AZMEX I3 29 MAR 2019
Note: Mexico is entirely capable of stopping the "caravans" if it wants to.
Gracias
Mexico braces for "Mother of all Caravans" forming in Central America
Early reports estimate 20,000 people in caravan
Posted: Mar 29, 2019 10:44 AM MDTA
Updated: Mar 29, 2019 12:56 PM MDT
https://www.kvia.com/news/us-world/mexico-braces-for-mother-of-all-caravans-forming-in-central-america/1063947713
File Photo: The migrant caravan that made headlines in late 2018.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the "mother of all caravans,"
even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big.
Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming.
"We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they're calling 'the mother of all caravans,'
and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people," Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday.
But a WhatsApp group calling for people to gather Saturday in El Salvador to set off for Guatemala only has about 206 members.
Activist Irineo Mujica, who has accompanied several caravans in Mexico, said reports about "the mother of all caravans" were false,
claiming "this is information that (U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen) Nielsen is using to create fear."
His group, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said in a statement there was no evidence the new caravan would be that large,
noting "there has never been a caravan of the size that Sanchez Cordero mentioned."
Indeed, past caravans hit very serious logistical hurdles at 7,000-strong.
He and others suspect the administration of President Donald Trump may be trying to fan fears of a big caravan
to turn the U.S. national agenda back to the immigration issue.
Honduran activist Bartolo Fuentes, who accompanied a large caravan last year, dismissed the new reports as "part of the U.S. government's plans, something made up to justify their actions."
Later Thursday, Honduras' deputy foreign minister, Nelly Jerez, denied that a "mother of all caravans" was forming in her country.
"There is no indication of such a caravan," Jerez said. "This type of information promotes that people leave the country."
A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is currently making its way through Mexico's southern state of Chiapas.
The largest of last year's caravans in Mexico contained about 7,000 people at its peak,
though some estimates ran as high as 10,000 at some points.
Mexico appears to be both tiring of the caravans and eager not to anger the United States.
It has stopped granting migrants humanitarian visas at the border, and towns along the well-traveled route to Mexico City
sometimes no longer allow caravans to spend the night.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that Mexico is doing its part to fight immigrant smuggling.
"We are going to do everything we can to help. We don't in any way want a confrontation with the U.S. government," he said.
"It is legitimate that they are displeased and they voice these concerns."
Sanchez Cordero has pledged to form a police line of "containment" around Mexico's narrow Tehuantepec Isthmus
to stop migrants from continuing north to the U.S. border.
The containment belt would consist of federal police and immigration agents,
but such highway blockades and checkpoints have not stopped large and determined groups of migrants in the past.
END
Friday, March 29, 2019
AZMEX EXTRA 28-3-19
AZMEX EXTRA 28 MAR 2019
Note: photos at the link.
PHOTOS: Civil Force faces armed group in Veracruz; secure arsenal
Photo: El Universal
By: El Universal | 3/27/2019 9:50 PM
https://www.elimparcial.com/Nacional/2019/03/27/1418996-FOTOS-Se-enfrenta-Fuerza-Civil-a-grupo-armado-en-Veracruz-aseguran-arsenal.html
XALAPA, Veracruz (El Universal)
Elements of the Civil Force of Veracruz faced gunshots to a group of delinquents , shot down three of them and secured an arsenal.
The events occurred in the town of El Dorado in the municipality of Ursulo Galván, where police officers made a preventive tour.
The agents of the Civil Force identified an armed man, who was surprised when he entered a private property from which shots were fired against the troops.
In the place there was a shooting that left three armed men and one more injured, the latter who was taken to a local hospital.
Ministerial personnel and specialized experts arrived at the site, who began an inspection of the property, where they secured an arsenal.
It consisted of 9 long guns, a short firearm, three short-handled guns, 18 long-gun magazines supplied with 30 cartridges each, a box with 17 .45 cartridges.
As well as seven ballistic vests, four bags with .223 cartridges, a box of 38 super cartridges,
three metal handcuffs, three Kevlar helmets, a pair of kneepads, a portable radio and a green camisole with the acronym CJNG.
Also, three trucks: one Ford Ranger brand, another Dodge Journey and the other Toyota RAV4;
and four motorcycles: two Vento brand, one Italika and the other Yamaha.
End
Note: photos at the link.
PHOTOS: Civil Force faces armed group in Veracruz; secure arsenal
Photo: El Universal
By: El Universal | 3/27/2019 9:50 PM
https://www.elimparcial.com/Nacional/2019/03/27/1418996-FOTOS-Se-enfrenta-Fuerza-Civil-a-grupo-armado-en-Veracruz-aseguran-arsenal.html
XALAPA, Veracruz (El Universal)
Elements of the Civil Force of Veracruz faced gunshots to a group of delinquents , shot down three of them and secured an arsenal.
The events occurred in the town of El Dorado in the municipality of Ursulo Galván, where police officers made a preventive tour.
The agents of the Civil Force identified an armed man, who was surprised when he entered a private property from which shots were fired against the troops.
In the place there was a shooting that left three armed men and one more injured, the latter who was taken to a local hospital.
Ministerial personnel and specialized experts arrived at the site, who began an inspection of the property, where they secured an arsenal.
It consisted of 9 long guns, a short firearm, three short-handled guns, 18 long-gun magazines supplied with 30 cartridges each, a box with 17 .45 cartridges.
As well as seven ballistic vests, four bags with .223 cartridges, a box of 38 super cartridges,
three metal handcuffs, three Kevlar helmets, a pair of kneepads, a portable radio and a green camisole with the acronym CJNG.
Also, three trucks: one Ford Ranger brand, another Dodge Journey and the other Toyota RAV4;
and four motorcycles: two Vento brand, one Italika and the other Yamaha.
End
Thursday, March 28, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 28-3-19
AZMEX POLICY 28 MAR 2019
Note: graphic, etc. at link. As seen below, legitimate visitors have no problem with a secure border.
Fears of impact from border 'hardening' not borne out in sales tax stats
By Nick Phillips
Nogales International Mar 21, 2019 Updated Mar 26, 2019
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/fears-of-impact-from-border-hardening-not-borne-out-in/article_f9f9a38e-4c39-11e9-a65a-eba228ef7604.html
Sales tax graphic
Shops catering to Mexican shoppers line the first block of Grand Avenue in Nogales, just north of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry, seen at left.
Photo by Jonathan Clark, graphic by Priscilla Bolaños
Sales tax revenue generated at local retail outlets during the past holiday season declined slightly for the City of Nogales,
but inched upward for the Santa Cruz County government compared to the previous year.
Though the city's stats revealed an incremental year-over-year decline, the numbers did not show evidence of the dire effects some had feared
following the military's "hardening" of the local border and a weakening Mexican peso in November.
The modest changes suggest that the economic impact of the border militarization – which included the visible presence of Army troops,
the installation of concertina wire on the border fence, and the use of razor wire and shipping containers to restrict access at the ports
– has been limited, at least for now.
Transactions made during November 2018, December 2018, and January 2019 generated $2.20 million in sales tax revenue for the city.
That number was down from $2.26 million for the same period in 2017-18 but higher than the $1.86 million collected in 2016-17.
"As far as our budget's concerned, I'm not worried, because we're more or less within where we should be,"
said Jeanette Parrales, city finance director.
For the county, sales for the 2018-19 holiday period brought in $736,097 in tax revenues,
up from $713,798 in 2017-18 and $676,044 in 2016-17.
In November, concerns about revenues led the Nogales City Council to halve the year-end bonuses of city employees.
At that time, councilman Marcelino Varona said that he was worried that the activity on the border could negatively impact tax collections.
The council ultimately voted to cut employee bonuses from $1,000 to $500.
Speaking on Thursday, Varona said that the council would consider granting city employees an additional $500 at its next meeting, on April 3.
"Right now, my indication is that the revenues are enough to go ahead and make that $500 (payment)," he said,
citing a conversation he had with city officials including Parrales.
A weak peso was another cause for concern at that time, as the exchange rate broke the 20 pesos/dollar threshold for several weeks
in November and December 2018, but the rate retreated back to approximately 19 pesos/dollar in January 2019.
That represented a minimal change from the 2017-18 holiday season, when the exchange rate fluctuated around 19 pesos/dollar.
City officials generally estimate that 60 to 80 percent of local tax revenue is generated by Mexican shoppers.
Tax revenue
Elia Roxana Molina Tejeda, 41, of Nogales, Sonora said that she frequently shops in Arizona and
recent military activity in the downtown area did not affect her shopping.
Photo by Nick Phillips
On Wednesday, shoppers from Mexico making purchases in the Morley Avenue retail district included
Elia Roxana Molina Tejeda, 41, of Nogales, Sonora and her 22-year-old daughter Gabriela Rodriguez.
Molina Tejeda, who had bought a new suitcase and some handbags, said it is her habit to shop in Arizona,
and the militarization of the border doesn't affect her.
Ignacio Jacobo, 61, had bought groceries for his sister at Food City.
He said that the prices were cheaper in Arizona than in Sonora and the concertina wire didn't bother him.
"Maybe (it affects) people from farther away, but I live here," he said.
END
Note: graphic, etc. at link. As seen below, legitimate visitors have no problem with a secure border.
Fears of impact from border 'hardening' not borne out in sales tax stats
By Nick Phillips
Nogales International Mar 21, 2019 Updated Mar 26, 2019
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/fears-of-impact-from-border-hardening-not-borne-out-in/article_f9f9a38e-4c39-11e9-a65a-eba228ef7604.html
Sales tax graphic
Shops catering to Mexican shoppers line the first block of Grand Avenue in Nogales, just north of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry, seen at left.
Photo by Jonathan Clark, graphic by Priscilla Bolaños
Sales tax revenue generated at local retail outlets during the past holiday season declined slightly for the City of Nogales,
but inched upward for the Santa Cruz County government compared to the previous year.
Though the city's stats revealed an incremental year-over-year decline, the numbers did not show evidence of the dire effects some had feared
following the military's "hardening" of the local border and a weakening Mexican peso in November.
The modest changes suggest that the economic impact of the border militarization – which included the visible presence of Army troops,
the installation of concertina wire on the border fence, and the use of razor wire and shipping containers to restrict access at the ports
– has been limited, at least for now.
Transactions made during November 2018, December 2018, and January 2019 generated $2.20 million in sales tax revenue for the city.
That number was down from $2.26 million for the same period in 2017-18 but higher than the $1.86 million collected in 2016-17.
"As far as our budget's concerned, I'm not worried, because we're more or less within where we should be,"
said Jeanette Parrales, city finance director.
For the county, sales for the 2018-19 holiday period brought in $736,097 in tax revenues,
up from $713,798 in 2017-18 and $676,044 in 2016-17.
In November, concerns about revenues led the Nogales City Council to halve the year-end bonuses of city employees.
At that time, councilman Marcelino Varona said that he was worried that the activity on the border could negatively impact tax collections.
The council ultimately voted to cut employee bonuses from $1,000 to $500.
Speaking on Thursday, Varona said that the council would consider granting city employees an additional $500 at its next meeting, on April 3.
"Right now, my indication is that the revenues are enough to go ahead and make that $500 (payment)," he said,
citing a conversation he had with city officials including Parrales.
A weak peso was another cause for concern at that time, as the exchange rate broke the 20 pesos/dollar threshold for several weeks
in November and December 2018, but the rate retreated back to approximately 19 pesos/dollar in January 2019.
That represented a minimal change from the 2017-18 holiday season, when the exchange rate fluctuated around 19 pesos/dollar.
City officials generally estimate that 60 to 80 percent of local tax revenue is generated by Mexican shoppers.
Tax revenue
Elia Roxana Molina Tejeda, 41, of Nogales, Sonora said that she frequently shops in Arizona and
recent military activity in the downtown area did not affect her shopping.
Photo by Nick Phillips
On Wednesday, shoppers from Mexico making purchases in the Morley Avenue retail district included
Elia Roxana Molina Tejeda, 41, of Nogales, Sonora and her 22-year-old daughter Gabriela Rodriguez.
Molina Tejeda, who had bought a new suitcase and some handbags, said it is her habit to shop in Arizona,
and the militarization of the border doesn't affect her.
Ignacio Jacobo, 61, had bought groceries for his sister at Food City.
He said that the prices were cheaper in Arizona than in Sonora and the concertina wire didn't bother him.
"Maybe (it affects) people from farther away, but I live here," he said.
END
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL 27-3-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 27 MAR 2019
FYI. Photo at link.
They present the uniforms that National Guard will use
Details Published on Wednesday, March 27, 2019,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126818
CDMX
In a month and a half it is expected that the elements of the National Guard begin to use the uniforms
which were presented this morning by the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), General Luis Cresentius Sandoval.
During the conference headed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Tijuana, Baja California,
the general stressed that the preparation of uniforms that will be used by the security elements is the responsibility of the Armed Forces.
He explained that one of the details of these uniforms is the badge with the legend "GN ( Guardia Nacional / National Guard)"
that the uniformed ones will wear on the left arm; In addition, in some cases, jackets and shirts will also have this legend on the back.
This presentation is given within the framework of the announcement of a 21 percent decrease in intentional homicides in Tijuana
with the implementation of joint operations between the Sedena, (Army) the Navy, the Federal Police and state and municipal police.
According to Sandoval González, it is expected that between the Army and the Navy there will be 21,000 men who will be discharged
and enlisted in this new organization and who will begin the training and basic training process, which will last three months and,
later, they will have training. specialized public safety for another 4 or 5 months.
In this regard, President López Obrador stressed that in approximately 3 months,
150 of the 266 coordinators will be consolidated in where the country was divided
into the Federal Government's Security Plan and in which the Civil Guard will act.
End
FYI. Photo at link.
They present the uniforms that National Guard will use
Details Published on Wednesday, March 27, 2019,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126818
CDMX
In a month and a half it is expected that the elements of the National Guard begin to use the uniforms
which were presented this morning by the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), General Luis Cresentius Sandoval.
During the conference headed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Tijuana, Baja California,
the general stressed that the preparation of uniforms that will be used by the security elements is the responsibility of the Armed Forces.
He explained that one of the details of these uniforms is the badge with the legend "GN ( Guardia Nacional / National Guard)"
that the uniformed ones will wear on the left arm; In addition, in some cases, jackets and shirts will also have this legend on the back.
This presentation is given within the framework of the announcement of a 21 percent decrease in intentional homicides in Tijuana
with the implementation of joint operations between the Sedena, (Army) the Navy, the Federal Police and state and municipal police.
According to Sandoval González, it is expected that between the Army and the Navy there will be 21,000 men who will be discharged
and enlisted in this new organization and who will begin the training and basic training process, which will last three months and,
later, they will have training. specialized public safety for another 4 or 5 months.
In this regard, President López Obrador stressed that in approximately 3 months,
150 of the 266 coordinators will be consolidated in where the country was divided
into the Federal Government's Security Plan and in which the Civil Guard will act.
End
AZMEX UPDATE 27-3-19
AZMEX UPDATE 27 MAR 2019
CBP confirms director of Douglas & Naco ports relieved of duties
By Terri Jo Neff For the Herald/Review Mar 26, 2019 Updated 17 hrs ago
https://www.douglasdispatch.com/news/cbp-confirms-director-of-douglas-naco-ports-relieved-of-duties/article_0425df66-502d-11e9-969c-a78da03fd9ea.html
CBP confirms director of Douglas & Naco ports relieved of duties
Margaret Rose Baldenegro, left, pictured here with Douglas Mayor Robert Uribe in 2018, has been relieved of her duties
as the director of the Douglas and Naco ports of entry.
Douglas Dispatch
DOUGLAS – The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) director of the Douglas and Naco ports of entry
is awaiting a decision on whether she will keep her job, the Herald/Review has learned.
Margaret Rose Baldenegro had been area port director since at least 2015 but was relieved of her duties
after her son pleaded guilty last fall to transporting undocumented immigrants for profit.
Michael Quinonez is serving as acting area port director, spokeswoman Teresa Small said Tuesday.
A decision on Baldenegro's status is expected soon.
In the meantime, she is temporarily assigned to a position with U.S. Border Patrol, Small confirmed.
Details of why Baldenegro was relieved of her post have not been made public
but she has taken part in proceedings to regain her position,
according to CBP employees contacted by the Herald/Review.
Her specific duties for USBP have not been disclosed.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Marshals Service apprehended Baldenegro's son
Jaime Joel Rose on a nationwide warrant.
He remains in federal detention, according to court records.
Rose, 37, had been arrested by federal agents in August after he crashed his car
in the Douglas area while fleeing officers who suspected undocumented immigrants were in the vehicle.
He pleaded guilty to transporting three undocumented men in exchange for payment.
A judge allowed Rose to remain out of custody pending sentencing in January on the condition he obey all laws.
However, an arrest warrant was issued in December after Rose tested positive for illegal drug use.
He also failed to appear for sentencing.
Rose evaded capture until March 15 when marshals took him into custody in Cochise County.
He faces up to 21 months in prison when sentenced June 7 on the transportation charge.
Court records also show Rose previously served time in federal prison
for a conspiracy to possess 100 pounds of marijuana in August 2012 with the intent to distribute the drug.
He was released from prison on that case in May 2017.
END
CBP confirms director of Douglas & Naco ports relieved of duties
By Terri Jo Neff For the Herald/Review Mar 26, 2019 Updated 17 hrs ago
https://www.douglasdispatch.com/news/cbp-confirms-director-of-douglas-naco-ports-relieved-of-duties/article_0425df66-502d-11e9-969c-a78da03fd9ea.html
CBP confirms director of Douglas & Naco ports relieved of duties
Margaret Rose Baldenegro, left, pictured here with Douglas Mayor Robert Uribe in 2018, has been relieved of her duties
as the director of the Douglas and Naco ports of entry.
Douglas Dispatch
DOUGLAS – The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) director of the Douglas and Naco ports of entry
is awaiting a decision on whether she will keep her job, the Herald/Review has learned.
Margaret Rose Baldenegro had been area port director since at least 2015 but was relieved of her duties
after her son pleaded guilty last fall to transporting undocumented immigrants for profit.
Michael Quinonez is serving as acting area port director, spokeswoman Teresa Small said Tuesday.
A decision on Baldenegro's status is expected soon.
In the meantime, she is temporarily assigned to a position with U.S. Border Patrol, Small confirmed.
Details of why Baldenegro was relieved of her post have not been made public
but she has taken part in proceedings to regain her position,
according to CBP employees contacted by the Herald/Review.
Her specific duties for USBP have not been disclosed.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Marshals Service apprehended Baldenegro's son
Jaime Joel Rose on a nationwide warrant.
He remains in federal detention, according to court records.
Rose, 37, had been arrested by federal agents in August after he crashed his car
in the Douglas area while fleeing officers who suspected undocumented immigrants were in the vehicle.
He pleaded guilty to transporting three undocumented men in exchange for payment.
A judge allowed Rose to remain out of custody pending sentencing in January on the condition he obey all laws.
However, an arrest warrant was issued in December after Rose tested positive for illegal drug use.
He also failed to appear for sentencing.
Rose evaded capture until March 15 when marshals took him into custody in Cochise County.
He faces up to 21 months in prison when sentenced June 7 on the transportation charge.
Court records also show Rose previously served time in federal prison
for a conspiracy to possess 100 pounds of marijuana in August 2012 with the intent to distribute the drug.
He was released from prison on that case in May 2017.
END
Friday, March 22, 2019
AZMEX EXTRA 22-3-19
AZMEX EXTRA 22 MAR 2019
Note: From Borderland Beat. photos, etc. at link.
Veracruz: 5 presumed sicarios of CJNG arrested with powerful arsenal
Sol Prendido Borderland Beat Depeso Alerta Nota
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/03/veracruz-5-presumed-sicarios-of-cjng.html#more
Long weapons, cartridges, drugs, grenades and vehicles were secured after a search in a safe house in Cotaxtla and Coatzacoalcos.
VERACRUZ .- After a strong mobilization of uniformed police they detained five alleged 'gunmen' who had a powerful arsenal.
Elements of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) in coordination with the Navy-Navy of Mexico (SEMAR)
detained five alleged members of the Cartel of Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), in the municipalities of Cotaxtla and Coatzacoalcos.
In both operations, important blows against crime were struck; in addition to which they were confiscated
a strong armament with which they counted at the time of their capture.
In an address located in the municipal seat of Cotaxtla, elements of the Navy assured
Adolfo "N", of 45 years; Braulio "N", 42; and Jesus "N", of 38; while the SSP mounted a security device in the same place,
where two AR-15 rifles, an AK-47 rifle,
14 magazines for a AR-15 and one for a AK-47,
387 cartridges
and three tactical vests were confiscated with the insignia "CJNG".
The now detained tried to hide in an adjoining house, where it could be seen, by an inspection made through the window,
that inside there was a greater number of weapons and tactical equipment, so
they waited for a Judge to release a search warrant and thus be able to enter and seize the weapons.
It should be noted that the three detainees, together with the siezed, were placed at the disposal of the Federal Public Ministry Agent,
in order to carry out the pertinent investigations for their probable responsibility in the commission of various crimes.
On the other hand, in the southern region, state police captured Isaac Ernesto "N", aka "Spaghetti",
alleged Chief of Security in the Peloteros colony, Coatzacoalcos area, who operated under the orders of the New Jalisco Cartel Generation.
At the time of the arrest, they found a vehicle with a report of theft and 45 doses of drugs, apparently meth;
likewise, there is a record that he has participated in different homicides, robberies of convenience stores
and robbery with automobile violence, for which he was placed at the disposal
of the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) to carry out his process in the corresponding manner with the common law.
Also, the Naval Police managed to arrest Alberto Alejandro "N", alias "El Fresa" or "El Trece",
presumed second in command of the Coatzacoalcos plaza of said criminal organization
and subordinated to Alexis "N", aka "El 09 "or" Sadist ".
During his capture, five long and three short weapons, four fragmentation grenades,
17 long-gun and two short-gun magazines,
300 5.56-millimeter cartridges,
90 .357-caliber cartridges,
70 9-mm and
14-caliber 22 cartridges were secured.
As well as 285 doses of marijuana,
302 of rock, 157 of cocaine, 97 of crystal meth
and a stolen vehicle,
for which it was made available to the Delegation of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic (FGR) in Coatzacoalcos,
to make the appropriate process.
The Ministry of Public Security reiterated that the detention of these persons was carried out in strict adherence
to due process and, at all times, their rights were respected.
Borderland Beat Reporter Sol Prendido Posted
Note: From Borderland Beat. photos, etc. at link.
Veracruz: 5 presumed sicarios of CJNG arrested with powerful arsenal
Sol Prendido Borderland Beat Depeso Alerta Nota
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/03/veracruz-5-presumed-sicarios-of-cjng.html#more
Long weapons, cartridges, drugs, grenades and vehicles were secured after a search in a safe house in Cotaxtla and Coatzacoalcos.
VERACRUZ .- After a strong mobilization of uniformed police they detained five alleged 'gunmen' who had a powerful arsenal.
Elements of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) in coordination with the Navy-Navy of Mexico (SEMAR)
detained five alleged members of the Cartel of Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), in the municipalities of Cotaxtla and Coatzacoalcos.
In both operations, important blows against crime were struck; in addition to which they were confiscated
a strong armament with which they counted at the time of their capture.
In an address located in the municipal seat of Cotaxtla, elements of the Navy assured
Adolfo "N", of 45 years; Braulio "N", 42; and Jesus "N", of 38; while the SSP mounted a security device in the same place,
where two AR-15 rifles, an AK-47 rifle,
14 magazines for a AR-15 and one for a AK-47,
387 cartridges
and three tactical vests were confiscated with the insignia "CJNG".
The now detained tried to hide in an adjoining house, where it could be seen, by an inspection made through the window,
that inside there was a greater number of weapons and tactical equipment, so
they waited for a Judge to release a search warrant and thus be able to enter and seize the weapons.
It should be noted that the three detainees, together with the siezed, were placed at the disposal of the Federal Public Ministry Agent,
in order to carry out the pertinent investigations for their probable responsibility in the commission of various crimes.
On the other hand, in the southern region, state police captured Isaac Ernesto "N", aka "Spaghetti",
alleged Chief of Security in the Peloteros colony, Coatzacoalcos area, who operated under the orders of the New Jalisco Cartel Generation.
At the time of the arrest, they found a vehicle with a report of theft and 45 doses of drugs, apparently meth;
likewise, there is a record that he has participated in different homicides, robberies of convenience stores
and robbery with automobile violence, for which he was placed at the disposal
of the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) to carry out his process in the corresponding manner with the common law.
Also, the Naval Police managed to arrest Alberto Alejandro "N", alias "El Fresa" or "El Trece",
presumed second in command of the Coatzacoalcos plaza of said criminal organization
and subordinated to Alexis "N", aka "El 09 "or" Sadist ".
During his capture, five long and three short weapons, four fragmentation grenades,
17 long-gun and two short-gun magazines,
300 5.56-millimeter cartridges,
90 .357-caliber cartridges,
70 9-mm and
14-caliber 22 cartridges were secured.
As well as 285 doses of marijuana,
302 of rock, 157 of cocaine, 97 of crystal meth
and a stolen vehicle,
for which it was made available to the Delegation of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic (FGR) in Coatzacoalcos,
to make the appropriate process.
The Ministry of Public Security reiterated that the detention of these persons was carried out in strict adherence
to due process and, at all times, their rights were respected.
Borderland Beat Reporter Sol Prendido Posted
AZMEX I3 21-3-19
AZMEX I3 21 MAR 2019
Comment: as the federal govt. continues to fail.
ICE Phoenix field director talks about spike in migrant families in Arizona
Posted: 8:56 PM, Mar 21, 2019 Updated: 7:56 PM, Mar 21, 2019
By: Sonu Wasu
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/ice-phoenix-field-director-talks-about-spike-in-migrant-families-in-arizona
PHOENIX — A big surge in the number of immigrants released into the Phoenix area has put a significant strain on churches,
who are scrambling to provide food, shelter, and aid to migrants who are on their way to reunite with family members all over the country.
Henry Lucero, the Phoenix field director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
said the numbers were putting a big strain on his department.
"The volume has significantly increased. I can tell you from December 21st, 2018 to March 5th, 2019
we have released about 14,500 families in the state of Arizona," Lucero said.
Lucero said before they were processing about 50 families a day,
now it's more like 200-300 a day with no additional resources.
"Sometimes I have to pull officers off of other assignments to cover the workload for the day," said Lucero.
In Phoenix, that means pulling agents who spent a big chunk of their time looking for immigrants
who had committed crimes in the community.
Lucero stated he also wanted to correct the record,
after hearing many media reports saying that the majority of the migrants were asylum seekers.
"Only 5 percent of the families we have released are claiming asylum," said Lucero.
"95 percent of them have said they don't fear to return home.
I would say 100 percent of them are coming here for a better life
and some of them are fleeing something whether that merits asylum or not, is up to an immigration judge, " he added.
In terms of the big surge of migrants being released into the community, Lucero said a lot of it had to do with resources.
"ICE only has available for family detention about 3,000 beds.
There are zero beds in Arizona. The closest beds are in Texas, the other in Pennsylvania," said Lucero.
Lack of bed space, combined with a court order known as the Flores settlement,
was what was leading to the big surge of migrants being released into the community, according to Lucero.
The Flores Settlement agreement is a court settlement that was put in place about twenty years ago.
It sets limits on the length of time and conditions under which children can be incarcerated in immigration detention.
Lucero said it meant family units had to be released within 20 days in detention.
"What's the message that is being received in these families coming is if you come to the United States with a child, or with children,
you're going to be released, either almost immediately with ICE or 20 days later if you go to a family residential center," said Lucero.
He added that agents did their best to screen families and ensure children were traveling with parents,
but there were instances where they found the child was with a relative and in rare cases a stranger.
When migrants are released from ICE custody, Lucero said they are given conditions of release
that requires them to check into a local ICE office in the community they ended up in,
not break any U.S. laws, and show up to immigration court on the dates they were scheduled to appear.
Lucero said when releasing migrants into the community, they typically give them options.
One was to leave the facility on their own, which rarely any migrant did.
The other options were to take them to a community shelter who was receiving migrants,
and the third was to drop them off at a transportation hub where they could catch a ride to wherever their families lived.
Lucero said most migrants chose to be dropped off at Valley churches or makeshift shelters
as word had spread that they could get help tracking down family members there.
Right now he said ICE works with 30 faith-based organizations in the Phoenix area which help take in migrants.
When they are strained or unable to offer help, Lucero said they typically drop migrants off at the Greyhound bus station.
Lucero said the church's who were helping out were not doing anything wrong.
"If they were breaking the law, ICE wouldn't give them a ride there.
They're just doing something out of the goodness of their hearts. T
rying to help people find a way to where they're going," said Lucero.
He added that he did not see the surge of migrant drop-offs ending anytime soon.
"I would think it's going to continue until there is congressional action," said Lucero.
ABC15 asked Lucero about allegations made by some migrants regarding the lack of water offered to them in federal custody.
Lucero said that was absolutely not true.
"We don't offer bottled water which is what they're used to.
Ninety percent of them are coming from Guatemala where they are not used to seeing water fountains, t
hey're used to bottled water, so they say I'm not drinking that water that's not healthy," said Lucero.
He added that they provided three meals a day and had snacks, fruit, and chocolate milk available for children all day long.
"We treat everyone with compassion, whether they're a criminal or someone seeking a better life," said Lucero.
Border patrol officials say they are seeing a 230 percent surge in migrant crossings this year;
there is also a big surge in the number of juveniles crossing the border.
End
Comment: as the federal govt. continues to fail.
ICE Phoenix field director talks about spike in migrant families in Arizona
Posted: 8:56 PM, Mar 21, 2019 Updated: 7:56 PM, Mar 21, 2019
By: Sonu Wasu
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/ice-phoenix-field-director-talks-about-spike-in-migrant-families-in-arizona
PHOENIX — A big surge in the number of immigrants released into the Phoenix area has put a significant strain on churches,
who are scrambling to provide food, shelter, and aid to migrants who are on their way to reunite with family members all over the country.
Henry Lucero, the Phoenix field director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
said the numbers were putting a big strain on his department.
"The volume has significantly increased. I can tell you from December 21st, 2018 to March 5th, 2019
we have released about 14,500 families in the state of Arizona," Lucero said.
Lucero said before they were processing about 50 families a day,
now it's more like 200-300 a day with no additional resources.
"Sometimes I have to pull officers off of other assignments to cover the workload for the day," said Lucero.
In Phoenix, that means pulling agents who spent a big chunk of their time looking for immigrants
who had committed crimes in the community.
Lucero stated he also wanted to correct the record,
after hearing many media reports saying that the majority of the migrants were asylum seekers.
"Only 5 percent of the families we have released are claiming asylum," said Lucero.
"95 percent of them have said they don't fear to return home.
I would say 100 percent of them are coming here for a better life
and some of them are fleeing something whether that merits asylum or not, is up to an immigration judge, " he added.
In terms of the big surge of migrants being released into the community, Lucero said a lot of it had to do with resources.
"ICE only has available for family detention about 3,000 beds.
There are zero beds in Arizona. The closest beds are in Texas, the other in Pennsylvania," said Lucero.
Lack of bed space, combined with a court order known as the Flores settlement,
was what was leading to the big surge of migrants being released into the community, according to Lucero.
The Flores Settlement agreement is a court settlement that was put in place about twenty years ago.
It sets limits on the length of time and conditions under which children can be incarcerated in immigration detention.
Lucero said it meant family units had to be released within 20 days in detention.
"What's the message that is being received in these families coming is if you come to the United States with a child, or with children,
you're going to be released, either almost immediately with ICE or 20 days later if you go to a family residential center," said Lucero.
He added that agents did their best to screen families and ensure children were traveling with parents,
but there were instances where they found the child was with a relative and in rare cases a stranger.
When migrants are released from ICE custody, Lucero said they are given conditions of release
that requires them to check into a local ICE office in the community they ended up in,
not break any U.S. laws, and show up to immigration court on the dates they were scheduled to appear.
Lucero said when releasing migrants into the community, they typically give them options.
One was to leave the facility on their own, which rarely any migrant did.
The other options were to take them to a community shelter who was receiving migrants,
and the third was to drop them off at a transportation hub where they could catch a ride to wherever their families lived.
Lucero said most migrants chose to be dropped off at Valley churches or makeshift shelters
as word had spread that they could get help tracking down family members there.
Right now he said ICE works with 30 faith-based organizations in the Phoenix area which help take in migrants.
When they are strained or unable to offer help, Lucero said they typically drop migrants off at the Greyhound bus station.
Lucero said the church's who were helping out were not doing anything wrong.
"If they were breaking the law, ICE wouldn't give them a ride there.
They're just doing something out of the goodness of their hearts. T
rying to help people find a way to where they're going," said Lucero.
He added that he did not see the surge of migrant drop-offs ending anytime soon.
"I would think it's going to continue until there is congressional action," said Lucero.
ABC15 asked Lucero about allegations made by some migrants regarding the lack of water offered to them in federal custody.
Lucero said that was absolutely not true.
"We don't offer bottled water which is what they're used to.
Ninety percent of them are coming from Guatemala where they are not used to seeing water fountains, t
hey're used to bottled water, so they say I'm not drinking that water that's not healthy," said Lucero.
He added that they provided three meals a day and had snacks, fruit, and chocolate milk available for children all day long.
"We treat everyone with compassion, whether they're a criminal or someone seeking a better life," said Lucero.
Border patrol officials say they are seeing a 230 percent surge in migrant crossings this year;
there is also a big surge in the number of juveniles crossing the border.
End
Thursday, March 21, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL2 21-3-19
AZMEX SPECIAL2 21 MAR 2019
Border Patrol to host hiring event fair at the UA , Sierra Vista
Posted: 8:19 PM, Mar 20, 2019 Updated: 5:32 AM, Mar 21, 2019
By: Sarah Covey
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/border-patrol-to-host-hiring-event-fair-at-the-ua-sierra-vista
Photo by: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
TUCSON, Ariz. — Does a job at the border patrol appeal to you?
Do you want to know more about the border patrol?
Events are happening soon in Tucson and Sierra Vista.
A Southeastern Arizona Hiring Fair will be in Sierra Vista
on Friday, March 22 at the Cochise College Downtown Center from 10am-2pm.
The event at the U of A will be a Veteran Career Fair on March 21.
It will take place at the Student Memorial Center from 12pm-3pm.
The border patrol writes that there critical hiring needs for entry level employees at the following places:
Southern Border -
Douglas, Lukeville, Nogales and San Luis, AZ; Andrade, Calexico and Otay Mesa, CA; Eagle Pass and Laredo, TX
Other than Southern Border -
Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA;
Tamuning, Guam;
Chicago, IL; New Orleans, LA; Boston, MA;
Baltimore, MD; Coburn Gore, Fort Fairfield and Jackman, ME; Detroit, Port Huron
and Sault Sainte Marie, MI; Newark, NJ; Champlain and Queens, NY; Dunseith, Pembina and Portal, ND;
Saipan, MP; Christiansted, VI;
Dulles, VA; Derby Line and Highgate Springs, VT; Blaine and Point Roberts, WA.
To apply for border patrol jobs online, visit www.cbp.gov/careers/apply-now .
END
Border Patrol to host hiring event fair at the UA , Sierra Vista
Posted: 8:19 PM, Mar 20, 2019 Updated: 5:32 AM, Mar 21, 2019
By: Sarah Covey
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/border-patrol-to-host-hiring-event-fair-at-the-ua-sierra-vista
Photo by: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
TUCSON, Ariz. — Does a job at the border patrol appeal to you?
Do you want to know more about the border patrol?
Events are happening soon in Tucson and Sierra Vista.
A Southeastern Arizona Hiring Fair will be in Sierra Vista
on Friday, March 22 at the Cochise College Downtown Center from 10am-2pm.
The event at the U of A will be a Veteran Career Fair on March 21.
It will take place at the Student Memorial Center from 12pm-3pm.
The border patrol writes that there critical hiring needs for entry level employees at the following places:
Southern Border -
Douglas, Lukeville, Nogales and San Luis, AZ; Andrade, Calexico and Otay Mesa, CA; Eagle Pass and Laredo, TX
Other than Southern Border -
Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA;
Tamuning, Guam;
Chicago, IL; New Orleans, LA; Boston, MA;
Baltimore, MD; Coburn Gore, Fort Fairfield and Jackman, ME; Detroit, Port Huron
and Sault Sainte Marie, MI; Newark, NJ; Champlain and Queens, NY; Dunseith, Pembina and Portal, ND;
Saipan, MP; Christiansted, VI;
Dulles, VA; Derby Line and Highgate Springs, VT; Blaine and Point Roberts, WA.
To apply for border patrol jobs online, visit www.cbp.gov/careers/apply-now .
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 21-3-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 21 MAR 2019
Note: The reservation is on the US - Mexican border
Comment: made with the necessary chemicals from China?
Thx
Tohono O'odham task force seize over 43,000 fentanyl pills from cartel
Posted: 1:10 PM, Mar 21, 2019 Updated: 12:15 PM,
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/tohono-oodham-task-force-seize-over-43-000-fentanyl-pills-from-cartel
SELLS, Ariz. — The Tohono O'odham Nation Police and NATIVE High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force
have seized over 43,000 fentanyl pills from the cartel over the past month.
Per a press release from the Tohono O'odham Nation, the pills and other drugs were recovered during multiple undercover sting operations
and three men, none of which were native, were arrested.
"Successful interdictions such as this one are the result of careful planning and precise execution by dedicated tribal, federal and state officers,"
said Rodney Irby, Assistant Tohono O'odham Police Chief and designated head of NATIVE HIDTA .
"NATIVE HIDTA performed exactly as it was designed to in this case, with multiple jurisdictions working together as a single unit to protect the public."
The sting operations were planned by the NATIVE HIDTA Task Force, which is one of 250 HIDTA Task Forces in the U.S.
Noteably, the NATIVE HIDTA Task Force on the Nation is the only tribally led task force in the country.
Edward D. Manuel, Chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation said:
"On behalf of the Tohono O'odham Nation I want to thank our public safety officials.
They put their lives on the line every day in protecting our people and the American public and they deserve our appreciation for their efforts."
Generally, HIDTA Task Forces are joint task forces of federal, local, state, and tribal law enforcement
made for uncovering major trafficking rings, cartels, money laundering, and organized crime.
END
Note: The reservation is on the US - Mexican border
Comment: made with the necessary chemicals from China?
Thx
Tohono O'odham task force seize over 43,000 fentanyl pills from cartel
Posted: 1:10 PM, Mar 21, 2019 Updated: 12:15 PM,
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/tohono-oodham-task-force-seize-over-43-000-fentanyl-pills-from-cartel
SELLS, Ariz. — The Tohono O'odham Nation Police and NATIVE High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force
have seized over 43,000 fentanyl pills from the cartel over the past month.
Per a press release from the Tohono O'odham Nation, the pills and other drugs were recovered during multiple undercover sting operations
and three men, none of which were native, were arrested.
"Successful interdictions such as this one are the result of careful planning and precise execution by dedicated tribal, federal and state officers,"
said Rodney Irby, Assistant Tohono O'odham Police Chief and designated head of NATIVE HIDTA .
"NATIVE HIDTA performed exactly as it was designed to in this case, with multiple jurisdictions working together as a single unit to protect the public."
The sting operations were planned by the NATIVE HIDTA Task Force, which is one of 250 HIDTA Task Forces in the U.S.
Noteably, the NATIVE HIDTA Task Force on the Nation is the only tribally led task force in the country.
Edward D. Manuel, Chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation said:
"On behalf of the Tohono O'odham Nation I want to thank our public safety officials.
They put their lives on the line every day in protecting our people and the American public and they deserve our appreciation for their efforts."
Generally, HIDTA Task Forces are joint task forces of federal, local, state, and tribal law enforcement
made for uncovering major trafficking rings, cartels, money laundering, and organized crime.
END
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
AZMEX I3-2 19-3-19
AZMEX I3-2 19 MAR 2019
Note: Op-ed and reporting from Townhall.
Wait, How Many Illegal Aliens Are Ignoring Their Final Deportation Orders…
Matt Vespa Matt Vespa
@mvespa1 |Posted: Mar 19, 2019 4:15 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/03/19/wait-how-many-illegal-aliens-are-ignoring-their-final-deportation-orders-n2543386?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=b9506c88c4bf726128e53e70db4b16b9&recip=5905748
Wait, How Many Illegal Aliens Are Ignoring Their Final Deportation Orders…
We're back, and Storm is quite punchy today. Torching all the things, including me, but we'll get to that in a second. First on the hit list were the GOP senators who voted for blocking the national emergency declaration that President Trump issued concerning the illegal alien crisis on our southern border. Trump vetoed it, and while we didn't have the names of those who stabbed us in the back at the time of recording, here they are for this post:
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.
Trump has had much patience concerning his action item for a border wall. It's time to get it done. The Democrats are not serious.
Another thing that isn't serious is the Russian collusion myth, which has devolved into a massive taxpayer-funded investigation helmed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Even Democrats are admitting that nothing will probably come of this investigation. And the American people are starting to turn against it. Guy wrote it up yesterday. Fifty-four percent of Independents see Trump as a victim of a witch hunt, 50 percent overall feel the same way, and support for impeachment is at an abysmal 28 percent. Please Democrats…keep pushing this. It's only helping the man remain in office.
And speaking of offices, Judge Jeanine Pirro had her show yanked off the airwaves because she brought up Rep. Ilhan Omar's hijab. I've watched the clip. It's embedded below. There is nothing wrong with it. Nothing. Sorry, around 99.9 percent of it is trashing the Democratic Party's inability to confront the rising tide of anti-Semitism within their ranks, all of it coming from Omar. Omar is also not new to peddling anti-Semitic trash on social media; she's been doing it since 2012. She engulfed her whole party in this mess with their garbage resolution that went from condemning anti-Semitism to a watered down version that is essentially worthless because the party isn't unified in fighting this horrific bigotry.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's defense of Omar is ridiculous, where she essentially calls her too stupid to know what she says so she can't be anti-Semitic. Omar was educated here and has lived here for nearly a quarter-century. If she's too dumb, then why is she on Foreign Relations, Madame speaker? Why does she continue to engage in these anti-Semitic antics?
Maybe the closing by Judge Jeanine could've been executed better. Maybe the delivery was a bit sloppy, but it was hardly something that she should be quasi-suspended over. Yeah, so much for never caving to the mob, Fox News.
And speaking of caving, Storm decided to go after me for attending a junket promoting the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which is gaining traction. Delaware and Colorado are pushing it. Colorado has already officially joined, with Delaware not too far off. A bill to allocate Electoral College votes based on whoever wins the national popular vote passed the state house. I think the initiative has some merits, but I'm still unconvinced we need to burn the whole system down. The Electoral College has served us well, but I'm not afraid to have a debate about the national popular vote; I wrote about it here.
For one thing, I still think we'd win under such a system, but Paglia was on the warpath. The one thing that has changed is that I don't think Florida is on the verge of becoming a blue state after the past two elections there. What absolutely cannot be allowed, however, is for the next Democratic president, which hopefully won't be for a long time, be allowed to pack the Supreme Court a la FDR.
But, that's a backburner discussion. Right now, some 60-65,000 illegal aliens are being apprehended a month on average, 76,000 in February alone. We need a wall. We need border security, but Storm noted Conservative Review's piece where over a million illegal aliens are just ignoring their final deportation notices. They're just staying here. And if you combine those with notices and those with final orders pending, that figure soars past 2 million:
According to new data obtained by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) via a FOIA request, there are 644,488 illegal aliens remaining in our country who have already been served final deportation orders. And those are just from the top four countries of origin – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The IRLI shared much more data with CR. The total number of illegal aliens who remain in the country despite final deportation orders is 1,009,550.
In addition, there are roughly 1.1 million others from those four counties who have "pending final orders" and are close to receiving deportation orders. Those with pending final orders are usually individuals who have already been ordered deported by immigration judges but are appealing their case to the Bureau of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the appellate body of the DOJ's administrative immigration courts.
That is a total of 1.7 million illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America with final or near-final orders of deportation. Those numbers are as of June 2018, right before the largest surge in Central Americans began over that summer and intensified in the fall of 2018 and winter of 2019. The total number of those ordered deported or with pending deportation orders for nationals of all countries of origin is 2.55 million.
Folks, this is one of the major reasons why Trump won the primary and the 2016 election. Democrats have allowed federal immigration laws to be ignored, mocked, and denigrated. Not under Donald Trump.
In some company news, Salem Media Group has acquired PJ Media. So, be sure to follow Tyler O'Neil and Paula Bolyard who will be helming things over there. Welcome to the Salem Empire, folks. On Thursday, we're having a special Bob O'Rouke episode. See you then.
End
Note: Op-ed and reporting from Townhall.
Wait, How Many Illegal Aliens Are Ignoring Their Final Deportation Orders…
Matt Vespa Matt Vespa
@mvespa1 |Posted: Mar 19, 2019 4:15 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/03/19/wait-how-many-illegal-aliens-are-ignoring-their-final-deportation-orders-n2543386?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=b9506c88c4bf726128e53e70db4b16b9&recip=5905748
Wait, How Many Illegal Aliens Are Ignoring Their Final Deportation Orders…
We're back, and Storm is quite punchy today. Torching all the things, including me, but we'll get to that in a second. First on the hit list were the GOP senators who voted for blocking the national emergency declaration that President Trump issued concerning the illegal alien crisis on our southern border. Trump vetoed it, and while we didn't have the names of those who stabbed us in the back at the time of recording, here they are for this post:
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.
Trump has had much patience concerning his action item for a border wall. It's time to get it done. The Democrats are not serious.
Another thing that isn't serious is the Russian collusion myth, which has devolved into a massive taxpayer-funded investigation helmed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Even Democrats are admitting that nothing will probably come of this investigation. And the American people are starting to turn against it. Guy wrote it up yesterday. Fifty-four percent of Independents see Trump as a victim of a witch hunt, 50 percent overall feel the same way, and support for impeachment is at an abysmal 28 percent. Please Democrats…keep pushing this. It's only helping the man remain in office.
And speaking of offices, Judge Jeanine Pirro had her show yanked off the airwaves because she brought up Rep. Ilhan Omar's hijab. I've watched the clip. It's embedded below. There is nothing wrong with it. Nothing. Sorry, around 99.9 percent of it is trashing the Democratic Party's inability to confront the rising tide of anti-Semitism within their ranks, all of it coming from Omar. Omar is also not new to peddling anti-Semitic trash on social media; she's been doing it since 2012. She engulfed her whole party in this mess with their garbage resolution that went from condemning anti-Semitism to a watered down version that is essentially worthless because the party isn't unified in fighting this horrific bigotry.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's defense of Omar is ridiculous, where she essentially calls her too stupid to know what she says so she can't be anti-Semitic. Omar was educated here and has lived here for nearly a quarter-century. If she's too dumb, then why is she on Foreign Relations, Madame speaker? Why does she continue to engage in these anti-Semitic antics?
Maybe the closing by Judge Jeanine could've been executed better. Maybe the delivery was a bit sloppy, but it was hardly something that she should be quasi-suspended over. Yeah, so much for never caving to the mob, Fox News.
And speaking of caving, Storm decided to go after me for attending a junket promoting the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which is gaining traction. Delaware and Colorado are pushing it. Colorado has already officially joined, with Delaware not too far off. A bill to allocate Electoral College votes based on whoever wins the national popular vote passed the state house. I think the initiative has some merits, but I'm still unconvinced we need to burn the whole system down. The Electoral College has served us well, but I'm not afraid to have a debate about the national popular vote; I wrote about it here.
For one thing, I still think we'd win under such a system, but Paglia was on the warpath. The one thing that has changed is that I don't think Florida is on the verge of becoming a blue state after the past two elections there. What absolutely cannot be allowed, however, is for the next Democratic president, which hopefully won't be for a long time, be allowed to pack the Supreme Court a la FDR.
But, that's a backburner discussion. Right now, some 60-65,000 illegal aliens are being apprehended a month on average, 76,000 in February alone. We need a wall. We need border security, but Storm noted Conservative Review's piece where over a million illegal aliens are just ignoring their final deportation notices. They're just staying here. And if you combine those with notices and those with final orders pending, that figure soars past 2 million:
According to new data obtained by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) via a FOIA request, there are 644,488 illegal aliens remaining in our country who have already been served final deportation orders. And those are just from the top four countries of origin – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The IRLI shared much more data with CR. The total number of illegal aliens who remain in the country despite final deportation orders is 1,009,550.
In addition, there are roughly 1.1 million others from those four counties who have "pending final orders" and are close to receiving deportation orders. Those with pending final orders are usually individuals who have already been ordered deported by immigration judges but are appealing their case to the Bureau of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the appellate body of the DOJ's administrative immigration courts.
That is a total of 1.7 million illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America with final or near-final orders of deportation. Those numbers are as of June 2018, right before the largest surge in Central Americans began over that summer and intensified in the fall of 2018 and winter of 2019. The total number of those ordered deported or with pending deportation orders for nationals of all countries of origin is 2.55 million.
Folks, this is one of the major reasons why Trump won the primary and the 2016 election. Democrats have allowed federal immigration laws to be ignored, mocked, and denigrated. Not under Donald Trump.
In some company news, Salem Media Group has acquired PJ Media. So, be sure to follow Tyler O'Neil and Paula Bolyard who will be helming things over there. Welcome to the Salem Empire, folks. On Thursday, we're having a special Bob O'Rouke episode. See you then.
End
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
AZMEX I3 19-3-19
AZMEX I3 19 MAR 2019
Asylum seekers waiting in Mexico arrive for hearings in US
Elliot Spagat, Associated Press
Updated 2:19 pm CDT, Tuesday, March 19, 2019
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/texas/article/Asylum-seekers-waiting-in-Mexico-arrive-for-13700296.php?utm_campaign=hpborder
Two men, both of Honduras, walk with attorneys as they cross into the United States to begin their asylum cases, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. A group of about five men were on their way to report for their first hearing under a new policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their case winds through U.S. immigration court. Photo: Gregory Bull, AP
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Two men, both of Honduras, walk with attorneys as they cross into the United States to begin their asylum cases, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. A group of about five men were on their way to ... more
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The first scheduled hearings under a new Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts will be held Tuesday in San Diego.
The initial appearances come three days before a federal judge in San Francisco hears arguments by advocacy groups to halt enforcement of the policy, which went into effect Jan. 29 in San Diego and was expanded last week to Calexico, California.
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Administration officials say they intend to expand the policy along the entire U.S.-Mexico border.
The shift comes as more asylum-seeking families from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador arrive at the U.S. border as they flee pervasive gang violence and poverty.
The change has been introduced slowly, with an average of 40 people a week being returned to Tijuana from San Diego in the first six weeks.
Mexico has agreed to accept up to 120 a week.
The shift followed months of high-level talks with Mexico about asylum-seeking families who have been released into the U.S. while their cases took years to get through immigration court.
The administration hopes that forcing people to wait in Mexico will discourage weak claims and help reduce a court backlog of more than 800,000 cases.
Critics say the policy forces Central American asylum seekers to wait in dangerous environments such as Tijuana, which had more than 2,500 homicides last year, and invites other problems, including difficulty finding legal advice in Mexico.
Mexico has described the U.S. shift as a unilateral move by the Trump administration — a characterization that U.S. officials readily acknowledge. However, officials in Mexico say humanitarian reasons led them to temporarily allow the asylum seekers to wait in that country.
One asylum-seeker from Honduras reporting for his first hearing Tuesday said his wait has been problem-free.
"It hasn't been difficult so far," he said after meeting U.S. authorities at San Diego's San Ysidro crossing, the nation's busiest border crossing. "I thank my lawyer because she hasn't left us alone. She's always been with us."
The man would only identify himself by his first name, Ariel. His home country is wracked by gang-fueled violence, and many asylum-seekers worry about retribution against their families still there or them if they are deported.
Some immigrants have had trouble finding legal help. A list of no- or low-cost legal aid providers that was given to them by U.S. officials includes organizations that refuse to offer advice on Mexican soil or have had to overcome serious reservations about doing so.
Initial asylum hearings in downtown San Diego are scheduled within 45 days of making a claim, and administration officials hope to put them on a fast track.
On the day of their hearing, asylum seekers are told to report to the border crossing for temporary admission to the U.S. and a ride to court. If their cases aren't completed, they are escorted back to Mexico to continue waiting.
In an apparent scheduling glitch, some hearings were moved up to last Thursday, The San Diego-Union Tribune reported. Two of three people scheduled to appear didn't make it to the border crossing in time.
END
Asylum seekers waiting in Mexico arrive for hearings in US
Elliot Spagat, Associated Press
Updated 2:19 pm CDT, Tuesday, March 19, 2019
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/texas/article/Asylum-seekers-waiting-in-Mexico-arrive-for-13700296.php?utm_campaign=hpborder
Two men, both of Honduras, walk with attorneys as they cross into the United States to begin their asylum cases, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. A group of about five men were on their way to report for their first hearing under a new policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their case winds through U.S. immigration court. Photo: Gregory Bull, AP
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Two men, both of Honduras, walk with attorneys as they cross into the United States to begin their asylum cases, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. A group of about five men were on their way to ... more
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The first scheduled hearings under a new Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts will be held Tuesday in San Diego.
The initial appearances come three days before a federal judge in San Francisco hears arguments by advocacy groups to halt enforcement of the policy, which went into effect Jan. 29 in San Diego and was expanded last week to Calexico, California.
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Administration officials say they intend to expand the policy along the entire U.S.-Mexico border.
The shift comes as more asylum-seeking families from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador arrive at the U.S. border as they flee pervasive gang violence and poverty.
The change has been introduced slowly, with an average of 40 people a week being returned to Tijuana from San Diego in the first six weeks.
Mexico has agreed to accept up to 120 a week.
The shift followed months of high-level talks with Mexico about asylum-seeking families who have been released into the U.S. while their cases took years to get through immigration court.
The administration hopes that forcing people to wait in Mexico will discourage weak claims and help reduce a court backlog of more than 800,000 cases.
Critics say the policy forces Central American asylum seekers to wait in dangerous environments such as Tijuana, which had more than 2,500 homicides last year, and invites other problems, including difficulty finding legal advice in Mexico.
Mexico has described the U.S. shift as a unilateral move by the Trump administration — a characterization that U.S. officials readily acknowledge. However, officials in Mexico say humanitarian reasons led them to temporarily allow the asylum seekers to wait in that country.
One asylum-seeker from Honduras reporting for his first hearing Tuesday said his wait has been problem-free.
"It hasn't been difficult so far," he said after meeting U.S. authorities at San Diego's San Ysidro crossing, the nation's busiest border crossing. "I thank my lawyer because she hasn't left us alone. She's always been with us."
The man would only identify himself by his first name, Ariel. His home country is wracked by gang-fueled violence, and many asylum-seekers worry about retribution against their families still there or them if they are deported.
Some immigrants have had trouble finding legal help. A list of no- or low-cost legal aid providers that was given to them by U.S. officials includes organizations that refuse to offer advice on Mexican soil or have had to overcome serious reservations about doing so.
Initial asylum hearings in downtown San Diego are scheduled within 45 days of making a claim, and administration officials hope to put them on a fast track.
On the day of their hearing, asylum seekers are told to report to the border crossing for temporary admission to the U.S. and a ride to court. If their cases aren't completed, they are escorted back to Mexico to continue waiting.
In an apparent scheduling glitch, some hearings were moved up to last Thursday, The San Diego-Union Tribune reported. Two of three people scheduled to appear didn't make it to the border crossing in time.
END
Monday, March 18, 2019
AZMEX I3-2 15-3-19
AZMEX I3-2 15 MAR 2019
Greyhound says migrant families must wait outside bus stations
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | MARCH 15, 2019 AT 10:58 AM
UPDATED: MARCH 15, 2019 AT 12:45 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2486616/greyhound-says-migrant-families-must-wait-outside-bus-stations/
PHOENIX — Greyhound Lines Inc. is no longer allowing U.S. authorities to drop off immigrant families inside bus stations,
forcing those who have been released from custody to wait outside until they have a ticket.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday
that it had been asked to drop off migrants outside facilities instead of busing them in.
A
ICE for years has dropped off migrants at Greyhound stations, largely in Phoenix,
after releasing them pending court hearings to decide whether they can stay in the country.
( Any bets on how many will ever show up? )
From the stations, they travel to their intended destination in the United States.
Greyhound spokeswoman Crystal Booker said the company is experiencing an "unprecedented increase of individuals"
at certain bus terminals and that travelers need tickets to get in.
She said the policy applies to anyone who lacks a ticket.
"Our priority is to safely and efficiently get customers to their destinations," Booker said in a statement.
Immigrants who are released by ICE don't usually have prior notice and can't make travel arrangements until they arrive at the station.
Most of them don't have money and have to wait on a relative or advocacy group to buy their ticket.
A huge number of Central American families have traveled to U.S. in the past few months,
many who say they are fleeing violence and plan to seek asylum.
Others say they are escaping extreme poverty.
In Arizona alone between Dec. 21, 2018, and March 5,
ICE said it had processed for release about 14,500 people who came as families.
Outside the station in Phoenix, about 15 adults and five children waited in a shaded area near a parking lot Thursday.
Some said they had been there for about seven hours.
The federal agency relies on volunteer organizations, many of them faith-based groups, to help families with travel and meals.
Connie Phillips, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest,
said she doesn't blame Greyhound for its policy
but rather immigration officials for not having a long-term, sustainable way to deal with releasing migrants.
"Just dropping people off in a place that's not meant to be able to welcome and assist them is not a solution,
and we have to work together to create a viable response to this increased need and stop this chaos," Phillips said.
Immigration authorities say they release families at bus stations only when volunteer groups run out of space.
"ICE wants to mitigate strains placed on resources in the local community
as we continue to see high volumes of families crossing the border,"
spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe said.
Phillips said dozens of volunteers have created a network to respond to the bus station in Phoenix when immigrants are dropped off.
They bring food and water, allow migrants to use volunteers' cellphones and help coordinate travel.
Phillips said the groups that help out are able to temporarily house about 700 people
in churches and congregants' homes in the Phoenix area, but that doesn't suffice.
The practice of dropping migrants at Greyhound stations isn't limited to Phoenix, but it's where it happens most often.
In San Diego, ICE takes families directly from a Customs and Border Protection station
to a shelter run by non-governmental organizations.
Authorities have dropped off migrants at the bus station only in some cases.
In McAllen, Texas, migrants are dropped off at a Catholic Charities shelter.
END
Greyhound says migrant families must wait outside bus stations
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | MARCH 15, 2019 AT 10:58 AM
UPDATED: MARCH 15, 2019 AT 12:45 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2486616/greyhound-says-migrant-families-must-wait-outside-bus-stations/
PHOENIX — Greyhound Lines Inc. is no longer allowing U.S. authorities to drop off immigrant families inside bus stations,
forcing those who have been released from custody to wait outside until they have a ticket.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday
that it had been asked to drop off migrants outside facilities instead of busing them in.
A
ICE for years has dropped off migrants at Greyhound stations, largely in Phoenix,
after releasing them pending court hearings to decide whether they can stay in the country.
( Any bets on how many will ever show up? )
From the stations, they travel to their intended destination in the United States.
Greyhound spokeswoman Crystal Booker said the company is experiencing an "unprecedented increase of individuals"
at certain bus terminals and that travelers need tickets to get in.
She said the policy applies to anyone who lacks a ticket.
"Our priority is to safely and efficiently get customers to their destinations," Booker said in a statement.
Immigrants who are released by ICE don't usually have prior notice and can't make travel arrangements until they arrive at the station.
Most of them don't have money and have to wait on a relative or advocacy group to buy their ticket.
A huge number of Central American families have traveled to U.S. in the past few months,
many who say they are fleeing violence and plan to seek asylum.
Others say they are escaping extreme poverty.
In Arizona alone between Dec. 21, 2018, and March 5,
ICE said it had processed for release about 14,500 people who came as families.
Outside the station in Phoenix, about 15 adults and five children waited in a shaded area near a parking lot Thursday.
Some said they had been there for about seven hours.
The federal agency relies on volunteer organizations, many of them faith-based groups, to help families with travel and meals.
Connie Phillips, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest,
said she doesn't blame Greyhound for its policy
but rather immigration officials for not having a long-term, sustainable way to deal with releasing migrants.
"Just dropping people off in a place that's not meant to be able to welcome and assist them is not a solution,
and we have to work together to create a viable response to this increased need and stop this chaos," Phillips said.
Immigration authorities say they release families at bus stations only when volunteer groups run out of space.
"ICE wants to mitigate strains placed on resources in the local community
as we continue to see high volumes of families crossing the border,"
spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe said.
Phillips said dozens of volunteers have created a network to respond to the bus station in Phoenix when immigrants are dropped off.
They bring food and water, allow migrants to use volunteers' cellphones and help coordinate travel.
Phillips said the groups that help out are able to temporarily house about 700 people
in churches and congregants' homes in the Phoenix area, but that doesn't suffice.
The practice of dropping migrants at Greyhound stations isn't limited to Phoenix, but it's where it happens most often.
In San Diego, ICE takes families directly from a Customs and Border Protection station
to a shelter run by non-governmental organizations.
Authorities have dropped off migrants at the bus station only in some cases.
In McAllen, Texas, migrants are dropped off at a Catholic Charities shelter.
END
AZMEX I3 15-3-19
AZMEX I3 15 MAR 2019
Immigrant smugglers target NM border
BY MIKE GALLAGHER / JOURNAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2019 at 11:35pm
Updated: Thursday, March 14th, 2019 at 11:35pm
https://www.abqjournal.com/1292230/immigrant-smugglers-target-nm-border.html
More than 60 immigrants from Guatemala and Ecuador were kept in this shed attached to a fifth-wheel trailer. (Source: Federal Court Exhibit)
Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal
From high-end operations catering to Brazilians to overcrowded stash houses in rural New Mexico, organized criminal groups are smuggling immigrants into the U.S. through New Mexico's southern border using the crush of asylum seekers from Central America and elsewhere as cover.
Homeland Security Investigations and Border Patrol agents have identified several organized criminal groups that have been smuggling immigrants across the southern border to ultimate destinations in Alabama, New Jersey, Tennessee and elsewhere.
Over the last year, federal agents have arrested human smugglers in the small towns of Hachita in New Mexico's Bootheel and Dexter south of Roswell as well as Albuquerque and Birmingham, Ala.
On Wednesday, Maximo Gonzalez-Sebastian, one of three men arrested in connection with a stash house in Roswell, was convicted in federal court in Las Cruces on charges of hostage taking and conspiracy. Gonzalez-Sebastian, who had a Guatemalan passport on him when he was arrested, could face up to 20 years in federal prison.
Two of his associates have already pleaded guilty and also await sentencing.
U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson
"We are making a concentrated effort to investigate and prosecute organizations involved in human trafficking," U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson said, adding that includes both smugglers and those taking advantage of asylum seekers.
"It is a more diverse immigrant population than we've seen in the past," he said. "New Mexico is primarily a transit point" for people entering the country either illegally or through the asylum process.
Efforts to control the numbers of people arriving at the official ports of entry seeking asylum have led people to "self surrender" to Border Patrol agents at more remote areas of the border like the small port of entry in New Mexico's Bootheel at Antelope Wells or the deserts outside Deming.
Under U.S. law, migrant families who have requested asylum are typically released to join relatives or sponsors recruited by charities in other parts of the country. They will be issued a Notice to Appear in immigration court for their asylum hearing.
This has led to a flood of asylum seeking immigrants – more than 76,000 in the El Paso sector, which includes all of New Mexico's border, in February alone. Customs and Border Patrol agents say they have been so overwhelmed in processing and finding medical attention when needed that they are concerned they are missing criminal smuggling operations and drug runners.
Business booming
The asylum wave is a boom for smugglers.
In a recently unsealed search warrant, agents from Homeland Security Investigations said three Guatemalan families independently gave agents at the Border Patrol headquarters in Deming the same contact information – the phone number and address for what turned out to be a billiards parlor in Nashville, Tenn.
One woman told the agents she was recruited and smuggled through Mexico by a man named "Geronimo" and contacted him at the Tennessee phone number while they traveled through Mexico.
There was no answer when the Journal called the telephone number several times this week.
Agents believe "Geronimo" is connected to the Bartolo Alien Smuggling Organization, which has operated in Mexico and Guatemala for a number of years, generating more than $5 million for the organization.
The promises Geronimo makes are similar to other smugglers', but his have been consistent for the last several years.
One of the women who talked to agents said she made a down payment of 15,000 quetzals (approximately $1,950 U.S.) for her and her son to be smuggled into the U.S. She was promised a job in the U.S. to pay the remainder of the smuggling fee.
END
Immigrant smugglers target NM border
BY MIKE GALLAGHER / JOURNAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2019 at 11:35pm
Updated: Thursday, March 14th, 2019 at 11:35pm
https://www.abqjournal.com/1292230/immigrant-smugglers-target-nm-border.html
More than 60 immigrants from Guatemala and Ecuador were kept in this shed attached to a fifth-wheel trailer. (Source: Federal Court Exhibit)
Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal
From high-end operations catering to Brazilians to overcrowded stash houses in rural New Mexico, organized criminal groups are smuggling immigrants into the U.S. through New Mexico's southern border using the crush of asylum seekers from Central America and elsewhere as cover.
Homeland Security Investigations and Border Patrol agents have identified several organized criminal groups that have been smuggling immigrants across the southern border to ultimate destinations in Alabama, New Jersey, Tennessee and elsewhere.
Over the last year, federal agents have arrested human smugglers in the small towns of Hachita in New Mexico's Bootheel and Dexter south of Roswell as well as Albuquerque and Birmingham, Ala.
On Wednesday, Maximo Gonzalez-Sebastian, one of three men arrested in connection with a stash house in Roswell, was convicted in federal court in Las Cruces on charges of hostage taking and conspiracy. Gonzalez-Sebastian, who had a Guatemalan passport on him when he was arrested, could face up to 20 years in federal prison.
Two of his associates have already pleaded guilty and also await sentencing.
U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson
"We are making a concentrated effort to investigate and prosecute organizations involved in human trafficking," U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson said, adding that includes both smugglers and those taking advantage of asylum seekers.
"It is a more diverse immigrant population than we've seen in the past," he said. "New Mexico is primarily a transit point" for people entering the country either illegally or through the asylum process.
Efforts to control the numbers of people arriving at the official ports of entry seeking asylum have led people to "self surrender" to Border Patrol agents at more remote areas of the border like the small port of entry in New Mexico's Bootheel at Antelope Wells or the deserts outside Deming.
Under U.S. law, migrant families who have requested asylum are typically released to join relatives or sponsors recruited by charities in other parts of the country. They will be issued a Notice to Appear in immigration court for their asylum hearing.
This has led to a flood of asylum seeking immigrants – more than 76,000 in the El Paso sector, which includes all of New Mexico's border, in February alone. Customs and Border Patrol agents say they have been so overwhelmed in processing and finding medical attention when needed that they are concerned they are missing criminal smuggling operations and drug runners.
Business booming
The asylum wave is a boom for smugglers.
In a recently unsealed search warrant, agents from Homeland Security Investigations said three Guatemalan families independently gave agents at the Border Patrol headquarters in Deming the same contact information – the phone number and address for what turned out to be a billiards parlor in Nashville, Tenn.
One woman told the agents she was recruited and smuggled through Mexico by a man named "Geronimo" and contacted him at the Tennessee phone number while they traveled through Mexico.
There was no answer when the Journal called the telephone number several times this week.
Agents believe "Geronimo" is connected to the Bartolo Alien Smuggling Organization, which has operated in Mexico and Guatemala for a number of years, generating more than $5 million for the organization.
The promises Geronimo makes are similar to other smugglers', but his have been consistent for the last several years.
One of the women who talked to agents said she made a down payment of 15,000 quetzals (approximately $1,950 U.S.) for her and her son to be smuggled into the U.S. She was promised a job in the U.S. to pay the remainder of the smuggling fee.
END
AZMEX UPDATE 18-3-19
AZMEX UPDATE 18 MAR 2019
Note: the corrupt government of Mexico has worked for years to disarm the law abiding people.
The criminal cartels / elements / gangs remain unmolested and well armed.
With many weapons supplied by the Obama regime .
Gracias
Security in Nogales is down the street: Regidor
Details Published on Friday March 15, 2019,
Written by Francisco Espinoza / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126301
Nogales, Son
The levels of insecurity in Nogales have increased exponentially, placing the Nogalesans in a state of defenselessness due to the scarce attention
of the authorities to this problem.
The ruler of the National Action Party (PAN), Guillermo Cruz Davison criticized the null response of the municipality to contain crimes
in tort to the heritage of the people of Nogalenses.
"Security is on the street," he said, "every day crimes, murders, robberies, assaults, destruction of property increase a
nd we do not find a justification for not attacking them."
Although in the police corporation there are highly qualified elements, he said, with the necessary preparation to respond to any situation,
for some reason they are in positions that do not allow them to carry out their functions.
Every day is recorded at least one murder or the disappearance of a person, he said,
without observing the implementation of a strategy to contain or reduce crime.
"The security situation in the city is getting worse every day," he said, "in addition to the damage caused by the disapproval of elements
in the Control and Confidence test, which has many edges and leaves many police officers out of service. "
The municipal authorities must take into account the population's feelings regarding security, he added,
applying strategies to reduce the crime rate
end
Note: the corrupt government of Mexico has worked for years to disarm the law abiding people.
The criminal cartels / elements / gangs remain unmolested and well armed.
With many weapons supplied by the Obama regime .
Gracias
Security in Nogales is down the street: Regidor
Details Published on Friday March 15, 2019,
Written by Francisco Espinoza / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126301
Nogales, Son
The levels of insecurity in Nogales have increased exponentially, placing the Nogalesans in a state of defenselessness due to the scarce attention
of the authorities to this problem.
The ruler of the National Action Party (PAN), Guillermo Cruz Davison criticized the null response of the municipality to contain crimes
in tort to the heritage of the people of Nogalenses.
"Security is on the street," he said, "every day crimes, murders, robberies, assaults, destruction of property increase a
nd we do not find a justification for not attacking them."
Although in the police corporation there are highly qualified elements, he said, with the necessary preparation to respond to any situation,
for some reason they are in positions that do not allow them to carry out their functions.
Every day is recorded at least one murder or the disappearance of a person, he said,
without observing the implementation of a strategy to contain or reduce crime.
"The security situation in the city is getting worse every day," he said, "in addition to the damage caused by the disapproval of elements
in the Control and Confidence test, which has many edges and leaves many police officers out of service. "
The municipal authorities must take into account the population's feelings regarding security, he added,
applying strategies to reduce the crime rate
end
Fwd: Rescue In Our Back Yard
Note: YOU will pay for their medical care.
thx
Begin forwarded message:From:Subject: Fwd: Rescue In Our Back YardDate: March 18, 2019 at 9:08:11 AM MSTTo:
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued five migrants from freezing to death in a mountainous region of the Arizona-Mexico border.
Agents assigned to the Tucson Sector received information regarding a 911 call in late Wednesday evening from a man claiming to be stranded with four other people on a snow-covered mountain. The agents notified U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) and other law enforcement agencies to assist in the search, according to information obtained from Tucson Sector Border Patrol officials.
Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Tucson Sector
The search and rescue operation began on Wednesday in the Santa Rita Mountains for the missing group. Search teams from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office and the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) joined the federal agencies in the search. By about 1 a.m. Thursday morning, a DPS aircrew spotted the group on a snow-capped mountain. Due to conditions in the area, Border Patrol rescue crews had to wait until daybreak to begin the rescue operation, officials stated.
Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue (BORSTAR) teams began the hike to the group shortly after daybreak and safely reached their location. The agents identified the lost people as illegal aliens from Mexico and Honduras. Agents determined the three Honduran nationals and the two Mexican nationals were suffering from exposure to the cold and injuries to their extremities.
Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Tucson Sector
An AMO helicopter arrived on the scene and airlifted the lost migrants to a UH-60 helicopter. The aircrew transported the migrants to a nearby road where Green Valley Fire District first responders took over treatment and transportation to a local hospital.
Border Patrol officials stated they will take custody of the migrants following their release from the hospital and process them for immigration violations.
AZMEX I3 16-3-19
AZMEX I3 16 MAR 2019
Note: a very busy AZMEX March.
Investigators scramble to solve mystery just miles from the US-Mexico border
Theories abound ...
By: CNN EN ESPAÑOL'S REY RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.
Posted: Mar 16, 2019 02:25 AM MDT
Updated: Mar 16, 2019 03:26 AM MDT
https://www.kvia.com/news/us-world/investigators-scramble-to-solve-mystery-just-miles-from-the-usmexico-border/1059983347
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Honduran migrants walk toward the U.S.-Mexico border fence to cross over on Jan. 6, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Masked gunmen barged onto a bus in northern Mexico, carrying a list of names.
They left without firing a single shot, taking at least 19 passengers with them as they sped away from the scene.
And so far, they seem to have vanished without a trace.
Where did the missing passengers go?
It's a mystery that's left Mexican officials scrambling for answers as public pressure mounts.
Authorities are investigating what they've said may be a mass kidnapping, and Mexico's top leaders have offered several possible explanations in recent days.
They've revealed one key detail that's likely a big piece of the puzzle:
All the passengers the gunmen removed from the bus were likely migrants traveling through Mexico and heading to the United States.
And the theories authorities have presented have serious implications in the immigration debate on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Theory 1: The migrants were kidnapped
Officials at first tried to downplay the possibility the migrants were kidnapped, but later announced a national operation to find the missing migrants.
What we know so far:
Gunmen intercepted the bus March 7 along the highway that connects San Fernando, a town in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas,
with the city of Reynosa, which sits across the U.S. border from McAllen, Texas.
It took days for officials to reveal the incident -- something that's drawn criticism in Mexican media.
Officials have defended the delay, saying they weren't trying to hide information but were waiting to confirm facts before releasing them.
San Fernando was the site of a notorious migrant massacre less than a decade ago.
Investigators found the remains of 72 migrants at a house there in 2010.
The next year they found the remains of nearly 200 people in mass graves in the area while investigating cases of passengers kidnapped from buses.
But you don't have to go back that far to find other examples of kidnapped migrants in Tamaulipas, a cartel stronghold.
Just this week, authorities announced they'd rescued a group of 34 migrants who were being held there.
What experts say:
For years, advocates and analysts have warned that Central American migrants are often assaulted as they make their way north through Mexico.
In 2011, the country's human rights commission estimated that more than 11,000 migrants had been kidnapped in a six-month period.
Kidnappers take different approaches in different parts of the country, says Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative
at the University of Texas at Austin. In Tamaulipas, intercepting buses is a common tactic, says Leutert,
who co-authored a report analyzing migrant kidnappings last year.
"Armed cars stopping the bus, people with weapons getting on and pulling people off,
it's a modus operandi of kidnapping that fits clearly into a pattern," she says.
Maureen Meyer, director for Mexico and migrant rights at the Washington Office on Latin America,
says there's one thing that's notable about this most recent incident: It's getting a lot of attention.
But Meyer says she sees it as part of a "continuation of kidnappings" that Mexican authorities haven't done enough to investigate.
"Migrants are targeted for crimes in Mexico precisely because of their vulnerable status," she says.
"It has become a lucrative way for criminal groups to gain thousands of dollars per migrant as they're holding them for ransom."
Rafael Alonso Hernandez Lopez, who directs a doctoral program in migration studies at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte
(The College of the Northern Border) in Tijuana, said it's notable that Mexican officials are talking about what happened at all.
He noted it's the first such incident since Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December.
"The problem dates back years, and it's unfortunate that it keeps happening. …
Perhaps what's changing is that in the new administration there hadn't been any events like this, and they hadn't been made visible," he said.
"The fact that the federal government itself has made this situation public also speaks in another way."
Theory 2: The gunmen were smugglers the migrants contracted
As word spread of the migrants' disappearance, Lopez Obrador and one of his top national security officials floated the possibility Tuesday
that the migrants weren't kidnapped, but rather were simply meeting up with smugglers
they'd contracted to help them get across the US-Mexico border.
"There's a hypothesis that this is a way of getting to the U.S. territory.
It's not that they disappear, but that this is how they cross the border," Lopez Obrador told reporters.
What we know so far:
Mexican officials say they've been checking with authorities in Central America to see whether anyone has reported loved ones missing.
And so far, they haven't received any reports.
Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo told reporters it's notable that no shots were fired when the gunmen boarded the bus,
and that only men were taken.
"Intelligence indicates that criminal groups that operate in the area offer services to transport migrants to the United States,"
Durazo told reporters Tuesday.
At a news conference Thursday, Mexico's defense secretary presented what he said were images of the bus crossing through a military checkpoint
more than an hour before the ambush. All 44 passengers aboard the bus were screened at the time, he said.
Authorities now believe the migrants onboard were carrying fake Mexican IDs, he said,
because personnel who checked passengers' documents didn't register any foreigners.
What experts say:
For Leutert, the idea that masked gunmen would ambush a bus as part of a smuggling deal doesn't add up.
"If you were just trying to meet, you would imagine you would just wait at the bus stop. It doesn't fit into the pattern of migrant smuggling," she says.
"And it fits into the pattern of migrant kidnapping that we see. That's why for me, these incidents are really concerning."
Jeremy Slack, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso who studies the impact of drug violence on migration,
says it's unclear whether authorities know more than they've let on so far.
But both theories Mexican officials have presented could turn out to be true.
The migrants may have hired smugglers, he said, who later decided they wanted more money
and decided to kidnap them rather than take them across the border.
"Just because you agree on something with a smuggler," Slack says, "doesn't mean the terms don't change."
And sometimes, he says, migrants make a smuggling deal with one criminal group, only to be intercepted by another along the way.
No matter which theory turns out to be true, there are major implications in the immigration debate
The timing of the migrants' disappearance is notable.
It comes as:
• U.S. authorities are increasingly forcing more migrants to stay in Mexico,
both by significantly limiting the numbers of people who may seek asylum daily at ports of entry,
and by sending a growing number of migrants who are seeking asylum back across the border to wait while their cases make their way through U.S. courts
• U.S. officials say the number of migrant families making their way to the border has spiked significantly,
and that migrants are increasingly arriving at the border in large groups
• Mexican officials vow that protecting the human rights of migrants is a top priority,
but Mexican border cities have struggled to handle the influx of migrants
Experts say this combination of factors could make what's already a volatile situation even worse.
"The border towns could become very unmanageable very quickly," says Meyer of the Washington Office on Latin America.
"Criminal groups also follow migrants because they're easy victims.
This may also impact the border communities in a way they haven't anticipated."
Leutert, of the University of Texas at Austin, says the brazen nature of the recent bus incident
seems like a throwback to more violent times along the border -- and that concerns her.
"To do a mass kidnapping, it's a lot more complicated than just throwing two people in the back of a car," she says.
"It requires a different level of sophistication and corruption. …
We haven't really seen any high-profile cases like this in a while."
End
Note: a very busy AZMEX March.
Investigators scramble to solve mystery just miles from the US-Mexico border
Theories abound ...
By: CNN EN ESPAÑOL'S REY RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.
Posted: Mar 16, 2019 02:25 AM MDT
Updated: Mar 16, 2019 03:26 AM MDT
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Masked gunmen barged onto a bus in northern Mexico, carrying a list of names.
They left without firing a single shot, taking at least 19 passengers with them as they sped away from the scene.
And so far, they seem to have vanished without a trace.
Where did the missing passengers go?
It's a mystery that's left Mexican officials scrambling for answers as public pressure mounts.
Authorities are investigating what they've said may be a mass kidnapping, and Mexico's top leaders have offered several possible explanations in recent days.
They've revealed one key detail that's likely a big piece of the puzzle:
All the passengers the gunmen removed from the bus were likely migrants traveling through Mexico and heading to the United States.
And the theories authorities have presented have serious implications in the immigration debate on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Theory 1: The migrants were kidnapped
Officials at first tried to downplay the possibility the migrants were kidnapped, but later announced a national operation to find the missing migrants.
What we know so far:
Gunmen intercepted the bus March 7 along the highway that connects San Fernando, a town in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas,
with the city of Reynosa, which sits across the U.S. border from McAllen, Texas.
It took days for officials to reveal the incident -- something that's drawn criticism in Mexican media.
Officials have defended the delay, saying they weren't trying to hide information but were waiting to confirm facts before releasing them.
San Fernando was the site of a notorious migrant massacre less than a decade ago.
Investigators found the remains of 72 migrants at a house there in 2010.
The next year they found the remains of nearly 200 people in mass graves in the area while investigating cases of passengers kidnapped from buses.
But you don't have to go back that far to find other examples of kidnapped migrants in Tamaulipas, a cartel stronghold.
Just this week, authorities announced they'd rescued a group of 34 migrants who were being held there.
What experts say:
For years, advocates and analysts have warned that Central American migrants are often assaulted as they make their way north through Mexico.
In 2011, the country's human rights commission estimated that more than 11,000 migrants had been kidnapped in a six-month period.
Kidnappers take different approaches in different parts of the country, says Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative
at the University of Texas at Austin. In Tamaulipas, intercepting buses is a common tactic, says Leutert,
who co-authored a report analyzing migrant kidnappings last year.
"Armed cars stopping the bus, people with weapons getting on and pulling people off,
it's a modus operandi of kidnapping that fits clearly into a pattern," she says.
Maureen Meyer, director for Mexico and migrant rights at the Washington Office on Latin America,
says there's one thing that's notable about this most recent incident: It's getting a lot of attention.
But Meyer says she sees it as part of a "continuation of kidnappings" that Mexican authorities haven't done enough to investigate.
"Migrants are targeted for crimes in Mexico precisely because of their vulnerable status," she says.
"It has become a lucrative way for criminal groups to gain thousands of dollars per migrant as they're holding them for ransom."
Rafael Alonso Hernandez Lopez, who directs a doctoral program in migration studies at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte
(The College of the Northern Border) in Tijuana, said it's notable that Mexican officials are talking about what happened at all.
He noted it's the first such incident since Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December.
"The problem dates back years, and it's unfortunate that it keeps happening. …
Perhaps what's changing is that in the new administration there hadn't been any events like this, and they hadn't been made visible," he said.
"The fact that the federal government itself has made this situation public also speaks in another way."
Theory 2: The gunmen were smugglers the migrants contracted
As word spread of the migrants' disappearance, Lopez Obrador and one of his top national security officials floated the possibility Tuesday
that the migrants weren't kidnapped, but rather were simply meeting up with smugglers
they'd contracted to help them get across the US-Mexico border.
"There's a hypothesis that this is a way of getting to the U.S. territory.
It's not that they disappear, but that this is how they cross the border," Lopez Obrador told reporters.
What we know so far:
Mexican officials say they've been checking with authorities in Central America to see whether anyone has reported loved ones missing.
And so far, they haven't received any reports.
Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo told reporters it's notable that no shots were fired when the gunmen boarded the bus,
and that only men were taken.
"Intelligence indicates that criminal groups that operate in the area offer services to transport migrants to the United States,"
Durazo told reporters Tuesday.
At a news conference Thursday, Mexico's defense secretary presented what he said were images of the bus crossing through a military checkpoint
more than an hour before the ambush. All 44 passengers aboard the bus were screened at the time, he said.
Authorities now believe the migrants onboard were carrying fake Mexican IDs, he said,
because personnel who checked passengers' documents didn't register any foreigners.
What experts say:
For Leutert, the idea that masked gunmen would ambush a bus as part of a smuggling deal doesn't add up.
"If you were just trying to meet, you would imagine you would just wait at the bus stop. It doesn't fit into the pattern of migrant smuggling," she says.
"And it fits into the pattern of migrant kidnapping that we see. That's why for me, these incidents are really concerning."
Jeremy Slack, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso who studies the impact of drug violence on migration,
says it's unclear whether authorities know more than they've let on so far.
But both theories Mexican officials have presented could turn out to be true.
The migrants may have hired smugglers, he said, who later decided they wanted more money
and decided to kidnap them rather than take them across the border.
"Just because you agree on something with a smuggler," Slack says, "doesn't mean the terms don't change."
And sometimes, he says, migrants make a smuggling deal with one criminal group, only to be intercepted by another along the way.
No matter which theory turns out to be true, there are major implications in the immigration debate
The timing of the migrants' disappearance is notable.
It comes as:
• U.S. authorities are increasingly forcing more migrants to stay in Mexico,
both by significantly limiting the numbers of people who may seek asylum daily at ports of entry,
and by sending a growing number of migrants who are seeking asylum back across the border to wait while their cases make their way through U.S. courts
• U.S. officials say the number of migrant families making their way to the border has spiked significantly,
and that migrants are increasingly arriving at the border in large groups
• Mexican officials vow that protecting the human rights of migrants is a top priority,
but Mexican border cities have struggled to handle the influx of migrants
Experts say this combination of factors could make what's already a volatile situation even worse.
"The border towns could become very unmanageable very quickly," says Meyer of the Washington Office on Latin America.
"Criminal groups also follow migrants because they're easy victims.
This may also impact the border communities in a way they haven't anticipated."
Leutert, of the University of Texas at Austin, says the brazen nature of the recent bus incident
seems like a throwback to more violent times along the border -- and that concerns her.
"To do a mass kidnapping, it's a lot more complicated than just throwing two people in the back of a car," she says.
"It requires a different level of sophistication and corruption. …
We haven't really seen any high-profile cases like this in a while."
End
Saturday, March 16, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 16-3-19
AZMEX UPDATE 16 MAR 2019
U.S. officials: 30,000 fentanyl pills seized on Arizona Indian reservation
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARCH 16, 2019 AT 9:40 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2488437/u-s-officials-30000-fentanyl-pills-seized-on-arizona-indian-reservation/
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. officials say they've seized 30,000 fentanyl pills that were being trafficked by a Mexican drug cartel
on an Arizona Indian reservation that sits on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Interior Department Law Enforcement Task Force on Opioids said Friday the seizure was part of a recent operation
that swept up $700,000 worth of illegal and controlled substances in four border states.
The joint operation with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Drug Enforcement
began as an investigation into large amounts of fentanyl pills being transported from Mexico through points of entry
on the Tohono O'odham Nation south of Tucson.
END
Hard drug smugglers intercepted by CBP officers at Port of San Luis
March 15, 2019 at 3:38 PM MST - Updated March 15 at 3:38 PM
http://www.kold.com/2019/03/15/hard-drug-smugglers-intercepted-by-cbp-officers-port-san-luis/
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD News 13) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a San Luis, Sonora, Mexico,
man and Phoenix woman Wednesday
for separate alleged attempts to smuggle 58 pounds of methamphetamine and heroin through the Port of San Luis.
Officers referred a 39-year-old Mexican national for additional inspection of his Chevy sedan as he attempted to enter the U.S. early Wednesday morning.
After a CBP narcotics detection canine alerted to a scent it was trained to detect coming from within the front bumper,
a search led to the discovery of multiple packages of narcotics.
The drugs were identified as nearly 55 pounds of meth, worth an estimated value of nearly $164,000
as well as almost three pounds of heroin, worth more than $74,000.
Later that morning, officers at the pedestrian lanes referred a 27-year-old Phoenix woman for further inspection as she attempted to enter the U.S.
After a CBP canine alerted to the presence of drugs, officers searched and located a single package of meth within her undergarments.
The package was determined to be just over a pound of meth, worth more than $3,000.
Officers seized the drugs and the vehicle, while both subjects were arrested
and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
Federal law allows officers to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows the filing of charges for criminal activity
without inferring guilt.
An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
CBP's Office of Field Operations is the primary organization within Homeland Security tasked with an anti-terrorism mission at our nation's ports.
CBP officers screen all people, vehicles and goods entering the United States while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travel.
Their mission also includes carrying out border-related duties, including narcotics interdiction,
enforcing immigration and trade laws, and protecting the nation's food and agriculture industry from pests and diseases.
END
U.S. officials: 30,000 fentanyl pills seized on Arizona Indian reservation
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARCH 16, 2019 AT 9:40 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2488437/u-s-officials-30000-fentanyl-pills-seized-on-arizona-indian-reservation/
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. officials say they've seized 30,000 fentanyl pills that were being trafficked by a Mexican drug cartel
on an Arizona Indian reservation that sits on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Interior Department Law Enforcement Task Force on Opioids said Friday the seizure was part of a recent operation
that swept up $700,000 worth of illegal and controlled substances in four border states.
The joint operation with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Drug Enforcement
began as an investigation into large amounts of fentanyl pills being transported from Mexico through points of entry
on the Tohono O'odham Nation south of Tucson.
END
Hard drug smugglers intercepted by CBP officers at Port of San Luis
March 15, 2019 at 3:38 PM MST - Updated March 15 at 3:38 PM
http://www.kold.com/2019/03/15/hard-drug-smugglers-intercepted-by-cbp-officers-port-san-luis/
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD News 13) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a San Luis, Sonora, Mexico,
man and Phoenix woman Wednesday
for separate alleged attempts to smuggle 58 pounds of methamphetamine and heroin through the Port of San Luis.
Officers referred a 39-year-old Mexican national for additional inspection of his Chevy sedan as he attempted to enter the U.S. early Wednesday morning.
After a CBP narcotics detection canine alerted to a scent it was trained to detect coming from within the front bumper,
a search led to the discovery of multiple packages of narcotics.
The drugs were identified as nearly 55 pounds of meth, worth an estimated value of nearly $164,000
as well as almost three pounds of heroin, worth more than $74,000.
Later that morning, officers at the pedestrian lanes referred a 27-year-old Phoenix woman for further inspection as she attempted to enter the U.S.
After a CBP canine alerted to the presence of drugs, officers searched and located a single package of meth within her undergarments.
The package was determined to be just over a pound of meth, worth more than $3,000.
Officers seized the drugs and the vehicle, while both subjects were arrested
and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
Federal law allows officers to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows the filing of charges for criminal activity
without inferring guilt.
An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
CBP's Office of Field Operations is the primary organization within Homeland Security tasked with an anti-terrorism mission at our nation's ports.
CBP officers screen all people, vehicles and goods entering the United States while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travel.
Their mission also includes carrying out border-related duties, including narcotics interdiction,
enforcing immigration and trade laws, and protecting the nation's food and agriculture industry from pests and diseases.
END
AZMEX UPDATE 15-3-19
AZMEX UPDATE 15 MAR 2019
PD: 15,000 fentanyl pills seized in west Phoenix motel
Posted: 1:45 PM, Mar 15, 2019 Updated: 1:51 PM, Mar 15, 2019
By: Joe Enea
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/pd-15-000-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-west-phoenix-motel
Emmanuel Romero Hernandez.jpg
PHOENIX — Police seized 15,000 fentanyl pills and more than $9,000 in cash in a bust at a west Phoenix motel.
Narcotics detectives were called to the Motel 6 near 59th Avenue and McDowell Road on Tuesday,
after Phoenix police apprehended a woman inside one of the rooms and noticed paraphernalia.
In the motel room, officers reportedly saw drug ledgers and rubber bands.
After detaining 38-year-old Emmanuel Romero Hernandez, police searched the room and allegedly found 15,000 fentanyl pills,
two handguns, scales, numerous cell phones, and more than $9,000 in cash.
Hernandez allegedly told police that he was given $5,000 to hold onto the drugs by two men he met the day before.
Hernandez has been charged with narcotic drug possession, money laundering, and weapons misconduct.
END
They seize 300 packages of marijuana in Fiscal Precinct
Details Published on Thursday March 14, 2019,
Written by César Barragán / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126247
Nogales, Son
Personnel from 45 / a. Zona Militar based in Nogales, Sonora, secured more than 300 pressed packages containing marijuana
that were hidden in the box of a trailer that tried to cross into the United States through the Nogales POE.
The facts were recorded before noon yesterday when military personnel detected anomalies in one of the cargo boxes of a trailer
trying to cross into the neighboring country, which according to official documentation transported transformers.
For this reason, the military forces carried out the inspection of the cargo locating inside the truck dozens of pressed packages,
made with gray tape containing the drug.
For this reason, with the support of the customs authorities and personnel of the Federal Police,
they carried out the operation and moved the tractor box to the Tax Precinct review area, where they counted a total of 330 packages with said drug.
The authorities involved so far have not disclosed if the driver was arrested during the seizure,
in the same way the total weight of the drugs was not disclosed, which was made available to the Federal Public Ministry, of the FGR.
END
MORE:
Abandoned 50 kilos of marijuana in Colonia Las Bellotas
Details Published on Friday March 15, 2019,
Written by Writing / The Journal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126276
Nogales, Son
Elements of the Ministerial Agency of Criminal Investigation (AMIC) and of the Secretariat of the National Defense (Sedena),
made the seizure of 50 kilos of marijuana in an address in black work located in the colony The Bells in Nogales.
According to information from the Attorney General's Office of the State, personnel of the Ministerial Agency of Criminal Investigation,
carried out a investigation, related to the robbery of a house in that sector,
when they observed two men leaving with bundles and running.
They immediately asked for help from more agents of the local Operative Base and the Army,
who arrived at the site in search of individuals in the area.
It was not possible to locate them, as they were lost among a complex of houses
but they located five packages made with cinnamon colored tape and that gave off a narcotic aroma.
It was found that they had a green and dry grass with the characteristics of marijuana, which gave an approximate weight of 50 kilos.
The drugs was put at the disposal of the corresponding authority, while the investigative procedures are still in place to find the alleged victims.
END
PD: 15,000 fentanyl pills seized in west Phoenix motel
Posted: 1:45 PM, Mar 15, 2019 Updated: 1:51 PM, Mar 15, 2019
By: Joe Enea
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/pd-15-000-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-west-phoenix-motel
Emmanuel Romero Hernandez.jpg
PHOENIX — Police seized 15,000 fentanyl pills and more than $9,000 in cash in a bust at a west Phoenix motel.
Narcotics detectives were called to the Motel 6 near 59th Avenue and McDowell Road on Tuesday,
after Phoenix police apprehended a woman inside one of the rooms and noticed paraphernalia.
In the motel room, officers reportedly saw drug ledgers and rubber bands.
After detaining 38-year-old Emmanuel Romero Hernandez, police searched the room and allegedly found 15,000 fentanyl pills,
two handguns, scales, numerous cell phones, and more than $9,000 in cash.
Hernandez allegedly told police that he was given $5,000 to hold onto the drugs by two men he met the day before.
Hernandez has been charged with narcotic drug possession, money laundering, and weapons misconduct.
END
They seize 300 packages of marijuana in Fiscal Precinct
Details Published on Thursday March 14, 2019,
Written by César Barragán / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126247
Nogales, Son
Personnel from 45 / a. Zona Militar based in Nogales, Sonora, secured more than 300 pressed packages containing marijuana
that were hidden in the box of a trailer that tried to cross into the United States through the Nogales POE.
The facts were recorded before noon yesterday when military personnel detected anomalies in one of the cargo boxes of a trailer
trying to cross into the neighboring country, which according to official documentation transported transformers.
For this reason, the military forces carried out the inspection of the cargo locating inside the truck dozens of pressed packages,
made with gray tape containing the drug.
For this reason, with the support of the customs authorities and personnel of the Federal Police,
they carried out the operation and moved the tractor box to the Tax Precinct review area, where they counted a total of 330 packages with said drug.
The authorities involved so far have not disclosed if the driver was arrested during the seizure,
in the same way the total weight of the drugs was not disclosed, which was made available to the Federal Public Ministry, of the FGR.
END
MORE:
Abandoned 50 kilos of marijuana in Colonia Las Bellotas
Details Published on Friday March 15, 2019,
Written by Writing / The Journal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126276
Nogales, Son
Elements of the Ministerial Agency of Criminal Investigation (AMIC) and of the Secretariat of the National Defense (Sedena),
made the seizure of 50 kilos of marijuana in an address in black work located in the colony The Bells in Nogales.
According to information from the Attorney General's Office of the State, personnel of the Ministerial Agency of Criminal Investigation,
carried out a investigation, related to the robbery of a house in that sector,
when they observed two men leaving with bundles and running.
They immediately asked for help from more agents of the local Operative Base and the Army,
who arrived at the site in search of individuals in the area.
It was not possible to locate them, as they were lost among a complex of houses
but they located five packages made with cinnamon colored tape and that gave off a narcotic aroma.
It was found that they had a green and dry grass with the characteristics of marijuana, which gave an approximate weight of 50 kilos.
The drugs was put at the disposal of the corresponding authority, while the investigative procedures are still in place to find the alleged victims.
END
Thursday, March 14, 2019
AZMEX EXTRA 14-3-19
AZMEX EXTRA 14 MAR 2019
Sedena (Army) destroys more than 100 firearms in Nogales
Details Published on Wednesday, March 13, 2019,
Written by César Barragán / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126182
Nogales, Son
More than 100 firearms and 18,000 cartridges of different calibers were destroyed by personnel of the
National Defense Secretariat, during a ceremony held at the facilities of the 45 Military Zone in Nogales.
The event was led by the General and commander of the 45th Military Zone, Salvador Fernando Cervantes Loza,
who was attended by authorities from the three levels of government
and special guests, including students from two schools in the town.
After the presentation of the authorities, a spokesperson for the Sedena, said that the 2018-2024 Peace and Security Plan
contemplates the implementation of public policies aimed at preventing and reducing risk factors to keep the population away
of the possible commission of faults or crimes.
In this context, the armed forces joined the three levels of government to contribute in a subsidiary manner
in this priority task throughout the national territory,
In Sonora, the presence of the commanders and troops of the 4th and 45th Military Zone, based in Hermosillo and Nogales,
facilitate close coordination with federal, state and municipal authorities in the fight against organized crime.
What allowed the destruction of 53 long weapons and 56 small arms of different models and calibers,
as well as 11 magazines and 18 thousand 836 cartridges of different calibers.
He mentioned that the destroyed weapons are products and samples of forceful legal actions against the delinquents
and after judicialization of each case, they were put at the disposition of the Secretary of the National Defense
so that in accordance with the provisions of the federal firearms law and explosives are destroyed
because they do not represent any use for the Secretary of State.
Subsequently, the representatives and holders of the state and municipal federal police and prosecutor's offices,
as well as the minor students, participated in the direct destruction of the aforementioned weapons.
Actions like these offer real possibilities to reduce violence in the state and contribute to recover the tranquility of citizenship
and without a doubt reaffirms the joint effort of government society and armed forces in the conclusion of peace.
On the other hand, the Secretary of Public Security of the State David Anaya Cooley,
mentioned that these assurances are part of the joint work with the authorities of the three levels of government,
which gives the certainty that work is being done in favor of security. of citizenship.
Weapons destruction:
53 long weapons
56 handguns
111 loaders
18836 cartridges of different calibers
Photo gallery
END
Sedena (Army) destroys more than 100 firearms in Nogales
Details Published on Wednesday, March 13, 2019,
Written by César Barragán / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126182
Nogales, Son
More than 100 firearms and 18,000 cartridges of different calibers were destroyed by personnel of the
National Defense Secretariat, during a ceremony held at the facilities of the 45 Military Zone in Nogales.
The event was led by the General and commander of the 45th Military Zone, Salvador Fernando Cervantes Loza,
who was attended by authorities from the three levels of government
and special guests, including students from two schools in the town.
After the presentation of the authorities, a spokesperson for the Sedena, said that the 2018-2024 Peace and Security Plan
contemplates the implementation of public policies aimed at preventing and reducing risk factors to keep the population away
of the possible commission of faults or crimes.
In this context, the armed forces joined the three levels of government to contribute in a subsidiary manner
in this priority task throughout the national territory,
In Sonora, the presence of the commanders and troops of the 4th and 45th Military Zone, based in Hermosillo and Nogales,
facilitate close coordination with federal, state and municipal authorities in the fight against organized crime.
What allowed the destruction of 53 long weapons and 56 small arms of different models and calibers,
as well as 11 magazines and 18 thousand 836 cartridges of different calibers.
He mentioned that the destroyed weapons are products and samples of forceful legal actions against the delinquents
and after judicialization of each case, they were put at the disposition of the Secretary of the National Defense
so that in accordance with the provisions of the federal firearms law and explosives are destroyed
because they do not represent any use for the Secretary of State.
Subsequently, the representatives and holders of the state and municipal federal police and prosecutor's offices,
as well as the minor students, participated in the direct destruction of the aforementioned weapons.
Actions like these offer real possibilities to reduce violence in the state and contribute to recover the tranquility of citizenship
and without a doubt reaffirms the joint effort of government society and armed forces in the conclusion of peace.
On the other hand, the Secretary of Public Security of the State David Anaya Cooley,
mentioned that these assurances are part of the joint work with the authorities of the three levels of government,
which gives the certainty that work is being done in favor of security. of citizenship.
Weapons destruction:
53 long weapons
56 handguns
111 loaders
18836 cartridges of different calibers
Photo gallery
END
AZMEX POLICY 14-3-19
AZMEX POLICY 14 MAR 2019
Mexico launches plan to consult Mexicans living in US
Associated Press
https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-launches-plan-to-consult-mexicans-living-in-us
Roberto Valdovinos, head of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, is shown speaking in a video behind as he gives a news conference, sitting center, in Mexico City, Thursday, March 14, 2019. The Mexican government is launching open-ended public consultation forums in the U.S. to give Mexicans living there a chance to opine on Mexico's national development plan. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government is launching a plan to give Mexicans living in the United States a voice on national policy.
The Institute for Mexicans Abroad is planning to hold open-ended public consultation sessions from mid-March to mid-April in 13 U.S. cities. The forums will start on Sunday in San Francisco and end in Chicago on April 12 and New York on April 13.
The head of the Institute said Thursday that Mexicans can participate whether they are long-time established migrants or recent arrivals without proper documents.
"These are 12 million countrymen whose voices have never been heard before at this level," said the head of the institute, Roberto Valdovinos.
The consultative forums will be held in San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles, and also in the Texas cities of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and El Paso. Phoenix and Tucson will also have dates.
The forums won't be yes-or-no votes, but rather a chance for Mexicans abroad to contribute ideas on Mexico's national development plan.
Valdovinos said the administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is hoping to put together a comprehensive plan for Mexicans returning or deported from the United States, including points like making it easier for them to get their U.S. educational records transferred to Mexico.
While such plans have been attempted in the past, they frequently never made it out to their outlying towns many migrants come from. "These (programs) are often mandated on a national level, but out in the townships they aren't enforced, because of inertia," Valdovinos said.
Lopez Obrador has said that his hope is to create enough jobs in Mexico so that Mexicans no longer have to migrate, and that eventually the United States will be asking for Mexicans to come.
END
Mexico launches plan to consult Mexicans living in US
Associated Press
https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-launches-plan-to-consult-mexicans-living-in-us
Roberto Valdovinos, head of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, is shown speaking in a video behind as he gives a news conference, sitting center, in Mexico City, Thursday, March 14, 2019. The Mexican government is launching open-ended public consultation forums in the U.S. to give Mexicans living there a chance to opine on Mexico's national development plan. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government is launching a plan to give Mexicans living in the United States a voice on national policy.
The Institute for Mexicans Abroad is planning to hold open-ended public consultation sessions from mid-March to mid-April in 13 U.S. cities. The forums will start on Sunday in San Francisco and end in Chicago on April 12 and New York on April 13.
The head of the Institute said Thursday that Mexicans can participate whether they are long-time established migrants or recent arrivals without proper documents.
"These are 12 million countrymen whose voices have never been heard before at this level," said the head of the institute, Roberto Valdovinos.
The consultative forums will be held in San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles, and also in the Texas cities of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and El Paso. Phoenix and Tucson will also have dates.
The forums won't be yes-or-no votes, but rather a chance for Mexicans abroad to contribute ideas on Mexico's national development plan.
Valdovinos said the administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is hoping to put together a comprehensive plan for Mexicans returning or deported from the United States, including points like making it easier for them to get their U.S. educational records transferred to Mexico.
While such plans have been attempted in the past, they frequently never made it out to their outlying towns many migrants come from. "These (programs) are often mandated on a national level, but out in the townships they aren't enforced, because of inertia," Valdovinos said.
Lopez Obrador has said that his hope is to create enough jobs in Mexico so that Mexicans no longer have to migrate, and that eventually the United States will be asking for Mexicans to come.
END
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 12-3-19
AZMEX UPDATE 12 MAR 2019
Military seizes more than 100 kilos of crystal in Nogales
Details Published on Monday March 11, 2019,
Written by César Barragán / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126078
Nogales, Son
Cash from the Mexican Army carried out the seizure of more than 100 kilos ( 220 lbs ) of the drug known as "crystal",
which was abandoned by individuals who managed to flee in events that occurred in the Nogales colonia Fundo Legal de Nogales.
According to the reports issued by personnel from the 45th Military Zone,
this confiscation was carried out on the night of March 10 on Calle Pierson,
when the military carried out a surveillance tour of that sector.
It was in that place that they noticed the presence of two civilians in a suspicious attitude,
who when observing the patrols of the military forces fled and left behind three suitcases and a large plastic container.
When reviewing the suitcases and the container they observed that in their interior they were diverse containers (topper)
and wrappers of plastic that contained a granulated substance with the characteristics of the drug in mention.
For this reason, said authority carried out the seizure of the narcotics which yielded a weight of 110 kilograms,
which was made available to the Agent of the Federal Public Ministry of the municipality of Nogales, Son.,
In coordination with agents of the Federal Police (Gendarmerie Division) ), who served as first respondents.
END
More:
FGR gets indictment after securing four thousand fentanyl pills
Statement FGR 99/19.
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/78792
The agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) in Sonora obtained an indictment
and informal preventive detention against a man, for his probable responsibility in the commission of the crime against health,
in the form of fentanyl transport.
According to the investigation folder, elements of the State Public Security Police, in the Strategic Security Military Post "Querobabi", s
ecured two packages made with cinnamon and transparent plastic tape,
which contained four thousand 398 Fentanyl pills,
at the time that They arrested a man.
After the above, the federal social representative made the corresponding accusation
before the District Judge Specialized in the Accusatory Criminal System,
who issued an interlocutory order to process and set the precautionary measure of informal preventive detention against the accused today,
who was interned in the CEFERESO number 11, in Hermosillo, Sonora.
End
Military seizes more than 100 kilos of crystal in Nogales
Details Published on Monday March 11, 2019,
Written by César Barragán / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=126078
Nogales, Son
Cash from the Mexican Army carried out the seizure of more than 100 kilos ( 220 lbs ) of the drug known as "crystal",
which was abandoned by individuals who managed to flee in events that occurred in the Nogales colonia Fundo Legal de Nogales.
According to the reports issued by personnel from the 45th Military Zone,
this confiscation was carried out on the night of March 10 on Calle Pierson,
when the military carried out a surveillance tour of that sector.
It was in that place that they noticed the presence of two civilians in a suspicious attitude,
who when observing the patrols of the military forces fled and left behind three suitcases and a large plastic container.
When reviewing the suitcases and the container they observed that in their interior they were diverse containers (topper)
and wrappers of plastic that contained a granulated substance with the characteristics of the drug in mention.
For this reason, said authority carried out the seizure of the narcotics which yielded a weight of 110 kilograms,
which was made available to the Agent of the Federal Public Ministry of the municipality of Nogales, Son.,
In coordination with agents of the Federal Police (Gendarmerie Division) ), who served as first respondents.
END
More:
FGR gets indictment after securing four thousand fentanyl pills
Statement FGR 99/19.
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/78792
The agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) in Sonora obtained an indictment
and informal preventive detention against a man, for his probable responsibility in the commission of the crime against health,
in the form of fentanyl transport.
According to the investigation folder, elements of the State Public Security Police, in the Strategic Security Military Post "Querobabi", s
ecured two packages made with cinnamon and transparent plastic tape,
which contained four thousand 398 Fentanyl pills,
at the time that They arrested a man.
After the above, the federal social representative made the corresponding accusation
before the District Judge Specialized in the Accusatory Criminal System,
who issued an interlocutory order to process and set the precautionary measure of informal preventive detention against the accused today,
who was interned in the CEFERESO number 11, in Hermosillo, Sonora.
End
AZMEX I3 12-3-19
AZMEX I3 12 MAR 2019
More than 2,000 people in ICE custody quarantined for contagious diseases
By Geneva Sands, Michelle Lou and Susan Scutti, CNN
Posted 17 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/us_world_news/more-than-people-in-ice-custody-quarantined-for-contagious-diseases/article_f3c334a1-5514-56c5-b0e8-30990b09e06b.html
Vaccination
Just a week after a congressional hearing on the significant rise of measles cases in the United States, lawmakers are meeting again to discuss outbreaks of preventable diseases that seems to be sweeping the nation.
Mario Tama/Getty Images File
(CNN) -- More than 2,000 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are being quarantined amid an outbreak of mumps and other diseases.
The numbers of immigrants in custody with a contagious diseases has spiked in the past year. For the previous two years, the agency has not encountered a single case of mumps among its detainees.
"As of March 7, 2019, there was a total of 2,287 detainees cohorted for exposure to a detainee with a contagious condition," said ICE spokesperson Brendan Raedy in a statement.
In the past 12 months, there have been health investigations at 51 ICE detention facilities for mumps, chickenpox and influenza, according to Raedy.
There have been 236 reported cases of mumps, with another 16 suspected cases during this time period.
Mumps is a contagious virus that is typically spread through saliva and mucus. Symptoms include fever, muscle aches, loss of appetite and puffiness around the cheeks and jaw from swollen salivary glands.
Last year, there were 423 people documented with influenza and 461 people with chickenpox in ICE custody, according to the agency.
But from January 2016 to February 2018, there were zero notifications of mumps, and only 73 of chickenpox and 34 of influenza.
"ICE takes very seriously the health, safety and welfare of those in our care. ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency's custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care," Raedy said in a statement.
Last week, Texas officials announced that nearly 200 people at immigration detention facilities across the state had contracted mumps since October.
The 186 patients ranged from 13 to 66 years old, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Tuesday.
"They should be in isolation," said Dr. David Persse, of Houston's public health authority last week.
Persse urged ICE start isolating people who show mumps symptoms and quarantine people who may have been infected.
"To some degree, this is foreseeable, because you're bringing a lot of people and housing them in tight spaces for long periods," Persse said.
US officials have been warning of the perils of diseases for migrants arriving in the US, increasingly in large numbers of families and children.
"Migrants travel north from countries where poverty and disease are rampant, and their health can be aggravated by the physical toll of the journey. Many individuals we encounter may have never seen a doctor, received immunizations, or lived in sanitary conditions. Close quarters on trains and buses can hasten the spread of communicable diseases," said US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan during congressional testimony last week.
In December, CBP mandated secondary medical reviews of all in children, after two young Guatemalan children died after being in Border Protection custody.
CBP also requested additional medical support from the US Coast Guard and the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as well as coordinating with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to gather data on infectious diseases among migrants in custody.
Migrants who cross the border illegally are generally transferred from Border Protection custody to ICE custody for further processing or release.
ICE said that comprehensive medical care is provided to everyone in custody, including access to nurses, physicians, and to 24-hour emergency care.
It was unclear Monday, if ICE was taking additional steps to deal with issues of disease in its facilities.
Reuters first reported on the quarantine.
END
More than 2,000 people in ICE custody quarantined for contagious diseases
By Geneva Sands, Michelle Lou and Susan Scutti, CNN
Posted 17 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/us_world_news/more-than-people-in-ice-custody-quarantined-for-contagious-diseases/article_f3c334a1-5514-56c5-b0e8-30990b09e06b.html
Vaccination
Just a week after a congressional hearing on the significant rise of measles cases in the United States, lawmakers are meeting again to discuss outbreaks of preventable diseases that seems to be sweeping the nation.
Mario Tama/Getty Images File
(CNN) -- More than 2,000 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are being quarantined amid an outbreak of mumps and other diseases.
The numbers of immigrants in custody with a contagious diseases has spiked in the past year. For the previous two years, the agency has not encountered a single case of mumps among its detainees.
"As of March 7, 2019, there was a total of 2,287 detainees cohorted for exposure to a detainee with a contagious condition," said ICE spokesperson Brendan Raedy in a statement.
In the past 12 months, there have been health investigations at 51 ICE detention facilities for mumps, chickenpox and influenza, according to Raedy.
There have been 236 reported cases of mumps, with another 16 suspected cases during this time period.
Mumps is a contagious virus that is typically spread through saliva and mucus. Symptoms include fever, muscle aches, loss of appetite and puffiness around the cheeks and jaw from swollen salivary glands.
Last year, there were 423 people documented with influenza and 461 people with chickenpox in ICE custody, according to the agency.
But from January 2016 to February 2018, there were zero notifications of mumps, and only 73 of chickenpox and 34 of influenza.
"ICE takes very seriously the health, safety and welfare of those in our care. ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency's custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care," Raedy said in a statement.
Last week, Texas officials announced that nearly 200 people at immigration detention facilities across the state had contracted mumps since October.
The 186 patients ranged from 13 to 66 years old, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Tuesday.
"They should be in isolation," said Dr. David Persse, of Houston's public health authority last week.
Persse urged ICE start isolating people who show mumps symptoms and quarantine people who may have been infected.
"To some degree, this is foreseeable, because you're bringing a lot of people and housing them in tight spaces for long periods," Persse said.
US officials have been warning of the perils of diseases for migrants arriving in the US, increasingly in large numbers of families and children.
"Migrants travel north from countries where poverty and disease are rampant, and their health can be aggravated by the physical toll of the journey. Many individuals we encounter may have never seen a doctor, received immunizations, or lived in sanitary conditions. Close quarters on trains and buses can hasten the spread of communicable diseases," said US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan during congressional testimony last week.
In December, CBP mandated secondary medical reviews of all in children, after two young Guatemalan children died after being in Border Protection custody.
CBP also requested additional medical support from the US Coast Guard and the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as well as coordinating with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to gather data on infectious diseases among migrants in custody.
Migrants who cross the border illegally are generally transferred from Border Protection custody to ICE custody for further processing or release.
ICE said that comprehensive medical care is provided to everyone in custody, including access to nurses, physicians, and to 24-hour emergency care.
It was unclear Monday, if ICE was taking additional steps to deal with issues of disease in its facilities.
Reuters first reported on the quarantine.
END
AZMEX I3 11-3-19
AZMEX I3 11 MAR 2019
Agents arrest almost 750 illegal immigrants in Yuma
Posted: Mar 11, 2019 03:24 PM MST
Updated: Mar 11, 2019 03:24 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/agents-arrest-almost-750-illegal-immigrants-in-yuma/1056799588
U.S. CBP
YUMA, Ariz. - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended large groups of mostly Central American families this weekend, many of whom required medical attention, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Agents said they arrested almost 750 illegal immigrants , most of whom were family groups from Central America who walked through the Colorado River vehicle barriers near Yuma and surrendered to agents.
Approximately 87 percent were Guatemalan with the remaining being from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Ecuador.
To date in Fiscal Year 2019, Yuma Sector has seen a 230 percent increase in family unit apprehensions
and a 36 percent increase in unaccompanied children apprehensions when compared to year to date numbers last year.
Yuma Sector agents provided medical treatment to 137 illegal immigrants,
either through medically certified agents, contract medical personnel at the stations
or by transporting the subjects to local hospitals.
Some of the medical ailments included: pregnancy complications,
lacerations, blisters, respiratory issues, chicken pox, lice and scabies.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials welcome assistance from the community.
Individuals can report suspicious activity to the Border Patrol and remain anonymous
by calling 1-877-872-7435 toll free.
Reporting illicit activity could result in saving someone's life.
END
Agents arrest almost 750 illegal immigrants in Yuma
Posted: Mar 11, 2019 03:24 PM MST
Updated: Mar 11, 2019 03:24 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/agents-arrest-almost-750-illegal-immigrants-in-yuma/1056799588
U.S. CBP
YUMA, Ariz. - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended large groups of mostly Central American families this weekend, many of whom required medical attention, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Agents said they arrested almost 750 illegal immigrants , most of whom were family groups from Central America who walked through the Colorado River vehicle barriers near Yuma and surrendered to agents.
Approximately 87 percent were Guatemalan with the remaining being from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Ecuador.
To date in Fiscal Year 2019, Yuma Sector has seen a 230 percent increase in family unit apprehensions
and a 36 percent increase in unaccompanied children apprehensions when compared to year to date numbers last year.
Yuma Sector agents provided medical treatment to 137 illegal immigrants,
either through medically certified agents, contract medical personnel at the stations
or by transporting the subjects to local hospitals.
Some of the medical ailments included: pregnancy complications,
lacerations, blisters, respiratory issues, chicken pox, lice and scabies.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials welcome assistance from the community.
Individuals can report suspicious activity to the Border Patrol and remain anonymous
by calling 1-877-872-7435 toll free.
Reporting illicit activity could result in saving someone's life.
END
Monday, March 11, 2019
AZMEX EXTRA 10-3-19
AZMEX EXTRA 10 MAR 2019
Note: photos, video, etc. at link.
After chase and confrontation, AMIC agents seize armored vehicle, weapons and cartridges
By: Drafting / GH | 03/10/2019 12:15
https://www.elimparcial.com/Policiaca/2019/03/10/1414826-Tras-persecucion-y-enfrentamiento-agentes-de-la-AMIC-aseguran-vehiculo-blindado-armas-y-cartuchos-utiles. html
CABORCA, Sonora (GH)
Elements of the Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigation (AMIC), with the support of corporations of the three levels, secured an armored vehicle, weapons and magazines.
Staff of the Operative Base loca, of the Attorney General's Office of the State (FGJE), staged a chase and confrontation with the occupants of the car.
The car was secured, inside which they located three tactical vests, one with ballistic protection, five AK-47 rifle magazines supplied with 7.62 x 39 millimeter cartridges.
In addition, an AK-47 rifle with wooden stock and forearm made in Poland, various items such as ropes, toiletries, among other things.
They provided support to the Municipal Public Safety Operative Group of Caborca, the State Public Security Police (PESP), the Federal Police and personnel of the 22nd Army Motorized Cavalry Regiment.
Around 11:40 hours on Saturday, March 9, two official units with AMIC agents encountered a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee, model 2000, which was going at high speed.
It was on the Caborca-Pitiquito International Highway, at a hotel, when the stop was marked with audible signals and turrets, but they fled.
Upon reaching Calle 33 and Santa Ramona, in the Colonia Santa Cecilia neighborhood, the investigators were attacked by the occupants with firearms.
They repelled the attack with the official armament, noticing the agents of the FGJE that the vehicle counted on armor who again fled by the avenida Aviación..
Agents of the AMIC activated the Red Code of the C5i (Control Center, Command, Communication, Computing, Coordination and Intelligence, of the Public Security Secretariat of the State of Sonora.
Municipal, state, and federal police and members of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) joined in the persecution, until the Jeep Grand Cherokee was located.
Near the ejido Solomon Quihuis, better known as Las Cocheras, 50 kilometers south of the road, the vehicle was abandoned, with the doors open and the engine running.
Among the participating elements, the search was set up between the mountains, but its traffickers could not be located, so the operation is maintained.
The automotive unit presented several impacts on its body with armor, the left front rim shredded and without a tire, in its interior, the rifle, magazines, cartridges, and other objects.
The corresponding procedures were made, ensuring the matter to be made available to the corresponding authority.
END
Note: photos, video, etc. at link.
After chase and confrontation, AMIC agents seize armored vehicle, weapons and cartridges
By: Drafting / GH | 03/10/2019 12:15
https://www.elimparcial.com/Policiaca/2019/03/10/1414826-Tras-persecucion-y-enfrentamiento-agentes-de-la-AMIC-aseguran-vehiculo-blindado-armas-y-cartuchos-utiles. html
CABORCA, Sonora (GH)
Elements of the Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigation (AMIC), with the support of corporations of the three levels, secured an armored vehicle, weapons and magazines.
Staff of the Operative Base loca, of the Attorney General's Office of the State (FGJE), staged a chase and confrontation with the occupants of the car.
The car was secured, inside which they located three tactical vests, one with ballistic protection, five AK-47 rifle magazines supplied with 7.62 x 39 millimeter cartridges.
In addition, an AK-47 rifle with wooden stock and forearm made in Poland, various items such as ropes, toiletries, among other things.
They provided support to the Municipal Public Safety Operative Group of Caborca, the State Public Security Police (PESP), the Federal Police and personnel of the 22nd Army Motorized Cavalry Regiment.
Around 11:40 hours on Saturday, March 9, two official units with AMIC agents encountered a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee, model 2000, which was going at high speed.
It was on the Caborca-Pitiquito International Highway, at a hotel, when the stop was marked with audible signals and turrets, but they fled.
Upon reaching Calle 33 and Santa Ramona, in the Colonia Santa Cecilia neighborhood, the investigators were attacked by the occupants with firearms.
They repelled the attack with the official armament, noticing the agents of the FGJE that the vehicle counted on armor who again fled by the avenida Aviación..
Agents of the AMIC activated the Red Code of the C5i (Control Center, Command, Communication, Computing, Coordination and Intelligence, of the Public Security Secretariat of the State of Sonora.
Municipal, state, and federal police and members of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) joined in the persecution, until the Jeep Grand Cherokee was located.
Near the ejido Solomon Quihuis, better known as Las Cocheras, 50 kilometers south of the road, the vehicle was abandoned, with the doors open and the engine running.
Among the participating elements, the search was set up between the mountains, but its traffickers could not be located, so the operation is maintained.
The automotive unit presented several impacts on its body with armor, the left front rim shredded and without a tire, in its interior, the rifle, magazines, cartridges, and other objects.
The corresponding procedures were made, ensuring the matter to be made available to the corresponding authority.
END
Friday, March 8, 2019
AZMEX I3 8-3-19
Officials send asylum seekers from Texas to Arizona
Posted: 7:39 PM, Mar 07, 2019 Updated: 7:39 PM, Mar 07, 2019
By: Associated Press
Photo by: David J. Phillip
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/officials-send-asylum-seekers-from-texas-to-arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A drastic increase in the number of families seeking asylum along the Texas-Mexico border
has caused immigration agents to transport many of the people to Arizona, a newspaper says.
The Arizona Republic reports that U.S. immigration officials are taking families who were detained in El Paso, Texas,
and transporting them 300 miles (483 kilometers) to Tucson, Arizona.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transported 398 asylum seekers from El Paso to Tucson between Feb. 16 and Feb. 18. T
ucson-area Border Patrol stations accepting the families are located in Willcox, Naco and Douglas.
All the families transported in February were expected to be released into the custody of relatives in the U.S.
and were transported to the stations before heading to relatives' locations, the newspaper said.
More than 76,000 migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, more than double the number from the same period last year.
In the past few months, 70 groups of more than 100 people crossed illegally.
Government figures show the number of immigrants apprehended while traveling as families in the El Paso region
has gone up nearly 1,700 percent in the first five months of the current fiscal year over the same period last year.
El Paso is now the second-busiest crossing point along the southwestern U.S. border behind the Rio Grande Valley.
The city's shelters have been unable to house all the newly released families
and many found themselves on the streets in search of transportation.
Tucson shelters are taking on much of the burden.
In the past month, one shelter has taken in more than 1,100 mostly Central American families released from detention.
A charity director said she would not be surprised if more families were released into the care of shelters.
END
Posted: 7:39 PM, Mar 07, 2019 Updated: 7:39 PM, Mar 07, 2019
By: Associated Press
Photo by: David J. Phillip
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/officials-send-asylum-seekers-from-texas-to-arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A drastic increase in the number of families seeking asylum along the Texas-Mexico border
has caused immigration agents to transport many of the people to Arizona, a newspaper says.
The Arizona Republic reports that U.S. immigration officials are taking families who were detained in El Paso, Texas,
and transporting them 300 miles (483 kilometers) to Tucson, Arizona.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transported 398 asylum seekers from El Paso to Tucson between Feb. 16 and Feb. 18. T
ucson-area Border Patrol stations accepting the families are located in Willcox, Naco and Douglas.
All the families transported in February were expected to be released into the custody of relatives in the U.S.
and were transported to the stations before heading to relatives' locations, the newspaper said.
More than 76,000 migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, more than double the number from the same period last year.
In the past few months, 70 groups of more than 100 people crossed illegally.
Government figures show the number of immigrants apprehended while traveling as families in the El Paso region
has gone up nearly 1,700 percent in the first five months of the current fiscal year over the same period last year.
El Paso is now the second-busiest crossing point along the southwestern U.S. border behind the Rio Grande Valley.
The city's shelters have been unable to house all the newly released families
and many found themselves on the streets in search of transportation.
Tucson shelters are taking on much of the burden.
In the past month, one shelter has taken in more than 1,100 mostly Central American families released from detention.
A charity director said she would not be surprised if more families were released into the care of shelters.
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 8-3-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 8 MAR 2019
Note: photos, video, etc. at link.
Comment: Darwin at work?
Thx
FENTALNYL'S FATAL FALLOUT
Counterfeit Percocet pills widely available in Nogales, Mexico
Morgan Loew
Posted 13 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/investigations/opioid_crisis/fentanyl/counterfeit-percocet-pills-widely-available-in-nogales-mexico/article_106dfe54-406d-11e9-a675-df4431cc8256.html
It is a drug epidemic that is killing teenagers across Arizona. Tonight, we are turning the tables on the dealers who are selling pills laced with deadly fentanyl.
Chief investigative reporter Morgan Loew traveled to Mexico for this hidden camera investigation.
NOGALES (CBS 5) -- It took less than 30 seconds to find a man in Nogales, Sonora in Mexico
willing to sell the type of deadly counterfeit Percocet pills that are causing a spike in overdoses among teenagers in particular here in the Valley.
CBS 5 Investigates sent a team to the border to find out how readily available the pills are on the street.
Law enforcement says the pills confiscated here in the Valley during recent busts and overdoses came from Mexico.
[RELATED: What is fentanyl and why is it 'the deadliest drug in the world'?]
"How can we help you?" said the man, as chief investigative reporter Morgan Loew walked out into the street.
"I'm looking for M30s," said Loew, referring to the street name for the pills.
"I'm going to introduce you to my guy," said the man.
Less than 30 seconds later, hidden camera video shows they were at a storefront, negotiating the cost of the pills.
Loew walked away from the deal without making the purchase.
"Fentanyl is the drug du jour," said Dr. Frank LoVecchio from Banner Poison and Drug Information Center.
LoVecchio says he's seen a dramatic increase in overdoses due to fentanyl in the past three years.
"Now we see it every single day," said LoVecchio.
"People like to pass it off as Percocet," said Parker McKinsey, a recovering addict himself,
who lost his younger brother to a fentanyl overdose last year.
"You're not going to find it without fentanyl in it if you're buying it from somebody on the street," said McKinsey.
[TIMELINE: Emergence of the opioid crisis]
Last month, a student at Notre Dame Preparatory in Scottsdale was arrested after he allegedly supplied pills laced with fentanyl to other students.
Teenagers in San Luis, Tucson, Phoenix and Prescott Valley have died from fentanyl overdoses in the past year.
Health experts say there are likely more, but it is difficult to keep track of the number because official statistics are a year behind.
[RELATED: Americans more likely to die by opioid overdose than in a car crash]
Quick use of the anti-overdose medication, NARCAN, has saved dozens of lives.
"Some patients have been able to describe it was an M30 pill that they bought," said Kim Schmid,
who works at Banner Poison and Drug Information Center.
According to federal and local law enforcement officials, the raw fentanyl is made in China and shipped to Mexico.
They say the Sinaloa Drug Cartel turns the pure form of the drug into pills, that are stamped to resemble Percocet,
with an "M" on one side and a "30" on the other.
[RELATED: The different types of opioids]
From Sinaloa, the drugs are shipped north to the border, where they are either sold on the street
or transported on people or in vehicles through the ports of entry into the United States.
From the border area, they are shipped to cities like Phoenix.
[SPECIAL SECTION: Fentanyl's Fatal Fallout]
CBS 5 Investigates confronted one of the drug sellers in Nogales.
When asked why he's selling a drug that is known to kill teenagers, the man shrugged his head and said he did not know.
End
Note: photos, video, etc. at link.
Comment: Darwin at work?
Thx
FENTALNYL'S FATAL FALLOUT
Counterfeit Percocet pills widely available in Nogales, Mexico
Morgan Loew
Posted 13 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/investigations/opioid_crisis/fentanyl/counterfeit-percocet-pills-widely-available-in-nogales-mexico/article_106dfe54-406d-11e9-a675-df4431cc8256.html
It is a drug epidemic that is killing teenagers across Arizona. Tonight, we are turning the tables on the dealers who are selling pills laced with deadly fentanyl.
Chief investigative reporter Morgan Loew traveled to Mexico for this hidden camera investigation.
NOGALES (CBS 5) -- It took less than 30 seconds to find a man in Nogales, Sonora in Mexico
willing to sell the type of deadly counterfeit Percocet pills that are causing a spike in overdoses among teenagers in particular here in the Valley.
CBS 5 Investigates sent a team to the border to find out how readily available the pills are on the street.
Law enforcement says the pills confiscated here in the Valley during recent busts and overdoses came from Mexico.
[RELATED: What is fentanyl and why is it 'the deadliest drug in the world'?]
"How can we help you?" said the man, as chief investigative reporter Morgan Loew walked out into the street.
"I'm looking for M30s," said Loew, referring to the street name for the pills.
"I'm going to introduce you to my guy," said the man.
Less than 30 seconds later, hidden camera video shows they were at a storefront, negotiating the cost of the pills.
Loew walked away from the deal without making the purchase.
"Fentanyl is the drug du jour," said Dr. Frank LoVecchio from Banner Poison and Drug Information Center.
LoVecchio says he's seen a dramatic increase in overdoses due to fentanyl in the past three years.
"Now we see it every single day," said LoVecchio.
"People like to pass it off as Percocet," said Parker McKinsey, a recovering addict himself,
who lost his younger brother to a fentanyl overdose last year.
"You're not going to find it without fentanyl in it if you're buying it from somebody on the street," said McKinsey.
[TIMELINE: Emergence of the opioid crisis]
Last month, a student at Notre Dame Preparatory in Scottsdale was arrested after he allegedly supplied pills laced with fentanyl to other students.
Teenagers in San Luis, Tucson, Phoenix and Prescott Valley have died from fentanyl overdoses in the past year.
Health experts say there are likely more, but it is difficult to keep track of the number because official statistics are a year behind.
[RELATED: Americans more likely to die by opioid overdose than in a car crash]
Quick use of the anti-overdose medication, NARCAN, has saved dozens of lives.
"Some patients have been able to describe it was an M30 pill that they bought," said Kim Schmid,
who works at Banner Poison and Drug Information Center.
According to federal and local law enforcement officials, the raw fentanyl is made in China and shipped to Mexico.
They say the Sinaloa Drug Cartel turns the pure form of the drug into pills, that are stamped to resemble Percocet,
with an "M" on one side and a "30" on the other.
[RELATED: The different types of opioids]
From Sinaloa, the drugs are shipped north to the border, where they are either sold on the street
or transported on people or in vehicles through the ports of entry into the United States.
From the border area, they are shipped to cities like Phoenix.
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CBS 5 Investigates confronted one of the drug sellers in Nogales.
When asked why he's selling a drug that is known to kill teenagers, the man shrugged his head and said he did not know.
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