AZMEX ELECTION UPDATE 30 MAY 2018
Note: It was the PRI who ran Mexico since 1929, not the PAN.
Comment: if he is elected it will be a Cuba / Venezuela style disaster.
The USA will have millions more trying to get in.
Gracias
Poll: Mexico's left-leaning presidential candidate Lopez Obrador widens lead
Alfredo Corchado, Border-Mexico correspondent
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/mexico-election-2018/2018/05/30/poll-mexicos-left-leaning-presidential-candidate-lopez-obrador-widens-lead
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican left-leaning presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has consolidated his lead over his nearest rival, surpassing the 50 percent mark for the first time with a month to go before July 1 presidential election, according to a poll by Reforma newspaper.
The May 24-27 voter survey, co-sponsored by The Dallas Morning News and the University of North Texas-Dallas, showed Lopez Obrador, widely known as AMLO, winning 52 percent of the vote, the widest margin in any poll during the frenetic campaign.
His nearest rival Ricardo Anaya, from the right-left coalition, came in at 26 percent, unchanged from Reforma's last poll in mid-April.
Running third was Jose Antonio Meade, candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). His support remained steady at 19 percent, according to the poll, which comes following the second of three presidential debates, and after the withdrawal of independent candidate Margarita Zavala.
"Unless there is something really heroic, tragic or absolutely imponderable ...., this race is indeed as over as it can be," said Carlos Bravo Regidor, a political analyst and associate professor at CIDE, a public research center in Mexico City. "In general, AMLO's advantage is too big and seems too consolidated. The other candidates have not been able to connect with a majority."
The national poll surveyed 1,200 voters and had a margin of error of 3.8 percentage points.
Interviewed before the poll, voters throughout Mexico expressed a sense of resignation that Lopez Obrador, the 64-year-old former mayor of Mexico City, would become the country's next president. "I don't have a rooster in this fight because AMLO has his own issues," said Alvaro Enrique, 56, a driver. "But he's the only one who might actually do something for the people."
Enrique said he would never vote for PRI but also thinks the National Action Party has already had its chance.
The National Action Party governed Mexico for much of the nation's modern history, beginning in 1929, and was the opposition party that toppled PRI in 2000 and remained at the helm until 2012.
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AMLO grows lead to 2 to 1: Reforma
By: Drafting / GH | 05/30/2018 7:27
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Nacional/30052018/1345381-Crece-AMLO-y-lidera-2-a-1-Reforma.html
Andrés Manuel López Obrador leads the electoral preferences when placed with 52%, followed by Ricardo Anaya with 26%, José Antonio Meade with 19% and Jaime Rodríguez "El Bronco" with 3%, according to the Reforma survey.
"AMLO grows and leads 2 to 1" is the information disseminated this morning by the newspaper Reforma, which shows the results of the question "If today was the election for President, by whom would you vote?", With the effective percentages without considering 17 % no response On April 18 and May 2, Margarita Zavala, who retired from the race.
The candidate of "Juntos Haremos Historia" (Morena, PT and PES), Andrés Manuel López Obrador, grew in the intention to vote by going from 48%, in the survey published on May 2, to 52% in the study given this morning for Reforma. In that same study on April 18 he had 48%.
Ricardo Anaya, of the coalition "Por México al Frente" (PAN, PRD and MC), had a fall of 4 percentage points because of the 30% that he had on May 2 in this electoral survey is placed in 26%, as well as the result that it had in the survey of April 18 that was 26%.
José Antonio Meade, of the coalition "Todos por México" (PRI, PVEM and Panal), increased 2 percentage points by having 19% of the electoral preferences in the last survey since in the previous one he had 17%, while in the survey of April 18 had registered 18%.
The independent candidate Jaime Rodríguez "El Bronco" got 3% in this last survey, in April he had 3% and on May 2, 2%.
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Comment: it's the Chicago Way .
Mexican electoral campaign flush with illegal funding
Christopher Sherman, Associated Press
Updated 11:18 am, Tuesday, May 29, 2018
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/crime/article/Mexican-presidential-candidate-fined-for-campaign-12950543.php?utm_campaign=hpborder
FILE - In this April 11, 2018 file photo, independent presidential candidate Jaime Rodriguez known as "El Bronco" speaks with the press at the airport in Mexico City. Mexico's electoral institute announced Monday, May 28, 2018, that it has fined Rodriguez more than $37,000 (739,000 pesos) for an assortment of alleged campaign violations. Photo: Marco Ugarte, AP / Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Photo: Marco Ugarte, AP
IMAGE 1 OF 3 FILE - In this April 11, 2018 file photo, independent presidential candidate Jaime Rodriguez known as "El Bronco" speaks with the press at the airport in Mexico City. Mexico's electoral institute announced ... more
MEXICO CITY (AP) —
For every peso declared to Mexican electoral authorities by political parties and candidates, 15 more are moving under the table, according to a report Tuesday on the problem of illegal campaign finance.
The nonprofit Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity published the report after months of investigation, concluding that Mexico's public campaign finance system has failed to keep illegal money from influencing elections.
The report says that the cash moving around electoral campaigns is such that Mexico's central bank has documented inexplicable increases in the amount of cash circulating in the economy in the five months before elections.
The money comes from both public and private sources. Money is siphoned from public programs and local governments to fund campaigns and is funneled to candidates by businesses interested in winning public contracts and having access to elected officials.
"The illegal campaign financing is the principle problem of electoral democracy," said Maria Amparo Casar, the organization's executive president and one of the study's authors, in an interview prior to the report's release. "What it does is when one arrives to power, what you're doing is buying benefits."
On Monday, Mexico's electoral institute fined independent presidential candidate Jaime Rodriguez more than $37,000 (739,000 pesos) for an assortment of alleged campaign violations, including having hundreds of state government employees working to gather the signatures necessary for him to appear on the ballot.
In response, Rodriguez tweeted that the regulatory agency targets only independent candidate because it is controlled by the major parties.
The National Electoral Institute announced the fines due to what it said was $650,000 (12,800,329 pesos) of "irregular financing" for the candidate known as "El Bronco." It said it would also forward the case to the Attorney General's Office and Mexico's tax agency for further investigation.
The institute also accused Rodriguez of making banned contributions from businesses appear to come from individual supporters.
"It's a triangulation to make citizens appear as legitimate supporters, when in reality the money came from businesses with which these citizens have no relationship whatsoever," electoral institute council member Ciro Murayama said in a statement.
Rodriguez, on leave as governor of Nuevo Leon state, is one of four candidates in the July 1 presidential election. His campaign has largely framed itself as a threat to the status quo of the dominant political parties.
The campaign finance report released Tuesday said the electoral institute needs to do more such investigations and impose heavier fines. As it is, parties and candidates can make a cost-benefit analysis and decide that it is worthwhile to violate regulations if it could give them an edge in the election, Casar said.
Mexico's public campaign finance system, which has been in place for more than 20 years, has succeeded in leveling the playing field and making elections more competitive, the report said. But more aggressive policing of campaign spending is necessary.
The report's authors recommend making voting obligatory in Mexico as a way to reduce spending on vote buying and election-day get-out-the vote efforts, which are legally restricted in Mexico.
They also concluded that the calculation used to set spending limits is not rooted in the reality of what it costs to run modern campaigns.
"The limits are like a promise of good behavior that no one follows and that stimulate even more violations of the law," the report said.
Asked if creating a legal and transparent path for private money to play a role in elections should be considered, Casar said public financing was still the best option. "The massive entry, like in the United States, of private money in a country like Mexico would deform the ideals of the foundations of fairness in elections in Mexico."
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More: (Spanish)
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2018/05/29/mas-de-89-millones-de-mexicanos-podran-votar-el-1-de-julio-502.html
https://riodoce.mx/noticias/envia-ine-caso-de-financiamiento-ilegal-del-bronco-a-pgr-sat-y-fepade
https://www.proceso.com.mx/536347/el-10-de-junio-meade-estara-en-segundo-lugar-de-encuestas-juarez-cisneros
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
AZMEX SPECIAL 22-5-18
AZMEX SPECIAL 22 MAY 2018
Note: Evil doers beware, Santa Cruz County be tuff on crime.
Thx
Court briefs: Ex-CBP officer sentenced for gas card thefts; drug smuggler gets 2.5 years in prison
Nogales International 10 hrs ago
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/court-briefs-ex-cbp-officer-sentenced-for-gas-card-thefts/article_9ed796c6-5d5d-11e8-b804-bb875ab1ce4b.html
Ex-CBP officer sentenced for gas card thefts
Juan Fernando Barajas, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer based in Nogales, was sentenced to five years of federal probation and ordered to pay $12,411 in penalties and restitution for using CBP credit cards to fuel up his personal vehicles.
Barajas was sentenced Monday at U.S. District Court in Tucson after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense. Bernardo Velasco, U.S. magistrate judge, ordered that he pay the fines and restitution in amounts of $225 per month for 56 months starting Aug. 1, his sentencing document shows.
According to his plea agreement, Barajas admitted that between April and November 2016, he stole 13 government credit cards meant for use in fueling CBP vehicles and used them to fill up his own vehicles' gas tanks. The original complaint filed against him alleged that the primary vehicle being gassed up was a black Mercedes-Benz SUV.
"I hid the theft of these cards by stealing one card at a time," Barajas said as part of the factual basis of his plea agreement. "When the card I had was discovered missing and cancelled by CBP, I would take the cancelled card back to the Nogales (port of entry) and switch it out for a CBP credit card that was valid and working."
According to the Arizona Daily Star, Barajas told the judge at Monday's sentencing that he was sorry, embarrassed and ashamed for what he did. Velasco responded: "I hope that you learn from this mistake and that you restart a new life," the Star reported.
Earlier this year, Barajas, who since resigned from CBP, took out paperwork to run for constable at Nogales Justice Court.
Drug smuggler gets 2.5 years in prison
A Mexican woman who was convicted at Superior Court of a Class 3 felony drug-smuggling offense was sentenced to 2.5 years in state prison.
Margarita Romo Gomez, 43, of Nogales, Sonora was sentenced May 8 by Judge Thomas Fink, who gave her credit for 220 days already served.
Romo's pre-sentence report, which contains the details of her offense, was sealed from public inspection. But a bulletin from U.S. Customs and Border Protection that matched multiple details of Romo's alleged offenses that were included in her charging document suggest that she was arrested Oct. 29, 2017 at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry after officers found more than 36 pounds of cocaine, worth approximately $413,000, within a quarter panel of a Dodge Caravan she was driving.
DUI bust for pot ends with felony conviction
A Nogales man with a long history of traffic-related offenses was sentenced to four months in prison and four years of probation for driving while high on marijuana.
Jose Luis Lerma, 38, was sentenced May 7 by Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court after he pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated DUI, a Class 4 felony.
Court records show that on Aug. 6, 2016, Lerma was stopped for speeding in Nogales by an Arizona Department of Safety trooper. When the trooper approached Lerma's vehicle, he smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the interior, as well as on Lerma's person and breath.
Lerma reportedly told the trooper that he had a medical marijuana card and had smoked a joint an hour prior to be stopped. It also turned out that his driver's license was suspended.
When the officer searched the vehicle, he reportedly found two plastic containers of marijuana in the center console and seven burnt marijuana joints in the ashtray.
During a pre-sentence interview, Lerma told a probation officer that he was driving because he needed to go to work and support his family. He said he had medical marijuana with him to help with his migraines and anxiety attacks.
According to the terms of his sentence, he cannot be issued a driver's license for a year after his conviction. Once he is issued a license, he can only drive vehicles equipped with an ignition interlock device for the following two years.
Online court records show Lerma has numerous infractions for driving with a suspended license. In 2006, he was convicted in Santa Cruz County of aggravated DUI, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful flight from a law enforcement vehicle.
Man found drugged out in van sentenced to probation
Antonio Ortega of Nogales was found passed out in a van outside a local lodging establishment and discovered to be in possession of methamphetamine and heroin. He later pleaded to a Class 5 felony drug offense and was sentenced May 7 by Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court to three years probation, including 60 days in the county jail.
Ortega, 25, was given credit for 30 days already served prior to sentencing, and another 30 days were deferred pending his compliance with the Project SAFE anti-drug program. The judge also ordered him to perform 90 hours of community service, complete a cognitive thinking class and obtain his GED before his probation ends.
Court records show that Nogales Police Department officers responded to a report of an unconscious male in a vehicle on May 30, 2017. Once at the scene, they roused the man, subsequently identified as Ortega, who appeared to be under the influence of intoxicants.
Inside the vehicle, they found a small baggie with a green, leafy substance, a pipe, a piece of burned aluminum foil, a small baggie of white powder (later identified as cocaine), pills and a burnt marijuana joint. When he got out of the car, more pills fell from his person and officers found a baggie containing a black substance (heroin) in his shorts pocket.
During a pre-sentence interview, Ortega told a probation officer that he didn't remember much about his arrest ("I had been on drugs for days," he said), but thought he had been left in the van by some friends with whom he had been partying.
Criminal consequences for man guilty of DV assault
A domestic violence assault has earned Miguel Dominguez of Nogales two years of probation and time in the county jail.
Judge Anna Montoya-Paez sentenced Dominguez, 31, on May 9 at Santa Cruz County Superior Court after he pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated domestic violence assault, a Class 6 felony.
As part of his probation, the judge ordered that he spend four weekends in jail. Another 30 days of jail time were deferred pending his completion of the Project SAFE anti-drug program.
Dominguez was also required to undergo a domestic violence assessment and complete any recommended treatment at his own expense, and complete 60 hours of community service.
Court documents show that Dominguez was arrested by Nogales Police Department officers following an incident on June 2, 2017 in which he reportedly assaulted his domestic partner in the car on the way home from a gathering, and then continued the abuse when they arrived at their apartment. He reportedly hit the woman in her face, arms and torso, bit her fingers, pulled her hair and twisted one of her piercings.
When the victim ran into the kitchen and grabbed a kitchen knife to defend herself, he grabbed the blade and cut his hand. He tried to flee the scene in a car, but the victim's sister arrived and blocked his path, so he fled on foot.
During his pre-sentence interview, Dominguez told a probation officer that he was sorry for what he did.
"I embarrassed myself and put my family through this as well. I have become a better person and will think and have better judgement about what decisions I choose to make," he reportedly said.
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Note: Evil doers beware, Santa Cruz County be tuff on crime.
Thx
Court briefs: Ex-CBP officer sentenced for gas card thefts; drug smuggler gets 2.5 years in prison
Nogales International 10 hrs ago
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/court-briefs-ex-cbp-officer-sentenced-for-gas-card-thefts/article_9ed796c6-5d5d-11e8-b804-bb875ab1ce4b.html
Ex-CBP officer sentenced for gas card thefts
Juan Fernando Barajas, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer based in Nogales, was sentenced to five years of federal probation and ordered to pay $12,411 in penalties and restitution for using CBP credit cards to fuel up his personal vehicles.
Barajas was sentenced Monday at U.S. District Court in Tucson after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense. Bernardo Velasco, U.S. magistrate judge, ordered that he pay the fines and restitution in amounts of $225 per month for 56 months starting Aug. 1, his sentencing document shows.
According to his plea agreement, Barajas admitted that between April and November 2016, he stole 13 government credit cards meant for use in fueling CBP vehicles and used them to fill up his own vehicles' gas tanks. The original complaint filed against him alleged that the primary vehicle being gassed up was a black Mercedes-Benz SUV.
"I hid the theft of these cards by stealing one card at a time," Barajas said as part of the factual basis of his plea agreement. "When the card I had was discovered missing and cancelled by CBP, I would take the cancelled card back to the Nogales (port of entry) and switch it out for a CBP credit card that was valid and working."
According to the Arizona Daily Star, Barajas told the judge at Monday's sentencing that he was sorry, embarrassed and ashamed for what he did. Velasco responded: "I hope that you learn from this mistake and that you restart a new life," the Star reported.
Earlier this year, Barajas, who since resigned from CBP, took out paperwork to run for constable at Nogales Justice Court.
Drug smuggler gets 2.5 years in prison
A Mexican woman who was convicted at Superior Court of a Class 3 felony drug-smuggling offense was sentenced to 2.5 years in state prison.
Margarita Romo Gomez, 43, of Nogales, Sonora was sentenced May 8 by Judge Thomas Fink, who gave her credit for 220 days already served.
Romo's pre-sentence report, which contains the details of her offense, was sealed from public inspection. But a bulletin from U.S. Customs and Border Protection that matched multiple details of Romo's alleged offenses that were included in her charging document suggest that she was arrested Oct. 29, 2017 at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry after officers found more than 36 pounds of cocaine, worth approximately $413,000, within a quarter panel of a Dodge Caravan she was driving.
DUI bust for pot ends with felony conviction
A Nogales man with a long history of traffic-related offenses was sentenced to four months in prison and four years of probation for driving while high on marijuana.
Jose Luis Lerma, 38, was sentenced May 7 by Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court after he pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated DUI, a Class 4 felony.
Court records show that on Aug. 6, 2016, Lerma was stopped for speeding in Nogales by an Arizona Department of Safety trooper. When the trooper approached Lerma's vehicle, he smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the interior, as well as on Lerma's person and breath.
Lerma reportedly told the trooper that he had a medical marijuana card and had smoked a joint an hour prior to be stopped. It also turned out that his driver's license was suspended.
When the officer searched the vehicle, he reportedly found two plastic containers of marijuana in the center console and seven burnt marijuana joints in the ashtray.
During a pre-sentence interview, Lerma told a probation officer that he was driving because he needed to go to work and support his family. He said he had medical marijuana with him to help with his migraines and anxiety attacks.
According to the terms of his sentence, he cannot be issued a driver's license for a year after his conviction. Once he is issued a license, he can only drive vehicles equipped with an ignition interlock device for the following two years.
Online court records show Lerma has numerous infractions for driving with a suspended license. In 2006, he was convicted in Santa Cruz County of aggravated DUI, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful flight from a law enforcement vehicle.
Man found drugged out in van sentenced to probation
Antonio Ortega of Nogales was found passed out in a van outside a local lodging establishment and discovered to be in possession of methamphetamine and heroin. He later pleaded to a Class 5 felony drug offense and was sentenced May 7 by Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court to three years probation, including 60 days in the county jail.
Ortega, 25, was given credit for 30 days already served prior to sentencing, and another 30 days were deferred pending his compliance with the Project SAFE anti-drug program. The judge also ordered him to perform 90 hours of community service, complete a cognitive thinking class and obtain his GED before his probation ends.
Court records show that Nogales Police Department officers responded to a report of an unconscious male in a vehicle on May 30, 2017. Once at the scene, they roused the man, subsequently identified as Ortega, who appeared to be under the influence of intoxicants.
Inside the vehicle, they found a small baggie with a green, leafy substance, a pipe, a piece of burned aluminum foil, a small baggie of white powder (later identified as cocaine), pills and a burnt marijuana joint. When he got out of the car, more pills fell from his person and officers found a baggie containing a black substance (heroin) in his shorts pocket.
During a pre-sentence interview, Ortega told a probation officer that he didn't remember much about his arrest ("I had been on drugs for days," he said), but thought he had been left in the van by some friends with whom he had been partying.
Criminal consequences for man guilty of DV assault
A domestic violence assault has earned Miguel Dominguez of Nogales two years of probation and time in the county jail.
Judge Anna Montoya-Paez sentenced Dominguez, 31, on May 9 at Santa Cruz County Superior Court after he pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated domestic violence assault, a Class 6 felony.
As part of his probation, the judge ordered that he spend four weekends in jail. Another 30 days of jail time were deferred pending his completion of the Project SAFE anti-drug program.
Dominguez was also required to undergo a domestic violence assessment and complete any recommended treatment at his own expense, and complete 60 hours of community service.
Court documents show that Dominguez was arrested by Nogales Police Department officers following an incident on June 2, 2017 in which he reportedly assaulted his domestic partner in the car on the way home from a gathering, and then continued the abuse when they arrived at their apartment. He reportedly hit the woman in her face, arms and torso, bit her fingers, pulled her hair and twisted one of her piercings.
When the victim ran into the kitchen and grabbed a kitchen knife to defend herself, he grabbed the blade and cut his hand. He tried to flee the scene in a car, but the victim's sister arrived and blocked his path, so he fled on foot.
During his pre-sentence interview, Dominguez told a probation officer that he was sorry for what he did.
"I embarrassed myself and put my family through this as well. I have become a better person and will think and have better judgement about what decisions I choose to make," he reportedly said.
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Monday, May 28, 2018
AZMEX EXTRA 26-5-18
AZMEX EXTRA 26 MAY 2018
Note: short of details.
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Man gets 4 years in prison for ammo smuggling into Mexico
Associated Press
9:15 AM, May 26, 2018
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/man-gets-4-years-in-prison-for-ammo-smuggling-into-mexico
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A California man was sentenced to four years in prison for his convictions in a scheme nearly two years ago to smuggle ammunition and rifle magazines from Arizona into Mexico.
Miguel Ochoa-Ruiz of Concord was sentenced Friday in Tucson for his smuggling and conspiracy convictions.
Authorities say Ochoa-Ruiz bought 2,000 rounds of ammunition and 248 high-capacity rifle magazines that were then given to 23-year-old Guadalupe Carillo-Villa of Tucson to smuggle into Mexico.
Carillo-Villa was arrested during the smuggling attempt.
The next day, authorities who regarded Ochoa-Ruiz as a person of interest from the earlier smuggling attempt encountered him at a fast-food restaurant in Nogales, Arizona.
Authorities found another 11,000 rounds of ammunition in Ochoa-Ruiz's possession.
Carillo-Villa has pleaded guilty to charges and was sentenced to four years in prison.
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Updated:
Tucson woman sentenced 4 years for smuggling ammunition into Mexico
BY KTAR.COM
MAY 28, 2018 AT 4:20 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2084219/tucson-woman-california-man-sentenced-4-years-smuggling-ammo-mexico/
PHOENIX — A Tucson woman and a California man were sentenced to four years in prison for smuggling ammunition into Mexico, the Department of Justice said.
Ana Guadalupe Carillo-Villa, 23, and Miguel Ochoa-Ruiz, 39, were found guilty on charges including smuggling goods from the United States and conspiracy.
On July 7, 2016, Ochoa-Ruiz bought 2,000 rounds of rifle ammunition and 248 high-capacity rifle magazines in Phoenix.
He and Carillo-Villa took them to Nogales, Ariz. before Carillo-Villa attempted to smuggle them over the border.
She was stopped at the port of entry.
The next day, Ochoa-Ruiz purchased 11,000 more rounds of ammunition in Phoenix and attempted to smuggle it into Mexico.
He was stopped before he left the United States.
There's evidence the two of them conspired to smuggle ammunition into Meixco on at least four other occasions, the DOJ said.
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Note: Some hope for the people of Mexico ? Fear? Si. The politicians and other criminals. From the good guys at Borderland Beat
Gracias
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Tamaulipas Congress discusses approving citizens to carry firearms, in the face of rampant insecurity
Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/05/tamaulipas-congress-discusses-approving.html#more
Subject Matter: Concealed and non concealed carrying of arms by civilians in Tamaulipas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Otis: This could be a momentous decision for the people of Tamaulipas in cities such as Reynosa and Rio Bravo, who live in fear of constant running gun battles between antagonistic narcos, extortion and kidnapping. The current laws allow Mexican citizens under the constitution to keep firearms up to .38 calibre in their homes. This temporary amendment, if made, will allow them to carry arms in the street to defend their business from extortion, themselves from being kidnapped, and to assist the Police engaged in confrontations with criminals, will certainly be received with fear, but from the criminals not the ordinary citizens
Reporter: Antonio Hernandez
In the face of insecurity, opinion is divided in the Tamaulipas congress to arm men and women in the style of the old west to defend themselves from aggression, robbery or kidnapping in Tamaulipas.
The Deputy Nohemi Estrella Leal, president of the Commission for Transparency and Access to Public information, said she will insist on discussing an initiative so that civilians can repel attacks or act in defense of victims of crime, until the Police can arrive.
What is involved is that people will be able to carry weapons with permission, can only intervene when they see a crime in progress or when they are prey to a crime and only until the Police arrive.
In addition, it is also a question of having your handgun loaded, "cocked and locked", because all those carrying will help to maintain security as auxiliary police officers.
For his part, Alejandro Etienne, president of the Instructor Commission of the Congress of Tamaulipas, said that in Mexico we have had the problem of yesteryear, because people were armed, and a disarmament program was made.
"Today conditions make this issue come back, precisely because of the inability we have had as governments of one or the other party to solve the problem of insecurity," he explained. To arm people seems to me that it is not the answer, the answer should come from the authority, from people having no need to go armed or seek to walk armed, but to solve thoroughly the problem of security.
So that is not even an option that people are looking for the use of weapons, so we have to be more effective in combating insecurity. And he concluded, there is the possibility of going armed, but it should be seen within the normative framework.
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Man to remain in custody in weapons case
Second person implicated in smuggling of grenade launcher
LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER 3 hrs ago (0)
http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_39730a2a-6098-11e8-b846-b3c1d4df2b07.html
McALLEN — A Brownsville man will continue to be held in federal custody in connection with an attempt to smuggle a grenade launcher barrel into Mexico.
Miguel Angel Gutierrez, 26, was scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter E. Ormsby on Friday afternoon for a detention hearing but waived his appearance beforehand, leaving him in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, according to court records.
Gutierrez is one of at least two people alleged to have played a role in an attempt to take the barrel of a grenade launcher and smuggle it into Mexico.
The second defendant, Jose Martin Carmona-Gonzalez, 45, also of Brownsville, made his initial appearance in federal court Thursday, a day after court records show he was arrested. He is expected back before a magistrate judge Wednesday where he could possibly be granted a bond, court records show.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested Gutierrez Monday in connection with a firearms trafficking investigation conducted by agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations.
Earlier this month HSI agents, as part of ongoing investigation, seized a M203 launcher barrel from an unnamed individual, later identified as Carmona, in Brownsville who told agents that the barrel was supposed to be smuggled into Mexico.
According to the complaint, Carmona told agents that the barrel was supposed to be smuggled into Mexico.
A meeting was scheduled with the understanding that an unnamed person in Mexico was going to send someone, later identified as Gutierrez, to pick up the launcher. The launcher was repackaged, and handed to Gutierrez in Brownsville.
CBP officers working the port of entry in Brownsville approached Gutierrez and detained him.
During his interview with authorities, Gutierrez told them that he had been recruited by an unnamed co-conspirator in Mexico to smuggle a tube used for launching grenades.
"According to the Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (DTCC), M203 launcher tubes are determined to be a defense article described on the United States Munitions List (USML) and regulated for export pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act," the complaint states.
Gutierrez told officers he knew it was illegal to smuggle the grenade launcher tube into Mexico, the complaint states.
Gutierrez will remain in custody pending his trial proceedings.
lzazueta@themonitor.com
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Note: short of details.
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Man gets 4 years in prison for ammo smuggling into Mexico
Associated Press
9:15 AM, May 26, 2018
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/man-gets-4-years-in-prison-for-ammo-smuggling-into-mexico
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A California man was sentenced to four years in prison for his convictions in a scheme nearly two years ago to smuggle ammunition and rifle magazines from Arizona into Mexico.
Miguel Ochoa-Ruiz of Concord was sentenced Friday in Tucson for his smuggling and conspiracy convictions.
Authorities say Ochoa-Ruiz bought 2,000 rounds of ammunition and 248 high-capacity rifle magazines that were then given to 23-year-old Guadalupe Carillo-Villa of Tucson to smuggle into Mexico.
Carillo-Villa was arrested during the smuggling attempt.
The next day, authorities who regarded Ochoa-Ruiz as a person of interest from the earlier smuggling attempt encountered him at a fast-food restaurant in Nogales, Arizona.
Authorities found another 11,000 rounds of ammunition in Ochoa-Ruiz's possession.
Carillo-Villa has pleaded guilty to charges and was sentenced to four years in prison.
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Updated:
Tucson woman sentenced 4 years for smuggling ammunition into Mexico
BY KTAR.COM
MAY 28, 2018 AT 4:20 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2084219/tucson-woman-california-man-sentenced-4-years-smuggling-ammo-mexico/
PHOENIX — A Tucson woman and a California man were sentenced to four years in prison for smuggling ammunition into Mexico, the Department of Justice said.
Ana Guadalupe Carillo-Villa, 23, and Miguel Ochoa-Ruiz, 39, were found guilty on charges including smuggling goods from the United States and conspiracy.
On July 7, 2016, Ochoa-Ruiz bought 2,000 rounds of rifle ammunition and 248 high-capacity rifle magazines in Phoenix.
He and Carillo-Villa took them to Nogales, Ariz. before Carillo-Villa attempted to smuggle them over the border.
She was stopped at the port of entry.
The next day, Ochoa-Ruiz purchased 11,000 more rounds of ammunition in Phoenix and attempted to smuggle it into Mexico.
He was stopped before he left the United States.
There's evidence the two of them conspired to smuggle ammunition into Meixco on at least four other occasions, the DOJ said.
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Note: Some hope for the people of Mexico ? Fear? Si. The politicians and other criminals. From the good guys at Borderland Beat
Gracias
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Tamaulipas Congress discusses approving citizens to carry firearms, in the face of rampant insecurity
Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/05/tamaulipas-congress-discusses-approving.html#more
Subject Matter: Concealed and non concealed carrying of arms by civilians in Tamaulipas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Otis: This could be a momentous decision for the people of Tamaulipas in cities such as Reynosa and Rio Bravo, who live in fear of constant running gun battles between antagonistic narcos, extortion and kidnapping. The current laws allow Mexican citizens under the constitution to keep firearms up to .38 calibre in their homes. This temporary amendment, if made, will allow them to carry arms in the street to defend their business from extortion, themselves from being kidnapped, and to assist the Police engaged in confrontations with criminals, will certainly be received with fear, but from the criminals not the ordinary citizens
Reporter: Antonio Hernandez
In the face of insecurity, opinion is divided in the Tamaulipas congress to arm men and women in the style of the old west to defend themselves from aggression, robbery or kidnapping in Tamaulipas.
The Deputy Nohemi Estrella Leal, president of the Commission for Transparency and Access to Public information, said she will insist on discussing an initiative so that civilians can repel attacks or act in defense of victims of crime, until the Police can arrive.
What is involved is that people will be able to carry weapons with permission, can only intervene when they see a crime in progress or when they are prey to a crime and only until the Police arrive.
In addition, it is also a question of having your handgun loaded, "cocked and locked", because all those carrying will help to maintain security as auxiliary police officers.
For his part, Alejandro Etienne, president of the Instructor Commission of the Congress of Tamaulipas, said that in Mexico we have had the problem of yesteryear, because people were armed, and a disarmament program was made.
"Today conditions make this issue come back, precisely because of the inability we have had as governments of one or the other party to solve the problem of insecurity," he explained. To arm people seems to me that it is not the answer, the answer should come from the authority, from people having no need to go armed or seek to walk armed, but to solve thoroughly the problem of security.
So that is not even an option that people are looking for the use of weapons, so we have to be more effective in combating insecurity. And he concluded, there is the possibility of going armed, but it should be seen within the normative framework.
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Man to remain in custody in weapons case
Second person implicated in smuggling of grenade launcher
LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER 3 hrs ago (0)
http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_39730a2a-6098-11e8-b846-b3c1d4df2b07.html
McALLEN — A Brownsville man will continue to be held in federal custody in connection with an attempt to smuggle a grenade launcher barrel into Mexico.
Miguel Angel Gutierrez, 26, was scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter E. Ormsby on Friday afternoon for a detention hearing but waived his appearance beforehand, leaving him in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, according to court records.
Gutierrez is one of at least two people alleged to have played a role in an attempt to take the barrel of a grenade launcher and smuggle it into Mexico.
The second defendant, Jose Martin Carmona-Gonzalez, 45, also of Brownsville, made his initial appearance in federal court Thursday, a day after court records show he was arrested. He is expected back before a magistrate judge Wednesday where he could possibly be granted a bond, court records show.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested Gutierrez Monday in connection with a firearms trafficking investigation conducted by agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations.
Earlier this month HSI agents, as part of ongoing investigation, seized a M203 launcher barrel from an unnamed individual, later identified as Carmona, in Brownsville who told agents that the barrel was supposed to be smuggled into Mexico.
According to the complaint, Carmona told agents that the barrel was supposed to be smuggled into Mexico.
A meeting was scheduled with the understanding that an unnamed person in Mexico was going to send someone, later identified as Gutierrez, to pick up the launcher. The launcher was repackaged, and handed to Gutierrez in Brownsville.
CBP officers working the port of entry in Brownsville approached Gutierrez and detained him.
During his interview with authorities, Gutierrez told them that he had been recruited by an unnamed co-conspirator in Mexico to smuggle a tube used for launching grenades.
"According to the Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (DTCC), M203 launcher tubes are determined to be a defense article described on the United States Munitions List (USML) and regulated for export pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act," the complaint states.
Gutierrez told officers he knew it was illegal to smuggle the grenade launcher tube into Mexico, the complaint states.
Gutierrez will remain in custody pending his trial proceedings.
lzazueta@themonitor.com
End
Thursday, May 24, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 24-5-18
AZMEX UPDATE 24 MAY 2018
Comment: there are many people on this side of the border who don't really want a secure border.
Thx
National Guard plays support role for Nogales BP
Critics call deployment a 'showboat tactic,' say resources would be better used at ports
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International 1 hr ago (0)
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/national-guard-plays-support-role-for-nogales-bp/article_53b99240-5fae-11e8-9374-87f63ad72fec.html
Decked out in military fatigues Wednesday morning, Sgt. Leonardo Gastelum lifted an oversized tire off a truck at the Nogales Border Patrol Station garage, where he has been working as a mechanic since being deployed to the border with the Army National Guard more than a month ago.
Arizona Guardsmen like Gastelum were sent to Border Patrol stations throughout Arizona as part of Operation Guardian Support starting in early April. Their mission: free up agents to be in the field by taking on support roles, including working as mechanics, firing range safety officers and surveillance camera operators.
Still, it's hard to quantify how many more agents are on the ground because of the guard's support, Border Patrol spokesman Daniel Hernandez said during a media event at the Nogales Station on Wednesday meant to demonstrate the work the soldiers have been tasked with.
The increase in agents in the field doesn't correlate one-for-one to the number of guard members at the station, he said, but added that their presence is being felt.
"I can tell you from a firsthand representative that it's helping," he said.
President Donald Trump called for the military to be sent to the border earlier this year, apparently in response to reports that a caravan of Central American migrants was making its way through Mexico to the U.S. border.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey supported the move, saying at a press conference in Nogales on April 13 that the National Guard presence would improve public safety and border security, and pointing to a recent spike in apprehension of illegal border crossers as a justification for sending the troops.
However, while the number of apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border rose to 37,383 in March from 26,662 the month before and 12,195 in March 2017, the increase comes after a dip in illegal border crossings in fiscal year 2017 (Oct. 1-Sept. 30) and reflects apprehension numbers similar to previous years. In April 2018, 38,234 undocumented people were apprehended on the Southwest border, a figure nearly identical to the 38,089 apprehensions made during the same month in FY 2016.
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Tucson who represents Nogales and Santa Cruz County as part of Congressional District 3, said in a written statement Thursday that he sees the deployment as "nothing more than a dramatic showboat tactic."
"Those of us who live at the border know the truth – it's not the lawless region of Trump's nightmares. It's home to more than 15 million people who oppose further militarizing their communities," he said. "Instead of engaging in political theater with talks of walls and National Guard deployments, we should be discussing real solutions, like modernizing our infrastructure and technology at ports of entry, to better secure our border."
In response to hearing about the tasks guardsmen are carrying out in Nogales, Kathi Noaker of the local activist group Voices from the Border, said it's sad to see the borderlands painted as a "danger zone."
"Not only is this harmful propaganda, but it's an irresponsible use of resources," she said. "Our tax dollars spent on deploying the National Guard would be much better spent on increasing the number of customs agents at the ports, facilitating the more beneficial endeavor of tourism and cross-border commerce."
Different role
The National Guard has been authorized to deploy 682 troops in Arizona through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, and so far about 400 guardsmen have been sent to Border Patrol stations, Capt. Marcario Mora, a spokesman for the mission, said Wednesday. More than 30 of the soldiers are at the Nogales Station, he said.
Guardsmen can't provide a law enforcement role at the border, and those working in surveillance are barred from looking into Mexico. But spokespeople from both the Border Patrol and National Guard said they didn't feel those parameters limited the troops' effectiveness.
Capt. Aaron Thacker, an Arizona National Guard spokesman, said with both military training and civilian experience, the guardsmen are able to bring a wide array of skills that mesh well with the needs of the Border Patrol.
"They bring in a lot of the civilian skill sets they have with them, and a lot of the things that they learned as they grew up with this world of military and civilian, and that also makes us a unique fit for this kind of support role," he said.
For example, in addition to troops working in surveillance or repairing infrastructure, one guardsman has been tending to horses agents use to patrol wildland areas.
Sgt. First Class Thomas Evitts, who has served with the guard for 19 years, spends his days feeding and watering the mustangs and checking them for injuries they might sustain while riding through the desert, he said.
Evitts, who was also deployed to the border in 2006 and 2010 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, respectively, said his role is different this time around.
"Last time it was more eyes on the border, whereas this mission is more" focused on getting agents in the field, he said.
Much of the work the guard is doing, from feeding horses to working on trucks, might not seem like it requires military expertise. After all, the Border Patrol already employs civilian mechanics, for example. But Stephanie Dixon, a spokeswoman with the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, said having the National Guard's support is also a matter of deterrence.
"It's also the danger factor that comes into play because unfortunately we have migrants who die in the desert," she said. "So not only is it protecting the border from illicit activity, but it's also saying, 'Hey, don't come here illegally because you're going to get potentially injured or dehydrated.'"
While no one could say if the military members will remain past the end of the fiscal year, Dixon said the Border Patrol hopes the support will continue, calling it a collaboration that helps both sides.
Despite being away from their homes in Tucson and Phoenix, the guardsmen said they're OK with the arrangement, too.
"It's our duty. We volunteer for this and we are going to do our job," said Gastelum, the mechanic, a 26-year-old Tucson resident. "I'm going to do the job they ask for me to do. That's what we're here for."
End
Comment: there are many people on this side of the border who don't really want a secure border.
Thx
National Guard plays support role for Nogales BP
Critics call deployment a 'showboat tactic,' say resources would be better used at ports
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International 1 hr ago (0)
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/national-guard-plays-support-role-for-nogales-bp/article_53b99240-5fae-11e8-9374-87f63ad72fec.html
Decked out in military fatigues Wednesday morning, Sgt. Leonardo Gastelum lifted an oversized tire off a truck at the Nogales Border Patrol Station garage, where he has been working as a mechanic since being deployed to the border with the Army National Guard more than a month ago.
Arizona Guardsmen like Gastelum were sent to Border Patrol stations throughout Arizona as part of Operation Guardian Support starting in early April. Their mission: free up agents to be in the field by taking on support roles, including working as mechanics, firing range safety officers and surveillance camera operators.
Still, it's hard to quantify how many more agents are on the ground because of the guard's support, Border Patrol spokesman Daniel Hernandez said during a media event at the Nogales Station on Wednesday meant to demonstrate the work the soldiers have been tasked with.
The increase in agents in the field doesn't correlate one-for-one to the number of guard members at the station, he said, but added that their presence is being felt.
"I can tell you from a firsthand representative that it's helping," he said.
President Donald Trump called for the military to be sent to the border earlier this year, apparently in response to reports that a caravan of Central American migrants was making its way through Mexico to the U.S. border.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey supported the move, saying at a press conference in Nogales on April 13 that the National Guard presence would improve public safety and border security, and pointing to a recent spike in apprehension of illegal border crossers as a justification for sending the troops.
However, while the number of apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border rose to 37,383 in March from 26,662 the month before and 12,195 in March 2017, the increase comes after a dip in illegal border crossings in fiscal year 2017 (Oct. 1-Sept. 30) and reflects apprehension numbers similar to previous years. In April 2018, 38,234 undocumented people were apprehended on the Southwest border, a figure nearly identical to the 38,089 apprehensions made during the same month in FY 2016.
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Tucson who represents Nogales and Santa Cruz County as part of Congressional District 3, said in a written statement Thursday that he sees the deployment as "nothing more than a dramatic showboat tactic."
"Those of us who live at the border know the truth – it's not the lawless region of Trump's nightmares. It's home to more than 15 million people who oppose further militarizing their communities," he said. "Instead of engaging in political theater with talks of walls and National Guard deployments, we should be discussing real solutions, like modernizing our infrastructure and technology at ports of entry, to better secure our border."
In response to hearing about the tasks guardsmen are carrying out in Nogales, Kathi Noaker of the local activist group Voices from the Border, said it's sad to see the borderlands painted as a "danger zone."
"Not only is this harmful propaganda, but it's an irresponsible use of resources," she said. "Our tax dollars spent on deploying the National Guard would be much better spent on increasing the number of customs agents at the ports, facilitating the more beneficial endeavor of tourism and cross-border commerce."
Different role
The National Guard has been authorized to deploy 682 troops in Arizona through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, and so far about 400 guardsmen have been sent to Border Patrol stations, Capt. Marcario Mora, a spokesman for the mission, said Wednesday. More than 30 of the soldiers are at the Nogales Station, he said.
Guardsmen can't provide a law enforcement role at the border, and those working in surveillance are barred from looking into Mexico. But spokespeople from both the Border Patrol and National Guard said they didn't feel those parameters limited the troops' effectiveness.
Capt. Aaron Thacker, an Arizona National Guard spokesman, said with both military training and civilian experience, the guardsmen are able to bring a wide array of skills that mesh well with the needs of the Border Patrol.
"They bring in a lot of the civilian skill sets they have with them, and a lot of the things that they learned as they grew up with this world of military and civilian, and that also makes us a unique fit for this kind of support role," he said.
For example, in addition to troops working in surveillance or repairing infrastructure, one guardsman has been tending to horses agents use to patrol wildland areas.
Sgt. First Class Thomas Evitts, who has served with the guard for 19 years, spends his days feeding and watering the mustangs and checking them for injuries they might sustain while riding through the desert, he said.
Evitts, who was also deployed to the border in 2006 and 2010 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, respectively, said his role is different this time around.
"Last time it was more eyes on the border, whereas this mission is more" focused on getting agents in the field, he said.
Much of the work the guard is doing, from feeding horses to working on trucks, might not seem like it requires military expertise. After all, the Border Patrol already employs civilian mechanics, for example. But Stephanie Dixon, a spokeswoman with the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, said having the National Guard's support is also a matter of deterrence.
"It's also the danger factor that comes into play because unfortunately we have migrants who die in the desert," she said. "So not only is it protecting the border from illicit activity, but it's also saying, 'Hey, don't come here illegally because you're going to get potentially injured or dehydrated.'"
While no one could say if the military members will remain past the end of the fiscal year, Dixon said the Border Patrol hopes the support will continue, calling it a collaboration that helps both sides.
Despite being away from their homes in Tucson and Phoenix, the guardsmen said they're OK with the arrangement, too.
"It's our duty. We volunteer for this and we are going to do our job," said Gastelum, the mechanic, a 26-year-old Tucson resident. "I'm going to do the job they ask for me to do. That's what we're here for."
End
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 23-5-18
AZMEX UPDATE 23 MAY 2018
Undocumented immigrant fatally shot by Border Patrol agent in Rio Bravo
By César Rodriguez, LMTonline.com /
Laredo Morning Times
Updated 4:58 pm, Wednesday, May 23, 2018
https://www.lmtonline.com/border-mexico/article/Illegal-immigrant-fatally-shot-by-BP-agent-in-Rio-12938259.php
An illegal immigrant crossing the border in Rio Bravo was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agent on Wednesday.
Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Luke Sharrett.
IMAGE 1 OF 62
An illegal immigrant crossing the border in Rio Bravo was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agent on Wednesday.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot an undocumented immigrant in Rio Bravo after multiple people attacked him with blunt objects, according to federal authorities.
The shooting occurred Wednesday in the 1800 block of Centeno Lane as Border Patrol tried to halt an alleged human smuggling attempt.
Border Patrol said in a statement that a lone agent responded to a report of illegal activity near a culvert by Centeno Lane at about 12:20 p.m. The agency said he discovered a group of undocumented immigrants.
"Initial reports indicate that as the agent attempted to apprehend the group, he came under attack by multiple subjects using blunt objects," the statement reads. "The agent fired at least one round from his service-issued firearm, fatally wounding one of the assailants.
"The rest of the group fled the scene. Border Patrol agents called for EMS and administered first aid until the Rio Bravo Fire Department arrived."
Three immigrants were apprehended by agents.
The FBI and Texas Rangers are investigating the incident.
Local, state and federal authorities were at the scene following the shooting.
No other information was immediately available.
Check back with LMTonline.com for updates on this story.
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Undocumented immigrant fatally shot by Border Patrol agent in Rio Bravo
By César Rodriguez, LMTonline.com /
Laredo Morning Times
Updated 4:58 pm, Wednesday, May 23, 2018
https://www.lmtonline.com/border-mexico/article/Illegal-immigrant-fatally-shot-by-BP-agent-in-Rio-12938259.php
An illegal immigrant crossing the border in Rio Bravo was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agent on Wednesday.
Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Luke Sharrett.
IMAGE 1 OF 62
An illegal immigrant crossing the border in Rio Bravo was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agent on Wednesday.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot an undocumented immigrant in Rio Bravo after multiple people attacked him with blunt objects, according to federal authorities.
The shooting occurred Wednesday in the 1800 block of Centeno Lane as Border Patrol tried to halt an alleged human smuggling attempt.
Border Patrol said in a statement that a lone agent responded to a report of illegal activity near a culvert by Centeno Lane at about 12:20 p.m. The agency said he discovered a group of undocumented immigrants.
"Initial reports indicate that as the agent attempted to apprehend the group, he came under attack by multiple subjects using blunt objects," the statement reads. "The agent fired at least one round from his service-issued firearm, fatally wounding one of the assailants.
"The rest of the group fled the scene. Border Patrol agents called for EMS and administered first aid until the Rio Bravo Fire Department arrived."
Three immigrants were apprehended by agents.
The FBI and Texas Rangers are investigating the incident.
Local, state and federal authorities were at the scene following the shooting.
No other information was immediately available.
Check back with LMTonline.com for updates on this story.
END
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 22-5-18
AZMEX UPDATE 22 MAY 2018
Note: mug shots at link.
AG: Major meth trafficking ring in Phoenix area dismantled
Posted: May 22, 2018 1:42 AM MST
Updated: May 22, 2018 10:03 AM MST
By The Associated Press
http://www.azfamily.com/story/38244668/ag-major-meth-trafficking-ring-in-phoenix-area-dismantled?autostart=true
Jesus Ceniceros-Quiroz (top left), Jesus Eduardo Castro-Ceniceros (top right), Jesus Antonio Fornes (bottem left), Jose De Jesus Moreno-Ayala (middle) & Isabel Ceniceros-Alvarado (bottom right). (Source: AG's Office)
PHOENIX (AP) -
The Arizona Attorney General's Office says a major methamphetamine trafficking ring in the Phoenix metro area has been dismantled.
Law enforcement officials reported seizing more than 30 pounds of meth and 18 illegal firearms when the defendants were arrested on May 2.
Authorities say five people, Isabel Ceniceros-Alvarado, Jesus Ceniceros-Quiroz, Jesus Eduardo Castro-Ceniceros, Jose De Jesus Moreno-Ayala and Jesus Antonio Fornes, also were indicted for their alleged involvement in the drug trafficking ring that operated in Tempe, Tolleson, Avondale and west Phoenix.
The charges are based on a joint investigation by Tempe police and the Phoenix division of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration that began last October.
The ring reportedly distributed about 50 pounds of meth per month.
The defendants allegedly earned more than $100,000 a month in illegal drug sales.
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Note: mug shots at link.
AG: Major meth trafficking ring in Phoenix area dismantled
Posted: May 22, 2018 1:42 AM MST
Updated: May 22, 2018 10:03 AM MST
By The Associated Press
http://www.azfamily.com/story/38244668/ag-major-meth-trafficking-ring-in-phoenix-area-dismantled?autostart=true
Jesus Ceniceros-Quiroz (top left), Jesus Eduardo Castro-Ceniceros (top right), Jesus Antonio Fornes (bottem left), Jose De Jesus Moreno-Ayala (middle) & Isabel Ceniceros-Alvarado (bottom right). (Source: AG's Office)
PHOENIX (AP) -
The Arizona Attorney General's Office says a major methamphetamine trafficking ring in the Phoenix metro area has been dismantled.
Law enforcement officials reported seizing more than 30 pounds of meth and 18 illegal firearms when the defendants were arrested on May 2.
Authorities say five people, Isabel Ceniceros-Alvarado, Jesus Ceniceros-Quiroz, Jesus Eduardo Castro-Ceniceros, Jose De Jesus Moreno-Ayala and Jesus Antonio Fornes, also were indicted for their alleged involvement in the drug trafficking ring that operated in Tempe, Tolleson, Avondale and west Phoenix.
The charges are based on a joint investigation by Tempe police and the Phoenix division of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration that began last October.
The ring reportedly distributed about 50 pounds of meth per month.
The defendants allegedly earned more than $100,000 a month in illegal drug sales.
End
Thursday, May 17, 2018
AZMEX I3 17-5-18
AZMEX I3 17 MAY 2018
Illegal immigrant charged with shootings: 'Voices' told me to shoot, gun wouldn't fire if victims were 'good'
By Kathleen Joyce | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/17/illegal-immigrant-charged-with-shootings-voices-told-me-to-shoot-gun-wouldnt-fire-if-victims-were-good.html
Arnoldo Pompa-Rascon was charged with assault and armed criminal action. (Kansas City Police Department )
An undocumented immigrant charged with wounding two people minutes apart in northern Kansas City, Mo., reportedly told investigators he heard "voices" telling him to shoot, and that the gun wouldn't fire if "they are good people."
Arnoldo Pompa-Rascon was charged Tuesday with four felonies, including assault and armed criminal action, in the Friday night shootings that wounded a motorcyclist and another man as he pulled into his driveway.
The shootings occurred about an hour after popular tattoo artist Russell Fisk, 30, was fatally shot inside a BMW. No criminal charges have been filed in his death. Court documents filed in the other two shootings say Pompa-Rascon told police he shot a man in a "luxurious" car.
Fisk, a tattoo artist at Black Card Tattoo, died from a gunshot wound to his head, FOX4 KC reported.
Russell Fisk, 30, a popular tattoo artist, was fatally shot on May 11, 2018. (Handout)
A probable cause document stated that, as police were investigating Fisk's shooting, they received calls on another shooting.
A man told authorities he was riding his motorcycle when he heard a gunshot and saw he had been struck.
He said he saw a silver sedan drive by.
Following that shooting, officers were alerted to another shooting in Clay County.
The victim told investigators he had pulled into his driveway when he noticed a silver sedan stop at his residence.
The victim said a man asked him a question but he could not understand what it was because the man spoke Spanish.
The victim walked away and was then shot in the chest by the man.
The victim said he returned fire but it was not immediately clear if he hit the suspect.
On Tuesday, a man called police saying someone was attempting to steal his truck.
The man held the suspect at gunpoint until police came and arrested the suspect, Pompa-Rascon.
Pompa-Rascon claimed he spoke Spanish and was "determined to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico
and had been previously documented as having crossed the border illegally four prior times, records state," NBC 12 reported.
Pompa-Rascon was picked out of a six-person line-up from one of the shooting victims who identified him as the man who shot him.
FOX4 DC reported Pompa-Rascon admitted to the shootings and said "voices told him to shoot"
-- but that his gun would not work if they were "good" people.
Bond is set at $1 million. No attorney is listed for Pompa-Rascon in online court records.
More: http://fox4kc.com/2018/05/16/victim-witness-who-held-hand-of-tattoo-artist-killed-share-details-of-northland-shootings/.
End
Don't forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
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Illegal immigrant charged with shootings: 'Voices' told me to shoot, gun wouldn't fire if victims were 'good'
By Kathleen Joyce | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/17/illegal-immigrant-charged-with-shootings-voices-told-me-to-shoot-gun-wouldnt-fire-if-victims-were-good.html
Arnoldo Pompa-Rascon was charged with assault and armed criminal action. (Kansas City Police Department )
An undocumented immigrant charged with wounding two people minutes apart in northern Kansas City, Mo., reportedly told investigators he heard "voices" telling him to shoot, and that the gun wouldn't fire if "they are good people."
Arnoldo Pompa-Rascon was charged Tuesday with four felonies, including assault and armed criminal action, in the Friday night shootings that wounded a motorcyclist and another man as he pulled into his driveway.
The shootings occurred about an hour after popular tattoo artist Russell Fisk, 30, was fatally shot inside a BMW. No criminal charges have been filed in his death. Court documents filed in the other two shootings say Pompa-Rascon told police he shot a man in a "luxurious" car.
Fisk, a tattoo artist at Black Card Tattoo, died from a gunshot wound to his head, FOX4 KC reported.
Russell Fisk, 30, a popular tattoo artist, was fatally shot on May 11, 2018. (Handout)
A probable cause document stated that, as police were investigating Fisk's shooting, they received calls on another shooting.
A man told authorities he was riding his motorcycle when he heard a gunshot and saw he had been struck.
He said he saw a silver sedan drive by.
Following that shooting, officers were alerted to another shooting in Clay County.
The victim told investigators he had pulled into his driveway when he noticed a silver sedan stop at his residence.
The victim said a man asked him a question but he could not understand what it was because the man spoke Spanish.
The victim walked away and was then shot in the chest by the man.
The victim said he returned fire but it was not immediately clear if he hit the suspect.
On Tuesday, a man called police saying someone was attempting to steal his truck.
The man held the suspect at gunpoint until police came and arrested the suspect, Pompa-Rascon.
Pompa-Rascon claimed he spoke Spanish and was "determined to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico
and had been previously documented as having crossed the border illegally four prior times, records state," NBC 12 reported.
Pompa-Rascon was picked out of a six-person line-up from one of the shooting victims who identified him as the man who shot him.
FOX4 DC reported Pompa-Rascon admitted to the shootings and said "voices told him to shoot"
-- but that his gun would not work if they were "good" people.
Bond is set at $1 million. No attorney is listed for Pompa-Rascon in online court records.
More: http://fox4kc.com/2018/05/16/victim-witness-who-held-hand-of-tattoo-artist-killed-share-details-of-northland-shootings/.
End
Don't forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
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AZMEX ELECTION 17-5-18
AZMEX ELECTION 17 MAY 2018
Comment: Make history? Just like Venezuela? Courtesy of Chavez and Maduro el burro.
A epic disaster on the way? The USA would be flooded with refugees.
Zavala is out.
Gracias
AMLO surpasses with 20 points to the second place; it is driven by the northern part of the country.
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/73986
* López Obrador leads with 46% of the electoral preferences, followed by Anaya with 26%; Meade, 20%; Zavala, 5%, and El Bronco, 3%.
* In the north of the country has grown support for el tabasqueño, who now has 39%, compared to 17% he had in 2012.
The presidential candidate of the coalition 'Juntos haremos historia' ('Together we will make history') (Morena-PT-PES), Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has 39 percent of the intention to vote (polling) in the northern region of the country, 22 points higher than what he had six years ago, in June 2012, when the polls registered 17 percent support to the then candidate of the coalition PRD-PT-MC.
The favorable turnaround to AMLO in the northern states is the most marked that is observed in the whole country, while in the central-western region the morenista is 11 points above its level of 2012, while in the center and the South support is 15 and 18 points higher, respectively.
López Obrador support has grown throughout the country, but its most marked growth is in the north, a region in which it came a distant third six years ago, far from the 51 percent recorded by Enrique Peña Nieto in those states.
This is revealed by the most recent national survey of El Financiero, conducted during the last days of April and early May to 1,000 adults.
For the comparison with 2012, the survey coordinated by Alejandro Moreno in Reforma from June 14 to 17 of that year was considered.
Although López Obrador grew more in the north, its strongest regions are the center and the south, where he has 54 percent of the effective intention to vote. The center-west is its weakest zone, with 36 percent, standing in statistical tie with Ricardo Anaya, of the coalition 'Por México al Frente' (PAN-PRD-MC), who adds 35 percent of the preferences in that Bajío region.
In contrast, López Obrador leads the second place in the rest of the regions, Anaya in the north and south, and José Antonio Meade in the center.
According to the survey, López Obrador has 46 percent of the effective intention to vote throughout the country. Anaya appears in second place, with 26 percent and Meade in third with 20 percent. The independent candidacies of Margarita Zavala and Jaime Rodríguez attract 5 and 3 percent, respectively.
Comparing the intention of vote of Ricardo Anaya with what had the panista Josefina Vázquez Mota in June 2012, Anaya practically has the same level of support that the candidate had in the north, the center and the south of the country, but by almost 10 points in the central-western region.
With regard to the candidate of the PRI-PVEM-Panal coalition, the intention to vote in his favor is visibly lower in the four regions than Enrique Peña had six years ago, but the greatest difference is observed in the north of the country. country, which suggests that what AMLO has gained in that area has been lost, mainly by the PRI.
According to the study, the percentage of voters who already decided their vote definitely increased from 42 to 51 percent between March and May, while the undecided fell from 38 to 28 percent in that same period. On the other hand, the percentage of respondents who believe that López Obrador will win the presidential election rose from 37 to 44 percent.
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Comment: Make history? Just like Venezuela? Courtesy of Chavez and Maduro el burro.
A epic disaster on the way? The USA would be flooded with refugees.
Zavala is out.
Gracias
AMLO surpasses with 20 points to the second place; it is driven by the northern part of the country.
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/73986
* López Obrador leads with 46% of the electoral preferences, followed by Anaya with 26%; Meade, 20%; Zavala, 5%, and El Bronco, 3%.
* In the north of the country has grown support for el tabasqueño, who now has 39%, compared to 17% he had in 2012.
The presidential candidate of the coalition 'Juntos haremos historia' ('Together we will make history') (Morena-PT-PES), Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has 39 percent of the intention to vote (polling) in the northern region of the country, 22 points higher than what he had six years ago, in June 2012, when the polls registered 17 percent support to the then candidate of the coalition PRD-PT-MC.
The favorable turnaround to AMLO in the northern states is the most marked that is observed in the whole country, while in the central-western region the morenista is 11 points above its level of 2012, while in the center and the South support is 15 and 18 points higher, respectively.
López Obrador support has grown throughout the country, but its most marked growth is in the north, a region in which it came a distant third six years ago, far from the 51 percent recorded by Enrique Peña Nieto in those states.
This is revealed by the most recent national survey of El Financiero, conducted during the last days of April and early May to 1,000 adults.
For the comparison with 2012, the survey coordinated by Alejandro Moreno in Reforma from June 14 to 17 of that year was considered.
Although López Obrador grew more in the north, its strongest regions are the center and the south, where he has 54 percent of the effective intention to vote. The center-west is its weakest zone, with 36 percent, standing in statistical tie with Ricardo Anaya, of the coalition 'Por México al Frente' (PAN-PRD-MC), who adds 35 percent of the preferences in that Bajío region.
In contrast, López Obrador leads the second place in the rest of the regions, Anaya in the north and south, and José Antonio Meade in the center.
According to the survey, López Obrador has 46 percent of the effective intention to vote throughout the country. Anaya appears in second place, with 26 percent and Meade in third with 20 percent. The independent candidacies of Margarita Zavala and Jaime Rodríguez attract 5 and 3 percent, respectively.
Comparing the intention of vote of Ricardo Anaya with what had the panista Josefina Vázquez Mota in June 2012, Anaya practically has the same level of support that the candidate had in the north, the center and the south of the country, but by almost 10 points in the central-western region.
With regard to the candidate of the PRI-PVEM-Panal coalition, the intention to vote in his favor is visibly lower in the four regions than Enrique Peña had six years ago, but the greatest difference is observed in the north of the country. country, which suggests that what AMLO has gained in that area has been lost, mainly by the PRI.
According to the study, the percentage of voters who already decided their vote definitely increased from 42 to 51 percent between March and May, while the undecided fell from 38 to 28 percent in that same period. On the other hand, the percentage of respondents who believe that López Obrador will win the presidential election rose from 37 to 44 percent.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
AZMEX ELECTION 16-5-18
AZMEX ELECTION 16 MAY 2018
Note: A major development.
Margarita Zavala resigns from the presidential campaign.
In an advance of her participation in the Third Degree program, she announces that will no longer compete in the electoral process; decision is for 'political honesty',
05/16/2018 13:04 DRAFTING
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/margarita-zavala-renuncia-a-la-candidatura-presidencial/1239284
Margarita Zavala, resignation from presidential candidacy, Elections 2018, Ricardo Anaya, Declina
Margarita Zavala after a campaign event. Photo: Cuartoscuro
MEXICO CITY
Four days after the second presidential debate, Margarita Zavala announced her resignation of her independent candidacy "for a principle of congruence and political honesty".
In a preview of the program Tercer Grado,, on Foro TV, in which she was invited, she assured that she would get out of the electoral contest.
"That is why I have decided and I take this opportunity to tell the citizens that I am withdrawing my candidacy for the fight for a principle of consistency, of political honesty and to let those who have generously supported me and take this decision as it should be in this difficult , "she said.
On April 26, the then candidate ruled out any possibility of declining in favor of another candidate and assured that she would do the whole campaign. "I will do the whole campaign and those who decide are the citizens," he said.
The announcement of the former first lady comes a day after the presidential candidate of the Coalición por México al Frente, (Coalition for Mexico to the Front), Ricardo Anaya, announced that he would seek Margarita Zavala to decline in his favor and thereby "consolidate a winning project" course to the elections of July 1 next.
Margarita Zavala, resignation to presidential candidacy, Elections 2018, Ricardo Anaya, Declina
"Yes of course. Look, I have it in an extraordinary concept to Margarita; I am in the best position. I can talk to you about my part: I have it in a very good concept, I appreciated it and I would love it if we could team up at this time or at some other time. I'm not only open, but in the best position, "he said.
This morning, Zavala participated in the Dialogues for Mexico organized by the Coparmex, stressed that the Education Reform requires the accompaniment of the State to the teachers with more training and improvement in the educational infrastructure.
Regarding her security strategy, she explained that in case of winning the elections she will strengthen the police with training, confidence controls to the uniformed and public ministries and mentioned that the solution to combat insecurity is for the State to confront the delinquents, with better prepared police, as well as strengthen the justice system.
Regarding the pension system, said that seven out of 10 people in the country do not have that right "that is a time bomb", so she proposed to review the financial system in order to increase the contribution of workers and reduce quotas of the employers who, according to her, have not encouraged labor pensions.
It may interest you: (links)
Anaya will look for Zavala ... to decline for him
Margarita Zavala denies declining in favor of another candidate
Also:
http://www.milenio.com/elecciones-mexico-2018/margarita-zavala-jorge-camacho-declinacion-candidato-presidencia-renuncia_0_1176482579.html
https://www.la-prensa.com.mx/mexico/310738-renuncia-margarita-zavala-a-la-candidatura-presidencial-independiente
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Note: A major development.
Margarita Zavala resigns from the presidential campaign.
In an advance of her participation in the Third Degree program, she announces that will no longer compete in the electoral process; decision is for 'political honesty',
05/16/2018 13:04 DRAFTING
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/margarita-zavala-renuncia-a-la-candidatura-presidencial/1239284
Margarita Zavala, resignation from presidential candidacy, Elections 2018, Ricardo Anaya, Declina
Margarita Zavala after a campaign event. Photo: Cuartoscuro
MEXICO CITY
Four days after the second presidential debate, Margarita Zavala announced her resignation of her independent candidacy "for a principle of congruence and political honesty".
In a preview of the program Tercer Grado,, on Foro TV, in which she was invited, she assured that she would get out of the electoral contest.
"That is why I have decided and I take this opportunity to tell the citizens that I am withdrawing my candidacy for the fight for a principle of consistency, of political honesty and to let those who have generously supported me and take this decision as it should be in this difficult , "she said.
On April 26, the then candidate ruled out any possibility of declining in favor of another candidate and assured that she would do the whole campaign. "I will do the whole campaign and those who decide are the citizens," he said.
The announcement of the former first lady comes a day after the presidential candidate of the Coalición por México al Frente, (Coalition for Mexico to the Front), Ricardo Anaya, announced that he would seek Margarita Zavala to decline in his favor and thereby "consolidate a winning project" course to the elections of July 1 next.
Margarita Zavala, resignation to presidential candidacy, Elections 2018, Ricardo Anaya, Declina
"Yes of course. Look, I have it in an extraordinary concept to Margarita; I am in the best position. I can talk to you about my part: I have it in a very good concept, I appreciated it and I would love it if we could team up at this time or at some other time. I'm not only open, but in the best position, "he said.
This morning, Zavala participated in the Dialogues for Mexico organized by the Coparmex, stressed that the Education Reform requires the accompaniment of the State to the teachers with more training and improvement in the educational infrastructure.
Regarding her security strategy, she explained that in case of winning the elections she will strengthen the police with training, confidence controls to the uniformed and public ministries and mentioned that the solution to combat insecurity is for the State to confront the delinquents, with better prepared police, as well as strengthen the justice system.
Regarding the pension system, said that seven out of 10 people in the country do not have that right "that is a time bomb", so she proposed to review the financial system in order to increase the contribution of workers and reduce quotas of the employers who, according to her, have not encouraged labor pensions.
It may interest you: (links)
Anaya will look for Zavala ... to decline for him
Margarita Zavala denies declining in favor of another candidate
Also:
http://www.milenio.com/elecciones-mexico-2018/margarita-zavala-jorge-camacho-declinacion-candidato-presidencia-renuncia_0_1176482579.html
https://www.la-prensa.com.mx/mexico/310738-renuncia-margarita-zavala-a-la-candidatura-presidencial-independiente
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AZMEX POLICY 16-5-18
AZMEX POLICY 16 MAY 2018
Note: despite the "spin" of the article, Penzone is a democrat.
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Sheriff Paul Penzone details meetings with federal enforcement agencies
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BY KTAR.COM
MAY 15, 2018 AT 8:31 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2065409/sheriff-paul-penzone-details-meetings-with-federal-enforcement-agencies/
PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone took a visit to the nation's capital recently, where he met with the heads of different federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol.
Penzone said the visit with Immigration and Customs Enforcement served as a relationship-building one, with discussion largely based around the lack of courtesy holds.
Courtesy holds allowed county officials to keep immigrants locked up past their release date to give federal authorities extra time to launch deportation proceedings. Penzone stopped the practice in 2017.
Related Links
Penzone asks DHS head to set federal guidelines regarding immigrant holds
After MCSO policy change, ICE picking up more inmates with immigration holds
"Historically, when I first took office, there were some challenges with the courtesy holds and it put a little bit of a strain on our relationship," he told KTAR News 92.3 FM's Mac and Gaydos. "And I just wanted to make sure we revisited that to try to restore the relationship."
Penzone said the federal agency understood that the county was prohibited by the courts to be involved in enforcing immigration laws, but appreciated the fact that they get to be housed in the jails as a means of vetting inmates.
"They expressed great appreciation that having the access and the ability to take [immigrants] into custody safely is working," Penzone said.
While Penzone said he believes the federal agency will never be "cool" with the lack of courtesy holds, he thinks they are understanding and want to move forward with quarterly meetings. "There's a clear understanding of what my role and responsibilities are and my limitations on that. They know what we do not facilitate or participate on the immigration side."
Penzone said his conversation with the head of Border Patrol revolved mainly around drug trafficking and what the county can do to crack down on it. "We are one of the main veins coming across the border, through Maricopa County and through the rest of the nation for drug trafficking," Penzone said.
Border Patrol wanted to know "is there a common ground where we could work together to stop the flow of drugs into our nation through this process and through this route?"
Overall, Penzone regarded the meetings as positive and hinted toward future partnerships with the agencies.
"We're outside the scope of immigration enforcement but there are still other crimes that are committed through that process and drug trafficking is a major one," he added. "So we have to have partnerships and we have to have open communication."
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Note: despite the "spin" of the article, Penzone is a democrat.
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Sheriff Paul Penzone details meetings with federal enforcement agencies
Share
BY KTAR.COM
MAY 15, 2018 AT 8:31 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2065409/sheriff-paul-penzone-details-meetings-with-federal-enforcement-agencies/
PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone took a visit to the nation's capital recently, where he met with the heads of different federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol.
Penzone said the visit with Immigration and Customs Enforcement served as a relationship-building one, with discussion largely based around the lack of courtesy holds.
Courtesy holds allowed county officials to keep immigrants locked up past their release date to give federal authorities extra time to launch deportation proceedings. Penzone stopped the practice in 2017.
Related Links
Penzone asks DHS head to set federal guidelines regarding immigrant holds
After MCSO policy change, ICE picking up more inmates with immigration holds
"Historically, when I first took office, there were some challenges with the courtesy holds and it put a little bit of a strain on our relationship," he told KTAR News 92.3 FM's Mac and Gaydos. "And I just wanted to make sure we revisited that to try to restore the relationship."
Penzone said the federal agency understood that the county was prohibited by the courts to be involved in enforcing immigration laws, but appreciated the fact that they get to be housed in the jails as a means of vetting inmates.
"They expressed great appreciation that having the access and the ability to take [immigrants] into custody safely is working," Penzone said.
While Penzone said he believes the federal agency will never be "cool" with the lack of courtesy holds, he thinks they are understanding and want to move forward with quarterly meetings. "There's a clear understanding of what my role and responsibilities are and my limitations on that. They know what we do not facilitate or participate on the immigration side."
Penzone said his conversation with the head of Border Patrol revolved mainly around drug trafficking and what the county can do to crack down on it. "We are one of the main veins coming across the border, through Maricopa County and through the rest of the nation for drug trafficking," Penzone said.
Border Patrol wanted to know "is there a common ground where we could work together to stop the flow of drugs into our nation through this process and through this route?"
Overall, Penzone regarded the meetings as positive and hinted toward future partnerships with the agencies.
"We're outside the scope of immigration enforcement but there are still other crimes that are committed through that process and drug trafficking is a major one," he added. "So we have to have partnerships and we have to have open communication."
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
AZMEX I3 15-5-18
AZMEX I3 15 MAY 2018
Note: As always, "migrants" means illegal immigrants.
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Border activist uses religious grounds to ask case dismissal
Posted: May 14, 2018 2:48 PM MST
Updated: May 14, 2018 2:48 PM MST
http://www.kvoa.com/story/38187288/border-activist-uses-religious-grounds-to-ask-case-dismissal
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal magistrate is mulling a request by a border activist who is using religious grounds to argue for dismissal of the charges against him of harboring immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
Recent court filings show that Scott Warren, of Ajo, Arizona is seeking protection from prosecution on religious grounds. He says his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress.
Warren volunteers with the humanitarian group No More Deaths. The organization assists migrants near Arizona's border with Mexico by providing water, food and other supplies.
The activist was arrested in January when Border Patrol agents found him at an Ajo area property where two recently arrived migrants were staying.
A magistrate is studying Warren's request after a Friday hearing. His decision is expected within a few weeks.
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Asylum-seeking migrants camp outside port
Most are women and children from Central America
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International May 14, 2018 Updated 1 hr ago (0)
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/asylum-seeking-migrants-camp-outside-port/article_4bcd4a5c-57c2-11e8-82ad-dfaf24644019.html
Guatemalan migrants wait in the hallway outside the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday morning, where they arrived Saturday to ask for asylum in the United States.
Photo by Kendal Blust
Sitting on grease-stained cardboard pizza boxes and folded blankets, many with young children resting in their arms, a group of Guatemalan migrants waited on the Sonoran side of the turnstiles at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday, hoping to ask for asylum in the Untied States.
The group, originally comprised of about 100 people, mostly women and children from Central America, arrived in Nogales, Sonora over the weekend. Those remaining Monday morning said U.S. authorities had been allowing a few at a time to cross and request asylum, but the slow pace had led about half their numbers to seek alternatives elsewhere.
The migrants said they were not part of the now-famous caravan that attracted President Donald Trump's attention and ire last month as it headed north through Mexico. Instead, they left Guatemala on their own, some operating under a belief that the United States was granting mothers with children asylum until the end of May.
"At the embassy in Guatemala, they said mothers and children can get refuge in the United States, but it's going to end in May," said Rosa Hernandez, 23, who was traveling with her 2-year-old son Estuardo.
However, the mothers and fathers camped out in Nogales, Sonora with hopes of escaping poverty and violence at home are waiting to enter the United States at a time when the Trump administration is expressing little sympathy for the plight of migrant families. A week ago Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered speeches in San Diego, Calif. and Scottsdale, Ariz. calling for a "zero tolerance" policy that would see all undocumented immigrants prosecuted in federal court, and vowing that parents "smuggling a child" would be separated from their children.
"If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over the border," he said in Scottsdale.
He also warned that filing a "fraudulent asylum claim" would be considered a felony.
Sessions has pointed to an increase in the number of border-crossers apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in recent months, up 200 percent from this time last year, as the reason for pushing harsher deterrence measures. However, the number of apprehensions is still lower than it was in Fiscal Years 2013 and 2014, and similar to apprehensions in summer 2016.
Asked Monday how Sessions' policy applies to people seeking asylum at ports of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection provided a statement from Homeland Security Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton saying that his department "does not currently have a policy of separating families at the border for deterrence purposes." However, the statement continued, children are sometimes taken from adults if officers cannot determine a "parental relationship or if we think the child is otherwise in danger."
CBP did not respond directly to questions about the status of asylum-seeking migrants who had been admitted at the Nogales port in recent days.
Estela Arias, 47, who reached the U.S. border after traveling for more than two weeks from her home in central Guatemala with her two youngest sons – ages 7 and 16 – said she hadn't heard anything about children possibly being taken from parents crossing the border. Breaking down in tears, Arias said she had already left her 18-year-old son behind at home because he didn't think he would qualify for asylum like his younger brothers. "They won't let older kids pass," she sobbed. "It's breaking my heart to leave him. I don't know what will happen to him."
Arias' son Oscar Ronaldo, 7, sat quietly by her side, fishing marshmallows out of an almost empty bag of Lucky Charms, smiling shyly as he held up a blue-and-white, moon-shaped marshmallow for his mom to see.
"I want to do the best for my kids. I want them to study, because I don't even have enough to feed them," Arias said.
She was one of about two dozen people still waiting in Nogales, Sonora around noon Monday. Of the nearly 100 people who had arrived Saturday morning, she said probably 15-20 people had been admitted into the United States, with about five people being allowed through the metal turnstile by CBP officers every four hours Monday.
During the weekend, almost no one had been permitted to pass, Hernandez added, and at least 50 people had left early Monday morning either to ask for refuge at another port of entry or to cross through the desert, discouraged by the long wait.
"I didn't want to do that because of my son," she said of crossing the desert. Though the children waiting outside the port of entry were hungry, dirty and cold, she said, at least they wouldn't be victim to wild animals or get lost in the wilderness.
"The hardest part of all of this has been seeing your child suffer," she said. "Adults, we can get through it, but the kids don't understand."
'All I have left'
Most of the women and men who leaned against the metal mesh that lines the entrance, their children napping or playing with dirt-stained toys nearby, said they left Guatemala because it was impossible to raise children in such desperate poverty.
Arias and Juan Mas, 42, who was attempting to cross the border with his 16-year-old son, said they had lived off subsistence agriculture in Guatemala, but couldn't make enough money to feed their families anymore.
"People have started robbing, assaulting because there is no work, there's no money," Arias said. "We've come out of necessity. If we didn't have to, why would we leave our little homes behind?"
Mas said he had decided to leave Guatemala after his son was the target of violence. They came, he said, even though he was afraid to travel to the United States because he speaks the Quiché indigenous language and doesn't know much Spanish or any English.
"But there's no work, there's no security," he said in Spanish, speaking slowly and deliberately. "I had to leave to protect my son."
Armando Ramirez, 21, who was traveling with his 2-year-old daughter, said he left his wife and 2-month-old son at home in order to travel to the United States, hoping it would mean he could give his children a better life.
"Things are bad in Guatemala. This is for my children, for their future," he said, wiping tears from his eyes as he described the 25-day journey he made with his small daughter in tow.
As he spoke, a CBP officer came to the turnstile, saying that five people would be allowed through. Everyone jumped to their feet, grabbed their children and rushed forward.
As a handful of people passed the gates and everyone else moved back to their places in line, Hernandez, the woman traveling with her 2-year-old son Estuardo, said the journey had been difficult and dangerous, but she felt confident that after everything they had been through, she and her son would be able to make a new life in the United States.
"I have faith that we'll make it. Thank God we're alive. And if God hasn't allowed us to die after all we've been through, it's because there's something waiting for us," she said. "Right now I have to fight for my baby and do everything for him because he's all I have left."
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Don't forget:
Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Comment: Have been asked by a Venezuelan friend, Why doesn't anyone go to Nicaragua?
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Note: As always, "migrants" means illegal immigrants.
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Border activist uses religious grounds to ask case dismissal
Posted: May 14, 2018 2:48 PM MST
Updated: May 14, 2018 2:48 PM MST
http://www.kvoa.com/story/38187288/border-activist-uses-religious-grounds-to-ask-case-dismissal
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal magistrate is mulling a request by a border activist who is using religious grounds to argue for dismissal of the charges against him of harboring immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
Recent court filings show that Scott Warren, of Ajo, Arizona is seeking protection from prosecution on religious grounds. He says his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress.
Warren volunteers with the humanitarian group No More Deaths. The organization assists migrants near Arizona's border with Mexico by providing water, food and other supplies.
The activist was arrested in January when Border Patrol agents found him at an Ajo area property where two recently arrived migrants were staying.
A magistrate is studying Warren's request after a Friday hearing. His decision is expected within a few weeks.
End
Asylum-seeking migrants camp outside port
Most are women and children from Central America
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International May 14, 2018 Updated 1 hr ago (0)
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/asylum-seeking-migrants-camp-outside-port/article_4bcd4a5c-57c2-11e8-82ad-dfaf24644019.html
Guatemalan migrants wait in the hallway outside the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday morning, where they arrived Saturday to ask for asylum in the United States.
Photo by Kendal Blust
Sitting on grease-stained cardboard pizza boxes and folded blankets, many with young children resting in their arms, a group of Guatemalan migrants waited on the Sonoran side of the turnstiles at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday, hoping to ask for asylum in the Untied States.
The group, originally comprised of about 100 people, mostly women and children from Central America, arrived in Nogales, Sonora over the weekend. Those remaining Monday morning said U.S. authorities had been allowing a few at a time to cross and request asylum, but the slow pace had led about half their numbers to seek alternatives elsewhere.
The migrants said they were not part of the now-famous caravan that attracted President Donald Trump's attention and ire last month as it headed north through Mexico. Instead, they left Guatemala on their own, some operating under a belief that the United States was granting mothers with children asylum until the end of May.
"At the embassy in Guatemala, they said mothers and children can get refuge in the United States, but it's going to end in May," said Rosa Hernandez, 23, who was traveling with her 2-year-old son Estuardo.
However, the mothers and fathers camped out in Nogales, Sonora with hopes of escaping poverty and violence at home are waiting to enter the United States at a time when the Trump administration is expressing little sympathy for the plight of migrant families. A week ago Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered speeches in San Diego, Calif. and Scottsdale, Ariz. calling for a "zero tolerance" policy that would see all undocumented immigrants prosecuted in federal court, and vowing that parents "smuggling a child" would be separated from their children.
"If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over the border," he said in Scottsdale.
He also warned that filing a "fraudulent asylum claim" would be considered a felony.
Sessions has pointed to an increase in the number of border-crossers apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in recent months, up 200 percent from this time last year, as the reason for pushing harsher deterrence measures. However, the number of apprehensions is still lower than it was in Fiscal Years 2013 and 2014, and similar to apprehensions in summer 2016.
Asked Monday how Sessions' policy applies to people seeking asylum at ports of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection provided a statement from Homeland Security Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton saying that his department "does not currently have a policy of separating families at the border for deterrence purposes." However, the statement continued, children are sometimes taken from adults if officers cannot determine a "parental relationship or if we think the child is otherwise in danger."
CBP did not respond directly to questions about the status of asylum-seeking migrants who had been admitted at the Nogales port in recent days.
Estela Arias, 47, who reached the U.S. border after traveling for more than two weeks from her home in central Guatemala with her two youngest sons – ages 7 and 16 – said she hadn't heard anything about children possibly being taken from parents crossing the border. Breaking down in tears, Arias said she had already left her 18-year-old son behind at home because he didn't think he would qualify for asylum like his younger brothers. "They won't let older kids pass," she sobbed. "It's breaking my heart to leave him. I don't know what will happen to him."
Arias' son Oscar Ronaldo, 7, sat quietly by her side, fishing marshmallows out of an almost empty bag of Lucky Charms, smiling shyly as he held up a blue-and-white, moon-shaped marshmallow for his mom to see.
"I want to do the best for my kids. I want them to study, because I don't even have enough to feed them," Arias said.
She was one of about two dozen people still waiting in Nogales, Sonora around noon Monday. Of the nearly 100 people who had arrived Saturday morning, she said probably 15-20 people had been admitted into the United States, with about five people being allowed through the metal turnstile by CBP officers every four hours Monday.
During the weekend, almost no one had been permitted to pass, Hernandez added, and at least 50 people had left early Monday morning either to ask for refuge at another port of entry or to cross through the desert, discouraged by the long wait.
"I didn't want to do that because of my son," she said of crossing the desert. Though the children waiting outside the port of entry were hungry, dirty and cold, she said, at least they wouldn't be victim to wild animals or get lost in the wilderness.
"The hardest part of all of this has been seeing your child suffer," she said. "Adults, we can get through it, but the kids don't understand."
'All I have left'
Most of the women and men who leaned against the metal mesh that lines the entrance, their children napping or playing with dirt-stained toys nearby, said they left Guatemala because it was impossible to raise children in such desperate poverty.
Arias and Juan Mas, 42, who was attempting to cross the border with his 16-year-old son, said they had lived off subsistence agriculture in Guatemala, but couldn't make enough money to feed their families anymore.
"People have started robbing, assaulting because there is no work, there's no money," Arias said. "We've come out of necessity. If we didn't have to, why would we leave our little homes behind?"
Mas said he had decided to leave Guatemala after his son was the target of violence. They came, he said, even though he was afraid to travel to the United States because he speaks the Quiché indigenous language and doesn't know much Spanish or any English.
"But there's no work, there's no security," he said in Spanish, speaking slowly and deliberately. "I had to leave to protect my son."
Armando Ramirez, 21, who was traveling with his 2-year-old daughter, said he left his wife and 2-month-old son at home in order to travel to the United States, hoping it would mean he could give his children a better life.
"Things are bad in Guatemala. This is for my children, for their future," he said, wiping tears from his eyes as he described the 25-day journey he made with his small daughter in tow.
As he spoke, a CBP officer came to the turnstile, saying that five people would be allowed through. Everyone jumped to their feet, grabbed their children and rushed forward.
As a handful of people passed the gates and everyone else moved back to their places in line, Hernandez, the woman traveling with her 2-year-old son Estuardo, said the journey had been difficult and dangerous, but she felt confident that after everything they had been through, she and her son would be able to make a new life in the United States.
"I have faith that we'll make it. Thank God we're alive. And if God hasn't allowed us to die after all we've been through, it's because there's something waiting for us," she said. "Right now I have to fight for my baby and do everything for him because he's all I have left."
End
Don't forget:
Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Comment: Have been asked by a Venezuelan friend, Why doesn't anyone go to Nicaragua?
End
Monday, May 14, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 14-5-18
AZMEX UPDATE 14 MAY 2018
They seek to reduce the passage of migrants through the desert of Az
Details Published on Monday, May 14, 2018,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://nuevodia.com.mx
Nogales
The US rescue group of Hispanics of various nationalities, Águilas del Desierto, will carry out an awareness campaign in the shelters for migrants throughout Mexico and Central American countries.
The foregoing was reported by the volunteer Ely Ortiz, during their participation during the Border Security Initiative event, organized by the Tucson Sector Border Patrol, in a desert area in southern Arizona, near Amado.
The representative of the rescue group thanked other government agencies for their support in the rescue and extraction of migrants with and without life, from the desert in Arizona.
He explained that the association he represents is formed by a group of volunteers based in San Diego California, with six years of service and most of the searches are made in Arizona, to the extent that only in 2017, they found 22 bodies without life in the desert.
"It is a very sad thing that we are still going through this, but we hope that with these prevention campaigns this number of deaths will decrease a lot," he explained.
He said that the Eagles of the Desert focus on making a prevention campaign, in the first week of June, the group's management will make a tour of all the shelters for migrants in Mexico, from Tijuana to Chiapas, as well as in several countries of Central America .
"By letting them know the dangers they are going to face, nobody knows, so we want to clarify that we do not promote the border crossing illegally, we simply want to educate our brother migrants, that they become aware of what they are going to face, the dangers that will be found, "he said.
He added that once they have read the information, it is expected that the number of deaths will decrease, adding that it is strong and sad for the volunteers to find the bodies without lives, some already bones, on the ground.
Ortiz insisted that migrants should prepare themselves since leaving their countries of origin, that, if they have any disease, that they do not even try it, clarifying that the famous "American dream" is getting farther, with more difficult and complicated migratory conditions, That is why they consider it is no longer a good option to emigrate and put their lives at risk.
"That is the purpose of Águilas del Desierto for this year, to make this journey, I invite the consulates to join us so that all this information is sent to these countries, educate our countrymen, migrant brothers, who are aware of all that, "he said.
END
Estimate group of 300 more migrants to stay in TIJ
Hugo Castro, from Ángeles de la Frontera.
Reyes | 05/14/2018 8:05
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/14052018/1340204-El-Titanic-no-se-esta-hundiendo-esta-resurgiendo-Kurt-Honold.html
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
Just over 300 Central American migrants could arrive in Tijuana to live and find a stable job, said activist Hugo Castro, coordinator of the civil association Ángeles de la Frontera A.C.
This group of people is part of the Migrant Caravan and is currently in Hermosillo, Sonora, where they went on a hunger strike to demand that the authorities of the National Migration Institute (INM) give them their permits to stay in Mexican territory, he said. the activist
He also commented that due to their life circumstances the Central Americans changed their American dream for the Mexican dream.
"Many of them fail to meet the necessary characteristics to request asylum and pass the Credible Fear interview. In addition, they do not have enough evidence to be more likely to be accepted by the United States, "said Hugo Castro.
Currently in Tijuana there are 180 migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, who are distributed in Youth Movement 2000, Salvation Army, among other hostels.
In what corresponds to Angeles de la Frontera, there are six Central Americans and 24 Mexican men expelled from the American Union ( USA ).
In this sense, the coordinator of the AC explained that, in addition to a place to sleep, compatriots and foreigners lack a space where they can access temporary jobs, psychological therapies and facilities to process their personal documentation.
The Migrant Embassy, near the Border Wall of Playas de Tijuana, was inaugurated on July 17, 2017 to offer legal, educational, and employment advice to deportees and foreign migrants; however, this project has not made progress.
END
Don't forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
They seek to reduce the passage of migrants through the desert of Az
Details Published on Monday, May 14, 2018,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://nuevodia.com.mx
Nogales
The US rescue group of Hispanics of various nationalities, Águilas del Desierto, will carry out an awareness campaign in the shelters for migrants throughout Mexico and Central American countries.
The foregoing was reported by the volunteer Ely Ortiz, during their participation during the Border Security Initiative event, organized by the Tucson Sector Border Patrol, in a desert area in southern Arizona, near Amado.
The representative of the rescue group thanked other government agencies for their support in the rescue and extraction of migrants with and without life, from the desert in Arizona.
He explained that the association he represents is formed by a group of volunteers based in San Diego California, with six years of service and most of the searches are made in Arizona, to the extent that only in 2017, they found 22 bodies without life in the desert.
"It is a very sad thing that we are still going through this, but we hope that with these prevention campaigns this number of deaths will decrease a lot," he explained.
He said that the Eagles of the Desert focus on making a prevention campaign, in the first week of June, the group's management will make a tour of all the shelters for migrants in Mexico, from Tijuana to Chiapas, as well as in several countries of Central America .
"By letting them know the dangers they are going to face, nobody knows, so we want to clarify that we do not promote the border crossing illegally, we simply want to educate our brother migrants, that they become aware of what they are going to face, the dangers that will be found, "he said.
He added that once they have read the information, it is expected that the number of deaths will decrease, adding that it is strong and sad for the volunteers to find the bodies without lives, some already bones, on the ground.
Ortiz insisted that migrants should prepare themselves since leaving their countries of origin, that, if they have any disease, that they do not even try it, clarifying that the famous "American dream" is getting farther, with more difficult and complicated migratory conditions, That is why they consider it is no longer a good option to emigrate and put their lives at risk.
"That is the purpose of Águilas del Desierto for this year, to make this journey, I invite the consulates to join us so that all this information is sent to these countries, educate our countrymen, migrant brothers, who are aware of all that, "he said.
END
Estimate group of 300 more migrants to stay in TIJ
Hugo Castro, from Ángeles de la Frontera.
Reyes | 05/14/2018 8:05
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/14052018/1340204-El-Titanic-no-se-esta-hundiendo-esta-resurgiendo-Kurt-Honold.html
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
Just over 300 Central American migrants could arrive in Tijuana to live and find a stable job, said activist Hugo Castro, coordinator of the civil association Ángeles de la Frontera A.C.
This group of people is part of the Migrant Caravan and is currently in Hermosillo, Sonora, where they went on a hunger strike to demand that the authorities of the National Migration Institute (INM) give them their permits to stay in Mexican territory, he said. the activist
He also commented that due to their life circumstances the Central Americans changed their American dream for the Mexican dream.
"Many of them fail to meet the necessary characteristics to request asylum and pass the Credible Fear interview. In addition, they do not have enough evidence to be more likely to be accepted by the United States, "said Hugo Castro.
Currently in Tijuana there are 180 migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, who are distributed in Youth Movement 2000, Salvation Army, among other hostels.
In what corresponds to Angeles de la Frontera, there are six Central Americans and 24 Mexican men expelled from the American Union ( USA ).
In this sense, the coordinator of the AC explained that, in addition to a place to sleep, compatriots and foreigners lack a space where they can access temporary jobs, psychological therapies and facilities to process their personal documentation.
The Migrant Embassy, near the Border Wall of Playas de Tijuana, was inaugurated on July 17, 2017 to offer legal, educational, and employment advice to deportees and foreign migrants; however, this project has not made progress.
END
Don't forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Friday, May 11, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 11-5-18
AZMEX POLICY 11 MAY 2018
Mexico will build its own wall: Meade
Mexico will build its own wall: Meade A few meters from the border wall,
Meade condemned the construction of the wall of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Photo: Jesús Bustamante
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/11052018/1338560-Mexico-construira-su-propio-muro-Meade.html
By: Glenn Sanchez | 05/11/2018 12:37
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
This Friday the presidential candidate, José Antonio Meade, declared that Mexico will build its own wall,
but this one will be of innovation and technology.
In Playas de Tijuana, a few meters from the border fence, he condemned the construction of the wall of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
"A vision that separates, of a wall that offends the dignity of two nations that have been accompanied, of two nations that have been brothers, that have built and prospered together," he declared.
With the construction of said wall it will be sought to give certainty to Mexicans that they will build a border that in terms of weapons and money is impassable.
End
Also:
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/11052018/1338560-Mexico-construira-su-propio-muro-Meade.html
http://www.milenio.com/elecciones-mexico-2018/jose-antonio-meade-muro-fronterizo-tijuana-estados-unidos-donald-trump_0_1173482757.html
Mexico will build its own wall: Meade
Mexico will build its own wall: Meade A few meters from the border wall,
Meade condemned the construction of the wall of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Photo: Jesús Bustamante
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/11052018/1338560-Mexico-construira-su-propio-muro-Meade.html
By: Glenn Sanchez | 05/11/2018 12:37
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
This Friday the presidential candidate, José Antonio Meade, declared that Mexico will build its own wall,
but this one will be of innovation and technology.
In Playas de Tijuana, a few meters from the border fence, he condemned the construction of the wall of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
"A vision that separates, of a wall that offends the dignity of two nations that have been accompanied, of two nations that have been brothers, that have built and prospered together," he declared.
With the construction of said wall it will be sought to give certainty to Mexicans that they will build a border that in terms of weapons and money is impassable.
End
Also:
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/11052018/1338560-Mexico-construira-su-propio-muro-Meade.html
http://www.milenio.com/elecciones-mexico-2018/jose-antonio-meade-muro-fronterizo-tijuana-estados-unidos-donald-trump_0_1173482757.html
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
AZMEX SPECIAL 4-5-18
AZMEX SPECIAL 4 MAY 2018
Note: No, did not even make this up.
thx
Government sues Albertsons for requiring employees to speak English
Albertsons grocery stores violated the rights of Hispanic employees in San Diego with a policy forbidding workers to speak Spanish around non-Spanish speakers —
• 
San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego Union-Tribune • 6:57 am May 4, 2018
• 59 comments
Albertsons grocery stores violated the rights of Hispanic employees in San Diego with a policy forbidding workers to speak Spanish around non-Spanish speakers —
even when conversing with each other during breaks or helping Spanish-speaking customers, according to a new lawsuit.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Albertsons Companies, Inc., on Thursday in federal court.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Albertsons Companies, Inc., on Thursday in federal court.
The lawsuit accuses the Idaho-based chain of discriminating against Hispanic employees at San Diego-area stores,
harassing them and subjecting them to a hostile workplace because of their race or country of origin.
"Employers have to be aware of the consequences of certain language policies," Anna Park, an attorney for the commission's district office covering San Diego County,
"Employers have to be aware of the consequences of certain language policies," Anna Park, an attorney for the commission's district office covering San Diego County,
said in a statement on Thursday.
"Targeting a particular language for censorship is often synonymous with targeting a particular national origin, which is both illegal and highly destructive to workplace morale and productivity."
According to the lawsuit, the national grocery retailer is one of the country's largest, employing some 280,000 employees across 35 states.
According to the lawsuit, the national grocery retailer is one of the country's largest, employing some 280,000 employees across 35 states.
The company's stores serve about 2,300 communities and operate under 19 well-known banners, including Albertsons, Vons and Safeway.
"While we cannot comment on this pending litigation specifically, Albertsons does not require that its employees speak English only,"
"While we cannot comment on this pending litigation specifically, Albertsons does not require that its employees speak English only,"
store spokeswoman Jenna Watkinson said in a statement.
"Albertsons serves a diverse customer population and encourages employees with foreign language abilities to use those skills to serve its customers."
In or around 2012, Albertsons developed an unwritten "English-only policy," which Albertsons "implemented as essentially a no Spanish policy," the lawsuit alleges.
In or around 2012, Albertsons developed an unwritten "English-only policy," which Albertsons "implemented as essentially a no Spanish policy," the lawsuit alleges.
"In a training video, managers and employees were instructed that employees should not speak Spanish as long as there was a non-Spanish speaking person present."
An upper-level manager at an Albertsons store on Lake Murray Boulevard in San Diego allegedly communicated to Hispanic employees,
An upper-level manager at an Albertsons store on Lake Murray Boulevard in San Diego allegedly communicated to Hispanic employees,
including Guadalupe Zamorano and Hermelinda Stevenson, that "they could not speak Spanish anywhere on the premises regardless of whether they were on break," according to the lawsuit.
They were also forbidden to speak Spanish to Spanish-speaking customers, the lawsuit says.
David Loy, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego, said he did not know enough about the facts of the lawsuit to comment on it specifically,
David Loy, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego, said he did not know enough about the facts of the lawsuit to comment on it specifically,
but, typically, English-only policies must be justified by a business as a necessity, such as for safety reasons.
Loy said it was not obvious to him what business necessity would require employees to speak only English even on their breaks or when serving Spanish-speaking customers,
Loy said it was not obvious to him what business necessity would require employees to speak only English even on their breaks or when serving Spanish-speaking customers,
but the justification may be more clear once the parties have had time to present more information about the facts and circumstances surrounding the policy decision.
The manager and others allegedly harassed Hispanic employees about speaking Spanish, threatened them with discipline and publicly reprimanded them
The manager and others allegedly harassed Hispanic employees about speaking Spanish, threatened them with discipline and publicly reprimanded them
for allegedly speaking the language because managers didn't like it, the lawsuit alleged.
Non-Hispanic employees were not similarly harassed or subjected to the no Spanish policy, the lawsuit said.
One on occasion, in October 2012, the manager scolded reprimanded both Zamorano, an employee since 2007, and Stevenson, an employee since 1989,
One on occasion, in October 2012, the manager scolded reprimanded both Zamorano, an employee since 2007, and Stevenson, an employee since 1989,
"in front of the store" for speaking Spanish, the lawsuit alleged.
When Zamorano called Albertsons' hotline to complain, the union representative who investigated the complaint told her
When Zamorano called Albertsons' hotline to complain, the union representative who investigated the complaint told her
"she needed to speak English because she was living in the United States," and took no further action, the lawsuit says.
In December 2012, Zamorano was again reprimanded — this time because she was speaking Spanish to a Spanish-speaking customer — and told to speak only English at work, the lawsuit says.
The following year, Zamorano and Stevenson both requested transfers to other stores, the lawsuit says.
Stevenson asked for the transfer in June 2013 because harassment and other issues at work were making her physically sick with anxiety and stomach problems, the lawsuit says.
In November 2013, Zamorano also asked for a transfer, citing harassment, the lawsuit said,
In December 2012, Zamorano was again reprimanded — this time because she was speaking Spanish to a Spanish-speaking customer — and told to speak only English at work, the lawsuit says.
The following year, Zamorano and Stevenson both requested transfers to other stores, the lawsuit says.
Stevenson asked for the transfer in June 2013 because harassment and other issues at work were making her physically sick with anxiety and stomach problems, the lawsuit says.
In November 2013, Zamorano also asked for a transfer, citing harassment, the lawsuit said,
and the manager allegedly refused to submit her request until she removed the statement about harassment.
The lawsuit asked the court to order Albertsons to stop discriminating against employees based on their national origin,
The lawsuit asked the court to order Albertsons to stop discriminating against employees based on their national origin,
to compensate the aggrieved employees for monetary losses and emotional pain
according to proof at trial, to award punitive damages and to pay the EEOC's legal costs.
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Monday, May 7, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 6-5-18
AZMEX POLICY 6 MAY 2018
Collaboration from Mexico, EU and Canada has transformed the 3 countries: CPA (Claudia Pavlovich Arellano )
Details Published on Saturday May 05, 2018,
El Diario de Sonora
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=111373
Scottsdale, Arizona
Over the years, the collaboration and economic exchange between Canada, the United States and Mexico has had a transformative effect on the three countries, so this event is a step in the search for agreements to consolidate this great region of the world. Governor Pavlovich Arellano indicated her participation in the Second Summit of Governors and Premiers of North America 2018.
Within the second day of activities of the summit where governors and premiers of the CONAGO, the National Association of Governors (NGA, for its acronym in English) and the Council of the Federation (COF), Governor Pavlovich explained the importance of maintaining the coordinated work between these countries for the benefit of the development of the three nations.
In her capacity as President of the International Affairs Commission of CONAGO, Governor Pavlovich participated in the round table "The role of the North American region in a globalized economy: Trade, agriculture, energy and innovation", where she highlighted that Cooperation among the three countries has improved the quality of life for millions of North American citizens.
"There is an estimate, among many others, that maintains that trilateral trade has generated employment for 15 million people in our countries directly," she said.
The close trilateral collaboration on the issue of agriculture, has made them the most economically productive areas, however, there are still challenges that have to be overcome, she said.
"The agriculture of the three countries is better thanks to the integration and here we have a challenge: to take agriculture in North America to a point of convergence with ecological sustainability and high efficiency," she said.
In terms of energy, North America faces one of the most serious challenges for humanity, he said, by combating climate change and the compatibility of productive activities with the environment, in addition to increasing the use of renewable and non-polluting energies.
"Our work as governors is the understanding that our economies and communities do not grow from rhetoric, but grow from the actions taken jointly by governments, societies and their productive actors," she said.
Events like this are a great step to reach agreements that pay for the consolidation of this region of the world, in order to break down barriers that only undermine the confidence of the three nations, she added.
Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona and host of the event, said that for Arizona it is very important to coordinate with Mexico and Canada, due to trade, being the first and third country, respectively, with greater collaboration in that regard for their entity.
"My hope is that we use this summit to strengthen our relationships and serve those we serve, whether in the efforts in the workforce, development, trade, transportation and more," he said.
Megarregión Sonora-Arizona example to follow
The collaboration, trust and teamwork that Sonora and Arizona have made through the Megarregión is a clear example of what can be done when there is a will, said Governor Pavlovich before governors and premiers of the CONAGO, GNA And COF.
The Tourism Insurance Corridor of Puerto Peñasco and Arizona, is an example of the work of the Arizona-Sonora Commission paying off, he said, adding that the great similarities with Arizona has facilitated the agreement to work hand in hand and talk about issues of education, economy, development and not only security as before when border states were involved.
"We have worked together, we have reduced the time of our imports to the United States, thanks to the work we have done together, they have provided training to police and we have had student exchanges," he said.
Other areas that have been strengthened through the Megarregión, he said, is the export industry, which has improved the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector without leaving other markets unprotected.
For his part Doug Ducey stressed that the collaboration with Sonora has strengthened the economic development of Arizona, and since the beginning of the administration of Governor Pavlovich have begun to do things that had not been done before as the creation of the plant Lucid Motors in Casa Grande, Arizona, which was installed in this place because of the supply that Sonora generates. (?)
Present: The governors of Tabasco, Baja California Sur, Coahuila, Colima, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and Yucatan,
Arturo Núñez Jiménez, Carlos Mendoza Davis, Miguel Riquelme Solís, Ignacio Peralta Sánchez, Manuel González Flores, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca and Rolando Zapata Bello, respectively.
In addition, the Governor of New Mexico, Susana Martínez; the Governor of Nevada and who presides over the NGA; and the governors of Connecticut, Utah and Colorado, Brian Edward Sandoval, Dannel Malloy, Gary Herbert and John Wright Hickenlooper, respectively.
As well as the Alberta Premier and President of the COF, Rachel Anne Notley and the Premier of Saskatchewan, Scott Moe.
END
Background:
http://ngasummit.org.
https://www.nga.org/cms/home/news-room/news-releases/2015--news-releases/col2-content/north-american-leaders-summit.html
https://globalnews.ca/tag/2018-summit-of-north-american-governors-and-premiers/
http://infrastructureweek.org/event/north-american-governors-summit/.
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2018/05/06/transforma-colaboracion-paises/
End
Collaboration from Mexico, EU and Canada has transformed the 3 countries: CPA (Claudia Pavlovich Arellano )
Details Published on Saturday May 05, 2018,
El Diario de Sonora
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=111373
Scottsdale, Arizona
Over the years, the collaboration and economic exchange between Canada, the United States and Mexico has had a transformative effect on the three countries, so this event is a step in the search for agreements to consolidate this great region of the world. Governor Pavlovich Arellano indicated her participation in the Second Summit of Governors and Premiers of North America 2018.
Within the second day of activities of the summit where governors and premiers of the CONAGO, the National Association of Governors (NGA, for its acronym in English) and the Council of the Federation (COF), Governor Pavlovich explained the importance of maintaining the coordinated work between these countries for the benefit of the development of the three nations.
In her capacity as President of the International Affairs Commission of CONAGO, Governor Pavlovich participated in the round table "The role of the North American region in a globalized economy: Trade, agriculture, energy and innovation", where she highlighted that Cooperation among the three countries has improved the quality of life for millions of North American citizens.
"There is an estimate, among many others, that maintains that trilateral trade has generated employment for 15 million people in our countries directly," she said.
The close trilateral collaboration on the issue of agriculture, has made them the most economically productive areas, however, there are still challenges that have to be overcome, she said.
"The agriculture of the three countries is better thanks to the integration and here we have a challenge: to take agriculture in North America to a point of convergence with ecological sustainability and high efficiency," she said.
In terms of energy, North America faces one of the most serious challenges for humanity, he said, by combating climate change and the compatibility of productive activities with the environment, in addition to increasing the use of renewable and non-polluting energies.
"Our work as governors is the understanding that our economies and communities do not grow from rhetoric, but grow from the actions taken jointly by governments, societies and their productive actors," she said.
Events like this are a great step to reach agreements that pay for the consolidation of this region of the world, in order to break down barriers that only undermine the confidence of the three nations, she added.
Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona and host of the event, said that for Arizona it is very important to coordinate with Mexico and Canada, due to trade, being the first and third country, respectively, with greater collaboration in that regard for their entity.
"My hope is that we use this summit to strengthen our relationships and serve those we serve, whether in the efforts in the workforce, development, trade, transportation and more," he said.
Megarregión Sonora-Arizona example to follow
The collaboration, trust and teamwork that Sonora and Arizona have made through the Megarregión is a clear example of what can be done when there is a will, said Governor Pavlovich before governors and premiers of the CONAGO, GNA And COF.
The Tourism Insurance Corridor of Puerto Peñasco and Arizona, is an example of the work of the Arizona-Sonora Commission paying off, he said, adding that the great similarities with Arizona has facilitated the agreement to work hand in hand and talk about issues of education, economy, development and not only security as before when border states were involved.
"We have worked together, we have reduced the time of our imports to the United States, thanks to the work we have done together, they have provided training to police and we have had student exchanges," he said.
Other areas that have been strengthened through the Megarregión, he said, is the export industry, which has improved the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector without leaving other markets unprotected.
For his part Doug Ducey stressed that the collaboration with Sonora has strengthened the economic development of Arizona, and since the beginning of the administration of Governor Pavlovich have begun to do things that had not been done before as the creation of the plant Lucid Motors in Casa Grande, Arizona, which was installed in this place because of the supply that Sonora generates. (?)
Present: The governors of Tabasco, Baja California Sur, Coahuila, Colima, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and Yucatan,
Arturo Núñez Jiménez, Carlos Mendoza Davis, Miguel Riquelme Solís, Ignacio Peralta Sánchez, Manuel González Flores, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca and Rolando Zapata Bello, respectively.
In addition, the Governor of New Mexico, Susana Martínez; the Governor of Nevada and who presides over the NGA; and the governors of Connecticut, Utah and Colorado, Brian Edward Sandoval, Dannel Malloy, Gary Herbert and John Wright Hickenlooper, respectively.
As well as the Alberta Premier and President of the COF, Rachel Anne Notley and the Premier of Saskatchewan, Scott Moe.
END
Background:
http://ngasummit.org.
https://www.nga.org/cms/home/news-room/news-releases/2015--news-releases/col2-content/north-american-leaders-summit.html
https://globalnews.ca/tag/2018-summit-of-north-american-governors-and-premiers/
http://infrastructureweek.org/event/north-american-governors-summit/.
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2018/05/06/transforma-colaboracion-paises/
End
AZMEX EXTRA 4-5-18
AZMEX EXTRA 4 MAY 2018
Man whose gun discharged inside H-E-B pleads guilty to firearm charge
LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER 7 hrs ago (0)
http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_da78a198-4fb1-11e8-bfd7-4344f64edc8f.html
McALLEN — A man who admitted to carrying a gun inside an H-E-B that discharged and injured one woman, pleaded guilty to a federal firearm charge Thursday.
During a final pre-trial hearing before U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez, David Meza-Lopez pleaded guilty to one count of being in the country without legal status and being in possession of a firearm. Meza-Lopez made his first appearance in federal court in March.
Meza-Lopez turned himself in to local authorities in early March — two months after a revolver discharged inside an H-E-B store in the 1300 block of South Cage Boulevard in Pharr and struck Sandra Gonzalez, a 22-year-old woman who was shopping inside the store at the time.
The man, who resides in Pharr but who is originally of Reynosa, became a suspect of the Pharr Police department in the Jan. 10 incident after he fled the scene.
Ismeray Rivera, Meza-Lopez's common-law wife, who was with her husband at the time of the incident, was also arrested and faces charges at the state level that include child endangerment and failing to report a felony, according to county court records.
"The recorded video showed Meza-Lopez and a female pushing a shopping cart near the produce area. In the footage, the 3-year-old (boy) can be seen grabbing a black bag," the complaint states. "When the black bag hit the ground, a female patron in the store reacted, moved her leg, and looked around."
Other shoppers are shown in the footage approaching Gonzalez, while Meza-Lopez can be seen picking up the bag and quickly leaving the area.
Gonzalez, who suffered a gunshot wound to "one of her lower extremities," was taken to a hospital, treated and was released, authorities said at the time.
Pharr police officers later retrieved the handgun, a Davis Industry .38-caliber Special (two-shot) model, from a "cold beverage container" inside the grocery store.
Meza-Lopez, who was interviewed by federal agents following his arrest, stated the shooting was an accident and that it was his son who had dropped a black handbag, which resulted in the discharge of the round, the complaint states.
"(He) told (an agent) that the gun was in his bag for two days and that he did not know it was in his bag," the court record states.
Meza-Lopez, who initially claimed ownership of the handbag but stated the gun was not his — changed his tune during his hearing Thursday, admitting ownership of the gun.
Meza-Lopez, who will remain in custody, will be back before Alvarez for sentencing on July 31.
The 30-year-old man, who does not have legal status to be remain in the country, will be deported upon completion of his prison term.
lzazueta@themonitor.com
END
Man whose gun discharged inside H-E-B pleads guilty to firearm charge
LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER 7 hrs ago (0)
http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_da78a198-4fb1-11e8-bfd7-4344f64edc8f.html
McALLEN — A man who admitted to carrying a gun inside an H-E-B that discharged and injured one woman, pleaded guilty to a federal firearm charge Thursday.
During a final pre-trial hearing before U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez, David Meza-Lopez pleaded guilty to one count of being in the country without legal status and being in possession of a firearm. Meza-Lopez made his first appearance in federal court in March.
Meza-Lopez turned himself in to local authorities in early March — two months after a revolver discharged inside an H-E-B store in the 1300 block of South Cage Boulevard in Pharr and struck Sandra Gonzalez, a 22-year-old woman who was shopping inside the store at the time.
The man, who resides in Pharr but who is originally of Reynosa, became a suspect of the Pharr Police department in the Jan. 10 incident after he fled the scene.
Ismeray Rivera, Meza-Lopez's common-law wife, who was with her husband at the time of the incident, was also arrested and faces charges at the state level that include child endangerment and failing to report a felony, according to county court records.
"The recorded video showed Meza-Lopez and a female pushing a shopping cart near the produce area. In the footage, the 3-year-old (boy) can be seen grabbing a black bag," the complaint states. "When the black bag hit the ground, a female patron in the store reacted, moved her leg, and looked around."
Other shoppers are shown in the footage approaching Gonzalez, while Meza-Lopez can be seen picking up the bag and quickly leaving the area.
Gonzalez, who suffered a gunshot wound to "one of her lower extremities," was taken to a hospital, treated and was released, authorities said at the time.
Pharr police officers later retrieved the handgun, a Davis Industry .38-caliber Special (two-shot) model, from a "cold beverage container" inside the grocery store.
Meza-Lopez, who was interviewed by federal agents following his arrest, stated the shooting was an accident and that it was his son who had dropped a black handbag, which resulted in the discharge of the round, the complaint states.
"(He) told (an agent) that the gun was in his bag for two days and that he did not know it was in his bag," the court record states.
Meza-Lopez, who initially claimed ownership of the handbag but stated the gun was not his — changed his tune during his hearing Thursday, admitting ownership of the gun.
Meza-Lopez, who will remain in custody, will be back before Alvarez for sentencing on July 31.
The 30-year-old man, who does not have legal status to be remain in the country, will be deported upon completion of his prison term.
lzazueta@themonitor.com
END
Friday, May 4, 2018
AZMEX I3 4-5-18
AZMEX I3 4 MAY 2018
All members of migrant caravan now inside US
POSTED 3:17 PM, MAY 4, 2018,
BY CNN WIRE AND FOX 5 DIGITAL TEAM
http://fox5sandiego.com/2018/05/04/all-members-of-migrant-caravan-now-inside-us/
SAN DIEGO — The last group of asylum seekers from the Central American caravan crossed into the United States this morning, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Since arriving in Tijuana Sunday, approximately 228 members of the caravan entered the U.S. to ask for asylum. The odds of them staying, however, appear slim, as the asylum process takes months and often ends in rejections.
The migrants say they're fleeing violence and poverty in Central America and hope they'll find safety and security in the United States.
President Donald Trump has tweeted that these migrants shouldn't be allowed into the country. Vice President Mike Pence called the caravan "a deliberate attempt to undermine the laws of this country and the sovereignty of the United States."
But migrants from this caravan are at a port of entry and asking for asylum. And under international law, the United States and other countries must consider asylum claims.
Trump has decried the practice of letting immigrants with pending cases leave detention in some cases — and vowed his administration will put an end to the policy, which he calls "catch and release."
If history is an indicator, the odds of these migrants getting asylum are slim.
More than 75% of applicants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador between 2011 and 2016 were rejected, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
End
Eagles of the Desert will carry out awareness campaign for migrants
Details Published on Thursday May 03, 2018,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=111267
Amado, Az
The US rescue group of Hispanics of various nationalities, Águilas del Desierto, will carry out an awareness campaign in the shelters for migrants throughout Mexico and Central American countries.
The foregoing was reported by the volunteer Ely Ortiz, during their participation during the Border Security Initiative event, organized by the Tucson Sector Border Patrol, in a desert area in southern Arizona, near Amado.
The representative of the rescue group thanked other government agencies for their support in the rescue and extraction of migrants with and without life, from the desert in Arizona.
He explained that the association he represents is formed by a group of volunteers based in San Diego California, with six years of service and most of the searches are made in Arizona, to the extent that just in 2017, they found 22 bodies without life in the desert.
"It is a very sad thing that we are still going through this, but we hope that with these prevention campaigns this number of deaths will decrease a lot," he explained.
He said that the Eagles of the Desert focus on making a prevention campaign, in the first week of June, the group's management will make a tour of all the shelters for migrants in Mexico, from Tijuana to Chiapas, as well as in several countries of Central America .
"By letting them know the dangers they are going to face, nobody there knows, so we want to clarify that we do not promote the border crossing illegally, we simply want to educate our brother migrants, that they become aware of what they are going to face, the dangers that will be found, "he said.
He added that once they have read the information, it is expected that the number of deaths will decrease, adding that it is hard and sad for the volunteers to find the bodies without lives, some already bones, on the ground.
Ortiz insisted that migrants should prepare themselves since leaving their countries of origin, that, if they have any disease, that they do not even try it, clarifying that the famous "American dream" is getting farther, with more difficult and complicated migratory conditions, That is why they consider it is no longer a good option to emigrate and put their lives at risk.
"That is the purpose of Águilas del Desierto for this year, to make this tour, invited the consulates to join us so that all this information is sent to these countries, educate our countrymen, migrant brothers, to become aware of all that, "he said.
End
Nearly 160 asylum seekers have arrived in U.S. from Central America, 70 still waiting
Central Americans seeking asylum deal with overnight rain conditions at the Chaparral USA/Mexico pedestrian border.
Children and adults paint on the ground. Activate Labs, a peace and justice organization from Los Angeles, brought art supplies to the Chaparral border. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Gustavo Solis Gustavo SolisContact Reporter
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-caravan-update-thursday-20180503-story.html.
Nearly 160 members of the Central American caravan have entered the United States, organizers said Thursday morning.
About 70 immigrants, the largest group single group so far, walked into the U.S. to claim asylum about 9 a.m., said organizer Gina Garibo.
When Garibo announced the news to Central American immigrants sleeping in a tent city a few feet away from the U.S. border, the immigrants chanted, "Si se pudo," or "Yes we could."
As of Wednesday night, 88 immigrants had crossed into the U.S. to claim asylum. Thursday morning's group brought the total to 158.
"We are very happy today," said Biron Hernandez, 27 of Honduras who has been with the caravan since the Guatemala-Mexico border.
Hernandez expected the rest of the asylum seeking caravan to enter the U.S. by Friday.
Organizers say there are about 70 Central Americans left waiting to claim asylum. But that number could change because organizers need to figure out exactly how many people plan to claim asylum in the U.S. and how many have chosen to stay in Mexico.
The caravan arrived in Tijuana Sunday. About 150 slept on the ground in the tent city while 75 slept in migrant shelters, for an estimated total of 225 or so, Garibo said.
End
Not to forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
All members of migrant caravan now inside US
POSTED 3:17 PM, MAY 4, 2018,
BY CNN WIRE AND FOX 5 DIGITAL TEAM
http://fox5sandiego.com/2018/05/04/all-members-of-migrant-caravan-now-inside-us/
SAN DIEGO — The last group of asylum seekers from the Central American caravan crossed into the United States this morning, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Since arriving in Tijuana Sunday, approximately 228 members of the caravan entered the U.S. to ask for asylum. The odds of them staying, however, appear slim, as the asylum process takes months and often ends in rejections.
The migrants say they're fleeing violence and poverty in Central America and hope they'll find safety and security in the United States.
President Donald Trump has tweeted that these migrants shouldn't be allowed into the country. Vice President Mike Pence called the caravan "a deliberate attempt to undermine the laws of this country and the sovereignty of the United States."
But migrants from this caravan are at a port of entry and asking for asylum. And under international law, the United States and other countries must consider asylum claims.
Trump has decried the practice of letting immigrants with pending cases leave detention in some cases — and vowed his administration will put an end to the policy, which he calls "catch and release."
If history is an indicator, the odds of these migrants getting asylum are slim.
More than 75% of applicants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador between 2011 and 2016 were rejected, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
End
Eagles of the Desert will carry out awareness campaign for migrants
Details Published on Thursday May 03, 2018,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=111267
Amado, Az
The US rescue group of Hispanics of various nationalities, Águilas del Desierto, will carry out an awareness campaign in the shelters for migrants throughout Mexico and Central American countries.
The foregoing was reported by the volunteer Ely Ortiz, during their participation during the Border Security Initiative event, organized by the Tucson Sector Border Patrol, in a desert area in southern Arizona, near Amado.
The representative of the rescue group thanked other government agencies for their support in the rescue and extraction of migrants with and without life, from the desert in Arizona.
He explained that the association he represents is formed by a group of volunteers based in San Diego California, with six years of service and most of the searches are made in Arizona, to the extent that just in 2017, they found 22 bodies without life in the desert.
"It is a very sad thing that we are still going through this, but we hope that with these prevention campaigns this number of deaths will decrease a lot," he explained.
He said that the Eagles of the Desert focus on making a prevention campaign, in the first week of June, the group's management will make a tour of all the shelters for migrants in Mexico, from Tijuana to Chiapas, as well as in several countries of Central America .
"By letting them know the dangers they are going to face, nobody there knows, so we want to clarify that we do not promote the border crossing illegally, we simply want to educate our brother migrants, that they become aware of what they are going to face, the dangers that will be found, "he said.
He added that once they have read the information, it is expected that the number of deaths will decrease, adding that it is hard and sad for the volunteers to find the bodies without lives, some already bones, on the ground.
Ortiz insisted that migrants should prepare themselves since leaving their countries of origin, that, if they have any disease, that they do not even try it, clarifying that the famous "American dream" is getting farther, with more difficult and complicated migratory conditions, That is why they consider it is no longer a good option to emigrate and put their lives at risk.
"That is the purpose of Águilas del Desierto for this year, to make this tour, invited the consulates to join us so that all this information is sent to these countries, educate our countrymen, migrant brothers, to become aware of all that, "he said.
End
Nearly 160 asylum seekers have arrived in U.S. from Central America, 70 still waiting
Central Americans seeking asylum deal with overnight rain conditions at the Chaparral USA/Mexico pedestrian border.
Children and adults paint on the ground. Activate Labs, a peace and justice organization from Los Angeles, brought art supplies to the Chaparral border. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Gustavo Solis Gustavo SolisContact Reporter
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-caravan-update-thursday-20180503-story.html.
Nearly 160 members of the Central American caravan have entered the United States, organizers said Thursday morning.
About 70 immigrants, the largest group single group so far, walked into the U.S. to claim asylum about 9 a.m., said organizer Gina Garibo.
When Garibo announced the news to Central American immigrants sleeping in a tent city a few feet away from the U.S. border, the immigrants chanted, "Si se pudo," or "Yes we could."
As of Wednesday night, 88 immigrants had crossed into the U.S. to claim asylum. Thursday morning's group brought the total to 158.
"We are very happy today," said Biron Hernandez, 27 of Honduras who has been with the caravan since the Guatemala-Mexico border.
Hernandez expected the rest of the asylum seeking caravan to enter the U.S. by Friday.
Organizers say there are about 70 Central Americans left waiting to claim asylum. But that number could change because organizers need to figure out exactly how many people plan to claim asylum in the U.S. and how many have chosen to stay in Mexico.
The caravan arrived in Tijuana Sunday. About 150 slept on the ground in the tent city while 75 slept in migrant shelters, for an estimated total of 225 or so, Garibo said.
End
Not to forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
AZMEX EXTRA 2-5-18
AZMEX EXTRA 2 MAY 2018
Note: Thanks again to the good folks at Borderland Beat. http://www.borderlandbeat.com. Photos, charts, etc. at the link:
Comment: Like a certain other political party, the PRI, by, for, and of the criminal.
Gracias
Monday, April 30, 2018
Firearms Out of Control in Mexico: But Only for Criminals
Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/04/firearms-out-of-control-in-mexico-but.html#more
More than 28,000 arms have been secured in the last six years through exchange programs
By: Luis Carlos Sainz/Special Report
April 2018
While criminals carry weapons indiscriminately and commit robberies and wholesale murders, citizens are barely able to exercise their constitutional right to possess a firearm at home. The current number of registered arms in the hands of private individuals is only 3, 153 in the entire country of Mexico. The Ministry of National Defense has only granted 68 such licenses of that type to 2016, but, in exchange programs during the sexennium, it has collected more than 93,000 weapons of war, mainly delivered by heads of households; another 28,000 weapons were secured during arrests.
Although during the current administration, various authorities in the country have secured more than 28,000 firearms in police and military actions, and more than 46,000 homicides have been committed with these types of instruments, the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) granted the registration and license to carry firearms to 68 individuals during the last three years.
This was the result of the response to a request for transparency, which highlights that during 2016, 47 authorizations were granted to people to possess a weapon at home. The number of licenses decreased drastically to only 20 in 2017, and in the first months of the current year, it has only granted a permit.
In this way, the total registration of the number of individual licenses to carry firearms to citizens, valid by state, to date, is 3,153, of which just four are for individuals of the State of Baja California and three for inhabitants of Baja California Sur.
The states with the most legal weapons in the hands of citizens are:
* Mexico City, with 1,750
* Nuevo León, 598
* State of Mexico, 275
* Jalisco, 101
* Querétaro, 98
* Durango 54
* Veracruz, 38
* Chihuahua, 30
* Yucatan, 30
* Guanajuato, 30
It is striking how in states where it is estimated that there is a lot of weapons, there are few registered weapons, such as the cases of Michoacán, with 28; Sonora, with one Tamaulipas, with three; and Zacatecas, with one.
In the country several movements have been created to put pressure on public policies to be implemented on the effects of the possession or possession of firearms. One of these movements called DesArma Mexico disappeared on the death of one of its founders and abandoned its website and the use of its social networks. It was against any possibility of weapons proliferating in both the public and private sectors.
There are activists that, in the face of insecurity and violence, the citizen exercises the prerogative granted by the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States to possess weapons in his home for his security and self-defense, provided that he complies with the requirements indicated in the Law specializing in the matter and make the registration before the Sedena.
The journalist Ernesto Villanueva, author of the book "El Derecho de Armarse", is not a promoter of the arms race, but he wants society to know about it as a legitimate right, of which he may have little information. So he spoke during an interview with ZETA .
"The entrance proposal is to fill the normative-social vacuum of what Constitutional Article 10 and its regulatory law is: Federal Law of Fire and Explosives. There was no work on this subject and well, what we did in this book was to identify 103 questions that have been repeatedly pointed out by society and we answered them all, not only with my opinion, but with bibliographical foundations, with empirical data, with data statistics to support the answer, " the writer said.
In his talk, Villanueva stressed that he makes a proposal of what should be, how to change, how to modernize the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives so that it fits perfectly with Article 10 of the Constitution, "which is the raison d'être of that Law, being the statutory law of said constitutional text ".
- How many people could have firearms at home?
"Well, there is a very large black figure. The largest part is the black figure, that is, the one that does not register. Most of society has doubts, with reasons, about authority, including military. That's why the figure, it must be more than two thousand percent of the official figure, which speaks of 3,000- 4,000 weapons, maximum. Obviously there are many more, which are the vast majority, due to ignorance of society, which believes it is difficult to register a firearm. Precisely, that is the reason of the book. If someone wants to register a weapon, what should they do? In the book are the answers, step by step, what the procedure is. Step one, step two, step three ...
"It has already happened to me with friends who have told me, 'I followed what you told me and I already have my gun in my house.' I followed everything to the letter and I already have it. That is very satisfactory. "
- What is the idiosyncrasy of the Mexican, to want or to not want to have a firearm at home?
"The last survey on that topic, about five or six months ago, refers that 70% are in favor. 20% are unsure and 10% that does not know or did not answer. These results reflect a change over another similar survey conducted about five and a half years ago, where in favor it was 40.5% nearly 50%; against: more than 30%, almost 40%; and the rest did not know or did not answer ".
- Although it is legal and the authority proposes the requirements for registration through the Sedena, the discourse of the officials is against the possibility that the citizens may possesses weapons in his house. Why?
"Evidently they are against it. Those who think that, do not know what they are talking about. It is contrary to what our Constitution foresees. The right to own and carry a firearm or several firearms is a fundamental right. It is a positive human right; that is, a human right already foreseen in the Constitution, that is, it is beyond doubt. It is as if a politician were against the right to health, and said 'no, better not be cured'. Or another official against education, 'hey, do not register at the school, for what?'
"This has to be socialized. Precisely the idea of the book is to socialize this issue to discuss it; but with arguments, with sources, with elements and not let go by the simple prejudices that are very fashionable. ''More weapons, more violence.'' Its as if the weapons are handled by a supernatural force, called something like 'devil' or something that makes the weapon move alone, or momentarily take possession of who uses it. That, at least scientifically, nobody has been able to prove it to me. There is no proof about that. They are myths or urban legends, but there is nothing that could scientifically prove that kind of assertions. "
- Is it easier for any private police to miss a shot at a misfortune at home?
"If there are bloody facts at home, they usually happen because of ignorance. Unfortunately, the Law does not establish and, what it should establish, is that there be training for the proper use of firearms. Even when doing National Military Service, young people are put to do other things that have nothing to do with firearms, unlike the United States. There they send you a year to Afghanistan or another place, and there you are, you come back with a knowledge of the field and a training. Not here. Here there is an implicit fear, I believe, on the part of the government, because it knows that it is a bad government, and fears that the people, eventually, may rise in some parts. So that's a political issue, it's not a legal issue. "
-How does this work in the United States and other countries?
In the American Union what we call the theory of displacement works . If we know that in one place there are firearms in the hands of the inhabitants, it evidently becomes less attractive for the offender, who prefers to go and look for those areas where they consider that the inhabitants or the inhabitants are going to put up less resistance. Some time ago I was struck by a spectacular billboard before arriving in Texas on one of the highways. I saw a sign that said something like: ''Welcome to Texas, if you are a criminal we want to inform you that more than 75% of the people of this State have and know how to use firearms, and will have no hesitation in shooting it. Reason why, we suggest, that if your intention is to harm, then go to Oklahoma where you have more restrictive laws, and there you can carry out a crime without major resistance."
- What type of response have you received since the publication of your book?
"In truth, it has been very well received. We released an edition five years ago in Colombia, which here was distributed more or less, not much. We made two presentations. There was a lot of debate. There were many people who were totally against it. Today those who are against are the least number. Every time I feel there is a greater acceptance. Even at the level of social networks are the contrary comments. It's a minority, I'm talking about 5% against a broad majority that is in favor. "
The latest statistics of the numbers of licensed gun permits issued to private citizens
End
Note: Thanks again to the good folks at Borderland Beat. http://www.borderlandbeat.com. Photos, charts, etc. at the link:
Comment: Like a certain other political party, the PRI, by, for, and of the criminal.
Gracias
Monday, April 30, 2018
Firearms Out of Control in Mexico: But Only for Criminals
Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/04/firearms-out-of-control-in-mexico-but.html#more
More than 28,000 arms have been secured in the last six years through exchange programs
By: Luis Carlos Sainz/Special Report
April 2018
While criminals carry weapons indiscriminately and commit robberies and wholesale murders, citizens are barely able to exercise their constitutional right to possess a firearm at home. The current number of registered arms in the hands of private individuals is only 3, 153 in the entire country of Mexico. The Ministry of National Defense has only granted 68 such licenses of that type to 2016, but, in exchange programs during the sexennium, it has collected more than 93,000 weapons of war, mainly delivered by heads of households; another 28,000 weapons were secured during arrests.
Although during the current administration, various authorities in the country have secured more than 28,000 firearms in police and military actions, and more than 46,000 homicides have been committed with these types of instruments, the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) granted the registration and license to carry firearms to 68 individuals during the last three years.
This was the result of the response to a request for transparency, which highlights that during 2016, 47 authorizations were granted to people to possess a weapon at home. The number of licenses decreased drastically to only 20 in 2017, and in the first months of the current year, it has only granted a permit.
In this way, the total registration of the number of individual licenses to carry firearms to citizens, valid by state, to date, is 3,153, of which just four are for individuals of the State of Baja California and three for inhabitants of Baja California Sur.
The states with the most legal weapons in the hands of citizens are:
* Mexico City, with 1,750
* Nuevo León, 598
* State of Mexico, 275
* Jalisco, 101
* Querétaro, 98
* Durango 54
* Veracruz, 38
* Chihuahua, 30
* Yucatan, 30
* Guanajuato, 30
It is striking how in states where it is estimated that there is a lot of weapons, there are few registered weapons, such as the cases of Michoacán, with 28; Sonora, with one Tamaulipas, with three; and Zacatecas, with one.
In the country several movements have been created to put pressure on public policies to be implemented on the effects of the possession or possession of firearms. One of these movements called DesArma Mexico disappeared on the death of one of its founders and abandoned its website and the use of its social networks. It was against any possibility of weapons proliferating in both the public and private sectors.
There are activists that, in the face of insecurity and violence, the citizen exercises the prerogative granted by the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States to possess weapons in his home for his security and self-defense, provided that he complies with the requirements indicated in the Law specializing in the matter and make the registration before the Sedena.
The journalist Ernesto Villanueva, author of the book "El Derecho de Armarse", is not a promoter of the arms race, but he wants society to know about it as a legitimate right, of which he may have little information. So he spoke during an interview with ZETA .
"The entrance proposal is to fill the normative-social vacuum of what Constitutional Article 10 and its regulatory law is: Federal Law of Fire and Explosives. There was no work on this subject and well, what we did in this book was to identify 103 questions that have been repeatedly pointed out by society and we answered them all, not only with my opinion, but with bibliographical foundations, with empirical data, with data statistics to support the answer, " the writer said.
In his talk, Villanueva stressed that he makes a proposal of what should be, how to change, how to modernize the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives so that it fits perfectly with Article 10 of the Constitution, "which is the raison d'être of that Law, being the statutory law of said constitutional text ".
- How many people could have firearms at home?
"Well, there is a very large black figure. The largest part is the black figure, that is, the one that does not register. Most of society has doubts, with reasons, about authority, including military. That's why the figure, it must be more than two thousand percent of the official figure, which speaks of 3,000- 4,000 weapons, maximum. Obviously there are many more, which are the vast majority, due to ignorance of society, which believes it is difficult to register a firearm. Precisely, that is the reason of the book. If someone wants to register a weapon, what should they do? In the book are the answers, step by step, what the procedure is. Step one, step two, step three ...
"It has already happened to me with friends who have told me, 'I followed what you told me and I already have my gun in my house.' I followed everything to the letter and I already have it. That is very satisfactory. "
- What is the idiosyncrasy of the Mexican, to want or to not want to have a firearm at home?
"The last survey on that topic, about five or six months ago, refers that 70% are in favor. 20% are unsure and 10% that does not know or did not answer. These results reflect a change over another similar survey conducted about five and a half years ago, where in favor it was 40.5% nearly 50%; against: more than 30%, almost 40%; and the rest did not know or did not answer ".
- Although it is legal and the authority proposes the requirements for registration through the Sedena, the discourse of the officials is against the possibility that the citizens may possesses weapons in his house. Why?
"Evidently they are against it. Those who think that, do not know what they are talking about. It is contrary to what our Constitution foresees. The right to own and carry a firearm or several firearms is a fundamental right. It is a positive human right; that is, a human right already foreseen in the Constitution, that is, it is beyond doubt. It is as if a politician were against the right to health, and said 'no, better not be cured'. Or another official against education, 'hey, do not register at the school, for what?'
"This has to be socialized. Precisely the idea of the book is to socialize this issue to discuss it; but with arguments, with sources, with elements and not let go by the simple prejudices that are very fashionable. ''More weapons, more violence.'' Its as if the weapons are handled by a supernatural force, called something like 'devil' or something that makes the weapon move alone, or momentarily take possession of who uses it. That, at least scientifically, nobody has been able to prove it to me. There is no proof about that. They are myths or urban legends, but there is nothing that could scientifically prove that kind of assertions. "
- Is it easier for any private police to miss a shot at a misfortune at home?
"If there are bloody facts at home, they usually happen because of ignorance. Unfortunately, the Law does not establish and, what it should establish, is that there be training for the proper use of firearms. Even when doing National Military Service, young people are put to do other things that have nothing to do with firearms, unlike the United States. There they send you a year to Afghanistan or another place, and there you are, you come back with a knowledge of the field and a training. Not here. Here there is an implicit fear, I believe, on the part of the government, because it knows that it is a bad government, and fears that the people, eventually, may rise in some parts. So that's a political issue, it's not a legal issue. "
-How does this work in the United States and other countries?
In the American Union what we call the theory of displacement works . If we know that in one place there are firearms in the hands of the inhabitants, it evidently becomes less attractive for the offender, who prefers to go and look for those areas where they consider that the inhabitants or the inhabitants are going to put up less resistance. Some time ago I was struck by a spectacular billboard before arriving in Texas on one of the highways. I saw a sign that said something like: ''Welcome to Texas, if you are a criminal we want to inform you that more than 75% of the people of this State have and know how to use firearms, and will have no hesitation in shooting it. Reason why, we suggest, that if your intention is to harm, then go to Oklahoma where you have more restrictive laws, and there you can carry out a crime without major resistance."
- What type of response have you received since the publication of your book?
"In truth, it has been very well received. We released an edition five years ago in Colombia, which here was distributed more or less, not much. We made two presentations. There was a lot of debate. There were many people who were totally against it. Today those who are against are the least number. Every time I feel there is a greater acceptance. Even at the level of social networks are the contrary comments. It's a minority, I'm talking about 5% against a broad majority that is in favor. "
The latest statistics of the numbers of licensed gun permits issued to private citizens
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