note; yet another corrupt judge. " it's not a crime to "momentarily" have a gun"
Illegal Acquitted Of Murdering Kate Steinle Gets Gun Conviction Tossed By Calif. Appeals Court
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 11:10 AM PST – Sat. August 31, 2019
https://www.oann.com/illegal-acquitted-of-murdering-kate-steinle-gets-gun-conviction-tossed-by-calif-appeals-court/
An illegal alien acquitted of killing Kate Steinle back in 2015 sees his gun conviction overturned by a San Francisco court.
FILE – In this July 17, 2015, file photo, flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle remain at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco.
A California state appeals court has thrown out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot Steinle
on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015.
The 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, overturned a gun conviction
against Garcia-Zarate because the judge failed to instruct the jury on one of his defenses.
Garcia-Zarate is in custody and facing federal gun charges. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)
Earlier Friday, an appeals court reversed Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate's 2017 conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon.
This comes after he accused a judge of failing to tell the jury
it's not a crime to "momentarily" have a gun.
The 46-year-old claims he found the firearm on a San Francisco pier, picked it up, and it "accidentally" went off.
The bullet then ricocheted off a concrete-walkway, before fatally striking Steinle.
Garcia-Zarate then threw the gun into the bay. He was deported five times before Steinle's death,
sparking a nationwide debate over sanctuary city policies.
He's currently being held in custody on federal gun charges.
End
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Fwd: Breaking: GOPers and Dems Caught Pushing Another Anti-Border Wall Amendment!!
Another FYI. They are corrupt, dishonest and most of all, disloyal.
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Begin forwarded message:From: Conservative Daily <info@conservativedailyalerts.com>Subject: Breaking: GOPers and Dems Caught Pushing Another Anti-Border Wall Amendment!!Date: August 31, 2019 at 9:22:26 AM MST
Breaking: GOPers and Dems Caught Pushing Another Anti-Border Wall Amendment!!
We have just discovered ANOTHER poison pill amendment that, if passed, would shutdown Trump's border wall national emergency and end all wall construction projects for good!
This past week, I warned you that Republicans were gearing up to help Democrats pass an anti-border wall amendment in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act.
In Section 227 of the bill, it reads that "notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be used for the construction of physical barriers along the southern land border of the United States during fiscal year 2020."
That one sentence alone would shut down all border wall construction for next year, the final year of Trump's first term in office. Given the fact that there are over 450 miles of new border wall construction slated to be completed over the next year, this is a big deal. We went down the list and named the 25 Republicans in the House and Senate most likely to vote for this provision (since they already voted with Democrats back in March to revoke this border wall funding).
We launched a massive FaxBlast campaign pressuring Congress and the response from conservative Congressmen and Senators was excellent. They vowed to throw everything at the bill to stop this amendment from passing. But in the process, they discovered another open border amendment hidden on page 1689 of the National Defense Authorization Act as well. And Section 2801 of that bill is just as dangerous.
"Military construction funds may not be obligated, expended, or otherwise used to design or carry out a project to construct, replace, or modify a wall, fence, or other physical barrier along the international border between the United States and Mexico."
This is like a political game of whack-a-mole. Just when we get Conservatives in Congress to finally start fighting against the open border Establishment, another equally dangerous amendment pops up in another spending bill!
And now, the GOP wants to rush this surrender amendment through!
Again, not only would this block new border wall construction, but it would also block modifications. Last year, we were facing a literal invasion at the border. I call it an invasion because the migrants scaled the border fence in California and started waving the Honduran Flag and singing their national anthem. There is nothing "racist" about calling that an invasion. If someone storms an international border waving the flag of their home country -- remember, a country that they were also allegedly fleeing -- then that is an invasion.
Anyway, in order to stop that invasion, Trump called up the Army and they covered the border fence with razor wire. And just like that, the crisis was averted. But this new amendment would outlaw even that.
This is the second hidden amendment we've found that would officially revoke President Trump's border wall national emergency order and end all border wall construction. And the ban wouldn't just apply to last year. It would apply to all military funding that has been approved since 2015.
The Establishment isn't taking any chances. They want to force this bill through this coming week to shut down border wall construction before you get a chance to rise up and stop them.
You cannot let them do this!
We have spent a lot of time naming and shaming the Establishment Republicans who have decided to team up with Democrats to try to shut down border wall construction.
But today, I want to name the conservatives who are fighting back because they desperately need your help.
I am talking about Representatives Bradley Byrne (AL), Paul Gosar (AZ), David Schweikert (AZ), Andy Biggs (AZ), Greg Steube (FL), Matt Gaetz (FL), Jody Hice (GA), Barry Loudermilk (GA), Mark Meadows (NC), Jeff Duncan (SC), Ralph Norman (SC), Randy Weber (TX), Ron Wright (TX), Michael Cloud (TX), and Chip Roy (TX).
They are fighting with everything they've got to strip these open border provisions from the spending bills before it is too late. But they need your help before time runs out! If even one of these anti-border wall amendments slips through, then we lose.
Unfortunately, Democrats are already starting to get Republicans to flip against the President. These cowards are willing to cave on anything to avoid a government shutdown, even if it means cancelling 450 miles of border wall construction.
They think that is the best way to hold onto their political power. It is up to YOU to prove them wrong!
Don't stop fighting!
Joe Otto
Conservative Daily
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Make sure your friends read this too...we need every voice we can get to change the status quo in Washington!
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Friday, August 30, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 30-8-19
AZMEX POLICY 30 AUG 2019
Note: not to forget the Cronkite "news" is a leftist op.
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Arizona joins other states calling on Supreme Court to overturn DACA
By WISSAM MELHEM, Cronkite News 6 hrs ago
https://www.pinalcentral.com/arizona_news/arizona-joins-other-states-calling-on-supreme-court-to-overturn/article_070cca2d-7b41-5d5b-b3e8-f377ad566c09.html
Protesters marched in Washington on March 5, which was supposed to be the last day for DACA,
but legal challenges have since kept the deferred deportation program alive. (Photo by Austen Bundy/Cronkite News)
WASHINGTON – Arizona joined 12 other states this week that asked the Supreme Court to roll back
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that they say has caused "irreparable harm" to their states.
The brief was filed on behalf of 12 attorneys general and one governor, all Republicans,
who claimed that the program is unlawful and urged the Supreme Court to overturn lower courts
that have so far blocked Trump administration efforts to end DACA.
It was two years ago next week that the administration said it would "wind down" DACA, an Obama-era program
that protects immigrants who were brought here illegally as children.
The executive order deferred deportation of recipients for two years and allowed them to get work permits and drivers licenses, among other benefits.
The states calling for an end to the program said it has strained their finances
as they have had to provide services such as health care, education and law enforcement for recipients – the so-called "Dreamers."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the lead official on the brief, claimed that his state alone spends $250 million a year on services for DACA recipients.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who signed on to the brief, did not respond to requests for comment on it this week.
But one immigration advocate called it "insane and despicable" that Arizona is joining with the other states to try to end DACA.
Petra Falcon, executive director of Promise Arizona,
said she was surprised Brnovich is working to overturn a policy that she said has wide support.
"I'm surprised that there is not closer communication with their communities," Falcon said of the officials behind the brief.
She said Dreamers are not a drain on society as the brief claims.
"They've been in this country for a long time. They've never lived anywhere else. They're studying here. They're working here,"
Falcon said of DACA recipients.
But Matt O'Brien of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that advocates for limited immigration,
defended the challenge to DACA, which he calls unlawful.
"Many of these people are now adults and have been aware since their early teen years that they were not lawfully present in the United States,
and yet they didn't leave which they're legally obligated to do," O'Brien said.
He said President Donald Trump is correcting what he called an unlawful action by then-President Barack Obama,
who created DACA through an executive order in 2012.
Despite Trump's threat to end DACA, however, the number of active recipients has remained relatively steady,
as courts have blocked the administration's plan. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
reported that there were 660,880 active DACA recipients in June, down from the 689,800 who were covered in September 2017.
The attorneys general point to court rulings striking down related programs – an expanded DACA and a
deferral program for parents of DACA recipients – as proof that DACA should suffer the same fate.
But critics accuse Republicans of using scare tactics in their fight against DACA, which one called a "stunt."
"This stunt is out of step with our state's values … Arizona Democrats recognize we need smart immigration reform," said Matt Grodsky,
a spokesperson for the Arizona Democratic Party. "This is not the way to achieve that."
The Supreme Court combined three cases that successfully challenged the Trump administration's
"wind down" of DACA into one case, which it is scheduled to hear arguments on in November.
END
Note: not to forget the Cronkite "news" is a leftist op.
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Arizona joins other states calling on Supreme Court to overturn DACA
By WISSAM MELHEM, Cronkite News 6 hrs ago
https://www.pinalcentral.com/arizona_news/arizona-joins-other-states-calling-on-supreme-court-to-overturn/article_070cca2d-7b41-5d5b-b3e8-f377ad566c09.html
Protesters marched in Washington on March 5, which was supposed to be the last day for DACA,
but legal challenges have since kept the deferred deportation program alive. (Photo by Austen Bundy/Cronkite News)
WASHINGTON – Arizona joined 12 other states this week that asked the Supreme Court to roll back
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that they say has caused "irreparable harm" to their states.
The brief was filed on behalf of 12 attorneys general and one governor, all Republicans,
who claimed that the program is unlawful and urged the Supreme Court to overturn lower courts
that have so far blocked Trump administration efforts to end DACA.
It was two years ago next week that the administration said it would "wind down" DACA, an Obama-era program
that protects immigrants who were brought here illegally as children.
The executive order deferred deportation of recipients for two years and allowed them to get work permits and drivers licenses, among other benefits.
The states calling for an end to the program said it has strained their finances
as they have had to provide services such as health care, education and law enforcement for recipients – the so-called "Dreamers."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the lead official on the brief, claimed that his state alone spends $250 million a year on services for DACA recipients.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who signed on to the brief, did not respond to requests for comment on it this week.
But one immigration advocate called it "insane and despicable" that Arizona is joining with the other states to try to end DACA.
Petra Falcon, executive director of Promise Arizona,
said she was surprised Brnovich is working to overturn a policy that she said has wide support.
"I'm surprised that there is not closer communication with their communities," Falcon said of the officials behind the brief.
She said Dreamers are not a drain on society as the brief claims.
"They've been in this country for a long time. They've never lived anywhere else. They're studying here. They're working here,"
Falcon said of DACA recipients.
But Matt O'Brien of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that advocates for limited immigration,
defended the challenge to DACA, which he calls unlawful.
"Many of these people are now adults and have been aware since their early teen years that they were not lawfully present in the United States,
and yet they didn't leave which they're legally obligated to do," O'Brien said.
He said President Donald Trump is correcting what he called an unlawful action by then-President Barack Obama,
who created DACA through an executive order in 2012.
Despite Trump's threat to end DACA, however, the number of active recipients has remained relatively steady,
as courts have blocked the administration's plan. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
reported that there were 660,880 active DACA recipients in June, down from the 689,800 who were covered in September 2017.
The attorneys general point to court rulings striking down related programs – an expanded DACA and a
deferral program for parents of DACA recipients – as proof that DACA should suffer the same fate.
But critics accuse Republicans of using scare tactics in their fight against DACA, which one called a "stunt."
"This stunt is out of step with our state's values … Arizona Democrats recognize we need smart immigration reform," said Matt Grodsky,
a spokesperson for the Arizona Democratic Party. "This is not the way to achieve that."
The Supreme Court combined three cases that successfully challenged the Trump administration's
"wind down" of DACA into one case, which it is scheduled to hear arguments on in November.
END
Thursday, August 29, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 27-8-19
AZMEX UPDATE 27 AUG 2019
CBP Officers seize $592K of Cocaine at San Luis Port of Entry
By: Sumiko Keil
Posted: Aug 26, 2019 04:36 PM MST
Updated: Aug 26, 2019 04:38 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/cbp-officers-seize-592k-of-cocaine-at-san-luis-port-of-entry/1113587585
CBP officers at the Port of San Luis seized 44 pounds of cocaine that was hidden inside of the dashboard of a smuggling vehicle.
SAN LUIS, Ariz. - A Mexican national allegedly attempted to smuggle almost 44 pounds of cocaine through the Port of San Luis Thursday,
according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
CBP said Thursday afternoon, officers referred a 32-year-old San Luis, Sonora, Mexico, man
for additional inspection of his Dodge van as he attempted to enter the U.S. through the port.
According to officers, a canine alerted to a scent from the dashboard where officers removed 18 packages of cocaine from the location.
The cocaine weighed nearly 44 pounds, with an estimated value of $592,000.
Officers seized the drugs and vehicle, while the subject was arrested and then turned over to
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
END
Several Arizona residents in prison
By: Crystal Jimenez
Posted: Aug 26, 2019 05:44 PM MST
Updated: Aug 26, 2019 05:44 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/several-arizona-residents-in-prison/1113602197
PHOENIX, Ariz. - Several Arizona residents were sentenced to prison for using the dark web to distribute drugs throughout the United States.
Between 2015 and 2017 U.S. Attorneys said four defendants used the vendor name "Iceman21"
to advertise and sell heroin, meth, and cocaine. T
hese defendants were Kevin Dean McCoy, 28 of Tucson, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison,
Silvester Ruelas, 50 of Peoria, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison,
and Amber Worrell who was sentenced 10 years of prison,
and Peggy Gomez who was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Different dark web marketplaces were used such as AlphaBay, Hansa, and Dream Market.
Upon investigation, it was revealed that the defendants used the U.S. Postal Service
to ship the drugs from Phoenix to different locations across The United States.
The United States Postal Inspection Service seized parcels with drugs that were going to
Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada,
New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Attorneys said the defendants were said to use encrypted technology, sold crypto currency through peer to peer exchangers,
and created bank accounts for non-existent businesses in order to conceal and launder proceeds from their drug distributions.
During the investigation, law enforcement said they seized a Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl XL ring,
gold, silver, and platinum bars, and firearms.
"Our office is committed to working closely with our agency partners to aggressively investigate and prosecute drug traffickers,"
said U.S. Attorney Michael Bailey. "Hiding behind computer keyboards and
using our mail system to move their drugs will not shield them from lengthy prison sentences."
The investigation was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland Security Investigations,
Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigations,
and the United States Postal Inspection Service, with assistance
from Scottsdale, Mesa, and Peoria Police Departments.
END
And then this one; did not make this up.
Photos, video at link.
Transgender woman taken into ICE custody after arrest on Phoenix light rail platform
Max Gorden
Posted 5 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/transgender-woman-taken-into-ice-custody-after-arrest-on-phoenix/article_132e3e94-c85b-11e9-a113-a3a750e575c6.html
Activists say she was arrested for simply trying to get a drink of water at the light rail.
Police say her arrest stems from an outstanding warrant and they're just following protocol.
Now, her mother fears she will be deported.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Activists are calling for the release of a transgender woman after she was arrested
on July 5 at a Phoenix light rail platform and later taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Stephanie Figgins, a spokeswoman for the group Trans Queer Pueblo, says Javier "Naomi" Ramirez Rosales
was on the platform just to grab a drink of water from a fountain.
[WATCH: Transgender woman in ICE custody after arrested at Phoenix light rail]
"We live in one of the hottest cities in the world. Do we really want to live in a Phoenix
where getting a drink of water can land you in jail?" Figgins asked.
But surveillance footage from the platform near the intersection of McDowell Road and Central Avenue tells a different story.
In the footage, Ramirez Rosales and an unidentified person are shown walking onto the area of the platform reserved for people who've paid their fare.
Both can be seen holding containers, and neither of them stop for a drink of water.
According to Phoenix police, the two were contacted by a police assistant who thought the two were drinking out of open alcohol containers.
Police say that on closer inspection the police assistant found the two were just drinking out of Arizona Ice Tea cans.
However, they'd both walked into the fare zone without valid fares, so the police assistant ran a records check on the two.
He discovered Ramirez Rosales had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court on two counts of assault.
Ramirez Rosales was arrested by a Phoenix Police officer and booked into Maricopa County Jail for the warrant.
According to Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, which runs Maricopa County Jail, ICE interviews every detainee at intake.
MCSO confirmed Ramirez Rosales was taken into ICE custody before leaving the jail.
"I'm afraid that I won't see her again," said Maria Teresa, Ramirez Rosales' mother.
Trans Queer Pueblo says the undocumented transgender woman is now in an all-male ICE detention facility in Eloy.
Naomi's mother said she worries for her transgender daughter's safety.
"And I'm afraid of what might happen to her if she gets sent to Mexico," Teresa said. "Because of who she is."
Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe with ICE sent Arizona's Family the following statement:
"On July 6, ICE took custody of Francisco Javier Ramirez-Perez, a.k.a., Naomi Rosales-Ramirez, an illegal alien from Mexico,
pursuant to a detainer lodged with the Maricopa County Jail (MCJ) on July 5. Previously, Ramirez-Pérez was repatriated to Mexico in 2005.
Ramirez-Perez will remain in ICE custody pending a decision by an immigration judge with the Executive Office for Immigration Review."
End
CBP Officers seize $592K of Cocaine at San Luis Port of Entry
By: Sumiko Keil
Posted: Aug 26, 2019 04:36 PM MST
Updated: Aug 26, 2019 04:38 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/cbp-officers-seize-592k-of-cocaine-at-san-luis-port-of-entry/1113587585
CBP officers at the Port of San Luis seized 44 pounds of cocaine that was hidden inside of the dashboard of a smuggling vehicle.
SAN LUIS, Ariz. - A Mexican national allegedly attempted to smuggle almost 44 pounds of cocaine through the Port of San Luis Thursday,
according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
CBP said Thursday afternoon, officers referred a 32-year-old San Luis, Sonora, Mexico, man
for additional inspection of his Dodge van as he attempted to enter the U.S. through the port.
According to officers, a canine alerted to a scent from the dashboard where officers removed 18 packages of cocaine from the location.
The cocaine weighed nearly 44 pounds, with an estimated value of $592,000.
Officers seized the drugs and vehicle, while the subject was arrested and then turned over to
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
END
Several Arizona residents in prison
By: Crystal Jimenez
Posted: Aug 26, 2019 05:44 PM MST
Updated: Aug 26, 2019 05:44 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/several-arizona-residents-in-prison/1113602197
PHOENIX, Ariz. - Several Arizona residents were sentenced to prison for using the dark web to distribute drugs throughout the United States.
Between 2015 and 2017 U.S. Attorneys said four defendants used the vendor name "Iceman21"
to advertise and sell heroin, meth, and cocaine. T
hese defendants were Kevin Dean McCoy, 28 of Tucson, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison,
Silvester Ruelas, 50 of Peoria, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison,
and Amber Worrell who was sentenced 10 years of prison,
and Peggy Gomez who was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Different dark web marketplaces were used such as AlphaBay, Hansa, and Dream Market.
Upon investigation, it was revealed that the defendants used the U.S. Postal Service
to ship the drugs from Phoenix to different locations across The United States.
The United States Postal Inspection Service seized parcels with drugs that were going to
Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada,
New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Attorneys said the defendants were said to use encrypted technology, sold crypto currency through peer to peer exchangers,
and created bank accounts for non-existent businesses in order to conceal and launder proceeds from their drug distributions.
During the investigation, law enforcement said they seized a Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl XL ring,
gold, silver, and platinum bars, and firearms.
"Our office is committed to working closely with our agency partners to aggressively investigate and prosecute drug traffickers,"
said U.S. Attorney Michael Bailey. "Hiding behind computer keyboards and
using our mail system to move their drugs will not shield them from lengthy prison sentences."
The investigation was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland Security Investigations,
Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigations,
and the United States Postal Inspection Service, with assistance
from Scottsdale, Mesa, and Peoria Police Departments.
END
And then this one; did not make this up.
Photos, video at link.
Transgender woman taken into ICE custody after arrest on Phoenix light rail platform
Max Gorden
Posted 5 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/transgender-woman-taken-into-ice-custody-after-arrest-on-phoenix/article_132e3e94-c85b-11e9-a113-a3a750e575c6.html
Activists say she was arrested for simply trying to get a drink of water at the light rail.
Police say her arrest stems from an outstanding warrant and they're just following protocol.
Now, her mother fears she will be deported.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Activists are calling for the release of a transgender woman after she was arrested
on July 5 at a Phoenix light rail platform and later taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Stephanie Figgins, a spokeswoman for the group Trans Queer Pueblo, says Javier "Naomi" Ramirez Rosales
was on the platform just to grab a drink of water from a fountain.
[WATCH: Transgender woman in ICE custody after arrested at Phoenix light rail]
"We live in one of the hottest cities in the world. Do we really want to live in a Phoenix
where getting a drink of water can land you in jail?" Figgins asked.
But surveillance footage from the platform near the intersection of McDowell Road and Central Avenue tells a different story.
In the footage, Ramirez Rosales and an unidentified person are shown walking onto the area of the platform reserved for people who've paid their fare.
Both can be seen holding containers, and neither of them stop for a drink of water.
According to Phoenix police, the two were contacted by a police assistant who thought the two were drinking out of open alcohol containers.
Police say that on closer inspection the police assistant found the two were just drinking out of Arizona Ice Tea cans.
However, they'd both walked into the fare zone without valid fares, so the police assistant ran a records check on the two.
He discovered Ramirez Rosales had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court on two counts of assault.
Ramirez Rosales was arrested by a Phoenix Police officer and booked into Maricopa County Jail for the warrant.
According to Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, which runs Maricopa County Jail, ICE interviews every detainee at intake.
MCSO confirmed Ramirez Rosales was taken into ICE custody before leaving the jail.
"I'm afraid that I won't see her again," said Maria Teresa, Ramirez Rosales' mother.
Trans Queer Pueblo says the undocumented transgender woman is now in an all-male ICE detention facility in Eloy.
Naomi's mother said she worries for her transgender daughter's safety.
"And I'm afraid of what might happen to her if she gets sent to Mexico," Teresa said. "Because of who she is."
Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe with ICE sent Arizona's Family the following statement:
"On July 6, ICE took custody of Francisco Javier Ramirez-Perez, a.k.a., Naomi Rosales-Ramirez, an illegal alien from Mexico,
pursuant to a detainer lodged with the Maricopa County Jail (MCJ) on July 5. Previously, Ramirez-Pérez was repatriated to Mexico in 2005.
Ramirez-Perez will remain in ICE custody pending a decision by an immigration judge with the Executive Office for Immigration Review."
End
Monday, August 26, 2019
AZMEX EXTRA 26-8-19
AZMEX EXTRA 26 AUG 2019
Comment: no guns? Then as in the UK, they will use knives. From the guys at Borderland Beat.
As always, it is not the guns, knives, sticks and stones that "cause crime";
it is the criminal element. Very well known since Biblical times.
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Saturday, August 24, 2019
Uncontrolled and All Around: The Circulation of Firearms in Jalisco
Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from ZonaDocs.mx
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/08/uncontrolled-and-everywhere-circulation.html#more
Sin control y por doquier: la circulación de armas de fuego en Jalisco
In 2018, Jalisco registered 2,919 victims of manslaughter. This resulted in a rate of 35 homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants,
well above the national average of 29 and the 10 deaths that the World Health Organization
designates as the figure to qualify as having an "epidemic of violence."
However, what triggered the alarms of those who analyze these violent events is the increase in bullets.
According to the newly structured figures of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), gun killings in Jalisco were the leading cause of death in 2018.
Where do all these weapons come from? Who should regulate their possession, control, and registration?
What happens to all the weapons that are confiscated by the authorities
and what happens to the people who are arrested carrying weapons that are exclusively used by the Armed Forces?
This report explores the correlation between the increase in malicious homicides and the increase in weapons in Jalisco.
By Jonatha Ávila / Journalist and Editor at @ RSurGlobal | @ joonathanag
In the last year there has been a greater presence of violent events in the public spaces of daily life in Jalisco.
The most recent, and the one with greatest news coverage, occurred in Plaza Galerias,
where information reflects the repeated use of weapons at the local level
and the presence of heavily armed subjects in public places compromising the safety of the general population.
The Jalisco authorities have tried to undermine the magnitude and concern of these events,
but their attribution of violence solely to criminal groups has caused more suspicion than anything ,
specifically when a "hitman boss" won his Altiplano prison sentence appeal at the end of 2018.
This is what we now know about the events in Plaza Galerías: the murder of Martín Arzola Ortega, aka El 53,
the supposed target of Bryan Alexander, an alleged 17-year-old hitman, who was also killed at that time.
The young man entered the restaurant and went directly for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel hitman boss and shot him in the head.
Besides the official versions that now indicate the act as part of an ongoing conflict between criminal groups,
what is evident is the number of armed people in a public space as Bryan Alexander was killed,
according to testimones from a third party at the scene, the bodyguard of the governor of Nayarit's wife
"This bloody episode, one more among thousands that have occurred in the country for years, leaves several reflections to consider.
The first is that there is a real danger of death for thousands of people in Mexico who are neither owed it nor fear it,
but it can easily happen to them any moment. "
The above quote was written on Monday, August 5th by the writer Antonio Ortuño in his El País column
where he emphasizes that these incidents occur far away from the official rhetoric of the "dangerous places"
in which people find themselves when they are victims of violence What happened, he says,
took place in a shopping center "hamburger shop" in broad daylight and not in a "seedy nightclub."
Among the data collected by Jalisco and Nayarit authorities, the balance was two dead and six injured by firearms.
However, it was not the only violent event.
A few kilometers away, in a plaza parking between Avenida Patria and Manuel Clouthier, an attempted thief was shot dead.
If events continue like this, the murders will add up, but what triggers the alarms of those who analyze these violent events is the increase in bullets.
According to the newly structured figures of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), gun killings in Jalisco were the leading cause of death in 2018.
That year, that state registered 2,919 victims of manslaughter.
That makes a rate of 35 homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, well above the national average of 29;
and the 10 deaths that the World Health Organization designates as the figure to qualify as having an "epidemic of violence."
Faced with these facts, the journalist Diego Petersen discussed in his El Informador column
the amount of weapons that may be in the streets fueling the current climate of violence.
In this regard, the sociologist Luis Astorga points out that "violence is a potential resource of any illegal business,"
but its increase is regularly associated with the "availability of high-power weapons."
Murders and Injuries From the Use of Weapons
Gun violence is not only apparent in murders, as the academic and human rights defender Francisco Macías Medina
points out in an interview, but also how such weapons present themselves in violent scenes at the local level.
The Executive Secretariat of the National Security System shows that, so far in 2019, there have been 804 victims of manslaughter with a firearm;
in 2018 these cases totaled 1,556.
But there are also other types of attacks that are less exposed in the media and also reflect the presence of weapons:
malicious firearm injuries have left a balance of 411 victims between January and June of this year, and 795 in 2018.
On the latest data, Francisco Macías Medina recalls a study in which injuries were related to the increase in violent events,
from which there is a correlation between the sale of illegal weapons and these criminal events.
This, he says, has to do with the means to be able to exercise that violence; and one of these ways is to obtain weapons with high capacity.
But it also speaks to an opening in the arms market, where several factors influence the proliferation of these instruments of violence.
One of them is the economic dynamics of criminal groups,
where they are forced to arm themselves disproportionately to protect drug routes.
The recent murders in Jalisco are not the only way to measure the use of weapons.
Francisco Macías Medina also discusses how weapons can be traced to the level of isolated events
where firearms are used resulting in injury and not death;
events that have less -or no- media coverage compared to when people are murdered.
Compared to murders, the Executive Secretariat shows that so far this year,
203 more files have been opened for injuries,
although the figures do show a greater presence of violent weapons used in murders compared to malicious injuries.
Seeing the influence of weapons used in everyday life in Jalisco breaks with the idea of deaths resulting solely from organized crime.
The argument of the authorities, that "they are killing each other," is called into question by the analysis that views the use of weapons
in less violent, more everyday conflicts, showing a society that is more heavily armed as a whole.
"There is also the other parameter: that Jalisco is increasing by leaps and bounds towards a violently armed society similar to the United States. (?)
A society that, due to its lack of security protection, is becoming armed," says Macías Medina.
Reports of gunshots in the neighborhoods of the metropolitan area occur daily.
One of the most recent was responded to by the Zapopan municipal police in the Francisco Sarabia neighborhood,
where several gunshots between Calles Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata alerted the neighbors.
The police arrived and found several discharged caps on the street.
There were no injuries or deaths, and beyond the initial call, the neighbors did not want to give anymore details about the origin of the shooting.
A significant percentage of the population in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
says they frequently hear or see shootings around their home.
On average, 44.9 percent of the population in the five main metropolitan municipalities say they have identified gunshots,
as indicated by the National Urban Public Security Survey, published by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography,
in the second quarter of 2019; that is, with data until June of this year.
Tonalá is the municipality where more people said they frequently hear shots, with 56.4 percent of the population responding.
Percentage of population that have identified frequent gunshots around their home by municipality:
Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tonalá, Tlaquepaque, Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, Average of 44.9 %
However, these scenarios are not examined, and the informality of the supply and regulation of weapons
encourage the population to "resolve their conflicts violently."
Therefore, the human rights defender adds that these scenarios require other types of interventions in order
to limit the market and impede open sales.
The Illegal Flow and Registration of Weapons in Jalisco
The illegal entry of weapons into everyday life is a critical factor of violence.
According to figures from the Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office, between 2007 and 2018,
there have been 2,221 investigation files or preliminary inquiries opened for the crime of carrying weapons and other prohibited objects.
Most of these files were opened between 2010 and 2012.
The municipalities in which most prosecutions by the District Attorney's Office for carrying a weapon are:
Zapopan (with 944 files); Guadalajara (611); San Pedro Tlaquepaque (428); Tlajomulco de Zúñiga (42); Tonalá (40);
Puerto Vallarta (31); El Salto (13); Ocotlán (10); Tamazula de Giordano (9) and Lagos de Moreno (8).
But this also shows how local arrests have decreased from 2016 to date. Data from the State Attorney General's Office
show that 183 investigations were opened from 2015, to 35 in 2016.
For 2017, this figure was 48; 22 in 2018 and just one folder so far in 2019.
Open investigations for carrying of a weapon or other prohibited objects, 2007-2019
In contrast however, at the end of October 2018, about three thousand short and long firearms were destroyed
in the facilities of the 14th Infantry Battalion in Zapopan belonging to the V Military Region.
According to military officers, these were weapons seized from "organized crime" during 2018
in Jalisco, Zacatecas, Nayarit, Colima, and Aguascalientes.
This event more accurately illustrates the high figure of guns in the region,
and the importance of clandestine sale of arms throughout the so-called "war on drug trafficking."
In 2014, two estates in the Villa Vicente Guerrero and Ex Penal Oblatos neighborhoods, in the municipality of Guadalajara,
were seized. Homemade AR-15 rifles (?) were found that were allegedly to be provided to the CJNG.
This is the little we know about illegal guns. However, there are legal filters
that also show a high number in terms of those who register their weapons in the corresponding instances.
Articles 9 and 15 of the Federal Law on Firearms and Exclusive Use
indicate that the entity that regulates the movement of arms is the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA),
which mediates the sale of weapons to security corporations and grants permits to natural persons.
SEDENA figures, which were accessed by transparency law, show that in 2018,
the state of Jalisco registered a total of 4,354 weapons that circulated through the state.
Of these, 2,978 were short and 1,376 were considered long.
So far in 2019, this federal agency accounts for 1,467 registered weapons, 874 are short and 593 long.
Arms registered in Jalisco by year. 2012-2019
Based on the INEGI homicide records, a large majority of these firearm killings are carried out using short weapons;
that is, pistols and revolvers.
However, SEDENA does not clarify the fate of these weapons or who controls them.
They do not account for their licenses or their specific use.
Despite this high number, the agency indicates that there have been no individual permits granted in Jalisco.
But, according to the study Serious Violations of Human Rights: Legal and Illegal Arms Trafficking to Mexico,
done by the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH) and the organization,
Stop US Arms to Mexico, the vast majority of the weapons that are legally sold in Mexico are for the federal and state police forces.
The only entity mediating the arms trade in Mexico is SEDENA.
The report indicates that between 2010 and 2016, this federal entity spent more than 16 million dollars
and more than 29 million euros in the importation of weapons.
Without specifying Jalisco's cost, it shows that SEDENA acquired 10,015 weapons between 2010 and 2016
to be provided as weapons to the state police.
Jalisco acquiered the fifth highest amount of weapons of all the states of Mexico in the aforementioned period,
but the report warns precisely that the weapons were sold to states
that had "the greatest number of armed clashes and homicides with firearms perpetrated in the context of the war against drugs."
Also, the levels of violence and local complicity highlight the use of weapons for the exchange of influence between criminals and authorities.
Events such as the Heckler & Koch Company case reveal that some territories circulated weapons that are not permitted to be sold in those regions.
Due to the high level of violence and the possible use of weapons to empower criminal groups,
the German authorities prohibited this company from selling G36 assault rifles in four entities of Mexico:
Chihuahua, Guerrero, Chiapas, and Jalisco.
Eventually, the prohibition was ignored and 4,796 of this company's weapons were sold to the local police corporations of these states,
but the event had repurcussions and was brought to trial after one of these rifles was used in the Ayotzinapa events.
There are also worrying records of weapons that have been reported as lost or stolen, as reported by the aforementioned federal entities.
Between 2010 and 2016, 4 percent of the weapons sold to Mexican state police were reported lost or stolen.
SEDENA recognizes that of the 20,066 weapons reported from 2006 to August 2017,
793 were circulating in and around Jalisco.
In addition to this, the CMDPDH shows that Jalisco
accounts for three percent of firearms that were purchased in the United States
and recovered in Mexico between 2007 and 2010,
putting Jalisco as the eighth highest state of Mexico where arms entered the country illegally.
This emphasizes the violence caused by lack of control of the circulation of arms in the state.
Borderland Beat Reporter El Profe Posted at 4:02 PM
End
Comment: no guns? Then as in the UK, they will use knives. From the guys at Borderland Beat.
As always, it is not the guns, knives, sticks and stones that "cause crime";
it is the criminal element. Very well known since Biblical times.
Thx
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Uncontrolled and All Around: The Circulation of Firearms in Jalisco
Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from ZonaDocs.mx
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/08/uncontrolled-and-everywhere-circulation.html#more
Sin control y por doquier: la circulación de armas de fuego en Jalisco
In 2018, Jalisco registered 2,919 victims of manslaughter. This resulted in a rate of 35 homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants,
well above the national average of 29 and the 10 deaths that the World Health Organization
designates as the figure to qualify as having an "epidemic of violence."
However, what triggered the alarms of those who analyze these violent events is the increase in bullets.
According to the newly structured figures of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), gun killings in Jalisco were the leading cause of death in 2018.
Where do all these weapons come from? Who should regulate their possession, control, and registration?
What happens to all the weapons that are confiscated by the authorities
and what happens to the people who are arrested carrying weapons that are exclusively used by the Armed Forces?
This report explores the correlation between the increase in malicious homicides and the increase in weapons in Jalisco.
By Jonatha Ávila / Journalist and Editor at @ RSurGlobal | @ joonathanag
In the last year there has been a greater presence of violent events in the public spaces of daily life in Jalisco.
The most recent, and the one with greatest news coverage, occurred in Plaza Galerias,
where information reflects the repeated use of weapons at the local level
and the presence of heavily armed subjects in public places compromising the safety of the general population.
The Jalisco authorities have tried to undermine the magnitude and concern of these events,
but their attribution of violence solely to criminal groups has caused more suspicion than anything ,
specifically when a "hitman boss" won his Altiplano prison sentence appeal at the end of 2018.
This is what we now know about the events in Plaza Galerías: the murder of Martín Arzola Ortega, aka El 53,
the supposed target of Bryan Alexander, an alleged 17-year-old hitman, who was also killed at that time.
The young man entered the restaurant and went directly for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel hitman boss and shot him in the head.
Besides the official versions that now indicate the act as part of an ongoing conflict between criminal groups,
what is evident is the number of armed people in a public space as Bryan Alexander was killed,
according to testimones from a third party at the scene, the bodyguard of the governor of Nayarit's wife
"This bloody episode, one more among thousands that have occurred in the country for years, leaves several reflections to consider.
The first is that there is a real danger of death for thousands of people in Mexico who are neither owed it nor fear it,
but it can easily happen to them any moment. "
The above quote was written on Monday, August 5th by the writer Antonio Ortuño in his El País column
where he emphasizes that these incidents occur far away from the official rhetoric of the "dangerous places"
in which people find themselves when they are victims of violence What happened, he says,
took place in a shopping center "hamburger shop" in broad daylight and not in a "seedy nightclub."
Among the data collected by Jalisco and Nayarit authorities, the balance was two dead and six injured by firearms.
However, it was not the only violent event.
A few kilometers away, in a plaza parking between Avenida Patria and Manuel Clouthier, an attempted thief was shot dead.
If events continue like this, the murders will add up, but what triggers the alarms of those who analyze these violent events is the increase in bullets.
According to the newly structured figures of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), gun killings in Jalisco were the leading cause of death in 2018.
That year, that state registered 2,919 victims of manslaughter.
That makes a rate of 35 homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, well above the national average of 29;
and the 10 deaths that the World Health Organization designates as the figure to qualify as having an "epidemic of violence."
Faced with these facts, the journalist Diego Petersen discussed in his El Informador column
the amount of weapons that may be in the streets fueling the current climate of violence.
In this regard, the sociologist Luis Astorga points out that "violence is a potential resource of any illegal business,"
but its increase is regularly associated with the "availability of high-power weapons."
Murders and Injuries From the Use of Weapons
Gun violence is not only apparent in murders, as the academic and human rights defender Francisco Macías Medina
points out in an interview, but also how such weapons present themselves in violent scenes at the local level.
The Executive Secretariat of the National Security System shows that, so far in 2019, there have been 804 victims of manslaughter with a firearm;
in 2018 these cases totaled 1,556.
But there are also other types of attacks that are less exposed in the media and also reflect the presence of weapons:
malicious firearm injuries have left a balance of 411 victims between January and June of this year, and 795 in 2018.
On the latest data, Francisco Macías Medina recalls a study in which injuries were related to the increase in violent events,
from which there is a correlation between the sale of illegal weapons and these criminal events.
This, he says, has to do with the means to be able to exercise that violence; and one of these ways is to obtain weapons with high capacity.
But it also speaks to an opening in the arms market, where several factors influence the proliferation of these instruments of violence.
One of them is the economic dynamics of criminal groups,
where they are forced to arm themselves disproportionately to protect drug routes.
The recent murders in Jalisco are not the only way to measure the use of weapons.
Francisco Macías Medina also discusses how weapons can be traced to the level of isolated events
where firearms are used resulting in injury and not death;
events that have less -or no- media coverage compared to when people are murdered.
Compared to murders, the Executive Secretariat shows that so far this year,
203 more files have been opened for injuries,
although the figures do show a greater presence of violent weapons used in murders compared to malicious injuries.
Seeing the influence of weapons used in everyday life in Jalisco breaks with the idea of deaths resulting solely from organized crime.
The argument of the authorities, that "they are killing each other," is called into question by the analysis that views the use of weapons
in less violent, more everyday conflicts, showing a society that is more heavily armed as a whole.
"There is also the other parameter: that Jalisco is increasing by leaps and bounds towards a violently armed society similar to the United States. (?)
A society that, due to its lack of security protection, is becoming armed," says Macías Medina.
Reports of gunshots in the neighborhoods of the metropolitan area occur daily.
One of the most recent was responded to by the Zapopan municipal police in the Francisco Sarabia neighborhood,
where several gunshots between Calles Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata alerted the neighbors.
The police arrived and found several discharged caps on the street.
There were no injuries or deaths, and beyond the initial call, the neighbors did not want to give anymore details about the origin of the shooting.
A significant percentage of the population in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
says they frequently hear or see shootings around their home.
On average, 44.9 percent of the population in the five main metropolitan municipalities say they have identified gunshots,
as indicated by the National Urban Public Security Survey, published by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography,
in the second quarter of 2019; that is, with data until June of this year.
Tonalá is the municipality where more people said they frequently hear shots, with 56.4 percent of the population responding.
Percentage of population that have identified frequent gunshots around their home by municipality:
Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tonalá, Tlaquepaque, Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, Average of 44.9 %
However, these scenarios are not examined, and the informality of the supply and regulation of weapons
encourage the population to "resolve their conflicts violently."
Therefore, the human rights defender adds that these scenarios require other types of interventions in order
to limit the market and impede open sales.
The Illegal Flow and Registration of Weapons in Jalisco
The illegal entry of weapons into everyday life is a critical factor of violence.
According to figures from the Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office, between 2007 and 2018,
there have been 2,221 investigation files or preliminary inquiries opened for the crime of carrying weapons and other prohibited objects.
Most of these files were opened between 2010 and 2012.
The municipalities in which most prosecutions by the District Attorney's Office for carrying a weapon are:
Zapopan (with 944 files); Guadalajara (611); San Pedro Tlaquepaque (428); Tlajomulco de Zúñiga (42); Tonalá (40);
Puerto Vallarta (31); El Salto (13); Ocotlán (10); Tamazula de Giordano (9) and Lagos de Moreno (8).
But this also shows how local arrests have decreased from 2016 to date. Data from the State Attorney General's Office
show that 183 investigations were opened from 2015, to 35 in 2016.
For 2017, this figure was 48; 22 in 2018 and just one folder so far in 2019.
Open investigations for carrying of a weapon or other prohibited objects, 2007-2019
In contrast however, at the end of October 2018, about three thousand short and long firearms were destroyed
in the facilities of the 14th Infantry Battalion in Zapopan belonging to the V Military Region.
According to military officers, these were weapons seized from "organized crime" during 2018
in Jalisco, Zacatecas, Nayarit, Colima, and Aguascalientes.
This event more accurately illustrates the high figure of guns in the region,
and the importance of clandestine sale of arms throughout the so-called "war on drug trafficking."
In 2014, two estates in the Villa Vicente Guerrero and Ex Penal Oblatos neighborhoods, in the municipality of Guadalajara,
were seized. Homemade AR-15 rifles (?) were found that were allegedly to be provided to the CJNG.
This is the little we know about illegal guns. However, there are legal filters
that also show a high number in terms of those who register their weapons in the corresponding instances.
Articles 9 and 15 of the Federal Law on Firearms and Exclusive Use
indicate that the entity that regulates the movement of arms is the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA),
which mediates the sale of weapons to security corporations and grants permits to natural persons.
SEDENA figures, which were accessed by transparency law, show that in 2018,
the state of Jalisco registered a total of 4,354 weapons that circulated through the state.
Of these, 2,978 were short and 1,376 were considered long.
So far in 2019, this federal agency accounts for 1,467 registered weapons, 874 are short and 593 long.
Arms registered in Jalisco by year. 2012-2019
Based on the INEGI homicide records, a large majority of these firearm killings are carried out using short weapons;
that is, pistols and revolvers.
However, SEDENA does not clarify the fate of these weapons or who controls them.
They do not account for their licenses or their specific use.
Despite this high number, the agency indicates that there have been no individual permits granted in Jalisco.
But, according to the study Serious Violations of Human Rights: Legal and Illegal Arms Trafficking to Mexico,
done by the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH) and the organization,
Stop US Arms to Mexico, the vast majority of the weapons that are legally sold in Mexico are for the federal and state police forces.
The only entity mediating the arms trade in Mexico is SEDENA.
The report indicates that between 2010 and 2016, this federal entity spent more than 16 million dollars
and more than 29 million euros in the importation of weapons.
Without specifying Jalisco's cost, it shows that SEDENA acquired 10,015 weapons between 2010 and 2016
to be provided as weapons to the state police.
Jalisco acquiered the fifth highest amount of weapons of all the states of Mexico in the aforementioned period,
but the report warns precisely that the weapons were sold to states
that had "the greatest number of armed clashes and homicides with firearms perpetrated in the context of the war against drugs."
Also, the levels of violence and local complicity highlight the use of weapons for the exchange of influence between criminals and authorities.
Events such as the Heckler & Koch Company case reveal that some territories circulated weapons that are not permitted to be sold in those regions.
Due to the high level of violence and the possible use of weapons to empower criminal groups,
the German authorities prohibited this company from selling G36 assault rifles in four entities of Mexico:
Chihuahua, Guerrero, Chiapas, and Jalisco.
Eventually, the prohibition was ignored and 4,796 of this company's weapons were sold to the local police corporations of these states,
but the event had repurcussions and was brought to trial after one of these rifles was used in the Ayotzinapa events.
There are also worrying records of weapons that have been reported as lost or stolen, as reported by the aforementioned federal entities.
Between 2010 and 2016, 4 percent of the weapons sold to Mexican state police were reported lost or stolen.
SEDENA recognizes that of the 20,066 weapons reported from 2006 to August 2017,
793 were circulating in and around Jalisco.
In addition to this, the CMDPDH shows that Jalisco
accounts for three percent of firearms that were purchased in the United States
and recovered in Mexico between 2007 and 2010,
putting Jalisco as the eighth highest state of Mexico where arms entered the country illegally.
This emphasizes the violence caused by lack of control of the circulation of arms in the state.
Borderland Beat Reporter El Profe Posted at 4:02 PM
End
Friday, August 23, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 23-8-19
AZMEX UPDATE 23 AUG 2019
Comment: " 344 Arizonans who have died from taking fentanyl since January." Darwin at work?
Thx
Over 1M fentanyl pills have been seized in Arizona this year
BY KTAR.COM | AUGUST 23, 2019 AT 7:31 AM
UPDATED: AUGUST 23, 2019 AT 8:39 AM
https://ktar.com/story/2701215/over-1m-fentanyl-pills-have-been-seized-in-arizona-this-year/
PHOENIX – Federal authorities in Phoenix said more than 1 million fentanyl pills have been confiscated in the state this year,
more than three times the haul in 2018.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said Mexican cartels have been producing most of the pills,
made to resemble oxycodone M-30 tablets.
"The proliferation of these pills trafficked into the U.S. by Mexican cartels
and the sheer number of fentanyl pills seized in Arizona is alarming,"
Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman said in a Thursday press release.
Most of the 1.1 million seized so far in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 have been "Mexican oxy," Coleman said.
He said the department and law enforcement agencies in Arizona seized about 380,000 pills in fiscal year 2018.
Four years ago there were no pills confiscated.
Related Links
Arizona health department official explains how state is fighting opioids
Arizona's opioid epidemic: Here's what 'Bruce & Pamela' learned
Arizona authorities warn about blue counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl
14,000 fentanyl pills seized in drug bust at Arizona Mills parking lot
Police: 3 students had thousands of fentanyl pills on campus
The DEA noted the new fentanyl product as a trend in 2016, when 20,000 pills were seized.
Fentanyl previously was used mostly as a powder added to heroin.
The agency cited the Arizona Department of Health Services' figure of 344 Arizonans
who have died from taking fentanyl since January.
At that pace, Arizona will exceed last year's 553 fentanyl-related deaths.
END
Comment: " 344 Arizonans who have died from taking fentanyl since January." Darwin at work?
Thx
Over 1M fentanyl pills have been seized in Arizona this year
BY KTAR.COM | AUGUST 23, 2019 AT 7:31 AM
UPDATED: AUGUST 23, 2019 AT 8:39 AM
https://ktar.com/story/2701215/over-1m-fentanyl-pills-have-been-seized-in-arizona-this-year/
PHOENIX – Federal authorities in Phoenix said more than 1 million fentanyl pills have been confiscated in the state this year,
more than three times the haul in 2018.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said Mexican cartels have been producing most of the pills,
made to resemble oxycodone M-30 tablets.
"The proliferation of these pills trafficked into the U.S. by Mexican cartels
and the sheer number of fentanyl pills seized in Arizona is alarming,"
Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman said in a Thursday press release.
Most of the 1.1 million seized so far in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 have been "Mexican oxy," Coleman said.
He said the department and law enforcement agencies in Arizona seized about 380,000 pills in fiscal year 2018.
Four years ago there were no pills confiscated.
Related Links
Arizona health department official explains how state is fighting opioids
Arizona's opioid epidemic: Here's what 'Bruce & Pamela' learned
Arizona authorities warn about blue counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl
14,000 fentanyl pills seized in drug bust at Arizona Mills parking lot
Police: 3 students had thousands of fentanyl pills on campus
The DEA noted the new fentanyl product as a trend in 2016, when 20,000 pills were seized.
Fentanyl previously was used mostly as a powder added to heroin.
The agency cited the Arizona Department of Health Services' figure of 344 Arizonans
who have died from taking fentanyl since January.
At that pace, Arizona will exceed last year's 553 fentanyl-related deaths.
END
AZMEX POLICY 23-8-19
AZMEX POLICY 23 AUG 2019
Arizona extends special tuition rate for students in US illegally
BY KTAR.COM | AUGUST 22, 2019 AT 5:00 PM
UPDATED: AUGUST 22, 2019 AT 5:06 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2700528/arizona-extends-special-tuition-rate-for-students-in-us-illegally/
PHOENIX — The Arizona Board of Regents voted Thursday to expand access to a special tuition rate
to Arizona high school graduates living in the U.S. illegally.
The board dropped a requirement for students to be enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,
which has been frozen since 2017, in order to qualify for the special rate to the state's three public universities.
"We kept hearing story after story about students who were so eager to go to our higher education institutions
and yet they didn't have a pathway forward," Reyna Montoya, founder of Mesa nonprofit Aliento, told KTAR News 92.3 FM.
She said Thursday's vote was "very exciting."
Related Links
Arizona universities might expand reduced tuition rate for immigrants
Board of Regents approves 2019-20 tuition increases at ASU, NAU, UA
Tuition bill benefiting DACA recipients, other Arizona grads, revived
Arizona Chamber backs bill lowering college tuition for DACA recipients
"I know that the students I work with, primarily DACA and undocumented,
this really establishes a glimpse of hope for them," she said.
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce also applauded the decision, calling it "the right thing to do."
"Let's give these talented kids the chance to study and build a life here," it said on Twitter.
The special rate is 50% more than the in-state tuition rate, which ABOR spokeswoman Sarah Harper
said covers the cost of university attendance without state subsidy.
It also applies to legal U.S. residents who graduated from Arizona high schools but moved away,
losing their status as Arizona residents before returning to college.
The change takes effect immediately.
About 400 students paid the preferential tuition rate last semester, not all of them immigrants,
according to officials from the three universities.
It was unknown how many more students might take advantage of the tuition discount as a result of the rule change.
Regents say Arizona has made an investment in educating students through high school,
and the state has an interest in helping those who want to pursue a degree to stay in the state.
Board chairman Larry Edward Penley said the universities will see enrollment drop in about a decade
because birth rates dropped during the Great Recession.
Combined with a growing number of retirees, the economy will need an educated workforce.
"The problem we confront means that we have a responsibility in this state to educate as many people as we can," Penley said.
The action by the regents comes after lawmakers this year declined to take up legislation that would have accomplished the same thing,
and also would have applied to community colleges.
A bill by Republican Sen. Heather Carter cleared the Senate when several Republicans joined all Democrats
in support, but it never got a vote in the House.
KTAR News 92.3 FM's Peter Samore and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
END
Arizona extends special tuition rate for students in US illegally
BY KTAR.COM | AUGUST 22, 2019 AT 5:00 PM
UPDATED: AUGUST 22, 2019 AT 5:06 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2700528/arizona-extends-special-tuition-rate-for-students-in-us-illegally/
PHOENIX — The Arizona Board of Regents voted Thursday to expand access to a special tuition rate
to Arizona high school graduates living in the U.S. illegally.
The board dropped a requirement for students to be enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,
which has been frozen since 2017, in order to qualify for the special rate to the state's three public universities.
"We kept hearing story after story about students who were so eager to go to our higher education institutions
and yet they didn't have a pathway forward," Reyna Montoya, founder of Mesa nonprofit Aliento, told KTAR News 92.3 FM.
She said Thursday's vote was "very exciting."
Related Links
Arizona universities might expand reduced tuition rate for immigrants
Board of Regents approves 2019-20 tuition increases at ASU, NAU, UA
Tuition bill benefiting DACA recipients, other Arizona grads, revived
Arizona Chamber backs bill lowering college tuition for DACA recipients
"I know that the students I work with, primarily DACA and undocumented,
this really establishes a glimpse of hope for them," she said.
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce also applauded the decision, calling it "the right thing to do."
"Let's give these talented kids the chance to study and build a life here," it said on Twitter.
The special rate is 50% more than the in-state tuition rate, which ABOR spokeswoman Sarah Harper
said covers the cost of university attendance without state subsidy.
It also applies to legal U.S. residents who graduated from Arizona high schools but moved away,
losing their status as Arizona residents before returning to college.
The change takes effect immediately.
About 400 students paid the preferential tuition rate last semester, not all of them immigrants,
according to officials from the three universities.
It was unknown how many more students might take advantage of the tuition discount as a result of the rule change.
Regents say Arizona has made an investment in educating students through high school,
and the state has an interest in helping those who want to pursue a degree to stay in the state.
Board chairman Larry Edward Penley said the universities will see enrollment drop in about a decade
because birth rates dropped during the Great Recession.
Combined with a growing number of retirees, the economy will need an educated workforce.
"The problem we confront means that we have a responsibility in this state to educate as many people as we can," Penley said.
The action by the regents comes after lawmakers this year declined to take up legislation that would have accomplished the same thing,
and also would have applied to community colleges.
A bill by Republican Sen. Heather Carter cleared the Senate when several Republicans joined all Democrats
in support, but it never got a vote in the House.
KTAR News 92.3 FM's Peter Samore and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
END
Friday, August 16, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE2 16-8-19
AZMEX UPDATE2 16 AUG 2019
DPS: Troopers seize $600,000 worth of fentanyl pills, heroin during PHX traffic stop
Posted: 1:58 PM, Aug 16, 2019 Updated: 2:49 PM, Aug 16, 2019
By: Joe Enea
Photo by: MCSO
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/dps-troopers-seize-580-000-in-fentanyl-during-phx-traffic-stop
PHOENIX — DPS troopers seized nearly $600,000 worth of fentanyl pills during Phoenix traffic stop, according to court paperwork.
The Department of Public Safety reports that on August 11 a Silver Chevrolet Malibu
was stopped for a moving violation on I-10 near 40th Street.
The car, driven by Filiberto Felix Esquer, 40, of Navajoa Mexico, was searched by DPS.
Inside an "aftermarket hidden compartment" DPS allegedly found
22 pounds of Fentanyl, 2.5 pounds of black tar heroin and 5 pounds of brown heroin.
Court records show the fentanyl to be worth $580,000, and the heroin was valued at $61,000.
Esquer and his passengers, Jesus Carranza, 18, Jorge Areizaga Gaona, 29 and Manuel Antonio Felix, 19
have all been charged with the illegal transporting of narcotics.
END
FGR incinerates almost three tons of drugs
Details Published on Friday, August 16, 2019,
Written by Drafting / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=134265
Hermosillo, Son
The destroyed narcotics are related to 20 cases of investigation for crimes against health in Sonora
The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) in Sonora,
in coordination with personnel of the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA)
and elements of the Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR)
destroyed two tons, 943 kilos, 937 grams, 100 milligrams grams of narcotics in Hermosillo, Sonora.
The incineration event was held at the Radio Monitora station in the City of Hermosillo, Sonora,
where the drugs were destroyed:
one ton, 646 kilos, 718 grams, 800 milligrams of marijuana;
One ton, 264 kilos, 247 grams, 100 milligrams of methamphetamine,
31 kilos, 202 grams, 600 milligrams of marijuana seeds,
One kilo, 768 grams, 600 milligrams of heroin and
33,688 pills of fentanyl.
The destroyed narcotics were related to 20 investigation folders, for crimes against health in their different modalities.
The drug was seized in various operations carried out in the State of Sonora by FGR, SEDENA,
State Public Security Police, Federal Police, Mexican Navy Secretariat (SEMAR),
State Investigative Police and Municipal Police.
The Delegation of the FGR in Sonora instructed the destruction of the enervants
under the supervision of the staff of the Internal Control Body,
which checked the quantity, weight of the drug and proved the legality of the incineration.
END
DPS: Troopers seize $600,000 worth of fentanyl pills, heroin during PHX traffic stop
Posted: 1:58 PM, Aug 16, 2019 Updated: 2:49 PM, Aug 16, 2019
By: Joe Enea
Photo by: MCSO
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/dps-troopers-seize-580-000-in-fentanyl-during-phx-traffic-stop
PHOENIX — DPS troopers seized nearly $600,000 worth of fentanyl pills during Phoenix traffic stop, according to court paperwork.
The Department of Public Safety reports that on August 11 a Silver Chevrolet Malibu
was stopped for a moving violation on I-10 near 40th Street.
The car, driven by Filiberto Felix Esquer, 40, of Navajoa Mexico, was searched by DPS.
Inside an "aftermarket hidden compartment" DPS allegedly found
22 pounds of Fentanyl, 2.5 pounds of black tar heroin and 5 pounds of brown heroin.
Court records show the fentanyl to be worth $580,000, and the heroin was valued at $61,000.
Esquer and his passengers, Jesus Carranza, 18, Jorge Areizaga Gaona, 29 and Manuel Antonio Felix, 19
have all been charged with the illegal transporting of narcotics.
END
FGR incinerates almost three tons of drugs
Details Published on Friday, August 16, 2019,
Written by Drafting / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=134265
Hermosillo, Son
The destroyed narcotics are related to 20 cases of investigation for crimes against health in Sonora
The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) in Sonora,
in coordination with personnel of the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA)
and elements of the Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR)
destroyed two tons, 943 kilos, 937 grams, 100 milligrams grams of narcotics in Hermosillo, Sonora.
The incineration event was held at the Radio Monitora station in the City of Hermosillo, Sonora,
where the drugs were destroyed:
one ton, 646 kilos, 718 grams, 800 milligrams of marijuana;
One ton, 264 kilos, 247 grams, 100 milligrams of methamphetamine,
31 kilos, 202 grams, 600 milligrams of marijuana seeds,
One kilo, 768 grams, 600 milligrams of heroin and
33,688 pills of fentanyl.
The destroyed narcotics were related to 20 investigation folders, for crimes against health in their different modalities.
The drug was seized in various operations carried out in the State of Sonora by FGR, SEDENA,
State Public Security Police, Federal Police, Mexican Navy Secretariat (SEMAR),
State Investigative Police and Municipal Police.
The Delegation of the FGR in Sonora instructed the destruction of the enervants
under the supervision of the staff of the Internal Control Body,
which checked the quantity, weight of the drug and proved the legality of the incineration.
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 16-8-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 16 AUG 2019
sabotage ??
CBP suffers massive power outage at airports across the country
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/cbp-suffers-massive-power-outage-at-airports-across-the-country
Travelers to the U.S. from overseas Friday were experiencing delays in passing through customs at major airports Friday
due to a technology outage affecting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stations.
"CBP is experiencing a temporary outage with its processing systems at various air ports of entry &
is taking immediate action to address the technology disruption," the agency said on Twitter shortly after 5 p.m. ET.
"CBP officers continue to process international travelers using alternative procedures until systems are back online."
@CBP
· 1h
CBP is experiencing a temporary outage with its processing systems at various air ports of entry & is taking immediate action
to address the technology disruption. CBP officers continue to process international travelers
using alternative procedures until systems are back online.
@CBP
CBP officers are working to process travelers as quickly as possible while maintaining the highest levels of security.
"CBP officers are working to process travelers as quickly as possible while maintaining the highest levels of security."
INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS REPORTEDLY BYPASS CUSTOMS AT NEWARK AIRPORT DUE TO 'MIX UP'
Travelers at airports around the country -- including John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York,
Dulles International Airport, Charlotte Douglas and Raleigh-Durham International Airports in North Carolina
and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia —
expressed frustration about significant delays and long lines at international arrivals halls even as CBP warned that
"Arriving travelers at some ports of entry are experiencing longer than usual wait times."
CBP added that they were processing passengers manually.
CBP Southeast
✔
@CBPSoutheast
Our @cbp officers at @ATLairport @CLTAirport @RDUAirport continue to process arriving International travelers.
Arriving travelers at some ports of entry are experiencing longer than usual wait times. #CBP https://twitter.com/cbp/status/1162470541560811520 …
CBP
✔
@CBP
CBP is experiencing a temporary outage with its processing systems at various air ports of entry &
is taking immediate action to address the technology disruption. CBP officers continue to process international travelers
using alternative procedures until systems are back online.
One passenger at Dulles posted a video of masses of travelers waiting in snaking lines to reach immigration processing counters at the airport.
"Easily 5,000+ passengers in line at Dulles," she estimated.
Rebekah Tromble
@RebekahKTromble
Nationwide outage of US CBP computer systems. Easily 5,000+ passengers in line at Dulles.
Embedded video
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority told Fox News that the agency
"about 3:30 p.m. EDT that Customs and Border Protection was experiencing a nationwide computer issue
affecting their ability to process arriving international passengers, including at Dulles International Airport …
Airport operations remain normal at this time."
Another passenger arriving at JFK said "The system is allegedly down including global entry. I
t's hot. No air. In a narrow hallway. People were backing up on the escalator and falling over each other."
@Alexand3rx
@JFKairport @CBP The system is allegedly down including global entry. It's hot. No air. In a narrow hallway.
People were backing up on the escalator and falling over each other.
Embedded video
Complete US customs shut down at Dulles.onal Airport tweeted Friday afternoon that that CBP systems
"are experiencing an issue which appears to be impacting multiple airports including LAX.
Officers are processing passengers manually so please check with your airline for the latest status of any flight impacts."
Shortly after 6 p.m. ET, the airport tweeted that systems are slowly getting back to normal
and officers have processed the majority of waiting passengers at LAX with no significant impacts to flights.
"Thank you for your patience."
Fox News' Alexandra Pamias and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
End
sabotage ??
CBP suffers massive power outage at airports across the country
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/cbp-suffers-massive-power-outage-at-airports-across-the-country
Travelers to the U.S. from overseas Friday were experiencing delays in passing through customs at major airports Friday
due to a technology outage affecting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stations.
"CBP is experiencing a temporary outage with its processing systems at various air ports of entry &
is taking immediate action to address the technology disruption," the agency said on Twitter shortly after 5 p.m. ET.
"CBP officers continue to process international travelers using alternative procedures until systems are back online."
@CBP
· 1h
CBP is experiencing a temporary outage with its processing systems at various air ports of entry & is taking immediate action
to address the technology disruption. CBP officers continue to process international travelers
using alternative procedures until systems are back online.
@CBP
CBP officers are working to process travelers as quickly as possible while maintaining the highest levels of security.
"CBP officers are working to process travelers as quickly as possible while maintaining the highest levels of security."
INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS REPORTEDLY BYPASS CUSTOMS AT NEWARK AIRPORT DUE TO 'MIX UP'
Travelers at airports around the country -- including John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York,
Dulles International Airport, Charlotte Douglas and Raleigh-Durham International Airports in North Carolina
and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia —
expressed frustration about significant delays and long lines at international arrivals halls even as CBP warned that
"Arriving travelers at some ports of entry are experiencing longer than usual wait times."
CBP added that they were processing passengers manually.
CBP Southeast
✔
@CBPSoutheast
Our @cbp officers at @ATLairport @CLTAirport @RDUAirport continue to process arriving International travelers.
Arriving travelers at some ports of entry are experiencing longer than usual wait times. #CBP https://twitter.com/cbp/status/1162470541560811520 …
CBP
✔
@CBP
CBP is experiencing a temporary outage with its processing systems at various air ports of entry &
is taking immediate action to address the technology disruption. CBP officers continue to process international travelers
using alternative procedures until systems are back online.
One passenger at Dulles posted a video of masses of travelers waiting in snaking lines to reach immigration processing counters at the airport.
"Easily 5,000+ passengers in line at Dulles," she estimated.
Rebekah Tromble
@RebekahKTromble
Nationwide outage of US CBP computer systems. Easily 5,000+ passengers in line at Dulles.
Embedded video
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority told Fox News that the agency
"about 3:30 p.m. EDT that Customs and Border Protection was experiencing a nationwide computer issue
affecting their ability to process arriving international passengers, including at Dulles International Airport …
Airport operations remain normal at this time."
Another passenger arriving at JFK said "The system is allegedly down including global entry. I
t's hot. No air. In a narrow hallway. People were backing up on the escalator and falling over each other."
@Alexand3rx
@JFKairport @CBP The system is allegedly down including global entry. It's hot. No air. In a narrow hallway.
People were backing up on the escalator and falling over each other.
Embedded video
Complete US customs shut down at Dulles.onal Airport tweeted Friday afternoon that that CBP systems
"are experiencing an issue which appears to be impacting multiple airports including LAX.
Officers are processing passengers manually so please check with your airline for the latest status of any flight impacts."
Shortly after 6 p.m. ET, the airport tweeted that systems are slowly getting back to normal
and officers have processed the majority of waiting passengers at LAX with no significant impacts to flights.
"Thank you for your patience."
Fox News' Alexandra Pamias and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
End
Thursday, August 15, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE2 14-8-19
AZMEX UPDATE2 14 AUG 2019
Prosecutors lose bid to seek death penalty against man accused of killing Grant Ronnebeck
The Arizona Court of Appeals denied a request by prosecutors to seek the death penalty against
Apolinar Altamirano in the killing of Grant Ronnebeck.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 4:41 PM MST August 14, 2019
Updated: 4:41 PM MST August 14, 2019
https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/prosecutors-lose-bid-to-seek-death-penalty-against-man-accused-of-killing-grant-ronnebeck/75-da485a02-868b-4e9f-b4a9-e7f787d624b4
PHOENIX — Prosecutors have lost another bid to seek the death penalty against an immigrant from Mexico
charged with murder in the 2015 shooting death of a convenience store clerk in metro Phoenix.
The Arizona Court of Appeals denied a request by prosecutors to reinstate their effort to seek the death penalty
against Apolinar Altamirano in the killing of 21-year-old clerk Grant Ronnebeck.
Prosecutors had appealed a decision by a lower-court judge that said they could not seek capital punishment
because Altamirano is intellectually disabled.
The case against Altamirano has been cited by President Donald Trump,
who has railed against crimes committed against American citizens by immigrants who are the U.S. illegally.
PREVIOUSLY: Migrant tries to keep death penalty off table in murder case
Trump has created a new office to serve victims of immigration crimes and their relatives.
He also has invoked such crimes at rallies, pointing to cases in which people were killed by immigrant assailants.
Altamirano is a citizen of Mexico who has lived in the U.S. without authorization for about 20 years.
He has been deported and returned to the U.S. in the past
He is accused of fatally shooting Ronnebeck at a store in Mesa after the clerk insisted that he pay for a pack of cigarettes.
Authorities say Altamirano stepped over Ronnebeck to get several packs of cigarettes before leaving the store.
Altamirano has already been sentenced to six years in prison for earlier guilty pleas in the case to misconduct involving weapons.
He has pleaded not guilty to murder, robbery and other charges.
RELATED: Prosecutors can't seek execution in case against immigrant accused of killing Grant Ronnebeck
RELATED: After losing his son Grant, Steve Ronnebeck returns from building part of a border wall
END
Prosecutors lose bid to seek death penalty against man accused of killing Grant Ronnebeck
The Arizona Court of Appeals denied a request by prosecutors to seek the death penalty against
Apolinar Altamirano in the killing of Grant Ronnebeck.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 4:41 PM MST August 14, 2019
Updated: 4:41 PM MST August 14, 2019
https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/prosecutors-lose-bid-to-seek-death-penalty-against-man-accused-of-killing-grant-ronnebeck/75-da485a02-868b-4e9f-b4a9-e7f787d624b4
PHOENIX — Prosecutors have lost another bid to seek the death penalty against an immigrant from Mexico
charged with murder in the 2015 shooting death of a convenience store clerk in metro Phoenix.
The Arizona Court of Appeals denied a request by prosecutors to reinstate their effort to seek the death penalty
against Apolinar Altamirano in the killing of 21-year-old clerk Grant Ronnebeck.
Prosecutors had appealed a decision by a lower-court judge that said they could not seek capital punishment
because Altamirano is intellectually disabled.
The case against Altamirano has been cited by President Donald Trump,
who has railed against crimes committed against American citizens by immigrants who are the U.S. illegally.
PREVIOUSLY: Migrant tries to keep death penalty off table in murder case
Trump has created a new office to serve victims of immigration crimes and their relatives.
He also has invoked such crimes at rallies, pointing to cases in which people were killed by immigrant assailants.
Altamirano is a citizen of Mexico who has lived in the U.S. without authorization for about 20 years.
He has been deported and returned to the U.S. in the past
He is accused of fatally shooting Ronnebeck at a store in Mesa after the clerk insisted that he pay for a pack of cigarettes.
Authorities say Altamirano stepped over Ronnebeck to get several packs of cigarettes before leaving the store.
Altamirano has already been sentenced to six years in prison for earlier guilty pleas in the case to misconduct involving weapons.
He has pleaded not guilty to murder, robbery and other charges.
RELATED: Prosecutors can't seek execution in case against immigrant accused of killing Grant Ronnebeck
RELATED: After losing his son Grant, Steve Ronnebeck returns from building part of a border wall
END
AZMEX UPDATE 15-8-19
AZMEX UPDATE 15 AUG 2019
Police seize $550,000 worth of cocaine in west Phoenix
Posted: 1:22 PM, Aug 15, 2019 Updated: 1:22 PM, Aug 15, 2019
By: Joe Enea
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/police-seize-550-000-worth-of-cocaine-in-west-phoenix
Photo by: MCSO
PHOENIX — Police seized over a half-million dollars worth of cocaine during a drug bust in west Phoenix, according to court documents.
On August 9, Glendale police detectives were in the area of 59th Avenue and Thomas Road
where they allegedly saw two men meet and transfer a large box from a car to a truck.
The vehicles then left in different directions.
Police followed the truck which allegedly made several traffic violations.
After stopping the driver, identified at 31-year-old Miguel Angel Quintero,
police reportedly found 18 packages inside the box.
The packages were allegedly filled with cocaine and weighed a total of 48 pounds, according to court records.
Police say the value of the cocaine is about $550,000.
Quintero allegedly told police that he received a phone call telling him to go to 59th Avenue and Thomas Road to receive the box.
Quintero also allegedly said he was going home after receiving the box to await further instructions, according to police.
Quintero has been charged with possession of narcotic drugs for sale.
End
Note; Mexico does not have the death penalty. Although many suspects end up dead.
Gracias
Mexico's president to seek extradition of El Paso mass shooting suspect
By: Associated Press
Posted: Aug 14, 2019 05:26 PM MDT
Updated: Aug 14, 2019 05:58 PM MDT
https://www.kvia.com/news/border/mexico-s-president-to-seek-extradition-of-el-paso-mass-shooting-suspect/1109366705
Mexico's president to seek extradition of El Paso mass shooting suspect
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
EL PASO, Texas - Mexico's president said he wants the United States to extradite the shooter
who killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart store on Aug. 3, so he can be tried in Mexico, too.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador made the call Wednesday in a speech in the southern state of Oaxaca.
The two countries have had in the past an arrangement in which a suspect convicted in one country
can be immediately extradited for trial in the other before serving his sentence in either country.
Authorities say 21-year-old Patrick Crusius confessed to the Aug. 3 shooting
and told investigators that he targeted Mexicans during the attack.
He's also suspected of posting a racist, anti-immigrant screed online before opening fire in the Walmart.
end
Note: no mug shot.
US Border Patrol apprehends Interpol murder suspect from France
by David CrossThursday, August 15th 2019
https://cbs4local.com/news/local/us-border-patrol-apprehends-interpol-murder-suspect-from-france
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A citizen of France wanted on suspicion of murder by Interpol
was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol on Aug. 6 while illegally in the United States.
"This arrest highlights our law enforcement collaboration, including partnerships well beyond our borders.
This wanted international fugitive attempted to remain in the U.S. illegally
and was stopped by the diligent work of our Border Patrol agents," said Matthew J. Hudak, Big Bend Sector chief patrol agent.
Sierra Blanca Border Patrol agents said Marouana Bah, 30, was encountered on board a passenger bus
undergoing immigration inspections at the Sierra Blanca Immigration Checkpoint.
The Border Patrol said Bah was determined to be illegally in the U.S. and in possession of a passport that did not belong to him.
A records check on Bah revealed an active Interpol warrant for murder out of France.
Bah was processed according to applicable immigration laws, according to the Border Patrol.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in Boston
will be taking the lead in this investigation going forward, the Border Patrol said.
End
Police seize $550,000 worth of cocaine in west Phoenix
Posted: 1:22 PM, Aug 15, 2019 Updated: 1:22 PM, Aug 15, 2019
By: Joe Enea
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/police-seize-550-000-worth-of-cocaine-in-west-phoenix
Photo by: MCSO
PHOENIX — Police seized over a half-million dollars worth of cocaine during a drug bust in west Phoenix, according to court documents.
On August 9, Glendale police detectives were in the area of 59th Avenue and Thomas Road
where they allegedly saw two men meet and transfer a large box from a car to a truck.
The vehicles then left in different directions.
Police followed the truck which allegedly made several traffic violations.
After stopping the driver, identified at 31-year-old Miguel Angel Quintero,
police reportedly found 18 packages inside the box.
The packages were allegedly filled with cocaine and weighed a total of 48 pounds, according to court records.
Police say the value of the cocaine is about $550,000.
Quintero allegedly told police that he received a phone call telling him to go to 59th Avenue and Thomas Road to receive the box.
Quintero also allegedly said he was going home after receiving the box to await further instructions, according to police.
Quintero has been charged with possession of narcotic drugs for sale.
End
Note; Mexico does not have the death penalty. Although many suspects end up dead.
Gracias
Mexico's president to seek extradition of El Paso mass shooting suspect
By: Associated Press
Posted: Aug 14, 2019 05:26 PM MDT
Updated: Aug 14, 2019 05:58 PM MDT
https://www.kvia.com/news/border/mexico-s-president-to-seek-extradition-of-el-paso-mass-shooting-suspect/1109366705
Mexico's president to seek extradition of El Paso mass shooting suspect
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
EL PASO, Texas - Mexico's president said he wants the United States to extradite the shooter
who killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart store on Aug. 3, so he can be tried in Mexico, too.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador made the call Wednesday in a speech in the southern state of Oaxaca.
The two countries have had in the past an arrangement in which a suspect convicted in one country
can be immediately extradited for trial in the other before serving his sentence in either country.
Authorities say 21-year-old Patrick Crusius confessed to the Aug. 3 shooting
and told investigators that he targeted Mexicans during the attack.
He's also suspected of posting a racist, anti-immigrant screed online before opening fire in the Walmart.
end
Note: no mug shot.
US Border Patrol apprehends Interpol murder suspect from France
by David CrossThursday, August 15th 2019
https://cbs4local.com/news/local/us-border-patrol-apprehends-interpol-murder-suspect-from-france
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A citizen of France wanted on suspicion of murder by Interpol
was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol on Aug. 6 while illegally in the United States.
"This arrest highlights our law enforcement collaboration, including partnerships well beyond our borders.
This wanted international fugitive attempted to remain in the U.S. illegally
and was stopped by the diligent work of our Border Patrol agents," said Matthew J. Hudak, Big Bend Sector chief patrol agent.
Sierra Blanca Border Patrol agents said Marouana Bah, 30, was encountered on board a passenger bus
undergoing immigration inspections at the Sierra Blanca Immigration Checkpoint.
The Border Patrol said Bah was determined to be illegally in the U.S. and in possession of a passport that did not belong to him.
A records check on Bah revealed an active Interpol warrant for murder out of France.
Bah was processed according to applicable immigration laws, according to the Border Patrol.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in Boston
will be taking the lead in this investigation going forward, the Border Patrol said.
End
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
AZMEX I3 14-8-19
AZMEX I3 14 AUG 2019
Comment: As always, "border crossers" mean illegal aliens.
Thx
Arizona border volunteers opening office with limited hours
Associated Press
7:57 am
August 14, 2019
https://kvoa.com/ap-arizona-news/2019/08/14/arizona-border-volunteers-opening-office-with-limited-hours/
AJO, Ariz. (AP) — A humanitarian organization that provides aid to border crossers says it is opening an office
to welcome visitors for a few hours on Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings in the southern Arizona desert community of Ajo.
The Ajo Samaritans say they will first open the office in the border town Thursday to provide information about their work.
The group says Ajo residents have provided water and other aid to travelers in the Sonora desert for generations.
The office will be staffed from 4-6 p.m. Thursdays and from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
Border volunteer Scott Warren, who is set to be retried in November on two felony counts of harboring migrants
in the U.S. without permission, lives in the community and volunteers with the Ajo Samaritans.
END
Hundreds take advantage of Tucson's new asylum shelter
Posted: 9:25 PM, Aug 13, 2019 Updated: 10:18 PM, Aug 13, 2019
By: KGUN 9 Digital Staff
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/pima-county-administrator-reports-tucsons-new-shelter-for-asylum-seekers
migrants blurred.png
TUCSON, Ariz. — An update on Tucson's new shelter for asylum seekers, which has been operating for about a week now.
Pima County provided space that had been used for juvenile detention to catholic community services.
The space replaced the temporary shelter in the former Benedictine Monastery.
The Pima County Administrator reports the new shelter has so far hosted 246 asylum seekers legally in the U.S.
while their asylum claims are considered.
Chuck Huckleberry says Pima County may provide pictures of the new environment soon.
End
Comment: As always, "border crossers" mean illegal aliens.
Thx
Arizona border volunteers opening office with limited hours
Associated Press
7:57 am
August 14, 2019
https://kvoa.com/ap-arizona-news/2019/08/14/arizona-border-volunteers-opening-office-with-limited-hours/
AJO, Ariz. (AP) — A humanitarian organization that provides aid to border crossers says it is opening an office
to welcome visitors for a few hours on Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings in the southern Arizona desert community of Ajo.
The Ajo Samaritans say they will first open the office in the border town Thursday to provide information about their work.
The group says Ajo residents have provided water and other aid to travelers in the Sonora desert for generations.
The office will be staffed from 4-6 p.m. Thursdays and from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
Border volunteer Scott Warren, who is set to be retried in November on two felony counts of harboring migrants
in the U.S. without permission, lives in the community and volunteers with the Ajo Samaritans.
END
Hundreds take advantage of Tucson's new asylum shelter
Posted: 9:25 PM, Aug 13, 2019 Updated: 10:18 PM, Aug 13, 2019
By: KGUN 9 Digital Staff
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/pima-county-administrator-reports-tucsons-new-shelter-for-asylum-seekers
migrants blurred.png
TUCSON, Ariz. — An update on Tucson's new shelter for asylum seekers, which has been operating for about a week now.
Pima County provided space that had been used for juvenile detention to catholic community services.
The space replaced the temporary shelter in the former Benedictine Monastery.
The Pima County Administrator reports the new shelter has so far hosted 246 asylum seekers legally in the U.S.
while their asylum claims are considered.
Chuck Huckleberry says Pima County may provide pictures of the new environment soon.
End
AZGUAT SPECIAL 11-8-19
AZGUAT SPECIAL 11 AUG 2019
Note: long but interesting read.
Been a bad place for a long time. Corrupt, dysfunctional and violent. Much as the rest of Central America.
With the exception of Costa Rica.
Gracias
Guatemala poll pits ex-first lady against ex-prison chief
5 hours ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49278325
Sandra Torres and Alejandro Giammattei were the winners of the first round and will now contend the second
Polls have opened in Guatemala for the final round of the presidential election.
The two candidates in the run-off have both stood for the presidency before.
Ex-first lady Sandra Torres hopes it will be third time lucky, while ex-prison chief Alejandro Giammattei is running for the fourth time.
Guatemalans have cited insecurity as their main concern, followed by unemployment, high living costs and corruption.
How does it work?
The president is elected for a single four-year term. Current President Jimmy Morales cannot stand for a second term.
As none of the 19 candidates in the first round held on 16 June got the 50% of votes needed to win outright,
the top two candidates progressed to a second and final round.
Voting closes at 18:00 local time (00:00 GMT) on Sunday and the result is expected to be announced later in the night.
The candidate to win the most votes will become president and take up office in January 2020.
Who are the contenders?
Sandra Torres, 63
Sandra Torres speaks during a campaign rally ahead of the second round run-off vote in Ciudad PeroniaImage copyrightREUTERS
Image caption
Sandra Torres won the first round with a comfortable margin
The former first lady failed in her two previous attempts to be elected president but won the first round of voting with 26% of the votes.
Ms Torres was married to Álvaro Colom, who governed Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, and who is currently under investigation for alleged fraud.
She divorced him in 2011 in order to bypass a law which banned close relatives of the president from succeeding him.
At the time she said that "I'm divorcing my husband but I'm getting married to the people".
She also said she had found it "very difficult" to leave her "loving marriage" to Mr Colom.
In the 2011, her candidacy was rejected by the Constitutional Court but she was allowed to run in 2015.
That time, she had enough votes to get her into the second round where she was defeated by Jimmy Morales
by a large margin of almost 35 percentage points.
Ms Torres is running for the social-democratic National Unity of Hope party (UNE).
She and her party are under investigation for alleged illegal campaign financing during the last election, which she has denied.
Polls suggest Ms Torres is popular with voters in rural areas of Guatemala because of her former husband's social programmes
but in urban areas the corruption allegations have hit her hard.
Ms Torres says she will provide "comprehensive solutions like development, fight against poverty and job opportunities".
Alejandro Giammattei, 63
Presidential candidate Alejandro Giammattei holds his closing campaign rally ahead of the second round run-off voteImage copyrightREX FEATURES
Alejandro Giammattei is leading in the latest opinion polls
The 63-year-old candidate is standing for the right-wing Vamos (Let's Go) party and this is his fourth attempt at becoming president.
Each time, he has run for a different party.
Mr Giammattei is a trained doctor who was named director of the Guatemalan prison system in 2006.
That same year, he led a controversial operation to take control of the Pavón prison, which had been run by inmates for a decade.
Seven inmates died during the raids by the security forces.
Mr Giammattei was among eight people accused over the incident and after spending 10 months in pre-trial detention,
he was acquitted due to lack of evidence.
He came fourth in the 2015 election.
If he is elected, he says, he will build "a wall of prosperity" to keep Guatemalans from migrating to the US.
In order to lessen the disparity between the rich and the poor, he wants to attract more foreign investment to Guatemala
by strengthening the protections granted to private property.
What are the main issues?
Guatemalans have told pollsters that their top concern is insecurity saying that tackling high crime rates and armed attacks
should be the priority for whoever wins the election.
Members of the Guatemalan Military Police stand guard outside a hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 31, 201Image copyrightREUTERS
Image caption
High crime rates and extortion concern voters
Ms Torres said she would deploy the armed forces to combat crime and move jails out of urban areas.
She also suggested making inmates work and investing the money they earn in schools.
She has said she would try to increase the minimum sentence for extortion at 20 years in prison.
Mr Giammattei said he would back to a bill to declare gang members "terrorists" so that if imprisoned
they would have no right to conjugal visits and would be forced to work in jail.
Both candidates say they oppose a migration deal signed by outgoing President Jimmy Morales
under which migrants passing through Guatemala en route to the United States
would have to apply for asylum in the former rather than in the US.
The two candidates argue that Guatemala does not have the capacity to process the asylum requests
and even less so to look after the applicants or return them to their home countries if their requests are rejected.
President Morales signed the "Safe Third Country" agreement on 27 July, just days after US President Donald Trump
had threatened Guatemala with tariffs and other sanctions.
Why is there little enthusiasm around these polls?
The run-up to the election was overshadowed by the fact that the two favourites to win were prevented from standing in the poll.
The former attorney-general, Thelma Alana, and Azury Ríos, the daughter of the late military ruler,
Refrain Ríos Mont were barred from running by Guatemala's constitutional court angering those who were planning on voting for them.
Many Guatemalans are also fed up with the corruption scandals which have rocked the country.
Four years after large-scale anti-corruption protests forced then-President Otto Perez Molina to resign,
many feel not enough has been done by the government of Jimmy Morales to combat corruption.
Corruption remains one of the top three issues voters want to see tackled but neither Mr Giammattei not Ms Torres
have said whether they plan to renew the mandate of the UN's International Commission
against Impunity in Guatemala, which is due to expire in September.
end
Note: long but interesting read.
Been a bad place for a long time. Corrupt, dysfunctional and violent. Much as the rest of Central America.
With the exception of Costa Rica.
Gracias
Guatemala poll pits ex-first lady against ex-prison chief
5 hours ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49278325
Sandra Torres and Alejandro Giammattei were the winners of the first round and will now contend the second
Polls have opened in Guatemala for the final round of the presidential election.
The two candidates in the run-off have both stood for the presidency before.
Ex-first lady Sandra Torres hopes it will be third time lucky, while ex-prison chief Alejandro Giammattei is running for the fourth time.
Guatemalans have cited insecurity as their main concern, followed by unemployment, high living costs and corruption.
How does it work?
The president is elected for a single four-year term. Current President Jimmy Morales cannot stand for a second term.
As none of the 19 candidates in the first round held on 16 June got the 50% of votes needed to win outright,
the top two candidates progressed to a second and final round.
Voting closes at 18:00 local time (00:00 GMT) on Sunday and the result is expected to be announced later in the night.
The candidate to win the most votes will become president and take up office in January 2020.
Who are the contenders?
Sandra Torres, 63
Sandra Torres speaks during a campaign rally ahead of the second round run-off vote in Ciudad PeroniaImage copyrightREUTERS
Image caption
Sandra Torres won the first round with a comfortable margin
The former first lady failed in her two previous attempts to be elected president but won the first round of voting with 26% of the votes.
Ms Torres was married to Álvaro Colom, who governed Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, and who is currently under investigation for alleged fraud.
She divorced him in 2011 in order to bypass a law which banned close relatives of the president from succeeding him.
At the time she said that "I'm divorcing my husband but I'm getting married to the people".
She also said she had found it "very difficult" to leave her "loving marriage" to Mr Colom.
In the 2011, her candidacy was rejected by the Constitutional Court but she was allowed to run in 2015.
That time, she had enough votes to get her into the second round where she was defeated by Jimmy Morales
by a large margin of almost 35 percentage points.
Ms Torres is running for the social-democratic National Unity of Hope party (UNE).
She and her party are under investigation for alleged illegal campaign financing during the last election, which she has denied.
Polls suggest Ms Torres is popular with voters in rural areas of Guatemala because of her former husband's social programmes
but in urban areas the corruption allegations have hit her hard.
Ms Torres says she will provide "comprehensive solutions like development, fight against poverty and job opportunities".
Alejandro Giammattei, 63
Presidential candidate Alejandro Giammattei holds his closing campaign rally ahead of the second round run-off voteImage copyrightREX FEATURES
Alejandro Giammattei is leading in the latest opinion polls
The 63-year-old candidate is standing for the right-wing Vamos (Let's Go) party and this is his fourth attempt at becoming president.
Each time, he has run for a different party.
Mr Giammattei is a trained doctor who was named director of the Guatemalan prison system in 2006.
That same year, he led a controversial operation to take control of the Pavón prison, which had been run by inmates for a decade.
Seven inmates died during the raids by the security forces.
Mr Giammattei was among eight people accused over the incident and after spending 10 months in pre-trial detention,
he was acquitted due to lack of evidence.
He came fourth in the 2015 election.
If he is elected, he says, he will build "a wall of prosperity" to keep Guatemalans from migrating to the US.
In order to lessen the disparity between the rich and the poor, he wants to attract more foreign investment to Guatemala
by strengthening the protections granted to private property.
What are the main issues?
Guatemalans have told pollsters that their top concern is insecurity saying that tackling high crime rates and armed attacks
should be the priority for whoever wins the election.
Members of the Guatemalan Military Police stand guard outside a hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 31, 201Image copyrightREUTERS
Image caption
High crime rates and extortion concern voters
Ms Torres said she would deploy the armed forces to combat crime and move jails out of urban areas.
She also suggested making inmates work and investing the money they earn in schools.
She has said she would try to increase the minimum sentence for extortion at 20 years in prison.
Mr Giammattei said he would back to a bill to declare gang members "terrorists" so that if imprisoned
they would have no right to conjugal visits and would be forced to work in jail.
Both candidates say they oppose a migration deal signed by outgoing President Jimmy Morales
under which migrants passing through Guatemala en route to the United States
would have to apply for asylum in the former rather than in the US.
The two candidates argue that Guatemala does not have the capacity to process the asylum requests
and even less so to look after the applicants or return them to their home countries if their requests are rejected.
President Morales signed the "Safe Third Country" agreement on 27 July, just days after US President Donald Trump
had threatened Guatemala with tariffs and other sanctions.
Why is there little enthusiasm around these polls?
The run-up to the election was overshadowed by the fact that the two favourites to win were prevented from standing in the poll.
The former attorney-general, Thelma Alana, and Azury Ríos, the daughter of the late military ruler,
Refrain Ríos Mont were barred from running by Guatemala's constitutional court angering those who were planning on voting for them.
Many Guatemalans are also fed up with the corruption scandals which have rocked the country.
Four years after large-scale anti-corruption protests forced then-President Otto Perez Molina to resign,
many feel not enough has been done by the government of Jimmy Morales to combat corruption.
Corruption remains one of the top three issues voters want to see tackled but neither Mr Giammattei not Ms Torres
have said whether they plan to renew the mandate of the UN's International Commission
against Impunity in Guatemala, which is due to expire in September.
end
Friday, August 9, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 9-8-19
AZMEX POLICY 9 AUG 2019
Note: No, did not make this up.
Thx
We will not declare war: AMLO
Details Published on Friday August 9, 2019,
Written by EXCELSIOR
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=133841
CDMX
The president regretted the violent events in Uruapan, Michoacán,
but 'we will continue to address the causes of the violence'
The federal government will not declare war on organized crime despite the violence
unleashed in Michoacán last Thursday, where 19 people were executed in Uruapan.
"We are going to continue fighting crime, but we are not going to fall into the trap of declaring war,
as they did in the past, which was what led us to this situation of insecurity and violence,"
the president stressed at the base of the 62nd Battalion, in the city of Durango.
The head of the Executive reiterated that his administration's strategy to combat violence
is through economic support, scholarships and pensions to the population
to prevent them from seeking involvement with organized crime.
'We will continue to address the causes that cause violence.
We will continue fighting poverty, creating jobs, serving young people, that there is well-being, "said the president.
López Obrador considered that this strategy is medium term and is expected to work.
'And it may take time, but that's the best strategy. The other is proven to have failed, "he reiterated.
END
Note: No, did not make this up.
Thx
We will not declare war: AMLO
Details Published on Friday August 9, 2019,
Written by EXCELSIOR
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=133841
CDMX
The president regretted the violent events in Uruapan, Michoacán,
but 'we will continue to address the causes of the violence'
The federal government will not declare war on organized crime despite the violence
unleashed in Michoacán last Thursday, where 19 people were executed in Uruapan.
"We are going to continue fighting crime, but we are not going to fall into the trap of declaring war,
as they did in the past, which was what led us to this situation of insecurity and violence,"
the president stressed at the base of the 62nd Battalion, in the city of Durango.
The head of the Executive reiterated that his administration's strategy to combat violence
is through economic support, scholarships and pensions to the population
to prevent them from seeking involvement with organized crime.
'We will continue to address the causes that cause violence.
We will continue fighting poverty, creating jobs, serving young people, that there is well-being, "said the president.
López Obrador considered that this strategy is medium term and is expected to work.
'And it may take time, but that's the best strategy. The other is proven to have failed, "he reiterated.
END
AZMEX UPDATE 9-8-19
AZMEX UPDATE 9 AUG 2019
Note: not responsible for AP's math problems.
Also, when the government is so corrupt, the people have to take things into their own hands.
Gracias
19 bodies hung from bridge in Mexico gang feud
By: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted: Aug 09, 2019 06:56 AM MST
Updated: Aug 09, 2019 06:56 AM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/19-bodies-hung-from-bridge-in-mexico-gang-feud/1107554786
19 bodies hung from bridge in Mexico gang feud
MEXICO CITY - Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday
alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby.
Just down the road were three more bodies, for a total of 19.
The killing spree reported by prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan marked a return to the grisly massacres
carried out by drug cartels at the height of Mexico's 2006-2012 drug war when piles of bodies
were dumped on roadways as a message to authorities and rival gangs.
Two of the bodies hung by ropes from the overpass by their necks, half naked,
and one of the dismembered bodies were women, Michoacan Attorney General Adrián López Solís said at a news conference.
The victims in the city of Uruapan had been shot to death. Some were hung with their hands bound, some with their pants pulled down.
While the banner was not completely legible, it bore the initials of the notoriously violent Jalisco drug cartel,
and mentioned the Viagras, a rival gang.
"Be a patriot, kill a Viagra," the banner read in part.
"This kind of public, theatrical violence, where you don't just kill, but you brag about killing,
is meant to intimidate rivals and send a message to the authorities,"
said Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope.
"This kind of cynical impunity has been increasing in Michoacan," Hope added.
In one particularly brazen attack in May, a convoy of pickups and SUVs openly marked with the letters "CJNG"
— the Spanish initials of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel —
drove through the Michoacan city of Zamora at night, shooting up police vehicles and killing or wounding several officers.
Uruapan is where Mexico's drug war first erupted in 2006, when members of the now-diminished La Familia cartel
rolled five severed heads onto the floor of a dance hall.
What followed were eight years of terror in Michoacan, until farmers and ranchers rose up in an armed vigilante movement
to drive La Familia and its successor cartel, the Caballero's Templarios, out of the state.
Hipólito Mora, one of the original founders of the vigilante movement, said the violence is worse than ever
and he wants the army to come back to Michoacan to help battle the cartels.
"We're worse off now than we were then," Mora said.
The state attorney general said the killings discovered Thursday appeared to be part of a turf war.
"Certain criminal gangs are fighting over territory, to control activities related to drug production distribution and consumption,"
López Solís said. "Unfortunately, this conflict results in these kinds of acts that justifiably alarm the public."
Meanwhile, in another part of Mexico, an angry crowd beat and hanged seven suspected kidnappers,
leaving some of their bodies dangling from trees, the national Human Rights Commission said Thursday night.
The Puebla state government said police and soldiers were sent to the area to try to stop the attack,
but villagers from the hamlets of Tepexco and Cohuecan kept them from intervening.
Late Thursday, authorities in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz reported that four dismembered male bodies
had been found in 15 bags left along highways near the state's border with Puebla.
Veracruz is another battleground between the Jalisco cartel and other criminal groups.
For years, Mexican cartels had seemed loath to draw attention to themselves with mass public displays of bodies.
Instead, the gangs went to great lengths to hide bodies, by creating clandestine burial pits or dissolving corpses in caustic chemicals.
But the Jalisco gang, which has gained a reputation for directly challenging authorities,
appears to have returned to showy killings as a way to intimidate rivals.
In 2011, the then-smaller Jalisco cartel dumped 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
In 2012, the Zetas cartel left 49 decapitated bodies on a highway in northern Mexico,
and later in the same year they strung nine bodies from an overpass and left 14 severed heads near the city hall.
Still, homicides dropped for a few years between 2012 and 2015, and many thought Mexico's drug war was winding down.
But homicides surged again last year and Mexico now has more murders than it did during the peak year of killings in 2011.
In the first half of 2019, Mexico set a record for homicides, with 17,608, up 5.3% compared to the same period of 2018.
The country of almost 125 million people now sees as many as 100 killings a day nationwide.
END
Note: not responsible for AP's math problems.
Also, when the government is so corrupt, the people have to take things into their own hands.
Gracias
19 bodies hung from bridge in Mexico gang feud
By: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted: Aug 09, 2019 06:56 AM MST
Updated: Aug 09, 2019 06:56 AM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/19-bodies-hung-from-bridge-in-mexico-gang-feud/1107554786
19 bodies hung from bridge in Mexico gang feud
MEXICO CITY - Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday
alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby.
Just down the road were three more bodies, for a total of 19.
The killing spree reported by prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan marked a return to the grisly massacres
carried out by drug cartels at the height of Mexico's 2006-2012 drug war when piles of bodies
were dumped on roadways as a message to authorities and rival gangs.
Two of the bodies hung by ropes from the overpass by their necks, half naked,
and one of the dismembered bodies were women, Michoacan Attorney General Adrián López Solís said at a news conference.
The victims in the city of Uruapan had been shot to death. Some were hung with their hands bound, some with their pants pulled down.
While the banner was not completely legible, it bore the initials of the notoriously violent Jalisco drug cartel,
and mentioned the Viagras, a rival gang.
"Be a patriot, kill a Viagra," the banner read in part.
"This kind of public, theatrical violence, where you don't just kill, but you brag about killing,
is meant to intimidate rivals and send a message to the authorities,"
said Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope.
"This kind of cynical impunity has been increasing in Michoacan," Hope added.
In one particularly brazen attack in May, a convoy of pickups and SUVs openly marked with the letters "CJNG"
— the Spanish initials of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel —
drove through the Michoacan city of Zamora at night, shooting up police vehicles and killing or wounding several officers.
Uruapan is where Mexico's drug war first erupted in 2006, when members of the now-diminished La Familia cartel
rolled five severed heads onto the floor of a dance hall.
What followed were eight years of terror in Michoacan, until farmers and ranchers rose up in an armed vigilante movement
to drive La Familia and its successor cartel, the Caballero's Templarios, out of the state.
Hipólito Mora, one of the original founders of the vigilante movement, said the violence is worse than ever
and he wants the army to come back to Michoacan to help battle the cartels.
"We're worse off now than we were then," Mora said.
The state attorney general said the killings discovered Thursday appeared to be part of a turf war.
"Certain criminal gangs are fighting over territory, to control activities related to drug production distribution and consumption,"
López Solís said. "Unfortunately, this conflict results in these kinds of acts that justifiably alarm the public."
Meanwhile, in another part of Mexico, an angry crowd beat and hanged seven suspected kidnappers,
leaving some of their bodies dangling from trees, the national Human Rights Commission said Thursday night.
The Puebla state government said police and soldiers were sent to the area to try to stop the attack,
but villagers from the hamlets of Tepexco and Cohuecan kept them from intervening.
Late Thursday, authorities in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz reported that four dismembered male bodies
had been found in 15 bags left along highways near the state's border with Puebla.
Veracruz is another battleground between the Jalisco cartel and other criminal groups.
For years, Mexican cartels had seemed loath to draw attention to themselves with mass public displays of bodies.
Instead, the gangs went to great lengths to hide bodies, by creating clandestine burial pits or dissolving corpses in caustic chemicals.
But the Jalisco gang, which has gained a reputation for directly challenging authorities,
appears to have returned to showy killings as a way to intimidate rivals.
In 2011, the then-smaller Jalisco cartel dumped 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
In 2012, the Zetas cartel left 49 decapitated bodies on a highway in northern Mexico,
and later in the same year they strung nine bodies from an overpass and left 14 severed heads near the city hall.
Still, homicides dropped for a few years between 2012 and 2015, and many thought Mexico's drug war was winding down.
But homicides surged again last year and Mexico now has more murders than it did during the peak year of killings in 2011.
In the first half of 2019, Mexico set a record for homicides, with 17,608, up 5.3% compared to the same period of 2018.
The country of almost 125 million people now sees as many as 100 killings a day nationwide.
END
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
AZMEX POLICY2 7-8-19
AZMEX POLICY2 7 AUG 2019
Tucson to vote on sanctuary city law in November
Posted: 12:31 PM, Aug 07, 2019 Updated: 12:58 PM, Aug 07, 2019
By: Associated Press
https://www.kgun9.com/border-watch/tucson-to-vote-on-sanctuary-city-law-in-november
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Officials in Tucson approved placing a "sanctuary city" measure on the ballot
at a City Council meeting that later went viral on social media.
The Tucson City Council voted Tuesday night to allow the initiative on the November ballot,
which could potentially lead to Arizona's first ever "sanctuary city."
Video shows a woman wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat repeatedly shouting that
"the city does not change or defy immigration laws."
Several people can be heard booing and an unidentified man in a green polo shirt is shown laughing at her from his seat.
Councilmembers were required to vote after the measure got more than the minimum required number of petition signatures.
The initiative aims to add protections for people living in the U.S. illegally,
including preventing Tucson police from asking about immigration status
and prohibiting certain cooperation between city and federal agencies.
The council vote comes at a time when a mass shooting in Texas has put the spotlight on immigration rhetoric.
Authorities believe a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto was written by the gunman
who killed 22 people and wounded numerous others at an El Paso Walmart on Saturday.
Many have denounced President Donald Trump for using incendiary words that mirror some of the language linked to the shooter.
The "sanctuary city" initiative is currently the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Pima County Republican Party in July.
The suit is challenging individual signatures and whether paid signature gatherers filled out the forms correctly.
It also argues the minimum number of necessary signatures was too low.
More than 12,400 signatures were certified by the Pima County Recorder's office.
That is roughly 3,100 more than the minimum required to qualify for the ballot.
Others opposing the initiative include the three Democrats running to be Tucson's next mayor.
The candidates said sanctuary status could create more problems such as the state Legislature
eliminating millions of dollars in annual state-shared revenue as punishment.
There are no Republicans in the mayoral race.
End
Tucson to vote on sanctuary city law in November
Posted: 12:31 PM, Aug 07, 2019 Updated: 12:58 PM, Aug 07, 2019
By: Associated Press
https://www.kgun9.com/border-watch/tucson-to-vote-on-sanctuary-city-law-in-november
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Officials in Tucson approved placing a "sanctuary city" measure on the ballot
at a City Council meeting that later went viral on social media.
The Tucson City Council voted Tuesday night to allow the initiative on the November ballot,
which could potentially lead to Arizona's first ever "sanctuary city."
Video shows a woman wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat repeatedly shouting that
"the city does not change or defy immigration laws."
Several people can be heard booing and an unidentified man in a green polo shirt is shown laughing at her from his seat.
Councilmembers were required to vote after the measure got more than the minimum required number of petition signatures.
The initiative aims to add protections for people living in the U.S. illegally,
including preventing Tucson police from asking about immigration status
and prohibiting certain cooperation between city and federal agencies.
The council vote comes at a time when a mass shooting in Texas has put the spotlight on immigration rhetoric.
Authorities believe a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto was written by the gunman
who killed 22 people and wounded numerous others at an El Paso Walmart on Saturday.
Many have denounced President Donald Trump for using incendiary words that mirror some of the language linked to the shooter.
The "sanctuary city" initiative is currently the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Pima County Republican Party in July.
The suit is challenging individual signatures and whether paid signature gatherers filled out the forms correctly.
It also argues the minimum number of necessary signatures was too low.
More than 12,400 signatures were certified by the Pima County Recorder's office.
That is roughly 3,100 more than the minimum required to qualify for the ballot.
Others opposing the initiative include the three Democrats running to be Tucson's next mayor.
The candidates said sanctuary status could create more problems such as the state Legislature
eliminating millions of dollars in annual state-shared revenue as punishment.
There are no Republicans in the mayoral race.
End
AZMEX I3 7-8-19
AZMEX I3 7 AUG 2019
Note: As always, "Migrants" means illegal aliens.
Comment: what else would a "camp" in that area be used for?
Thx
Deputies arrest Veterans on Patrol founder
Posted: 12:15 PM, Aug 06, 2019 Updated: 12:16 PM, Aug 06, 2019
By: Phil Villarreal
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/deputies-arrest-veterans-on-patrol-founder
Michael Arthur Lewis Meyer wide mug.jpgMichael Arthur Lewis Meyer mug.jpg
TUCSON, Ariz. - The man who founded Veterans on Patrol and claimed that an encampment near Interstate 19 and Valencia
has been used for human trafficking was arrested on a damage and theft charges.
According to the Pima County Sheriff's Department, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer,
who has posted viral videos alleging government cover-ups about activities at the camp,
faces two counts of third degree burglary, as well as misdemeanor criminal damage and theft.
Meyer allegedly damaged water containers placed in the desert for migrants.
The 40-year-old was booked into Pima County Jail, where he was held on a $4,450 bond.
Tucson police and ICE said that they have not found any evidence that supports
the allegations that the camp was used for human trafficking.
Meyer was also arrested in July and December 2018.
END
End
Note: As always, "Migrants" means illegal aliens.
Comment: what else would a "camp" in that area be used for?
Thx
Deputies arrest Veterans on Patrol founder
Posted: 12:15 PM, Aug 06, 2019 Updated: 12:16 PM, Aug 06, 2019
By: Phil Villarreal
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/deputies-arrest-veterans-on-patrol-founder
Michael Arthur Lewis Meyer wide mug.jpgMichael Arthur Lewis Meyer mug.jpg
TUCSON, Ariz. - The man who founded Veterans on Patrol and claimed that an encampment near Interstate 19 and Valencia
has been used for human trafficking was arrested on a damage and theft charges.
According to the Pima County Sheriff's Department, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer,
who has posted viral videos alleging government cover-ups about activities at the camp,
faces two counts of third degree burglary, as well as misdemeanor criminal damage and theft.
Meyer allegedly damaged water containers placed in the desert for migrants.
The 40-year-old was booked into Pima County Jail, where he was held on a $4,450 bond.
Tucson police and ICE said that they have not found any evidence that supports
the allegations that the camp was used for human trafficking.
Meyer was also arrested in July and December 2018.
END
End
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
AZMEX I3-2 5-8-19
AZMEX I3-2 5 AUG 2019
Border Patrol arrests wanted man with handgun during human smuggling attempt
Border Patrol arrests man with handgun (Source: CBP)
https://www.kold.com/2019/08/05/border-patrol-arrests-wanted-man-with-handgun-during-human-smuggling-attempt/
By KOLD News 13 Staff | August 5, 2019 at 10:13 AM MST - Updated August 5 at 10:13 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents working along Interstate 8
arrested a wanted man from Yuma and four migrants from Mexico during a human smuggling attempt, Tuesday.
At approximately 12 a.m., Yuma Station agents were advised by a motorist that a Ford Mustang
was possibly transporting migrants on Interstate 8 near the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreational Area.
A short time later, they located the vehicle traveling eastbound.
The vehicle drove at a high rate of speed and exited Interstate 8 in Yuma,
eventually coming to a stop at an apartment complex located at 14th Avenue and 12th Street.
Inside the vehicle, agents discovered four illegal aliens from Mexico wearing life vests,
with wet and muddy clothing.
Agents located the driver nearby attempting to hide behind a barrier.
A search of the driver revealed a loaded Glock 38 handgun and 4.7 grams of methamphetamine.
Record checks revealed the 25-year-old driver was a Yuma resident with outstanding warrants for failure to appear
and unlawful flight from law enforcement.
He was arrested for human smuggling violations as well as his outstanding warrants.
The four migrants were processed for immigration violations.
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
Border Patrol arrests wanted man with handgun during human smuggling attempt
Border Patrol arrests man with handgun (Source: CBP)
https://www.kold.com/2019/08/05/border-patrol-arrests-wanted-man-with-handgun-during-human-smuggling-attempt/
By KOLD News 13 Staff | August 5, 2019 at 10:13 AM MST - Updated August 5 at 10:13 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents working along Interstate 8
arrested a wanted man from Yuma and four migrants from Mexico during a human smuggling attempt, Tuesday.
At approximately 12 a.m., Yuma Station agents were advised by a motorist that a Ford Mustang
was possibly transporting migrants on Interstate 8 near the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreational Area.
A short time later, they located the vehicle traveling eastbound.
The vehicle drove at a high rate of speed and exited Interstate 8 in Yuma,
eventually coming to a stop at an apartment complex located at 14th Avenue and 12th Street.
Inside the vehicle, agents discovered four illegal aliens from Mexico wearing life vests,
with wet and muddy clothing.
Agents located the driver nearby attempting to hide behind a barrier.
A search of the driver revealed a loaded Glock 38 handgun and 4.7 grams of methamphetamine.
Record checks revealed the 25-year-old driver was a Yuma resident with outstanding warrants for failure to appear
and unlawful flight from law enforcement.
He was arrested for human smuggling violations as well as his outstanding warrants.
The four migrants were processed for immigration violations.
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, August 5, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 5-8-19
AZMEX POLICY 5 AUG 2019
Comment: So we can be like Mexico and Central America where organized crime and corrupt government has a free hand?
Mexico's drug cartels and organized crime are a major beneficiary of Mexico's gun control laws.
Mexican citizens are mostly defenseless
We can also be sure that AMLO will do nothing about US citizens victimized in Mexico.
Gracias
MEXICO
Published 1 hour ago
Mexican president urges US to enact gun control legislation in response to El Paso shooting
By Louis Casiano | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-president-urges-us-to-enact-gun-control-legislation-in-repsonse-to-el-paso-shooting
El Paso death toll rises: Police confirm 21 people killed in mass shooting
Police say the 21st El Paso mass shooting victim died at a hospital.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday pushed the United States to support gun control legislation
in response to a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas over the weekend that claimed at least 22 lives,
including eight Mexican nationals.
"We are very respectful of what other governments decide but we think that these lamentable events that occurred in the United States
should lead to reflection, analysis and the decision to control the indiscriminate sale of arms,"
Lopez Obrador said at a press conference.
The suspected gunman, Patrick Crusius, 21, allegedly opened fire at a Walmart Saturday before he was taken into police custody.
He faces capital murder charges.
El Paso mayor calls shooter 'deranged' and 'pure evil'Video
Before the shooting, he allegedly wrote an anti-immigrant manifesto and drove several hours from his Dallas-area home to the scene of the attack.
El Paso sits directly across the southern border from Cuidad Juarez in Mexico.
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard on Sunday that the country's top prosecutor is considering filing terrorism charges against Crusius.
He also threatened legal action against the U.S., saying Mexican leaders would demand conditions
to protect its citizens while in the United States.
"It is not our disposition to involve ourselves in the internal affairs of any country,
but this topic should be considered again because it affects many people,
in this case Americans as well as Mexicans," Lopez Obrador said.
8chan creator joins calls to shut the site downVideo
The Mexican leader's request comes at a time of unprecedented violence in Mexico
as drug cartels continue to fight over territory and smuggling routes.
Murders in Mexico rose 33 percent in 2018, Reuters reported in January.
Investigators opened more than 33,340 murder cases that year,
compared to just over 25,000 in 2017, according to information from the Interior Ministry.
END
Comment: So we can be like Mexico and Central America where organized crime and corrupt government has a free hand?
Mexico's drug cartels and organized crime are a major beneficiary of Mexico's gun control laws.
Mexican citizens are mostly defenseless
We can also be sure that AMLO will do nothing about US citizens victimized in Mexico.
Gracias
MEXICO
Published 1 hour ago
Mexican president urges US to enact gun control legislation in response to El Paso shooting
By Louis Casiano | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-president-urges-us-to-enact-gun-control-legislation-in-repsonse-to-el-paso-shooting
El Paso death toll rises: Police confirm 21 people killed in mass shooting
Police say the 21st El Paso mass shooting victim died at a hospital.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday pushed the United States to support gun control legislation
in response to a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas over the weekend that claimed at least 22 lives,
including eight Mexican nationals.
"We are very respectful of what other governments decide but we think that these lamentable events that occurred in the United States
should lead to reflection, analysis and the decision to control the indiscriminate sale of arms,"
Lopez Obrador said at a press conference.
The suspected gunman, Patrick Crusius, 21, allegedly opened fire at a Walmart Saturday before he was taken into police custody.
He faces capital murder charges.
El Paso mayor calls shooter 'deranged' and 'pure evil'Video
Before the shooting, he allegedly wrote an anti-immigrant manifesto and drove several hours from his Dallas-area home to the scene of the attack.
El Paso sits directly across the southern border from Cuidad Juarez in Mexico.
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard on Sunday that the country's top prosecutor is considering filing terrorism charges against Crusius.
He also threatened legal action against the U.S., saying Mexican leaders would demand conditions
to protect its citizens while in the United States.
"It is not our disposition to involve ourselves in the internal affairs of any country,
but this topic should be considered again because it affects many people,
in this case Americans as well as Mexicans," Lopez Obrador said.
8chan creator joins calls to shut the site downVideo
The Mexican leader's request comes at a time of unprecedented violence in Mexico
as drug cartels continue to fight over territory and smuggling routes.
Murders in Mexico rose 33 percent in 2018, Reuters reported in January.
Investigators opened more than 33,340 murder cases that year,
compared to just over 25,000 in 2017, according to information from the Interior Ministry.
END
AZMEX POLICY2 4-8-19
AZMEX POLICY2 4 AUG 2019
Mexico vows to take legal action against U.S. after deadly El Paso shooting
NBC News
3:51 pm
August 4, 2019
https://kvoa.com/news/2019/08/04/mexico-vows-to-take-legal-action-against-u-s-after-deadly-el-paso-shooting/
Mexico on Sunday threatened to take legal action against the United States for failing to protect its citizens
after this weekend's mass shooting in the border city of El Paso.
Of the 20 people gunned down at a Walmart at the Cielo Vista Mall, at least three were Mexican citizens, and
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard promised Mexico City will act.
Ebrard called Saturday's shooting an "act of barbarism."
Marcelo Ebrard C.
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@m_ebrard
Posición sobre la tragedia en El Paso Texas :
Embedded video
8,432
9:41 AM - Aug 4, 2019
"The president has instructed me to ensure that Mexico's indignation translates into …
efficient, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to take a role and demand that conditions are established that protect …
Mexicans in the United States," Ebrard said in a video posted on Twitter.
Of the 26 injured in the attack, at least nine were Mexican nationals, according to the government.
El Paso, America's 22nd-largest city with an estimated population of 682,669, is more than 80 percent Hispanic or Latino,
according to U.S. census data. El Paso sits just across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez, which has a population of 1.3 million.
The shooter appears to have been targeting Hispanics and authorities are investigating it as a hate crime.
A 21-year-old Texas man was in custody.
END
Mexico vows to take legal action against U.S. after deadly El Paso shooting
NBC News
3:51 pm
August 4, 2019
https://kvoa.com/news/2019/08/04/mexico-vows-to-take-legal-action-against-u-s-after-deadly-el-paso-shooting/
Mexico on Sunday threatened to take legal action against the United States for failing to protect its citizens
after this weekend's mass shooting in the border city of El Paso.
Of the 20 people gunned down at a Walmart at the Cielo Vista Mall, at least three were Mexican citizens, and
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard promised Mexico City will act.
Ebrard called Saturday's shooting an "act of barbarism."
Marcelo Ebrard C.
✔
@m_ebrard
Posición sobre la tragedia en El Paso Texas :
Embedded video
8,432
9:41 AM - Aug 4, 2019
"The president has instructed me to ensure that Mexico's indignation translates into …
efficient, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to take a role and demand that conditions are established that protect …
Mexicans in the United States," Ebrard said in a video posted on Twitter.
Of the 26 injured in the attack, at least nine were Mexican nationals, according to the government.
El Paso, America's 22nd-largest city with an estimated population of 682,669, is more than 80 percent Hispanic or Latino,
according to U.S. census data. El Paso sits just across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez, which has a population of 1.3 million.
The shooter appears to have been targeting Hispanics and authorities are investigating it as a hate crime.
A 21-year-old Texas man was in custody.
END
AZMEX POLICY 4-8-19
AZMEX POLICY 4 AUG 2019
Note: did not make this up.
Mexico will file lawsuits for shooting in El Paso, reports Ebrard
BY JOSÉ GIL OLMOS, AUGUST 4, 2019
https://www.proceso.com.mx/595183/mexico-presentara-demandas-por-tiroteo-en-el-paso-informa-ebrard
MEXICO CITY (proces.com.mx) .- The Mexican government will present legal actions before international instances
for the shooting yesterday in El Paso, Texas where several Mexicans were killed and injured.
"The president has instructed me so that this position, this outrage, translates, first, to protect the affected families,
and then effective, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to assist and demand
that the conditions for protect the Mexican-American community and the Mexicans and Mexicans in the United States
, "said Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, in a video message broadcast on his Twitter.
The former head of government of Mexico City said that, so far, nine Mexicans were injured in the attack
in a commercial area in the city of El Paso.
However, for the death toll he only referred to as "innocent Mexicans who lost their lives" without giving a number.
Yesterday afternoon, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had said that there were three nationals killed in this attack
and, in a message issued this morning, only referred to the confirmation of the death of several Mexicans.
Marcelo Ebrard C.
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@m_ebrard
Position on the tragedy in El Paso Texas:
Video inserted
On behalf of the government of President López Obrador, Ebrard condemned and labeled the act of barbarism
the attack in which a subject killed at least 20 people and left dozens injured.
The head of Foreign Affairs explained that today, at the edge of 4:30 pm, they will announce the first legal actions
that the Mexican government will take in this case.
More:
After massacre in Texas, Mexico enlists legal actions
According to the head of the SRE, Marcelo Ebrard,
the main thing now is to protect families of nationals from being murdered;
will require protection for Mexican-Americans
08/04/2019 12:47 ENRIQUE SÁNCHEZ
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/tras-masacre-en-texas-mexico-alista-acciones-legales/1328398
People have come to the place of the attentive to leave flowers and candles in memory of the mortal victims. Photo: AFP
MEXICO CITY
Foreign Secretary (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard, described as an act of barbarism what happened yesterday in El Paso, Texas,
after a subject killed at least 20 people and wounded another 26,
including Mexicans, for alleged racial motives
Through Twitter, he anticipated legal actions that our country will take to protect the nationals.
"The President of the Republic has instructed me to have this outrage of Mexico translated,
first to protect the affected families and then legal, effective, prompt, expeditious and forceful actions
for Mexico to help and demand that the conditions for protect the Mexican-American community
and the Mexicans in the United States.
What has happened is inadmissible, "he said.
The chancellor announced a press conference to be held this Sunday at about 4:30 pm
at the headquarters of the federal agency to refer to this situation.
In a second message, Ebrard Casaubon confirmed that there are currently no reports
of Mexicans affected by a second shooting on Saturday night in Dayton, Ohio
in which 10 dead and two dozen people are injured.
End
Note: did not make this up.
Mexico will file lawsuits for shooting in El Paso, reports Ebrard
BY JOSÉ GIL OLMOS, AUGUST 4, 2019
https://www.proceso.com.mx/595183/mexico-presentara-demandas-por-tiroteo-en-el-paso-informa-ebrard
MEXICO CITY (proces.com.mx) .- The Mexican government will present legal actions before international instances
for the shooting yesterday in El Paso, Texas where several Mexicans were killed and injured.
"The president has instructed me so that this position, this outrage, translates, first, to protect the affected families,
and then effective, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to assist and demand
that the conditions for protect the Mexican-American community and the Mexicans and Mexicans in the United States
, "said Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, in a video message broadcast on his Twitter.
The former head of government of Mexico City said that, so far, nine Mexicans were injured in the attack
in a commercial area in the city of El Paso.
However, for the death toll he only referred to as "innocent Mexicans who lost their lives" without giving a number.
Yesterday afternoon, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had said that there were three nationals killed in this attack
and, in a message issued this morning, only referred to the confirmation of the death of several Mexicans.
Marcelo Ebrard C.
✔
@m_ebrard
Position on the tragedy in El Paso Texas:
Video inserted
On behalf of the government of President López Obrador, Ebrard condemned and labeled the act of barbarism
the attack in which a subject killed at least 20 people and left dozens injured.
The head of Foreign Affairs explained that today, at the edge of 4:30 pm, they will announce the first legal actions
that the Mexican government will take in this case.
More:
After massacre in Texas, Mexico enlists legal actions
According to the head of the SRE, Marcelo Ebrard,
the main thing now is to protect families of nationals from being murdered;
will require protection for Mexican-Americans
08/04/2019 12:47 ENRIQUE SÁNCHEZ
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/tras-masacre-en-texas-mexico-alista-acciones-legales/1328398
People have come to the place of the attentive to leave flowers and candles in memory of the mortal victims. Photo: AFP
MEXICO CITY
Foreign Secretary (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard, described as an act of barbarism what happened yesterday in El Paso, Texas,
after a subject killed at least 20 people and wounded another 26,
including Mexicans, for alleged racial motives
Through Twitter, he anticipated legal actions that our country will take to protect the nationals.
"The President of the Republic has instructed me to have this outrage of Mexico translated,
first to protect the affected families and then legal, effective, prompt, expeditious and forceful actions
for Mexico to help and demand that the conditions for protect the Mexican-American community
and the Mexicans in the United States.
What has happened is inadmissible, "he said.
The chancellor announced a press conference to be held this Sunday at about 4:30 pm
at the headquarters of the federal agency to refer to this situation.
In a second message, Ebrard Casaubon confirmed that there are currently no reports
of Mexicans affected by a second shooting on Saturday night in Dayton, Ohio
in which 10 dead and two dozen people are injured.
End
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