora as it is a necessary step towards the United States.
The state is geographically located in one of the two most important migratory routes in the country, said Gloria Ciria Valdez Gardea, researcher at El Colegio de Sonora, for which national and international migrants seek to reach the border with the United States.
"For many years it has been a state of transit, arrival, crossing, a state where migrants stay," she said, "especially in border communities such as Nogales, Agua Prieta and San Luis Río Colorado."
She indicated that border entities should take advantage of migrant skills.
She considered that the entities of the border should take advantage of the skills of the migrants, given that the transit will continue and is expected to intensify in the following years.
REQUIRE SUPPORT OF LOCAL HOSTELS
It was a week ago that about 600 Central American migrants arrived in Hermosillo hoping to continue on their way to the Sonora or Baja California border, but they were stranded.
The National Institute of Migration began the process for about 200 people who applied for a humanitarian visa during the week, but the process, according to the migrants, became slow, and many of them no longer have money for the photos. "We do not have the photos, they cost 60 pesos a package, but we do not have money to take them," said Alberto, a young man from El Salvador, 20 years old.
With complications, in the shelters where there are still about 250 Central Americans, they are still given food, but the space is not enough for everyone, so some have to sleep on the street.
End
Humanitarian crisis in Central America impacts Sonora
By: EDUARDO LÓPEZ | 04/29/2018 6:20
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Sonora/29042018/1335227-Crisis-humanitaria-de-Centroamerica-impacta-a-Sonora.html
RELATED INFORMATION
Continued delivery of aid to migrants
Support migrant bazaar in Obregón
Migrants: A long journey to an uncertain destination
Central American migrants try to cross to the US illegally
Help comes from Los Angeles for Central American migrants
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
The exodus of Central Americans fleeing violence and poverty in their countries, generates about 300 per day to Mexico, which has become a humanitarian crisis that impacts Sonora as it is a necessary step towards the United States.
The state is geographically located in one of the two most important migratory routes in the country, said Gloria Ciria Valdez Gardea, researcher at El Colegio de Sonora, for which national and international migrants seek to reach the border with the United States.
"For many years it has been a state of transit, arrival, crossing, a state where migrants stay," she said, "especially in border communities such as Nogales, Agua Prieta and San Luis Río Colorado."
She indicated that border entities should take advantage of migrant skills.
She considered that the entities of the border should take advantage of the skills of the migrants, given that the transit will continue and is expected to intensify in the following years.
REQUIRE SUPPORT OF LOCAL HOSTELS
It was a week ago that about 600 Central American migrants arrived in Hermosillo hoping to continue on their way to the Sonora or Baja California border, but they were stranded.
The National Institute of Migration began the process for about 200 people who applied for a humanitarian visa during the week, but the process, according to the migrants, became slow, and many of them no longer have money for the photos. "We do not have the photos, they cost 60 pesos a package, but we do not have money to take them," said Alberto, a young man from El Salvador, 20 years old.
With complications, in the shelters where there are still about 250 Central Americans, they are still given food, but the space is not enough for everyone, so some have to sleep on the street.
End
AZMEX I3 29-4-18
AZMEX I3 29 APR 2018
Central American migrants intend to cross into the US illegally
Some of the members of the Migrant Caravan have tried to cross into the US without the asylum application.
By: Ana L. Gómez | 04/29/2018 7:49
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/29042018/1335263-Migrantes-centroamericanos-intentan-cruzar-galgal-a-EU.html
RELATED INFORMATION
Humanitarian crisis in Central America impacts Sonora
Help comes from Los Angeles for Central American migrants
Migrants want to work while their visa arrives
They call for a pro-migrant demonstration
Urge food for migrants
SAN DIEGO, California (GH)
Several groups of migrants who are part of the Migrant Caravan have crossed the border of Mexico with the United States, without documents, in the last 24 hours.
Migrants including a pregnant woman, and even children as young as 4 years old, were detected in the United States after they climbed the metal border mesh, according to information from the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP). for its acronym in English).
A CBP statement indicates that undocumented crossings have been recorded near the San Ysidro port on both sides.
"It is imperative that they know that if they enter our country without documents, they have broken the law and will be prosecuted. If they make a false immigration statement, they have also broken the law and will be prosecuted, "said San Diego Border Patrol chief Rodney S. Scott.
The migrant caravan is held every year during Holy Week and is composed of Central American migrants, who seek asylum in the United States.
"Individuals who are part of the caravan and seek asylum or who intend to make another type of declaration, must apply for protection in the first safe country they find, including in Mexico," said Scott.
The authorities did not disclose the number of migrants they have identified as part of the migrant caravan, and who crossed without documents through the Tijuana-San Diego border.
CBP Operations Director in San Diego, Pete Flores said that migrants arriving at San Diego's checkpoints without documents to enter the country will be taken care of, although depending on the time, they may have to wait for the Mexican side, while process the rest.
END
More:
Dozens of Central Americans expected to ask for asylum at U.S. border today
An attorney on Saturday met in Tijuana on Saturday with members of the Pueblo Sin Fronteras caravan as they considered whether to seek asylum from the United States.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-asylum-caravan-20180428-story.html
Sandra Dibble Sandra DibbleContact Reporter
As dozens prepared to present themselves at the San Ysidro Port of Entry today, more uncertainty lay ahead for a group of Central Americans who are seeking asylum from the U.S. government — undeterred by fierce criticism from President Trump.
Some members of the Pueblo Sin Fronteras Caravan may have to remain in Tijuana for a while longer before they can be processed by U.S. authorities at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Pete Flores, director of field operations in San Diego for the agency, said on Saturday that "depending on port circumstances at the time of arrival, individuals may need to wait in Mexico as CBP officers work to process those already within our facilities."
The Central Americans would not be the first group to be forced to wait in Mexico. When thousands of Haitians sought entry at San Ysidro in 2016, CBP worked with Mexican officials to accept limited numbers each day so as not to overwhelm the port's processing capacity.
By foot, bus and train, the caravan participants have been journeying through Mexico since leaving the southern border city of Tapachula on March 25 with the aim of reaching the Tijuana-San Diego border. Most are from Honduras, and tell of gang violence and extortion back home.
On Saturday, as they lingered near the U.S. border at Plaza Viva Tijuana, many appeared weary and ready to move on.
Those expected to ask for asylum are a small percentage of a traveling group that at one point swelled to more than 1,700 members, according to organizers. They said that about 400 caravan participants, many of them women and children, had completed the journey to Tijuana, and some small groups already been surrendering at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in recent days.
David López was among dozens pondering their next move on Saturday afternoon. López, 25, who until recently worked on the staff of an elementary school, said "organized crime and our country's government" had prompted him to flee the Copan area of Honduras with his wife and their three-year-old daughter.
Mother and child had presented themselves at San Ysidro Port of Entry ten days ago, but López remained behind. He said his wife and their daughter have been released from custody while their asylum claim is under review and are staying with family in South Carolina.
Today's group is expected to be the largest and most public of this caravan to approach U.S. border officials, though exactly how many will seek asylum was not known.
On Friday and Saturday, the caravan members met at different locations near the border with volunteer attorneys who listened to their claims and offered counseling, "so that people really know what they're getting into," said Nicole Ramos, who has worked closely with asylum applicants.
Similar caravans for years have been taking place as a way of keeping Central Americans safe from criminal gangs and corrupt officials as they travel through Mexico hoping to make it to the U.S. border.
But this caravan is one of the largest — and by far the most visible, following a series of tweets by President Trump complaining that Mexico is doing little to stop them from reaching the U.S. border.
"This is not ideal for us to have this many people, this much publicity," said Irineo Mujica, leader of the Pueblo Sin Fronteras Caravan. But "it's been really really good that we are able to see what is the problem," the violence that is causing so many to abandon their homes and come to the U.S. border.
Still, some migrant advocates have questioned the benefits brought by the caravan. "We don't think it's a really good move," said the Rev. Patrick Murphy, who heads the Catholic-run Casa del Migrante, a 120-bed shelter that overlooks the city. "What happens to those people who have made this journey for quite a few weeks now, and they get rejected, or worse yet, they don't even get their asylum cases heard."
In a statement last week, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, said the department has been "closely monitoring" the remnants of the caravan. She said DHS "encourages persons with asylum or other similar claims to seek protections in the first safe country they enter, including Mexico."
But Maureen Meyer of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy group, said that "it's naive to think that most of the Central Americans will want to request asylum in Mexico."
While Mexico "has increased its capacity to process and screen potential asylum seekers, it still has a long way to go," she said. "With widespread kidnappings, theft, sexual assaults and other crimes against migrants in Mexico, it is hard to think that Central Americans will view Mexico as a place they want to settle."
Early Sunday there were about 80 caravan supporters just north of the border at Friendship Park but an anti-caravan group, called San Diegans for Secure Borders, were expected to protest.
End
Asylum? Interesting oped from Ogden.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Video: Fake Refugee Caravan Arrives in Tijuana
From: Roger Ogden <roger@patriot-fire.net>
Date: Fri, April 27, 2018 6:48 am
Fake Refugees from Honduras in Tijuana (April 25, 2018)
The system of asylum in the U.S. has long been abused by politicians in order to secure cheap labor for big busi...
The system of asylum in the U.S. has long been abused by politicians in order to secure cheap labor for big business at the expense of American workers. These are scenes of the fake "refugees" from the caravan which arrived in Tijuana on 4/25/2018. There are over a hundred in Tijuana, so far (4/26). They are staying at "Movimiento Juventud 2000" at Constitucion Ave and Sanchez Ayala St.
I call these "fake" refugees because they are not fleeing a war or natural disaster. Most are from Honduras. They are fleeing crime and poverty, which is not a legitimate reason, according to international law. Refugees are also required to apply for asylum in the nearest country not the country with the most generous social benefits and highest paying jobs.
They are allowed to cross Mexico and apply for asylum in the US due to an executive order years ago that declared Mexico to not be a safe country for refugees. Another executive order could reverse this decision and stop this flow of economic refugees into the U.S.
Many of these refugees say outright that they are going to the U.S. to work and for a better standard of living. Some will apply for asylum at the ports of entry. Others will jump the fence, because they a processed quicker that way. All of them will be delivered to ICE, who will release many of them due to lack of detention space, especially if they have children.
Much has been made about Mexico allowing the caravan to cross their territory, but they would not be coming at all, if our own government did not accept them at the border and then just release them into the interior to disappear.
Roger Ogden
San Diego, Ca
Central American migrants intend to cross into the US illegally
Some of the members of the Migrant Caravan have tried to cross into the US without the asylum application.
By: Ana L. Gómez | 04/29/2018 7:49
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/29042018/1335263-Migrantes-centroamericanos-intentan-cruzar-galgal-a-EU.html
RELATED INFORMATION
Humanitarian crisis in Central America impacts Sonora
Help comes from Los Angeles for Central American migrants
Migrants want to work while their visa arrives
They call for a pro-migrant demonstration
Urge food for migrants
SAN DIEGO, California (GH)
Several groups of migrants who are part of the Migrant Caravan have crossed the border of Mexico with the United States, without documents, in the last 24 hours.
Migrants including a pregnant woman, and even children as young as 4 years old, were detected in the United States after they climbed the metal border mesh, according to information from the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP). for its acronym in English).
A CBP statement indicates that undocumented crossings have been recorded near the San Ysidro port on both sides.
"It is imperative that they know that if they enter our country without documents, they have broken the law and will be prosecuted. If they make a false immigration statement, they have also broken the law and will be prosecuted, "said San Diego Border Patrol chief Rodney S. Scott.
The migrant caravan is held every year during Holy Week and is composed of Central American migrants, who seek asylum in the United States.
"Individuals who are part of the caravan and seek asylum or who intend to make another type of declaration, must apply for protection in the first safe country they find, including in Mexico," said Scott.
The authorities did not disclose the number of migrants they have identified as part of the migrant caravan, and who crossed without documents through the Tijuana-San Diego border.
CBP Operations Director in San Diego, Pete Flores said that migrants arriving at San Diego's checkpoints without documents to enter the country will be taken care of, although depending on the time, they may have to wait for the Mexican side, while process the rest.
END
More:
Dozens of Central Americans expected to ask for asylum at U.S. border today
An attorney on Saturday met in Tijuana on Saturday with members of the Pueblo Sin Fronteras caravan as they considered whether to seek asylum from the United States.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-asylum-caravan-20180428-story.html
Sandra Dibble Sandra DibbleContact Reporter
As dozens prepared to present themselves at the San Ysidro Port of Entry today, more uncertainty lay ahead for a group of Central Americans who are seeking asylum from the U.S. government — undeterred by fierce criticism from President Trump.
Some members of the Pueblo Sin Fronteras Caravan may have to remain in Tijuana for a while longer before they can be processed by U.S. authorities at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Pete Flores, director of field operations in San Diego for the agency, said on Saturday that "depending on port circumstances at the time of arrival, individuals may need to wait in Mexico as CBP officers work to process those already within our facilities."
The Central Americans would not be the first group to be forced to wait in Mexico. When thousands of Haitians sought entry at San Ysidro in 2016, CBP worked with Mexican officials to accept limited numbers each day so as not to overwhelm the port's processing capacity.
By foot, bus and train, the caravan participants have been journeying through Mexico since leaving the southern border city of Tapachula on March 25 with the aim of reaching the Tijuana-San Diego border. Most are from Honduras, and tell of gang violence and extortion back home.
On Saturday, as they lingered near the U.S. border at Plaza Viva Tijuana, many appeared weary and ready to move on.
Those expected to ask for asylum are a small percentage of a traveling group that at one point swelled to more than 1,700 members, according to organizers. They said that about 400 caravan participants, many of them women and children, had completed the journey to Tijuana, and some small groups already been surrendering at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in recent days.
David López was among dozens pondering their next move on Saturday afternoon. López, 25, who until recently worked on the staff of an elementary school, said "organized crime and our country's government" had prompted him to flee the Copan area of Honduras with his wife and their three-year-old daughter.
Mother and child had presented themselves at San Ysidro Port of Entry ten days ago, but López remained behind. He said his wife and their daughter have been released from custody while their asylum claim is under review and are staying with family in South Carolina.
Today's group is expected to be the largest and most public of this caravan to approach U.S. border officials, though exactly how many will seek asylum was not known.
On Friday and Saturday, the caravan members met at different locations near the border with volunteer attorneys who listened to their claims and offered counseling, "so that people really know what they're getting into," said Nicole Ramos, who has worked closely with asylum applicants.
Similar caravans for years have been taking place as a way of keeping Central Americans safe from criminal gangs and corrupt officials as they travel through Mexico hoping to make it to the U.S. border.
But this caravan is one of the largest — and by far the most visible, following a series of tweets by President Trump complaining that Mexico is doing little to stop them from reaching the U.S. border.
"This is not ideal for us to have this many people, this much publicity," said Irineo Mujica, leader of the Pueblo Sin Fronteras Caravan. But "it's been really really good that we are able to see what is the problem," the violence that is causing so many to abandon their homes and come to the U.S. border.
Still, some migrant advocates have questioned the benefits brought by the caravan. "We don't think it's a really good move," said the Rev. Patrick Murphy, who heads the Catholic-run Casa del Migrante, a 120-bed shelter that overlooks the city. "What happens to those people who have made this journey for quite a few weeks now, and they get rejected, or worse yet, they don't even get their asylum cases heard."
In a statement last week, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, said the department has been "closely monitoring" the remnants of the caravan. She said DHS "encourages persons with asylum or other similar claims to seek protections in the first safe country they enter, including Mexico."
But Maureen Meyer of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy group, said that "it's naive to think that most of the Central Americans will want to request asylum in Mexico."
While Mexico "has increased its capacity to process and screen potential asylum seekers, it still has a long way to go," she said. "With widespread kidnappings, theft, sexual assaults and other crimes against migrants in Mexico, it is hard to think that Central Americans will view Mexico as a place they want to settle."
Early Sunday there were about 80 caravan supporters just north of the border at Friendship Park but an anti-caravan group, called San Diegans for Secure Borders, were expected to protest.
End
Asylum? Interesting oped from Ogden.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Video: Fake Refugee Caravan Arrives in Tijuana
From: Roger Ogden <roger@patriot-fire.net>
Date: Fri, April 27, 2018 6:48 am
Fake Refugees from Honduras in Tijuana (April 25, 2018)
The system of asylum in the U.S. has long been abused by politicians in order to secure cheap labor for big busi...
The system of asylum in the U.S. has long been abused by politicians in order to secure cheap labor for big business at the expense of American workers. These are scenes of the fake "refugees" from the caravan which arrived in Tijuana on 4/25/2018. There are over a hundred in Tijuana, so far (4/26). They are staying at "Movimiento Juventud 2000" at Constitucion Ave and Sanchez Ayala St.
I call these "fake" refugees because they are not fleeing a war or natural disaster. Most are from Honduras. They are fleeing crime and poverty, which is not a legitimate reason, according to international law. Refugees are also required to apply for asylum in the nearest country not the country with the most generous social benefits and highest paying jobs.
They are allowed to cross Mexico and apply for asylum in the US due to an executive order years ago that declared Mexico to not be a safe country for refugees. Another executive order could reverse this decision and stop this flow of economic refugees into the U.S.
Many of these refugees say outright that they are going to the U.S. to work and for a better standard of living. Some will apply for asylum at the ports of entry. Others will jump the fence, because they a processed quicker that way. All of them will be delivered to ICE, who will release many of them due to lack of detention space, especially if they have children.
Much has been made about Mexico allowing the caravan to cross their territory, but they would not be coming at all, if our own government did not accept them at the border and then just release them into the interior to disappear.
Roger Ogden
San Diego, Ca
Saturday, April 28, 2018
AZMEX EXTRA 28-4-18
AZMEX EXTRA 28 APR 2018
From Excelsior.
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
Mexican Army seizes gold plated AK; 33 AK's, 11 AR-15's; rocket /grenade launcher; 142 magazines; 2 grenades, 3 kilos of cristal, fake uniforms, etc.
AK's described as Russian as is the launcher. Description probably unreliable, but if correct could be significant.
Photos at link.
Thx
At the link: (Spanish).
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/ejercito-decomisa-un-arsenal-con-un-ak-47-banado-en-oro/1235401
End
Note: several photos, little other information so far.
Thx
Arrest 11 people who carried weapons and tactical equipment
By: Drafting / GH | 04/27/2018 13:03
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Policiaca/27042018/1334852-Detienen-a-11-personas-que-portaban-armas-y-equipo-tactico.html
Eleven people were arrested by the Municipal Police this day.
Photo: Courtesy
They were confiscated weapons and tactical equipment.
Photo: Courtesy
Both the confiscated and detainees are already in the PGR under the protection of the Mexican Army.
End
More:
Municipal Police and Sedena seize arsenal in la Independencia and Mariano Matamoros
Municipal Police and Sedena seize arsenal in la Independencia and Mariano MatamorosIn the Independencia neighborhood a total of 12 people were arrested. Photo: Courtesy
By: Drafting / GH | 04/28/2018 9:53
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Policiaca/28042018/1335067-Policia-Municipal-y-Sedena-incautan-arsenal-en-la-Independencia-y-Mariano-Matamoros.html
In different actions implemented together, the Municipal Police of Tijuana and Sedena, (Mexican Army) seized arsenals, in one of the cases were nine firearms, cartridges, tactical equipment and radios, among the confiscated items, while in the other five weapons were confiscated.
Through a complaint to the 9-1-1 emergency number, the presence of armed men was reported on the side Calle Aldana with Vicente Guerrero from the Independencia neighborhood.
Municipal and military police moved to the place, where they intervened to Isaac "N" "El Raton" of 23 years old, originally from San Diego California, who had an arrest warrant for firing a weapon.
Ernesto Eleazar "N" of 20 years of age, Arcadio "N" of 31 years, Daniel Adrián "N" of 20, Jorge Humberto "N" of 18 years of age, and Cuauhtémoc Gabriel of 19 years also stopped in the place.
In addition to Jesus Alexis "N" of 18 years of age, Adrián "N" of 23 years, Gilbert "N" of 24, Ángel Ulises "N" of 30, Erick "N" of 21 years, and Wendy Vianey of 17 years old.
Six guns of a different caliber, two pistols, a .357 Magnum revolver, magazines, and additional cartridges were confiscated from these individuals, in addition to those with weapons.
As well as six vests, radio communication equipment, a 2012 Nissan Versa vehicle, and a 2007 Volkswagen Jetta car.
The detainees along with the confiscated items, were put at the disposal of the Agent of the Public Ministry.
They arrest two subjects with five weapons in the Mariano Matamoros
In another incident, on Vicente Guerrero Street and Javier Mina in the Mariano Matamoros neighborhood, municipal and military police officers stopped the driver of a recent Nissan Máxima.
The driver of the vehicle said he was Alejandro "N", 28 years old, while his companion identified himself as Juan "N", 39 years old, originally from Colima and Sinaloa, respectively.
Photo: Courtesy
During an inspection the elements observed inside a backpack in which the barrel of a firearm was apparently seen, reason why they inspected the automobile.
Inside the car they located a AR-15, two rifles known as AK-47, a rifle caliber 30.30 and a pistol caliber 9 mm, both men were arrested and turned over to the appropriate authority.
End
From Excelsior.
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
Mexican Army seizes gold plated AK; 33 AK's, 11 AR-15's; rocket /grenade launcher; 142 magazines; 2 grenades, 3 kilos of cristal, fake uniforms, etc.
AK's described as Russian as is the launcher. Description probably unreliable, but if correct could be significant.
Photos at link.
Thx
At the link: (Spanish).
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/ejercito-decomisa-un-arsenal-con-un-ak-47-banado-en-oro/1235401
End
Note: several photos, little other information so far.
Thx
Arrest 11 people who carried weapons and tactical equipment
By: Drafting / GH | 04/27/2018 13:03
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Policiaca/27042018/1334852-Detienen-a-11-personas-que-portaban-armas-y-equipo-tactico.html
Eleven people were arrested by the Municipal Police this day.
Photo: Courtesy
They were confiscated weapons and tactical equipment.
Photo: Courtesy
Both the confiscated and detainees are already in the PGR under the protection of the Mexican Army.
End
More:
Municipal Police and Sedena seize arsenal in la Independencia and Mariano Matamoros
Municipal Police and Sedena seize arsenal in la Independencia and Mariano MatamorosIn the Independencia neighborhood a total of 12 people were arrested. Photo: Courtesy
By: Drafting / GH | 04/28/2018 9:53
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Policiaca/28042018/1335067-Policia-Municipal-y-Sedena-incautan-arsenal-en-la-Independencia-y-Mariano-Matamoros.html
In different actions implemented together, the Municipal Police of Tijuana and Sedena, (Mexican Army) seized arsenals, in one of the cases were nine firearms, cartridges, tactical equipment and radios, among the confiscated items, while in the other five weapons were confiscated.
Through a complaint to the 9-1-1 emergency number, the presence of armed men was reported on the side Calle Aldana with Vicente Guerrero from the Independencia neighborhood.
Municipal and military police moved to the place, where they intervened to Isaac "N" "El Raton" of 23 years old, originally from San Diego California, who had an arrest warrant for firing a weapon.
Ernesto Eleazar "N" of 20 years of age, Arcadio "N" of 31 years, Daniel Adrián "N" of 20, Jorge Humberto "N" of 18 years of age, and Cuauhtémoc Gabriel of 19 years also stopped in the place.
In addition to Jesus Alexis "N" of 18 years of age, Adrián "N" of 23 years, Gilbert "N" of 24, Ángel Ulises "N" of 30, Erick "N" of 21 years, and Wendy Vianey of 17 years old.
Six guns of a different caliber, two pistols, a .357 Magnum revolver, magazines, and additional cartridges were confiscated from these individuals, in addition to those with weapons.
As well as six vests, radio communication equipment, a 2012 Nissan Versa vehicle, and a 2007 Volkswagen Jetta car.
The detainees along with the confiscated items, were put at the disposal of the Agent of the Public Ministry.
They arrest two subjects with five weapons in the Mariano Matamoros
In another incident, on Vicente Guerrero Street and Javier Mina in the Mariano Matamoros neighborhood, municipal and military police officers stopped the driver of a recent Nissan Máxima.
The driver of the vehicle said he was Alejandro "N", 28 years old, while his companion identified himself as Juan "N", 39 years old, originally from Colima and Sinaloa, respectively.
Photo: Courtesy
During an inspection the elements observed inside a backpack in which the barrel of a firearm was apparently seen, reason why they inspected the automobile.
Inside the car they located a AR-15, two rifles known as AK-47, a rifle caliber 30.30 and a pistol caliber 9 mm, both men were arrested and turned over to the appropriate authority.
End
Thursday, April 26, 2018
AZMEX EXTRA 26-4-18
AZMEX EXTRA 26 APR 2018
Unofficial prison for five men carrying weapons, magazines and more than 800 cartridges in Yécora
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/73674
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), in its Sonora Delegation, obtained from a Judge of Control, connection to the process and informal preventive detention against five persons, for the crime of violation of the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives, then to secure weapons, magazines, and cartridges in Yécora, Sonora.
According to what was stated in the investigation folder, elements of the State Public Security Police reported that José "E", Oscar "A", Rubén were detained in the vicinity of a dirt road in the Municipality of Yécora. José "E", Oscar "A", Rubén "A", Marcos "D" and José Ángel "O", in possession of five long firearms, 35 magazines and 819 cartridges of different caliber.
The detained remained at the disposal of the Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo (SCRPPA), in his Delegation in Sonora, while, to José "E", Oscar "A", Rubén "A", Marcos "D" and José Ángel "O", are being held at CEFERESO # 11, based in Hermosillo, Sonora.
END
Transfer dangerous criminals to Sonora
MANUEL POSTED ON 04/26/2018
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2018/04/26/trasladan-a-sonora-a-peligrosos-delincuentes/.
Nuevo Día / Hermosillo, Sonora
Two individuals arrested with an arsenal in the Northeast of the country were admitted to the federal prison in the capital of Sonora.
After elements of the Ministry of National Defense detained Ismael "N" and Martiriano "N", in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the Delegation of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), in the entity obtained from a Control Judge , to process against both.
This is due to his probable responsibility in the commission of the crimes of stockpiling of weapons, possession of cartridges and magazines that are for the exclusive use of the armed forces, as well as operations with resources of illicit origin.
During the initial hearing, the federal judge qualified the detention as legal and linked the accused to the ones they imposed as a preventive measure in custody at the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (CEFERESO), Hermosillo, Sonora, and granted three months for the further research.
Elements of the SEDENA arrested Ismael "N" and Martiriano "N", in the Los Garza neighborhood, in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, and placed them at the disposal of the agent of the Public Ministry of the PGR Delegation in Tamaulipas.
After making the accusation, the Federal Prosecutor asked the federal judge to declare himself incompetent to continue hearing the case for security reasons, in favor of the District Judge residing in Hermosillo, Sonora, which was granted.
Given the above, a transfer operation was coordinated, in strict adherence to due process according to the Accusatory Criminal System, to protect the integrity of the accused, with the support of elements of the National Defense Secretariat and the Federal Police. in which the delegations of the PGR intervened in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Sonora
Ismael Gilberto López Guerrero "El Mayito", is the alleged financial operator of the Northeast Cartel and alleged drug trafficker in the United States from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
The judge considered this precautionary measure because the maximum penalty they could impose is up to 48 years in prison and because there were firearms detonations both in the place where "El Mayito" and his alleged accomplice were arrested, as well as outside the ministerial facilities.
The suspects were caught with two rifles, an AR-15 and an AK-47 or "goat horn," a 30-30 caliber rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, two short weapons, four magazines for various weapons, 600 different rounds of ammunition. calibers, 50 thousand American dollars and two trucks.
End
Unofficial prison for five men carrying weapons, magazines and more than 800 cartridges in Yécora
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/73674
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), in its Sonora Delegation, obtained from a Judge of Control, connection to the process and informal preventive detention against five persons, for the crime of violation of the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives, then to secure weapons, magazines, and cartridges in Yécora, Sonora.
According to what was stated in the investigation folder, elements of the State Public Security Police reported that José "E", Oscar "A", Rubén were detained in the vicinity of a dirt road in the Municipality of Yécora. José "E", Oscar "A", Rubén "A", Marcos "D" and José Ángel "O", in possession of five long firearms, 35 magazines and 819 cartridges of different caliber.
The detained remained at the disposal of the Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo (SCRPPA), in his Delegation in Sonora, while, to José "E", Oscar "A", Rubén "A", Marcos "D" and José Ángel "O", are being held at CEFERESO # 11, based in Hermosillo, Sonora.
END
Transfer dangerous criminals to Sonora
MANUEL POSTED ON 04/26/2018
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2018/04/26/trasladan-a-sonora-a-peligrosos-delincuentes/.
Nuevo Día / Hermosillo, Sonora
Two individuals arrested with an arsenal in the Northeast of the country were admitted to the federal prison in the capital of Sonora.
After elements of the Ministry of National Defense detained Ismael "N" and Martiriano "N", in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the Delegation of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), in the entity obtained from a Control Judge , to process against both.
This is due to his probable responsibility in the commission of the crimes of stockpiling of weapons, possession of cartridges and magazines that are for the exclusive use of the armed forces, as well as operations with resources of illicit origin.
During the initial hearing, the federal judge qualified the detention as legal and linked the accused to the ones they imposed as a preventive measure in custody at the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (CEFERESO), Hermosillo, Sonora, and granted three months for the further research.
Elements of the SEDENA arrested Ismael "N" and Martiriano "N", in the Los Garza neighborhood, in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, and placed them at the disposal of the agent of the Public Ministry of the PGR Delegation in Tamaulipas.
After making the accusation, the Federal Prosecutor asked the federal judge to declare himself incompetent to continue hearing the case for security reasons, in favor of the District Judge residing in Hermosillo, Sonora, which was granted.
Given the above, a transfer operation was coordinated, in strict adherence to due process according to the Accusatory Criminal System, to protect the integrity of the accused, with the support of elements of the National Defense Secretariat and the Federal Police. in which the delegations of the PGR intervened in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Sonora
Ismael Gilberto López Guerrero "El Mayito", is the alleged financial operator of the Northeast Cartel and alleged drug trafficker in the United States from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
The judge considered this precautionary measure because the maximum penalty they could impose is up to 48 years in prison and because there were firearms detonations both in the place where "El Mayito" and his alleged accomplice were arrested, as well as outside the ministerial facilities.
The suspects were caught with two rifles, an AR-15 and an AK-47 or "goat horn," a 30-30 caliber rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, two short weapons, four magazines for various weapons, 600 different rounds of ammunition. calibers, 50 thousand American dollars and two trucks.
End
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
AZMEX I3/2 25-4-18
AZMEX I3/2 25 APR 2018
Note: photos, video at link.
Caravan of immigrants arrives in Tijuana
Posted: Apr 24, 2018 4:45 PM MST
Updated: Apr 25, 2018 6:29 AM MST
By Monique Griego, ReporterConnect
Caravan of immigrants arriving in Tijuana
02:04Caravan of immigrants arrives in Tijuana
http://www.cbs8.com/story/38033468/caravan-of-immigrants-arrive-in-tijuana
Caravan of immigrants arriving in Tijuana
SAN YSIDRO (NEWS 8) – A caravan of around 400 men, women and children arrived at a shelter in Tijuana on Tuesday as part of an annual caravan of migrants from Central America.
For now they will sleep in tents set up for them south of the border, but their plans to enter the United States have been met with strong response from the Department of Homeland Security.
The group, which organizers say is made up of people fleeing violence in their home countries, drew the ire of President Trump after some announced they planned to seek asylum in the United States.
"Now, the caravan, which is over a thousand people coming in from Honduras, thought they were just going to walk right through Mexico and right through the border," said Trump.
Reports said the caravan has decreased in size and essentially split in two – with around 400 migrants planning to apply for humanitarian visas to stay in Mexico.
The other half, estimated to be 350 to 400 people, left Hermosillo, Mexico and were bound for the border where many plan to apply for asylum despite Trump's directions to deny them.
On Monday the president again lashed out at the caravan in a series of tweets, including one that read in part:
"I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country. It is a disgrace. We are the only Country in the World so naive! WALL"
CBS News spoke via video chat with one of the caravan's organizers.
"I don't know what Donald Trump says, but one of the things that I can tell you is we are trying to find sensible solutions, we are trying to get people to be documented here. They are trying to get a place where they can live without fear. So, he can say whatever he wants and he can be as irresponsible as he wants," said the organizer.
The Tijuana shelter has set up tents and was bringing in supplies to accommodate the migrants until they figure out their next move – whether it be asylum or not.
A person may apply for asylum if they are at a port of entry or in the United States. The person may apply for asylum regardless of their immigration status and within one year of his or her arrival to the United States.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen released a statement on the migrant caravan which said in part:
"If members of the 'caravan' enter the country illegally, they will be referred for prosecution for illegal entry in accordance with existing law. For those seeking asylum, all individuals may be detained while their claims are adjudicated efficiently and expeditiously, and those found not to have a claim will be promptly removed from the United States."
END
More: (Spanish). https://www.proceso.com.mx/531414/llega-a-la-frontera-de-bc-el-primer-contingente-del-viacrucis-del-migrante-en-lucha
Note: photos, video at link.
Caravan of immigrants arrives in Tijuana
Posted: Apr 24, 2018 4:45 PM MST
Updated: Apr 25, 2018 6:29 AM MST
By Monique Griego, ReporterConnect
Caravan of immigrants arriving in Tijuana
02:04Caravan of immigrants arrives in Tijuana
http://www.cbs8.com/story/38033468/caravan-of-immigrants-arrive-in-tijuana
Caravan of immigrants arriving in Tijuana
SAN YSIDRO (NEWS 8) – A caravan of around 400 men, women and children arrived at a shelter in Tijuana on Tuesday as part of an annual caravan of migrants from Central America.
For now they will sleep in tents set up for them south of the border, but their plans to enter the United States have been met with strong response from the Department of Homeland Security.
The group, which organizers say is made up of people fleeing violence in their home countries, drew the ire of President Trump after some announced they planned to seek asylum in the United States.
"Now, the caravan, which is over a thousand people coming in from Honduras, thought they were just going to walk right through Mexico and right through the border," said Trump.
Reports said the caravan has decreased in size and essentially split in two – with around 400 migrants planning to apply for humanitarian visas to stay in Mexico.
The other half, estimated to be 350 to 400 people, left Hermosillo, Mexico and were bound for the border where many plan to apply for asylum despite Trump's directions to deny them.
On Monday the president again lashed out at the caravan in a series of tweets, including one that read in part:
"I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country. It is a disgrace. We are the only Country in the World so naive! WALL"
CBS News spoke via video chat with one of the caravan's organizers.
"I don't know what Donald Trump says, but one of the things that I can tell you is we are trying to find sensible solutions, we are trying to get people to be documented here. They are trying to get a place where they can live without fear. So, he can say whatever he wants and he can be as irresponsible as he wants," said the organizer.
The Tijuana shelter has set up tents and was bringing in supplies to accommodate the migrants until they figure out their next move – whether it be asylum or not.
A person may apply for asylum if they are at a port of entry or in the United States. The person may apply for asylum regardless of their immigration status and within one year of his or her arrival to the United States.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen released a statement on the migrant caravan which said in part:
"If members of the 'caravan' enter the country illegally, they will be referred for prosecution for illegal entry in accordance with existing law. For those seeking asylum, all individuals may be detained while their claims are adjudicated efficiently and expeditiously, and those found not to have a claim will be promptly removed from the United States."
END
More: (Spanish). https://www.proceso.com.mx/531414/llega-a-la-frontera-de-bc-el-primer-contingente-del-viacrucis-del-migrante-en-lucha
AZMEX I3 25-4-18
AZMEX I3 25 APR 2018
Comment: but no asylum in Mexico?
Gracias
Arrive at Tijuana 130 of Caravana Migrante; will seek asylum in the US
In some cases they are complete families.
By: Glenn Sanchez | 04/25/2018 7:56
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/25042018/1333224-Arriban-a-Tijuana-130-de-Caravana-Migrante-buscaran-asilo-en-EU.html
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
For hundreds of Central American migrants after traveling thousands of kilometers in "La Bestia", arriving in Tijuana means a new life expectancy to be so close to its final destination, which is the United States.
On Tuesday, about 130 migrants arrived in the city, including 20 minors, from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to the Youth 2000 shelter in the Northern Zone, where they were waiting for them with hot food and a place to sleep.
Mrs. Flor de María Hernández, originally from El Salvador, who traveled with her four minor children, said that she left her country due to the high rates of violence registered with the gangs.
"You can no longer live with confidence or have peace, because of problems with gangs, I have a teenaged son, which, I had to take out of school for the same problems with young gang members, there is a lot of violence, the government no longer has dominion over them, "he said.
She added that they can not even go to another colony because the gang members attack them because they are from another place even if they go with their parents.
For this reason, she is confident that God will touch the heart of President Donald Trump, allowing them to be granted asylum.
"We have heard that he has said that he does not want anyone coming from the caravan, that he does not want women or children and I say we deserve an opportunity to ask for asylum in that country, we are hard-working people, humble and we need an opportunity", he said.
For her part, the situation for which her country leaves Mrs. Irma Rivera, coming from Honduras, is also related to violence, since people are often murdered and crimes are not resolved.
So she decided to leave everything behind and look for a better place to live for her and her two children of 6 and 4 years old.
And despite the negative comments they have heard from Trump, they hope they can cross the border.
While Mrs. Guadalupe, also from El Salvador, said she was aware of Trump's negative comments towards migrants, so if she does not grant them asylum, she plans to stay in Mexico with her family of seven people.
They flee from the Mara
Byron, a 15-year-old native of Honduras who travels with his mother and two older sisters, said the situation in his country was unbearable, especially because of the violence generated by the Mara Salvatrucha.
"I did not feel safe, every time they killed people, almost daily ...", he declared.
So now that he arrived in Tijuana he is looking to cross the border and continue with his studies in order to work, so he is confident that with the help of God he will be able to cross the border.
The director of Youth 2000, José María García Lara said that the shelter is able to serve the hundreds of migrants who arrived yesterday.
They do not know when they will try to approach the border booth, so they must first organize among themselves.
There is still a larger group of migrants of around 400 people who come on the train so they are ready and ready to receive them in at least 10 hostels in the municipality, some more retired than others but with open arms to receive them.
He acknowledged that there is little likelihood of receiving them in the United States, however, they are determined to intern it as they seek a better quality of life.
Garcia Lara said that so far the three levels of government have not supported them with any economic resources, only in kind as mats, food or medical attention.
They require help
The cost per person only per food is 100 pesos minimum, plus the costs of water, electricity, shoes, clothes, etc.
END
Comment: but no asylum in Mexico?
Gracias
Arrive at Tijuana 130 of Caravana Migrante; will seek asylum in the US
In some cases they are complete families.
By: Glenn Sanchez | 04/25/2018 7:56
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/25042018/1333224-Arriban-a-Tijuana-130-de-Caravana-Migrante-buscaran-asilo-en-EU.html
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
For hundreds of Central American migrants after traveling thousands of kilometers in "La Bestia", arriving in Tijuana means a new life expectancy to be so close to its final destination, which is the United States.
On Tuesday, about 130 migrants arrived in the city, including 20 minors, from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to the Youth 2000 shelter in the Northern Zone, where they were waiting for them with hot food and a place to sleep.
Mrs. Flor de María Hernández, originally from El Salvador, who traveled with her four minor children, said that she left her country due to the high rates of violence registered with the gangs.
"You can no longer live with confidence or have peace, because of problems with gangs, I have a teenaged son, which, I had to take out of school for the same problems with young gang members, there is a lot of violence, the government no longer has dominion over them, "he said.
She added that they can not even go to another colony because the gang members attack them because they are from another place even if they go with their parents.
For this reason, she is confident that God will touch the heart of President Donald Trump, allowing them to be granted asylum.
"We have heard that he has said that he does not want anyone coming from the caravan, that he does not want women or children and I say we deserve an opportunity to ask for asylum in that country, we are hard-working people, humble and we need an opportunity", he said.
For her part, the situation for which her country leaves Mrs. Irma Rivera, coming from Honduras, is also related to violence, since people are often murdered and crimes are not resolved.
So she decided to leave everything behind and look for a better place to live for her and her two children of 6 and 4 years old.
And despite the negative comments they have heard from Trump, they hope they can cross the border.
While Mrs. Guadalupe, also from El Salvador, said she was aware of Trump's negative comments towards migrants, so if she does not grant them asylum, she plans to stay in Mexico with her family of seven people.
They flee from the Mara
Byron, a 15-year-old native of Honduras who travels with his mother and two older sisters, said the situation in his country was unbearable, especially because of the violence generated by the Mara Salvatrucha.
"I did not feel safe, every time they killed people, almost daily ...", he declared.
So now that he arrived in Tijuana he is looking to cross the border and continue with his studies in order to work, so he is confident that with the help of God he will be able to cross the border.
The director of Youth 2000, José María García Lara said that the shelter is able to serve the hundreds of migrants who arrived yesterday.
They do not know when they will try to approach the border booth, so they must first organize among themselves.
There is still a larger group of migrants of around 400 people who come on the train so they are ready and ready to receive them in at least 10 hostels in the municipality, some more retired than others but with open arms to receive them.
He acknowledged that there is little likelihood of receiving them in the United States, however, they are determined to intern it as they seek a better quality of life.
Garcia Lara said that so far the three levels of government have not supported them with any economic resources, only in kind as mats, food or medical attention.
They require help
The cost per person only per food is 100 pesos minimum, plus the costs of water, electricity, shoes, clothes, etc.
END
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
AZMEX I3/2 24-4-18
AZMEX I3/2 24 APR 2018
Comment: initially processed, disappear and never show up for the hearing as so many others? Or is it time to start building holding camps along the border?
Note: several photos, video at link.
Thx
The first group of the migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana
The caravan arrived at the Youth Hostel 2000. Photo: Sergio Ortiz
By: Glenn Sanchez | 04/24/2018 5:09 PM
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/24042018/1333079-Llega-a-Tijuana-primer-grupo-de-la-caravana-migrante.html
RELATED INFORMATION
Flee from Honduras after the murder of her husband
Migrant women and children arrive in Mexicali
Trump threatens not to let the caravan into the US
Caravana says goodbye to Hermosillo; nothing slows them towards the EU
Migrant Caravan Unleashes Trump Fury
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
On Tuesday afternoon, about 120 people from the "Viacrucis Migrante 2018" arrived in Tijuana, who will seek refuge or asylum in the United States.
After a long trip that started in Chiapas, they arrived at the Youth Hostel 2000, where hot food awaits them and a place to sleep.
It is still expected that another 400 people will arrive at the border, so there are 10 shelters available in the city to receive them.
End
Comment: initially processed, disappear and never show up for the hearing as so many others? Or is it time to start building holding camps along the border?
Note: several photos, video at link.
Thx
The first group of the migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana
The caravan arrived at the Youth Hostel 2000. Photo: Sergio Ortiz
By: Glenn Sanchez | 04/24/2018 5:09 PM
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/24042018/1333079-Llega-a-Tijuana-primer-grupo-de-la-caravana-migrante.html
RELATED INFORMATION
Flee from Honduras after the murder of her husband
Migrant women and children arrive in Mexicali
Trump threatens not to let the caravan into the US
Caravana says goodbye to Hermosillo; nothing slows them towards the EU
Migrant Caravan Unleashes Trump Fury
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
On Tuesday afternoon, about 120 people from the "Viacrucis Migrante 2018" arrived in Tijuana, who will seek refuge or asylum in the United States.
After a long trip that started in Chiapas, they arrived at the Youth Hostel 2000, where hot food awaits them and a place to sleep.
It is still expected that another 400 people will arrive at the border, so there are 10 shelters available in the city to receive them.
End
AZMEX I3 24-4-18
AZMEX I3 24 APR 2018
Migrants mobilize at the border
Mobilizes the arrival of migrants to the border Photo: lagarcia
By: Nicolle De León | 04/24/2018 7:06
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/24042018/1332918-Moviliza-llegada-de-migrantes-a-la-frontera.html
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
The caravan, made up of Central American migrants, mobilized the authorities and civil associations to receive them on Tuesday, April 24, with shelter, food and health services. The head of the Directorate of Migration of the General Secretariat of Government (SGG), explained that the caravan of migrants will arrive on Tuesday morning, will be received in three shelters with food and shelter.
This caravan of migrants who left Tapachula a month ago has been walking slowly through the Mexican Republic, unlike in previous years as it was more numerous with many children and women, commented Gustavo Magallanes Cortés.
He said that this complicates mobility, the means of transportation and its speed, come to demonstrate and seek asylum in the United States, demanding respect for their human rights, in order to have a better quality of life. "The caravan is already in Hermosillo, there are about 750 people, they marched through the streets of Hermosillo, they are likely to leave for Mexicali, some by train and others by trucks," explained Magallanes.
He estimated that today they will arrive in Mexicali, they will spend the night in the shelters of the city to continue their trip to Tijuana, where they will request asylum in the migration area of the foreign country. (USA) "We are committed to following up on the departure of the caravan, to monitor and ensure that their safety and integrity, as well as their human rights, are protected, as well as to support them in the humanitarian aspect," said the director of migration.
There will be three shelters that will be authorized to receive them, although all the associations that serve migrants are willing to give them space, give them food and health brigades. To establish the protocol of action, they held three follow-up meetings for the caravan, where the three levels of government, civil associations that have shelters, national and state human rights, reported.
"They want to be very little time in Mexicali, they want to arrive and leave, but they have to stay because the train arrives here, it is very likely that they will rest here, and then look for how to get to Tijuana," he said. The authorized shelters will be the Hotel of the Migrant of Sergio Tamai, the Alpha and Omega shelter of Tomás Diosdado and Covina Posada del Migrante of Altagracia Tamayo, chose those three because they are the closest to each other, being this a request of the migrants that come in families
Magallanes clarified that they do not believe that the 750 people arrived because they were informed that many will go down in the desert, trying to cross through Sonora, those who arrive will be distributed in those shelters.
FUMIGAN HOSTELS
The vector group of the Institute of Health Services fumigated all the shelters for migrants, in order to prevent them from catching diseases such as Zika, Dengue, Chicungunya and Rickettsia. The director accepted that he does not know how much will be allocated to the migration contingency, noting that an effort is being made to provide them with food, health and safety services.
"Health caravans will ignore what was scheduled to address this contingency, this migratory situation, and both the municipal and state areas will have elements of Public Security to safeguard their integrity and security," he said. "This resource is not free, and it is not because they are going to be charged, but it is difficult to move a medical brigade to serve in a cost, and even with security programs and resources for food," he added.
Detect pregnancies and risk groups in caravan
The health authorities of the Government of Guadalajara provided information regarding the health conditions in which the migrant caravan comes, highlighting pregnancies and risk groups. These are two pregnancies and 37 people who are part of the groups at greatest risk, that is, they are susceptible to suffering from a disease for being less than five years old or older than 60 years.
Authorities of the Ministry of Health, informed the Directorate of Migration that they are well within the normal range, presenting common diseases of the season. Among the ailments, they stated that some of them had catarrhs, rashes, skin and stomach infections, all of them were treated in the Guadalajara hospitals, so there is no risk of their migration.
"They are acute respiratory infections and diarrheal infections, they all received treatment in Guadalajara, in addition to two pregnant women who considered very important in terms of health," said the director of migration, Gustavo Magallanes Cortés.
The two pregnant women are of relevance to the Health Sector, so they will try to locate them as soon as possible at the time of their arrival in Mexicali, to review them and provide prenatal care.
Among the 615 migrants there are six children under one year old; from 1 to 4 years old three are 28; from 5 to 14 years old, there are 62; from 15 to 24 years old, there are 225; from 25 to 44 years old, they are 275; from 45 to 64 years old, there are 18; of 65 years and more is one, declared Magellan.
Risk groups are 34 under five and three over 60. There are 188 women and approximately 96 minors. He said that on the way the caravan was divided into five groups and have traveled different routes, so the number can change.
END
Migrants mobilize at the border
Mobilizes the arrival of migrants to the border Photo: lagarcia
By: Nicolle De León | 04/24/2018 7:06
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/24042018/1332918-Moviliza-llegada-de-migrantes-a-la-frontera.html
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
The caravan, made up of Central American migrants, mobilized the authorities and civil associations to receive them on Tuesday, April 24, with shelter, food and health services. The head of the Directorate of Migration of the General Secretariat of Government (SGG), explained that the caravan of migrants will arrive on Tuesday morning, will be received in three shelters with food and shelter.
This caravan of migrants who left Tapachula a month ago has been walking slowly through the Mexican Republic, unlike in previous years as it was more numerous with many children and women, commented Gustavo Magallanes Cortés.
He said that this complicates mobility, the means of transportation and its speed, come to demonstrate and seek asylum in the United States, demanding respect for their human rights, in order to have a better quality of life. "The caravan is already in Hermosillo, there are about 750 people, they marched through the streets of Hermosillo, they are likely to leave for Mexicali, some by train and others by trucks," explained Magallanes.
He estimated that today they will arrive in Mexicali, they will spend the night in the shelters of the city to continue their trip to Tijuana, where they will request asylum in the migration area of the foreign country. (USA) "We are committed to following up on the departure of the caravan, to monitor and ensure that their safety and integrity, as well as their human rights, are protected, as well as to support them in the humanitarian aspect," said the director of migration.
There will be three shelters that will be authorized to receive them, although all the associations that serve migrants are willing to give them space, give them food and health brigades. To establish the protocol of action, they held three follow-up meetings for the caravan, where the three levels of government, civil associations that have shelters, national and state human rights, reported.
"They want to be very little time in Mexicali, they want to arrive and leave, but they have to stay because the train arrives here, it is very likely that they will rest here, and then look for how to get to Tijuana," he said. The authorized shelters will be the Hotel of the Migrant of Sergio Tamai, the Alpha and Omega shelter of Tomás Diosdado and Covina Posada del Migrante of Altagracia Tamayo, chose those three because they are the closest to each other, being this a request of the migrants that come in families
Magallanes clarified that they do not believe that the 750 people arrived because they were informed that many will go down in the desert, trying to cross through Sonora, those who arrive will be distributed in those shelters.
FUMIGAN HOSTELS
The vector group of the Institute of Health Services fumigated all the shelters for migrants, in order to prevent them from catching diseases such as Zika, Dengue, Chicungunya and Rickettsia. The director accepted that he does not know how much will be allocated to the migration contingency, noting that an effort is being made to provide them with food, health and safety services.
"Health caravans will ignore what was scheduled to address this contingency, this migratory situation, and both the municipal and state areas will have elements of Public Security to safeguard their integrity and security," he said. "This resource is not free, and it is not because they are going to be charged, but it is difficult to move a medical brigade to serve in a cost, and even with security programs and resources for food," he added.
Detect pregnancies and risk groups in caravan
The health authorities of the Government of Guadalajara provided information regarding the health conditions in which the migrant caravan comes, highlighting pregnancies and risk groups. These are two pregnancies and 37 people who are part of the groups at greatest risk, that is, they are susceptible to suffering from a disease for being less than five years old or older than 60 years.
Authorities of the Ministry of Health, informed the Directorate of Migration that they are well within the normal range, presenting common diseases of the season. Among the ailments, they stated that some of them had catarrhs, rashes, skin and stomach infections, all of them were treated in the Guadalajara hospitals, so there is no risk of their migration.
"They are acute respiratory infections and diarrheal infections, they all received treatment in Guadalajara, in addition to two pregnant women who considered very important in terms of health," said the director of migration, Gustavo Magallanes Cortés.
The two pregnant women are of relevance to the Health Sector, so they will try to locate them as soon as possible at the time of their arrival in Mexicali, to review them and provide prenatal care.
Among the 615 migrants there are six children under one year old; from 1 to 4 years old three are 28; from 5 to 14 years old, there are 62; from 15 to 24 years old, there are 225; from 25 to 44 years old, they are 275; from 45 to 64 years old, there are 18; of 65 years and more is one, declared Magellan.
Risk groups are 34 under five and three over 60. There are 188 women and approximately 96 minors. He said that on the way the caravan was divided into five groups and have traveled different routes, so the number can change.
END
Monday, April 23, 2018
AZMEX I3 23-4-18
AZMEX I3 23 APR 2018
Note: "Mexico decides its immigration policy in a sovereign manner,"
(But not the USA?)
Don't forget: "the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Conditions to NAFTA for migratory control, unacceptable: Videgaray
Monday, 23 Apr 2018 11:11
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2018/04/23/condicionar-tlcan-a-control-migratorio-es-inaceptable-videgaray-6654.html
Mexico City.
The threat of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to make the future depend on the trade negotiations with Mexico and Canada on migration issues is "unacceptable," the Mexican government warned today.
Trump said that it could condition the ongoing renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, TCLAN in Spanish) to Mexico to curb illegal migration flows from its territory.
"Mexico decides its immigration policy in a sovereign manner, and the migration cooperation with the US (United States) happens to be convenient for Mexico," said Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray on his Twitter account. "It would be unacceptable to condition the renegotiation of NAFTA to migratory actions outside this framework of cooperation," he said.
The trade agreement, which dates back to 1994, began to be renegotiated in August under pressure from Trump and the parties have hinted that a principle of agreement could be reached in May.
However, Trump has repeatedly threatened to put an end to it and in recent weeks he has linked several times the future of the agreement on cooperation in immigration matters.
End
Protect deported migrants
Eréndida Contreras Inzunza
Nuevo Día / Nogales, Sonora
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2018/04/23/protegen-a-migrantes-deportados/#respond
The Outpatient Center for the Care of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (Capasits), in coordination with health authorities in Nogales, Arizona, will intensify their actions in the prevention and detection of AIDS, through rapid HIV testing.
In an interview with the Director of Capasits Guillermo Castillo Haro, he said that after joining as a recent member of the Binational Health Commission, Cobinas, Mexico-United States, one of the most pressing is the coordinated work for all repatriates in the United States. , get a rapid HIV test.
"We are very grateful for this invitation recently made by Cobinas; we are new members and the commission's project is to make detections to all the deported migrants and in this way have a better control once they leave the United States and before they return to their places of origin, give them the rapid test of HIV and syphilis, "he said.
He recalled that the module, which is operated by the Border Health Commission, which has a doctor and a degree in Psychology, will participate Capasits with training in the management of HIV, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, in addition, with the proportion of the material with which the rapid HIV tests will be carried out.
End
Note: "Mexico decides its immigration policy in a sovereign manner,"
(But not the USA?)
Don't forget: "the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Conditions to NAFTA for migratory control, unacceptable: Videgaray
Monday, 23 Apr 2018 11:11
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2018/04/23/condicionar-tlcan-a-control-migratorio-es-inaceptable-videgaray-6654.html
Mexico City.
The threat of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to make the future depend on the trade negotiations with Mexico and Canada on migration issues is "unacceptable," the Mexican government warned today.
Trump said that it could condition the ongoing renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, TCLAN in Spanish) to Mexico to curb illegal migration flows from its territory.
"Mexico decides its immigration policy in a sovereign manner, and the migration cooperation with the US (United States) happens to be convenient for Mexico," said Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray on his Twitter account. "It would be unacceptable to condition the renegotiation of NAFTA to migratory actions outside this framework of cooperation," he said.
The trade agreement, which dates back to 1994, began to be renegotiated in August under pressure from Trump and the parties have hinted that a principle of agreement could be reached in May.
However, Trump has repeatedly threatened to put an end to it and in recent weeks he has linked several times the future of the agreement on cooperation in immigration matters.
End
Protect deported migrants
Eréndida Contreras Inzunza
Nuevo Día / Nogales, Sonora
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2018/04/23/protegen-a-migrantes-deportados/#respond
The Outpatient Center for the Care of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (Capasits), in coordination with health authorities in Nogales, Arizona, will intensify their actions in the prevention and detection of AIDS, through rapid HIV testing.
In an interview with the Director of Capasits Guillermo Castillo Haro, he said that after joining as a recent member of the Binational Health Commission, Cobinas, Mexico-United States, one of the most pressing is the coordinated work for all repatriates in the United States. , get a rapid HIV test.
"We are very grateful for this invitation recently made by Cobinas; we are new members and the commission's project is to make detections to all the deported migrants and in this way have a better control once they leave the United States and before they return to their places of origin, give them the rapid test of HIV and syphilis, "he said.
He recalled that the module, which is operated by the Border Health Commission, which has a doctor and a degree in Psychology, will participate Capasits with training in the management of HIV, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, in addition, with the proportion of the material with which the rapid HIV tests will be carried out.
End
Sunday, April 22, 2018
AZMEX I3 22-4-18
AZMEX I3 22 APR 2018
Caravan of migrants arrives on board the train
Details Published on Saturday, April 21, 2018,
Written by Tadeo López Rojas
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=110575
Hermosillo
Just over 500 migrants arrived in Hermosillo, aboard the train known as "The Beast", yesterday morning, with the goal of heading to the United States.
The caravan of migrants, reported Irineo Mújica, director of Peoples Without Borders in Mexico, has been complicated because on the way have suffered assaults and threats from organized crime.
In "La Bestia" they travel from last March 26, migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala; There are women and children in the entourage.
"It has been hard, totally, we are here thanks to God, it was very difficult to get here, it is really a journey but it has touched us all, from the good hearts of Mexicans, good reception of the authorites but also, we have had a little repression, abandoned by trains, sometimes threatened by drug traffickers, assaulted, well, there has been everything, "said Irineo Mújica.
Upon arriving in the United States, some will request asylum and others will remain in Mexican territory, as the train continues to follow its course.
"The vast majority has legal advice to go to the United States, many of the migrants are going to the United States, but also some are going to live in Mexico, some of them are going to help us process, we have our base in Mexico, process the documents that and generated by the INM and see how they can be helped for those who want to stay in Mexico, "he said.
END
Insufficient hostels for caravan
By: Drafting / GH | 04/22/2018 7:33
(GH)
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/22042018/1332396-Insuficientes-los-albergues-para-caravana.html
Lack of infrastructure to serve all the members of the caravan of migrants and little interest of the Delegation of the National Migration Institute (INM), is what holds the Central Americans arriving to a city in the course of week. More than 600 migrants from the Central American caravan between men, women and children are coming to Baja California, who are expected to arrive in the city next Wednesday, after passing through the State of Sonora and through Mexicali.
Youth hostel director 2000, José María García Lara, said do not yet know how many migrants are destined for the city of Tijuana, however working with other civil society organizations to enable other spaces as temporary stays.
"They are going through Sonora and they will get to Mexicali on Tuesday morning, as estimated, and will be expected by the three levels of government to meet their demands for how they want to organize, if they will seek political asylum or stay in Mexico" he commented.
While the shelter is being prepared with the support of the State Government, in addition to the civil society providing food, mainly rice and beans, as well as basic necessities, mattresses and tents.
END
More than 600 migrants cross Sonora; they go for work to Baja California and the US
By: YAMILETH HERNÁNDEZ | 04/22/2018 6:22
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Nacional/22042018/1332345-Cruzan-Sonora-mas-de-600-migrantes-van-por-trabajo-a-Baja-California-y-EU.html
RELATED INFORMATION
Exhausted migrants arrive, but with hope high
Crossing exhausts and sicks migrants
Hermosillenses help them achieve their "American dream"
VIDEO: Caravana Migrante arrives in Hermosillo
VIDEO: Caravana Migrante approaches Hermosillo
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
More than 600 migrants, mostly Central Americans, arrived in Sonora aboard "La Bestia", who have been traveling for almost a month to their destination in Baja California, where some will look for work and others will get asylum in the United States.
The train known as "the Beast" arrived around noon yesterday to this city with citizens mainly from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, who for about a month began the journey in caravan.
The migrants indicated that the trip has been difficult, but they hope to arrive in Tijuana in five days to seek humanitarian asylum in the United States and others plan to do the procedures before the National Migration Institute to work in Baja California or in the fields and industry of Sonora. .
Today the arrival of about 200 people, women with their minor children, is expected from Guadalajara.
HAVE FAMILIES OF EL SALVADOR
Driven out and at gunpoint from their house, the Carrillo Vega family left their country, El Salvador, in search of stability rather than economic, security.
A few weeks ago a criminal gang murdered the oldest son, aged 16, for not having agreed to be recruited by a gang.
The gang members evicted the family from their house, with only what they were wearing, with the money they had in the bag.
"We had to leave El Salvador, we had to leave to stay alive, because if we did not leave they would kill us all," said Evelyn Vega.
They do not look for the American dream, they only look for a safe place to settle down and provide a future for the children.
End
Caravan of migrants arrives on board the train
Details Published on Saturday, April 21, 2018,
Written by Tadeo López Rojas
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=110575
Hermosillo
Just over 500 migrants arrived in Hermosillo, aboard the train known as "The Beast", yesterday morning, with the goal of heading to the United States.
The caravan of migrants, reported Irineo Mújica, director of Peoples Without Borders in Mexico, has been complicated because on the way have suffered assaults and threats from organized crime.
In "La Bestia" they travel from last March 26, migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala; There are women and children in the entourage.
"It has been hard, totally, we are here thanks to God, it was very difficult to get here, it is really a journey but it has touched us all, from the good hearts of Mexicans, good reception of the authorites but also, we have had a little repression, abandoned by trains, sometimes threatened by drug traffickers, assaulted, well, there has been everything, "said Irineo Mújica.
Upon arriving in the United States, some will request asylum and others will remain in Mexican territory, as the train continues to follow its course.
"The vast majority has legal advice to go to the United States, many of the migrants are going to the United States, but also some are going to live in Mexico, some of them are going to help us process, we have our base in Mexico, process the documents that and generated by the INM and see how they can be helped for those who want to stay in Mexico, "he said.
END
Insufficient hostels for caravan
By: Drafting / GH | 04/22/2018 7:33
(GH)
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/22042018/1332396-Insuficientes-los-albergues-para-caravana.html
Lack of infrastructure to serve all the members of the caravan of migrants and little interest of the Delegation of the National Migration Institute (INM), is what holds the Central Americans arriving to a city in the course of week. More than 600 migrants from the Central American caravan between men, women and children are coming to Baja California, who are expected to arrive in the city next Wednesday, after passing through the State of Sonora and through Mexicali.
Youth hostel director 2000, José María García Lara, said do not yet know how many migrants are destined for the city of Tijuana, however working with other civil society organizations to enable other spaces as temporary stays.
"They are going through Sonora and they will get to Mexicali on Tuesday morning, as estimated, and will be expected by the three levels of government to meet their demands for how they want to organize, if they will seek political asylum or stay in Mexico" he commented.
While the shelter is being prepared with the support of the State Government, in addition to the civil society providing food, mainly rice and beans, as well as basic necessities, mattresses and tents.
END
More than 600 migrants cross Sonora; they go for work to Baja California and the US
By: YAMILETH HERNÁNDEZ | 04/22/2018 6:22
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Nacional/22042018/1332345-Cruzan-Sonora-mas-de-600-migrantes-van-por-trabajo-a-Baja-California-y-EU.html
RELATED INFORMATION
Exhausted migrants arrive, but with hope high
Crossing exhausts and sicks migrants
Hermosillenses help them achieve their "American dream"
VIDEO: Caravana Migrante arrives in Hermosillo
VIDEO: Caravana Migrante approaches Hermosillo
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
More than 600 migrants, mostly Central Americans, arrived in Sonora aboard "La Bestia", who have been traveling for almost a month to their destination in Baja California, where some will look for work and others will get asylum in the United States.
The train known as "the Beast" arrived around noon yesterday to this city with citizens mainly from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, who for about a month began the journey in caravan.
The migrants indicated that the trip has been difficult, but they hope to arrive in Tijuana in five days to seek humanitarian asylum in the United States and others plan to do the procedures before the National Migration Institute to work in Baja California or in the fields and industry of Sonora. .
Today the arrival of about 200 people, women with their minor children, is expected from Guadalajara.
HAVE FAMILIES OF EL SALVADOR
Driven out and at gunpoint from their house, the Carrillo Vega family left their country, El Salvador, in search of stability rather than economic, security.
A few weeks ago a criminal gang murdered the oldest son, aged 16, for not having agreed to be recruited by a gang.
The gang members evicted the family from their house, with only what they were wearing, with the money they had in the bag.
"We had to leave El Salvador, we had to leave to stay alive, because if we did not leave they would kill us all," said Evelyn Vega.
They do not look for the American dream, they only look for a safe place to settle down and provide a future for the children.
End
Saturday, April 21, 2018
AZMEX SPECIAL 21-4-18
AZMEX SPECIAL 21 APR 2018
504 new cases of tuberculosis detected
(Listen)
By: Fernanda Acosta | 04/21/2018 7:37
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/21042018/1332187-Detectan-504-nuevos-casos-de-tuberculosis.html
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
Baja California ranks first in terms of morbidity in tuberculosis (TB), which places this disease as one of the main public health problems in the state.
Morbidity refers to the number of people affected during the same season by the disease.
During 2017, 2 thousand 50 new cases were registered in the State, while 504 were registered during the first quarter of 2018.
One thousand 588 of the cases of last year corresponded to the pulmonary presentation of tuberculosis, whose type is the most transmissible of all, representing 80 percent of the total.
Consequence of the condition, in the same period 218 people died.
Tuberculosis mainly affects the population between 20 and 49 years of age, mainly males.
For every woman who gets sick, two men get it, said Jonathan Figueroa, state manager of Microbacteriosis in the Health Sector.
People who have deficiencies in the immune system, such as those with HIV, diabetes, and drug users are more vulnerable to contracting it.
When detected in a timely manner, complications in the health of the infected person can be avoided, and the possibility of death from this cause can be ruled out.
Currently, 75 percent of those who are detected successfully complete the treatment that lasts for six months.
Who carries it and is not treated, can infect up to five people in their environment.
"The diagnosis is free, being a priority disease, it is not necessary to have Seguro Popular to have access to a smear test.
It is done in all health centers and there is enough input for cases that arise during the year. "
Finally, the specialist invited those who are already diagnosed to ask the people around them to have a medical exam.
To those who suspect, he asked them to destigmatize the disease.
"Once we put an end to the stigma that they do not want to be known to have tuberculosis, we will be able to reach the diagnosis sooner and interrupt their chain of transmission."
WHAT IS TUBERCULOSIS?
• It is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• It can be prevented and cured, if it is treated in a timely manner.
• It is spread by having contact with droplets of saliva from a person with tuberculosis.
• Severe forms of tuberculosis can be prevented with the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine.
• If you know someone with a cough of more than a month, you may have tuberculosis.
• It is necessary for the person to go to the doctor's office to undergo studies and receive treatment if he or she suffers from this disease.
IMSS.
END
504 new cases of tuberculosis detected
(Listen)
By: Fernanda Acosta | 04/21/2018 7:37
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/21042018/1332187-Detectan-504-nuevos-casos-de-tuberculosis.html
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
Baja California ranks first in terms of morbidity in tuberculosis (TB), which places this disease as one of the main public health problems in the state.
Morbidity refers to the number of people affected during the same season by the disease.
During 2017, 2 thousand 50 new cases were registered in the State, while 504 were registered during the first quarter of 2018.
One thousand 588 of the cases of last year corresponded to the pulmonary presentation of tuberculosis, whose type is the most transmissible of all, representing 80 percent of the total.
Consequence of the condition, in the same period 218 people died.
Tuberculosis mainly affects the population between 20 and 49 years of age, mainly males.
For every woman who gets sick, two men get it, said Jonathan Figueroa, state manager of Microbacteriosis in the Health Sector.
People who have deficiencies in the immune system, such as those with HIV, diabetes, and drug users are more vulnerable to contracting it.
When detected in a timely manner, complications in the health of the infected person can be avoided, and the possibility of death from this cause can be ruled out.
Currently, 75 percent of those who are detected successfully complete the treatment that lasts for six months.
Who carries it and is not treated, can infect up to five people in their environment.
"The diagnosis is free, being a priority disease, it is not necessary to have Seguro Popular to have access to a smear test.
It is done in all health centers and there is enough input for cases that arise during the year. "
Finally, the specialist invited those who are already diagnosed to ask the people around them to have a medical exam.
To those who suspect, he asked them to destigmatize the disease.
"Once we put an end to the stigma that they do not want to be known to have tuberculosis, we will be able to reach the diagnosis sooner and interrupt their chain of transmission."
WHAT IS TUBERCULOSIS?
• It is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• It can be prevented and cured, if it is treated in a timely manner.
• It is spread by having contact with droplets of saliva from a person with tuberculosis.
• Severe forms of tuberculosis can be prevented with the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine.
• If you know someone with a cough of more than a month, you may have tuberculosis.
• It is necessary for the person to go to the doctor's office to undergo studies and receive treatment if he or she suffers from this disease.
IMSS.
END
Friday, April 20, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 18-4-18
AZMEX POLICY 18 APR 2018
Law enforcement from U.S., Mexico come together for Border Safety Initiative
By: Mauricio Casillas
Posted: Apr 17, 2018 03:48 PM MDT
Updated: Apr 17, 2018 03:51 PM MDT
http://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexico/law-enforcement-from-us-mexico-come-together-for-border-safety-initiative/730957825
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico - Several agencies from across the Borderland came together on Tuesday for the annual Border Safety Initiative.
It's the 21st year of the initiative that aims to educate the public about the dangers of crossing the border, especially in remote areas with dangerous terrain.
"Sadly every year people die while trying to cross into the United States illegally. Inhumane smugglers, extreme temperatures and the rushing waters of the Rio Grande River and the adjacent irrigation canals have all played a part in taking the lives of aliens over the years," El Paso Sector Chief Aaron Hull said.
The initiative began in Fiscal Year 1998. Border Patrol officials said that year, 24 undocumented immigrants died while attempting to cross over in the El Paso Sector.
In Fiscal Year 2017, there were 44 rescues and eight deaths.
"This initiative is a prime example of the joint commitment to humanitarian efforts on both sides of the border," Hull said. "This is a partnership and an obligation to have a role in any of these agencies is a responsibility to work together with your partners to increase everyone's safety."
There was a simulated rescue demonstration which included two actors who played the role of undocumented immigrants who were injured. Members of the Border Patrol's Search and Trauma Rescue Team found the injured immigrants and began helping them.
photo
Members of the Border Patrol's Air and Marine Operations team also held a simulated helicopter rescue.
"The very first thing they do is thank you, and then the second thing they do is they obviously, admittedly, tell you 'had I known it was ever going to be this way, I would have never tried it,'" air enforcement agent Fabian Cardiel said.
The event is held in conjunction with the Mexican Consulate, with members of the Mexican Federal Police, and Grupos Beta.
"For Mexico's government as well as the United States government, the most important goals are to protect lives," Deputy Consul General Ricardo Hernandez Lecanda said. "They're committed first to save lives and protect the dignity of the people. it doesn't matter who they are, or how they've been found."
Hull said that since October 2017 he estimates he's met with Mexican officials over 30 times.
"We live and work here on both sides of the border," Hull said. :We have relationships going back generations."
END
Law enforcement from U.S., Mexico come together for Border Safety Initiative
By: Mauricio Casillas
Posted: Apr 17, 2018 03:48 PM MDT
Updated: Apr 17, 2018 03:51 PM MDT
http://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexico/law-enforcement-from-us-mexico-come-together-for-border-safety-initiative/730957825
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico - Several agencies from across the Borderland came together on Tuesday for the annual Border Safety Initiative.
It's the 21st year of the initiative that aims to educate the public about the dangers of crossing the border, especially in remote areas with dangerous terrain.
"Sadly every year people die while trying to cross into the United States illegally. Inhumane smugglers, extreme temperatures and the rushing waters of the Rio Grande River and the adjacent irrigation canals have all played a part in taking the lives of aliens over the years," El Paso Sector Chief Aaron Hull said.
The initiative began in Fiscal Year 1998. Border Patrol officials said that year, 24 undocumented immigrants died while attempting to cross over in the El Paso Sector.
In Fiscal Year 2017, there were 44 rescues and eight deaths.
"This initiative is a prime example of the joint commitment to humanitarian efforts on both sides of the border," Hull said. "This is a partnership and an obligation to have a role in any of these agencies is a responsibility to work together with your partners to increase everyone's safety."
There was a simulated rescue demonstration which included two actors who played the role of undocumented immigrants who were injured. Members of the Border Patrol's Search and Trauma Rescue Team found the injured immigrants and began helping them.
photo
Members of the Border Patrol's Air and Marine Operations team also held a simulated helicopter rescue.
"The very first thing they do is thank you, and then the second thing they do is they obviously, admittedly, tell you 'had I known it was ever going to be this way, I would have never tried it,'" air enforcement agent Fabian Cardiel said.
The event is held in conjunction with the Mexican Consulate, with members of the Mexican Federal Police, and Grupos Beta.
"For Mexico's government as well as the United States government, the most important goals are to protect lives," Deputy Consul General Ricardo Hernandez Lecanda said. "They're committed first to save lives and protect the dignity of the people. it doesn't matter who they are, or how they've been found."
Hull said that since October 2017 he estimates he's met with Mexican officials over 30 times.
"We live and work here on both sides of the border," Hull said. :We have relationships going back generations."
END
Thursday, April 19, 2018
AZMEX EXTRA 18-4-18
AZMEX EXTRA 18 APR 2018
Note: Federal weapons charges??? Photo at link.
Border Patrol Agents Arrest Three Mexicans, Seize Rifle Cache
Release Date: April 18, 2018
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-agents-arrest-three-mexicans-seize-rifle-cache
TUCSON, Ariz. – Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents coordinating with Air and Marine Operations agents seized multiple weapons and arrested three Mexican nationals near Ajo Saturday afternoon.
Surveillance camera operators from the Ajo Station observed two suspected illegal aliens carrying firearms more than 17 miles north of the International Border near the Growler Mountains.
Ajo agents and personnel from Air and Marine Operations in Tucson and Yuma seized multiple weapons when they were arrested this past Saturday
Air and Marine Operations helicopters from Yuma and Tucson Air Branches deployed with Border Patrol Search Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR) agents to intercept the armed men.
Agents searched the area of the sighting using a canine and subsequently discovered multiple assault-style firearms and ammunition concealed under some brush, and an 18-year-old Mexican national man hiding nearby.
The man was transported to the Ajo Station for processing while agents continued a search of the area, locating and arresting two additional Mexican nationals, 43 and 24.
All three men face immigration violation charges and were be turned over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives along with the seized assault weapons.
End
Also:
Note: Cal. .270 ? Silhouette / Siluleta competitors?
Two are detained with material to reload firearm cartridges
Details Published on Tuesday, April 17, 2018,
Written by Writing / The Journal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=110272
Hermosillo, Son
Elements of the Federal Police in Sonora arrested two subjects who transported in a courier truck more than 11 thousand parts for the preparation of firearm cartridges.
The seizure was recorded when personnel of the Regional Security Division had contact with the driver of a parcel truck about kilometer 227 + 000 of the Altar-Sonoyta highway, section Caborca-Sonoyta, which upon noticing the presence of the uniformed personnel tried evade them but was not successful.
During the exchange of information, the driver of the truck and his companion had several contradictions, so the federal police requested a security inspection of the cargo they were carrying, an action that was accepted by the driver.
Through the inspection, one of the agents located several boxes with irregular weights and dimensions so they were separated to verify their contents.
Thus, personnel of the Federal Police seized 20 gunpowder containers of one pound each, 9 thousand 950 primers for different firearms, as well as 2,800 cal. .270 bullets used for the manufacture of cartridges and which they could not prove its legal provenance.
In this context, staff from the Regional Security Division read the two detainees the Rights Book that Assists People in Detention, and were presented along with the material seized before the corresponding Public Ministry Agency, in order to continue with the research.
Photo gallery
END
Note: Federal weapons charges??? Photo at link.
Border Patrol Agents Arrest Three Mexicans, Seize Rifle Cache
Release Date: April 18, 2018
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-agents-arrest-three-mexicans-seize-rifle-cache
TUCSON, Ariz. – Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents coordinating with Air and Marine Operations agents seized multiple weapons and arrested three Mexican nationals near Ajo Saturday afternoon.
Surveillance camera operators from the Ajo Station observed two suspected illegal aliens carrying firearms more than 17 miles north of the International Border near the Growler Mountains.
Ajo agents and personnel from Air and Marine Operations in Tucson and Yuma seized multiple weapons when they were arrested this past Saturday
Air and Marine Operations helicopters from Yuma and Tucson Air Branches deployed with Border Patrol Search Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR) agents to intercept the armed men.
Agents searched the area of the sighting using a canine and subsequently discovered multiple assault-style firearms and ammunition concealed under some brush, and an 18-year-old Mexican national man hiding nearby.
The man was transported to the Ajo Station for processing while agents continued a search of the area, locating and arresting two additional Mexican nationals, 43 and 24.
All three men face immigration violation charges and were be turned over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives along with the seized assault weapons.
End
Also:
Note: Cal. .270 ? Silhouette / Siluleta competitors?
Two are detained with material to reload firearm cartridges
Details Published on Tuesday, April 17, 2018,
Written by Writing / The Journal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=110272
Hermosillo, Son
Elements of the Federal Police in Sonora arrested two subjects who transported in a courier truck more than 11 thousand parts for the preparation of firearm cartridges.
The seizure was recorded when personnel of the Regional Security Division had contact with the driver of a parcel truck about kilometer 227 + 000 of the Altar-Sonoyta highway, section Caborca-Sonoyta, which upon noticing the presence of the uniformed personnel tried evade them but was not successful.
During the exchange of information, the driver of the truck and his companion had several contradictions, so the federal police requested a security inspection of the cargo they were carrying, an action that was accepted by the driver.
Through the inspection, one of the agents located several boxes with irregular weights and dimensions so they were separated to verify their contents.
Thus, personnel of the Federal Police seized 20 gunpowder containers of one pound each, 9 thousand 950 primers for different firearms, as well as 2,800 cal. .270 bullets used for the manufacture of cartridges and which they could not prove its legal provenance.
In this context, staff from the Regional Security Division read the two detainees the Rights Book that Assists People in Detention, and were presented along with the material seized before the corresponding Public Ministry Agency, in order to continue with the research.
Photo gallery
END
AZMEX POLICY 14-4-18
AZMEX POLICY 14 APR 2018
Comment: Unanswered is the question of why legitimate tourists, business, should be "afraid" of the Guard on the border.
Understand that the drug and human trafficking business would be upset.
Employing many people on both sides of the border.
BTW, the Mexican Army has been on the border since there was a border.
But that's ok.
Should we be afraid?
Thx
Ducey praises deployment, sidesteps concerns
By Arielle Zionts
Nogales International Apr 13, 2018 Updated 3 hrs ago (0)
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/ducey-praises-deployment-sidesteps-concerns/article_d5ca4804-3f85-11e8-87a3-e388923dfd51.html
National Guard
Gov. Doug Ducey speaks during a news conference Friday in Nogales. At front left are Lt. Raoul Rodriguez of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, Nogales Mayor John Doyle, and Kevin Hecht, deputy patrol agent in charge at the Nogales Border Patrol Station.
Photo by Arielle Zionts
Gov. Doug Ducey touted the deployment of the National Guard to the border as a boon to public safety during a news conference in Nogales on Friday, but sidestepped questions about the impact the controversial move could have on the community's image and economy.
The news conference on the deployment, known as Operation Guardian Support, was held the same day that 60 troops arrived in the Nogales area. President Donald Trump said he wants as many as 4,000 guardsmen to help secure the southern border, though critics say the mandate is more of a political move.
"I'm grateful today to have a federal administration that is finally taking action to secure the border for the safety of all Americans," Ducey told a gathering of reporters at the Nogales Border Patrol Station. He said Arizonans have been asking the federal government with help in securing the border for years.
Asked about the possibility that the deployment could scare tourists and business away from Nogales, Ducey spoke in general of the state, saying that Arizona is safe, and has a growing population and economy.
When this reporter pointed out that the local economy isn't doing well and the population isn't growing, and asked if people might be afraid when they read that troops have deployed to the Nogales area, he responded:
"A governor has to balance the responsibility of growing economy with public safety, and public safety's going to come first," adding that the National Guard is deploying to the entire southern border, not just Nogales.
Another reporter pressed Ducey on the optics of sending the military to the border, and what message it sends to tourists.
"The optics of it are you have a government, both a federal government in Washington, D.C. and a state government, that are working together and acting to partner and protect its citizens," Ducey said.
Rodolfo Karisch, chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, said the troops will help local Border Patrol agents with aerial support, road maintenance projects and by operating camera systems.
"The military support that we're going to get here is going to allow us to free up some agents to get to return to those vital duties" of fighting drug and weapons trafficking, Karisch said.
Reporters noted that local law enforcement officers and business owners have highlighted a more pressing need: additional U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to speed up travel and trade at the ports of entry.
Karisch said the guardsmen will eventually assist CBP at the ports, but did not explain when or exactly how they would help.
"We can always also use the guard to support us not only between the ports of entry, but at the ports of entry, to make sure we can properly screen the commerce that's coming into the United States," he said.
The guard deployed to the Nogales area in 2006 under President George W. Bush, and in 2010 under President Barack Obama. Military engineers and reservists also regularly come to the area to help construct roads for Border Patrol use.
The recent deployment has generated an especially loud buzz, coming in the context of widening national political divisions, Trump's hardline immigration and border security stance, and a long-term decline in illegal border crossings.
'Recent surge'
During the news conference, which was attended by Border Patrol agents, guardsmen, Nogales Mayor John Doyle and Lt. Raoul Rodriguez of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, Ducey reiterated a talking point that Trump and his supporters have used to justify the deployment: illegal crossings and other criminal activities at the border have recently spiked.
"With the recent surge that we've seen, I wanted to come down to the front line in Nogales and see it for myself."
CBP reports a 203-percent increase in apprehensions at the Mexican border from March 2017 to March 2018, and a 37-percent increase from February to March 2018. In the Tucson Sector, there were 5,784 apprehensions in March, up from 3,823 in February.
However, that recent increase comes after a 25-percent decrease in apprehensions in Fiscal Year 2017 from the previous fiscal year, and an 81.5-percent decrease from 2000, according to CBP data citied in a Dec. 5, 2017 NPR story.
The overall downward trend in apprehensions have led critics to call the deployment an unnecessary overreaction and political move. In a letter to Ducey, U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Tucson who represents Santa Cruz County, called the deployment an "ineffective and wasteful use of U.S. military resources."
"The state of Arizona must not be used as a political pawn that will leave visitors questioning the safety of our state," he said.
One reporter at Friday's news conference asked why, if Ducey was so alarmed about border security, he hadn't already deployed the National Guard himself rather than waiting for Trump's orders.
Ducey did not directly answer the question, but cited his establishment of the Border Strike Force Bureau, a initiative by the Department of Public Safety that uses existing law enforcement agencies to fight border-related crimes.
One reporter said she's heard that the government and business community of the Mexican state of Sonora are upset with Ducey over his decision to deploy the guard.
Ducey said he has a very positive relationship with Sonora Gov. Claudia Pavlovich, but admitted he hasn't spoken to her about this issue.
Another reporter cited a study by the Government Accountability Office, a non-partisan federal watchdog agency, that found concern within the Department of Defense that previous National Guard deployments created the perception of a militarized border.
"There is no militarization of the border," Ducey said. "The National Guard is in support of the Border Patrol, and it is the Border Patrol that is in the law enforcement position."
End
Comment: Unanswered is the question of why legitimate tourists, business, should be "afraid" of the Guard on the border.
Understand that the drug and human trafficking business would be upset.
Employing many people on both sides of the border.
BTW, the Mexican Army has been on the border since there was a border.
But that's ok.
Should we be afraid?
Thx
Ducey praises deployment, sidesteps concerns
By Arielle Zionts
Nogales International Apr 13, 2018 Updated 3 hrs ago (0)
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/ducey-praises-deployment-sidesteps-concerns/article_d5ca4804-3f85-11e8-87a3-e388923dfd51.html
National Guard
Gov. Doug Ducey speaks during a news conference Friday in Nogales. At front left are Lt. Raoul Rodriguez of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, Nogales Mayor John Doyle, and Kevin Hecht, deputy patrol agent in charge at the Nogales Border Patrol Station.
Photo by Arielle Zionts
Gov. Doug Ducey touted the deployment of the National Guard to the border as a boon to public safety during a news conference in Nogales on Friday, but sidestepped questions about the impact the controversial move could have on the community's image and economy.
The news conference on the deployment, known as Operation Guardian Support, was held the same day that 60 troops arrived in the Nogales area. President Donald Trump said he wants as many as 4,000 guardsmen to help secure the southern border, though critics say the mandate is more of a political move.
"I'm grateful today to have a federal administration that is finally taking action to secure the border for the safety of all Americans," Ducey told a gathering of reporters at the Nogales Border Patrol Station. He said Arizonans have been asking the federal government with help in securing the border for years.
Asked about the possibility that the deployment could scare tourists and business away from Nogales, Ducey spoke in general of the state, saying that Arizona is safe, and has a growing population and economy.
When this reporter pointed out that the local economy isn't doing well and the population isn't growing, and asked if people might be afraid when they read that troops have deployed to the Nogales area, he responded:
"A governor has to balance the responsibility of growing economy with public safety, and public safety's going to come first," adding that the National Guard is deploying to the entire southern border, not just Nogales.
Another reporter pressed Ducey on the optics of sending the military to the border, and what message it sends to tourists.
"The optics of it are you have a government, both a federal government in Washington, D.C. and a state government, that are working together and acting to partner and protect its citizens," Ducey said.
Rodolfo Karisch, chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, said the troops will help local Border Patrol agents with aerial support, road maintenance projects and by operating camera systems.
"The military support that we're going to get here is going to allow us to free up some agents to get to return to those vital duties" of fighting drug and weapons trafficking, Karisch said.
Reporters noted that local law enforcement officers and business owners have highlighted a more pressing need: additional U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to speed up travel and trade at the ports of entry.
Karisch said the guardsmen will eventually assist CBP at the ports, but did not explain when or exactly how they would help.
"We can always also use the guard to support us not only between the ports of entry, but at the ports of entry, to make sure we can properly screen the commerce that's coming into the United States," he said.
The guard deployed to the Nogales area in 2006 under President George W. Bush, and in 2010 under President Barack Obama. Military engineers and reservists also regularly come to the area to help construct roads for Border Patrol use.
The recent deployment has generated an especially loud buzz, coming in the context of widening national political divisions, Trump's hardline immigration and border security stance, and a long-term decline in illegal border crossings.
'Recent surge'
During the news conference, which was attended by Border Patrol agents, guardsmen, Nogales Mayor John Doyle and Lt. Raoul Rodriguez of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, Ducey reiterated a talking point that Trump and his supporters have used to justify the deployment: illegal crossings and other criminal activities at the border have recently spiked.
"With the recent surge that we've seen, I wanted to come down to the front line in Nogales and see it for myself."
CBP reports a 203-percent increase in apprehensions at the Mexican border from March 2017 to March 2018, and a 37-percent increase from February to March 2018. In the Tucson Sector, there were 5,784 apprehensions in March, up from 3,823 in February.
However, that recent increase comes after a 25-percent decrease in apprehensions in Fiscal Year 2017 from the previous fiscal year, and an 81.5-percent decrease from 2000, according to CBP data citied in a Dec. 5, 2017 NPR story.
The overall downward trend in apprehensions have led critics to call the deployment an unnecessary overreaction and political move. In a letter to Ducey, U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Tucson who represents Santa Cruz County, called the deployment an "ineffective and wasteful use of U.S. military resources."
"The state of Arizona must not be used as a political pawn that will leave visitors questioning the safety of our state," he said.
One reporter at Friday's news conference asked why, if Ducey was so alarmed about border security, he hadn't already deployed the National Guard himself rather than waiting for Trump's orders.
Ducey did not directly answer the question, but cited his establishment of the Border Strike Force Bureau, a initiative by the Department of Public Safety that uses existing law enforcement agencies to fight border-related crimes.
One reporter said she's heard that the government and business community of the Mexican state of Sonora are upset with Ducey over his decision to deploy the guard.
Ducey said he has a very positive relationship with Sonora Gov. Claudia Pavlovich, but admitted he hasn't spoken to her about this issue.
Another reporter cited a study by the Government Accountability Office, a non-partisan federal watchdog agency, that found concern within the Department of Defense that previous National Guard deployments created the perception of a militarized border.
"There is no militarization of the border," Ducey said. "The National Guard is in support of the Border Patrol, and it is the Border Patrol that is in the law enforcement position."
End
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE2 18-4-18
AZMEX UPDATE2 18 APR 2018
Note: another version:
Homeland security secretary visits Calexico border construction
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen stopped for a brief visit along the U.S. Mexico border where construction for the bollard fence is currently underway along the border in Calexico. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Kate Morrissey Reporter
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-border-secretary-20180418-story.html
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited Calexico's replacement border barrier project on Wednesday after holding a town hall with local Border Patrol agents and officials from other immigration-related agencies.
The new chief of the Border Patrol in El Centro, Gloria Chavez, gave Nielsen a piece of the old Vietnam War landing mats that separated Calexico from Mexicali before the construction project began in February. A 30-foot fence made of bollards — posts placed close enough together that people can't pass between them — will replace just over two miles of the landing mats.
Construction has progressed since February with well over a football field length of fence already in place.
At the town hall, Nielsen assured attendees that everyone in the department is on one team and that together they would "put employees first."
"What we see at the border is different," Nielsen said. "The flows are different. The challenges are different. As we know, the numbers are increasing."
Apprehensions at the southwest border spiked in March after a record-low year. Overall, apprehensions have decreased significantly over the last two decades.
She reiterated a concern often voiced by agency officials in the last six months about unaccompanied children, families and drugs coming across the border. She promised to continue pushing for Congress to change what she calls "legal loopholes" in the immigration system.
The Trump administration has said one of the loopholes is how long officials can hold children in immigration detention. It wants to be able to hold them in custody for longer than the 20 days currently allowed.
Just over 100 department employees joined Nielsen to discuss their needs to enforce the border. That conversation was not open to the press.
At the border fence, Nielsen did not take any questions. She was briefed by several officials including Chavez and Jennifer Roks, project manager with the Border Patrol and Air and Marine Program Management Office.
An armored tank from Border Patrol's tactical unit, the agency's version of a SWAT team, waited nearby. Construction workers used a crane to position a bar underneath a section of bollards to raise it and transfer it to the gap where the old barrier had already been taken down.
Mexican police and media stood near the gap to watch from the street that separates a residential area in Mexico from the fencing.
As Nielsen prepared to leave, about 70 protesters from the Mexican side moved into the gap with signs lambasting President Donald Trump's promised border wall.
"Trump, no somos enemigos de USA," read one sign. ("Trump, we are not enemies of the USA.")
When they appeared, an agent standing next to a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter tensed but did not move.
Construction workers quickly left the gap, and one ran towards Border Patrol, yelling for them to do something.
"They're on this side!" he shouted.
Nielsen immediately left the scene.
At first, agents on the dirt road above the construction site watched to see if the group would retreat. When they advanced, an agent moved forward between pieces of construction equipment, yelling in Spanish at the crowd to go back south.
Four other agents joined him, and an official in fatigues carrying a rifle moved forward with them.
Organizers from the protest pushed the group back across the line where they continued to wave their signs and pose for pictures.
This is not Nielsen's first time to California.
She visited regions ravaged by wildfires last year and spent time with the U.S. Coast Guard in San Diego in March before inspecting the border wall prototypes built there.
Nielsen was scheduled to go next to Yuma to see the National Guard recently deployed to support border enforcement.
END
Note: another version:
Homeland security secretary visits Calexico border construction
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen stopped for a brief visit along the U.S. Mexico border where construction for the bollard fence is currently underway along the border in Calexico. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Kate Morrissey Reporter
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-border-secretary-20180418-story.html
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited Calexico's replacement border barrier project on Wednesday after holding a town hall with local Border Patrol agents and officials from other immigration-related agencies.
The new chief of the Border Patrol in El Centro, Gloria Chavez, gave Nielsen a piece of the old Vietnam War landing mats that separated Calexico from Mexicali before the construction project began in February. A 30-foot fence made of bollards — posts placed close enough together that people can't pass between them — will replace just over two miles of the landing mats.
Construction has progressed since February with well over a football field length of fence already in place.
At the town hall, Nielsen assured attendees that everyone in the department is on one team and that together they would "put employees first."
"What we see at the border is different," Nielsen said. "The flows are different. The challenges are different. As we know, the numbers are increasing."
Apprehensions at the southwest border spiked in March after a record-low year. Overall, apprehensions have decreased significantly over the last two decades.
She reiterated a concern often voiced by agency officials in the last six months about unaccompanied children, families and drugs coming across the border. She promised to continue pushing for Congress to change what she calls "legal loopholes" in the immigration system.
The Trump administration has said one of the loopholes is how long officials can hold children in immigration detention. It wants to be able to hold them in custody for longer than the 20 days currently allowed.
Just over 100 department employees joined Nielsen to discuss their needs to enforce the border. That conversation was not open to the press.
At the border fence, Nielsen did not take any questions. She was briefed by several officials including Chavez and Jennifer Roks, project manager with the Border Patrol and Air and Marine Program Management Office.
An armored tank from Border Patrol's tactical unit, the agency's version of a SWAT team, waited nearby. Construction workers used a crane to position a bar underneath a section of bollards to raise it and transfer it to the gap where the old barrier had already been taken down.
Mexican police and media stood near the gap to watch from the street that separates a residential area in Mexico from the fencing.
As Nielsen prepared to leave, about 70 protesters from the Mexican side moved into the gap with signs lambasting President Donald Trump's promised border wall.
"Trump, no somos enemigos de USA," read one sign. ("Trump, we are not enemies of the USA.")
When they appeared, an agent standing next to a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter tensed but did not move.
Construction workers quickly left the gap, and one ran towards Border Patrol, yelling for them to do something.
"They're on this side!" he shouted.
Nielsen immediately left the scene.
At first, agents on the dirt road above the construction site watched to see if the group would retreat. When they advanced, an agent moved forward between pieces of construction equipment, yelling in Spanish at the crowd to go back south.
Four other agents joined him, and an official in fatigues carrying a rifle moved forward with them.
Organizers from the protest pushed the group back across the line where they continued to wave their signs and pose for pictures.
This is not Nielsen's first time to California.
She visited regions ravaged by wildfires last year and spent time with the U.S. Coast Guard in San Diego in March before inspecting the border wall prototypes built there.
Nielsen was scheduled to go next to Yuma to see the National Guard recently deployed to support border enforcement.
END
AZMEX UPDATE 18-4-18
AZMEX UPDATE 18 APR 2018
Protesters "Invade" American soil
Photo: José María Cárdenas
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By: Saul D.Martinez | 04/18/2018 12:43
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/18042018/1330369-Invaden-manifestantes-suelo-estadounidense.html
About 40 protesters headed by Sergio Tamai, representative of Ángeles Sin Fronteras (without borders )in Mexicali, entered the United States in the area where the re-establishment of the border fence between Mexicali and Calexico takes place.
The contingent "burst" into the visit of the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Kirstjen M. Nielsen, who would make a tour where these tasks are performed.
Although there was a group of federal and municipal police on the Mexican side, this did not prevent the contingent of demonstrators from entering US territory in the area where the previous border fence had already been removed.
Nielsen makes a tour in several points of the border with Mexico to supervise the construction work of the border wall system.
More information in a moment ...
END
Activists prevent US security secretary from touring the wall
Antonio Heras, correspondent |
Wednesday, 18 Apr 2018 16:52
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2018/04/18/activistas-impiden-recorrido-de-funcionaria-de-eu-en-el-muro-9481.html
The Border Patrol agents and municipal police of Mexico were surprised to see the demonstrators jump to the US side in the area where this work is going to be built, which will have an extension of 3.2 kilometers. Photo Lindero Norte / Jorge Heras
Mexicali, BC. "No to the Wall!", "Trump Out!" And "This is our territory!" Are the slogans that activists and protesters shouted in protest at the route that the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States just started, Kirstjen M. Nielsen, west of the International Garita de Calexico, California.
In this way, activists who are against the construction of the wall on the northern border of Mexico boycotted the route taken by Nielsen, and that caused the construction of the wall to be suspended at least for this day.
Fifty members of the group Angels Without Borders entered US territory to protest the nine-meter long pole-board that was authorized by the Donald Trump administration for construction in February 2018.
Both the Border Patrol agents and the Mexican federal and municipal police were astonished to observe the demonstrators jumping over the area where this work will be built, which will have an extension of 3.2 kilometers.
END
And, then we have the gringo "news" version:
DHS Secretary tours Calexico border wall construction
Posted: Apr 18, 2018 8:56 AM MST
Updated: Apr 18, 2018 1:06 PM MST
http://www.cbs8.com/story/37985903/dhs-secretary-to-tour-calexico-border-wall-construction
DHS Secretary tours Calexico border wall
00:00 / 00:24
CC
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen met with DHS employees in Imperial County and took a tour of the Calexico border wall construction Wednesday.
RELATED: San Diego County backs Trumps 'sanctuary' lawsuit
Nielsen traveled to Calexico to see what's new with the building of the border wall system there and she also wanted to personally thank the Department of Homeland Security workers for their commitment to securing our borders.
Nielsen listened to challenges that DHS workers face on the frontline.
Governor Jerry Brown says California's National Guard troops are ready to help combat drug and gun smuggling and human trafficking from Mexico.
The governor says he is close to an agreement with the Trump administration to send National Guard troops to the border.
His comments come a day after federal officials said California rejected some proposed duties for the guard.
Governor Brown pledged 400 troops last week, on the condition that they have nothing to do with immigration enforcement.
"There are enough problems at the border and the interface between our countries that California will have plenty to do." Gov. Jerry Brown said.
President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that Gov. Brown is "trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border, but the people of the State are not happy. Want Security & Safety NOW!"
The County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to file a court brief siding with the federal government against the sanctuary state law.
End
Protesters "Invade" American soil
Photo: José María Cárdenas
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By: Saul D.Martinez | 04/18/2018 12:43
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/18042018/1330369-Invaden-manifestantes-suelo-estadounidense.html
About 40 protesters headed by Sergio Tamai, representative of Ángeles Sin Fronteras (without borders )in Mexicali, entered the United States in the area where the re-establishment of the border fence between Mexicali and Calexico takes place.
The contingent "burst" into the visit of the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Kirstjen M. Nielsen, who would make a tour where these tasks are performed.
Although there was a group of federal and municipal police on the Mexican side, this did not prevent the contingent of demonstrators from entering US territory in the area where the previous border fence had already been removed.
Nielsen makes a tour in several points of the border with Mexico to supervise the construction work of the border wall system.
More information in a moment ...
END
Activists prevent US security secretary from touring the wall
Antonio Heras, correspondent |
Wednesday, 18 Apr 2018 16:52
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2018/04/18/activistas-impiden-recorrido-de-funcionaria-de-eu-en-el-muro-9481.html
The Border Patrol agents and municipal police of Mexico were surprised to see the demonstrators jump to the US side in the area where this work is going to be built, which will have an extension of 3.2 kilometers. Photo Lindero Norte / Jorge Heras
Mexicali, BC. "No to the Wall!", "Trump Out!" And "This is our territory!" Are the slogans that activists and protesters shouted in protest at the route that the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States just started, Kirstjen M. Nielsen, west of the International Garita de Calexico, California.
In this way, activists who are against the construction of the wall on the northern border of Mexico boycotted the route taken by Nielsen, and that caused the construction of the wall to be suspended at least for this day.
Fifty members of the group Angels Without Borders entered US territory to protest the nine-meter long pole-board that was authorized by the Donald Trump administration for construction in February 2018.
Both the Border Patrol agents and the Mexican federal and municipal police were astonished to observe the demonstrators jumping over the area where this work will be built, which will have an extension of 3.2 kilometers.
END
And, then we have the gringo "news" version:
DHS Secretary tours Calexico border wall construction
Posted: Apr 18, 2018 8:56 AM MST
Updated: Apr 18, 2018 1:06 PM MST
http://www.cbs8.com/story/37985903/dhs-secretary-to-tour-calexico-border-wall-construction
DHS Secretary tours Calexico border wall
00:00 / 00:24
CC
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen met with DHS employees in Imperial County and took a tour of the Calexico border wall construction Wednesday.
RELATED: San Diego County backs Trumps 'sanctuary' lawsuit
Nielsen traveled to Calexico to see what's new with the building of the border wall system there and she also wanted to personally thank the Department of Homeland Security workers for their commitment to securing our borders.
Nielsen listened to challenges that DHS workers face on the frontline.
Governor Jerry Brown says California's National Guard troops are ready to help combat drug and gun smuggling and human trafficking from Mexico.
The governor says he is close to an agreement with the Trump administration to send National Guard troops to the border.
His comments come a day after federal officials said California rejected some proposed duties for the guard.
Governor Brown pledged 400 troops last week, on the condition that they have nothing to do with immigration enforcement.
"There are enough problems at the border and the interface between our countries that California will have plenty to do." Gov. Jerry Brown said.
President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that Gov. Brown is "trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border, but the people of the State are not happy. Want Security & Safety NOW!"
The County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to file a court brief siding with the federal government against the sanctuary state law.
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AZMEX POLICY 13-4-18
AZMEX POLICY 13 APR 2018
Note: Should socialist 'AMLO", Andrés Manuel López Obrador, get elected in Mexico, we can quickly expect a tidal wave of Mexicans fleeing to the USA. Nicolas Maduro aka "Maduro el Burro".
Gracias
Implosion of Venezuela creates refugees wave on scale of Syrian civil war
Expatriates find welcoming immigration laws in Argentina, tightened border controls in Colombia, Brazil
By Federico Puglie — Special to The Washington Times - - Thursday, April 12, 2018
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/12/venezuela-collapse-creates-immigration-wave-south-/
BUENOS AIRES — It's a chilly fall afternoon in the Argentine capital, and for many around the circle at Our Lady of Guadalupe parish hall, the climate feels distinctly foreign.
Only one hand goes up when Jose Guerra, moderator of the day's workshop, asks how many of the two dozen recently arrived Venezuelan refugees in the hall have lived through four distinct seasons. The rest, it turns out, arrived only within the past few weeks or months.
They are just a small part of the massive wave of Venezuelans turning their backs on their homeland and its beleaguered socialist government. Countries across Central and South America are struggling to deal with the massive outflow. Regional analysts say the out-migration threatens to destabilize Venezuela's neighbors and prove a massive drain on South American resources and economic development.
The Venezuelan refugees in Argentina, driven from their homes by massive shortages, political upheaval and raging violent crime, have traveled 3,000 miles to find welcoming immigration laws and a thriving expatriate community. But not every country is dealing with the influx so smoothly.
The handling of the crisis by Venezuela's beleaguered president, Nicolas Maduro, figures to be a prime topic of conversation when regional leaders gather at the end of the week in Peru for the Summit of the Americas. President Trump, whose administration has taken several steps against the Maduro government and sanctioned many top officials in Caracas, will not be in Lima for the discussion.
Mr. Trump announced Tuesday that he was canceling the trip and a subsequent visit to Colombia so he could monitor the crisis in Syria. Vice President Mike Pence will attend in his stead.
Syria's civil war has destabilized much of the Middle East, but many Latin American specialists say the Venezuelan problem is a comparable catastrophe unfolding at a slower clip. An estimated 1.5 million or more Venezuelans are currently displaced in countries across North and South America, with a twentyfold increase in asylum claims since 2014.
"That is the kind of economic collapse that has, I think, almost never been seen outside the context of a war or a natural disaster in a very small state," said Brad W. Setser, a top Treasury official in the Obama administration and now a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. "It is significantly deeper than the fall in output in Greece, and Greece was much deeper than the kind of financial crisis contractions observed in Latin America in the 1990s."
Venezuela, he said, "is in free fall."
Some analysts say the international community has failed to acknowledge the dimensions of the crisis. Some resist terms like "refugee crisis" because, unlike Syria, Venezuela is not a war zone, said Dany Bahar, an economist with the Brookings Institution.
"But, to be honest, if you look at the numbers, the humanitarian crisis that is happening in Venezuela is as bad [as] in any country having a civil war," Mr. Bahar told a panel last week on the crisis at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue think tank.
Colombia and Brazil, which share long land borders with Venezuela, have been under particular pressure. They initially tried to accommodate the fleeing Venezuelans but tightened their border controls in recent days as thousands continued to pour into their territory.
"The borders are unstable at the moment due to both the humanitarian situation and to the number of criminal and violent actors," Ivan Briscoe, Bogota-based Latin America director with the International Crisis Group, told the news website RefugeesDeeply.com. "I do not think that Colombia has either the resources or experience to be able to manage a large outflow of migrants on its own."
Surging inflow
Even here, far from Venezuela, the refugee explosion presents a challenge.
In the first two months of this year, Argentina's National Immigration Office issued nearly 150 residency permits a day to Venezuelan applicants, and the 31,167 permits given out in 2017 almost tripled the previous year's total. Over the past five years, meanwhile, the number has increased sixteenfold.
"The jump in 2017 was tremendous," Jose Garcia, who heads the office, told The Washington Times. "Clearly, things are getting worse and worse in Venezuela, and so Argentina, with its open-arms policy … will be a center of attraction."
Still, local numbers pale in comparison with those of Venezuela's neighbors. Colombia alone hosts some 600,000 Venezuelan refugees, the U.N. Refugee Agency estimates. One in 10 Venezuelans have left the country, and the UNHCR expects 1.7 million more to pack their bags this year.
Though they make up a mix of migrants and refugees, the size of the challenge is undeniable, said Michele Manca di Nissa, the regional representative for UNHCR's southern Latin America office.
"In Argentina, they're talking about 300 [Venezuelans] per day that are coming in. In Peru, we have between 500 and 800 asylum applications per day," Mr. Manca di Nissa said. "Do I need to say more?"
At the same time, Mr. Maduro — widely blamed for an economic and social services collapse that has led to a Third World infant mortality rate, staggering hyperinflation and empty supermarket shelves — still has powerful friends in New York.
Neither his regime's biggest creditor, China, nor the beneficiary of its "fire sale" oil exports, Russia, is keen on U.N. "crisis" rhetoric that might upset Caracas — or please Washington, said Shannon O'Neil, a specialist on Latin American affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations.
But the mere fact that the U.N. refugee body is tackling the outpouring and expanding its footprint on the ground "implies a certain recognition of this situation," Mr. Manca di Nissa said.
Still, border zones in Colombia and northern Brazil have clearly struggled with the influx. As both neighbors tighten border controls, Panama is requiring Venezuelans to obtain visas.
Red carpet
Not so Buenos Aires, which has all but rolled out the red carpet for the often young and highly educated newcomers who defy a typical immigrant profile. Many of the Venezuelan exiles are viewed not as a drain on local resources, but as assets.
Among the Venezuelan arrivals in Argentina were some 4,100 engineers, Mr. Garcia points out, and his immigration office is working with industry groups to put the refugees to work.
"We have a shortage of qualifications [in Argentina]; we don't have engineers," he said. "If someone has an interesting skill, it's a loss if [he] works, for instance, as a waiter in a bar, because this resource could be beneficial for him … and for the country as well."
So the famously bureaucratic immigration body is expediting waivers and deferrals for hard-to-obtain documents and continues to treat Venezuelans as part of Mercosur, even though the regional bloc last year cut ties with the Maduro regime.
"We don't sanction the people of Venezuela," Mr. Garcia said. "We maintain the suspension Mercosur has applied to Venezuela, but we open our arms to Venezuelans and try to ease conditions so they come to Argentina."
Many Venezuelan arrivals eventually realize that even if the Maduro regime comes to an end, returning home may not be as easy as buying a plane ticket back to Caracas, said Vincenzo Pensa, head of the Association of Venezuelans in Argentina.
"A good number [of Venezuelans] have decided to set up roots," he said. "It's very difficult to leave your country, set up roots in another, start from zero — just to then return to your country and [again] start from zero, especially in a country where more than 4 million residents have left."
Many expatriates, he said, don't trust the Maduro government, even in Buenos Aires.
"The vast majority of us feels like the [Venezuelan] Embassy is the enemy," said Mr. Pensa. "If you need to get documentation at the embassy, you hesitate — and you hesitate a lot."
As they talk about the challenges of their new lives, many immigrants zoom in on the key concern of finding jobs. But the worst deprivation, virtually everybody says, is the separation from friends and family.
In one small group, filmmaker Nathalia Hernandez, 21, made friends with two of the older attendees, Syria Rosario, 46, and Yesenia Rodriguez, 61, both of whom followed their children to Argentina.
Telling her countrymen about her decades as a preschool teacher in Venezuela, Ms. Rodriguez could not hold back her tears.
"What do I do now in Argentina?" the petite, gray-haired woman whispered. "Whatever it takes to survive," she said while being comforted by her fellow recent arrivals.
"I'm here alone, [too]," Ms. Hernandez reassured, only to be corrected by Ms. Rosario, who pointed to the crowd: "Look! You're not alone anymore already."
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Note: Should socialist 'AMLO", Andrés Manuel López Obrador, get elected in Mexico, we can quickly expect a tidal wave of Mexicans fleeing to the USA. Nicolas Maduro aka "Maduro el Burro".
Gracias
Implosion of Venezuela creates refugees wave on scale of Syrian civil war
Expatriates find welcoming immigration laws in Argentina, tightened border controls in Colombia, Brazil
By Federico Puglie — Special to The Washington Times - - Thursday, April 12, 2018
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/12/venezuela-collapse-creates-immigration-wave-south-/
BUENOS AIRES — It's a chilly fall afternoon in the Argentine capital, and for many around the circle at Our Lady of Guadalupe parish hall, the climate feels distinctly foreign.
Only one hand goes up when Jose Guerra, moderator of the day's workshop, asks how many of the two dozen recently arrived Venezuelan refugees in the hall have lived through four distinct seasons. The rest, it turns out, arrived only within the past few weeks or months.
They are just a small part of the massive wave of Venezuelans turning their backs on their homeland and its beleaguered socialist government. Countries across Central and South America are struggling to deal with the massive outflow. Regional analysts say the out-migration threatens to destabilize Venezuela's neighbors and prove a massive drain on South American resources and economic development.
The Venezuelan refugees in Argentina, driven from their homes by massive shortages, political upheaval and raging violent crime, have traveled 3,000 miles to find welcoming immigration laws and a thriving expatriate community. But not every country is dealing with the influx so smoothly.
The handling of the crisis by Venezuela's beleaguered president, Nicolas Maduro, figures to be a prime topic of conversation when regional leaders gather at the end of the week in Peru for the Summit of the Americas. President Trump, whose administration has taken several steps against the Maduro government and sanctioned many top officials in Caracas, will not be in Lima for the discussion.
Mr. Trump announced Tuesday that he was canceling the trip and a subsequent visit to Colombia so he could monitor the crisis in Syria. Vice President Mike Pence will attend in his stead.
Syria's civil war has destabilized much of the Middle East, but many Latin American specialists say the Venezuelan problem is a comparable catastrophe unfolding at a slower clip. An estimated 1.5 million or more Venezuelans are currently displaced in countries across North and South America, with a twentyfold increase in asylum claims since 2014.
"That is the kind of economic collapse that has, I think, almost never been seen outside the context of a war or a natural disaster in a very small state," said Brad W. Setser, a top Treasury official in the Obama administration and now a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. "It is significantly deeper than the fall in output in Greece, and Greece was much deeper than the kind of financial crisis contractions observed in Latin America in the 1990s."
Venezuela, he said, "is in free fall."
Some analysts say the international community has failed to acknowledge the dimensions of the crisis. Some resist terms like "refugee crisis" because, unlike Syria, Venezuela is not a war zone, said Dany Bahar, an economist with the Brookings Institution.
"But, to be honest, if you look at the numbers, the humanitarian crisis that is happening in Venezuela is as bad [as] in any country having a civil war," Mr. Bahar told a panel last week on the crisis at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue think tank.
Colombia and Brazil, which share long land borders with Venezuela, have been under particular pressure. They initially tried to accommodate the fleeing Venezuelans but tightened their border controls in recent days as thousands continued to pour into their territory.
"The borders are unstable at the moment due to both the humanitarian situation and to the number of criminal and violent actors," Ivan Briscoe, Bogota-based Latin America director with the International Crisis Group, told the news website RefugeesDeeply.com. "I do not think that Colombia has either the resources or experience to be able to manage a large outflow of migrants on its own."
Surging inflow
Even here, far from Venezuela, the refugee explosion presents a challenge.
In the first two months of this year, Argentina's National Immigration Office issued nearly 150 residency permits a day to Venezuelan applicants, and the 31,167 permits given out in 2017 almost tripled the previous year's total. Over the past five years, meanwhile, the number has increased sixteenfold.
"The jump in 2017 was tremendous," Jose Garcia, who heads the office, told The Washington Times. "Clearly, things are getting worse and worse in Venezuela, and so Argentina, with its open-arms policy … will be a center of attraction."
Still, local numbers pale in comparison with those of Venezuela's neighbors. Colombia alone hosts some 600,000 Venezuelan refugees, the U.N. Refugee Agency estimates. One in 10 Venezuelans have left the country, and the UNHCR expects 1.7 million more to pack their bags this year.
Though they make up a mix of migrants and refugees, the size of the challenge is undeniable, said Michele Manca di Nissa, the regional representative for UNHCR's southern Latin America office.
"In Argentina, they're talking about 300 [Venezuelans] per day that are coming in. In Peru, we have between 500 and 800 asylum applications per day," Mr. Manca di Nissa said. "Do I need to say more?"
At the same time, Mr. Maduro — widely blamed for an economic and social services collapse that has led to a Third World infant mortality rate, staggering hyperinflation and empty supermarket shelves — still has powerful friends in New York.
Neither his regime's biggest creditor, China, nor the beneficiary of its "fire sale" oil exports, Russia, is keen on U.N. "crisis" rhetoric that might upset Caracas — or please Washington, said Shannon O'Neil, a specialist on Latin American affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations.
But the mere fact that the U.N. refugee body is tackling the outpouring and expanding its footprint on the ground "implies a certain recognition of this situation," Mr. Manca di Nissa said.
Still, border zones in Colombia and northern Brazil have clearly struggled with the influx. As both neighbors tighten border controls, Panama is requiring Venezuelans to obtain visas.
Red carpet
Not so Buenos Aires, which has all but rolled out the red carpet for the often young and highly educated newcomers who defy a typical immigrant profile. Many of the Venezuelan exiles are viewed not as a drain on local resources, but as assets.
Among the Venezuelan arrivals in Argentina were some 4,100 engineers, Mr. Garcia points out, and his immigration office is working with industry groups to put the refugees to work.
"We have a shortage of qualifications [in Argentina]; we don't have engineers," he said. "If someone has an interesting skill, it's a loss if [he] works, for instance, as a waiter in a bar, because this resource could be beneficial for him … and for the country as well."
So the famously bureaucratic immigration body is expediting waivers and deferrals for hard-to-obtain documents and continues to treat Venezuelans as part of Mercosur, even though the regional bloc last year cut ties with the Maduro regime.
"We don't sanction the people of Venezuela," Mr. Garcia said. "We maintain the suspension Mercosur has applied to Venezuela, but we open our arms to Venezuelans and try to ease conditions so they come to Argentina."
Many Venezuelan arrivals eventually realize that even if the Maduro regime comes to an end, returning home may not be as easy as buying a plane ticket back to Caracas, said Vincenzo Pensa, head of the Association of Venezuelans in Argentina.
"A good number [of Venezuelans] have decided to set up roots," he said. "It's very difficult to leave your country, set up roots in another, start from zero — just to then return to your country and [again] start from zero, especially in a country where more than 4 million residents have left."
Many expatriates, he said, don't trust the Maduro government, even in Buenos Aires.
"The vast majority of us feels like the [Venezuelan] Embassy is the enemy," said Mr. Pensa. "If you need to get documentation at the embassy, you hesitate — and you hesitate a lot."
As they talk about the challenges of their new lives, many immigrants zoom in on the key concern of finding jobs. But the worst deprivation, virtually everybody says, is the separation from friends and family.
In one small group, filmmaker Nathalia Hernandez, 21, made friends with two of the older attendees, Syria Rosario, 46, and Yesenia Rodriguez, 61, both of whom followed their children to Argentina.
Telling her countrymen about her decades as a preschool teacher in Venezuela, Ms. Rodriguez could not hold back her tears.
"What do I do now in Argentina?" the petite, gray-haired woman whispered. "Whatever it takes to survive," she said while being comforted by her fellow recent arrivals.
"I'm here alone, [too]," Ms. Hernandez reassured, only to be corrected by Ms. Rosario, who pointed to the crowd: "Look! You're not alone anymore already."
End
Thursday, April 12, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 10-4-18
AZMEX POLICY 10 APR 2018
Border sheriffs from 31 different counties come to Las Cruces for annual conference
By: Mauricio Casillas
Posted: Apr 10, 2018 03:36 PM MDT
Updated: Apr 10, 2018 03:36 PM MDT
http://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexico/border-sheriffs-from-31-different-counties-come-to-las-cruces-for-annual-conference/727783895
Law enforcement from 31 different counties along the Southern border have all come together in Las Cruces.
It's for the annual Southwestern Border Sheriff's Coalition.
It comes at a time where border issues are at the forefront of national discussion.
"We all meet to try to see if we can come up with solutions. We don't all share the same opinions but at least we meet and discuss these issues and see how we can improve and provide public safety to these citizens," Dona Ana County Sheriff Kiki Vigil said.
Tuesday's guest speaker was Associate Deputy General Steven Cook. He is Attorney General Jeff Sessions' right-hand man. Sessions will be addressing the coalition on Wednesday.
"[Sessions] travels around the country speaking to groups just like this one. The reason he does that is he wants to demonstrate unequivocally his support for state and local law enforcement," Cook said.
Along with hearing from guest speakers, attendees got to participate in different training sessions. The goal of the coalition is to collaborate to make the border safer.
"As I've traveled across the country, what I've heard everywhere I go is -- in battling the drugs, in battling human trafficking -- the battle lines right here. It's on the border," Cook said.
Authorities tell our New Mexico Mobile Newsroom they anticipate protesters will be showing up on Wednesday when Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to speak.
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Border sheriffs from 31 different counties come to Las Cruces for annual conference
By: Mauricio Casillas
Posted: Apr 10, 2018 03:36 PM MDT
Updated: Apr 10, 2018 03:36 PM MDT
http://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexico/border-sheriffs-from-31-different-counties-come-to-las-cruces-for-annual-conference/727783895
Law enforcement from 31 different counties along the Southern border have all come together in Las Cruces.
It's for the annual Southwestern Border Sheriff's Coalition.
It comes at a time where border issues are at the forefront of national discussion.
"We all meet to try to see if we can come up with solutions. We don't all share the same opinions but at least we meet and discuss these issues and see how we can improve and provide public safety to these citizens," Dona Ana County Sheriff Kiki Vigil said.
Tuesday's guest speaker was Associate Deputy General Steven Cook. He is Attorney General Jeff Sessions' right-hand man. Sessions will be addressing the coalition on Wednesday.
"[Sessions] travels around the country speaking to groups just like this one. The reason he does that is he wants to demonstrate unequivocally his support for state and local law enforcement," Cook said.
Along with hearing from guest speakers, attendees got to participate in different training sessions. The goal of the coalition is to collaborate to make the border safer.
"As I've traveled across the country, what I've heard everywhere I go is -- in battling the drugs, in battling human trafficking -- the battle lines right here. It's on the border," Cook said.
Authorities tell our New Mexico Mobile Newsroom they anticipate protesters will be showing up on Wednesday when Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to speak.
END
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 11-4-18
AZMEX POLICY 11 APR 2018
Mexico will reinforce its southern border with more elements of the National Gendarmerie
AFP
http://www.jornada.com.mx/sin-fronteras/2018/04/11/mexico-reforzara-su-frontera-sur-con-mas-elementos-de-la-gendarmeria-nacional-4979.html
The Mexican government announced yesterday that it will increase the number of troops of the National Gendarmerie on the southern border to reinforce security but with the commitment to respect the human rights of Central American immigrants who cross the country to the United States.
Alfonso Navarrete, Secretary of Interior (secretario de Gobernación) met in the capital with Manuel Velasco, governor of Chiapas (sur), the state through which the bulk of undocumented migrants enter. "We have talked about border security, about strengthening our southern border," Navarrate told Velasco in a video posted on the governor's Facebook page.
This announcement comes amidst tensions with the United States following the onslaught of President Donald Trump about the advance, last week, through Mexican territory, of a caravan of more than 1,000 Central American migrants fleeing their countries because of poverty and the violence.
"We are going to reinforce the security with more elements of the Gendarmerie" Velasco said of his side, without detailing the numbers or deadlines for the deployment.
Navarrete stressed that it is also necessary to create "a broad framework of protection for human rights" of Central Americans who cross the country to the northern border with the intention of reaching the United States or stay in a Mexican town.
Trump accused Mexico of not doing enough to stop illegal immigration and announced the sending of thousands of National Guard troops to reinforce the US-MEX border.
President Enrique Peña Nieto accused Trum of having "threatening attitudes" and "disrespect" toward Mexico and ordered on Monday to evaluate cooperation programs with the United States.
Much of the caravan was dispersed in the state of Oaxaca (south) after immigration authorities gave the Central Americans permits of up to 20 days to leave the country or a month to begin the refugee application process in Mexico, which is being becoming a destination point.
Part of the caravan arrived in Mexico City in recent days, where its journey ended.
Organizations defending migrants, such as Pueblo sin Fronteras, which organized the caravan, are meeting this week with Mexican authorities to demand that the budget allocated to refugees be extended and travel permits issued to migrants, who in their clandestine journey are victims of corrupt authorities or criminals.
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Mexico will reinforce its southern border with more elements of the National Gendarmerie
AFP
http://www.jornada.com.mx/sin-fronteras/2018/04/11/mexico-reforzara-su-frontera-sur-con-mas-elementos-de-la-gendarmeria-nacional-4979.html
The Mexican government announced yesterday that it will increase the number of troops of the National Gendarmerie on the southern border to reinforce security but with the commitment to respect the human rights of Central American immigrants who cross the country to the United States.
Alfonso Navarrete, Secretary of Interior (secretario de Gobernación) met in the capital with Manuel Velasco, governor of Chiapas (sur), the state through which the bulk of undocumented migrants enter. "We have talked about border security, about strengthening our southern border," Navarrate told Velasco in a video posted on the governor's Facebook page.
This announcement comes amidst tensions with the United States following the onslaught of President Donald Trump about the advance, last week, through Mexican territory, of a caravan of more than 1,000 Central American migrants fleeing their countries because of poverty and the violence.
"We are going to reinforce the security with more elements of the Gendarmerie" Velasco said of his side, without detailing the numbers or deadlines for the deployment.
Navarrete stressed that it is also necessary to create "a broad framework of protection for human rights" of Central Americans who cross the country to the northern border with the intention of reaching the United States or stay in a Mexican town.
Trump accused Mexico of not doing enough to stop illegal immigration and announced the sending of thousands of National Guard troops to reinforce the US-MEX border.
President Enrique Peña Nieto accused Trum of having "threatening attitudes" and "disrespect" toward Mexico and ordered on Monday to evaluate cooperation programs with the United States.
Much of the caravan was dispersed in the state of Oaxaca (south) after immigration authorities gave the Central Americans permits of up to 20 days to leave the country or a month to begin the refugee application process in Mexico, which is being becoming a destination point.
Part of the caravan arrived in Mexico City in recent days, where its journey ended.
Organizations defending migrants, such as Pueblo sin Fronteras, which organized the caravan, are meeting this week with Mexican authorities to demand that the budget allocated to refugees be extended and travel permits issued to migrants, who in their clandestine journey are victims of corrupt authorities or criminals.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 9-4-18
AZMEX POLICY 9 APR 2018.
AZ Supreme Court Rules Unanimously in Favor of State in MCCCD In-State Tuition Case
https://www.azag.gov/press-release/az-supreme-court-rules-unanimously-favor-state-mcccd-state-tuition-case
PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that the Arizona Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in favor of the State
in the Maricopa County Community College in-state tuition case.
In a 7-0 decision, the Court agreed with a previous 3-0 Court of Appeals decision that existing federal and state law do not allow
Maricopa County Community College District to grant in-state tuition benefits to DACA recipients.
"While people can disagree what the law should be, I hope we all can agree that the attorney general must enforce the law as it is, not as we want it to be," said Attorney General Mark Brnovich.
"As Attorney General, my duty is to uphold the law and the will of more than one million voters who passed Proposition 300 in 2006."
The Court granted review on February 13, 2018, solely on the issue of "whether DACA recipients who are lawfully present in this country while they are participating in the DACA program are eligible for resident tuition." Arguments took place on April 2, 2018. A full written opinion by the Court is expected to be issued by May 14, 2018.
In 2006, Arizona voters approved Proposition 300 with 71.4% of the vote.
The law provides that state-funded services and benefits, including in-state tuition and financial aid, can only be provided to individuals who have legal status.
More details at the link:
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AZ Supreme Court Rules Unanimously in Favor of State in MCCCD In-State Tuition Case
https://www.azag.gov/press-release/az-supreme-court-rules-unanimously-favor-state-mcccd-state-tuition-case
PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that the Arizona Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in favor of the State
in the Maricopa County Community College in-state tuition case.
In a 7-0 decision, the Court agreed with a previous 3-0 Court of Appeals decision that existing federal and state law do not allow
Maricopa County Community College District to grant in-state tuition benefits to DACA recipients.
"While people can disagree what the law should be, I hope we all can agree that the attorney general must enforce the law as it is, not as we want it to be," said Attorney General Mark Brnovich.
"As Attorney General, my duty is to uphold the law and the will of more than one million voters who passed Proposition 300 in 2006."
The Court granted review on February 13, 2018, solely on the issue of "whether DACA recipients who are lawfully present in this country while they are participating in the DACA program are eligible for resident tuition." Arguments took place on April 2, 2018. A full written opinion by the Court is expected to be issued by May 14, 2018.
In 2006, Arizona voters approved Proposition 300 with 71.4% of the vote.
The law provides that state-funded services and benefits, including in-state tuition and financial aid, can only be provided to individuals who have legal status.
More details at the link:
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Monday, April 9, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 9-4-18
AZMEX UPDATE 9 APR 2018
WATCH: Gov. Doug Ducey deploys 225 National Guard members to Arizona border
abc15.com staff , Associated Press
9:39 AM, Apr 9, 2018
https://www.abc15.com/news/state/gov-doug-ducey-deploys-225-national-guard-members-to-arizona-border
PHOENIX - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced on Monday morning that 225 National Guard members will be deployed to the Arizona/Mexico border.
WATCH: Gov. Ducey on hand as 225 National Guardsmen are deployed to the Arizona, Mexico border at 11:30 a.m.
The announcement was made on Twitter:
On Friday, Ducey originally said about 150 members would be at the border.
Ducey said the deployment is "all about public safety."
Ducey's spokesman Daniel Scarpinato has downplayed an immigration crackdown, instead focusing on drug smuggling, pointing to ongoing effort by a state police task force to help the Border Patrol catch drug smugglers.
"Anything we can do to continue to enhance security, to go after the cartels and others who are smuggling drugs into the country and putting lives at risk, the governor absolutely wants to see that happen," Scarpinato said.
Governor Ducey is expected to be on hand Monday at 11:30 a.m. in Phoenix as guardsmen are deployed from the Papago Park Military Reservation.
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National Guard Troops arrive to Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station
by Alexandria Rodriguez
Sunday, April 8th 2018
Courtesy: CBP
http://cbs4local.com/news/local/national-guard-troops-arrive-to-santa-teresa-port-of-entry
National Guard members arrived to the Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station Saturday evening, according to a tweet by U.S. Customs and Border protection.
The tweet reads that troops were briefed by an El Paso Sector border patrol agent at the Santa Teresa Border Patrol station.
There's no word on how many troops have arrived to the Borderland, but the tweet shows five National Guard Members in a picture with Border Patrol agents.
We contacted CBP's El Paso Sector for more information on the troops arrival.
They sent out this statement:
"The Department of Defense in conjunction with Border State Governors has begun deploying the National Guard with initial forces already on the ground working to enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection's capability in Southwest Border sectors."
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WATCH: Gov. Doug Ducey deploys 225 National Guard members to Arizona border
abc15.com staff , Associated Press
9:39 AM, Apr 9, 2018
https://www.abc15.com/news/state/gov-doug-ducey-deploys-225-national-guard-members-to-arizona-border
PHOENIX - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced on Monday morning that 225 National Guard members will be deployed to the Arizona/Mexico border.
WATCH: Gov. Ducey on hand as 225 National Guardsmen are deployed to the Arizona, Mexico border at 11:30 a.m.
The announcement was made on Twitter:
On Friday, Ducey originally said about 150 members would be at the border.
Ducey said the deployment is "all about public safety."
Ducey's spokesman Daniel Scarpinato has downplayed an immigration crackdown, instead focusing on drug smuggling, pointing to ongoing effort by a state police task force to help the Border Patrol catch drug smugglers.
"Anything we can do to continue to enhance security, to go after the cartels and others who are smuggling drugs into the country and putting lives at risk, the governor absolutely wants to see that happen," Scarpinato said.
Governor Ducey is expected to be on hand Monday at 11:30 a.m. in Phoenix as guardsmen are deployed from the Papago Park Military Reservation.
END
National Guard Troops arrive to Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station
by Alexandria Rodriguez
Sunday, April 8th 2018
Courtesy: CBP
http://cbs4local.com/news/local/national-guard-troops-arrive-to-santa-teresa-port-of-entry
National Guard members arrived to the Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station Saturday evening, according to a tweet by U.S. Customs and Border protection.
The tweet reads that troops were briefed by an El Paso Sector border patrol agent at the Santa Teresa Border Patrol station.
There's no word on how many troops have arrived to the Borderland, but the tweet shows five National Guard Members in a picture with Border Patrol agents.
We contacted CBP's El Paso Sector for more information on the troops arrival.
They sent out this statement:
"The Department of Defense in conjunction with Border State Governors has begun deploying the National Guard with initial forces already on the ground working to enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection's capability in Southwest Border sectors."
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 8-4-18
AZMEX SPECIAL 8 APR 2018
Note: Mexico usually has effective voter ID requirements, including fingerprints! Why not the USA?
Or, is a certain political party in the U.S. so dependent on voter fraud?
Gracias
INE endorses 10 thousand credentials of Mexicans abroad
They presented absence of signature or fingerprint on the copy of the voter registration card;
INE gives yes to Mexicans exercising their right to vote
04/08/2018 14:37 NOTIMEX
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/ine-avala-10-mil-credenciales-de-mexicanos-en-el-extranjero/1231234
MEXICO CITY
The General Council of the INE approved that the Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters (DERFE) remedy the inconsistency detected in 10 thousand cases, regarding the absence of signature or fingerprint on the copy of the voter registration card annexed by the citizens and citizens to the Individual Application for Registration to the Nominal List of Voters Resident Abroad.
In an extraordinary session at the National Electoral Institute (INE), the councilors endorsed with nine votes in favor and two against this agreement, which means that Mexicans living or residing abroad will be able to exercise their right to vote.
The president of the INE, Lorenzo Cordova, said that this agreement involves a series of elements that "allow us to walk on a path of reasonable certainty, under the logic of maximizing rights without jeopardizing the certainty of the electoral process as regards voting. of Mexicans from abroad. "
Promises Meade a field in which 'everyone wins'
In this regard, election counselor Enrique Andrade, who presented the draft agreement, noted that the applications that present this inconsistency meet the requirements determined by the INE, so "the electoral authority considered that this omission should be corrected, privileging the desire to exercise the universal right to vote. "
He pointed out that there are almost 10 thousand applications that present as inconsistency the lack of signature in the copy, but that meet all the requirements determined in the guidelines for the conformation of the List of Voters from Abroad.
He recalled that these requirements are the citizen's data, such as name, surname; voter's key, issue number; home abroad with a valid and current voucher no longer than three months; means of contact, which can be telephone number abroad and email.
In the same way, verification data, which is the name of the father or mother and a signed declaration to vote from abroad.
In addition, with the copy of the credential it is noticed that the citizen is in the electoral roll and in the nominal list in Mexico and, finally, that the copy also warns that the signature corresponds to the signature image of the base of data of the first instrument.
He proposed that for these reasons on March 28 the National Surveillance Commission (CNV) approved to recommend to the DERFE that the inconsistencies presented by these requests be corrected.
Andrade indicated that based on the foregoing, in this agreement it is justly proposed that, in response to the recommendation, the INE's general council approve that the DERFE implement what is necessary for the recommendation to be made in the terms set forth by the CNV.
In accordance with paragraph 51 of the guidelines, resolving the origin or illegality of the applications corresponds to the DERFE, according to the requirements and the established criteria and with the opinion of said commission, he said.
He recalled that "we are already in the last month to conform the list of electors from abroad, ruling the applications and waiting for confirmation of citizens who have processed their credential from September 1 to March 31 to be included in the list of Electors.
On March 31, in the Extraordinary Day for the Processing of the Credential, as reported, attended the representations of Mexico abroad nine thousand 985 citizens to process the credential, which represents the interest that exists to participate in the election of the next first of July, "he said.
For his part, the counselor Marco Antonio Baños Martínez explained that this case meant interpreting in favor of 11 thousand 90 citizens who applied to be on the Nominal List of Voters Abroad.
He indicated that the proposal analyzed by the National Surveillance Commission and voted by the General Council describes that several verification procedures have been complied with, so he asked that the endorsement be added to the endorsement that the Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters made the verification, to avoid confusion and suspicion.
He noted that it is a matter "that is in the limit, which can be interpreted for or against and depends on the criterion", as well as according to the instruction, each of the 11 thousand 90 cases was reviewed and sent what is conducive, what "I think can generate greater certainty about what we would be approving," he concluded.
END
Note: Mexico usually has effective voter ID requirements, including fingerprints! Why not the USA?
Or, is a certain political party in the U.S. so dependent on voter fraud?
Gracias
INE endorses 10 thousand credentials of Mexicans abroad
They presented absence of signature or fingerprint on the copy of the voter registration card;
INE gives yes to Mexicans exercising their right to vote
04/08/2018 14:37 NOTIMEX
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/ine-avala-10-mil-credenciales-de-mexicanos-en-el-extranjero/1231234
MEXICO CITY
The General Council of the INE approved that the Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters (DERFE) remedy the inconsistency detected in 10 thousand cases, regarding the absence of signature or fingerprint on the copy of the voter registration card annexed by the citizens and citizens to the Individual Application for Registration to the Nominal List of Voters Resident Abroad.
In an extraordinary session at the National Electoral Institute (INE), the councilors endorsed with nine votes in favor and two against this agreement, which means that Mexicans living or residing abroad will be able to exercise their right to vote.
The president of the INE, Lorenzo Cordova, said that this agreement involves a series of elements that "allow us to walk on a path of reasonable certainty, under the logic of maximizing rights without jeopardizing the certainty of the electoral process as regards voting. of Mexicans from abroad. "
Promises Meade a field in which 'everyone wins'
In this regard, election counselor Enrique Andrade, who presented the draft agreement, noted that the applications that present this inconsistency meet the requirements determined by the INE, so "the electoral authority considered that this omission should be corrected, privileging the desire to exercise the universal right to vote. "
He pointed out that there are almost 10 thousand applications that present as inconsistency the lack of signature in the copy, but that meet all the requirements determined in the guidelines for the conformation of the List of Voters from Abroad.
He recalled that these requirements are the citizen's data, such as name, surname; voter's key, issue number; home abroad with a valid and current voucher no longer than three months; means of contact, which can be telephone number abroad and email.
In the same way, verification data, which is the name of the father or mother and a signed declaration to vote from abroad.
In addition, with the copy of the credential it is noticed that the citizen is in the electoral roll and in the nominal list in Mexico and, finally, that the copy also warns that the signature corresponds to the signature image of the base of data of the first instrument.
He proposed that for these reasons on March 28 the National Surveillance Commission (CNV) approved to recommend to the DERFE that the inconsistencies presented by these requests be corrected.
Andrade indicated that based on the foregoing, in this agreement it is justly proposed that, in response to the recommendation, the INE's general council approve that the DERFE implement what is necessary for the recommendation to be made in the terms set forth by the CNV.
In accordance with paragraph 51 of the guidelines, resolving the origin or illegality of the applications corresponds to the DERFE, according to the requirements and the established criteria and with the opinion of said commission, he said.
He recalled that "we are already in the last month to conform the list of electors from abroad, ruling the applications and waiting for confirmation of citizens who have processed their credential from September 1 to March 31 to be included in the list of Electors.
On March 31, in the Extraordinary Day for the Processing of the Credential, as reported, attended the representations of Mexico abroad nine thousand 985 citizens to process the credential, which represents the interest that exists to participate in the election of the next first of July, "he said.
For his part, the counselor Marco Antonio Baños Martínez explained that this case meant interpreting in favor of 11 thousand 90 citizens who applied to be on the Nominal List of Voters Abroad.
He indicated that the proposal analyzed by the National Surveillance Commission and voted by the General Council describes that several verification procedures have been complied with, so he asked that the endorsement be added to the endorsement that the Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters made the verification, to avoid confusion and suspicion.
He noted that it is a matter "that is in the limit, which can be interpreted for or against and depends on the criterion", as well as according to the instruction, each of the 11 thousand 90 cases was reviewed and sent what is conducive, what "I think can generate greater certainty about what we would be approving," he concluded.
END
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