COMMENT: By the politicians to support and protect their criminal comrades.
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Woman whose husband was killed in gun-free zone fights red-flag laws
The Washington Times Front Page
00:04:46
Dec 20, 2019
People participate in a gun rights rally as a Second Amendment flag is carried at the state capitol, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Atlanta.
About 40 gun rights supporters have gathered for one of dozens of rallies planned at statehouses ... more >
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 26, 2019
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/26/nikki-goeser-whose-husband-was-killed-gun-free-zon/
A stalker shot and killed her husband in a so-called gun-free zone. Now Nikki Goeser is worried that another gun-control measure widely gaining popularity will result in other firearms owners being victimized.
Ms. Goeser recently headed to Congress to speak out against red-flag laws, arguing that allowing a judge to issue orders to temporarily confiscate firearms over mental health concerns could have jeopardized her safety at a time when she was most vulnerable.
"I'm trying to educate people about the dangers of red-flag laws," Ms. Goeser told The Washington Times. "A lot of people seem to be for them,
but there's a lot that the everyday citizen doesn't think about. I think red-flag laws completely ignore due process and violate due process rights."
After her husband, Ben Goeser, was murdered 10 years ago in a Tennessee restaurant, Ms. Goeser fell into a depression,
wondering how she would face another day, and "you can understand how someone might misinterpret that."
"I wasn't suicidal. I was just going through a really hard time," she said.
"But someone very well-meaning — a family member, a friend, a co-worker — could say, 'We're really concerned about Nikki.
This horrible thing has happened, we know she's a gun owner,' and then take their concerns to a judge."
If a judge had ordered police to take away her firearm, deeming her a risk to herself or others,
"for someone like me, that would have been trauma on top of trauma."
"Here I'm scared to death, I'm already concerned for my safety, and then to go
and take my basic human right of self-defense away from me with no due process?" she said. "It's pretty scary."
Sine her husband's death in 2009, Ms. Goeser has become a vocal Second Amendment advocate,
working with John Lott Jr. at the Crime Prevention Research Center and writing two books.
Her latest, "Stalked and Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of Me," was released in November.
Ms. Goeser was a concealed-carry permit holder and owned a handgun,
but she left it in her car in compliance with Tennessee's gun-free zone laws, which banned firearms in restaurants that serve alcohol.
A man she barely knew who had been stalking her shot and killed her husband in the middle of the busy establishment.
"My husband and I owned a mobile karaoke business, and he [the stalker] started taking an interest in me that went a little too far,
and he was just one of these guys who couldn't take no for an answer," said Ms. Goeser.
"I didn't even know this guy's last name. He was just a customer who came to sing."
After her husband's death, Tennessee passed a law loosening its gun-free zone requirements.
"In Tennessee now, as long as you have your handgun carry permit and you are not drinking any alcohol,
you can now carry in restaurants that serve alcohol," she said.
"They are still allowed to post a sign saying, 'No guns allowed' if that business owner chooses to, but at least it's no longer state law."
Her battle isn't over. "We need to get rid of a lot of these gun-free zones," she said.
"If businesses are not going to actively do something very real to help protect people, then let people protect themselves," said Ms. Goeser.
"If these places where bad guys can simply walk right in off the street and bring any kind of tool in to harm people,
and there's no security, let people protect themselves."
'Twisted love letters'
At a time when lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are championing criminal-justice reform,
Ms. Goeser has gone against the grain, promoting the rights of victims and pushing for criminals to complete their sentences.
Even though the stalker, Hank Wise, was convicted in 2012 of second-degree murder and sentenced to 23 years in prison,
he has shaved several years off for good behavior. He's scheduled to be released in October 2028, when he will be about 60.
"This guy is earning early release and good behavior credits. It's very disturbing," Ms. Goeser said.
"Why mislead victims on sentencing? I think we need truth-in-sentencing laws all across this nation."
Now 43, Ms. Goeser recently found out that her husband's killer has been writing "twisted love letters" to her from prison
and sending them to the lawyer who handled her wrongful-death lawsuit against him.
"It is very scary. I am terrified and I'm furious," said Ms. Goeser. "At first was upset with Tennessee prison system
— how can a convicted murderer be allowed to write victim? — but the more I thought about it, I thought, you know,
if those letters never left the prison walls, I would never know about this continued threat.
And I believe women need to know."
A red-flag bill introduced in February by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, would offer incentives for states
to authorize judges to issue short-term extreme risk protection orders,
but Ms. Goeser hopes her story will cause members of Congress to reconsider such measures.
"Right now I'm just trying to educate them. A lot of people, they don't think about these things," she said.
"You tell them a personal story and how it could impact you, and a light bulb goes off: 'Oh, I never thought about that.'"
END
Monday, December 30, 2019
Friday, December 27, 2019
AZMEX DV UPDATE 27-12-19
AZMEX DV UPDATE 27 DEC 2019
Note: mug shot at link. Immigration status ?
Mesa man grabbed teen's genitals 'to let her know he loves her,' police say
Suspect broke protection order, according to court documents
• azfamily.com News Staff
• Posted Dec 26, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/mesa-man-grabbed-teen-s-genitals-to-let-her-know/article_b2a55a3a-2809-11ea-8dad-6bebf32f1096.html
Tadeo Octavio Valenzuela Cota
Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – A Mesa man is facing several felony and misdemeanor charges
after allegedly assaulting a teen girl and threatening to kill her family.
Police said Tadeo Octavio Valenzuela Cota also tried to resist officers when they arrested him on Christmas Eve.
According to court paperwork, Cota, 19, had been served with an order of protection (OOP) on Nov. 18,
which means he was supposed to stay away from his ex-girlfriend, who is a minor.
"The defendant lives across the street from [the] victim … and continually violates the OOP," police wrote in Cota's public court documents.
They also noted domestic violence issues in the form of threats of harm.
In the probable cause for arrest statement, police said "it was evident [Cota] was involved in a physical altercation
due to the defendant having fresh scratch marks on the front and back of his body and the back of his neck."
Investigators said the victim told them that Cota had been trying to talk to her all day Tuesday and came up to her when she left her home.
"The defendant began to argue with the victim who continually asked the defendant to leave," according to court documents.
"[The victim] stated the defendant grabbed her by the neck and top of her arms and shook her violently as he asked her why she was doing this."
Investigators said the victim also told them Cota grabbed her genitals and threatened to kill her family if she left him.
Police said a witness told them Cota had been asked to leave several times.
According to court documents, Cota "refused to leave and became confrontational when
[the victim's] family tried to intervene and keep him away from [her]."
The witness told police Cota tried to force his way into the victim's home and then got into a fight with a member of her family.
Excerpt from Tadeo Octavio Valenzuela Cota's court documents
Source: Tadeo Octavio Valenzuela Cota's court documents
According to the probable cause statement, two officers suffered minor injuries while struggling
with Cota as he was resisting arrest. After Cota was read his Miranda rights,
police said Cota told them he had been served with the protection order about a week earlier.
Records from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and Mesa Police Department show that order was served on Nov. 18.
Police said Cota also admitted to grabbing the victim and shaking her, "but not too hard."
He also said he "threatened to kill her family if she did not stay with him," according to the probable cause for arrest statement.
Police said Cota admitted doing everything the victim told them he did, including grabbing her genitals, "but only did it to let her know he loves her."
Cota was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault on an officer, aggravated assault and violation of a protection order,
resisting arrested, sexual abuse, failure to comply with a court order, and threatening/intimidating.
A judge set a secured appearance bond of $5,000. Cota has a status conference scheduled for Dec. 31,
and then a preliminary hearing on Jan. 3
END
Note: mug shot at link. Immigration status ?
Mesa man grabbed teen's genitals 'to let her know he loves her,' police say
Suspect broke protection order, according to court documents
• azfamily.com News Staff
• Posted Dec 26, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/mesa-man-grabbed-teen-s-genitals-to-let-her-know/article_b2a55a3a-2809-11ea-8dad-6bebf32f1096.html
Tadeo Octavio Valenzuela Cota
Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – A Mesa man is facing several felony and misdemeanor charges
after allegedly assaulting a teen girl and threatening to kill her family.
Police said Tadeo Octavio Valenzuela Cota also tried to resist officers when they arrested him on Christmas Eve.
According to court paperwork, Cota, 19, had been served with an order of protection (OOP) on Nov. 18,
which means he was supposed to stay away from his ex-girlfriend, who is a minor.
"The defendant lives across the street from [the] victim … and continually violates the OOP," police wrote in Cota's public court documents.
They also noted domestic violence issues in the form of threats of harm.
In the probable cause for arrest statement, police said "it was evident [Cota] was involved in a physical altercation
due to the defendant having fresh scratch marks on the front and back of his body and the back of his neck."
Investigators said the victim told them that Cota had been trying to talk to her all day Tuesday and came up to her when she left her home.
"The defendant began to argue with the victim who continually asked the defendant to leave," according to court documents.
"[The victim] stated the defendant grabbed her by the neck and top of her arms and shook her violently as he asked her why she was doing this."
Investigators said the victim also told them Cota grabbed her genitals and threatened to kill her family if she left him.
Police said a witness told them Cota had been asked to leave several times.
According to court documents, Cota "refused to leave and became confrontational when
[the victim's] family tried to intervene and keep him away from [her]."
The witness told police Cota tried to force his way into the victim's home and then got into a fight with a member of her family.
Excerpt from Tadeo Octavio Valenzuela Cota's court documents
Source: Tadeo Octavio Valenzuela Cota's court documents
According to the probable cause statement, two officers suffered minor injuries while struggling
with Cota as he was resisting arrest. After Cota was read his Miranda rights,
police said Cota told them he had been served with the protection order about a week earlier.
Records from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and Mesa Police Department show that order was served on Nov. 18.
Police said Cota also admitted to grabbing the victim and shaking her, "but not too hard."
He also said he "threatened to kill her family if she did not stay with him," according to the probable cause for arrest statement.
Police said Cota admitted doing everything the victim told them he did, including grabbing her genitals, "but only did it to let her know he loves her."
Cota was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault on an officer, aggravated assault and violation of a protection order,
resisting arrested, sexual abuse, failure to comply with a court order, and threatening/intimidating.
A judge set a secured appearance bond of $5,000. Cota has a status conference scheduled for Dec. 31,
and then a preliminary hearing on Jan. 3
END
Saturday, December 21, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL 21-12-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 21 DEC 2019
Friday, December 20, 2019
Highway robberies on the rise in Mexico as drug cartels target holiday travelers
Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat
TY GUS from KXAN
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/12/highway-robberies-on-rise-in-mexico-as.html#more
Motorists urged to be on the lookout for illegal roadblocks; cargo trucks also being targeted
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — When he travels to Mexico for the holidays,
Lorenzo Escamilla practices the saying: "There's safety in numbers."
The Dallas resident on Monday was part of a vehicle caravan that drove into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, with donations for the poor.
"We've traveled together for four years to be safe.
Not two weeks ago three guys I know got robbed near the highway to Monterrey.
One car stopped in front of them, one got behind them, and six men got out and took their cell phones and $700 in cash,"
said Escamilla, a painting contractor.
Highway robbery in Mexico tends to spike around the Christmas and Easter holidays,
when tens of thousands of U.S. residents venture south to visit family members, often bearing gifts that make them more of a target,
public safety analysts say.
And with the drug cartels now targeting commercial trucks and their cargo as well, it's important to exercise extreme caution on Mexican highways.
"As we get closer to the holidays, the criminals want to score extra cash so they can buy stuff for their families.
They will even steal (gifts) for the kids in their own family," said Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical analysis for Stratford Global Intelligence,
an Austin, Texas-based private security group.
Several high-profile instances of highway robbery have been recorded this year, according to Stewart.
In April, a group of armed criminals robbed hundreds of motorists near a tunnel on the Mexico City-Acapulco highway,
taking advantage of the lack of cell phone signal.
In July, an American couple was killed while trying to run through an illegal checkpoint set up by the rogue Auto Defensas group in Guerrero state.
Closer to the U.S. border, some Americans have run into trouble with the police for driving with small appliances in tow.
"I've heard quite a bit on that route (Nuevo Laredo-Monterrey) of people getting stopped
and asked for very big bribes for things they bought in the United States.
That became a real issue for them," Stewart said.
That's something that travelers like Escamilla say they run into year after year.
On Monday, he was having trouble getting the goods to be donated past the Mexican customs checkpoint.
"We set things up with the consulate in Dallas. Now customs is telling us that whatever deal we made over there is no good over here," he said,
vowing not to turn back until getting his mission accomplished.
The Mexican government runs a seasonal program called "Paisano" to assist travelers who run into trouble on Mexican territory.
The toll-free numbers are 1 (877) 210-9469 if calling from the United States or 01-800-440-3690 if dialing from Mexico
More trucks, more cargo … more criminals roaming highways.
According to a Dec. 13 article by Mexico News Daily, more than 1,500 robberies have been recorded this year on Mexican highways.
The thefts have cost Mexican manufacturers more than $68 million and have occurred primarily along four roads:
Progreso-Monterrey; Veracruz-Puebla; Celaya-Leon and Guanajuato-Irapuato.
The article quoted a Nuevo Leon business leader as saying that half of the manufacturers in the state have had at least one cargo stolen,
and some have lost the truck as well.
Commercial trucks are targeted for their cargo, but they're not the only vehicles that highway robbers crave, Stewart said.
"Four-wheel drive pickups, the large (Chevrolet) Suburbans tend to be very popular with the cartels as far as stealing,
but cretainly anything that's flashy could attract attention," he said.
So if you must drive in Mexico, the advice is to stick to toll-roads with a strong police presence,
avoid driving at night (that's when most robberies occur) and not travel alone.
However, even toll-roads may not be safe in areas of Mexico with a strong drug cartel influence,
where armed bandits can set up illegal roadblocks, Stewart said.
"In most cases, especially those involving Americans who are not locals and not specifically targeted,
the criminals basically just want your stuff," he said.
"So, if you're confronted by armed criminals or come up to an illegal roadblock, it's always advisable to surrender your stuff …
your wallet, your car, none of that is worth your life."
Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis Posted at 11:03 AM
( Check the many comments at the link: )
END
Friday, December 20, 2019
Highway robberies on the rise in Mexico as drug cartels target holiday travelers
Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat
TY GUS from KXAN
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/12/highway-robberies-on-rise-in-mexico-as.html#more
Motorists urged to be on the lookout for illegal roadblocks; cargo trucks also being targeted
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — When he travels to Mexico for the holidays,
Lorenzo Escamilla practices the saying: "There's safety in numbers."
The Dallas resident on Monday was part of a vehicle caravan that drove into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, with donations for the poor.
"We've traveled together for four years to be safe.
Not two weeks ago three guys I know got robbed near the highway to Monterrey.
One car stopped in front of them, one got behind them, and six men got out and took their cell phones and $700 in cash,"
said Escamilla, a painting contractor.
Highway robbery in Mexico tends to spike around the Christmas and Easter holidays,
when tens of thousands of U.S. residents venture south to visit family members, often bearing gifts that make them more of a target,
public safety analysts say.
And with the drug cartels now targeting commercial trucks and their cargo as well, it's important to exercise extreme caution on Mexican highways.
"As we get closer to the holidays, the criminals want to score extra cash so they can buy stuff for their families.
They will even steal (gifts) for the kids in their own family," said Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical analysis for Stratford Global Intelligence,
an Austin, Texas-based private security group.
Several high-profile instances of highway robbery have been recorded this year, according to Stewart.
In April, a group of armed criminals robbed hundreds of motorists near a tunnel on the Mexico City-Acapulco highway,
taking advantage of the lack of cell phone signal.
In July, an American couple was killed while trying to run through an illegal checkpoint set up by the rogue Auto Defensas group in Guerrero state.
Closer to the U.S. border, some Americans have run into trouble with the police for driving with small appliances in tow.
"I've heard quite a bit on that route (Nuevo Laredo-Monterrey) of people getting stopped
and asked for very big bribes for things they bought in the United States.
That became a real issue for them," Stewart said.
That's something that travelers like Escamilla say they run into year after year.
On Monday, he was having trouble getting the goods to be donated past the Mexican customs checkpoint.
"We set things up with the consulate in Dallas. Now customs is telling us that whatever deal we made over there is no good over here," he said,
vowing not to turn back until getting his mission accomplished.
The Mexican government runs a seasonal program called "Paisano" to assist travelers who run into trouble on Mexican territory.
The toll-free numbers are 1 (877) 210-9469 if calling from the United States or 01-800-440-3690 if dialing from Mexico
More trucks, more cargo … more criminals roaming highways.
According to a Dec. 13 article by Mexico News Daily, more than 1,500 robberies have been recorded this year on Mexican highways.
The thefts have cost Mexican manufacturers more than $68 million and have occurred primarily along four roads:
Progreso-Monterrey; Veracruz-Puebla; Celaya-Leon and Guanajuato-Irapuato.
The article quoted a Nuevo Leon business leader as saying that half of the manufacturers in the state have had at least one cargo stolen,
and some have lost the truck as well.
Commercial trucks are targeted for their cargo, but they're not the only vehicles that highway robbers crave, Stewart said.
"Four-wheel drive pickups, the large (Chevrolet) Suburbans tend to be very popular with the cartels as far as stealing,
but cretainly anything that's flashy could attract attention," he said.
So if you must drive in Mexico, the advice is to stick to toll-roads with a strong police presence,
avoid driving at night (that's when most robberies occur) and not travel alone.
However, even toll-roads may not be safe in areas of Mexico with a strong drug cartel influence,
where armed bandits can set up illegal roadblocks, Stewart said.
"In most cases, especially those involving Americans who are not locals and not specifically targeted,
the criminals basically just want your stuff," he said.
"So, if you're confronted by armed criminals or come up to an illegal roadblock, it's always advisable to surrender your stuff …
your wallet, your car, none of that is worth your life."
Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis Posted at 11:03 AM
( Check the many comments at the link: )
END
Friday, December 20, 2019
AZMEX EXTRA 15-12-19
AZMEX EXTRA 15 DEC 2019
Note: would be interesting to learn the source of the Barret rifles, if they are actually Barrets? No info so far on casualties if any?
Buenavista, Son. Photos, etc. at link:
Police
GN repels aggression in Buenavista; seize weapons, cartridges and tactical equipment
Elements of the National Guard were attacked by armed civilians when they patrolled the town.
December 14th
https://www.elimparcial.com/sonora/policiaca/GN-repele-agresion-en-Buenavista-aseguran-armas-cartuchos-y-equipo-tactico-20191214-0061.html
GN repels aggression in Buenavista; seize weapons, cartridges and tactical equipment
SONORA.- When performing crime prevention and deterrence functions in the state of Sonora,
members of the National Guard repelled an assault by armed civilians,
which resulted in the seizure of weapons, cartridges and tactical equipment.
The events occurred when federal troops patrolled the town of Buenavista, where they had contact with a van manned by armed persons,
who, when noticing the presence of the authority, attacked the security elements with firearms,
which led to repel the aggression making rational and equitable use of force.
More on this topic
POLICE
They moved 260 kilos of "crystal" and 69 thousand tablets of fentanyl in Caborca; I deti ...
The crew fled the place and their vehicle was abandoned and located streets ahead.
A Barret-type rifle with a telescopic sight was found in the unit,
an AK-47 rifle,
two magazines supplied with cartridges for Barret,
four metal chests containing 503 cartridges inside for a Barret,
15 magazines for AK-47, and 700 7.62 caliber cartridges,
1.5 kilograms of apparent marijuana,
two shirts, three bags and three military-type uniforms.
The corresponding federal ministerial authority was informed of the facts and will be in charge of continuing with the inquiries.
END
Note: would be interesting to learn the source of the Barret rifles, if they are actually Barrets? No info so far on casualties if any?
Buenavista, Son. Photos, etc. at link:
Police
GN repels aggression in Buenavista; seize weapons, cartridges and tactical equipment
Elements of the National Guard were attacked by armed civilians when they patrolled the town.
December 14th
https://www.elimparcial.com/sonora/policiaca/GN-repele-agresion-en-Buenavista-aseguran-armas-cartuchos-y-equipo-tactico-20191214-0061.html
GN repels aggression in Buenavista; seize weapons, cartridges and tactical equipment
SONORA.- When performing crime prevention and deterrence functions in the state of Sonora,
members of the National Guard repelled an assault by armed civilians,
which resulted in the seizure of weapons, cartridges and tactical equipment.
The events occurred when federal troops patrolled the town of Buenavista, where they had contact with a van manned by armed persons,
who, when noticing the presence of the authority, attacked the security elements with firearms,
which led to repel the aggression making rational and equitable use of force.
POLICE
They moved 260 kilos of "crystal" and 69 thousand tablets of fentanyl in Caborca; I deti ...
The crew fled the place and their vehicle was abandoned and located streets ahead.
A Barret-type rifle with a telescopic sight was found in the unit,
an AK-47 rifle,
two magazines supplied with cartridges for Barret,
four metal chests containing 503 cartridges inside for a Barret,
15 magazines for AK-47, and 700 7.62 caliber cartridges,
1.5 kilograms of apparent marijuana,
two shirts, three bags and three military-type uniforms.
The corresponding federal ministerial authority was informed of the facts and will be in charge of continuing with the inquiries.
END
AZMEX UPDATE-2 18-12-19
AZMEX UPDATE-2 18 DEC 2019
Note: NJ is one of the most corrupt state in the county. Tied with DC?
The other states on the list also run by the communist / democrat party.
THX
POLITICSPublished 2 hours ago
New Jersey driver's license bill for illegal immigrants is 'reckless': CBP acting commissioner
'This entire nation is less safe because of it'
By Angelica StabileFOXBusines
//https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/new-jersey-illegal-immigrants-driver-license-bill-cbpxbusiness.com/markets/new-jersey-illegal-immigr-license-bill-cbp
NJ's driver's license rule change is taking away a tool of law enforcement: CBP acting commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol acting commissioner Mark Morgan discusses the new House spending bill's funding of the border wall
and the drugs seized by his agency on the southern border
as well as New Jersey's allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.
Mark Morgan, a career FBI official who is currently serving as the acting U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner,
said New Jersey's new measure that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license is outright dangerous.
"From someone who's dedicated basically my entire adult life to this country -- specifically law enforcement -- for decades,
I am outraged by this," he told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. "This is reckless."
NEW YORK DMV DRAWS CROWD OFFERING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS DRIVERS' LICENSES
New Jersey lawmakers approved the measure on Monday, sending it to Gov. Phil Murphy's desk, who is expected to sign it into law.
Morgan believes the bill protects "illegal aliens and criminals" and discredits an effective tool of law enforcement which ensures the safety of Americans.
"And every time you do that," he said, "this entire nation is less safe because of it."
Thirteen states, including Delaware, New York and the District of Columbia allow immigrants without legal status
to get drivers' licenses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/states-offering-driver-s-licenses-to-immigrants.aspx
"Thirteen states and the District of Columbia enacted laws to allow unauthorized immigrants to obtain a driver's licenses.
These states—California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Utah, Vermont and Washington—"
End
Note: NJ is one of the most corrupt state in the county. Tied with DC?
The other states on the list also run by the communist / democrat party.
THX
POLITICSPublished 2 hours ago
New Jersey driver's license bill for illegal immigrants is 'reckless': CBP acting commissioner
'This entire nation is less safe because of it'
By Angelica StabileFOXBusines
//https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/new-jersey-illegal-immigrants-driver-license-bill-cbpxbusiness.com/markets/new-jersey-illegal-immigr-license-bill-cbp
NJ's driver's license rule change is taking away a tool of law enforcement: CBP acting commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol acting commissioner Mark Morgan discusses the new House spending bill's funding of the border wall
and the drugs seized by his agency on the southern border
as well as New Jersey's allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.
Mark Morgan, a career FBI official who is currently serving as the acting U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner,
said New Jersey's new measure that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license is outright dangerous.
"From someone who's dedicated basically my entire adult life to this country -- specifically law enforcement -- for decades,
I am outraged by this," he told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. "This is reckless."
NEW YORK DMV DRAWS CROWD OFFERING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS DRIVERS' LICENSES
New Jersey lawmakers approved the measure on Monday, sending it to Gov. Phil Murphy's desk, who is expected to sign it into law.
Morgan believes the bill protects "illegal aliens and criminals" and discredits an effective tool of law enforcement which ensures the safety of Americans.
"And every time you do that," he said, "this entire nation is less safe because of it."
Thirteen states, including Delaware, New York and the District of Columbia allow immigrants without legal status
to get drivers' licenses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/states-offering-driver-s-licenses-to-immigrants.aspx
"Thirteen states and the District of Columbia enacted laws to allow unauthorized immigrants to obtain a driver's licenses.
These states—California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Utah, Vermont and Washington—"
End
Thursday, December 19, 2019
AZMEX I3 19-12-19
AZMEX I3 19 DEC 2019
Note: photo at link:
Border Patrol:12 camouflaged undocumented immigrants apprehended
by Erika Esquivel
Thursday, December 19th 2019
12 undocumented immigrants in camouflage clothing were apprehended by Border agents in Brewster County on Dec. 18, 2019.
(Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
SANDERSON, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) —
Twelve undocumented immigrants who were camouflaged were apprehended in west Texas,
according to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Agents assigned to the Sanderson Station in the Big Bend sector apprehended the undocumented immigrants
Dec. 18 in a remote area of Brewster County.
The agents tracked foot-sign of the group while being assisted from the air by the CBP Alpine Air Unit in a UH-1N helicopter.
Investigators determined the group was comprised of people from from Guatemala and Mexico.
"This case is another example of illegal border crossers wearing camouflage
while making entry in desolate locations in an attempt to evade arrest,"
Big Bend Sector Chief Patrol Agent Matthew Hudak said.
end
Note: photo at link:
Border Patrol:12 camouflaged undocumented immigrants apprehended
by Erika Esquivel
Thursday, December 19th 2019
12 undocumented immigrants in camouflage clothing were apprehended by Border agents in Brewster County on Dec. 18, 2019.
(Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
SANDERSON, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) —
Twelve undocumented immigrants who were camouflaged were apprehended in west Texas,
according to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Agents assigned to the Sanderson Station in the Big Bend sector apprehended the undocumented immigrants
Dec. 18 in a remote area of Brewster County.
The agents tracked foot-sign of the group while being assisted from the air by the CBP Alpine Air Unit in a UH-1N helicopter.
Investigators determined the group was comprised of people from from Guatemala and Mexico.
"This case is another example of illegal border crossers wearing camouflage
while making entry in desolate locations in an attempt to evade arrest,"
Big Bend Sector Chief Patrol Agent Matthew Hudak said.
end
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 18-12-19
AZMEX UPDATE 18 DEC 2019
Driver facing human smuggling charges after Arizona chase
• The Associated Press
• Posted 5 hrs ago
https://ktar.com. ? ( Links not working - again )
PHOENIX (AP) — The driver who allegedly sped through an immigration checkpoint in southern Arizona
and lead authorities on a 50-mile chase that reached 110 mph on Interstate 10 remains in federal custody.
FBI officials say 39-year-old Adrian Stewart had his initial appearance Tuesday in federal court in Phoenix.
[READ MORE: 2 found in trunk after driver fired shots at agents, sped past border, officials say]
They say he's being held on suspicion of human smuggling, transporting immigrants illegally,
concealing immigrants who are in the country illegally and other charges.
An FBI spokeswoman says Stewart also could be facing a charge of assault on a Border Patrol officer.
It's unclear if Stewart has a lawyer yet who can speak on his behalf.
[PHOTOS: Police situation on Interstate 10 near SR-587]
U.S. Border Patrol officials said they asked Stewart to open the car's trunk at the checkpoint
south of Casa Grande about 3 p.m. Monday.
Stewart sped off when agents saw two men inside the truck. (?)
He allegedly fired shots out of the car's sunroof at Border Patrol vehicles during the pursuit,
but no injuries were reported.
The chase ended near Sacaton and authorities said the two immigrants were found alive in the car's trunk,
but they are not facing charges.
According to a federal complaint, Stewart told authorities that he picks up people and does it for money.
END
Driver facing human smuggling charges after Arizona chase
• The Associated Press
• Posted 5 hrs ago
https://ktar.com. ? ( Links not working - again )
PHOENIX (AP) — The driver who allegedly sped through an immigration checkpoint in southern Arizona
and lead authorities on a 50-mile chase that reached 110 mph on Interstate 10 remains in federal custody.
FBI officials say 39-year-old Adrian Stewart had his initial appearance Tuesday in federal court in Phoenix.
[READ MORE: 2 found in trunk after driver fired shots at agents, sped past border, officials say]
They say he's being held on suspicion of human smuggling, transporting immigrants illegally,
concealing immigrants who are in the country illegally and other charges.
An FBI spokeswoman says Stewart also could be facing a charge of assault on a Border Patrol officer.
It's unclear if Stewart has a lawyer yet who can speak on his behalf.
[PHOTOS: Police situation on Interstate 10 near SR-587]
U.S. Border Patrol officials said they asked Stewart to open the car's trunk at the checkpoint
south of Casa Grande about 3 p.m. Monday.
Stewart sped off when agents saw two men inside the truck. (?)
He allegedly fired shots out of the car's sunroof at Border Patrol vehicles during the pursuit,
but no injuries were reported.
The chase ended near Sacaton and authorities said the two immigrants were found alive in the car's trunk,
but they are not facing charges.
According to a federal complaint, Stewart told authorities that he picks up people and does it for money.
END
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
AZMEX I3 15-12-19
AZMEX I3 15 DEC 2019
Mexico.- Mexico has intercepted more than 175,000 migrants so far this year
The National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) has reported that so far this year 176,347 migrants have been intercepted, a figure higher than that of 2018 despite the decrease in traffic following the migration agreement with the United States last June 7 under threat of tariffs
Last Updated 15:52
MEXICO CITY, 15 (EUROPE PRESS)
https://ticker-noticiasep.microcontenidos.com/noticia.html?user=J2B5E0B1R8&cod=20191215225248
The National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) has reported that so far this year 176,347 migrants have been intercepted, a figure higher than that of 2018 despite the decrease in traffic following the migration agreement with the United States last June 7 under threat of tariffs.
The total figure corresponds to foreigners counted until December 13, compared to 131,000 intercepted throughout the year 2018.
In addition, the INM emphasizes that the number of migrants from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa has increased.
The INM notes that, for example, in October 12,337 were intercepted, 61 percent less than in the same month of the previous year,
according to the Mexican newspaper 'La Jornada'.
In addition, until November 66,915 applications for shelter have been received, the highest figure since 2013,
when this category began to be counted, and the total for the year is expected to exceed 70,000.
Among them, 268 petitions of children and adolescents have been counted.
The most recent data from the Mexican Refugee Assistance Commission (COMAR)
show the constant and significant increase in migrants from Honduras, almost half of the applicants for refuge and complementary protection.
The COMAR list of nationality applications is headed by Honduras with 29,146 migrants.
El Salvador follows, with 8,711 cases;
Cuba, with a significant increase from 218 applicants last year to 8,420 today.
Fourth is Venezuela, very close to Cuba, with 7,174, although it maintains the trend registered in 2018.
Then is Haiti, with 5,690 records;
Guatemala, with 3,525;
Nicaragua, 2,152;
Brazil, 526 (which for the first time appears in the list of the first ten nations with the largest number of applicants);
Colombia, which doubles from 210 to 503 cases,
as well as Cameroon, (Africa ) with 467 applications.
END

Mexico.- Mexico has intercepted more than 175,000 migrants so far this year
The National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) has reported that so far this year 176,347 migrants have been intercepted, a figure higher than that of 2018 despite the decrease in traffic following the migration agreement with the United States last June 7 under threat of tariffs
Last Updated 15:52
MEXICO CITY, 15 (EUROPE PRESS)
https://ticker-noticiasep.microcontenidos.com/noticia.html?user=J2B5E0B1R8&cod=20191215225248
The National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) has reported that so far this year 176,347 migrants have been intercepted, a figure higher than that of 2018 despite the decrease in traffic following the migration agreement with the United States last June 7 under threat of tariffs.
The total figure corresponds to foreigners counted until December 13, compared to 131,000 intercepted throughout the year 2018.
In addition, the INM emphasizes that the number of migrants from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa has increased.
The INM notes that, for example, in October 12,337 were intercepted, 61 percent less than in the same month of the previous year,
according to the Mexican newspaper 'La Jornada'.
In addition, until November 66,915 applications for shelter have been received, the highest figure since 2013,
when this category began to be counted, and the total for the year is expected to exceed 70,000.
Among them, 268 petitions of children and adolescents have been counted.
The most recent data from the Mexican Refugee Assistance Commission (COMAR)
show the constant and significant increase in migrants from Honduras, almost half of the applicants for refuge and complementary protection.
The COMAR list of nationality applications is headed by Honduras with 29,146 migrants.
El Salvador follows, with 8,711 cases;
Cuba, with a significant increase from 218 applicants last year to 8,420 today.
Fourth is Venezuela, very close to Cuba, with 7,174, although it maintains the trend registered in 2018.
Then is Haiti, with 5,690 records;
Guatemala, with 3,525;
Nicaragua, 2,152;
Brazil, 526 (which for the first time appears in the list of the first ten nations with the largest number of applicants);
Colombia, which doubles from 210 to 503 cases,
as well as Cameroon, (Africa ) with 467 applications.
END

AZMEX UPDATE 17-12-19
AZMEX UPDATE 17 DEC 2019
Note: Photos, video at link:
Driver arrested after speeding through Arizona immigration checkpoint
Posted: 3:39 PM, Dec 16, 2019 Updated: 10:43 PM, Dec 16, 2019
By: abc15.com staff , Associated Press
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-central-southern-az/traffic-backed-up-due-to-police-situation-near-interstate-10-and-casa-blanca-road
CASA GRANDE, AZ — A driver is in custody after speeding through an immigration checkpoint in southern Arizona
and leading authorities on a high-speed chase Monday on Interstate 10 toward Phoenix, authorities said.
U.S. Border Patrol officials said the car failed to yield to agents working the checkpoint 20 miles south of Casa Grande around 3 p.m.
A spokesperson said shots were fired at Border Patrol agents as the car fled.
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office located the car driving in Casa Grande and initiated a chase, with speeds reaching more than 100 miles per hour.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety also joined in and eventually ended the chase with a pit maneuver on I-10 near the Casa Blanca exit.
The driver and two other people found inside the car's trunk were arrested, according to the Border Patrol.
The names of the three arrested have not been released.
Holy cow," said Carla Schumann, who drove past the scene.
"That's outrageous, it's scary, dangerous and just unprecedented out here."
"Good job for them that they got it wrapped up and put to bed without any innocent civilians being hurt." said Schumann.
None of the agencies shot at the car during the chase and no injuries were reported, Border Patrol officials said,
adding that the incident is under investigation.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed they too are investigating "an assault on a federal officer (Border Patrol)."
Cliff Castle Chopper video showed traffic backed up for miles while crews worked to clear the scene.
END
Note: Photos, video at link:
Driver arrested after speeding through Arizona immigration checkpoint
Posted: 3:39 PM, Dec 16, 2019 Updated: 10:43 PM, Dec 16, 2019
By: abc15.com staff , Associated Press
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-central-southern-az/traffic-backed-up-due-to-police-situation-near-interstate-10-and-casa-blanca-road
CASA GRANDE, AZ — A driver is in custody after speeding through an immigration checkpoint in southern Arizona
and leading authorities on a high-speed chase Monday on Interstate 10 toward Phoenix, authorities said.
U.S. Border Patrol officials said the car failed to yield to agents working the checkpoint 20 miles south of Casa Grande around 3 p.m.
A spokesperson said shots were fired at Border Patrol agents as the car fled.
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office located the car driving in Casa Grande and initiated a chase, with speeds reaching more than 100 miles per hour.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety also joined in and eventually ended the chase with a pit maneuver on I-10 near the Casa Blanca exit.
The driver and two other people found inside the car's trunk were arrested, according to the Border Patrol.
The names of the three arrested have not been released.
Holy cow," said Carla Schumann, who drove past the scene.
"That's outrageous, it's scary, dangerous and just unprecedented out here."
"Good job for them that they got it wrapped up and put to bed without any innocent civilians being hurt." said Schumann.
None of the agencies shot at the car during the chase and no injuries were reported, Border Patrol officials said,
adding that the incident is under investigation.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed they too are investigating "an assault on a federal officer (Border Patrol)."
Cliff Castle Chopper video showed traffic backed up for miles while crews worked to clear the scene.
END
Monday, December 16, 2019
AZMEX EXTRA 16-12-19
AZMEX EXTRA 16 DEC 2019
Note: photo at link:
Arsenal of high caliber weapons found on board car
Details Published on Monday December 16, 2019, Written by Editorial Staff / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=141132

Caborca, Son
Agents of the PESP, Sedena and National Guard carry out coordinated operation
A stolen car loaded with ten firearms was located in an operation coordinated by elements of the State Public Security Police (PESP),
National Guard and the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena).
The discovery was on the morning of Saturday, December 14 in the vicinity of the Ejido Yaqui Justiciero de Caborca,
an area where the black pick-up, Chevrolet, Silverado was.
When inspecting the vehicle, it was reported that the same car had a theft report as of December 2, 2019.
In addition, within the vehicle were 10 firearms, of these,
seven rifle-type weapons known as AK-47, an AR-15, two .9mm caliber pistols and .45 caliber pistol.
Around 51 magazines and more than 1,200 cartridges for firearms of different sizes were also seized.
The coordinated operation confiscated the firearms, cartridges and magazines, as well as the stolen car
to make it available to the corresponding Public Ministry and carry out the legal procedures that may take place.
Meanwhile, the operation will continue permanently throughout the region, contributing to the security of Caborca and surrounding municipalities.
End
Note: photo at link:
Arsenal of high caliber weapons found on board car
Details Published on Monday December 16, 2019, Written by Editorial Staff / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=141132

Caborca, Son
Agents of the PESP, Sedena and National Guard carry out coordinated operation
A stolen car loaded with ten firearms was located in an operation coordinated by elements of the State Public Security Police (PESP),
National Guard and the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena).
The discovery was on the morning of Saturday, December 14 in the vicinity of the Ejido Yaqui Justiciero de Caborca,
an area where the black pick-up, Chevrolet, Silverado was.
When inspecting the vehicle, it was reported that the same car had a theft report as of December 2, 2019.
In addition, within the vehicle were 10 firearms, of these,
seven rifle-type weapons known as AK-47, an AR-15, two .9mm caliber pistols and .45 caliber pistol.
Around 51 magazines and more than 1,200 cartridges for firearms of different sizes were also seized.
The coordinated operation confiscated the firearms, cartridges and magazines, as well as the stolen car
to make it available to the corresponding Public Ministry and carry out the legal procedures that may take place.
Meanwhile, the operation will continue permanently throughout the region, contributing to the security of Caborca and surrounding municipalities.
End
Friday, December 13, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 8-12-19
AZMEX UPDATE 8 DEC 2019
COMMENT: Tucson is run by the communist / democrat party.
They don't want to inconvenience the trade in drugs and illegals.
gracias
Border wall protest erupts in downtown Tucson
Posted: 9:26 AM, Dec 08, 2019 Updated: 9:28 AM, Dec 08, 2019
By: Luzdelia Caballero
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-central-southern-az/tucson/border-wall-protest-erupts-in-downtown-tucson
Hundreds gathered in downtown Tucson to protest the construction of the border wall.
Tucson, Ariz. -- Hundreds gathered in downtown Tucson to protest the construction of the border wall.
Protesters were very vocal about the issues the border wall brings; like the separation of families, the destruction of plant and wildlife,
and the division, they say, the wall brings to two countries.
Hon'mana Seukteoma, an activist and Youtuber from the Tohono O'odham nation was one of the speakers.
"No president can ever tell us who is illegal in our ancestral homelands," she said to the crowd.
Also present at the Protest, Congressman Raúl Grijalva.
"What this wall is causing, is the divisiveness that we see in this country.
What this wall is causing is environmental harm that we will not recover from, and what this wall is causing is the further militarization
and the loss of quality of life on the borderlands," said Congressman Grijalva.
Mayor Regina Romero also weighed in.
"I'm here to say no to Trump's border wall. That it is wrong. That it is a waste of money.
We should be investing in public education funding, we should be investing in infrastructure.
We should be investing in mobility and transit and so many things that we could be investing these billions of dollars in,"
Mayor Romero told KGUN9.
Mayor Romero also added the wall would destroy nearby plant and wildlife.
Border Patrol agent Joe Curran told KGUN9 plant and wildlife, neighboring the wall, would be a priority.
"Every salvageable cactus we're going to make every effort to relocate and relocate properly.
But there will be some that are deemed unsalvageable and need to be removed from the construction area," he said.
Border wall projects are currently underway within the Tucson sector, which encompasses Ajo, Douglas and Naco areas.
Agent Curran added agents patrol 80% of the border between Arizona and New Mexico,
and that both natural and man-made barriers help secure the border.
According to Curran more infrastructure, technology and manpower border patrol agents have,
the more it helps agents in the front line.
END
COMMENT: Tucson is run by the communist / democrat party.
They don't want to inconvenience the trade in drugs and illegals.
gracias
Border wall protest erupts in downtown Tucson
Posted: 9:26 AM, Dec 08, 2019 Updated: 9:28 AM, Dec 08, 2019
By: Luzdelia Caballero
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-central-southern-az/tucson/border-wall-protest-erupts-in-downtown-tucson
Hundreds gathered in downtown Tucson to protest the construction of the border wall.
Tucson, Ariz. -- Hundreds gathered in downtown Tucson to protest the construction of the border wall.
Protesters were very vocal about the issues the border wall brings; like the separation of families, the destruction of plant and wildlife,
and the division, they say, the wall brings to two countries.
Hon'mana Seukteoma, an activist and Youtuber from the Tohono O'odham nation was one of the speakers.
"No president can ever tell us who is illegal in our ancestral homelands," she said to the crowd.
Also present at the Protest, Congressman Raúl Grijalva.
"What this wall is causing, is the divisiveness that we see in this country.
What this wall is causing is environmental harm that we will not recover from, and what this wall is causing is the further militarization
and the loss of quality of life on the borderlands," said Congressman Grijalva.
Mayor Regina Romero also weighed in.
"I'm here to say no to Trump's border wall. That it is wrong. That it is a waste of money.
We should be investing in public education funding, we should be investing in infrastructure.
We should be investing in mobility and transit and so many things that we could be investing these billions of dollars in,"
Mayor Romero told KGUN9.
Mayor Romero also added the wall would destroy nearby plant and wildlife.
Border Patrol agent Joe Curran told KGUN9 plant and wildlife, neighboring the wall, would be a priority.
"Every salvageable cactus we're going to make every effort to relocate and relocate properly.
But there will be some that are deemed unsalvageable and need to be removed from the construction area," he said.
Border wall projects are currently underway within the Tucson sector, which encompasses Ajo, Douglas and Naco areas.
Agent Curran added agents patrol 80% of the border between Arizona and New Mexico,
and that both natural and man-made barriers help secure the border.
According to Curran more infrastructure, technology and manpower border patrol agents have,
the more it helps agents in the front line.
END
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE-2 11-12-19
AZMEX UPDATE-2 11 DEC 2019
Comment: not to forget the communist/democrat party wants open borders so as not in interfere with their comrades in the cartels drug and human trade.
Judge David Briones A Clinton appointee, the judge in question no doubt a democrat.
https://kvia.com/your-voice-your-vote/politics/2019/12/10/federal-judge-blocks-use-of-billions-of-dollars-in-pentagon-funds-to-build-border-wall/
Thx
Federal Judge In Texas Blocks Trump Admin. From Diverting DOD Funds To Border Wall Construction
FILE – In this Sept. 10, 2019, file photo, government contractors remove existing Normandy barriers that separate Mexico and the United States,
in preparation for a section of Pentagon-funded border wall along the Colorado River in Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York,File)
https://www.oann.com/federal-judge-in-texas-blocks-trump-admin-from-diverting-dod-funds-to-border-wall-construction/
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 11:31 AM PT — Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The bitter battle over border security is raging on. Local governments and activists groups prevailed Tuesday
when a federal judge in Texas ruled against the Trump administration's plans to divert some $3.6 billion earmarked for military construction projects
to help continue the construction of the southern border wall.
The ruling, however, does not affect the administration's use of counter-drug funds or treasury forfeiture funds for border wall construction.
The plaintiffs in the case, El Paso County and Border Network for Human Rights, sued the administration back in October.
They claimed the president overstepped his authority by issuing a national emergency declaration,
which they say was a blatant attempt to grab power from Congress to secure additional funds for the border wall.
The White House is likely to appeal the ruling. This comes as the administration is facing other challenges in Texas,
including the acquisition of private lands to build new sections of the border wall.
Another legal challenge out of Arizona was brought forth by Pima County
and an activist group over concerns of the environmental impact of building the border wall through protected reserve lands.
Despite this, the Department of Homeland Security said it still intends to complete 500 miles of border wall construction by the end of 2020.
End
Comment: not to forget the communist/democrat party wants open borders so as not in interfere with their comrades in the cartels drug and human trade.
Judge David Briones A Clinton appointee, the judge in question no doubt a democrat.
https://kvia.com/your-voice-your-vote/politics/2019/12/10/federal-judge-blocks-use-of-billions-of-dollars-in-pentagon-funds-to-build-border-wall/
Thx
Federal Judge In Texas Blocks Trump Admin. From Diverting DOD Funds To Border Wall Construction
FILE – In this Sept. 10, 2019, file photo, government contractors remove existing Normandy barriers that separate Mexico and the United States,
in preparation for a section of Pentagon-funded border wall along the Colorado River in Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York,File)
https://www.oann.com/federal-judge-in-texas-blocks-trump-admin-from-diverting-dod-funds-to-border-wall-construction/
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 11:31 AM PT — Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The bitter battle over border security is raging on. Local governments and activists groups prevailed Tuesday
when a federal judge in Texas ruled against the Trump administration's plans to divert some $3.6 billion earmarked for military construction projects
to help continue the construction of the southern border wall.
The ruling, however, does not affect the administration's use of counter-drug funds or treasury forfeiture funds for border wall construction.
The plaintiffs in the case, El Paso County and Border Network for Human Rights, sued the administration back in October.
They claimed the president overstepped his authority by issuing a national emergency declaration,
which they say was a blatant attempt to grab power from Congress to secure additional funds for the border wall.
The White House is likely to appeal the ruling. This comes as the administration is facing other challenges in Texas,
including the acquisition of private lands to build new sections of the border wall.
Another legal challenge out of Arizona was brought forth by Pima County
and an activist group over concerns of the environmental impact of building the border wall through protected reserve lands.
Despite this, the Department of Homeland Security said it still intends to complete 500 miles of border wall construction by the end of 2020.
End
AZMEX EXTRA 8-12-19
Note: another one blocked by the comrades at cox cable.
thx
AZMEX EXTRA 8 DEC 2019
Comment: "That is the only way to fight them off, to prevent them from returning to our towns and ruling them, is with bullets."
Northern Mexico fears return to dark past after gunfights
Posted: 9:49 AM, Dec 08, 2019 Updated: 9:49 AM, Dec 08, 2019
By: AP
https://www.kgun9.com/border-watch/northern-mexico-fears-return-to-dark-past-after-gunfights
Photo by: (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A shop's windows are riddled with bullet holes near City Hall after a gunbattle in Villa Union, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019.
The small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday even as fear persisted after 22 people were killed in a weekend gunbattle
between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
VILLA UNION, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's president says he wants to fight drug cartels with "hugs, not bullets,"
but after 23 people were killed in a weekend gunbattle in the border state of Coahuila,
some communities want a more forceful strategy to prevent cartel assailants from reimposing a reign of terror.
Residents of the small town of Villa Union said Tuesday that they fear a return to the days of 2010-2013,
when the old Zetas cartel killed, burned and abducted Coahuila citizens.
This past weekend, the Cartel del Noreste — an offshoot of the Zetas — invaded Villa Union to try to reassert a claim to the turf.
Villa Union is 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the town of Allende, the site of a 2011 massacre in which the Zetas killed at least 70 people.
Residents said they have learned from experience that the Zetas must be fought.
"You can't give a drug trafficker a hug and not expect to receive a bullet in return," said a former policeman in Allende
who would not give his name for fear of reprisals.
"That is the only way to fight them off, to prevent them from returning to our towns and ruling them, is with bullets."
The ex-policeman and his family had to flee Allende for a while in 2011 in the face of Zeta threats. He doesn't want to have to flee again.
Many others expressed similar fears.
Sandra Zedillo, a municipal employee in Villa Union, said "it doesn't look good. We are afraid they will return."
The atmosphere of dread was underscored by the funeral procession held Tuesday for a local firefighter who was abducted and killed by the gang.
"This hurts," a rancher said. "The firefighter paid for something that he didn't have any part in."
Another resident who asked that his name not be used, said old fears were stirred up by the weekend invasion
in which dozens of Cartel de Noreste pickup trucks shot up the town hall, killed two municipal workers
and four state police officers, before battling soldiers and police and fleeing.
Some of the suspected gunmen were later arrested and described the incursion as a hit-and-run operation
aimed at staking a claim to the territory for use as a drug-trafficking route to the U.S. border.
But many thought the gang wanted to rule the border area, not just use its routes.
"This is going to get worse," said the man, who lived through the previous round of violence.
"This is what happened with the Zetas. They said they wouldn't stay, but they stayed."
For his part, Coahuila Gov. Miguel Riquelme is planning to fight the cartel's move into the state.
The Cartel del Noreste, like the Zetas, is based in the border city of Nuevo Laredo,
across from Laredo, Texas, to the east. Nuevo Laredo is in Tamaulipas state.
"This isn't a question of issuing a challenge to the criminal groups," Riquelme said following a meeting with army officers in Villa Union.
"It is about protecting the civilian population."
Riquelme announced plans to set up at least three military posts with about 40 soldiers apiece and said more would be added if necessary.
He said with apparent satisfaction that some of the 10 suspects detained in the weekend attack
— several of whom are adolescents — said they had been forced into participating,
and said they feared the Coahuila state police.
While President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to avoid confrontations with drug cartels, they appear unavoidable.
And although the president claims the policy of detaining drug lords and the 2006-2012 government offensive against the cartels were failures,
those initiatives weakened the Zetas and reduced violence in some parts of the border states
of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
Now locals fear the cartels may be resurgent. Some long for the days when Mexican marines successfully patrolled the area
until Lopez Obrador reassigned them to other duties.
They were known for not getting corrupted by the cartels and not yielding in battle with them.
"The marines are the only ones I trust," said one local mechanic. "The rest are going to take a bribe."
Villa Union bears the scars of the hourslong gunbattles Saturday and Sunday.
The fight that unfolded between a cartel force estimated at 100 to 150 men and state police left 23 people dead.
At least 50 homes and buildings were riddled with bullet holes.
In the aftermath, authorities found about 20 abandoned vehicles, some with machine-gun turrets and welded armoring.
The doors of many were professionally printed with the initials of a drug cartel.
At least four had .50-caliber mounted machine guns.
( note: and where did they get those .50's ? )
End
Comment: "That is the only way to fight them off, to prevent them from returning to our towns and ruling them, is with bullets."
Northern Mexico fears return to dark past after gunfights
Posted: 9:49 AM, Dec 08, 2019 Updated: 9:49 AM, Dec 08, 2019
By: AP
https://www.kgun9.com/border-watch/northern-mexico-fears-return-to-dark-past-after-gunfights
Photo by: (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A shop's windows are riddled with bullet holes near City Hall after a gunbattle in Villa Union, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019.
The small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday even as fear persisted after 22 people were killed in a weekend gunbattle
between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
VILLA UNION, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's president says he wants to fight drug cartels with "hugs, not bullets,"
but after 23 people were killed in a weekend gunbattle in the border state of Coahuila,
some communities want a more forceful strategy to prevent cartel assailants from reimposing a reign of terror.
Residents of the small town of Villa Union said Tuesday that they fear a return to the days of 2010-2013,
when the old Zetas cartel killed, burned and abducted Coahuila citizens.
This past weekend, the Cartel del Noreste — an offshoot of the Zetas — invaded Villa Union to try to reassert a claim to the turf.
Villa Union is 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the town of Allende, the site of a 2011 massacre in which the Zetas killed at least 70 people.
Residents said they have learned from experience that the Zetas must be fought.
"You can't give a drug trafficker a hug and not expect to receive a bullet in return," said a former policeman in Allende
who would not give his name for fear of reprisals.
"That is the only way to fight them off, to prevent them from returning to our towns and ruling them, is with bullets."
The ex-policeman and his family had to flee Allende for a while in 2011 in the face of Zeta threats. He doesn't want to have to flee again.
Many others expressed similar fears.
Sandra Zedillo, a municipal employee in Villa Union, said "it doesn't look good. We are afraid they will return."
The atmosphere of dread was underscored by the funeral procession held Tuesday for a local firefighter who was abducted and killed by the gang.
"This hurts," a rancher said. "The firefighter paid for something that he didn't have any part in."
Another resident who asked that his name not be used, said old fears were stirred up by the weekend invasion
in which dozens of Cartel de Noreste pickup trucks shot up the town hall, killed two municipal workers
and four state police officers, before battling soldiers and police and fleeing.
Some of the suspected gunmen were later arrested and described the incursion as a hit-and-run operation
aimed at staking a claim to the territory for use as a drug-trafficking route to the U.S. border.
But many thought the gang wanted to rule the border area, not just use its routes.
"This is going to get worse," said the man, who lived through the previous round of violence.
"This is what happened with the Zetas. They said they wouldn't stay, but they stayed."
For his part, Coahuila Gov. Miguel Riquelme is planning to fight the cartel's move into the state.
The Cartel del Noreste, like the Zetas, is based in the border city of Nuevo Laredo,
across from Laredo, Texas, to the east. Nuevo Laredo is in Tamaulipas state.
"This isn't a question of issuing a challenge to the criminal groups," Riquelme said following a meeting with army officers in Villa Union.
"It is about protecting the civilian population."
Riquelme announced plans to set up at least three military posts with about 40 soldiers apiece and said more would be added if necessary.
He said with apparent satisfaction that some of the 10 suspects detained in the weekend attack
— several of whom are adolescents — said they had been forced into participating,
and said they feared the Coahuila state police.
While President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to avoid confrontations with drug cartels, they appear unavoidable.
And although the president claims the policy of detaining drug lords and the 2006-2012 government offensive against the cartels were failures,
those initiatives weakened the Zetas and reduced violence in some parts of the border states
of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
Now locals fear the cartels may be resurgent. Some long for the days when Mexican marines successfully patrolled the area
until Lopez Obrador reassigned them to other duties.
They were known for not getting corrupted by the cartels and not yielding in battle with them.
"The marines are the only ones I trust," said one local mechanic. "The rest are going to take a bribe."
Villa Union bears the scars of the hourslong gunbattles Saturday and Sunday.
The fight that unfolded between a cartel force estimated at 100 to 150 men and state police left 23 people dead.
At least 50 homes and buildings were riddled with bullet holes.
In the aftermath, authorities found about 20 abandoned vehicles, some with machine-gun turrets and welded armoring.
The doors of many were professionally printed with the initials of a drug cartel.
At least four had .50-caliber mounted machine guns.
( note: and where did they get those .50's ? )
End
AZMEX EXTRA 8-12-19
AZMEX EXTRA 8 DEC 2019
Comment: "That is the only way to fight them off, to prevent them from returning to our towns and ruling them, is with bullets."
Northern Mexico fears return to dark past after gunfights
Posted: 9:49 AM, Dec 08, 2019 Updated: 9:49 AM, Dec 08, 2019
By: AP
https://www.kgun9.com/border-watch/northern-mexico-fears-return-to-dark-past-after-gunfights
Photo by: (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A shop's windows are riddled with bullet holes near City Hall after a gunbattle in Villa Union, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019.
The small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday even as fear persisted after 22 people were killed in a weekend gunbattle
between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
VILLA UNION, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's president says he wants to fight drug cartels with "hugs, not bullets,"
but after 23 people were killed in a weekend gunbattle in the border state of Coahuila,
some communities want a more forceful strategy to prevent cartel assailants from reimposing a reign of terror.
Residents of the small town of Villa Union said Tuesday that they fear a return to the days of 2010-2013,
when the old Zetas cartel killed, burned and abducted Coahuila citizens.
This past weekend, the Cartel del Noreste — an offshoot of the Zetas — invaded Villa Union to try to reassert a claim to the turf.
Villa Union is 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the town of Allende, the site of a 2011 massacre in which the Zetas killed at least 70 people.
Residents said they have learned from experience that the Zetas must be fought.
"You can't give a drug trafficker a hug and not expect to receive a bullet in return," said a former policeman in Allende
who would not give his name for fear of reprisals.
"That is the only way to fight them off, to prevent them from returning to our towns and ruling them, is with bullets."
The ex-policeman and his family had to flee Allende for a while in 2011 in the face of Zeta threats. He doesn't want to have to flee again.
Many others expressed similar fears.
Sandra Zedillo, a municipal employee in Villa Union, said "it doesn't look good. We are afraid they will return."
The atmosphere of dread was underscored by the funeral procession held Tuesday for a local firefighter who was abducted and killed by the gang.
"This hurts," a rancher said. "The firefighter paid for something that he didn't have any part in."
Another resident who asked that his name not be used, said old fears were stirred up by the weekend invasion
in which dozens of Cartel de Noreste pickup trucks shot up the town hall, killed two municipal workers
and four state police officers, before battling soldiers and police and fleeing.
Some of the suspected gunmen were later arrested and described the incursion as a hit-and-run operation
aimed at staking a claim to the territory for use as a drug-trafficking route to the U.S. border.
But many thought the gang wanted to rule the border area, not just use its routes.
"This is going to get worse," said the man, who lived through the previous round of violence.
"This is what happened with the Zetas. They said they wouldn't stay, but they stayed."
For his part, Coahuila Gov. Miguel Riquelme is planning to fight the cartel's move into the state.
The Cartel del Noreste, like the Zetas, is based in the border city of Nuevo Laredo,
across from Laredo, Texas, to the east. Nuevo Laredo is in Tamaulipas state.
"This isn't a question of issuing a challenge to the criminal groups," Riquelme said following a meeting with army officers in Villa Union.
"It is about protecting the civilian population."
Riquelme announced plans to set up at least three military posts with about 40 soldiers apiece and said more would be added if necessary.
He said with apparent satisfaction that some of the 10 suspects detained in the weekend attack
— several of whom are adolescents — said they had been forced into participating,
and said they feared the Coahuila state police.
While President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to avoid confrontations with drug cartels, they appear unavoidable.
And although the president claims the policy of detaining drug lords and the 2006-2012 government offensive against the cartels were failures,
those initiatives weakened the Zetas and reduced violence in some parts of the border states
of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
Now locals fear the cartels may be resurgent. Some long for the days when Mexican marines successfully patrolled the area
until Lopez Obrador reassigned them to other duties.
They were known for not getting corrupted by the cartels and not yielding in battle with them.
"The marines are the only ones I trust," said one local mechanic. "The rest are going to take a bribe."
Villa Union bears the scars of the hourslong gunbattles Saturday and Sunday.
The fight that unfolded between a cartel force estimated at 100 to 150 men and state police left 23 people dead.
At least 50 homes and buildings were riddled with bullet holes.
In the aftermath, authorities found about 20 abandoned vehicles, some with machine-gun turrets and welded armoring.
The doors of many were professionally printed with the initials of a drug cartel.
At least four had .50-caliber mounted machine guns.
( note: and where did they get those .50's ? )
End
Comment: "That is the only way to fight them off, to prevent them from returning to our towns and ruling them, is with bullets."
Northern Mexico fears return to dark past after gunfights
Posted: 9:49 AM, Dec 08, 2019 Updated: 9:49 AM, Dec 08, 2019
By: AP
https://www.kgun9.com/border-watch/northern-mexico-fears-return-to-dark-past-after-gunfights
Photo by: (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A shop's windows are riddled with bullet holes near City Hall after a gunbattle in Villa Union, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019.
The small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday even as fear persisted after 22 people were killed in a weekend gunbattle
between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
VILLA UNION, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's president says he wants to fight drug cartels with "hugs, not bullets,"
but after 23 people were killed in a weekend gunbattle in the border state of Coahuila,
some communities want a more forceful strategy to prevent cartel assailants from reimposing a reign of terror.
Residents of the small town of Villa Union said Tuesday that they fear a return to the days of 2010-2013,
when the old Zetas cartel killed, burned and abducted Coahuila citizens.
This past weekend, the Cartel del Noreste — an offshoot of the Zetas — invaded Villa Union to try to reassert a claim to the turf.
Villa Union is 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the town of Allende, the site of a 2011 massacre in which the Zetas killed at least 70 people.
Residents said they have learned from experience that the Zetas must be fought.
"You can't give a drug trafficker a hug and not expect to receive a bullet in return," said a former policeman in Allende
who would not give his name for fear of reprisals.
"That is the only way to fight them off, to prevent them from returning to our towns and ruling them, is with bullets."
The ex-policeman and his family had to flee Allende for a while in 2011 in the face of Zeta threats. He doesn't want to have to flee again.
Many others expressed similar fears.
Sandra Zedillo, a municipal employee in Villa Union, said "it doesn't look good. We are afraid they will return."
The atmosphere of dread was underscored by the funeral procession held Tuesday for a local firefighter who was abducted and killed by the gang.
"This hurts," a rancher said. "The firefighter paid for something that he didn't have any part in."
Another resident who asked that his name not be used, said old fears were stirred up by the weekend invasion
in which dozens of Cartel de Noreste pickup trucks shot up the town hall, killed two municipal workers
and four state police officers, before battling soldiers and police and fleeing.
Some of the suspected gunmen were later arrested and described the incursion as a hit-and-run operation
aimed at staking a claim to the territory for use as a drug-trafficking route to the U.S. border.
But many thought the gang wanted to rule the border area, not just use its routes.
"This is going to get worse," said the man, who lived through the previous round of violence.
"This is what happened with the Zetas. They said they wouldn't stay, but they stayed."
For his part, Coahuila Gov. Miguel Riquelme is planning to fight the cartel's move into the state.
The Cartel del Noreste, like the Zetas, is based in the border city of Nuevo Laredo,
across from Laredo, Texas, to the east. Nuevo Laredo is in Tamaulipas state.
"This isn't a question of issuing a challenge to the criminal groups," Riquelme said following a meeting with army officers in Villa Union.
"It is about protecting the civilian population."
Riquelme announced plans to set up at least three military posts with about 40 soldiers apiece and said more would be added if necessary.
He said with apparent satisfaction that some of the 10 suspects detained in the weekend attack
— several of whom are adolescents — said they had been forced into participating,
and said they feared the Coahuila state police.
While President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to avoid confrontations with drug cartels, they appear unavoidable.
And although the president claims the policy of detaining drug lords and the 2006-2012 government offensive against the cartels were failures,
those initiatives weakened the Zetas and reduced violence in some parts of the border states
of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
Now locals fear the cartels may be resurgent. Some long for the days when Mexican marines successfully patrolled the area
until Lopez Obrador reassigned them to other duties.
They were known for not getting corrupted by the cartels and not yielding in battle with them.
"The marines are the only ones I trust," said one local mechanic. "The rest are going to take a bribe."
Villa Union bears the scars of the hourslong gunbattles Saturday and Sunday.
The fight that unfolded between a cartel force estimated at 100 to 150 men and state police left 23 people dead.
At least 50 homes and buildings were riddled with bullet holes.
In the aftermath, authorities found about 20 abandoned vehicles, some with machine-gun turrets and welded armoring.
The doors of many were professionally printed with the initials of a drug cartel.
At least four had .50-caliber mounted machine guns.
( note: and where did they get those .50's ? )
End
AZMEX UPDATE 11-12-19
AZMEX UPDATE 11 DEC 2019
MUG SHOT AT LINK:
New Mexico murder suspect was trying to collect $30G debt for cartel: police
By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-mexico-murder-suspect-prove-cartel
A New Mexico man was arrested for murder Monday after he reportedly told law enforcement
that he was trying to prove himself to a Mexican drug cartel.
Anthony Breeding, 35, was arrested and charged with murder in the first degree for the Dec. 5 slaying
of Jose Angel Rivera, 35, outside his Hobbs residence, the Lea County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Deputies were dispatched to Rivera's home at around 1 a.m. over reports of an unconscious male.
Once on the scene, they discovered a deceased male who was later identified as Rivera.
Police found a gun on the scene but investigators soon determined that it was not the one that had been used to kill the victim.
Anthony Breeding, 35, was charged with murder, receiving a stolen firearm, felon in possession of a firearm
and attempt to commit aggravated burglary.
He is being held in the Lea County Detention Center on no bond. (Lea County Sheriff's Office)
MEXICAN CARTELS SUBJECT TO TERRORIST-LEVEL SANCTIONS UNDER NEW GOP-SPONSORED BILL
The following day, on Dec. 6, police received an anonymous tip leading them to Breeding.
Deputies found the firearm in a chicken coup in a residence, which led to authorities detaining Breeding.
He told police that he and two other men were attempting to collect a $30,000 debt from Rivera
when a confrontation between the four broke out.
As the three suspects were leaving the property, an armed Rivera slowly backed into a carport.
That's when Breeding says he fired three to four rounds in Rivera's direction before their car took off.
Lea County Sheriff Corey Helton told the Associated Press Breeding was working for a Mexican drug cartel.
He reportedly claimed that he wanted to prove himself to the cartel.
He was charged with murder, receiving a stolen firearm, felon in possession of a firearm and attempt to commit aggravated burglary.
He is being held in the Lea County Detention Center on no bond.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
END
MUG SHOT AT LINK:
New Mexico murder suspect was trying to collect $30G debt for cartel: police
By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-mexico-murder-suspect-prove-cartel
A New Mexico man was arrested for murder Monday after he reportedly told law enforcement
that he was trying to prove himself to a Mexican drug cartel.
Anthony Breeding, 35, was arrested and charged with murder in the first degree for the Dec. 5 slaying
of Jose Angel Rivera, 35, outside his Hobbs residence, the Lea County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Deputies were dispatched to Rivera's home at around 1 a.m. over reports of an unconscious male.
Once on the scene, they discovered a deceased male who was later identified as Rivera.
Police found a gun on the scene but investigators soon determined that it was not the one that had been used to kill the victim.
Anthony Breeding, 35, was charged with murder, receiving a stolen firearm, felon in possession of a firearm
and attempt to commit aggravated burglary.
He is being held in the Lea County Detention Center on no bond. (Lea County Sheriff's Office)
MEXICAN CARTELS SUBJECT TO TERRORIST-LEVEL SANCTIONS UNDER NEW GOP-SPONSORED BILL
The following day, on Dec. 6, police received an anonymous tip leading them to Breeding.
Deputies found the firearm in a chicken coup in a residence, which led to authorities detaining Breeding.
He told police that he and two other men were attempting to collect a $30,000 debt from Rivera
when a confrontation between the four broke out.
As the three suspects were leaving the property, an armed Rivera slowly backed into a carport.
That's when Breeding says he fired three to four rounds in Rivera's direction before their car took off.
Lea County Sheriff Corey Helton told the Associated Press Breeding was working for a Mexican drug cartel.
He reportedly claimed that he wanted to prove himself to the cartel.
He was charged with murder, receiving a stolen firearm, felon in possession of a firearm and attempt to commit aggravated burglary.
He is being held in the Lea County Detention Center on no bond.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
END
Friday, December 6, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 6-12-19
AZMEX UPDATE 6 DEC 2019
MUG SHOT AT LINK;
Police say Mesa man with cartel connection shot, killed desert spotter he worked with
azfamily.com News Staff
Posted 18 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/police-say-mesa-man-with-cartel-connection-shot-killed-desert/article_f4579332-17e0-11ea-909e-6b34c37ec9b5.html
Daniel Villalobos-Espinoza
Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
Excerpt from Daniel Villalobos-Espinoza's court documents
Click image to enlarge
Source: Daniel Villalobos-Espinoza's court documents
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – Police say a Mesa man who claimed he used to be a desert spotter for a drug cartel
shot and killed and a man with whom he worked because he believed the man was going to kill him.
Police arrested Daniel Villalobos-Espinoza on suspicion of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Carlos Osuna-Apodaca.
It happened at an apartment in the area of Broadway Road and Mesa Drive the night of Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019.
According to court documents, Villalobos-Espinoza's brother was there, as well, and told officers he was outside smoking when he heard two gunshots.
Police said the brother told them that "Daniel showed up unexpectedly."
Investigators said Villalobos-Espinoza, 24, denied being involved in the shooting until they told him what his brother had said.
He then admitted everything, according to police, including why he shot Osuna-Apodaca.
According to court documents, Villalobos-Espinoza said he stopped working for the cartel because he wasn't getting paid.
"At some point recently Osuna-Apodaca told the cartel people they worked for that he had found Daniel and was told to kill Daniel,"
according to the probable cause for arrest statement.
Villalobos-Espinoza reportedly said that he heard about the kill order "through third parties" and noticed that Osuna-Apodaca had become "distant."
[RELATED: Drug cartel scouts living in mountains south of Phoenix]
Police said Villalobos-Espinoza told them that on Saturday, he "was at home worrying about it
and decided to go and kill Osuna-Apodaca before [Carlos] killed Daniel."
Investigators said Villalobos-Espinoza described how he went to the home and walked in unannounced.
He said Osuna-Apodaca, who was unarmed, started to walk to his bedroom.
"Daniel said he thought he might be going to arm himself so he followed and shot Osuna-Apodaca in the head.
When he fell to the ground, Daniel said that he shot him again in the head just in case he was still alive."
Osuna-Apodaca was pronounced dead at the scene.
Detectives said Villalobos-Espinoza, who is in the U.S. illegally
and has "no valid form of ID,"
confessed to his brother and confirmed that the handgun police found in his home was the one he used to murder Osuna-Apodaca.
He was arrested on Tuesday, Dec. 4. No prior arrests or convictions are listed on Villalobos-Espinoza's public court documents.
END
MUG SHOT AT LINK;
Police say Mesa man with cartel connection shot, killed desert spotter he worked with
azfamily.com News Staff
Posted 18 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/police-say-mesa-man-with-cartel-connection-shot-killed-desert/article_f4579332-17e0-11ea-909e-6b34c37ec9b5.html
Daniel Villalobos-Espinoza
Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
Excerpt from Daniel Villalobos-Espinoza's court documents
Click image to enlarge
Source: Daniel Villalobos-Espinoza's court documents
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – Police say a Mesa man who claimed he used to be a desert spotter for a drug cartel
shot and killed and a man with whom he worked because he believed the man was going to kill him.
Police arrested Daniel Villalobos-Espinoza on suspicion of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Carlos Osuna-Apodaca.
It happened at an apartment in the area of Broadway Road and Mesa Drive the night of Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019.
According to court documents, Villalobos-Espinoza's brother was there, as well, and told officers he was outside smoking when he heard two gunshots.
Police said the brother told them that "Daniel showed up unexpectedly."
Investigators said Villalobos-Espinoza, 24, denied being involved in the shooting until they told him what his brother had said.
He then admitted everything, according to police, including why he shot Osuna-Apodaca.
According to court documents, Villalobos-Espinoza said he stopped working for the cartel because he wasn't getting paid.
"At some point recently Osuna-Apodaca told the cartel people they worked for that he had found Daniel and was told to kill Daniel,"
according to the probable cause for arrest statement.
Villalobos-Espinoza reportedly said that he heard about the kill order "through third parties" and noticed that Osuna-Apodaca had become "distant."
[RELATED: Drug cartel scouts living in mountains south of Phoenix]
Police said Villalobos-Espinoza told them that on Saturday, he "was at home worrying about it
and decided to go and kill Osuna-Apodaca before [Carlos] killed Daniel."
Investigators said Villalobos-Espinoza described how he went to the home and walked in unannounced.
He said Osuna-Apodaca, who was unarmed, started to walk to his bedroom.
"Daniel said he thought he might be going to arm himself so he followed and shot Osuna-Apodaca in the head.
When he fell to the ground, Daniel said that he shot him again in the head just in case he was still alive."
Osuna-Apodaca was pronounced dead at the scene.
Detectives said Villalobos-Espinoza, who is in the U.S. illegally
and has "no valid form of ID,"
confessed to his brother and confirmed that the handgun police found in his home was the one he used to murder Osuna-Apodaca.
He was arrested on Tuesday, Dec. 4. No prior arrests or convictions are listed on Villalobos-Espinoza's public court documents.
END
Thursday, December 5, 2019
AZMEX I3-2 4-12 -19
AZMEX I3-2 4 DEC 2019
More Insanity: Mayor Pete Buttigieg Nods in Agreement that Illegal Aliens from Mexico are Reclaiming Stolen Land
by Jim Hoft December 2, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/more-insanity-mayor-pete-buttigieg-nods-in-agreement-that-illegal-aliens-from-mexico-are-reclaiming-stolen-land/
317 Comments. ( At the link )
The insanity never ends.
Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sat with controversial Rev. William Barber
at the Greenleaf Christian Church in North Carolina on Sunday.
Buttigieg sat with Barber and nodded in agreement as the far left former NAACP official
told him illegal aliens from Mexico are rightfully reclaiming their land here in America.
Buttigieg says nothing and nods in agreement.
This is the modern day Democrat Party.
They hate this country and everything it stands for.

Donald Trump Jr.
✔
@DonaldJTrumpJr.
Buttigieg nods along in agreement with claim that illegal immigrants are reclaiming stolen land in America.
Don Jr. weighed in.
Donald Trump Jr.
✔
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Wow. The BS from the leftists never ends.
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END
More Insanity: Mayor Pete Buttigieg Nods in Agreement that Illegal Aliens from Mexico are Reclaiming Stolen Land
by Jim Hoft December 2, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/more-insanity-mayor-pete-buttigieg-nods-in-agreement-that-illegal-aliens-from-mexico-are-reclaiming-stolen-land/
317 Comments. ( At the link )
The insanity never ends.
Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sat with controversial Rev. William Barber
at the Greenleaf Christian Church in North Carolina on Sunday.
Buttigieg sat with Barber and nodded in agreement as the far left former NAACP official
told him illegal aliens from Mexico are rightfully reclaiming their land here in America.
Buttigieg says nothing and nods in agreement.
This is the modern day Democrat Party.
They hate this country and everything it stands for.

Donald Trump Jr.
✔
@DonaldJTrumpJr.
Buttigieg nods along in agreement with claim that illegal immigrants are reclaiming stolen land in America.
Don Jr. weighed in.
Donald Trump Jr.
✔
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Wow. The BS from the leftists never ends.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
AZMEX I3 4-12-19
AZMEX I3 4 DEC 2019
Asylum seekers jam US border crossings to evade Trump policy
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
DECEMBER 3, 2019 AT 8:30 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2863449/asylum-seekers-jam-us-border-crossings-to-evade-trump-policy/
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
PHOENIX (AP) — For months, asylum seekers have been prohibited from filing their claims at U.S. border crossings
under a much-criticized Trump administration policy.
Now some are sprinting down vehicle lanes or renting cars to try to make it inside the U.S.
The migrants' efforts are causing traffic delays at Arizona crossings because U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials
had to barricade lanes used by cars legally entering the U.S. from Mexico, officials said.
Advocates say many have become desperate after waiting for months to legally ask for asylum,
often in poor conditions and while facing threats of kidnapping, extortion and violence south of the border.
Shoppers, teachers and visitors traveling to the U.S. through Nogales, Mexico, endured up to five-hour waits Monday and over the weekend,
causing concerns among local officials whose tax base relies on Mexican shoppers, especially during the holiday season.
In a statement, Customs and Border Protection said it's committed to the safety of border crossers,
adding that there's been an increase of incursions through vehicle lanes "by asylum seekers attempting to evade established entry processes."
"These tactics interfere with CBP officers conducting their responsibilities and exacerbates wait times for daily commuters,"
the agency said in a statement. "CBP will not allow ports to be overrun, or unauthorized entry."
The traffic jams could hurt sales at stores in Nogales, Arizona that depend on Mexican shoppers during the holiday season, said Mayor Arturo Garino.
Garino, a part-time teacher, said some students and teachers who live in Mexico
but attend and work at schools across the border in the U.S. have been leaving their homes as early as 5 a.m. to arrive on time.
Garino said Mexican authorities were not doing enough to stem the problem.
The Arizona Daily Star reported the Nogales, Sonora, police officers were checking cars headed north to the border on Monday afternoon.
The metal barricades are large and are meant to seal off traffic lanes.
About 3,000 migrants are living in Nogales, Mexico as they wait their turns to seek asylum,
said Katie Sharar, communications director for the Kino Border Initiative,
a religious-based group that provides meals to needy migrants on the Mexican side of the border.
Under a policy by the Trump administration known widely as "metering," the asylum-seekers must wait in an unofficial line in Mexico
until U.S. authorities call them up in a process that usually lasts several months.
Another policy, colloquially known as "Remain in Mexico," requires asylum seekers to return to Mexico
after they have made credible fear claims to justify their asylum requests
and wait there while their immigration cases are pending.
"I think there's just a lot of desperation and uncertainty. They don't know what's happening to them,
they don't know how the policy changes are gonna affect them," Sharar said.
Sharar said she wasn't familiar with the migrants who have run through vehicle lanes.
Customs and Border Protection did not respond to email and phone messages regarding questions
about the migrants who rushed the border, what countries they come from
and whether they were detained or faced criminal charges.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, said his first concern is public safety
and that he is confident U.S. officials will resolve the border traffic problems.
___
Associated Press writer Bob Christie in Phoenix contributed to this report.
END
Asylum seekers jam US border crossings to evade Trump policy
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
DECEMBER 3, 2019 AT 8:30 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2863449/asylum-seekers-jam-us-border-crossings-to-evade-trump-policy/
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
PHOENIX (AP) — For months, asylum seekers have been prohibited from filing their claims at U.S. border crossings
under a much-criticized Trump administration policy.
Now some are sprinting down vehicle lanes or renting cars to try to make it inside the U.S.
The migrants' efforts are causing traffic delays at Arizona crossings because U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials
had to barricade lanes used by cars legally entering the U.S. from Mexico, officials said.
Advocates say many have become desperate after waiting for months to legally ask for asylum,
often in poor conditions and while facing threats of kidnapping, extortion and violence south of the border.
Shoppers, teachers and visitors traveling to the U.S. through Nogales, Mexico, endured up to five-hour waits Monday and over the weekend,
causing concerns among local officials whose tax base relies on Mexican shoppers, especially during the holiday season.
In a statement, Customs and Border Protection said it's committed to the safety of border crossers,
adding that there's been an increase of incursions through vehicle lanes "by asylum seekers attempting to evade established entry processes."
"These tactics interfere with CBP officers conducting their responsibilities and exacerbates wait times for daily commuters,"
the agency said in a statement. "CBP will not allow ports to be overrun, or unauthorized entry."
The traffic jams could hurt sales at stores in Nogales, Arizona that depend on Mexican shoppers during the holiday season, said Mayor Arturo Garino.
Garino, a part-time teacher, said some students and teachers who live in Mexico
but attend and work at schools across the border in the U.S. have been leaving their homes as early as 5 a.m. to arrive on time.
Garino said Mexican authorities were not doing enough to stem the problem.
The Arizona Daily Star reported the Nogales, Sonora, police officers were checking cars headed north to the border on Monday afternoon.
The metal barricades are large and are meant to seal off traffic lanes.
About 3,000 migrants are living in Nogales, Mexico as they wait their turns to seek asylum,
said Katie Sharar, communications director for the Kino Border Initiative,
a religious-based group that provides meals to needy migrants on the Mexican side of the border.
Under a policy by the Trump administration known widely as "metering," the asylum-seekers must wait in an unofficial line in Mexico
until U.S. authorities call them up in a process that usually lasts several months.
Another policy, colloquially known as "Remain in Mexico," requires asylum seekers to return to Mexico
after they have made credible fear claims to justify their asylum requests
and wait there while their immigration cases are pending.
"I think there's just a lot of desperation and uncertainty. They don't know what's happening to them,
they don't know how the policy changes are gonna affect them," Sharar said.
Sharar said she wasn't familiar with the migrants who have run through vehicle lanes.
Customs and Border Protection did not respond to email and phone messages regarding questions
about the migrants who rushed the border, what countries they come from
and whether they were detained or faced criminal charges.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, said his first concern is public safety
and that he is confident U.S. officials will resolve the border traffic problems.
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Associated Press writer Bob Christie in Phoenix contributed to this report.
END
Monday, December 2, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 1-12-19
AZMEX UPDATE 1 DEC 2019
https://ktar.com/story/2861451/at-least-14-dead-in-mexico-gunbattle-near-texas-border/
At least 14 dead in Mexico gunbattle near Texas border
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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
DECEMBER 1, 2019 AT 2:00 PM
The City Hall of Villa Union is riddled with bullet holes after a gun battle between Mexican security forces and suspected cartel gunmen, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. At least 14 people were killed, four of them police officers, after an armed group in a convoy of trucks stormed the town, in Coahuila state, prompting security forces to intervene, state Gov. Miguel Riquelme Solis said. (AP Photo/Gerardo Sanchez)\
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security forces fought an hour-long gun gunbattle Saturday with suspected cartel gunmen in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state about an hour's drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, leaving at least 14 people dead, officials said.
Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.
He said the armed group stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Ten alleged members of the Cartel of the Northeast were killed in the response.
Videos of the shootout posted on social media showed burned out vehicles and the facade of Villa Union's municipal office riddled with bullets. Rapid gunfire could be heard in videos along with frantic people telling loved ones to stay indoors. A damaged black pickup truck with the C.D.N. of the Cartel del Noreste, or Cartel of the Northeast, written in white on its door is seen on the street.
Security forces will remain in the town for several days to restore a sense of calm, the governor said.
"These groups won't be allowed to enter state territory," the government of Coahuila said in a statement.
Mexico's murder rate has increased to historically high levels, inching up by 2% in the first 10 months of the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Federal officials said recently that there have been 29,414 homicides so far in 2019, compared to 28,869 in the same period of 2018.
The November slaughter by Mexican drug cartel gunmen of three women who held U.S. citizenship and six of their children focused world attention on the rising violence.
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https://kvia.com/news/texas/2019/12/01/toll-at-least-21-after-mexico-cartel-attack-near-us-border/
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At least 14 dead in Mexico gunbattle near Texas border
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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
DECEMBER 1, 2019 AT 2:00 PM
The City Hall of Villa Union is riddled with bullet holes after a gun battle between Mexican security forces and suspected cartel gunmen, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. At least 14 people were killed, four of them police officers, after an armed group in a convoy of trucks stormed the town, in Coahuila state, prompting security forces to intervene, state Gov. Miguel Riquelme Solis said. (AP Photo/Gerardo Sanchez)\
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security forces fought an hour-long gun gunbattle Saturday with suspected cartel gunmen in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state about an hour's drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, leaving at least 14 people dead, officials said.
Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.
He said the armed group stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Ten alleged members of the Cartel of the Northeast were killed in the response.
Videos of the shootout posted on social media showed burned out vehicles and the facade of Villa Union's municipal office riddled with bullets. Rapid gunfire could be heard in videos along with frantic people telling loved ones to stay indoors. A damaged black pickup truck with the C.D.N. of the Cartel del Noreste, or Cartel of the Northeast, written in white on its door is seen on the street.
Security forces will remain in the town for several days to restore a sense of calm, the governor said.
"These groups won't be allowed to enter state territory," the government of Coahuila said in a statement.
Mexico's murder rate has increased to historically high levels, inching up by 2% in the first 10 months of the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Federal officials said recently that there have been 29,414 homicides so far in 2019, compared to 28,869 in the same period of 2018.
The November slaughter by Mexican drug cartel gunmen of three women who held U.S. citizenship and six of their children focused world attention on the rising violence.
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https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/at-least-14-dead-in-mexico-gunbattle-near-texas-border/
https://kvia.com/news/texas/2019/12/01/toll-at-least-21-after-mexico-cartel-attack-near-us-border/
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AZMEX EXTRA 30-11-19
AZMEX EXTRA 30 NOV 2019
Records: 32 gun-smuggling cases in Arizona in 2018
Posted: 11:38 AM, Nov 30, 2019 Updated: 11:38 AM, Nov 30, 2019
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/records-32-gun-smuggling-cases-in-arizona-in-2018
By: AP
Photo by: Scott Olson
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Federal court records document numerous cases in which people are charged in Arizona
with smuggling guns into Mexico, where such firearms often figure in drug cartel violence and other criminal activity.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that a review of federal court records in Arizona found 32 gun-smuggling cases in 2018
and that the records indicate that most didn't result from seizures at border crossings.
Instead, the Star reports, most investigations began either with agents scouring suspicious paperwork at gun stores
or following up on firearms being traced back to Arizona after being recovered in Mexico.
The 2018 cases included young people buying weapons for $100 payouts,
a man buying rifles from gun stores every few days for nearly a year,
and heroin addicts selling .50-caliber rifles to their dealers.
END
Records: 32 gun-smuggling cases in Arizona in 2018
Posted: 11:38 AM, Nov 30, 2019 Updated: 11:38 AM, Nov 30, 2019
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/records-32-gun-smuggling-cases-in-arizona-in-2018
By: AP
Photo by: Scott Olson
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Federal court records document numerous cases in which people are charged in Arizona
with smuggling guns into Mexico, where such firearms often figure in drug cartel violence and other criminal activity.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that a review of federal court records in Arizona found 32 gun-smuggling cases in 2018
and that the records indicate that most didn't result from seizures at border crossings.
Instead, the Star reports, most investigations began either with agents scouring suspicious paperwork at gun stores
or following up on firearms being traced back to Arizona after being recovered in Mexico.
The 2018 cases included young people buying weapons for $100 payouts,
a man buying rifles from gun stores every few days for nearly a year,
and heroin addicts selling .50-caliber rifles to their dealers.
END
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
AZMEX I3 26-11-19
AZMEX I3 26 NOV 2019
19-year-old arrested for smuggling 3 men into US
Anthony Victor Reyes 4:17 pm November 26, 2019
https://kvoa.com/news/local-news/2019/11/26/19-year-old-arrested-for-smuggling-3-men-into-us/
TUCSON – A teenager from Phoenix was arrested near Nogales Monday after she allegedly attempted to smuggle
three undocumented immigrants into the United States,
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a 19-year-old woman from Phoenix was pulled over by Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents
after the agents reportedly saw three men run into her vehicle on Interstate 19.
CBP said the three men reportedly fled the vehicle on foot shortly after the vehicle stop.
However, the three were all apprehended, according to CBP.
The men, who were later determined to be from Mexico, were said to be illegally present in the U.S.
They were 21, 30 and 31 years old, CBP says.
After further investigation, CBP determined that the Phoenix teen was incarcerated for 60 days for human smuggling charges.
Authorities say the conviction occurred about seven months before Monday's incident.
https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1199456892914782208
END
ALSO: https://kyma.com/news/state-regional-news/2019/11/26/phoenix-woman-19-arrested-for-human-smuggling-again/
END
19-year-old arrested for smuggling 3 men into US
Anthony Victor Reyes 4:17 pm November 26, 2019
https://kvoa.com/news/local-news/2019/11/26/19-year-old-arrested-for-smuggling-3-men-into-us/
TUCSON – A teenager from Phoenix was arrested near Nogales Monday after she allegedly attempted to smuggle
three undocumented immigrants into the United States,
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a 19-year-old woman from Phoenix was pulled over by Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents
after the agents reportedly saw three men run into her vehicle on Interstate 19.
CBP said the three men reportedly fled the vehicle on foot shortly after the vehicle stop.
However, the three were all apprehended, according to CBP.
The men, who were later determined to be from Mexico, were said to be illegally present in the U.S.
They were 21, 30 and 31 years old, CBP says.
After further investigation, CBP determined that the Phoenix teen was incarcerated for 60 days for human smuggling charges.
Authorities say the conviction occurred about seven months before Monday's incident.
https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1199456892914782208
END
ALSO: https://kyma.com/news/state-regional-news/2019/11/26/phoenix-woman-19-arrested-for-human-smuggling-again/
END
AZMEX UPDATE 26-11-19
AZMEX UPDATE 26 NOV 2019
Note: Some of us have "heard" of him. Photos, etc. at link:
Comment: BTW, It is still the " American" doper who financed him and the other cartels.
Time to lock up all those dopers?
Thx
A Mexican drug kingpin you've never heard of is infiltrating small-town America
By Julia Musto | Fox News
hhttps://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-americat
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-america
Small-town Mexican drug lord 'El Mencho' infiltrates small town America
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes's drug cartel empire is devastating small-town families across the country. Former DEA Agent Edward Follis explains.
Ruben "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," has flipped the world of drug trafficking on its head,
according to former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Edward Follis.
Appearing on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, Follis said the Mexican drug kingpin's distribution models and renewed tactics
are what makes him so deadly and his reach so extensive. They're also why small-town America is being devastated.
MEXICAN CARTELS POISONING US NATIONAL PARKS THROUGH HIDDEN POT GROWING OPERATIONS: REPORT
According to a nine-month investigation by Louisville Courier-Journal, El Mencho is infiltrating cities and towns across America
and has a presence in at least 35 states.
El Mencho leads one of the most violent drug cartels in the world, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG),
which has quickly grown into one of the world's largest criminal organizations over the past few years
— it's been accused of acts of terrorism, kidnappings, murders and even cannibalism.
Their reach extends to every continent except Antarctica and the group is more than 5,000 members strong, the Courier-Journal reported.
El Mencho's group is also flooding the U.S. with thousands of kilos of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl every year —
roughly one-third of the drugs entering the United States, fueling the nation's overdose crisis.
"[El Mencho] has bypassed and supplanted the traditional old-guard network of those large distribution models,"
said Follis, author of the book "The Dark Art: Undercover in the Global War Against Narco-Terrorism."
WANTED @DEAHOUSTONDiv: Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera-Cervantes for drug trafficking
Born #Guadalajara #Jalisco #Mexico 52 yo, blk hair/brn eyes, 5'7, 150#
Help us find him call 877-926-8332 email usms.wanted@usdoj.gov or contact DEA More:
"He's taken his minions, his operatives, from Jalisco New Generation Cartel
and dispatched them throughout the midwest, northeast, and southeast regions of America
where there is this appetite, there this addiction, there's suburban rural desire and market for the retail market," he told host Steve Doocy.
Follis explained that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was sentenced to life behind bars in July,
represented the "old model," which focused on the wholesale distribution of narcotics, whereas El Mencho is taking his product right to the streets.
He said that thousands of operatives have infiltrated rural American markets and "principally own them in a low-profile, nontraditional, approach."
MEXICO'S ANNUAL HOMICIDE COUNT ON PACE TO BE HIGHEST IN DECADES AS NEARLY 100 KILLED DAILY
WHERE DOES MEXICO REALLY GET ITS GUNS?
"They've turned everything upside down," he told Doocy.
Chris Evans, who runs the DEA's day-to-day global operations, told the Courier-Journal the drug empire is
"putting poison on the streets of the U.S." and that it's "important for all Americans to understand the threat to their community
and what might impact their everyday lives."
The price on El Mencho's head is $10 million and he is on the DEA's most wanted list.
The Courier-Journal contributed to this report.
End
Note: Some of us have "heard" of him. Photos, etc. at link:
Comment: BTW, It is still the " American" doper who financed him and the other cartels.
Time to lock up all those dopers?
Thx
A Mexican drug kingpin you've never heard of is infiltrating small-town America
By Julia Musto | Fox News
hhttps://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-americat
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-america
Small-town Mexican drug lord 'El Mencho' infiltrates small town America
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes's drug cartel empire is devastating small-town families across the country. Former DEA Agent Edward Follis explains.
Ruben "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," has flipped the world of drug trafficking on its head,
according to former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Edward Follis.
Appearing on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, Follis said the Mexican drug kingpin's distribution models and renewed tactics
are what makes him so deadly and his reach so extensive. They're also why small-town America is being devastated.
MEXICAN CARTELS POISONING US NATIONAL PARKS THROUGH HIDDEN POT GROWING OPERATIONS: REPORT
According to a nine-month investigation by Louisville Courier-Journal, El Mencho is infiltrating cities and towns across America
and has a presence in at least 35 states.
El Mencho leads one of the most violent drug cartels in the world, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG),
which has quickly grown into one of the world's largest criminal organizations over the past few years
— it's been accused of acts of terrorism, kidnappings, murders and even cannibalism.
Their reach extends to every continent except Antarctica and the group is more than 5,000 members strong, the Courier-Journal reported.
El Mencho's group is also flooding the U.S. with thousands of kilos of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl every year —
roughly one-third of the drugs entering the United States, fueling the nation's overdose crisis.
"[El Mencho] has bypassed and supplanted the traditional old-guard network of those large distribution models,"
said Follis, author of the book "The Dark Art: Undercover in the Global War Against Narco-Terrorism."
WANTED @DEAHOUSTONDiv: Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera-Cervantes for drug trafficking
Born #Guadalajara #Jalisco #Mexico 52 yo, blk hair/brn eyes, 5'7, 150#
Help us find him call 877-926-8332 email usms.wanted@usdoj.gov or contact DEA More:
"He's taken his minions, his operatives, from Jalisco New Generation Cartel
and dispatched them throughout the midwest, northeast, and southeast regions of America
where there is this appetite, there this addiction, there's suburban rural desire and market for the retail market," he told host Steve Doocy.
Follis explained that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was sentenced to life behind bars in July,
represented the "old model," which focused on the wholesale distribution of narcotics, whereas El Mencho is taking his product right to the streets.
He said that thousands of operatives have infiltrated rural American markets and "principally own them in a low-profile, nontraditional, approach."
MEXICO'S ANNUAL HOMICIDE COUNT ON PACE TO BE HIGHEST IN DECADES AS NEARLY 100 KILLED DAILY
WHERE DOES MEXICO REALLY GET ITS GUNS?
"They've turned everything upside down," he told Doocy.
Chris Evans, who runs the DEA's day-to-day global operations, told the Courier-Journal the drug empire is
"putting poison on the streets of the U.S." and that it's "important for all Americans to understand the threat to their community
and what might impact their everyday lives."
The price on El Mencho's head is $10 million and he is on the DEA's most wanted list.
The Courier-Journal contributed to this report.
End
Friday, November 22, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 22 -11- 19
AZMEX UPDATE 22 NOV 2019
Note: photos, etc. at link:
Arizona man arrested, multi-million-dollar home raided in HSI money laundering, drug investigation
Posted: 12:19 PM, Nov 22, 2019 Updated: 2:48 PM, Nov 22, 2019
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-man-arrested-multi-million-dollar-home-raided-in-hsi-money-laundering-drug-investigation
An Arizona man facing multiple drug, firearm and money laundering charges after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home
northwest of Tucson Thursday night.
TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona man is facing multiple drug, firearm and money laundering charges
after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home northwest of Tucson Thursday night.
Raul Garcia Cordova, 47, is facing more than a dozen charges including narcotic sales, drug possession, drug manufacturing,
money laundering and weapons violations in connection with the raid.
KGUN 9 was there when federal authorities executed a search warrant at the home near the intersection of Moore Road and Como Drive.
Agents with Homeland Security Investigations hauled away a slew of vehicles from the scene,
including pickup trucks, SUVs, a motorboat, a sports car and a trailer.
Oro Valley Police and Marana Police vehicles were also at the scene.
(credit: Pima County Sheriff's Department)
Raul Cordova, 47, is facing 13 charges after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home northwest of Tucson.
Real estate listings advertise a $2.4 million price tag for the home, and property records show
it was sold for $1.6 million in the past few years.
Cordova, who is a U.S. citizen, made his initial court appearance Thursday night.
His attorney told the judge his client does have two prior felonies on drug charges, though they date back about 15 years.
Arguing for a high bond, a prosecutor noted Cordova's prior felonies prohibit him from having any firearms
but multiple guns were found at the house.
The prosecutor also elaborated on what led to the latest charges: Multiple pounds of marijuana, manufacturing equipment related to drugs
and alleged evidence that Cordova was involved in shipping millions of vape pens that dispense THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
A decal on the trailer hauled away at the scene advertises "Sonora Dark Horn Adventures."
According to its website, the company offers guided hunts on 100,000 acres of land it controls Mexico,
specializing in bighorn sheep and deer.
Public records list Cordova as the company's owner.
Public records list Raul Cordova as the owner of Sonora Dark Horn Adventures.
This trailer was hauled away from the scene fo the raid Thursday.
The website for Sonora Dark Horn Adventures lists its address in Oro Valley Marketplace,
which it shares with the Mexican restaurant San Carlos Grill.
Cordova is being held on $250,000 bond.
END
Note: photos, etc. at link:
Arizona man arrested, multi-million-dollar home raided in HSI money laundering, drug investigation
Posted: 12:19 PM, Nov 22, 2019 Updated: 2:48 PM, Nov 22, 2019
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-man-arrested-multi-million-dollar-home-raided-in-hsi-money-laundering-drug-investigation
An Arizona man facing multiple drug, firearm and money laundering charges after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home
northwest of Tucson Thursday night.
TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona man is facing multiple drug, firearm and money laundering charges
after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home northwest of Tucson Thursday night.
Raul Garcia Cordova, 47, is facing more than a dozen charges including narcotic sales, drug possession, drug manufacturing,
money laundering and weapons violations in connection with the raid.
KGUN 9 was there when federal authorities executed a search warrant at the home near the intersection of Moore Road and Como Drive.
Agents with Homeland Security Investigations hauled away a slew of vehicles from the scene,
including pickup trucks, SUVs, a motorboat, a sports car and a trailer.
Oro Valley Police and Marana Police vehicles were also at the scene.
(credit: Pima County Sheriff's Department)
Raul Cordova, 47, is facing 13 charges after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home northwest of Tucson.
Real estate listings advertise a $2.4 million price tag for the home, and property records show
it was sold for $1.6 million in the past few years.
Cordova, who is a U.S. citizen, made his initial court appearance Thursday night.
His attorney told the judge his client does have two prior felonies on drug charges, though they date back about 15 years.
Arguing for a high bond, a prosecutor noted Cordova's prior felonies prohibit him from having any firearms
but multiple guns were found at the house.
The prosecutor also elaborated on what led to the latest charges: Multiple pounds of marijuana, manufacturing equipment related to drugs
and alleged evidence that Cordova was involved in shipping millions of vape pens that dispense THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
A decal on the trailer hauled away at the scene advertises "Sonora Dark Horn Adventures."
According to its website, the company offers guided hunts on 100,000 acres of land it controls Mexico,
specializing in bighorn sheep and deer.
Public records list Cordova as the company's owner.
Public records list Raul Cordova as the owner of Sonora Dark Horn Adventures.
This trailer was hauled away from the scene fo the raid Thursday.
The website for Sonora Dark Horn Adventures lists its address in Oro Valley Marketplace,
which it shares with the Mexican restaurant San Carlos Grill.
Cordova is being held on $250,000 bond.
END
Thursday, November 21, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 14-11-19
AZMEX POLICY 14 NOV 2019
Note: photos at link:
Comment: "Environmentalists" just another leftist op?
Sheriff calls for tougher border security to stop Mexico cartels poisoning US national parks
By Julia Musto | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sheriff-mark-lamb-border-environment-drug-fox-and-friends-first
Mexican cartels poisoning US national parks through hidden pot growing operations
Will a threat to the environment get Democrats to care about border security? Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb weighs in.
Democrats need to get on board with tougher border security measures to combat Mexican drug cartels
who are poisoning U.S. national parks, said Pinal County, Ariz. Sheriff Mark Lamb on "Fox & Friends First."
Lamb told host Heather Childers that drug and human traffickers coming over the U.S.-Mexico border have "total disregard for our country."
"It's not just those grow areas," said Lamb. "If you go all along the border, there's trash everywhere, abandoned stolen cars...clothes…
We've got cattle down there that are choking on tuna cans.
They just really do not care. It's all about getting their product here to America."
The "product," Lamb noted, is "human beings and drugs."
Mexican cartel members – who for years have carried out large-scale pot-growing operations in California national parks
– are poisoning water and wildlife through the use of pesticides banned by the Environmental Protection Agency,
according to a report published Tuesday.
Two Mexican nationals and suspected cartel members were arrested in September during a raid on an illegal marijuana operation
hidden beneath the thick tree canopies in California's Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Authorities found 8,656 growing marijuana plants and 232 pounds of processed marijuana, KQMS reported.
CBP CHIEF WARNS MEXICAN 'SUPER LABS' FLOODING US WITH METH, AS SEIZURES NEARLY DOUBLE
About 3,000 pounds of trash, including discarded clothing, propane tanks and spent cans of insecticide,
as well as three miles of plastic irrigation pipes and open bags of fertilizer, were also discovered at the site,
suggesting the operation had been in use for years, National Public Radio reported.
According to the Crop Project, 2,000 illegal grow areas contaminate national forests.
Lamb said that authorities are "going to need to do some massive rehabilitation" to areas where they find grow sites.
"I don't know where the environmentalists are," he told Childers.
"Every time I take somebody out into our desert, they wonder the same thing.
Where are the environmentalists?"
Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
End
Note: photos at link:
Comment: "Environmentalists" just another leftist op?
Sheriff calls for tougher border security to stop Mexico cartels poisoning US national parks
By Julia Musto | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sheriff-mark-lamb-border-environment-drug-fox-and-friends-first
Mexican cartels poisoning US national parks through hidden pot growing operations
Will a threat to the environment get Democrats to care about border security? Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb weighs in.
Democrats need to get on board with tougher border security measures to combat Mexican drug cartels
who are poisoning U.S. national parks, said Pinal County, Ariz. Sheriff Mark Lamb on "Fox & Friends First."
Lamb told host Heather Childers that drug and human traffickers coming over the U.S.-Mexico border have "total disregard for our country."
"It's not just those grow areas," said Lamb. "If you go all along the border, there's trash everywhere, abandoned stolen cars...clothes…
We've got cattle down there that are choking on tuna cans.
They just really do not care. It's all about getting their product here to America."
The "product," Lamb noted, is "human beings and drugs."
Mexican cartel members – who for years have carried out large-scale pot-growing operations in California national parks
– are poisoning water and wildlife through the use of pesticides banned by the Environmental Protection Agency,
according to a report published Tuesday.
Two Mexican nationals and suspected cartel members were arrested in September during a raid on an illegal marijuana operation
hidden beneath the thick tree canopies in California's Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Authorities found 8,656 growing marijuana plants and 232 pounds of processed marijuana, KQMS reported.
CBP CHIEF WARNS MEXICAN 'SUPER LABS' FLOODING US WITH METH, AS SEIZURES NEARLY DOUBLE
About 3,000 pounds of trash, including discarded clothing, propane tanks and spent cans of insecticide,
as well as three miles of plastic irrigation pipes and open bags of fertilizer, were also discovered at the site,
suggesting the operation had been in use for years, National Public Radio reported.
According to the Crop Project, 2,000 illegal grow areas contaminate national forests.
Lamb said that authorities are "going to need to do some massive rehabilitation" to areas where they find grow sites.
"I don't know where the environmentalists are," he told Childers.
"Every time I take somebody out into our desert, they wonder the same thing.
Where are the environmentalists?"
Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
End
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 19-11-19
AZMEX POLICY 19 NOV 2019.
Note: So illegals will ride for free. Citizens will pay the freight .
BTW, in Mexico, with its extensive public transportation network, people are expected to, and do pay the fare on public transportation.
From Cronkite "news" of course.
Thx
Protesters want Valley Metro to stop police sweeps for light rail fares
BY DEAGAN URBATSCH | CRONKITE NEWS
NOVEMBER 19, 2019 AT 4:15 AM
https://ktar.com/story/2846526/protesters-want-valley-metro-to-stop-police-sweeps-for-light-rail-fares/
Cronkite News
Phoenix Police light rail citation: Body camera video 2 (Nov. 13, 2019) | Cronkite News
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PHOENIX – Mitzi Castro hears the light rail train pass by her home every 15 minutes, a grim reminder, she said, of her experience on Wednesday,
when Phoenix police stopped her because she hadn't validated her $4 light rail ticket.
That confrontation, she said, could have led to her detention
and deportation to Mexico.
On Friday, the immigration advocacy group LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona) led a protest of about 30 people at the Valley Metro office downtown,
saying the transit system doesn't support the poor and people of color – who make up the bulk of its riders.
They demanded Valley Metro stop working with Phoenix police on fare payment crackdowns.
The organization also launched an online portal to track complaints against authorities.
Castro, who works for LUCHA, said she feels uncomfortable every time she hears the light rail.
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Castro said one officer told her, "We are the police, you're supposed to feel safe." Still, she said, the officers handcuffed her and threatened to arrest her.
She started crying as she recounted the story.
Castro said her family relies on her income from LUCHA, where she works with small business owners of color,
and she has an ill relative who would suffer if Castro were deported.
"My family would be forced into debt and my sick family member could die.
This is the reality that could have come to fruition, all over a $4 fare," Castro said.
Phoenix police, in a statement Friday, said they conducted a two-hour inspection of light rail fares on Wednesday.
The statement does not mention Castro by name but says police had a nine-minute encounter with "31-year-old woman (who)
was found to be in violation of the fare requirements" and was "escorted off the light rail."
The woman provided her name but not her date of birth, which police said was necessary for the citation.
She was handcuffed and detained but released after providing her birth date and receiving the citation.
Phoenix police said they contacted about 750 people during the fare inspection and found about 10% percent had "fare infractions."
Two had felony warrants and six had misdemeanor arrest warrants.
LUCHA officials say they established an online complaint system, where the public can upload footage of police interactions on light rail.
The point is to seek accountability for police actions, the organization said.
Gina Mendez, a community organizer, pointed to law-enforcement confrontations with riders on public transit elsewhere in the country.
"Within the past month, we've seen an increase in police, an increase of security guards,
we've seen an increase of people being criminalized for poverty," Mendez said.
"What happened at the BART station out in the Bay Area? You see what happened over there in New York?
We're dealing with police who arrest people for made-up reasons."
LUCHA leaders say it's time for Valley Metro to not work with police on fare payments.
Mendez described an incident several weeks ago across the street from LUCHA's office
where a mother was surrounded by four police cars, handcuffed and being frisked while her children looked on in tears.
Alejandra Gomez, LUCHA co-executive director, said members brought the woman's stroller with them Friday
and delivered it to Valley Metro's downtown office as a symbol.
"This stroller right here belongs to a mom who was criminalized and arrested right across the street from my office," Mendez said.
Maria Castro, the community organizer for the human rights group Puente Arizona, said she protested in solidarity with Mitzi Castro
and anyone who has been criminalized in Arizona's transportation system. She called the system flawed.
"If you are not a native English speaker, if you are not savvy with technology, you may have trouble understanding how to purchase a ticket," Castro said.
"This is a net to capture migrants, people who do not understand these systems.
The police put them in deportation systems and use this as an opportunity to ask for IDs."
Gomez expressed disappointment with Valley Metro for not talking with protesters.
"They didn't even have the decency to have a decision maker come and have a conversation with us, " Gomez said.
"The people who the light rail is intended for, people who can't afford a vehicle, people who are struggling to make ends meet –
Valley Metro is calling the police on its riders."
Valley Metro issued a statement before Friday's protest, saying it works with local police departments to enforce light-rail station rules.
Fare sweeps occur on occasion to encourage compliance.
"The crime suppression efforts on Nov. 13 were initiated by the Phoenix Police Department," the Valley Metro statement says.
Gomez said she will be taking the conversation directly to Mayor Kate Gallego.
End
Note: So illegals will ride for free. Citizens will pay the freight .
BTW, in Mexico, with its extensive public transportation network, people are expected to, and do pay the fare on public transportation.
From Cronkite "news" of course.
Thx
Protesters want Valley Metro to stop police sweeps for light rail fares
BY DEAGAN URBATSCH | CRONKITE NEWS
NOVEMBER 19, 2019 AT 4:15 AM
https://ktar.com/story/2846526/protesters-want-valley-metro-to-stop-police-sweeps-for-light-rail-fares/
Cronkite News
Phoenix Police light rail citation: Body camera video 2 (Nov. 13, 2019) | Cronkite News
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PHOENIX – Mitzi Castro hears the light rail train pass by her home every 15 minutes, a grim reminder, she said, of her experience on Wednesday,
when Phoenix police stopped her because she hadn't validated her $4 light rail ticket.
That confrontation, she said, could have led to her detention
and deportation to Mexico.
On Friday, the immigration advocacy group LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona) led a protest of about 30 people at the Valley Metro office downtown,
saying the transit system doesn't support the poor and people of color – who make up the bulk of its riders.
They demanded Valley Metro stop working with Phoenix police on fare payment crackdowns.
The organization also launched an online portal to track complaints against authorities.
Castro, who works for LUCHA, said she feels uncomfortable every time she hears the light rail.
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Castro said one officer told her, "We are the police, you're supposed to feel safe." Still, she said, the officers handcuffed her and threatened to arrest her.
She started crying as she recounted the story.
Castro said her family relies on her income from LUCHA, where she works with small business owners of color,
and she has an ill relative who would suffer if Castro were deported.
"My family would be forced into debt and my sick family member could die.
This is the reality that could have come to fruition, all over a $4 fare," Castro said.
Phoenix police, in a statement Friday, said they conducted a two-hour inspection of light rail fares on Wednesday.
The statement does not mention Castro by name but says police had a nine-minute encounter with "31-year-old woman (who)
was found to be in violation of the fare requirements" and was "escorted off the light rail."
The woman provided her name but not her date of birth, which police said was necessary for the citation.
She was handcuffed and detained but released after providing her birth date and receiving the citation.
Phoenix police said they contacted about 750 people during the fare inspection and found about 10% percent had "fare infractions."
Two had felony warrants and six had misdemeanor arrest warrants.
LUCHA officials say they established an online complaint system, where the public can upload footage of police interactions on light rail.
The point is to seek accountability for police actions, the organization said.
Gina Mendez, a community organizer, pointed to law-enforcement confrontations with riders on public transit elsewhere in the country.
"Within the past month, we've seen an increase in police, an increase of security guards,
we've seen an increase of people being criminalized for poverty," Mendez said.
"What happened at the BART station out in the Bay Area? You see what happened over there in New York?
We're dealing with police who arrest people for made-up reasons."
LUCHA leaders say it's time for Valley Metro to not work with police on fare payments.
Mendez described an incident several weeks ago across the street from LUCHA's office
where a mother was surrounded by four police cars, handcuffed and being frisked while her children looked on in tears.
Alejandra Gomez, LUCHA co-executive director, said members brought the woman's stroller with them Friday
and delivered it to Valley Metro's downtown office as a symbol.
"This stroller right here belongs to a mom who was criminalized and arrested right across the street from my office," Mendez said.
Maria Castro, the community organizer for the human rights group Puente Arizona, said she protested in solidarity with Mitzi Castro
and anyone who has been criminalized in Arizona's transportation system. She called the system flawed.
"If you are not a native English speaker, if you are not savvy with technology, you may have trouble understanding how to purchase a ticket," Castro said.
"This is a net to capture migrants, people who do not understand these systems.
The police put them in deportation systems and use this as an opportunity to ask for IDs."
Gomez expressed disappointment with Valley Metro for not talking with protesters.
"They didn't even have the decency to have a decision maker come and have a conversation with us, " Gomez said.
"The people who the light rail is intended for, people who can't afford a vehicle, people who are struggling to make ends meet –
Valley Metro is calling the police on its riders."
Valley Metro issued a statement before Friday's protest, saying it works with local police departments to enforce light-rail station rules.
Fare sweeps occur on occasion to encourage compliance.
"The crime suppression efforts on Nov. 13 were initiated by the Phoenix Police Department," the Valley Metro statement says.
Gomez said she will be taking the conversation directly to Mayor Kate Gallego.
End
Friday, November 15, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 15-11-19
AZMEX UPDATE 15 NOV 2019
USBP: Man suspected of illegally crossing Arizona border shot by agent
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/cbp-man-suspected-of-illegally-crossing-arizona-border-shot-by-agent
Published 1 hour ago
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says an agent shot and wounded a Russian man suspected of crossing the border illegally in Arizona.
The agency said Friday that the man was flown to a Phoenix hospital and is expected to survive.
The Border Patrol says the unidentified agent attempted to arrest the man Thursday just east of the border town Lukeville.
Authorities say a physical altercation followed and the agent shot the man. The agent was not seriously injured.
The Border Patrol has faced criticism over its use of force in the past,
but the number of shootings has fallen over the past few years.
Earlier this month, an agent shot and killed a gunman who opened fire near Sunland Park, New Mexico.
END
also: https://kvoa.com/news/local-news/2019/11/15/migrant-shot-by-bp-agent-following-physical-altercation-near-lukeville/
end
USBP: Man suspected of illegally crossing Arizona border shot by agent
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/cbp-man-suspected-of-illegally-crossing-arizona-border-shot-by-agent
Published 1 hour ago
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says an agent shot and wounded a Russian man suspected of crossing the border illegally in Arizona.
The agency said Friday that the man was flown to a Phoenix hospital and is expected to survive.
The Border Patrol says the unidentified agent attempted to arrest the man Thursday just east of the border town Lukeville.
Authorities say a physical altercation followed and the agent shot the man. The agent was not seriously injured.
The Border Patrol has faced criticism over its use of force in the past,
but the number of shootings has fallen over the past few years.
Earlier this month, an agent shot and killed a gunman who opened fire near Sunland Park, New Mexico.
END
also: https://kvoa.com/news/local-news/2019/11/15/migrant-shot-by-bp-agent-following-physical-altercation-near-lukeville/
end
AZMEX EXTRA 15-11-19
AZMEX EXTRA 15 NOV 2019
Note: photos at link:
CBP: Outbound inspections at Nogales ports net cash and guns
Nogales International Nov 13, 2019 Updated Nov 13, 2019
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/cbp-outbound-inspections-at-nogales-ports-net-cash-and-guns/article_6cf9b65e-0674-11ea-810e-5f58daa05438.html
A 28-year-old man was caught with this load of $142,000 in his Chevy SUV.
CBP photo
Port officers in Nogales arrested three people and seized nearly $163,000 in unreported currency and a pair of tactical weapons during three separate incidents this week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers were conducting outgoing operations at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday afternoon when they referred a 28-year-old Mexican man for additional inspection of the Chevy SUV he was trying to drive into Mexico.
A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of packages containing approximately $142,000 in unreported U.S. currency hidden within the left quarter panel.
On Tuesday afternoon, officers conducting outbound operations at the Mariposa port referred a 22-year-old Tucson woman for a further search of her Honda sedan. Officers also searched the driver, and found she had two bundles containing more than $20,000 in unreported U.S. currency inside her purse.
A driver headed for Mexico was busted with two AK-47 rifles and two empty 30-round magazines hidden beneath a floor mat.
CBP photo
That same day, officers at the Mariposa port referred a 27-year-old Mexican national living in Tucson for an additional search of his Chrysler sedan as he attempted to cross into Mexico. The search led to the discovery of two AK-47 rifles and two empty 30-round magazines beneath the driver's side floor mat.
Following their arrests, the three suspects were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, CBP said.
END
Note: photos at link:
CBP: Outbound inspections at Nogales ports net cash and guns
Nogales International Nov 13, 2019 Updated Nov 13, 2019
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/cbp-outbound-inspections-at-nogales-ports-net-cash-and-guns/article_6cf9b65e-0674-11ea-810e-5f58daa05438.html
A 28-year-old man was caught with this load of $142,000 in his Chevy SUV.
CBP photo
Port officers in Nogales arrested three people and seized nearly $163,000 in unreported currency and a pair of tactical weapons during three separate incidents this week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers were conducting outgoing operations at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday afternoon when they referred a 28-year-old Mexican man for additional inspection of the Chevy SUV he was trying to drive into Mexico.
A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of packages containing approximately $142,000 in unreported U.S. currency hidden within the left quarter panel.
On Tuesday afternoon, officers conducting outbound operations at the Mariposa port referred a 22-year-old Tucson woman for a further search of her Honda sedan. Officers also searched the driver, and found she had two bundles containing more than $20,000 in unreported U.S. currency inside her purse.
A driver headed for Mexico was busted with two AK-47 rifles and two empty 30-round magazines hidden beneath a floor mat.
CBP photo
That same day, officers at the Mariposa port referred a 27-year-old Mexican national living in Tucson for an additional search of his Chrysler sedan as he attempted to cross into Mexico. The search led to the discovery of two AK-47 rifles and two empty 30-round magazines beneath the driver's side floor mat.
Following their arrests, the three suspects were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, CBP said.
END
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL2 7-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL2 7 NOV 2019
Note: photos, etc. at link.
Funerals are prepared to fire the 9 victims of the LeBarón family
The 9 members of the family will be buried in the pantheon of the community of La Mora.
By El Universal
November 7
https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/Preparan-funerales-para-despedir-a-las-9-victimas-de-la-familia-LeBaron-20191107-0050.html
BAVISPE, Sonora.- A sad dawn is lived in the community of La Mora, municipality of Bavispe.
This Thursday, November 7, the funerals of the nine members of the LeBarón and Langford families,
killed in an armed attack on the border of Sonora and Chihuahua, begin.
Relatives of the victims anticipated that at 10:00 am this Thursday there will be a mass present for one of the women and their two children,
then they will be buried in the pantheon of that community.
Another funeral event will be held in the afternoon at a private home where another woman,
Rhonita María and her twins Titus and Tiana, 8 months old will be held.
His remains will be transferred to the LeBarón neighborhood in the municipality of Galeana, Chihuahua
where they will be buried tomorrow.
More on this topic
MEXICO
Culiacán and attack on LeBarón reaffirmed non-violence government position: AMLO
In the afternoon last night, dozens of vehicles with relatives of the victims who were ambushed in the Sonoran mountains arrived at this place.
La Linea, indicated by LeBarón case
La Línea, the criminal organization designated by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena)
as likely responsible for the murder of nine members of the LeBarón colony, was, until the beginning of 2017,
considered an armed arm of the Juarez Cartel, until a betrayal Within the group, he imposed himself
and began his transformation to the New Juarez Cartel (NCDJ).
That armed group was founded by Juan Pablo Ledezma Rodríguez, El JL
, and funded by the founder and leader of the Juarez Cartel, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, El Viceroy.
The objective was to fight the Sinaloa Cartel in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, as well as in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas.
More on this topic
MEXICO
Julián LeBarón: We are willing to arm ourselves to defend ourselves
They go for vehicle analysis where LeBarón family was attacked
The vehicles in which the LeBarón and Langford families moved when they were attacked in the Sierra de Bavispe, Sonora,
will be transferred to Hermosillo to be analyzed by experts from the Forensic Scientific Intelligence Laboratory (CIF)
of the Attorney General's Office of Justice of Sonora (FGJE) with support from the FGR.
END
Note: photos, etc. at link.
Funerals are prepared to fire the 9 victims of the LeBarón family
The 9 members of the family will be buried in the pantheon of the community of La Mora.
By El Universal
November 7
https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/Preparan-funerales-para-despedir-a-las-9-victimas-de-la-familia-LeBaron-20191107-0050.html
BAVISPE, Sonora.- A sad dawn is lived in the community of La Mora, municipality of Bavispe.
This Thursday, November 7, the funerals of the nine members of the LeBarón and Langford families,
killed in an armed attack on the border of Sonora and Chihuahua, begin.
Relatives of the victims anticipated that at 10:00 am this Thursday there will be a mass present for one of the women and their two children,
then they will be buried in the pantheon of that community.
Another funeral event will be held in the afternoon at a private home where another woman,
Rhonita María and her twins Titus and Tiana, 8 months old will be held.
His remains will be transferred to the LeBarón neighborhood in the municipality of Galeana, Chihuahua
where they will be buried tomorrow.
MEXICO
Culiacán and attack on LeBarón reaffirmed non-violence government position: AMLO
In the afternoon last night, dozens of vehicles with relatives of the victims who were ambushed in the Sonoran mountains arrived at this place.
La Linea, indicated by LeBarón case
La Línea, the criminal organization designated by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena)
as likely responsible for the murder of nine members of the LeBarón colony, was, until the beginning of 2017,
considered an armed arm of the Juarez Cartel, until a betrayal Within the group, he imposed himself
and began his transformation to the New Juarez Cartel (NCDJ).
That armed group was founded by Juan Pablo Ledezma Rodríguez, El JL
, and funded by the founder and leader of the Juarez Cartel, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, El Viceroy.
The objective was to fight the Sinaloa Cartel in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, as well as in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas.
MEXICO
Julián LeBarón: We are willing to arm ourselves to defend ourselves
They go for vehicle analysis where LeBarón family was attacked
The vehicles in which the LeBarón and Langford families moved when they were attacked in the Sierra de Bavispe, Sonora,
will be transferred to Hermosillo to be analyzed by experts from the Forensic Scientific Intelligence Laboratory (CIF)
of the Attorney General's Office of Justice of Sonora (FGJE) with support from the FGR.
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 9-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 9 NOV 2019
2 theories emerge in Mexico ambush that killed 9 Americans
Updated Nov 5, 2019 | Posted on Nov 4, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/theories-emerge-in-mexico-ambush-that-killed-americans/article_37cf51cb-62a0-555d-a813-5480777c1ab6.html
Some of the American children who survived a massacre carried out by a Mexican drug cartel went for help after the shooting and some are in a Tucson hospital.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Suspect arrested in Mexico not tied to attack that killed American family.
MEXICO CITY (3TV/CBS 5/AP/CNN) -- A suspect has not been identified in the massacre of nine family members
from a Mormon community on the Mexican side of the border with the United States.
[VIDEO: Kid survivors treated in Tucson after Mexican cartel massacre kills 9 Americans]
SUSPECT ARRESTED
On Wednesday afternoon it was announced that the suspect accused of killing an American family is not connected to the crime.
Read more about update here.
The Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigations (AMIC) said when the arrest was made,
the suspect was holding two bound and gagged hostages in the hills of Agua Priests in the state of Sonora.
The suspect had several assault rifles in their possession, including high-caliber weapons
like a 50-gauge Barrett long rifle, officials said.
[VIDEO: People in Mexico trying to forget the cartel massacre that killed an American family]
WHO ARE THE VICTIMS?
Seventeen people were in the three vehicles that were ambushed, three mothers and 14 children.
Those killed include all three mothers, four small children and two infants, family member Alex LeBaron said from Mexico.
He said all nine were dual U.S.-Mexican citizens. The victims were "all shot while in vehicles," LeBaron told CNN.
Eight children survived. Five of them were shot. The survivors are being treated in a Tucson hospital.
The families lived in the community of La Mora, which is a decades-old settlement founded as part of an offshoot
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[WATCH: Queen Creek relative says 9 family members murdered, missing in Mexico]
[RELATED: More details about the community of La Mora and it's relationship to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]
DETAILS ON THE ATTACK
A convoy of three vehicles had set out Monday from La Mora.
They were traveling between the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua when they were ambushed by the cartel that evening, Mexican authorities said.
"Women and children (between 14 years old and 10 months) were massacred, burned alive,"
a family member told CNN. "Mothers were screaming for the fire to stop."
One relative, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, told Arizona's Family
he had located a burned-out, bullet-ridden SUV containing the remains of his nephew's wife and her four children.
He said he saw dozens of heavily armed gunmen near the burned-out vehicle.
[RELATED: A 13-year-old boy walked for 6 hours to get help after the Mormon families attack]
Wayne Fischer, another relative, told Arizona's Family that a 13-year-old boy ran for six hours for help.
He also said when the gunmen discovered that only children survived the attack, they told them to get out of the vehicles.
Before running for help, the teen hid six children in bushes and covered them with branches to keep them safe. "It's horrible.
The kids are traumatized, obviously, and they're not talking that much, which is all understandable
based on what they've been through, based on what they've seen."
Another relative, Lafe Langford, talked about how brave the children were after the attack.
"They immediately started walking toward home and taking turns," Langford said.
"These precious children were taking turns carrying their brother."
[WATCH: American children who survived massacre in Mexico went for help]
A third relative, Leah Staddon of Queen Creek, Arizona, spoke to Arizona's Family on Monday.
She says her family had been talking about moving to the states permanently because of all the violence.
"Things that have happened with family members being pulled over by the mafia, guns pointed at their vehicle," Staddon said.
"I think a lot of us are just speechless. It's horrific," continued Staddon.
"We just can't believe this actually happened to our family. It just seems like a bad dream."
POSSIBLE MOTIVES
Mexico's top security official, Secretary Alfonso Durazo, believes the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs.
However, the LeBaron family had a history of conflict with Mexican drug cartels, which indicates that they may have been targeted,
former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda told CNN on Tuesday evening.
"Cartels have taken too many of our family members," said family member Kendra Lee Miller,
adding those killed Monday were "not the first."
Miller told CNN her family has recently been threatened by cartels over where it can travel.
"Their long-standing tensions, and apparently the woman who was driving in the first car that was attacked was an activist.
She was someone who was very active in her community, defending her family, her fellow members of the community against cartels,
on the issue of water rights," Castañeda said, describing one of the three women killed, without naming her.
The former minister also said the larger LeBaron community had been receiving the protection of 90 federal police
stationed around the community since 2011 because of tensions between the family and cartels.
That protection was withdrawn to some extent by the current government
(AMLO who does not want "war" with the drug cartels )
earlier this year, according to Castañeda.
It's unclear whether all 90 policemen were withdrawn or just some of them, he added.
In a news conference earlier Tuesday, Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said the attack may have been a case of mistaken identity
of "conflicting groups in the area."
But Castañeda told CNN that he finds that theory unlikely, especially as two cars in two different locations carrying members of the same family
were attacked in the same manner.
PRESIDENT TRUMP RESPONDS TO KILLINGS
President Trump tweeted about the attacks on Tuesday morning.
He said he is offering Mexico's government unspecified help to "wage war" on drug cartels.
"This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.
We merely await a call from your great new president!" Trump said in a series of tweets addressing the tragedy.
Trump said the U.S. government stands ready to get involved.
"The cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!"
[RELATED: Trump says US is ready to help Mexico 'wage war' on drug cartels after family killed in ambush]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Arizona's Family the following statement:
"We are heartbroken to hear of the tragedy that has touched these families in Mexico.
Though it is our understanding that they are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
our love, prayers and sympathies are with them as they mourn and remember their loved ones."
END
2 theories emerge in Mexico ambush that killed 9 Americans
Updated Nov 5, 2019 | Posted on Nov 4, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/theories-emerge-in-mexico-ambush-that-killed-americans/article_37cf51cb-62a0-555d-a813-5480777c1ab6.html
Some of the American children who survived a massacre carried out by a Mexican drug cartel went for help after the shooting and some are in a Tucson hospital.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Suspect arrested in Mexico not tied to attack that killed American family.
MEXICO CITY (3TV/CBS 5/AP/CNN) -- A suspect has not been identified in the massacre of nine family members
from a Mormon community on the Mexican side of the border with the United States.
[VIDEO: Kid survivors treated in Tucson after Mexican cartel massacre kills 9 Americans]
SUSPECT ARRESTED
On Wednesday afternoon it was announced that the suspect accused of killing an American family is not connected to the crime.
Read more about update here.
The Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigations (AMIC) said when the arrest was made,
the suspect was holding two bound and gagged hostages in the hills of Agua Priests in the state of Sonora.
The suspect had several assault rifles in their possession, including high-caliber weapons
like a 50-gauge Barrett long rifle, officials said.
[VIDEO: People in Mexico trying to forget the cartel massacre that killed an American family]
WHO ARE THE VICTIMS?
Seventeen people were in the three vehicles that were ambushed, three mothers and 14 children.
Those killed include all three mothers, four small children and two infants, family member Alex LeBaron said from Mexico.
He said all nine were dual U.S.-Mexican citizens. The victims were "all shot while in vehicles," LeBaron told CNN.
Eight children survived. Five of them were shot. The survivors are being treated in a Tucson hospital.
The families lived in the community of La Mora, which is a decades-old settlement founded as part of an offshoot
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[WATCH: Queen Creek relative says 9 family members murdered, missing in Mexico]
[RELATED: More details about the community of La Mora and it's relationship to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]
DETAILS ON THE ATTACK
A convoy of three vehicles had set out Monday from La Mora.
They were traveling between the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua when they were ambushed by the cartel that evening, Mexican authorities said.
"Women and children (between 14 years old and 10 months) were massacred, burned alive,"
a family member told CNN. "Mothers were screaming for the fire to stop."
One relative, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, told Arizona's Family
he had located a burned-out, bullet-ridden SUV containing the remains of his nephew's wife and her four children.
He said he saw dozens of heavily armed gunmen near the burned-out vehicle.
[RELATED: A 13-year-old boy walked for 6 hours to get help after the Mormon families attack]
Wayne Fischer, another relative, told Arizona's Family that a 13-year-old boy ran for six hours for help.
He also said when the gunmen discovered that only children survived the attack, they told them to get out of the vehicles.
Before running for help, the teen hid six children in bushes and covered them with branches to keep them safe. "It's horrible.
The kids are traumatized, obviously, and they're not talking that much, which is all understandable
based on what they've been through, based on what they've seen."
Another relative, Lafe Langford, talked about how brave the children were after the attack.
"They immediately started walking toward home and taking turns," Langford said.
"These precious children were taking turns carrying their brother."
[WATCH: American children who survived massacre in Mexico went for help]
A third relative, Leah Staddon of Queen Creek, Arizona, spoke to Arizona's Family on Monday.
She says her family had been talking about moving to the states permanently because of all the violence.
"Things that have happened with family members being pulled over by the mafia, guns pointed at their vehicle," Staddon said.
"I think a lot of us are just speechless. It's horrific," continued Staddon.
"We just can't believe this actually happened to our family. It just seems like a bad dream."
POSSIBLE MOTIVES
Mexico's top security official, Secretary Alfonso Durazo, believes the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs.
However, the LeBaron family had a history of conflict with Mexican drug cartels, which indicates that they may have been targeted,
former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda told CNN on Tuesday evening.
"Cartels have taken too many of our family members," said family member Kendra Lee Miller,
adding those killed Monday were "not the first."
Miller told CNN her family has recently been threatened by cartels over where it can travel.
"Their long-standing tensions, and apparently the woman who was driving in the first car that was attacked was an activist.
She was someone who was very active in her community, defending her family, her fellow members of the community against cartels,
on the issue of water rights," Castañeda said, describing one of the three women killed, without naming her.
The former minister also said the larger LeBaron community had been receiving the protection of 90 federal police
stationed around the community since 2011 because of tensions between the family and cartels.
That protection was withdrawn to some extent by the current government
(AMLO who does not want "war" with the drug cartels )
earlier this year, according to Castañeda.
It's unclear whether all 90 policemen were withdrawn or just some of them, he added.
In a news conference earlier Tuesday, Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said the attack may have been a case of mistaken identity
of "conflicting groups in the area."
But Castañeda told CNN that he finds that theory unlikely, especially as two cars in two different locations carrying members of the same family
were attacked in the same manner.
PRESIDENT TRUMP RESPONDS TO KILLINGS
President Trump tweeted about the attacks on Tuesday morning.
He said he is offering Mexico's government unspecified help to "wage war" on drug cartels.
"This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.
We merely await a call from your great new president!" Trump said in a series of tweets addressing the tragedy.
Trump said the U.S. government stands ready to get involved.
"The cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!"
[RELATED: Trump says US is ready to help Mexico 'wage war' on drug cartels after family killed in ambush]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Arizona's Family the following statement:
"We are heartbroken to hear of the tragedy that has touched these families in Mexico.
Though it is our understanding that they are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
our love, prayers and sympathies are with them as they mourn and remember their loved ones."
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