AZMEX POLICY 31 MAY 2019
Mexican president lashes out at Trump in angry letter, says he turned U.S. into anti-immigrant country 'overnight'
By Elizabeth Llorente | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexican-president-obrador-trump-letter-tariff
Trump announces tariff hike on Mexico until immigration surge is 'remedied'
New York Republican Rep. Peter King
says the president needs to think about the unintended consequences of his proposed tariff hike on Mexico.
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador has pushed back at
President Donald Trump's move to impose a blanket 5 percent tariff on all Mexican goods.
In a pointed letter released Thursday, López Obrador lashed out at Trump for what he described as the U.S. president's
"turning the United States, overnight, from a country of brotherly love for immigrants from around the world, to a bolted space,
where there's stigmatizing, mistreatment, abuse, persecution, and a denial of the right to justice to those who seek
-- with sacrifice and hard work -- to live free from misery."
López Obrador said that "social problems are not solved with duties or coercive measures,"
and alluded to the United States' history as a nation of immigrants:
"The Statue of Liberty is not an empty symbol."
SARAH SANDERS: MEXICO NEEDS TO 'STEP UP AND DO MORE' TO ASSIST IN THE BORDER CRISIS
He added in the letter, which he provided a link to on his Twitter account, that in contrast to Trump's approach,
Mexico is doing its part to avoid migration through its territory as much as possible, without violating human rights.
"People don't leave their homelands for pleasure but out of necessity," the Mexican leader said.
López Obrador said in the letter that his foreign relations secretary was leading a delegation to Washington D.C.
to speak with Trump administration officials in order to seek a peaceful and negotiated solution
to Trump's threat to impose stiff tariffs on goods from Mexico if the country doesn't do more to slow irregular ( illegal ) migration.
He noted that his outreach was not to be interpreted as a sign of weakness.
"I'm not a coward or timid, but act out of principles.
I believe in politics which, among other things, was invented to avoid confrontation and war."
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President Trump on Thursday abruptly announced a new 5 percent tariff on Mexico beginning in early June,
saying the levy will "gradually increase" until the ongoing illegal immigration surge at the southern border is "remedied"
and illegal migrants "STOP."
"On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico,
until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP," Trump wrote.
"The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied,
... at which time the Tariffs will be removed. Details from the White House to follow."
Trump hits Mexico with tariffs for 'passive cooperation' with illegal immigration into USVideo
Fox News was told the tariff on all goods by land, sea, and air from Mexico will hike to 10 percent on July 1
-- and potentially increase substantially from there.
"If Mexico still has not taken action to dramatically reduce or eliminate the number of illegal aliens crossing its territory into the United States,
Tariffs will be increased to 15 percent on August 1, 2019, to 20 percent on September 1, 2019, and to 25 percent on October 1, 2019,"
Trump said in a statement released later by the White House on Thursday.
"Tariffs will permanently remain at the 25 percent level unless and until
Mexico substantially stops the illegal inflow of aliens coming through its territory."
The statement added: "Thousands of innocent lives are taken every year as a result of this lawless chaos.
It must end NOW! ... Mexico's passive cooperation in allowing this mass incursion constitutes an emergency
and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States."
END
Friday, May 31, 2019
AZMEX I3 31-5-19
AZMEX I3 31 MAY 2019
Video shows 1,036 migrants crossing into US from Mexico
Authorities say it took about five minutes for everyone in the group to cross early Wednesday morning
near downtown El Paso, Texas.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 5:52 PM MST May 30, 2019
Updated: 5:52 PM MST May 30, 2019
https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/video-shows-1036-migrants-crossing-into-us-from-mexico/75-13db8c4e-9595-4eea-be3a-136edcb50bf6
A group of 1,036 migrants that crossed the border illegally El Paso, Texas,
is the largest the Border Patrol has ever encountered, the agency said Thursday.
The crossing was the latest sign that migrants are increasingly coming in large groups.
The Border Patrol said it has found 180 groups of more than 100 people since October,
compared to 13 in the previous 12-month period and two the year before.
A Border Patrol surveillance video that President Donald Trump shared on Twitter
shows people filing under a chain-link fence to a spot on the U.S. side,
where they waited for agents to pick them up.
Authorities said it took about five minutes for all to cross around 4 a.m. on Wednesday near downtown El Paso.
The group included 934 people in families, 63 unaccompanied children and 39 single adults, authorities said.
The majority were from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Large groups began appearing last year in the southwestern corner of New Mexico known as the Bootheel
and are increasingly common along the border. U.S. authorities are unsure why
but speculate that smugglers may be trying to draw agents from other areas, hoping to create openings.
The Border Patrol has encountered 46 groups of more than 100 people in May alone, authorities said.
Since Oct. 1, there have 48 groups of more than 200 people, 10 over 300 and two over 400.
The Border Patrol arrested a group of 430 on Monday in the same area of El Paso as Wednesday's group.
Migrant families who claim asylum are typically released in the United States with notices to appear in immigration court.
The U.S. has increasingly been forcing migrants to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration court,
shuttling them back and forth from the border for hearings. The policy has been introduced in El Paso and throughout California.
END
Video shows 1,036 migrants crossing into US from Mexico
Authorities say it took about five minutes for everyone in the group to cross early Wednesday morning
near downtown El Paso, Texas.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 5:52 PM MST May 30, 2019
Updated: 5:52 PM MST May 30, 2019
https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/video-shows-1036-migrants-crossing-into-us-from-mexico/75-13db8c4e-9595-4eea-be3a-136edcb50bf6
A group of 1,036 migrants that crossed the border illegally El Paso, Texas,
is the largest the Border Patrol has ever encountered, the agency said Thursday.
The crossing was the latest sign that migrants are increasingly coming in large groups.
The Border Patrol said it has found 180 groups of more than 100 people since October,
compared to 13 in the previous 12-month period and two the year before.
A Border Patrol surveillance video that President Donald Trump shared on Twitter
shows people filing under a chain-link fence to a spot on the U.S. side,
where they waited for agents to pick them up.
Authorities said it took about five minutes for all to cross around 4 a.m. on Wednesday near downtown El Paso.
The group included 934 people in families, 63 unaccompanied children and 39 single adults, authorities said.
The majority were from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Large groups began appearing last year in the southwestern corner of New Mexico known as the Bootheel
and are increasingly common along the border. U.S. authorities are unsure why
but speculate that smugglers may be trying to draw agents from other areas, hoping to create openings.
The Border Patrol has encountered 46 groups of more than 100 people in May alone, authorities said.
Since Oct. 1, there have 48 groups of more than 200 people, 10 over 300 and two over 400.
The Border Patrol arrested a group of 430 on Monday in the same area of El Paso as Wednesday's group.
Migrant families who claim asylum are typically released in the United States with notices to appear in immigration court.
The U.S. has increasingly been forcing migrants to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration court,
shuttling them back and forth from the border for hearings. The policy has been introduced in El Paso and throughout California.
END
Thursday, May 30, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 30-5-19
AZMEX POLICY 30 MAY 2019
Note: "Innocent victims"? Democrats as usual.
Thx
SEAGO echoes calls to remove concertina wire from border fence
By Nick Phillips • Nogales International May 29, 2019
Updated 20 hrs ago
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/seago-echoes-calls-to-remove-concertina-wire-from-border-fence/article_494f34e0-8249-11e9-acc0-af8bffaae623.html
East side wire
Six rows of concertina wire cover the border fence at the end of North Short Street in Nogales on Thursday, Feb. 7.
File photo by Jonathan Clark
Months after U.S. Army troops returned to cover areas of the U.S.-Mexico border fence from top to bottom with barbed concertina wire,
Southern Arizona leaders have not given up on asking the federal government to take it down.
On May 17, the Bisbee-based Southeastern Arizona Governments Organization became the latest group to condemn the wire
when it passed a resolution calling for the removal of all strands placed less than six feet from the ground.
Using language that mirrored a similar resolution passed in February by the Nogales City Council, SEAGO
wrote that the body "considers the placement of concertina wire at ground level along the international border wall where
innocent victims could be indiscriminately harmed
an irresponsible, inhumane and unnecessary use of military tactics and force under the guise of border security enhancement."
SEAGO's membership includes representatives from Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, and Santa Cruz counties.
Last November, the Army installed two rows of barbed concertina wire near the top of the border fence in Nogales.
In February, troops returned to place additional rows of wire in Nogales
and in Naco, Ariz. In some areas, the wires stretched to ground level.
The February action prompted Mayor Arturo Garino to lead the Nogales City Council
in passing a resolution that condemned the wire and called for its removal.
Later that month, the City of Tucson passed a resolution supporting Nogales' action and Bisbee, Ariz.
passed a resolution calling for the removal of the wire in the Naco area.
With the May resolution, SEAGO echoed the concerns raised by municipalities in February.
But it is unclear what effect – if any – the resolutions have had.
"Resolutions by a city council are just statements of preference and sentiment of the council.
They don't have any force of law," said Ken Strobeck, executive director of the Arizona League of Cities and Towns.
After Nogales passed its resolution on Feb. 6, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a news release
stating that the location of the concertina wire on the border fence was
"outside the City of Nogales Charter and on United States Government property."
CBP asserted that the additional rows of wire were an effective deterrent to border-crossers and said that
"Currently there are no plans to remove the concertina wire."
Vicki Gaubeca, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition, said that the resolutions made an important statement.
"I think that what it really is, is sending a message that border communities are tired of being militarized," she said,
later adding: "By issuing a resolution, I think it's trying to say, 'Hey, you should be considering our input on this.'"
But ultimately, Strobeck said, "It all depends on who receives the message and what their inclination is."
And while the wire has drawn ire from many corners, it may also be adding to growing tourist interest in the U.S.-Mexico border fence.
Linda Rushton, who has led the effort to restore a historic trolley to lead tours around Nogales,
told the city council at its May 1 meeting that she had taken a recent tour group to the border.
"They really enjoyed themselves," Rushton said.
"And of course the first stop was the fence, we had to see the razor wire."
End
Note: "Innocent victims"? Democrats as usual.
Thx
SEAGO echoes calls to remove concertina wire from border fence
By Nick Phillips • Nogales International May 29, 2019
Updated 20 hrs ago
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/seago-echoes-calls-to-remove-concertina-wire-from-border-fence/article_494f34e0-8249-11e9-acc0-af8bffaae623.html
East side wire
Six rows of concertina wire cover the border fence at the end of North Short Street in Nogales on Thursday, Feb. 7.
File photo by Jonathan Clark
Months after U.S. Army troops returned to cover areas of the U.S.-Mexico border fence from top to bottom with barbed concertina wire,
Southern Arizona leaders have not given up on asking the federal government to take it down.
On May 17, the Bisbee-based Southeastern Arizona Governments Organization became the latest group to condemn the wire
when it passed a resolution calling for the removal of all strands placed less than six feet from the ground.
Using language that mirrored a similar resolution passed in February by the Nogales City Council, SEAGO
wrote that the body "considers the placement of concertina wire at ground level along the international border wall where
innocent victims could be indiscriminately harmed
an irresponsible, inhumane and unnecessary use of military tactics and force under the guise of border security enhancement."
SEAGO's membership includes representatives from Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, and Santa Cruz counties.
Last November, the Army installed two rows of barbed concertina wire near the top of the border fence in Nogales.
In February, troops returned to place additional rows of wire in Nogales
and in Naco, Ariz. In some areas, the wires stretched to ground level.
The February action prompted Mayor Arturo Garino to lead the Nogales City Council
in passing a resolution that condemned the wire and called for its removal.
Later that month, the City of Tucson passed a resolution supporting Nogales' action and Bisbee, Ariz.
passed a resolution calling for the removal of the wire in the Naco area.
With the May resolution, SEAGO echoed the concerns raised by municipalities in February.
But it is unclear what effect – if any – the resolutions have had.
"Resolutions by a city council are just statements of preference and sentiment of the council.
They don't have any force of law," said Ken Strobeck, executive director of the Arizona League of Cities and Towns.
After Nogales passed its resolution on Feb. 6, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a news release
stating that the location of the concertina wire on the border fence was
"outside the City of Nogales Charter and on United States Government property."
CBP asserted that the additional rows of wire were an effective deterrent to border-crossers and said that
"Currently there are no plans to remove the concertina wire."
Vicki Gaubeca, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition, said that the resolutions made an important statement.
"I think that what it really is, is sending a message that border communities are tired of being militarized," she said,
later adding: "By issuing a resolution, I think it's trying to say, 'Hey, you should be considering our input on this.'"
But ultimately, Strobeck said, "It all depends on who receives the message and what their inclination is."
And while the wire has drawn ire from many corners, it may also be adding to growing tourist interest in the U.S.-Mexico border fence.
Linda Rushton, who has led the effort to restore a historic trolley to lead tours around Nogales,
told the city council at its May 1 meeting that she had taken a recent tour group to the border.
"They really enjoyed themselves," Rushton said.
"And of course the first stop was the fence, we had to see the razor wire."
End
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
AZMEX I3 28-5-19
AZMEX I3 28 MAY 2019
Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press
May 28, 2019 Updated 1 hr ago
https://www.pinalcentral.com/arizona_news/arizona-border-activist-going-on-trial-for-helping-migrants/article_71e10843-482c-530f-a28c-8c3004ece959.html
Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants
File - In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, file aerial image released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
migrants, apprehended after illegally crossing along the U.S.-Mexico border near Lukeville, Ariz., are lined up.
Mexico is at the top of the image, beyond the border fence.
A border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging is set to go on trial in U.S. court in Arizona.
Defendant Scott Daniel Warren has argued that his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress.
The trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Tucson, with the 36-year-old Warren charged with harboring migrants
and conspiring to transport and harbor two Mexican men found with him who were in the U.S. illegally.
(U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP, File)
HOGP
Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants
In this 2018 photo, Scott Daniel Warren, who is charged with human smuggling walks in to U.S. District Court in Tucson, Ariz.
Warren, a border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging, is set to go on trial
on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in U.S. court in Arizona. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
Kelly Presnell
Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants
In this 2018 photo, Mark Warren and his wife Pam Warren talk about their son, Scott Daniel Warren,
after Scott appeared in federal district court on a hearing to dismiss felony charges for harboring undocumented immigrants,
in Tucson, Ariz. Scott Warren, a border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging,
is set to go on trial on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in U.S. court in Arizona. (Ernesto Portillo Jr./Arizona Daily Star via AP)
Ernesto Portillo Jr.
PHOENIX — A border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging is set to go on trial in U.S. court in Arizona.
Defendant Scott Daniel Warren has argued that his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress.
The trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday in Tucson, with the 36-year-old Warren charged with harboring migrants
and conspiring to transport and harbor two Mexican men found with him who were in the U.S. illegally.
Thousands of migrants have died crossing the border since the mid-1990s,
when heightened enforcement in San Diego and El Paso, Texas, pushed traffic into Arizona's scorching deserts.
Prosecutors have argued that Kristian Perez-Villanueva and Jose Arnaldo Sacaria-Goday, the two migrants, were never in any real distress.
Warren's parents have gathered more than 126,000 online petition signatures asking the court to drop the case.
They delivered the petitions Friday to the courthouse.
In a motion to dismiss the charges, Warren's defense team has argued their client
"could not, consistent with his conscience and spiritual beliefs, turn away two migrants in the desert.
"For many, the decision ends in a painful and lonely death in the remote reaches of the Sonoran Desert,"
Warren's parents Pam and Mark Warren wrote in the petition sponsored by MoveOn, a progressive advocacy group.
"No one deserves to die in the desert. No one deserves to go to prison for trying to prevent those deaths," It says.
Warren volunteers with the humanitarian group No More Deaths, which assists migrants near the border in Arizona by providing supplies.
Warren was arrested in early 2018 when Border Patrol agents found him at a property in Ajo,
about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of the border, where the two recently arrived migrants were staying.
The building is used by nonprofit groups in the area.
Over the course of several days, Warren provides the pair with beds, clean clothes, food and water at the site, authorities said.
The migrants told border agents they learned about the building during online research about ways to cross the border.
Warren's arrest came several hours after No More Deaths gave news organizations videos of a Border Patrol agent
kicking over water jugs meant for immigrants and of another agent pouring gallons of water on the ground.
END
Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press
May 28, 2019 Updated 1 hr ago
https://www.pinalcentral.com/arizona_news/arizona-border-activist-going-on-trial-for-helping-migrants/article_71e10843-482c-530f-a28c-8c3004ece959.html
Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants
File - In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, file aerial image released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
migrants, apprehended after illegally crossing along the U.S.-Mexico border near Lukeville, Ariz., are lined up.
Mexico is at the top of the image, beyond the border fence.
A border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging is set to go on trial in U.S. court in Arizona.
Defendant Scott Daniel Warren has argued that his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress.
The trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Tucson, with the 36-year-old Warren charged with harboring migrants
and conspiring to transport and harbor two Mexican men found with him who were in the U.S. illegally.
(U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP, File)
HOGP
Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants
In this 2018 photo, Scott Daniel Warren, who is charged with human smuggling walks in to U.S. District Court in Tucson, Ariz.
Warren, a border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging, is set to go on trial
on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in U.S. court in Arizona. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
Kelly Presnell
Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants
In this 2018 photo, Mark Warren and his wife Pam Warren talk about their son, Scott Daniel Warren,
after Scott appeared in federal district court on a hearing to dismiss felony charges for harboring undocumented immigrants,
in Tucson, Ariz. Scott Warren, a border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging,
is set to go on trial on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in U.S. court in Arizona. (Ernesto Portillo Jr./Arizona Daily Star via AP)
Ernesto Portillo Jr.
PHOENIX — A border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging is set to go on trial in U.S. court in Arizona.
Defendant Scott Daniel Warren has argued that his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress.
The trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday in Tucson, with the 36-year-old Warren charged with harboring migrants
and conspiring to transport and harbor two Mexican men found with him who were in the U.S. illegally.
Thousands of migrants have died crossing the border since the mid-1990s,
when heightened enforcement in San Diego and El Paso, Texas, pushed traffic into Arizona's scorching deserts.
Prosecutors have argued that Kristian Perez-Villanueva and Jose Arnaldo Sacaria-Goday, the two migrants, were never in any real distress.
Warren's parents have gathered more than 126,000 online petition signatures asking the court to drop the case.
They delivered the petitions Friday to the courthouse.
In a motion to dismiss the charges, Warren's defense team has argued their client
"could not, consistent with his conscience and spiritual beliefs, turn away two migrants in the desert.
"For many, the decision ends in a painful and lonely death in the remote reaches of the Sonoran Desert,"
Warren's parents Pam and Mark Warren wrote in the petition sponsored by MoveOn, a progressive advocacy group.
"No one deserves to die in the desert. No one deserves to go to prison for trying to prevent those deaths," It says.
Warren volunteers with the humanitarian group No More Deaths, which assists migrants near the border in Arizona by providing supplies.
Warren was arrested in early 2018 when Border Patrol agents found him at a property in Ajo,
about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of the border, where the two recently arrived migrants were staying.
The building is used by nonprofit groups in the area.
Over the course of several days, Warren provides the pair with beds, clean clothes, food and water at the site, authorities said.
The migrants told border agents they learned about the building during online research about ways to cross the border.
Warren's arrest came several hours after No More Deaths gave news organizations videos of a Border Patrol agent
kicking over water jugs meant for immigrants and of another agent pouring gallons of water on the ground.
END
Thursday, May 23, 2019
AZMEX I3 23-5-19
AZMEX I3 23 MAY 2019
PD: Man arrested for impregnating 11-year-old Phoenix girl
Posted: 12:21 PM, May 23, 2019 Updated: 3:00 PM, May 23, 2019
By: Joe Enea
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/pd-man-has-sex-with-11-year-old-girl-outside-her-phoenix-grade-school
Carlos Jancinto Perez.jpg
PHOENIX — A man was arrested last week after allegedly impregnating an 11-year-old Phoenix girl.
On May 17, Phoenix police arrested 20-year-old Carlos Jacinto Cobo-Perez at his home
near 7th Street and Northern Avenue.
Earlier that day, an 11-year-old girl was taken to Phoenix Children's Hospital, where her pregnancy was confirmed.
The girl later identified Cobo-Perez as the man who got her pregnant.
She reportedly told police that she skipped her after-school program and had sex in his car near her school.
Police say Cobo-Perez was warned to stay away from the girl after the girl's mother
saw a hickey on her neck in November.
At that same time, Cobo-Perez told police he knew it was wrong
and promised to stop seeing her, according to court documents.
Perez is being held on a $150,000 cash bond for sexual conduct with a minor.
During his initial court appearance, Perez, who is in the United States illegally,
asked if he could sign his Order of Deportation.
END
If you suspect a child is being abused, the Arizona Department of Child Services
has resources available to report the issue to a social worker.
You can call the Arizona Child Abuse Hotline at 1-888-SOS-CHILD (1-888-767-2445),
and will be asked for information about the child, as well as the nature of your concerns.
You can also get more information from DCS about reporting abuse or neglect online.
END
PD: Man arrested for impregnating 11-year-old Phoenix girl
Posted: 12:21 PM, May 23, 2019 Updated: 3:00 PM, May 23, 2019
By: Joe Enea
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/pd-man-has-sex-with-11-year-old-girl-outside-her-phoenix-grade-school
Carlos Jancinto Perez.jpg
PHOENIX — A man was arrested last week after allegedly impregnating an 11-year-old Phoenix girl.
On May 17, Phoenix police arrested 20-year-old Carlos Jacinto Cobo-Perez at his home
near 7th Street and Northern Avenue.
Earlier that day, an 11-year-old girl was taken to Phoenix Children's Hospital, where her pregnancy was confirmed.
The girl later identified Cobo-Perez as the man who got her pregnant.
She reportedly told police that she skipped her after-school program and had sex in his car near her school.
Police say Cobo-Perez was warned to stay away from the girl after the girl's mother
saw a hickey on her neck in November.
At that same time, Cobo-Perez told police he knew it was wrong
and promised to stop seeing her, according to court documents.
Perez is being held on a $150,000 cash bond for sexual conduct with a minor.
During his initial court appearance, Perez, who is in the United States illegally,
asked if he could sign his Order of Deportation.
END
If you suspect a child is being abused, the Arizona Department of Child Services
has resources available to report the issue to a social worker.
You can call the Arizona Child Abuse Hotline at 1-888-SOS-CHILD (1-888-767-2445),
and will be asked for information about the child, as well as the nature of your concerns.
You can also get more information from DCS about reporting abuse or neglect online.
END
AZMEX UPDATE 23-5-19
AZMEX UPDATE 23 MAY 2019
Note: photos, etc. at link:
10 people dead in Uruapan
The events, in which four other four men were injured, took place in the Arroyo Colorado colony
05/23/2019 05:00 MIGUEL GARCÍA TINOCO
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/deja-10-muertos-enfrentamiento-en-uruapan/1314488
So far, the victims remain unknown, while the injured were taken to hospitals in Uruapan for medical attention.
MICHOACÁN.
A confrontation between antagonistic groups of organized crime left ten dead and three more wounded, police said.
431 investigations for intentional homicides were opened from January to April of this year in Michoacán,
according to official figures
State authorities indicated that the exchange of bullets was recorded in the Arroyo Colorado colony.
At the close of this edition, the mortal victims remained unknown,
while the wounded were taken to hospitals for medical attention, in police custody.
During the proceedings, which have the support of personnel from the Secretariat of the Sedena, and the Police of Michoacan,
were located weapons for the exclusive use of the Mexican Army, magazines and cartridges of various calibers,
which have been taken for further analysis, "said the Attorney General of Michoacán, in a statement sent about this confrontation.
In addition, they implemented an operation in the area to search for those allegedly responsible for the multiple homicide.
On the other hand, in another incident, in Huaniqueo, a man who rode in his vehicle on the highway of the West was riddled with bullets.
353 investigation folders were initiated from January to April for murder with a firearm
Authorities reported that the victim, who was about 30 years old, was traveling on kilometer 297,
when his assailants appeared to have been shot and shot several times.
In another incident, in Chilchota, three alleged gunmen were killed and two policemen were injured during a clash on Tuesday night.
Vía radio reported the brawl between armed individuals against state police in the community of Las Mesas.
Meanwhile, in Morelia, the body of a man with traces of violence, wrapped in plastics and with a message written on cardboard,
was found near the intersection of Lechuga and Ajonjolí streets in Colonia Río Florido.
END
Note: photos, etc. at link:
10 people dead in Uruapan
The events, in which four other four men were injured, took place in the Arroyo Colorado colony
05/23/2019 05:00 MIGUEL GARCÍA TINOCO
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/deja-10-muertos-enfrentamiento-en-uruapan/1314488
So far, the victims remain unknown, while the injured were taken to hospitals in Uruapan for medical attention.
MICHOACÁN.
A confrontation between antagonistic groups of organized crime left ten dead and three more wounded, police said.
431 investigations for intentional homicides were opened from January to April of this year in Michoacán,
according to official figures
State authorities indicated that the exchange of bullets was recorded in the Arroyo Colorado colony.
At the close of this edition, the mortal victims remained unknown,
while the wounded were taken to hospitals for medical attention, in police custody.
During the proceedings, which have the support of personnel from the Secretariat of the Sedena, and the Police of Michoacan,
were located weapons for the exclusive use of the Mexican Army, magazines and cartridges of various calibers,
which have been taken for further analysis, "said the Attorney General of Michoacán, in a statement sent about this confrontation.
In addition, they implemented an operation in the area to search for those allegedly responsible for the multiple homicide.
On the other hand, in another incident, in Huaniqueo, a man who rode in his vehicle on the highway of the West was riddled with bullets.
353 investigation folders were initiated from January to April for murder with a firearm
Authorities reported that the victim, who was about 30 years old, was traveling on kilometer 297,
when his assailants appeared to have been shot and shot several times.
In another incident, in Chilchota, three alleged gunmen were killed and two policemen were injured during a clash on Tuesday night.
Vía radio reported the brawl between armed individuals against state police in the community of Las Mesas.
Meanwhile, in Morelia, the body of a man with traces of violence, wrapped in plastics and with a message written on cardboard,
was found near the intersection of Lechuga and Ajonjolí streets in Colonia Río Florido.
END
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL 22-5-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 22 MAY 2019
Note: as China continues to gain control of strategic minerals.
Thx
Chinese company will invest in Sonora Lithium project
Details Published on Wednesday, May 22, 2019,
Written by Writing / The Journal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=129488
Hermosillo, Son
Bacanora Lithium announced that the Chinese company Ganfeng Lithium acquired 29.9%
for the project in Sonora, Mexico, said Jorge Vidal Ahumada.
The economy secretary said that the mining company pointed to Ganfeng Lithium
as one of the largest lithium producers in the world,
and they were looking for a supply chain in Mexico, and it is specifically in Sonora, where they want to invest.
A few days ago, Vidal Ahumada met with businessmen from Bacanora Lithium,
who informed him of the intention of the Chinese company to invest in the Sonora Lithium project,
from which several products of this strategic mineral of high demand for modern life will be obtained.
"The trust generated by the government of Claudia Pavlovich Arellano allows more foreign investors
to turn to Sonora to land their projects," said the Minister of Economy.
The state official added that this project will position Sonora as the first producing state of Lithium in Mexico,
and it is estimated that by the year 2020 the entity will appear on the world map of lithium producers.
He recalled that in the first stage of the company Sonora Lithium will invest 420 million dollars,
generating one thousand 200 jobs in its construction and 260 in its operation.
Within its plans for the expansion stage, contemplated for 2021,
an additional investment of 380 million dollars is projected, in addition to increasing to 490 employees, he added.
Currently they make adjustments to the construction budgets between Bacanora Lithium
and the company ICA Flour, contracted as EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Costruction),
for the construction of the plant 10 kilometers from the town of Bacadéhuachi.
The Secretary of Economy said that 95% of the workforce of this mine will be Sonoran,
because they recognize the high degree of specialization of human capital in the technical development, he said.
This investment project brings as a main market the automotive industry of electric cars
that are manufactured in Arizona, he said.
END
Note: as China continues to gain control of strategic minerals.
Thx
Chinese company will invest in Sonora Lithium project
Details Published on Wednesday, May 22, 2019,
Written by Writing / The Journal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=129488
Hermosillo, Son
Bacanora Lithium announced that the Chinese company Ganfeng Lithium acquired 29.9%
for the project in Sonora, Mexico, said Jorge Vidal Ahumada.
The economy secretary said that the mining company pointed to Ganfeng Lithium
as one of the largest lithium producers in the world,
and they were looking for a supply chain in Mexico, and it is specifically in Sonora, where they want to invest.
A few days ago, Vidal Ahumada met with businessmen from Bacanora Lithium,
who informed him of the intention of the Chinese company to invest in the Sonora Lithium project,
from which several products of this strategic mineral of high demand for modern life will be obtained.
"The trust generated by the government of Claudia Pavlovich Arellano allows more foreign investors
to turn to Sonora to land their projects," said the Minister of Economy.
The state official added that this project will position Sonora as the first producing state of Lithium in Mexico,
and it is estimated that by the year 2020 the entity will appear on the world map of lithium producers.
He recalled that in the first stage of the company Sonora Lithium will invest 420 million dollars,
generating one thousand 200 jobs in its construction and 260 in its operation.
Within its plans for the expansion stage, contemplated for 2021,
an additional investment of 380 million dollars is projected, in addition to increasing to 490 employees, he added.
Currently they make adjustments to the construction budgets between Bacanora Lithium
and the company ICA Flour, contracted as EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Costruction),
for the construction of the plant 10 kilometers from the town of Bacadéhuachi.
The Secretary of Economy said that 95% of the workforce of this mine will be Sonoran,
because they recognize the high degree of specialization of human capital in the technical development, he said.
This investment project brings as a main market the automotive industry of electric cars
that are manufactured in Arizona, he said.
END
Monday, May 20, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 18-5-19
AZMEX UPDATE 18 MAY 2019
Health Secretariat detects 900 cases of scabies in Sonora
Details Published on Friday, May 17, 2019,
Written by Ángel Lozano
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=129278
Hermosillo, Son
So far this year, around 900 cases of scabies have been detected in Sonora, informed the head of the Ministry of Health.
Enrique Claussen Iberri indicated that according to the Directorate of Epidemiology
most of the cases have been presented in the southern municipalities of the state
such as Navojoa, Etchojoa and Huatabampo.
He pointed out that although this year the cases of scabies, better known as mange,
has been widespread in the population, has predominated in children and older adults.
He explained that in order to combat this disease, the Ministry of Health,
in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Culture (SEC),
has intensified prevention and detection sessions in schools.
"We have been working with the SEC to detect cases of scabies in each of the schools
in the municipalities where this disease has occurred," he said.
He specified that this disease is a parasitic problem in the skin that generates itching and redness
and can be transmitted from person to person.
End
Also video: https://www.elimparcial.com/asesinan_a_agente_de_la_amic_en_hermosillo-vf20190517mp4.html
End
Health Secretariat detects 900 cases of scabies in Sonora
Details Published on Friday, May 17, 2019,
Written by Ángel Lozano
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=129278
Hermosillo, Son
So far this year, around 900 cases of scabies have been detected in Sonora, informed the head of the Ministry of Health.
Enrique Claussen Iberri indicated that according to the Directorate of Epidemiology
most of the cases have been presented in the southern municipalities of the state
such as Navojoa, Etchojoa and Huatabampo.
He pointed out that although this year the cases of scabies, better known as mange,
has been widespread in the population, has predominated in children and older adults.
He explained that in order to combat this disease, the Ministry of Health,
in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Culture (SEC),
has intensified prevention and detection sessions in schools.
"We have been working with the SEC to detect cases of scabies in each of the schools
in the municipalities where this disease has occurred," he said.
He specified that this disease is a parasitic problem in the skin that generates itching and redness
and can be transmitted from person to person.
End
Also video: https://www.elimparcial.com/asesinan_a_agente_de_la_amic_en_hermosillo-vf20190517mp4.html
End
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
AZMEX I3 14-5-19
AZMEX I3 14 MAY 2019
Note: the bridge is on the border between McAllen and Weslaco, TX
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Tamaulipas: the Rio Bravo-Donna international bridge closed as migrants forcibly attempt to break into the U.S.
Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat VXT
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/05/tamaulipas-rio-bravo-donna.html#more
TAMAULIPAS.- The Rio Bravo-Donna International Bridge was abruptly closed on Sunday, May 12,
after a contingent of migrants tried to break into US territory by force.
This situation caused the closing of passage from the North American side,
only venting the vehicular traffic that was already in line, allowing the passage only by groups of four vehicles.
The incident was recorded at 7:30 p.m. and was also reported via social networks,
generating even slower traffic for those who were already in line to the United States.
Due to the prolonged wait, until resumed after the US agents took measures to repel the undocumented incursion,
motorists had to turn off and descend from their units.
The incident only allowed part of the traffic that was on the bi national structure to be unloaded, while on the Mexican side,
the passage to more units was restricted until the closing of the crossing at 21:45 hours.
Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis Posted at 9:11 AM
END
Note: the bridge is on the border between McAllen and Weslaco, TX
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Tamaulipas: the Rio Bravo-Donna international bridge closed as migrants forcibly attempt to break into the U.S.
Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat VXT
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/05/tamaulipas-rio-bravo-donna.html#more
TAMAULIPAS.- The Rio Bravo-Donna International Bridge was abruptly closed on Sunday, May 12,
after a contingent of migrants tried to break into US territory by force.
This situation caused the closing of passage from the North American side,
only venting the vehicular traffic that was already in line, allowing the passage only by groups of four vehicles.
The incident was recorded at 7:30 p.m. and was also reported via social networks,
generating even slower traffic for those who were already in line to the United States.
Due to the prolonged wait, until resumed after the US agents took measures to repel the undocumented incursion,
motorists had to turn off and descend from their units.
The incident only allowed part of the traffic that was on the bi national structure to be unloaded, while on the Mexican side,
the passage to more units was restricted until the closing of the crossing at 21:45 hours.
Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis Posted at 9:11 AM
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 14-5-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 14 MAY 2019
Note: San Luis Rio Colorado, Son. is just south of Yuma, AZ.
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019
https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/local/saturan-centros-de-adictos-en-sl-3617712.html
Addicts fill centers in SLRC
In SLRC there is a population of 1 thousand 600 addicts in treatment, who occupy almost all rehabilitation centers
Most recovering addicts confess to being victims of the drug known as crystal.
/ Courtesy. Luis Carlos Bravo
The majority of rehabilitation centers in San Luis Río Colorado are full, with people seeking freedom from addiction to illicit drugs,
mostly crystal and heroin, said Rogelio Ramírez Monroy.
The president of the Union of Rehabilitation and Treatment Centers of San Luis Río Colorado,
said that the majority of the approximately 20 enclosures of this type has reached the installed capacity
indicated by Standard 028 for Rehabilitation Centers under the regime of the Secretary of Health of Sonora.
Ramírez Monroy said that unlike in past years in this same range of months,
the arrival of a significant number of addicts who auto-alternate to mitigate the climate inside a refrigerated space was expected,
which has been replaced by the entry of victims. of crystal addiction, followed by heroin
"We have noticed a lot of crystal consumption and greater facility to get this drug in the streets of San Luis Río Colorado,
at least that is what patients express in their stage of reintegration in the centers," he said.
He added that, given the lack of spaces to serve addicts in the city, family members interested in recruiting someone
are invited to take them to the centers in Mexicali, Baja California.
They come from the US
Part of the patients who are currently in the SLRC Rehabilitation Center are residents of Yuma County,
due to the use of substances such as fentanyl
End
Note: San Luis Rio Colorado, Son. is just south of Yuma, AZ.
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019
https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/local/saturan-centros-de-adictos-en-sl-3617712.html
Addicts fill centers in SLRC
In SLRC there is a population of 1 thousand 600 addicts in treatment, who occupy almost all rehabilitation centers
Most recovering addicts confess to being victims of the drug known as crystal.
/ Courtesy. Luis Carlos Bravo
The majority of rehabilitation centers in San Luis Río Colorado are full, with people seeking freedom from addiction to illicit drugs,
mostly crystal and heroin, said Rogelio Ramírez Monroy.
The president of the Union of Rehabilitation and Treatment Centers of San Luis Río Colorado,
said that the majority of the approximately 20 enclosures of this type has reached the installed capacity
indicated by Standard 028 for Rehabilitation Centers under the regime of the Secretary of Health of Sonora.
Ramírez Monroy said that unlike in past years in this same range of months,
the arrival of a significant number of addicts who auto-alternate to mitigate the climate inside a refrigerated space was expected,
which has been replaced by the entry of victims. of crystal addiction, followed by heroin
"We have noticed a lot of crystal consumption and greater facility to get this drug in the streets of San Luis Río Colorado,
at least that is what patients express in their stage of reintegration in the centers," he said.
He added that, given the lack of spaces to serve addicts in the city, family members interested in recruiting someone
are invited to take them to the centers in Mexicali, Baja California.
They come from the US
Part of the patients who are currently in the SLRC Rehabilitation Center are residents of Yuma County,
due to the use of substances such as fentanyl
End
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 14-5-19
AZMEX UPDATE 14 MAY 2019
Officials consider reopening private prison to hold migrants
by Associated PressTuesday, May 14th 2019
https://cbs4local.com/news/local/officials-consider-reopening-private-prison-to-hold-migrants
ESTANCIA, N.M. (AP) — Officials are considering reopening a private prison in New Mexico
to hold immigrants being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Torrance County commissioners are set to vote Wednesday on whether to sign an agreement with ICE
to open the rural county detention facility owned by a Nashville, Tennessee-based private prison operator CoreCivic,
the Albuquerque Journal reported .
The prison southeast of Albuquerque closed in October 2017 because of a consistently low number of inmates,
county manager Wayne Johnson said.
The prison was a large employer for Estancia, so its closure was a blow to the area's economy and the county's tax base, he said.
"Having that 900-bed facility stand empty didn't make sense for anyone involved," Johnson said.
County officials expect the reopened prison to provide more than 200 jobs and house over 700 immigrant detainees
as well as some local inmates.
Under the proposed contract, the federal agency would pay the county nearly $2 million per month during the first year of prison use.
The price would increase in future years.
ICE would pay a fixed rate for up to 714 immigrant detainees, according to the proposed contract.
It would pay extra for each additional person housed in the facility.
The county would then sign a separate agreement with CoreCivic for it to run the facility and hire staff.
The facility would only house men, and the immigrant detainees
would be housed separately from other inmates, Johnson said.
Information from: Albuquerque Journal, http://www.abqjournal.com
END
Officials consider reopening private prison to hold migrants
by Associated PressTuesday, May 14th 2019
https://cbs4local.com/news/local/officials-consider-reopening-private-prison-to-hold-migrants
ESTANCIA, N.M. (AP) — Officials are considering reopening a private prison in New Mexico
to hold immigrants being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Torrance County commissioners are set to vote Wednesday on whether to sign an agreement with ICE
to open the rural county detention facility owned by a Nashville, Tennessee-based private prison operator CoreCivic,
the Albuquerque Journal reported .
The prison southeast of Albuquerque closed in October 2017 because of a consistently low number of inmates,
county manager Wayne Johnson said.
The prison was a large employer for Estancia, so its closure was a blow to the area's economy and the county's tax base, he said.
"Having that 900-bed facility stand empty didn't make sense for anyone involved," Johnson said.
County officials expect the reopened prison to provide more than 200 jobs and house over 700 immigrant detainees
as well as some local inmates.
Under the proposed contract, the federal agency would pay the county nearly $2 million per month during the first year of prison use.
The price would increase in future years.
ICE would pay a fixed rate for up to 714 immigrant detainees, according to the proposed contract.
It would pay extra for each additional person housed in the facility.
The county would then sign a separate agreement with CoreCivic for it to run the facility and hire staff.
The facility would only house men, and the immigrant detainees
would be housed separately from other inmates, Johnson said.
Information from: Albuquerque Journal, http://www.abqjournal.com
END
AZMEX I3 11-5-19
AZMEX I3 11 MAY 2019
High school student detained by Border Patrol shares his story
Posted: 7:43 PM, May 11, 2019 Updated: 8:27 PM, May 11, 2019
By: Brandi Walker
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/high-school-student-detained-by-border-patrol-shares-his-story
TUCSON, Ariz - Thomas Torres, a Desert View High School senior who was detained by Border Patrol on May 2
, is sharing how the incident went down, from his perspective.
Torres says things escalated with a Pima County Sheriff's Deputy when he could not produce a valid form of identification during a traffic stop.
He was taken into custody by sheriff's deputies and turned over to Border Patrol.
In a Skype interview, Torres said when the deputy asked him for a social security number,
he gave the deputy a fake number because he was scared.
When the deputy looked up that number and it didn't belong to Torres, Torres said the deputy asked him to come clean.
Torres says that's when he told the deputy he does not have a social security number
and he was brought to the U.S. when he was five with a visa that has since expired. (?)
His classmates at Desert View staged a march on Monday, demanding his release from Border Patrol.
On Wednesday, Sunnyside Unified School District spokesman Victor Mercado told us Torres was free from federal custody.
Torres says now he is working with a lawyer.
He says people think he's a bad kid, but he says he's a good kid who made some bad decisions.
Torres says he wants to get his residency and citizenship so he can stay in the U.S.
He says he's originally from Mexico, but doesn't have memories of living there, and his life is here now.
He says his two sisters are U.S. citizens, born in Tucson.
Torres says he was accepted to Pima Community College,
and hopes to become a chiropractor.
He has a court appearance on May 22, the same day he's supposed to graduate high school.
END
High school student detained by Border Patrol shares his story
Posted: 7:43 PM, May 11, 2019 Updated: 8:27 PM, May 11, 2019
By: Brandi Walker
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/high-school-student-detained-by-border-patrol-shares-his-story
TUCSON, Ariz - Thomas Torres, a Desert View High School senior who was detained by Border Patrol on May 2
, is sharing how the incident went down, from his perspective.
Torres says things escalated with a Pima County Sheriff's Deputy when he could not produce a valid form of identification during a traffic stop.
He was taken into custody by sheriff's deputies and turned over to Border Patrol.
In a Skype interview, Torres said when the deputy asked him for a social security number,
he gave the deputy a fake number because he was scared.
When the deputy looked up that number and it didn't belong to Torres, Torres said the deputy asked him to come clean.
Torres says that's when he told the deputy he does not have a social security number
and he was brought to the U.S. when he was five with a visa that has since expired. (?)
His classmates at Desert View staged a march on Monday, demanding his release from Border Patrol.
On Wednesday, Sunnyside Unified School District spokesman Victor Mercado told us Torres was free from federal custody.
Torres says now he is working with a lawyer.
He says people think he's a bad kid, but he says he's a good kid who made some bad decisions.
Torres says he wants to get his residency and citizenship so he can stay in the U.S.
He says he's originally from Mexico, but doesn't have memories of living there, and his life is here now.
He says his two sisters are U.S. citizens, born in Tucson.
Torres says he was accepted to Pima Community College,
and hopes to become a chiropractor.
He has a court appearance on May 22, the same day he's supposed to graduate high school.
END
Monday, May 13, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 12-5-19
AZMEX POLICY 12 MAY 2019
Navy and Army were misused: AMLO
'Now there is going to be public security, now the citizens will be taken care of', said the president
Reforma
Sunday, May 12, 2019 | 19:20
https://diario.mx/nacional/semar-y-sedena-eran-desaprovechados-amlo-20190512-1514309/
Mexico City - Before the creation of the National Guard was approved to deal with public security,
the Army and the Navy were misused, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
"They could be assaulting, kidnapping, a citizen in front of a barracks and could not, according to the Constitution,
the sailors, the soldiers, intervene and did not have elements to guarantee the safety of the people,"
he said in a speech at this Mexican Pacific port.
López Obrador, a profound critic of the strategy initiated by former President Felipe Calderón
to get the army to fight crime, presented as an advance the constitutional reform to create the Guard with the military,
a measure that has been criticized by human rights organizations and by the UN
due to the high rate of Human Rights violations reported by the Army,
the fragile controls of accountability and because it follows the same path of combatting crime
that Calderón initiated and that has not worked.
"Do you know how many troops the President has to face the most serious problem of insecurity and violence?
Ten thousand elements throughout the country,
that was the Federal Police and only the Government, to take care of its facilities,
had to hire 50 thousand elements of the private police,
while the Army has 230 thousand elements, with facilities, with barracks, with discipline, with experience, with professionalism,
the Navy, 65 thousand elements,
"said López Obrador when making a summary of what he called
" his achievements "at the beginning of his Government in the Military Area of Vallarta.
"Now that a constitutional reform has been achieved to create the National Guard
and unite the Army, the Navy, the Federal Police to take care of the people,
now there will be public security, now the citizens will be taken care of. important,
that this progress was achieved, "said the President.
In the event where he was accompanied by the Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro,
the President urged to make more changes like this as quickly as possible, since he will not accept re-election.
"We are going to transform Mexico for us and for those who come after us, our children, our grandchildren,
and we have to hurry because in my case I do not accept re-election,
I am a Maderista: effective suffrage, not reelection," he assured.
END
Navy and Army were misused: AMLO
'Now there is going to be public security, now the citizens will be taken care of', said the president
Reforma
Sunday, May 12, 2019 | 19:20
https://diario.mx/nacional/semar-y-sedena-eran-desaprovechados-amlo-20190512-1514309/
Mexico City - Before the creation of the National Guard was approved to deal with public security,
the Army and the Navy were misused, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
"They could be assaulting, kidnapping, a citizen in front of a barracks and could not, according to the Constitution,
the sailors, the soldiers, intervene and did not have elements to guarantee the safety of the people,"
he said in a speech at this Mexican Pacific port.
López Obrador, a profound critic of the strategy initiated by former President Felipe Calderón
to get the army to fight crime, presented as an advance the constitutional reform to create the Guard with the military,
a measure that has been criticized by human rights organizations and by the UN
due to the high rate of Human Rights violations reported by the Army,
the fragile controls of accountability and because it follows the same path of combatting crime
that Calderón initiated and that has not worked.
"Do you know how many troops the President has to face the most serious problem of insecurity and violence?
Ten thousand elements throughout the country,
that was the Federal Police and only the Government, to take care of its facilities,
had to hire 50 thousand elements of the private police,
while the Army has 230 thousand elements, with facilities, with barracks, with discipline, with experience, with professionalism,
the Navy, 65 thousand elements,
"said López Obrador when making a summary of what he called
" his achievements "at the beginning of his Government in the Military Area of Vallarta.
"Now that a constitutional reform has been achieved to create the National Guard
and unite the Army, the Navy, the Federal Police to take care of the people,
now there will be public security, now the citizens will be taken care of. important,
that this progress was achieved, "said the President.
In the event where he was accompanied by the Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro,
the President urged to make more changes like this as quickly as possible, since he will not accept re-election.
"We are going to transform Mexico for us and for those who come after us, our children, our grandchildren,
and we have to hurry because in my case I do not accept re-election,
I am a Maderista: effective suffrage, not reelection," he assured.
END
Friday, May 10, 2019
AZMEX POLICY2 10-5-19
AZMEX POLICY-2 10 MAY 2019
Joe Biden backs health care for illegal immigrants, says 'we have an obligation' to provide it
Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images
By Lukas Mikelionis
Posted May 10 2019 10:30AM MST
Updated May 10 2019 10:34AM MST
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/us-world-news/joe-biden-backs-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants-says-we-have-an-obligation-to-provide-it
(FOX NEWS) - Leading 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden said this week that the U.S. must provide health care to everyone in the country,
"regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented."
Biden made the remarks while campaigning in Los Angeles, as he fielded questions from the media.
"Look, I think that anyone who is in a situation where they are in need of health care,
regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for,"
Biden said in response to whether illegal immigrants "should be entitled to federal benefits like Medicare, Medicaid."
"By the way, a significant portion of undocumented folks in this country are there because they overstayed their visas,"
the former vice president continued.
"It's not people breaking down gates coming across the border, so the biggest thing we've got to do on this thing is tone down the rhetoric.
We know why it's happening. It's to create fear and concern."
Biden's remarks were likely to somewhat boost his standing among progressive Democrats,
many of whom view his candidacy as a step backward --
especially with Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also in the running.
The former veep, however, hasn't yet endorsed Medicare-for-all, a rallying cry of most Democrats running for president in 2020.
Related Headlines
Former Trump campaign advisers say Biden
Biden labels Trump a 'clown' during campaign stop
Jill Biden speaks out on husband's allegations
Biden launches 2020 presidential campaign
During the same campaign stop in California, Biden also accused President Trump
of engaging in fear tactics at the U.S.-Mexico border and not delivering solutions.
"The idea that we are just trying to scare the living devil out of the American public —
'My God, hordes are coming,' the way [Trump] characterizes it — is just simply wrong," Biden said.
He added he will soon release a plan to address the long-running problems at the border.
Part of his proposal would call for a way to quickly determine whether an immigrant is qualified to enter the U.S.
Read more at FoxNews.com.
Fox News' Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
END
Joe Biden backs health care for illegal immigrants, says 'we have an obligation' to provide it
Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images
By Lukas Mikelionis
Posted May 10 2019 10:30AM MST
Updated May 10 2019 10:34AM MST
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/us-world-news/joe-biden-backs-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants-says-we-have-an-obligation-to-provide-it
(FOX NEWS) - Leading 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden said this week that the U.S. must provide health care to everyone in the country,
"regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented."
Biden made the remarks while campaigning in Los Angeles, as he fielded questions from the media.
"Look, I think that anyone who is in a situation where they are in need of health care,
regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for,"
Biden said in response to whether illegal immigrants "should be entitled to federal benefits like Medicare, Medicaid."
"By the way, a significant portion of undocumented folks in this country are there because they overstayed their visas,"
the former vice president continued.
"It's not people breaking down gates coming across the border, so the biggest thing we've got to do on this thing is tone down the rhetoric.
We know why it's happening. It's to create fear and concern."
Biden's remarks were likely to somewhat boost his standing among progressive Democrats,
many of whom view his candidacy as a step backward --
especially with Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also in the running.
The former veep, however, hasn't yet endorsed Medicare-for-all, a rallying cry of most Democrats running for president in 2020.
Related Headlines
Former Trump campaign advisers say Biden
Biden labels Trump a 'clown' during campaign stop
Jill Biden speaks out on husband's allegations
Biden launches 2020 presidential campaign
During the same campaign stop in California, Biden also accused President Trump
of engaging in fear tactics at the U.S.-Mexico border and not delivering solutions.
"The idea that we are just trying to scare the living devil out of the American public —
'My God, hordes are coming,' the way [Trump] characterizes it — is just simply wrong," Biden said.
He added he will soon release a plan to address the long-running problems at the border.
Part of his proposal would call for a way to quickly determine whether an immigrant is qualified to enter the U.S.
Read more at FoxNews.com.
Fox News' Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
END
AZMEX POLICY 10-5-19
AZMEX POLICY 10 MAY 2019
Comment: the far left outraged as usual. Protect animals, not Americans.
As the "Wall" will impede their ultimate goal of the destruction of the USA.
Thx
ARIZONA NEWS
Environmentalists say wall plan poses threat to Arizona wildlife, waterways
BY KEVIN STONE
MAY 10, 2019 AT 4:05 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2568135/environmentalists-say-wall-plan-poses-threat-to-arizona-wildlife-waterways/
The fence marking the U.S.-Mexico border is seen at sunset on July 22, 2018 in Nogales, Arizona.
At left are seen security cameras mounted over the Mexican side of the border.
President Trump has proposed replacing the fence with a wall. (Getty Images Photo/John Moore)
PHOENIX – Environmental groups fear a plan to beef up border barriers in southern Arizona
would do irreparable harm to wildlife and waterways in the area.
On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a call for public input about a proposal to replace approximately
63 miles of existing fencing and vehicle barriers with new bollard wall.
The proposal addresses multiple sections of barrier, including parts of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Pima County
and San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in Cochise County.
According to the Sierra Club, the existing barriers in the proposed areas don't impede the flow of wildlife and water.
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The new wall would be made of concrete-filled steel bollards that are 18-30 feet high and 6 feet in diameter.
The Sierra Club says that design would keep all animals more than 6 inches wide from passing through.
"Animals have been migrating across the continent for tens of thousands of years,"
Myles Traphagen, coordinator of the Wildlands Network's borderlands program, said Wednesday.
"If these walls are built, it will change the evolutionary history of North America."
In addition to the larger barriers, the proposed project includes road construction work and the installation of lighting and other detection technology.
The proposal is seen by environmentalists a threat to endangered species such as the Sonoran pronghorn, Mexican gray wolf and jaguar.
"With a warming and drying climate rapidly accelerating in the Southwest, wildlife need more opportunities,
not less, to move in search of their life-cycle requirements," said Juan Carlos Bravo, Wildlands Network's Mexico program director.
"For over 20 years, jaguars have been re-colonizing the U.S. from Mexico.
Building a border wall in these crucial wildlife corridors will put an end to this natural process."
There are also concerns that the wall would impede the San Pedro River, one of two major rivers that flow from Mexico into the United States.
"Walls don't solve problems," Dan Millis of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter Borderlands Program said in a press release.
"They cause flooding and sabotage wildlife protection efforts."
In February, as part of President Donald Trump's border emergency declaration,
the Department of Homeland Security requested Department of Defense assistance for multiple barrier projects
in areas of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas considered drug-smuggling corridors.
The Pentagon authorized up to $1 billion for border wall projects in March.
Last month, DHS issued waivers to environmental laws to build and replace 11 miles of barriers near Yuma and 46 miles in New Mexico.
The projects for which Customs and Border Protection is seeking comment were on the February list of DHS requests.
On Wednesday, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan testified before the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee
about transferring Pentagon funds for wall construction. He said there was enough funding to build about 256 miles of barrier.
Without specifying where, he said about 63 miles would go up in the next six months.
Trump's attempts to use defense funds to build border barriers have faced opposition in Congress as well as legal challenges.
Among them is a lawsuit filed in February by the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity
that accuses the president of overstepping his Constitutional powers by appropriating funds without Congressional approval.
"Trump is stooping to a dangerous new low of lawlessness to build his despicable wall,"
said Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner for the organization.
"These plans to bulldoze national monuments, wildlife refuges and wilderness lands should enrage all Arizonans."
Customs and Border Protection will accept public input until July 5.
Comments and questions can be emailed to commentsenv@cbp.dhs.gov with
"Pima and Cochise Counties Border Infrastructure Projects" in the title.
The department said it is also doing environmental impact studies and collecting information from state and local governments,
federal agencies, Native American tribes and landowners who might be impacted.
END
Comment: the far left outraged as usual. Protect animals, not Americans.
As the "Wall" will impede their ultimate goal of the destruction of the USA.
Thx
ARIZONA NEWS
Environmentalists say wall plan poses threat to Arizona wildlife, waterways
BY KEVIN STONE
MAY 10, 2019 AT 4:05 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2568135/environmentalists-say-wall-plan-poses-threat-to-arizona-wildlife-waterways/
The fence marking the U.S.-Mexico border is seen at sunset on July 22, 2018 in Nogales, Arizona.
At left are seen security cameras mounted over the Mexican side of the border.
President Trump has proposed replacing the fence with a wall. (Getty Images Photo/John Moore)
PHOENIX – Environmental groups fear a plan to beef up border barriers in southern Arizona
would do irreparable harm to wildlife and waterways in the area.
On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a call for public input about a proposal to replace approximately
63 miles of existing fencing and vehicle barriers with new bollard wall.
The proposal addresses multiple sections of barrier, including parts of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Pima County
and San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in Cochise County.
According to the Sierra Club, the existing barriers in the proposed areas don't impede the flow of wildlife and water.
Related Links
President Trump declares national emergency to build border wall
Defense funds being used for Arizona, New Mexico border wall
Homeland Security OKs rush order on border wall replacement in Arizona
$190 million worth of border wall replacement to be built in Yuma
The new wall would be made of concrete-filled steel bollards that are 18-30 feet high and 6 feet in diameter.
The Sierra Club says that design would keep all animals more than 6 inches wide from passing through.
"Animals have been migrating across the continent for tens of thousands of years,"
Myles Traphagen, coordinator of the Wildlands Network's borderlands program, said Wednesday.
"If these walls are built, it will change the evolutionary history of North America."
In addition to the larger barriers, the proposed project includes road construction work and the installation of lighting and other detection technology.
The proposal is seen by environmentalists a threat to endangered species such as the Sonoran pronghorn, Mexican gray wolf and jaguar.
"With a warming and drying climate rapidly accelerating in the Southwest, wildlife need more opportunities,
not less, to move in search of their life-cycle requirements," said Juan Carlos Bravo, Wildlands Network's Mexico program director.
"For over 20 years, jaguars have been re-colonizing the U.S. from Mexico.
Building a border wall in these crucial wildlife corridors will put an end to this natural process."
There are also concerns that the wall would impede the San Pedro River, one of two major rivers that flow from Mexico into the United States.
"Walls don't solve problems," Dan Millis of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter Borderlands Program said in a press release.
"They cause flooding and sabotage wildlife protection efforts."
In February, as part of President Donald Trump's border emergency declaration,
the Department of Homeland Security requested Department of Defense assistance for multiple barrier projects
in areas of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas considered drug-smuggling corridors.
The Pentagon authorized up to $1 billion for border wall projects in March.
Last month, DHS issued waivers to environmental laws to build and replace 11 miles of barriers near Yuma and 46 miles in New Mexico.
The projects for which Customs and Border Protection is seeking comment were on the February list of DHS requests.
On Wednesday, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan testified before the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee
about transferring Pentagon funds for wall construction. He said there was enough funding to build about 256 miles of barrier.
Without specifying where, he said about 63 miles would go up in the next six months.
Trump's attempts to use defense funds to build border barriers have faced opposition in Congress as well as legal challenges.
Among them is a lawsuit filed in February by the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity
that accuses the president of overstepping his Constitutional powers by appropriating funds without Congressional approval.
"Trump is stooping to a dangerous new low of lawlessness to build his despicable wall,"
said Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner for the organization.
"These plans to bulldoze national monuments, wildlife refuges and wilderness lands should enrage all Arizonans."
Customs and Border Protection will accept public input until July 5.
Comments and questions can be emailed to commentsenv@cbp.dhs.gov with
"Pima and Cochise Counties Border Infrastructure Projects" in the title.
The department said it is also doing environmental impact studies and collecting information from state and local governments,
federal agencies, Native American tribes and landowners who might be impacted.
END
Monday, May 6, 2019
AZMEX I3 4-5-19
AZMEX I3 4 MAY 2019
Border Patrol says it's close to reaching 1 million migrant apprehensions in Southwest
by Holly Bock Friday, May 3rd 2019
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/border-patrol-says-its-close-to-reaching-1-million-migrant-apprehensions-in-southwest
Border Patrol says it's close to reaching 1 million migrant apprehensions in Southwest<p>{/p}
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol is seeing apprehension numbers skyrocket along the southern border.
In the month of March, CBP encountered over 103,000 people on the Southwestern border. This is an increase of 35% over February.
CBP said 30,000 of the border patrol apprehensions were single adults, 8,900 were unaccompanied children
and 53,000 were family units from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Here at the El Paso sector alone CBP deals with nearly 930 apprehensions daily.
"That is a significantly a lot higher this year. We are seeing an increase of about over 600% increase in total apprehensions,"
Border Patrol Officer Frank Pino said.
Pino said people are coming from everywhere, trying to escape violence in their own countries.
"We have been seeing lately recently a huge number of Cubans and Brazilians that are also coming
and we're thinking maybe now with the crisis in Venezuela that we may even start seeing, even more, come and enter the United States," Pino said.
Border Patrol said its most recent challenge has been securing all areas, including tunnels.
"Since our manpower is so strained a lot of those areas, especially near the tunnels where normally there is an agent present in that area
to help deter or stop people from getting into the tunnels, we now have smugglers with access to them knowing that there's not an agent available.
It's visible and unfortunately the smugglers are going to start pushing these people to these dangerous tunnels and we know,
these tunnels, there are so many hazards down there," Pino said.
"That's just going to add another level of dangers that are out there that Border Patrol agents are having to face."
A new temporary tent facility was put up in northeast El Paso in hopes of bringing immigrants in to process them faster.
"We are hoping it will be able to offer that care that humanitarian side where we can quickly process people and get them turned over," Pino said.
"The capacity of the facility is 500 people total. Separated into four different pods
and it has areas for personal hygiene, processing, recreation, sleeping quarters and kitchen equipment.
This is not a long-term detention facility.
Our goal is to get people in there and get them processed and get them the care that they need and get the people out as quick as possible.
As mean as that might sound, the quicker we can get them processed and get these bodies out where they need to go, that's good."
Pino said if the number of apprehensions continue, the trend will reach unbelievable numbers.
"We are on track of the whole Southwest border to be pretty close to 1 million people
that has been apprehended that have crossed over the border illegally."
End
Border Patrol rescues stranded migrants west of Tucson
Paul Birmingham
4:00 pm
May 3, 2019
https://kvoa.com/news/2019/05/03/border-patrol-rescues-stranded-migrants-west-of-tucson/
TUCSON – U.S. Border Patrol agents have rescued a number of distressed migrants in the desert west of Tucson.
In the first incident at around 11:00 a.m. Thursday, agents rescued two people in a remote canyon in the Ajo Mountains.
A helicopter from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office was called to the scene,
and air-lifted a 35-year-old Honduran man to the hospital after he suffered a bone fracture.
A little later in the day, agents from the Three Points Station were able to locate two men
suffering from severe dehydration and mild hypothermia in the desert.
All those recused will now face federal immigration charges.
END
Border Patrol says it's close to reaching 1 million migrant apprehensions in Southwest
by Holly Bock Friday, May 3rd 2019
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/border-patrol-says-its-close-to-reaching-1-million-migrant-apprehensions-in-southwest
Border Patrol says it's close to reaching 1 million migrant apprehensions in Southwest<p>{/p}
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol is seeing apprehension numbers skyrocket along the southern border.
In the month of March, CBP encountered over 103,000 people on the Southwestern border. This is an increase of 35% over February.
CBP said 30,000 of the border patrol apprehensions were single adults, 8,900 were unaccompanied children
and 53,000 were family units from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Here at the El Paso sector alone CBP deals with nearly 930 apprehensions daily.
"That is a significantly a lot higher this year. We are seeing an increase of about over 600% increase in total apprehensions,"
Border Patrol Officer Frank Pino said.
Pino said people are coming from everywhere, trying to escape violence in their own countries.
"We have been seeing lately recently a huge number of Cubans and Brazilians that are also coming
and we're thinking maybe now with the crisis in Venezuela that we may even start seeing, even more, come and enter the United States," Pino said.
Border Patrol said its most recent challenge has been securing all areas, including tunnels.
"Since our manpower is so strained a lot of those areas, especially near the tunnels where normally there is an agent present in that area
to help deter or stop people from getting into the tunnels, we now have smugglers with access to them knowing that there's not an agent available.
It's visible and unfortunately the smugglers are going to start pushing these people to these dangerous tunnels and we know,
these tunnels, there are so many hazards down there," Pino said.
"That's just going to add another level of dangers that are out there that Border Patrol agents are having to face."
A new temporary tent facility was put up in northeast El Paso in hopes of bringing immigrants in to process them faster.
"We are hoping it will be able to offer that care that humanitarian side where we can quickly process people and get them turned over," Pino said.
"The capacity of the facility is 500 people total. Separated into four different pods
and it has areas for personal hygiene, processing, recreation, sleeping quarters and kitchen equipment.
This is not a long-term detention facility.
Our goal is to get people in there and get them processed and get them the care that they need and get the people out as quick as possible.
As mean as that might sound, the quicker we can get them processed and get these bodies out where they need to go, that's good."
Pino said if the number of apprehensions continue, the trend will reach unbelievable numbers.
"We are on track of the whole Southwest border to be pretty close to 1 million people
that has been apprehended that have crossed over the border illegally."
End
Border Patrol rescues stranded migrants west of Tucson
Paul Birmingham
4:00 pm
May 3, 2019
https://kvoa.com/news/2019/05/03/border-patrol-rescues-stranded-migrants-west-of-tucson/
TUCSON – U.S. Border Patrol agents have rescued a number of distressed migrants in the desert west of Tucson.
In the first incident at around 11:00 a.m. Thursday, agents rescued two people in a remote canyon in the Ajo Mountains.
A helicopter from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office was called to the scene,
and air-lifted a 35-year-old Honduran man to the hospital after he suffered a bone fracture.
A little later in the day, agents from the Three Points Station were able to locate two men
suffering from severe dehydration and mild hypothermia in the desert.
All those recused will now face federal immigration charges.
END
Friday, May 3, 2019
AZMEX I3 3-5-19
AZMEX I3 3 MAY 2019
Yuma Sector Border Patrol takes in 1,000 migrants in 2 days
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BY PETER SAMORE | MAY 3, 2019 AT 4:35 AM
UPDATED: MAY 3, 2019 AT 7:16 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2560595/yuma-sector-border-patrol-takes-in-1000-migrants-in-2-days/
PHOENIX — One thousand migrants representing nine countries surrendered to Border Patrol agents in Yuma on Tuesday and Wednesday,
likely on their way to claiming asylum.
Most of these migrants came from Guatemala, "but we also had individuals from Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Belize, Cuba,
India and Senegal," Agent Jose Garibay said.
He added that nationals from those last three countries likely joined smuggling cartels in Mexico.
"They may go to the same location and cross together, or those individuals from those countries
may peel off toward the back end of the journey and cross on their own," he said.
Embedded video
CBP Arizona
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@CBPArizona
700 illegal aliens surrender themselves to #USBP #YumaSector Border Patrol agents over the course of Tuesday. @CBP #SouthwestBorder
410
3:43 PM - May 1, 2019
Most crossed into the U.S. over the Colorado River, and they beat vehicle barriers on the shore.
"(The barriers are) only standing 4 1/2 feet high, and it's relatively easy for (migrants) to go under or over them
because they're not designed to stop people," Garibay said.
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Video: ICE releases Central American migrants to Phoenix church group
Most migrants traveled with children, meaning U.S. law requires Border Patrol to get them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement
or release them in three days.
Now, Yuma Sector Border Patrol has 1,300 migrants in custody with capacity for only 410.
"So if ICE can't take them, and they're not going to have any bedspace,
then we're forced to release them within our sector to the nearest transportation hubs," Garibay said.
This requirement explains the recent surge in releases into Yuma and Blythe, California.
Garibay said his colleagues must "redecorate" their facilities.
"Rooms that were originally for the storage property, we've had to convert those rooms into temporary holding areas," he said.
"So now, 40-50% of that manpower is not able to be performing that border security
mission in apprehending other people. The whole system is just strained to capacity."
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Yuma Sector Border Patrol takes in 1,000 migrants in 2 days
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BY PETER SAMORE | MAY 3, 2019 AT 4:35 AM
UPDATED: MAY 3, 2019 AT 7:16 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2560595/yuma-sector-border-patrol-takes-in-1000-migrants-in-2-days/
PHOENIX — One thousand migrants representing nine countries surrendered to Border Patrol agents in Yuma on Tuesday and Wednesday,
likely on their way to claiming asylum.
Most of these migrants came from Guatemala, "but we also had individuals from Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Belize, Cuba,
India and Senegal," Agent Jose Garibay said.
He added that nationals from those last three countries likely joined smuggling cartels in Mexico.
"They may go to the same location and cross together, or those individuals from those countries
may peel off toward the back end of the journey and cross on their own," he said.
Embedded video
CBP Arizona
✔
@CBPArizona
700 illegal aliens surrender themselves to #USBP #YumaSector Border Patrol agents over the course of Tuesday. @CBP #SouthwestBorder
410
3:43 PM - May 1, 2019
Most crossed into the U.S. over the Colorado River, and they beat vehicle barriers on the shore.
"(The barriers are) only standing 4 1/2 feet high, and it's relatively easy for (migrants) to go under or over them
because they're not designed to stop people," Garibay said.
Related Links
Arizona border chief confident DNA testing will find fake migrant families
DHS to implement DNA test program to detect fake migrant families
Federal agents set up in Arizona border town to weed out fake families
McSally wants Congress to approve $4.5B for migrant help in border towns
Video: ICE releases Central American migrants to Phoenix church group
Most migrants traveled with children, meaning U.S. law requires Border Patrol to get them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement
or release them in three days.
Now, Yuma Sector Border Patrol has 1,300 migrants in custody with capacity for only 410.
"So if ICE can't take them, and they're not going to have any bedspace,
then we're forced to release them within our sector to the nearest transportation hubs," Garibay said.
This requirement explains the recent surge in releases into Yuma and Blythe, California.
Garibay said his colleagues must "redecorate" their facilities.
"Rooms that were originally for the storage property, we've had to convert those rooms into temporary holding areas," he said.
"So now, 40-50% of that manpower is not able to be performing that border security
mission in apprehending other people. The whole system is just strained to capacity."
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