AZMEX I3-2 24 SEP 2019
ARIZONA
Members of AZ anti-immigrant group settle federal lawsuit
The defendants also cannot verbally or physically harass anyone or use amplifying devices like megaphones.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 3:16 PM MST September 24, 2019
Updated: 3:16 PM MST September 24, 2019
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/members-of-az-anti-immigrant-group-settle-federal-lawsuit/75-4d18b5f0-1273-4000-82bf-7d040edc629f
PHOENIX — (AP) — Some members of an Arizona anti-immigrant group have agreed to stop harassing Phoenix-area churches
as part of a lawsuit settlement.
Four members of AZ Patriots cannot trespass on the churches' property or obstruct people coming and going.
The terms were revealed in a consent decree filed Friday in federal court in Phoenix.
The Southern Poverty Law Center brought the suit in June on behalf of five Christian churches,
their senior pastors and a local nonprofit.
The defendants also cannot verbally or physically harass anyone or use amplifying devices like megaphones.
They must also remove any published statements
claiming the churches engage in sex trafficking or harbor fugitives.
RELATED: Family separations continue at border, Arizona-based lawyer says
RELATED: NBC: Migrant children held at Arizona border station allege sex assault, retaliation from CBP agents
The churches have been helping federal immigration authorities
who don't have the resources to deal with the soaring number of migrants seeking asylum.
RELATED: Former Phoenix school will house asylum-seeking migrants
End
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
AZMEX I3 24-9-19
AZMEX I3 24 SEP 2019
CBS 5 INVESTIGATES
Phoenix woman says daughter was held hostage by pastor's human smugglers
Morgan Loew
Posted Sep 22, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/investigations/cbs_5_investigates/phoenix-woman-says-daughter-was-held-hostage-by-pastor-s/article_36dbbd42-dda7-11e9-9a0f-ab40c0fd1f7d.html
They said a pastor was setting up immigrant families with unscrupulous smugglers in Mexico.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Human smuggling gangs are targeting victims on both sides of the border, holding immigrants for ransom,
extorting thousands of dollars from their families and the kingpins are unlikely to face prosecution.
That is according to a CBS 5 Investigation.
[WATCH: Phoenix woman says pastor tied to smugglers]
"The criminals get quite brazen," said one former human smuggler, or "coyote,"
who agreed to speak to CBS 5 Investigates on condition of anonymity.
He said the only real exposure for the gangs of smugglers is when they are actually crossing the desert with a group of immigrants.
According to him, the people who arrange the trips and set things up have little concern that they're going to get caught.
"They just get really comfortable because they feel that they're not going to get reported," said the former coyote.
"You'll have cases where the smuggler gets caught. And the smuggler is willing to give up the person who's actually making the money.
And the government has no interest in talking and learning who those people are,"
said Ray Ybarra Maldonado, who is an attorney who represents immigrants.
"All they want is the easy catch. The easy prosecution to keep those numbers up, as opposed to doing the real investigations
and stopping the people who are profiting and abusing people," said Ybarra Maldonado.
The case of the pastor
CBS 5 began investigating this issue after a tip from a Valley family.
They said a pastor was setting up immigrant families with unscrupulous smugglers in Mexico.
Those smugglers were holding immigrants for ransom.
One family paid $8,000 and said their family member never made it across the border.
"I think he's making good money on this," said one woman, whose identity we are concealing.
"They put her in a hotel room, and they took away her cell phone," she said,
referring to the experience her family member endured in Mexico.
"They called me and said they need $3,000 more," she added.
She said she was directed to this smuggling group by the pastor.
CBS 5 Investigates found the man does not work at or represent any one particular church here in the Valley.
But he occasionally serves as a guest pastor at small Hispanic churches where many of the congregants are undocumented.
CBS 5 Investigates tracked down the man, whose real identity we were unable to confirm.
"I was only trying to help this family," he said.
"I did not know these people, and this situation has caused me much pain," he added.
Cartels and gangs increasingly smuggle humans
The former smuggler says what used to be primarily mom and pop operations
have turned into big business for drug gangs and cartels.
"Today, you'll find more of the cartels.
Cartels are doing it. So they're saying,
'We can make as much money running people as we do running drugs.
' They treat it as a commodity," said the former smuggler.
END
CBS 5 INVESTIGATES
Phoenix woman says daughter was held hostage by pastor's human smugglers
Morgan Loew
Posted Sep 22, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/investigations/cbs_5_investigates/phoenix-woman-says-daughter-was-held-hostage-by-pastor-s/article_36dbbd42-dda7-11e9-9a0f-ab40c0fd1f7d.html
They said a pastor was setting up immigrant families with unscrupulous smugglers in Mexico.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Human smuggling gangs are targeting victims on both sides of the border, holding immigrants for ransom,
extorting thousands of dollars from their families and the kingpins are unlikely to face prosecution.
That is according to a CBS 5 Investigation.
[WATCH: Phoenix woman says pastor tied to smugglers]
"The criminals get quite brazen," said one former human smuggler, or "coyote,"
who agreed to speak to CBS 5 Investigates on condition of anonymity.
He said the only real exposure for the gangs of smugglers is when they are actually crossing the desert with a group of immigrants.
According to him, the people who arrange the trips and set things up have little concern that they're going to get caught.
"They just get really comfortable because they feel that they're not going to get reported," said the former coyote.
"You'll have cases where the smuggler gets caught. And the smuggler is willing to give up the person who's actually making the money.
And the government has no interest in talking and learning who those people are,"
said Ray Ybarra Maldonado, who is an attorney who represents immigrants.
"All they want is the easy catch. The easy prosecution to keep those numbers up, as opposed to doing the real investigations
and stopping the people who are profiting and abusing people," said Ybarra Maldonado.
The case of the pastor
CBS 5 began investigating this issue after a tip from a Valley family.
They said a pastor was setting up immigrant families with unscrupulous smugglers in Mexico.
Those smugglers were holding immigrants for ransom.
One family paid $8,000 and said their family member never made it across the border.
"I think he's making good money on this," said one woman, whose identity we are concealing.
"They put her in a hotel room, and they took away her cell phone," she said,
referring to the experience her family member endured in Mexico.
"They called me and said they need $3,000 more," she added.
She said she was directed to this smuggling group by the pastor.
CBS 5 Investigates found the man does not work at or represent any one particular church here in the Valley.
But he occasionally serves as a guest pastor at small Hispanic churches where many of the congregants are undocumented.
CBS 5 Investigates tracked down the man, whose real identity we were unable to confirm.
"I was only trying to help this family," he said.
"I did not know these people, and this situation has caused me much pain," he added.
Cartels and gangs increasingly smuggle humans
The former smuggler says what used to be primarily mom and pop operations
have turned into big business for drug gangs and cartels.
"Today, you'll find more of the cartels.
Cartels are doing it. So they're saying,
'We can make as much money running people as we do running drugs.
' They treat it as a commodity," said the former smuggler.
END
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
AZMEX I3-2 17-9-19
AZMEX I3-2 17 SEP 2019
Note: photos & video at link.
31 migrants found inside trailer trying to smuggle into the U.S.
CBP said the driver is a 40-year-old U.S. citizen.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/31-migrants-found-inside-cargo-trailer/75-de7c0673-32af-41e8-a08a-fc669e399083
Author: 12 News
Published: 3:52 PM MST September 17, 2019
Updated: 3:52 PM MST September 17, 2019
31 Mexican nationals were found inside a cargo trailer Wednesday night and the driver of the trailer was arrested for human smuggling,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
CBP said a canine alerted agents assigned to the Interstate 19 immigration checkpoint near Amado, to the trailer,
the driver was asked to go for a secondary inspection when border patrol agents discovered the immigrants.
CBP said the driver is a 40-year-old U.S. citizen.
The immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally, were between the ages 15 and 40, according to CBP.
Closed Caption
"In an effort to prevent fatalities at the hands of smugglers, Department of Homeland Security recently launched
'Operation Safeguard' to educate the public and the trucking industry on the life-threatening dangers involved in
using commercial conveyances to smuggle humans", said CBP.
End
Note: photos & video at link.
31 migrants found inside trailer trying to smuggle into the U.S.
CBP said the driver is a 40-year-old U.S. citizen.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/31-migrants-found-inside-cargo-trailer/75-de7c0673-32af-41e8-a08a-fc669e399083
Author: 12 News
Published: 3:52 PM MST September 17, 2019
Updated: 3:52 PM MST September 17, 2019
31 Mexican nationals were found inside a cargo trailer Wednesday night and the driver of the trailer was arrested for human smuggling,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
CBP said a canine alerted agents assigned to the Interstate 19 immigration checkpoint near Amado, to the trailer,
the driver was asked to go for a secondary inspection when border patrol agents discovered the immigrants.
CBP said the driver is a 40-year-old U.S. citizen.
The immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally, were between the ages 15 and 40, according to CBP.
Closed Caption
"In an effort to prevent fatalities at the hands of smugglers, Department of Homeland Security recently launched
'Operation Safeguard' to educate the public and the trucking industry on the life-threatening dangers involved in
using commercial conveyances to smuggle humans", said CBP.
End
AZMEX I3 17-9-19
AZMEX I3 17 SEP 2019
Note: as always, "immigrants" mean illegal aliens.
Thx
Arizona driver arrested after 31 immigrants found in big rig
Posted: 4:12 PM, Sep 17, 2019 Updated: 4:12 PM, Sep 17, 2019
By: Associated Press
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-driver-arrested-after-31-immigrants-found-in-big-rig
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities say an Arizona man has been arrested on suspicion of human smuggling after 31 Mexican immigrants
were found in the tractor-trailer he was driving.
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Interstate 19 immigration checkpoint near Amado
say the 40-year-old driver is a resident of Nogales, Arizona.
His name wasn't immediately released Tuesday.
They say a Border Patrol dog alerted agents to the big rig for a secondary inspection and
they discovered the immigrants between the ages of 15 and 40 all sitting in the cargo trailer.
Authorities say they will be processed for immigration violations.
Border Patrol officials say the Department of Homeland Security launched "Operation Safeguard"
to educate the trucking industry on the life-threatening dangers involved in using commercial vehicles to smuggle humans.
End
Note: as always, "immigrants" mean illegal aliens.
Thx
Arizona driver arrested after 31 immigrants found in big rig
Posted: 4:12 PM, Sep 17, 2019 Updated: 4:12 PM, Sep 17, 2019
By: Associated Press
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-driver-arrested-after-31-immigrants-found-in-big-rig
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities say an Arizona man has been arrested on suspicion of human smuggling after 31 Mexican immigrants
were found in the tractor-trailer he was driving.
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Interstate 19 immigration checkpoint near Amado
say the 40-year-old driver is a resident of Nogales, Arizona.
His name wasn't immediately released Tuesday.
They say a Border Patrol dog alerted agents to the big rig for a secondary inspection and
they discovered the immigrants between the ages of 15 and 40 all sitting in the cargo trailer.
Authorities say they will be processed for immigration violations.
Border Patrol officials say the Department of Homeland Security launched "Operation Safeguard"
to educate the trucking industry on the life-threatening dangers involved in using commercial vehicles to smuggle humans.
End
Monday, September 16, 2019
AZMEX I3 14-9-19
AZMEX I3 14 SEP 2019
Note: mug shot at link.
Border Patrol arrests man wanted for rape, murder
Border Patrol arrested Juan Francisco Espinosa-Burgos, wanted for rape and murder.
(Source: U.S. Border Patrol)
By KOLD News 13 Staff | September 12, 2019 at 3:18 PM MST - Updated September 12 at 3:18 PM
https://www.kold.com/2019/09/12/border-patrol-arrests-man-wanted-rape-murder/
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a Mexican national with multiple warrants in both Mexico and Oregon
for homicide and rape, respectively.
Tucson Sector agents arrested three men after they illegally crossed the border into the United States
through a mountainous area outside Nogales.
Records checks revealed one of the men, Juan Francisco Espinosa-Burgos, to be wanted for rape in Oregon City, Oregon.
He is also wanted in Mexico for homicide.
All three subjects will be processed for immigration violations.
Espinosa-Burgos will be handed over to Mexican law enforcement authorities following his extradition to Oregon
for adjudication of his alleged crimes in the U.S.
All those arrested by the Border Patrol undergo criminal history checks
using biometrics to ensure migrants with criminal histories are positively identified.
END
INM will grant permanent residence to African migrants
Details Published on Saturday September 14, 2019,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=135925
Chiapas
The procedures in favor of Africans will start from Tuesday, the National Migration Institute reported
The National Institute of Migration could grant the permanent residence card to the group of 812 Africans
who seek protection from a federal judge, in order to have a legal stay in Mexican territory,
said José Luis Villagrán director of the Human Dignification Center, who gives legal advice to extracontinentals.
He said that it was a commitment assumed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the procedures in favor of Africans
will start from Tuesday, but he said that the intention of the agency is not that Africans decide to go to the United States,
because there they can also be arrested
He explained that the amparo process continues so that they are taken care of
and not forced to return by the southern border.
End
Note: mug shot at link.
Border Patrol arrests man wanted for rape, murder
Border Patrol arrested Juan Francisco Espinosa-Burgos, wanted for rape and murder.
(Source: U.S. Border Patrol)
By KOLD News 13 Staff | September 12, 2019 at 3:18 PM MST - Updated September 12 at 3:18 PM
https://www.kold.com/2019/09/12/border-patrol-arrests-man-wanted-rape-murder/
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a Mexican national with multiple warrants in both Mexico and Oregon
for homicide and rape, respectively.
Tucson Sector agents arrested three men after they illegally crossed the border into the United States
through a mountainous area outside Nogales.
Records checks revealed one of the men, Juan Francisco Espinosa-Burgos, to be wanted for rape in Oregon City, Oregon.
He is also wanted in Mexico for homicide.
All three subjects will be processed for immigration violations.
Espinosa-Burgos will be handed over to Mexican law enforcement authorities following his extradition to Oregon
for adjudication of his alleged crimes in the U.S.
All those arrested by the Border Patrol undergo criminal history checks
using biometrics to ensure migrants with criminal histories are positively identified.
END
INM will grant permanent residence to African migrants
Details Published on Saturday September 14, 2019,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=135925
Chiapas
The procedures in favor of Africans will start from Tuesday, the National Migration Institute reported
The National Institute of Migration could grant the permanent residence card to the group of 812 Africans
who seek protection from a federal judge, in order to have a legal stay in Mexican territory,
said José Luis Villagrán director of the Human Dignification Center, who gives legal advice to extracontinentals.
He said that it was a commitment assumed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the procedures in favor of Africans
will start from Tuesday, but he said that the intention of the agency is not that Africans decide to go to the United States,
because there they can also be arrested
He explained that the amparo process continues so that they are taken care of
and not forced to return by the southern border.
End
Friday, September 13, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 13-9-19
AZMEX UPDATE 13 SEP 2019
NOTE: Mug shot at link:
Phoenix man arrested for laundering nearly 50K in illegal enterprise, police say
Zulekha Pitts
Posted 2 hrs ago
Angel Cardenas-Baez
Angel Cardenas-Baez faces conspiracy, illegally conducting an enterprise and money laundering charges.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
https://www.azfamily.com/news/phoenix-man-arrested-for-laundering-nearly-k-in-illegal-enterprise/article_c0b26926-d65e-11e9-9ff6-93099798f318.html
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- A man living in Phoenix was arrested on Thursday for running an illegal money laundering enterprise, police say.
On August 1, Judge Warren Granville of the Maricopa County Superior Court authorized the wiretapping of a cellphone number
used by 43-year-old Angel Cardenas-Baez between August 26 and 27.
During that time, investigators intercepted calls Cardenas-Baez had with his significant other Zuleyma Nevarez-Paredes
and his mom Maria Baez-Lopez.
Court documents say while investigators intercepted the phone calls, they discovered that Cardenas-Baez was traveling
from Mochis, Mexico to Phoenix to get a concealed amount of illegal drug earnings in U.S. dollars to take back to Mexico.
By August 30, Judge Granville authorized investigators to keep tapping the cellphone number used by Cardenas-Baez.
That same day, when intercepting calls Cardenas-Baez had with his mom Baez-Lopez and an anonymous money courier,
investigators learned that the courier wanted to deliver $17,500 to Baez-Lopez.
Court documents said Baez-Lopez then called her son to tell him about the delivery that was coming.
Cardenas-Baez then called the courier to tell him to meet him by Anthem where he worked.
Later, Cardenas-Baez's mom called him to tell him the money was delivered to her at his home in Phoenix.
In another intercepted phone call, according to court documents, Baez-Lopez told her son that she was going back to Mexico
by a shuttle that day because the people she was giving the money to were getting anxious.
She also told her son that an additional $15,000 was delivered to her at his home.
Later that day, court documents say, investigators installed surveillance at Cardenas-Baez's home
in the area of Hazelwood Street and 57th Avenue.
Through their surveillance, investigators witnessed Baez-Lopez leave her son's home.
They followed her to a shuttle service where she got on a van and left the area, court documents say.
With help from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, a traffic stop on the shuttle van was conducted.
With consent, the PCSO deputies found multiple packages of U.S. currency in the purse, pants and shoes of Baez-Lopez.
In total, the deputies uncovered $48,720 of U.S. dollars, court documents say.
On September 12, Cardenas-Baez was arrested at his Phoenix home.
While Baez-Lopez's was arrested, her charges are pending. Meanwhile,
the charges her son Cardenas-Baez faces include conspiracy, illegally conducting an enterprise and money laundering.
End
NOTE: Mug shot at link:
Phoenix man arrested for laundering nearly 50K in illegal enterprise, police say
Zulekha Pitts
Posted 2 hrs ago
Angel Cardenas-Baez
Angel Cardenas-Baez faces conspiracy, illegally conducting an enterprise and money laundering charges.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
https://www.azfamily.com/news/phoenix-man-arrested-for-laundering-nearly-k-in-illegal-enterprise/article_c0b26926-d65e-11e9-9ff6-93099798f318.html
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- A man living in Phoenix was arrested on Thursday for running an illegal money laundering enterprise, police say.
On August 1, Judge Warren Granville of the Maricopa County Superior Court authorized the wiretapping of a cellphone number
used by 43-year-old Angel Cardenas-Baez between August 26 and 27.
During that time, investigators intercepted calls Cardenas-Baez had with his significant other Zuleyma Nevarez-Paredes
and his mom Maria Baez-Lopez.
Court documents say while investigators intercepted the phone calls, they discovered that Cardenas-Baez was traveling
from Mochis, Mexico to Phoenix to get a concealed amount of illegal drug earnings in U.S. dollars to take back to Mexico.
By August 30, Judge Granville authorized investigators to keep tapping the cellphone number used by Cardenas-Baez.
That same day, when intercepting calls Cardenas-Baez had with his mom Baez-Lopez and an anonymous money courier,
investigators learned that the courier wanted to deliver $17,500 to Baez-Lopez.
Court documents said Baez-Lopez then called her son to tell him about the delivery that was coming.
Cardenas-Baez then called the courier to tell him to meet him by Anthem where he worked.
Later, Cardenas-Baez's mom called him to tell him the money was delivered to her at his home in Phoenix.
In another intercepted phone call, according to court documents, Baez-Lopez told her son that she was going back to Mexico
by a shuttle that day because the people she was giving the money to were getting anxious.
She also told her son that an additional $15,000 was delivered to her at his home.
Later that day, court documents say, investigators installed surveillance at Cardenas-Baez's home
in the area of Hazelwood Street and 57th Avenue.
Through their surveillance, investigators witnessed Baez-Lopez leave her son's home.
They followed her to a shuttle service where she got on a van and left the area, court documents say.
With help from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, a traffic stop on the shuttle van was conducted.
With consent, the PCSO deputies found multiple packages of U.S. currency in the purse, pants and shoes of Baez-Lopez.
In total, the deputies uncovered $48,720 of U.S. dollars, court documents say.
On September 12, Cardenas-Baez was arrested at his Phoenix home.
While Baez-Lopez's was arrested, her charges are pending. Meanwhile,
the charges her son Cardenas-Baez faces include conspiracy, illegally conducting an enterprise and money laundering.
End
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 11-9-19
AZMEX POLICY 11 SEP 2019
Supreme Court allows Trump asylum restrictions to take effect, ending 9th Circuit injunctions
By Gregg Re, Bill Mears | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-green-lights-trumps-immigration-asylum-ban
In a major win for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court issued an order late Wednesday ending all injunctions
that had blocked the White House's ban on asylum for anyone trying to enter the U.S. by traveling through a third country, such as Mexico,
without seeking protection there.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals – long a liberal bastion that has been aggressively reshaped into a more moderate court by the Trump administration –
handed the Trump administration a partial victory in the case on Monday by ending the nationwide injunction.
But the 9th Circuit kept the injunction alive within the territorial boundaries of the circuit —
which encompasses California, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Guam, Oregon and Washington.
The Supreme Court's order was not a final ruling on the policy's merits
but does allow the policy to take effect nationwide while the case makes its way through the lower courts.
TRUMP ADMIN ANNOUNCES MAJOR CRACKDOWN ON ASYLUM SEEKERS, CITING WIDESPREAD FRAUD
Trump tweeted that the ruling was a "BIG United States Supreme Court WIN for the Border on Asylum!"
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented.
"Once again the Executive Branch has issued a rule that seeks to upend longstanding practices regarding refugees
who seek shelter from persecution," Sotomayor and Ginsburg wrote.
The legal challenge to the new policy has a brief but somewhat convoluted history.
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco
blocked the new policy from taking effect in late July.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed Tigar's order
so that it effectively applied only in Arizona and California,
states that are within the 9th Circuit.
Appeals court sides with Trump administration on asylum rulesVideo
That left the administration free to enforce the policy on asylum seekers arriving in New Mexico and Texas.
Tigar issued a new order on Monday that reimposed a nationwide hold on asylum policy.
In his ruling Monday, Tigar stressed a "need to maintain uniform immigration policy"
and found that nonprofit organizations such as Al Otro Lado don't know where asylum seekers who enter the U.S.
will end up living and making their case to remain in the country.
President Trump said he disagreed with the judge's ruling, and the idea of single federal judges issuing nationwide injunctions in general —
a phenomenon that has exploded under his administration.
"I think it's very unfair that he does that," Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for a trip to North Carolina.
"I don't think it should be allowed."
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement that a sole judge
shouldn't have the ability to exert such a broad impact on immigration policy.
"This ruling is a gift to human smugglers and traffickers and undermines the rule of law," she said.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals then narrowed Tiger's his order again on Tuesday by issuing an administrative stay.
The stay blocked Tiger's order nationally, but ruled it still had could take effect within the 9th Circuit's boundaries.
The high-court action leaves the administration free to impose the new policy everywhere while the court case against it continues.
The Trump administration has reason for optimism now that the case is back in the 9th Circuit.
The San Francisco-based appellate court has seven Trump-appointed federal judges — more than any other federal appellate bench.
The radical transformation of the court, which has 29 seats, is largely the result of Trump's push to nominate conservative judges
and bypass traditional consultations with Senate Democrats.
Thirteen of the 29 seats are now occupied by GOP-appointed judges. Last year, that number stood at six.
"Thanks to Trump, the liberal 9th Circuit is no longer liberal," The Washington Post noted earlier this year.
This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
END
Supreme Court allows Trump asylum restrictions to take effect, ending 9th Circuit injunctions
By Gregg Re, Bill Mears | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-green-lights-trumps-immigration-asylum-ban
In a major win for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court issued an order late Wednesday ending all injunctions
that had blocked the White House's ban on asylum for anyone trying to enter the U.S. by traveling through a third country, such as Mexico,
without seeking protection there.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals – long a liberal bastion that has been aggressively reshaped into a more moderate court by the Trump administration –
handed the Trump administration a partial victory in the case on Monday by ending the nationwide injunction.
But the 9th Circuit kept the injunction alive within the territorial boundaries of the circuit —
which encompasses California, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Guam, Oregon and Washington.
The Supreme Court's order was not a final ruling on the policy's merits
but does allow the policy to take effect nationwide while the case makes its way through the lower courts.
TRUMP ADMIN ANNOUNCES MAJOR CRACKDOWN ON ASYLUM SEEKERS, CITING WIDESPREAD FRAUD
Trump tweeted that the ruling was a "BIG United States Supreme Court WIN for the Border on Asylum!"
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented.
"Once again the Executive Branch has issued a rule that seeks to upend longstanding practices regarding refugees
who seek shelter from persecution," Sotomayor and Ginsburg wrote.
The legal challenge to the new policy has a brief but somewhat convoluted history.
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco
blocked the new policy from taking effect in late July.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed Tigar's order
so that it effectively applied only in Arizona and California,
states that are within the 9th Circuit.
Appeals court sides with Trump administration on asylum rulesVideo
That left the administration free to enforce the policy on asylum seekers arriving in New Mexico and Texas.
Tigar issued a new order on Monday that reimposed a nationwide hold on asylum policy.
In his ruling Monday, Tigar stressed a "need to maintain uniform immigration policy"
and found that nonprofit organizations such as Al Otro Lado don't know where asylum seekers who enter the U.S.
will end up living and making their case to remain in the country.
President Trump said he disagreed with the judge's ruling, and the idea of single federal judges issuing nationwide injunctions in general —
a phenomenon that has exploded under his administration.
"I think it's very unfair that he does that," Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for a trip to North Carolina.
"I don't think it should be allowed."
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement that a sole judge
shouldn't have the ability to exert such a broad impact on immigration policy.
"This ruling is a gift to human smugglers and traffickers and undermines the rule of law," she said.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals then narrowed Tiger's his order again on Tuesday by issuing an administrative stay.
The stay blocked Tiger's order nationally, but ruled it still had could take effect within the 9th Circuit's boundaries.
The high-court action leaves the administration free to impose the new policy everywhere while the court case against it continues.
The Trump administration has reason for optimism now that the case is back in the 9th Circuit.
The San Francisco-based appellate court has seven Trump-appointed federal judges — more than any other federal appellate bench.
The radical transformation of the court, which has 29 seats, is largely the result of Trump's push to nominate conservative judges
and bypass traditional consultations with Senate Democrats.
Thirteen of the 29 seats are now occupied by GOP-appointed judges. Last year, that number stood at six.
"Thanks to Trump, the liberal 9th Circuit is no longer liberal," The Washington Post noted earlier this year.
This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
END
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 29-8-19
AZMEX POLICY 29 AUG 2019
Note: for decades it has been the the reverse. Criminals coming into the USA illegally to commit violent crimes.
Gracias
Alert for risk of attacks on Mexicans in the US
Details Published on Thursday, August 29, 2019,
Written by Drafting / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=135165
Marcelo Ebrar warned of groups that promote hate actions against the Latino community
MEXICO CITY
Excelsior
The Foreign Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, warned of the risk that persists in the United States of attacks on the Latino and particularly Mexican community, by members of supremacist groups that promote hate and genocide actions.
Meeting with deputies of Morena in his plenary, the chancellor said that after the massacre of El Paso, Texas in which 22 people died, 8 of them Mexican and knowing the manifesto published in networks by the aggressor, Patrick Crusius, they have evidence of what was a terrorist attack and of the movement that is promoted by these groups to try to "exterminate" races they consider threatening.
We are in the presence of a network of connected people in the world who think that such acts of hate or even genocide are correct and should be imitated, so that document is very relevant.
The second thing that document says is that the purpose of their actions is based on a doctrine that says replacement of civilizations, "he said.
He informed that the Government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the support of the Attorney General's Office, maintains its demand that this subject be considered a terrorist, even if tried and, where appropriate, extradition can be achieved.
He said that the tragedy of August 3 is a starting point to work together with other countries to prevent them from repeating again, stopping the promotion of racial hatred ...
We could not act otherwise because letting El Paso happen as an isolated event of an insane individual would be very serious because then, surely, we will see - and hopefully I am wrong - we could soon see other acts against nationals or people of Latin American origin in the United States ".
The foreign minister highlighted the unanimous condemnation made by the plenary of the Organization of American States yesterday, at the request of Mexico to combat and seek to prevent this racial violence.
He said they promote a meeting with all Spanish-speaking countries to defend the idea that world wealth is the interaction of different civilizations.
A meeting that allows us to defend our idea of the world and our civilization of which we are part, "he stressed.
END
Note: for decades it has been the the reverse. Criminals coming into the USA illegally to commit violent crimes.
Gracias
Alert for risk of attacks on Mexicans in the US
Details Published on Thursday, August 29, 2019,
Written by Drafting / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=135165
Marcelo Ebrar warned of groups that promote hate actions against the Latino community
MEXICO CITY
Excelsior
The Foreign Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, warned of the risk that persists in the United States of attacks on the Latino and particularly Mexican community, by members of supremacist groups that promote hate and genocide actions.
Meeting with deputies of Morena in his plenary, the chancellor said that after the massacre of El Paso, Texas in which 22 people died, 8 of them Mexican and knowing the manifesto published in networks by the aggressor, Patrick Crusius, they have evidence of what was a terrorist attack and of the movement that is promoted by these groups to try to "exterminate" races they consider threatening.
We are in the presence of a network of connected people in the world who think that such acts of hate or even genocide are correct and should be imitated, so that document is very relevant.
The second thing that document says is that the purpose of their actions is based on a doctrine that says replacement of civilizations, "he said.
He informed that the Government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the support of the Attorney General's Office, maintains its demand that this subject be considered a terrorist, even if tried and, where appropriate, extradition can be achieved.
He said that the tragedy of August 3 is a starting point to work together with other countries to prevent them from repeating again, stopping the promotion of racial hatred ...
We could not act otherwise because letting El Paso happen as an isolated event of an insane individual would be very serious because then, surely, we will see - and hopefully I am wrong - we could soon see other acts against nationals or people of Latin American origin in the United States ".
The foreign minister highlighted the unanimous condemnation made by the plenary of the Organization of American States yesterday, at the request of Mexico to combat and seek to prevent this racial violence.
He said they promote a meeting with all Spanish-speaking countries to defend the idea that world wealth is the interaction of different civilizations.
A meeting that allows us to defend our idea of the world and our civilization of which we are part, "he stressed.
END
Monday, September 9, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 4-9-19
AZMEX UPDATE 4 SEP 2019
Mexico
Detect that police from 50 municipalities have links to organized crime
He specified that the National Guard, even with its effectiveness, would be insufficient if states and municipalities do not do their part.
By El Universal
September 4
https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/Detectan-que-policias-de-50-municipal-tienen-vinculos-con-el-crimen-organizado-20190904-0104.html
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The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Alfonso Durazo, reported that, according to intelligence work,
they have resulted in police from 50 municipalities that have links to organized crime. (Illustrative)
MEXICO CITY.- The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Alfonso Durazo, informed that, according to intelligence work,
they have resulted in police from 50 municipalities that have links to organized crime and that for The Federation is a priority.
In an interview after meeting with deputies from different states in the Legislative Palace of San Lázaro, Durazo said that today
they already have a very clear map of crime in the Country
and refused to publicize the name of the municipalities that have this problem of collusion With organized crime.
More on this topic
Protesters attack military outside the Palace; there are 3 injured.
"Intelligence works allow us to reach that conclusion, we are very clear about the map of crime in the country, so we are working,
I will not specifically mention any municipality, but I can say that it is obviously one of the priorities,
because the work of the municipal police is an essential work of the work of the National Guard. "
He specified that the National Guard, even with its effectiveness, would be insufficient if the states and municipalities do not do their part,
and said that the crime must be faced in a united way.
The National Guard still in its effectiveness and in its dimension, will be insufficient if the states and municipalities do not do their part
and it is not about throwing the ball at each other, no, because the problem we have is of such dimension to face them together,
in a coordinated way, but each instance doing its part ".
- In percentage, how many municipalities would be the ones that are colluded?
- We are talking about 50 municipalities that would have priority.
When asked if the Federation will help the training of municipal and state police, he said that the priority
is the construction of the National Guard and that priority cannot be lost sight of.
More on this topic
The Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection reported Tuesday morning that the commander of the National Guard,
Brigadier General D.E.M. Luis Rodríguez Bucio, caused changes .
MEXICO
National Guard Commander Causes Army changes
"We are in a priority right now that is the construction of the National Guard, we cannot lose sight of that priority
and there all our efforts are destined, however, through a couple of budget items it is that states and municipalities are supported to police improvement, "he said.
END
Wave of violence has not affected tourism in Sonora: Cofetur
Details Published on Saturday August 31, 2019,
Written by Ángel Lozano
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=135288
Hermosillo, Son
Hotel occupancy exceeds 95% in Puerto Peñasco and San Carlos
The wave of violence that is registered in the State has not inhibited the arrival of tourists,
said the representative of the Tourism Promotion Commission (Cofetur).
Luis Núñez Noriega said that despite the travel alerts issued by the U.S. Consulate to its workers, tourism growth is expected for 2018 this year.
He pointed out that the last three weekends in Puerto Peñasco and San Carlos
there has been a tourist influx and hotel occupancy above 95%.
"We are measuring the tourist influx that is the best indicator, the tourist influx in Sonora has not stopped,
has advanced even has been increasing in a sensitive way," he said,
Although the Secretary of Security, David Anaya Cooley, urged the mayors to evaluate the events
where there is sale of beverages and alcoholics and bets to avoid risks in the population,
the representative of Cofetur said that tourism in Sonora is increasing .
Derived from acts of violence in the Sierra Baja on August 27, Mayor of Nácori Chico, Jorge Luis Portillo Arvizu,
canceled the patron saint festivities of Santa Rosa de Lima scheduled for this weekend.
END
Mexico
Detect that police from 50 municipalities have links to organized crime
He specified that the National Guard, even with its effectiveness, would be insufficient if states and municipalities do not do their part.
By El Universal
September 4
https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/Detectan-que-policias-de-50-municipal-tienen-vinculos-con-el-crimen-organizado-20190904-0104.html
\
The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Alfonso Durazo, reported that, according to intelligence work,
they have resulted in police from 50 municipalities that have links to organized crime. (Illustrative)
MEXICO CITY.- The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Alfonso Durazo, informed that, according to intelligence work,
they have resulted in police from 50 municipalities that have links to organized crime and that for The Federation is a priority.
In an interview after meeting with deputies from different states in the Legislative Palace of San Lázaro, Durazo said that today
they already have a very clear map of crime in the Country
and refused to publicize the name of the municipalities that have this problem of collusion With organized crime.
Protesters attack military outside the Palace; there are 3 injured.
"Intelligence works allow us to reach that conclusion, we are very clear about the map of crime in the country, so we are working,
I will not specifically mention any municipality, but I can say that it is obviously one of the priorities,
because the work of the municipal police is an essential work of the work of the National Guard. "
He specified that the National Guard, even with its effectiveness, would be insufficient if the states and municipalities do not do their part,
and said that the crime must be faced in a united way.
The National Guard still in its effectiveness and in its dimension, will be insufficient if the states and municipalities do not do their part
and it is not about throwing the ball at each other, no, because the problem we have is of such dimension to face them together,
in a coordinated way, but each instance doing its part ".
- In percentage, how many municipalities would be the ones that are colluded?
- We are talking about 50 municipalities that would have priority.
When asked if the Federation will help the training of municipal and state police, he said that the priority
is the construction of the National Guard and that priority cannot be lost sight of.
The Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection reported Tuesday morning that the commander of the National Guard,
Brigadier General D.E.M. Luis Rodríguez Bucio, caused changes .
MEXICO
National Guard Commander Causes Army changes
"We are in a priority right now that is the construction of the National Guard, we cannot lose sight of that priority
and there all our efforts are destined, however, through a couple of budget items it is that states and municipalities are supported to police improvement, "he said.
END
Wave of violence has not affected tourism in Sonora: Cofetur
Details Published on Saturday August 31, 2019,
Written by Ángel Lozano
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=135288
Hermosillo, Son
Hotel occupancy exceeds 95% in Puerto Peñasco and San Carlos
The wave of violence that is registered in the State has not inhibited the arrival of tourists,
said the representative of the Tourism Promotion Commission (Cofetur).
Luis Núñez Noriega said that despite the travel alerts issued by the U.S. Consulate to its workers, tourism growth is expected for 2018 this year.
He pointed out that the last three weekends in Puerto Peñasco and San Carlos
there has been a tourist influx and hotel occupancy above 95%.
"We are measuring the tourist influx that is the best indicator, the tourist influx in Sonora has not stopped,
has advanced even has been increasing in a sensitive way," he said,
Although the Secretary of Security, David Anaya Cooley, urged the mayors to evaluate the events
where there is sale of beverages and alcoholics and bets to avoid risks in the population,
the representative of Cofetur said that tourism in Sonora is increasing .
Derived from acts of violence in the Sierra Baja on August 27, Mayor of Nácori Chico, Jorge Luis Portillo Arvizu,
canceled the patron saint festivities of Santa Rosa de Lima scheduled for this weekend.
END
Saturday, September 7, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 7-9-19
AZMEX UPDATE 7 SEP 2019
Note: Be advised.
Dengue Fever at: https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/dengue-fever-reference#1
Dengue is present in Sonora; there are 19 cases
Only in the last week 5 dengue cases were confirmed
By Tanya Vasquez
September 6
https://www.elimparcial.com/sonora/sonora/Dengue-hace-presencia-en-Sonora-hay-19- Cases-20190906-0054.html
Dengue is present in Sonora; there are 19 cases | Pixabay
HERMOSILLO, Sonora.- A total of 19 confirmed cases of dengue in the State have registered the Ministry of Health,
five of them were confirmed in the last week.
Gerardo Álvarez Hernández, general director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,
said that most cases have been registered at Pesqueira Station, with 13 cases,
five in Puerto Peñasco and one in Hermosillo.
"Dengue outbreaks in Peñasco and Pesqueira Station remain active and there are probable cases in Hermosillo
that remain under study, so the magnitude is likely to increase in the following weeks,
following national and even worldwide behavior," he said.
More on this topic
They watch ovitrampas to trap a mosquito that transmits dengue
The environmental conditions are favorable for the growth and dispersion of the Aedes aegypti fly, he said,
so that during the last week more than 3,800 hectares were fumigated and more than 7 thousand ovitrampas were reviewed,
where it was observed that the indicator remains at emergency levels
To avoid the bite of the fly, he emphasized the importance of keeping homes and yards clean,
eliminating tires, containers, cans and any other item that can store water and promote its reproduction,
such as drums, water tanks, pots, pots, vases, fountains , cover threads and tires.
Finally, he pointed out that if you travel to regions with cases of dengue, chikungunya or zika,
you should reinforce individual protection measures, in addition,
if you return to the first week fever, malaise, headache, head and eyes, you should see a doctor immediately.
END
Note: Be advised.
Dengue Fever at: https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/dengue-fever-reference#1
Dengue is present in Sonora; there are 19 cases
Only in the last week 5 dengue cases were confirmed
By Tanya Vasquez
September 6
https://www.elimparcial.com/sonora/sonora/Dengue-hace-presencia-en-Sonora-hay-19- Cases-20190906-0054.html
Dengue is present in Sonora; there are 19 cases | Pixabay
HERMOSILLO, Sonora.- A total of 19 confirmed cases of dengue in the State have registered the Ministry of Health,
five of them were confirmed in the last week.
Gerardo Álvarez Hernández, general director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,
said that most cases have been registered at Pesqueira Station, with 13 cases,
five in Puerto Peñasco and one in Hermosillo.
"Dengue outbreaks in Peñasco and Pesqueira Station remain active and there are probable cases in Hermosillo
that remain under study, so the magnitude is likely to increase in the following weeks,
following national and even worldwide behavior," he said.
They watch ovitrampas to trap a mosquito that transmits dengue
The environmental conditions are favorable for the growth and dispersion of the Aedes aegypti fly, he said,
so that during the last week more than 3,800 hectares were fumigated and more than 7 thousand ovitrampas were reviewed,
where it was observed that the indicator remains at emergency levels
To avoid the bite of the fly, he emphasized the importance of keeping homes and yards clean,
eliminating tires, containers, cans and any other item that can store water and promote its reproduction,
such as drums, water tanks, pots, pots, vases, fountains , cover threads and tires.
Finally, he pointed out that if you travel to regions with cases of dengue, chikungunya or zika,
you should reinforce individual protection measures, in addition,
if you return to the first week fever, malaise, headache, head and eyes, you should see a doctor immediately.
END
Friday, September 6, 2019
AZMEX I3 6-9-19
AZMEX I3 6 SEP 2019
Note: as always, "migrant" means illegal immigrant .
Gracias
Mexico declares success in slowing migrant flow after Trump tariff threats
By: Associated Press
Posted: Sep 06, 2019 12:05 PM MDT
Updated: Sep 06, 2019 12:05 PM MDT
https://www.kvia.com/news/border/mexico-declares-success-in-slowing-migrant-flow-after-trump-tariff-threats/1117971811
Mexico declares success in slowing migrant flow after Trump tariff threats
Getty Images
Mexican soldiers keep watch on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border on June 27, 2019, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
The Mexican government has deployed 15,000 troops to its border with the U.S. as part of a broader immigration crackdown.
Related story:
US Border Patrol arrests continue to drop in August
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Under threat of crippling U.S. tariffs, Mexico said Friday it had reduced the flow of migrants arriving at its northern border by 56% in three months.
Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said he believes Mexico's strategy of cracking down on illegal migration
with a National Guard deployment, investment in Central America and allowing the U.S. to make more asylum seekers wait in Mexico
is enough to avert President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports.
Ebrard is scheduled to meet with U.S. officials next week at the White House to review the progress.
"We're showing that the strategy that Mexico put forward has been successful," Ebrard said.
"I don't expect a tariff threat Tuesday because it wouldn't make sense."
Using U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, Ebrard said the number of migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in August was 63,989,
down from 144,266 in May. Ebrard's numbers include those who presented themselves at U.S. ports of entry and were deemed inadmissible.
Mexico has reinforced security on its porous southern border and set up checkpoints on highways leading north,
deploying 21,600 police and troops across the nation. Ebrard said there had been seven formal complaints of human rights violations
involving the National Guard, a relatively low number which he saw as another sign of success.
The enforcement has been paired with an incipient economic development plan.
Mexico has agreed with Honduras and El Salvador to expand a tree-planting program that aims to keep farmers on their land
through direct payments and provide them with income-generating fruit and timber trees.
Mexico has committed $60 million to that program and another to create job opportunities for youth.
Some 4,300 Central American migrants are working in Mexico's version of that program in the south, Ebrard said.
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, a leftist who took office Dec. 1 promising better treatment of migrants,
instead has embraced the fight against migrant smuggling.
In recent weeks, he has seldom mentioned the U.S. pressure and depicts the crackdown on migrants as a struggle to defend Mexican laws.
His administration has taken a tough line against hundreds of African migrants
waiting in the southern city of Tapachula for transit visas that Mexico no longer hands out.
"We will not budge," he said after the Africans protested, "because the recent events in Tapachula
aim to make Mexico yield and oblige us to give out certificates so migrants can get into the United States.
We cannot do that. It isn't our job."
He said migrant caravans once tolerated by Mexico were the work of human traffickers, and effectively ended them.
"All of these people who traffic with migrants' needs for jobs, safety and welfare, they are committing a crime and they will be punished,"
López Obrador said last week.
"We are already doing this in Mexico, without violating human rights. We are ensuring there isn't anarchy, disorder."
Migrant-rights activists say López Obrador is simply dressing up the fact that he yielded to Trump's pressure tactics.
"Mexico is just trying to comply with the U.S. (demands) and cut down on migration, but it is improvising and violating the law,"
said Javier Martínez, a lawyer for the Casa del Migrante shelter in the northern city of Saltillo.
"We are seeing things we never saw before."
Mexico has raided freight trains that migrants ride north, and pulled thousands off buses
and out of the freight compartments of trucks.
The government has warned bus and taxi drivers they could lose their permits if they transport migrants.
Activists say that has forced migrants to hike through unpopulated areas to avoid checkpoints,
exposing them to greater risk from thieves, muggers and rapists who lie in wait.
Ebrard said Friday that authorities had found 2,186 migrants inside 35 tractor-trailers
and said that nearly 40% were minors. Ebrard said 357 people had been charged in migrant-smuggling cases.
The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, who runs a migrant shelter in the southern state of Oaxaca, said Mexico essentially had no choice.
"It was the least worse choice," Solalinde said of the government's decision.
"Given that Donald Trump is an unstable person, full of surprises, we had to make this deal."
All of that has left migrants like Jose Bento, a 30-year-old from Congo, feeling like they have been caught in the middle and left in limbo.
"We are in a jail without walls," said Bento, who has spent four months traveling through South and Central America in a bid to reach the United States.
"This is a policy of lies. We are considered as animals."
END
Note: as always, "migrant" means illegal immigrant .
Gracias
Mexico declares success in slowing migrant flow after Trump tariff threats
By: Associated Press
Posted: Sep 06, 2019 12:05 PM MDT
Updated: Sep 06, 2019 12:05 PM MDT
https://www.kvia.com/news/border/mexico-declares-success-in-slowing-migrant-flow-after-trump-tariff-threats/1117971811
Mexico declares success in slowing migrant flow after Trump tariff threats
Getty Images
Mexican soldiers keep watch on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border on June 27, 2019, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
The Mexican government has deployed 15,000 troops to its border with the U.S. as part of a broader immigration crackdown.
Related story:
US Border Patrol arrests continue to drop in August
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Under threat of crippling U.S. tariffs, Mexico said Friday it had reduced the flow of migrants arriving at its northern border by 56% in three months.
Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said he believes Mexico's strategy of cracking down on illegal migration
with a National Guard deployment, investment in Central America and allowing the U.S. to make more asylum seekers wait in Mexico
is enough to avert President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports.
Ebrard is scheduled to meet with U.S. officials next week at the White House to review the progress.
"We're showing that the strategy that Mexico put forward has been successful," Ebrard said.
"I don't expect a tariff threat Tuesday because it wouldn't make sense."
Using U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, Ebrard said the number of migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in August was 63,989,
down from 144,266 in May. Ebrard's numbers include those who presented themselves at U.S. ports of entry and were deemed inadmissible.
Mexico has reinforced security on its porous southern border and set up checkpoints on highways leading north,
deploying 21,600 police and troops across the nation. Ebrard said there had been seven formal complaints of human rights violations
involving the National Guard, a relatively low number which he saw as another sign of success.
The enforcement has been paired with an incipient economic development plan.
Mexico has agreed with Honduras and El Salvador to expand a tree-planting program that aims to keep farmers on their land
through direct payments and provide them with income-generating fruit and timber trees.
Mexico has committed $60 million to that program and another to create job opportunities for youth.
Some 4,300 Central American migrants are working in Mexico's version of that program in the south, Ebrard said.
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, a leftist who took office Dec. 1 promising better treatment of migrants,
instead has embraced the fight against migrant smuggling.
In recent weeks, he has seldom mentioned the U.S. pressure and depicts the crackdown on migrants as a struggle to defend Mexican laws.
His administration has taken a tough line against hundreds of African migrants
waiting in the southern city of Tapachula for transit visas that Mexico no longer hands out.
"We will not budge," he said after the Africans protested, "because the recent events in Tapachula
aim to make Mexico yield and oblige us to give out certificates so migrants can get into the United States.
We cannot do that. It isn't our job."
He said migrant caravans once tolerated by Mexico were the work of human traffickers, and effectively ended them.
"All of these people who traffic with migrants' needs for jobs, safety and welfare, they are committing a crime and they will be punished,"
López Obrador said last week.
"We are already doing this in Mexico, without violating human rights. We are ensuring there isn't anarchy, disorder."
Migrant-rights activists say López Obrador is simply dressing up the fact that he yielded to Trump's pressure tactics.
"Mexico is just trying to comply with the U.S. (demands) and cut down on migration, but it is improvising and violating the law,"
said Javier Martínez, a lawyer for the Casa del Migrante shelter in the northern city of Saltillo.
"We are seeing things we never saw before."
Mexico has raided freight trains that migrants ride north, and pulled thousands off buses
and out of the freight compartments of trucks.
The government has warned bus and taxi drivers they could lose their permits if they transport migrants.
Activists say that has forced migrants to hike through unpopulated areas to avoid checkpoints,
exposing them to greater risk from thieves, muggers and rapists who lie in wait.
Ebrard said Friday that authorities had found 2,186 migrants inside 35 tractor-trailers
and said that nearly 40% were minors. Ebrard said 357 people had been charged in migrant-smuggling cases.
The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, who runs a migrant shelter in the southern state of Oaxaca, said Mexico essentially had no choice.
"It was the least worse choice," Solalinde said of the government's decision.
"Given that Donald Trump is an unstable person, full of surprises, we had to make this deal."
All of that has left migrants like Jose Bento, a 30-year-old from Congo, feeling like they have been caught in the middle and left in limbo.
"We are in a jail without walls," said Bento, who has spent four months traveling through South and Central America in a bid to reach the United States.
"This is a policy of lies. We are considered as animals."
END
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 2-9-19
AZMEX POLICY 2 SEP 2019
Sonora news.
Sailors ( Marines? ) will replace compromised police, Durazo warns
The head of the SSP, Alfonso Durazo, detailed the pilot program to purify security forces in Sonora,
which will begin in Guaymas and Empalme
09/02/2019 13:52 WITH NOTIMEX INFORMATION // PHOTO: CUARTOSCURO
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/marinos-reemplazaran-a-policias-coludidos-advierte-durazo/1333968
Sailors will replace colluded police, Durazo warns
On Monday, a pilot program to clean up the security forces began in the state of Sonora,
after there is evidence that there are elements linked to organized crime,
said the head of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP), Alfonso Durazo Montaño .
We have to do a national purification of the security forces, the National Guard still in its effectiveness
and in its growing dimension will be insufficient if the state and municipal bodies do not do the same,
both to grow and to improve in every way, in training, professionalization,
improvement of the socioeconomic status of its members and of course an ethical performance,
that is one of the fundamental problems at the national level, "he said.
In an interview, after the morning conference, he stressed that it is a pilot program that starts in Sonora,
particularly in Guaymas and Empalme.
We are starting the pilot program particularly with Guaymas and Empalme,
there the Navy replenishes all the elements that do not pass the confidence exams ...
those elements that do not pass the exams will be liquidated,
and the personnel that do meet the requirements will be trained or retrained, that is,
to bring them to appropriate professionalization standards to provide professional security services, "he said.
Antros, with more control: Alfonso Durazo
"Intelligence works indicate that there are complicities or penetration of the organized crime of some security forces,
and the work to prevent Sonora from losing the security levels it had, must begin with the purification of the police bodies,
some, not all, some of whose elements we have enough data to talk about a link with organized crime, "he said.
Durazo Montaño added that there is a clear diagnosis of where this problem is presented that is not only in Sonora,
but throughout the country, and will work through the so-called National Police Model,
which has already been approved by municipal and state governments .
asc
Sonora news.
Sailors ( Marines? ) will replace compromised police, Durazo warns
The head of the SSP, Alfonso Durazo, detailed the pilot program to purify security forces in Sonora,
which will begin in Guaymas and Empalme
09/02/2019 13:52 WITH NOTIMEX INFORMATION // PHOTO: CUARTOSCURO
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/marinos-reemplazaran-a-policias-coludidos-advierte-durazo/1333968
Sailors will replace colluded police, Durazo warns
On Monday, a pilot program to clean up the security forces began in the state of Sonora,
after there is evidence that there are elements linked to organized crime,
said the head of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP), Alfonso Durazo Montaño .
We have to do a national purification of the security forces, the National Guard still in its effectiveness
and in its growing dimension will be insufficient if the state and municipal bodies do not do the same,
both to grow and to improve in every way, in training, professionalization,
improvement of the socioeconomic status of its members and of course an ethical performance,
that is one of the fundamental problems at the national level, "he said.
In an interview, after the morning conference, he stressed that it is a pilot program that starts in Sonora,
particularly in Guaymas and Empalme.
We are starting the pilot program particularly with Guaymas and Empalme,
there the Navy replenishes all the elements that do not pass the confidence exams ...
those elements that do not pass the exams will be liquidated,
and the personnel that do meet the requirements will be trained or retrained, that is,
to bring them to appropriate professionalization standards to provide professional security services, "he said.
Antros, with more control: Alfonso Durazo
"Intelligence works indicate that there are complicities or penetration of the organized crime of some security forces,
and the work to prevent Sonora from losing the security levels it had, must begin with the purification of the police bodies,
some, not all, some of whose elements we have enough data to talk about a link with organized crime, "he said.
Durazo Montaño added that there is a clear diagnosis of where this problem is presented that is not only in Sonora,
but throughout the country, and will work through the so-called National Police Model,
which has already been approved by municipal and state governments .
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