AZMEX EXTRA 26 NOV 2016
Border gun-smuggling arrests 'just scratching the surface'
By Julianne Stanford
For the Arizona Daily Star Updated 1 hr ago
http://tucson.com/news/local/border/border-gun-smuggling-arrests-just-scratching-the-surface/article_26357864-d75a-5ee4-bc39-f4c94b27082f.html
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers inspect a Mexico-bound sedan passenger vehicle at the DeConcini Port of Entry on Nov. 2, 2016, in Nogales, Ariz.
Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer R. Hernandez uses a density-measuring device on the rear quarter-panel of a Mexico-bound passenger vehicle at the DeConcini Port of Entry on Nov. 2, 2016, in Nogales, Ariz.
CBP inspections
Mexico-bound traffic queues as U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers screen certain vehicles at the DeConcini Port of Entry on Nov. 2, 2016, in Nogales, Ariz.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers R. Hernandez, right, and Adrian Morales stand by as a handful of Mexico-bound vehicles at a time are allowed to proceed without screening through the DeConcini Port of Entry on Nov. 2, 2016, in Nogales, Ariz.
Border gun ATF traces
Border gun seizures
When Ariana Ramirez and Andrian Alvarez tried to cross the border from Nogales into Mexico, customs officers discovered their car was loaded down with firearms and ammunition bound for a drug cartel.
Officers found two assault rifles and six high-capacity magazines under the seat where Ramirez's two infants sat, court records show. In the center console were more than 1,500 rounds of ammunition and a $930 receipt from the United Nations Ammo Company in Glendale. Another 1,500 rounds were tucked under the Ford Explorer and a dismantled .50-caliber machine gun tripod mount was stashed in the back seat.
Ammunition-smuggling busts at Arizona ports of entry — like this one – jumped 600 percent over the past two years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics show. A total of 54,000 rounds and 25 firearms were seized at the state's ports in fiscal year 2016, statistics obtained by the Arizona Daily Star through a public records request show.
But that's a small fraction of what's actually getting across the border.
"It's just scratching the surface," said Jose Wall, a retired Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent who worked on arms trafficking into Mexico from 2000 to 2013.
FEW SMUGGLED WEAPONS ARE SEIZED
Thousands of cars cross the border every day, and it's impossible for agents to tell which ones have guns and ammo, Wall said.
CBP seized 297 firearms and 282,000 rounds at Arizona ports of entry since 2005, while 1,135 guns and 764,000 rounds of ammunition were seized border wide.
Many more guns than that slipped through the border during that time.
Police at crime scenes in Mexico recovered 120,000 firearms that originated in the United States, annual reports from the ATF's International Firearms Tracing System show. Firearms from the United States accounted for 70 percent of the 173,000 illegal guns recovered by the Mexican federal police at crime scenes since 2007.
Authorities also found receipts showing that Alvarez purchased more than $11,000 worth of ammunition between March 1 and his March 27 arrest. He told investigators that he smuggled guns and ammunition during four previous trips across the border that month. Each load was bound for a drug cartel and typically consisted of two assault rifles and several thousand rounds of ammunition, he said.
Based off of those receipts, federal prosecutors estimated that Alvarez alone smuggled more than 36,000 rounds of ammunition and at least 10 assault rifles into Mexico that month, which is equivalent to two-thirds of the total seizures at Arizona ports in fiscal year 2016.
Alvarez claimed he was smuggling to save his brother, who was being held hostage by the cartel for stealing $1 million. Every time Alvarez crossed the border, the cartel would deduct $1,000 from his debt, he told authorities.
Alvarez was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a charge of smuggling goods from the United States. Ramirez pleaded guilty to the same charge, but has not been sentenced yet.
'NEEDLE IN THE HAY STACK'
Mark Hammond made it through U.S. customs' southbound inspections on June 20, 2015, but apparently panicked when Mexican customs officials tried to inspect his backpack.
Rather than hand it over, Hammond dropped the pack and ran to the front of the inbound U.S. inspections line, court documents show. All the while, Mexican customs officials were yelling that Hammond had a gun.
Inside the backpack, CBP officers discovered five mini AK-47 pistols, five high-capacity magazines and a receipt showing he paid $2,600 for the guns and ammunition from J & G Sales in Prescott.
Hammond claimed he had no intention of smuggling guns into Mexico. Court records show police found a mini AK-47 in Mexico that Hammond had purchased a week before, indicating an earlier successful smuggling attempt.
He pleaded guilty to one count of exportation of firearms in connection with the backpack incident and was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison.
With thousands of people crossing the border every day, finding smuggled firearms and ammunition is almost impossible, said CBP spokeswoman Teresa Small.
Authorities are "literally having to look for that needle in the haystack," Small said.
Officers are trained to look for signs of nervousness or something amiss inside a vehicle. But from smuggling guns to smuggling fruit, nothing really distinguishes which crime is in progress, she said.
Just south of the border in Sonora, Mexican federal police recovered more than 6,700 firearms from January 2006 to March 2016, the newspaper El Imparcial reported.
In one case from February 2015, police reported finding 10,000 rounds of ammunition, nine magazines and seven assault rifles in compartments built into a truck's side paneling on Highway 15, the federal route that leads south from Nogales.
In another case, a man was arrested in August on the highway between Sonoyta and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora with 10 assault rifles and eight high-capacity magazines inside a hidden compartment in his vehicle, according to Mexican newspaper El Universal.
Most of the guns and ammunition smuggled across the border are headed to organized crime operations in Mexico, like drug cartels, retired ATF agent Wall said.
Wall was a whistleblower in the ATF gun-walking scandal Operation Fast and Furious, when the agency's Phoenix field office allowed weapons purchased in the U.S. across the border so agents could trace them to drug cartels. However, the guns disappeared and were found at crime scenes on both sides of the border — including the 2010 shooting death of Border Patrol Agent Bryan Terry.
The types of weapons seized at the border and the caliber and quantity of ammunition are characteristic of the weapons used by criminal networks, Wall said.
"Unless you're doing some serious dove hunting, you're not going to need more than 100 shotgun shells or, if you're going deer hunting, you might take 20 rounds," he said.
"Your large purchases of AK-47s and AR-15s are going to organized crime," Wall said. "Any type of weapon or ammunition that has a similarity to the military, any trafficking of those are going to organized crime."
Cross-border solutions
As was the case with Hammond's and Alvarez's smuggling attempts, most of the weapons recovered by Mexican police were legally purchased at gun shops and gun shows in southwestern border states, a U.S. Government Office of Accountability report released in January found.
The high volume of weapons in Mexico is the result of gun policies in the United States, said Sarah Kinosian, an arms-trafficking policy analyst for the Washington Office on Latin America, a research and human rights advocacy organization.
"It's, without a doubt, the lax U.S. gun laws that contribute to the high levels of gun violence down in Mexico," Kinosian said. "It's so easy to get a gun in the United States and move it across the border."
However, retired ATF agent Wall said the gun laws in Mexico created the conditions for the thriving cross-border gun trafficking industry.
Mexico has strict firearm regulations. Citizens are constitutionally entitled to possess a small-caliber firearm that must be registered with the government. Most types of guns are exclusively restricted to use by the military.
Guns can be only kept in a residence, and a special permit must be obtained to take it outside for activities like hunting.
The only place to legally obtain a gun in Mexico is a government-operated store in Mexico City, tucked away on a military base.
"There's always going to be gun traffic to Mexico, always, because of just the necessity," Wall said. "If it's not narcos, it's criminals who want a gun, or it's the guy who tells his buddy, 'Hey, can you bring me a gun because I want to go shoot rabbits, or I want a gun for protection.'"
Kinosian said a policy change in Mexico is needed, but such a change could be far off.
"I don't get the sense that there is a really big push to do anything about the problem of trans-border trafficking," she said.
One way to discourage smuggling is for Mexico to increase its border security, Wall said.
"It's not going to be popular," he said. "We all love to go to Mexico and not have to stop at the border and just get waved on through."
Kinosian advocated for the Mexican government to crack down on gun-trafficking networks, as well as more proactive policing and detection by U.S. customs officers looking for smugglers.
As it stands right now, "if they don't break any laws, then they won't be pulled over," she said.
Wall said the best way to combat the cross-border smuggling is a 'see something, say something' approach.
"If you're a guy in a gun store and you're buying a gun, and you see someone buying 10 AK-47s, report it, the same way you report suspicious narco activity," Wall said. "Because ultimately, if we can reduce the flow of guns, it helps the American gun owner because there's less crime and less pressure on the politicians to do stuff."
Julianne Stanford is a University of Arizona journalism student and apprentice at the Star. Contact her at starapprentice@tucson.com.
END
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
AZMEX I3 SPECIAL 23-11-16
AZMEX I3 SPECIAL 23 NOV 2016
Comment: As usual, no concern for the actual victims of ID theft.
Can't use I-9 form as evidence? Imposing a very difficult condition?
"almost exclusively immigrant workers." Meaning illegal immigrants.
Some very biased coverage.
thx
Judge upholds laws used to justify Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's work-site raids
Megan Cassidy , The Republic | azcentral.com
9:55 p.m. MST November 22, 2016
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/11/22/judge-upholds-laws-used-justify-maricopa-county-sheriff-joe-arpaios-work-site-raids/94317880/
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the laws used to back Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's workplace raids will remain on the books, capping off a two-year lawsuit that claimed Arizona's identity-theft statutes targeted immigrant workers.
In his decision, U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell found that while the laws did largely affect undocumented immigrants, they also served as a legitimate law-enforcement tool in combating identity theft.
"The laws were passed in part for their effect on immigration by unauthorized aliens," he wrote, "but the legislature was also addressing a pressing criminal problem that adversely affected Arizona residents."
Arpaio's brand of illegal-im
migration enforcement sparked various legal challenges throughout the last several years, and Tuesday's ruling serves as one of the lawman's rare victories.
"I have taken a lot of criticism for going into the businesses, arresting workers that are here illegally," Arpaio said Tuesday evening. "I said from the beginning my main objective was to enforce the ID laws, so I'm very happy that the judge ruled in our favor."
Unlikely that workplace raids will return
It is unlikely the ruling will resurrect the workplace raids, however. Arpaio recently lost his bid for re-election, and his successor, Paul Penzone, has denounced many of his predecessor's more controversial policies.
Judge weighs whether to halt Arpaio's workplace raids
The decision also comes with a caveat. Campbell ruled that state attorneys cannot use I-9 employment forms to investigate or prosecute state identity-theft or forgery violations. Campbell said such use is pre-empted by federal law.
Annie Lai, a plaintiffs' attorney with the University of California at Irvine School of Law's Immigrant Rights Clinic, said this portion of the ruling "reaffirms the notion that state and local officials may not appropriate the federal employment-verification system to target undocumented workers."
Lai noted that the court said additional details will be briefed at a later date.
"In the meantime, we are considering all available options," she said.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in court: Attorneys defend ID-theft statutes backing workplace raids
Tuesday's filing stems from a 2014 lawsuit leveled by civil-rights group Puente Arizona, which challenged two identity-theft laws Arizona legislators passed that made it a felony to use false information to gain employment. The laws applied regardless of whether the fake identity was attached to a real person.
Puente's attorneys contended the laws were less about law enforcement and more designed to purge illegal immigrants in the state. The plaintiffs also argued immigration enforcement was the sole responsibility of federal, rather than state, government.
Plaintiffs cited the bills' sponsors to bolster their arguments. During one of the bills' hearings, then-state Sen. Russell Pearce said Arizona needed to do more to address the problem of illegal immigration, and that "attrition starts through enforcement," according to court documents.
Sting operations in Valley
The lawsuit was primarily inspired by Arpaio's sting operations on local businesses.
Largely acting on tips, deputies would raid restaurants, car washes and other places of employment, arresting mostly low-level employees suspected of using false identities to gain employment. Between 2008 and 2014, the agency conducted more than 80 raids and arrested more than 800 people, almost exclusively immigrant workers.
Workers ask judge to halt Arpaio raids pending lawsuit
The suit also challenged the prosecution of the law, as well as the law's underlying constitutionality, a tactic that roped in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and the state of Arizona as defendants.
Though Arpaio eliminated the work-site operations in December 2014, Campbell issued a preliminary injunction the following month effectively outlawing prosecution under the laws.
That injunction was reversed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in May of this year. The panel acknowledged that while some applications of the laws may conflict with the federal government, the state and federal authorities didn't overlap when the laws were used to prosecute U.S. citizens.
SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO LEGAL TROUBLES
Judge: Arpaio in contempt of court
Key moments in contempt case
Profiling case costs taxpayers $13M on top of $41M
Arpaio has always done it his way
Arpaio through the years
The man judging Sheriff Joe
Arpaio: PI investigated judge's wife
Arpaio's legal fate hinges on intent
Arpaio charged in criminal contempt
Our view: Sheriff Joe Arpaio must go
See full azcentral coverage
The parties last met in October, when plaintiffs' and defense attorneys both argued that Campbell should rule in their favor without the case going to trial.
Attorneys representing Arpaio and prosecutors argued that the laws offered legal protection for the victims of identity theft. According to court documents, nearly 50 percent of the forgery and identity-theft prosecutions under the Maricopa County Attorney's Office "had at least one identifiable victim."
Mia Garcia, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Attorney General's Office, said the ruling means state attorneys can resume prosecuting individuals accused of job-related identity theft.
"The court refused to accept that they could hide behind the equal-protection clause, which protects against race and discrimination," she said.
Tuesday's ruling has no bearing on another racial-profiling case that has resulted in Arpaio being charged with criminal contempt of court. In that case, another federal judge ruled that Arpaio's deputies had racially profiled Latinos during traffic operations. The judge later found that Arpaio refused to abide by the court's orders that banned the practice.
In a statement on Tuesday, Puente Director Carlos Garcia said that Arpaio lost his re-election bid because of his "unjust immigration policies."
"We will continue to fight — using all tools at our disposal — to make sure that the rights of our community are protected," he said. "The workplace raids began in 2007 and our years-long battle against local politicians' efforts to tarnish our community has only made us stronger. We will not rest until Arpaio's legacy has been thoroughly rejected."
Campbell has asked for both sides' input on the case's remedies to be filed in the coming weeks.
end
Comment: As usual, no concern for the actual victims of ID theft.
Can't use I-9 form as evidence? Imposing a very difficult condition?
"almost exclusively immigrant workers." Meaning illegal immigrants.
Some very biased coverage.
thx
Judge upholds laws used to justify Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's work-site raids
Megan Cassidy , The Republic | azcentral.com
9:55 p.m. MST November 22, 2016
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/11/22/judge-upholds-laws-used-justify-maricopa-county-sheriff-joe-arpaios-work-site-raids/94317880/
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the laws used to back Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's workplace raids will remain on the books, capping off a two-year lawsuit that claimed Arizona's identity-theft statutes targeted immigrant workers.
In his decision, U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell found that while the laws did largely affect undocumented immigrants, they also served as a legitimate law-enforcement tool in combating identity theft.
"The laws were passed in part for their effect on immigration by unauthorized aliens," he wrote, "but the legislature was also addressing a pressing criminal problem that adversely affected Arizona residents."
Arpaio's brand of illegal-im
migration enforcement sparked various legal challenges throughout the last several years, and Tuesday's ruling serves as one of the lawman's rare victories.
"I have taken a lot of criticism for going into the businesses, arresting workers that are here illegally," Arpaio said Tuesday evening. "I said from the beginning my main objective was to enforce the ID laws, so I'm very happy that the judge ruled in our favor."
Unlikely that workplace raids will return
It is unlikely the ruling will resurrect the workplace raids, however. Arpaio recently lost his bid for re-election, and his successor, Paul Penzone, has denounced many of his predecessor's more controversial policies.
Judge weighs whether to halt Arpaio's workplace raids
The decision also comes with a caveat. Campbell ruled that state attorneys cannot use I-9 employment forms to investigate or prosecute state identity-theft or forgery violations. Campbell said such use is pre-empted by federal law.
Annie Lai, a plaintiffs' attorney with the University of California at Irvine School of Law's Immigrant Rights Clinic, said this portion of the ruling "reaffirms the notion that state and local officials may not appropriate the federal employment-verification system to target undocumented workers."
Lai noted that the court said additional details will be briefed at a later date.
"In the meantime, we are considering all available options," she said.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in court: Attorneys defend ID-theft statutes backing workplace raids
Tuesday's filing stems from a 2014 lawsuit leveled by civil-rights group Puente Arizona, which challenged two identity-theft laws Arizona legislators passed that made it a felony to use false information to gain employment. The laws applied regardless of whether the fake identity was attached to a real person.
Puente's attorneys contended the laws were less about law enforcement and more designed to purge illegal immigrants in the state. The plaintiffs also argued immigration enforcement was the sole responsibility of federal, rather than state, government.
Plaintiffs cited the bills' sponsors to bolster their arguments. During one of the bills' hearings, then-state Sen. Russell Pearce said Arizona needed to do more to address the problem of illegal immigration, and that "attrition starts through enforcement," according to court documents.
Sting operations in Valley
The lawsuit was primarily inspired by Arpaio's sting operations on local businesses.
Largely acting on tips, deputies would raid restaurants, car washes and other places of employment, arresting mostly low-level employees suspected of using false identities to gain employment. Between 2008 and 2014, the agency conducted more than 80 raids and arrested more than 800 people, almost exclusively immigrant workers.
Workers ask judge to halt Arpaio raids pending lawsuit
The suit also challenged the prosecution of the law, as well as the law's underlying constitutionality, a tactic that roped in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and the state of Arizona as defendants.
Though Arpaio eliminated the work-site operations in December 2014, Campbell issued a preliminary injunction the following month effectively outlawing prosecution under the laws.
That injunction was reversed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in May of this year. The panel acknowledged that while some applications of the laws may conflict with the federal government, the state and federal authorities didn't overlap when the laws were used to prosecute U.S. citizens.
SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO LEGAL TROUBLES
Judge: Arpaio in contempt of court
Key moments in contempt case
Profiling case costs taxpayers $13M on top of $41M
Arpaio has always done it his way
Arpaio through the years
The man judging Sheriff Joe
Arpaio: PI investigated judge's wife
Arpaio's legal fate hinges on intent
Arpaio charged in criminal contempt
Our view: Sheriff Joe Arpaio must go
See full azcentral coverage
The parties last met in October, when plaintiffs' and defense attorneys both argued that Campbell should rule in their favor without the case going to trial.
Attorneys representing Arpaio and prosecutors argued that the laws offered legal protection for the victims of identity theft. According to court documents, nearly 50 percent of the forgery and identity-theft prosecutions under the Maricopa County Attorney's Office "had at least one identifiable victim."
Mia Garcia, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Attorney General's Office, said the ruling means state attorneys can resume prosecuting individuals accused of job-related identity theft.
"The court refused to accept that they could hide behind the equal-protection clause, which protects against race and discrimination," she said.
Tuesday's ruling has no bearing on another racial-profiling case that has resulted in Arpaio being charged with criminal contempt of court. In that case, another federal judge ruled that Arpaio's deputies had racially profiled Latinos during traffic operations. The judge later found that Arpaio refused to abide by the court's orders that banned the practice.
In a statement on Tuesday, Puente Director Carlos Garcia said that Arpaio lost his re-election bid because of his "unjust immigration policies."
"We will continue to fight — using all tools at our disposal — to make sure that the rights of our community are protected," he said. "The workplace raids began in 2007 and our years-long battle against local politicians' efforts to tarnish our community has only made us stronger. We will not rest until Arpaio's legacy has been thoroughly rejected."
Campbell has asked for both sides' input on the case's remedies to be filed in the coming weeks.
end
AZMEX SPECIAL 23-11-16
AZMEX SPECIAL 23 NOV 2016
Comment: A long time for any of this to make the media. Well known to us lowly locals.
It is strongly suspected that a effectively secured border would be a problem for many who now profit from the current condition. Including many on this side of the border. The "poll" was in english & spanish.
thx
Arizona's border fencing by the numbers
Posted: Nov 22, 2016 9:13 PM MST
Updated: Nov 22, 2016 11:51 PM MST
By Derek Staahl
http://www.cbs5az.com/story/33777557/arizonas-border-fencing-by-the-numbers?autostart=true
The Arizona-Mexico border spans approximately 370 miles, but only a third of it has fencing designed to stop people on foot. (Source: KPHO/KTVK)
Another 183.2 miles, or 49 percent of the Arizona-Mexico border, are covered with vehicle fencing. (Source: KPHO/KTVK)
The remaining 64 miles has no barrier at all. (Source: KPHO/KTVK)
NOGALES, MEXICO (KPHO/KTVK) -
The Arizona-Mexico border spans approximately 370 miles, but only a third of it has fencing designed to stop people on foot.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, the international boundary in Arizona features 123.2 miles of pedestrian fencing, like the tall bollard-style fence in Nogales, Arizona.
Another 183.2 miles, or 49 percent of the Arizona-Mexico border, are covered with vehicle fencing. This type of fencing includes "Normandy fencing," X-shaped barricades used on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day and intended to stop only vehicles.
The remaining 64 miles has no barrier at all. The un-barricaded land is in areas where there are natural barriers, like mountains, Border Patrol officials say.
Still, polling shows nearly half of Arizonans think the border wall proposed by Donald Trump isn't the right move. In a poll of 2,600 Arizonans conducted by Reuters last month, 47 percent of respondents said the wall would be a "waste of money." Thirty-four percent said the wall would be an "effective barrier." The remaining respondents selected "neither."
Inside Nickel's Diner in Nogales, the breakfast crowd was split on the topic.
"We need to have this wall put up," said Mark Gibson, a long-time Nogales resident. "I'm for it, and I think once you put this wall up, it'll make immigration reform come around. Because there's a lot of good people in Mexico and there's a lot of families here. They need to fix it where you can go both ways."
[RELATED: Ranchers hope border security under Trump leads to fewer wildfires]
[RELATED: Border arrests rise as Trump presidency approaches]
A few booths away, Nogales resident Saul Gonzales said the wall would be "a waste of resources."
"No matter how far or how extended that wall is built, there's always going to be some hole. Some loophole and they're going to find it," he said.
Some in this border town are worried about the symbolic message of adding concrete barriers, including Santa Cruz County Assessor Felipe Fuentes.
"My feeling is, we're going back to the Berlin Wall. There's going to be a real dividing wall between the two countries," Fuentes said.
The poll, conducted Oct. 5 to Oct. 19, had a "credibility interval" of 3 percentage points for likely voters, according to Reuters. A credibility interval is a measure of accuracy.
END
Comment: A long time for any of this to make the media. Well known to us lowly locals.
It is strongly suspected that a effectively secured border would be a problem for many who now profit from the current condition. Including many on this side of the border. The "poll" was in english & spanish.
thx
Arizona's border fencing by the numbers
Posted: Nov 22, 2016 9:13 PM MST
Updated: Nov 22, 2016 11:51 PM MST
By Derek Staahl
http://www.cbs5az.com/story/33777557/arizonas-border-fencing-by-the-numbers?autostart=true
The Arizona-Mexico border spans approximately 370 miles, but only a third of it has fencing designed to stop people on foot. (Source: KPHO/KTVK)
Another 183.2 miles, or 49 percent of the Arizona-Mexico border, are covered with vehicle fencing. (Source: KPHO/KTVK)
The remaining 64 miles has no barrier at all. (Source: KPHO/KTVK)
NOGALES, MEXICO (KPHO/KTVK) -
The Arizona-Mexico border spans approximately 370 miles, but only a third of it has fencing designed to stop people on foot.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, the international boundary in Arizona features 123.2 miles of pedestrian fencing, like the tall bollard-style fence in Nogales, Arizona.
Another 183.2 miles, or 49 percent of the Arizona-Mexico border, are covered with vehicle fencing. This type of fencing includes "Normandy fencing," X-shaped barricades used on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day and intended to stop only vehicles.
The remaining 64 miles has no barrier at all. The un-barricaded land is in areas where there are natural barriers, like mountains, Border Patrol officials say.
Still, polling shows nearly half of Arizonans think the border wall proposed by Donald Trump isn't the right move. In a poll of 2,600 Arizonans conducted by Reuters last month, 47 percent of respondents said the wall would be a "waste of money." Thirty-four percent said the wall would be an "effective barrier." The remaining respondents selected "neither."
Inside Nickel's Diner in Nogales, the breakfast crowd was split on the topic.
"We need to have this wall put up," said Mark Gibson, a long-time Nogales resident. "I'm for it, and I think once you put this wall up, it'll make immigration reform come around. Because there's a lot of good people in Mexico and there's a lot of families here. They need to fix it where you can go both ways."
[RELATED: Ranchers hope border security under Trump leads to fewer wildfires]
[RELATED: Border arrests rise as Trump presidency approaches]
A few booths away, Nogales resident Saul Gonzales said the wall would be "a waste of resources."
"No matter how far or how extended that wall is built, there's always going to be some hole. Some loophole and they're going to find it," he said.
Some in this border town are worried about the symbolic message of adding concrete barriers, including Santa Cruz County Assessor Felipe Fuentes.
"My feeling is, we're going back to the Berlin Wall. There's going to be a real dividing wall between the two countries," Fuentes said.
The poll, conducted Oct. 5 to Oct. 19, had a "credibility interval" of 3 percentage points for likely voters, according to Reuters. A credibility interval is a measure of accuracy.
END
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
AZMEX I3 SPECIAL 22-11-16
AZMEX I3 SPECIAL 22 NOV 2016
Note: From Homeland Security Today http://www.hstoday.us/
USCIS Continues To Struggle To Ensure Proper Green Card Issuance, DHS OIG Finds
By: Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief
11/21/2016 ( 8:04pm)
http://www.hstoday.us/single-article/uscis-continues-to-struggle-to-ensure-proper-green-card-issuance-dhs-oig-finds/9568c13c167cefc919aab55fdb2b6862.html
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues to struggle to ensure proper Green Card (Permanent Resident Card) issuance, a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) audit report concluded. The audit was conducted as a follow-up to a March 2016 audit in which the IG disclosed USCIS had sent potentially hundreds of Green Cards to the wrong addresses.
"It appears that thousands of Green Cards have simply gone missing. In the wrong hands, Green Cards may enable terrorists, criminals and undocumented aliens to remain in the United States," said Inspector General John Roth.
The audit clearly warned that, "Improperly issued Green Cards pose significant risks and burdens for the agency. Errors can result in approved applicants being unable to obtain benefits, maintain employment or prove lawful immigration status. In the wrong hands, Green Cards may enable terrorists, criminals and illegal aliens to remain in the United States and access immigrant benefits. It is vital that USCIS ensure better tools and procedures are in place to mitigate such risks."
"The majority of the card issuance errors were due to the flawed design and functionality problems in the agency's Electronic Immigration System (ELIS)," IG reported in its new audit, noting that. "The delays and cost overruns of the ELIS system have been documented in previous IG reports. Although USCIS conducted a number of efforts to recover the inappropriately issued and missing cards, its efforts to address the errors have been inadequate."
According to the IG's new audit, while "USCIS is responsible for secure and accurate issuance of immigration benefits … our March 2016 report identified weaknesses in USCIS' ability to effectively carry out its national security and system integrity goals. Specifically, we disclosed that USCIS had sent potentially hundreds of Green Cards to the wrong addresses due to an ELIS limitation that prevented USCIS personnel from updating customer addresses. We also reported USCIS was unable to identify the exact number of cards sent to the incorrect addresses. New information regarding the scope and volume of improperly issued Green Cards received after publication of our previous report prompted initiation of this current audit."
"In fact, the problem was far worse than originally thought," according to the IG. "Over the last 3 years, USCIS produced at least 19,000 cards that included incorrect information or were issued in duplicate. Additional mistakes included over 2,400 immigrants approved for 2-year conditional residence status being inadvertently issued cards with 10-year expiration dates. The agency also received over 200,000 reports of cards potentially misdelivered, or not being delivered to approved applicants."
"Based on our analysis of the data provided, we determined approximately 13,000 cards were printed and issued with incorrect personal information, such as the wrong name or date of birth. Additionally, over 6,200 duplicate cards were sent out to individuals who should have each received only one card," the IG's audit found.
Although USCIS conducted a number of efforts to recover the inappropriately issued cards, "these efforts also were not fully successful and lacked consistency and a sense of urgency," the IG stated.
Also known as the Permanent Resident Card, the ID serves as evidence that its holder has been officially granted immigration benefits, including permission to reside and seek employment in the United States. In Fiscal Year 2015, USCIS issued nearly 2.1 million Green Cards. Multiple USCIS program offices and directorates participate in Green Card processing and mailing.
The cards contain numerous built-in security features designed to prevent fraud and remains valid for either 2 or 10 years, depending on whether the individual is granted conditional or permanent residence status.
The IG said, "It should be noted that although the number of errors remains a concern, it represents a small percentage of the total number of Green Cards issued by the agency each year. For example, in FY 2015, card errors accounted for .48 percent of roughly 2 million cards that were produced and mailed. Also, the individuals who received incorrect cards in these instances had followed the
proper procedures and security checks and thus were legitimately approved to
become permanent residents."
Nevertheless, the IG concluded, "the number of errors has increased steadily over the past 3 years."
USCIS works with other DHS components, such as Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies to prevent card misuse after issuance.
end
Note: From Homeland Security Today http://www.hstoday.us/
USCIS Continues To Struggle To Ensure Proper Green Card Issuance, DHS OIG Finds
By: Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief
11/21/2016 ( 8:04pm)
http://www.hstoday.us/single-article/uscis-continues-to-struggle-to-ensure-proper-green-card-issuance-dhs-oig-finds/9568c13c167cefc919aab55fdb2b6862.html
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues to struggle to ensure proper Green Card (Permanent Resident Card) issuance, a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) audit report concluded. The audit was conducted as a follow-up to a March 2016 audit in which the IG disclosed USCIS had sent potentially hundreds of Green Cards to the wrong addresses.
"It appears that thousands of Green Cards have simply gone missing. In the wrong hands, Green Cards may enable terrorists, criminals and undocumented aliens to remain in the United States," said Inspector General John Roth.
The audit clearly warned that, "Improperly issued Green Cards pose significant risks and burdens for the agency. Errors can result in approved applicants being unable to obtain benefits, maintain employment or prove lawful immigration status. In the wrong hands, Green Cards may enable terrorists, criminals and illegal aliens to remain in the United States and access immigrant benefits. It is vital that USCIS ensure better tools and procedures are in place to mitigate such risks."
"The majority of the card issuance errors were due to the flawed design and functionality problems in the agency's Electronic Immigration System (ELIS)," IG reported in its new audit, noting that. "The delays and cost overruns of the ELIS system have been documented in previous IG reports. Although USCIS conducted a number of efforts to recover the inappropriately issued and missing cards, its efforts to address the errors have been inadequate."
According to the IG's new audit, while "USCIS is responsible for secure and accurate issuance of immigration benefits … our March 2016 report identified weaknesses in USCIS' ability to effectively carry out its national security and system integrity goals. Specifically, we disclosed that USCIS had sent potentially hundreds of Green Cards to the wrong addresses due to an ELIS limitation that prevented USCIS personnel from updating customer addresses. We also reported USCIS was unable to identify the exact number of cards sent to the incorrect addresses. New information regarding the scope and volume of improperly issued Green Cards received after publication of our previous report prompted initiation of this current audit."
"In fact, the problem was far worse than originally thought," according to the IG. "Over the last 3 years, USCIS produced at least 19,000 cards that included incorrect information or were issued in duplicate. Additional mistakes included over 2,400 immigrants approved for 2-year conditional residence status being inadvertently issued cards with 10-year expiration dates. The agency also received over 200,000 reports of cards potentially misdelivered, or not being delivered to approved applicants."
"Based on our analysis of the data provided, we determined approximately 13,000 cards were printed and issued with incorrect personal information, such as the wrong name or date of birth. Additionally, over 6,200 duplicate cards were sent out to individuals who should have each received only one card," the IG's audit found.
Although USCIS conducted a number of efforts to recover the inappropriately issued cards, "these efforts also were not fully successful and lacked consistency and a sense of urgency," the IG stated.
Also known as the Permanent Resident Card, the ID serves as evidence that its holder has been officially granted immigration benefits, including permission to reside and seek employment in the United States. In Fiscal Year 2015, USCIS issued nearly 2.1 million Green Cards. Multiple USCIS program offices and directorates participate in Green Card processing and mailing.
The cards contain numerous built-in security features designed to prevent fraud and remains valid for either 2 or 10 years, depending on whether the individual is granted conditional or permanent residence status.
The IG said, "It should be noted that although the number of errors remains a concern, it represents a small percentage of the total number of Green Cards issued by the agency each year. For example, in FY 2015, card errors accounted for .48 percent of roughly 2 million cards that were produced and mailed. Also, the individuals who received incorrect cards in these instances had followed the
proper procedures and security checks and thus were legitimately approved to
become permanent residents."
Nevertheless, the IG concluded, "the number of errors has increased steadily over the past 3 years."
USCIS works with other DHS components, such as Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies to prevent card misuse after issuance.
end
Saturday, November 5, 2016
AZMEX UPDATE 4-11-16
AZMEX UPDATE 4 NOV 2016
Note: Photos, video at link:
16 arrested in multiagency operation targeting Tucson-based heroin trafficking ring
Phil Villarreal, Ina Ronquillo, Mac Colson
8:51 AM, Nov 3, 2016
1 min ago
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/local-federal-law-enforcement-officers-serve-warrant-on-westside
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Pima County Sheriff's deputies are assisting state and federal law enforcement agents to serve warrants across Tucson Thursday.
Sixteen arrests were made and a total of 32 start arrest warrants at 12 locations were served.
Investigators were working to dismantle a local drug trafficking organization suspected of distributing and selling heroin, marijuana, and various firearms.
Investigators from multiple federal and local law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Drug enforcement Administration, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department participated in the raids.
According to a release, those arrested face state charges, including racketeering, distribution of narcotics for sale, procession of narcotics for sale, use of wire and electronic communication in drug-related transactions, and money laundering.
"We are tirelessly investigating and prosecuting those suspected of bringing heroin and other dangerous drugs into our communities," said Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich. "By joining forces with local, state, and federal authorities we will continue to take down major drug trafficking operators in Arizona."
During Thursday's raid agents seized about 2 pounds of heroin, 2 pounds of cocaine, more than half a dozen vehicles, computers, cell phones, several ledgers, and scales.
This investigation began in August 2015 when agents received information that one of the men arrested in Thursday's operation, 42-year-old Sean Dixon, was involved in drug trafficking in Tucson.
As the investigation continued, authorities uncovered evidence that linked Dixon to a drug trafficking ring responsible for transporting large amounts of heroin and marijuana in Tucson and to states on the East Coast including Maryland and Virginia.
Several of Dixon's relatives are also charged in the case, including his wife, Pauline Dixon, 42, and his nephew, Terrence Gooden, 34.
The other Tucson residents arrested for their alleged involvement in the trafficking ring are Dixon's nephew, Ricky Manning Jr., 35; his niece, Janeayi Manning-Qualls, 33; Raymond Pro, 39; Virgil Fleming, 45; Teresa Torres, 73; Ezekiel Jackson, 28; Robert Glaspie, Jr., 25; Enrique Estrada, 44; Andres Acedo, 36; Jennifer Ann Estrada, 38; and Rosalva Perez, 56.
The operation is still ongoing and several of the suspects remain at large.
END
The San Juan Bosco beyond the capacity of attention for Haitian migrants
Details Published on Thursday November 3, 2016,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=81259
Nogales.
Wednesday in Nogales already they have served more than 120 Haitian migrants and they keep coming.
Attention to more than 100 Haitian migrants already exceeds the capacity of groups of public initiative, as the Shelter for Migrant San Juan Bosco, especially since the Caribbeans demand certain very different attentions to those offered to other migrants as Mexicans or Central Americans.
Francisco Loureiro Herrera, director and founder of the hostel, said that Wednesday in Nogales to more than 120 migrants are treated, and unknown others when they will be called to be attended to by immigration authorities in the United States, but recognizes that the process is slow and They are arriving every day, more and accumulate.
"The problem is that these people, as they do not speak our language, there are sometimes problems, such as with food, they are different, we already have that problem because we can not do for different groups certain foods, mainly because we lack the ability economic "he said.
He said the city government assigned a couple of agents of Public Security to support safely, while seeking more shelter volunteers as Haitians are directed with order and respect above all internal regulations. "Supposedly one of the leaders said they were promised many things and not been fulfilled, we do not promise, we do offer shelter with whatever is available and in our possibilities," he added.
Loureiro Herrera ruled out receiving support from the three levels of government, plus he asked the help of volunteers to assist migrants during their stay in the shelter, as some volunteers stopped coming and only four people were left to volunteer, because it is an activity 24 hours a day.
"Right now we are informed that eight more arrived and you have to serve them, the ideal plan is that they were not lying, lying on the ground at the checkpoint, not to disturb citizens crossing to the United States, we thought that these people abided our regulations, but it seems that it didn't work and we are taking measures to convince them to respect "he said.
He exemplified that if one wants to go outside to smoke on the street, the come out and fill the street, if one wants to find a shop to buy things, butdo not know the streets and the responsibility if something happens, is the staff at the hostel, where if they remain inside and are safe and do not have to leave.
He also gave the example that in the case of toothbrushes, use it once and thrown away, do not like to wash them to continue using them, contrary to the custom in Mexico situation and Haitians are upset if they are advised to wash them for continuous use, a fact that complicates the delivery of brushes, because you can not give three every day.
end
Note: Photos, video at link:
16 arrested in multiagency operation targeting Tucson-based heroin trafficking ring
Phil Villarreal, Ina Ronquillo, Mac Colson
8:51 AM, Nov 3, 2016
1 min ago
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/local-federal-law-enforcement-officers-serve-warrant-on-westside
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Pima County Sheriff's deputies are assisting state and federal law enforcement agents to serve warrants across Tucson Thursday.
Sixteen arrests were made and a total of 32 start arrest warrants at 12 locations were served.
Investigators were working to dismantle a local drug trafficking organization suspected of distributing and selling heroin, marijuana, and various firearms.
Investigators from multiple federal and local law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Drug enforcement Administration, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department participated in the raids.
According to a release, those arrested face state charges, including racketeering, distribution of narcotics for sale, procession of narcotics for sale, use of wire and electronic communication in drug-related transactions, and money laundering.
"We are tirelessly investigating and prosecuting those suspected of bringing heroin and other dangerous drugs into our communities," said Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich. "By joining forces with local, state, and federal authorities we will continue to take down major drug trafficking operators in Arizona."
During Thursday's raid agents seized about 2 pounds of heroin, 2 pounds of cocaine, more than half a dozen vehicles, computers, cell phones, several ledgers, and scales.
This investigation began in August 2015 when agents received information that one of the men arrested in Thursday's operation, 42-year-old Sean Dixon, was involved in drug trafficking in Tucson.
As the investigation continued, authorities uncovered evidence that linked Dixon to a drug trafficking ring responsible for transporting large amounts of heroin and marijuana in Tucson and to states on the East Coast including Maryland and Virginia.
Several of Dixon's relatives are also charged in the case, including his wife, Pauline Dixon, 42, and his nephew, Terrence Gooden, 34.
The other Tucson residents arrested for their alleged involvement in the trafficking ring are Dixon's nephew, Ricky Manning Jr., 35; his niece, Janeayi Manning-Qualls, 33; Raymond Pro, 39; Virgil Fleming, 45; Teresa Torres, 73; Ezekiel Jackson, 28; Robert Glaspie, Jr., 25; Enrique Estrada, 44; Andres Acedo, 36; Jennifer Ann Estrada, 38; and Rosalva Perez, 56.
The operation is still ongoing and several of the suspects remain at large.
END
The San Juan Bosco beyond the capacity of attention for Haitian migrants
Details Published on Thursday November 3, 2016,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=81259
Nogales.
Wednesday in Nogales already they have served more than 120 Haitian migrants and they keep coming.
Attention to more than 100 Haitian migrants already exceeds the capacity of groups of public initiative, as the Shelter for Migrant San Juan Bosco, especially since the Caribbeans demand certain very different attentions to those offered to other migrants as Mexicans or Central Americans.
Francisco Loureiro Herrera, director and founder of the hostel, said that Wednesday in Nogales to more than 120 migrants are treated, and unknown others when they will be called to be attended to by immigration authorities in the United States, but recognizes that the process is slow and They are arriving every day, more and accumulate.
"The problem is that these people, as they do not speak our language, there are sometimes problems, such as with food, they are different, we already have that problem because we can not do for different groups certain foods, mainly because we lack the ability economic "he said.
He said the city government assigned a couple of agents of Public Security to support safely, while seeking more shelter volunteers as Haitians are directed with order and respect above all internal regulations. "Supposedly one of the leaders said they were promised many things and not been fulfilled, we do not promise, we do offer shelter with whatever is available and in our possibilities," he added.
Loureiro Herrera ruled out receiving support from the three levels of government, plus he asked the help of volunteers to assist migrants during their stay in the shelter, as some volunteers stopped coming and only four people were left to volunteer, because it is an activity 24 hours a day.
"Right now we are informed that eight more arrived and you have to serve them, the ideal plan is that they were not lying, lying on the ground at the checkpoint, not to disturb citizens crossing to the United States, we thought that these people abided our regulations, but it seems that it didn't work and we are taking measures to convince them to respect "he said.
He exemplified that if one wants to go outside to smoke on the street, the come out and fill the street, if one wants to find a shop to buy things, butdo not know the streets and the responsibility if something happens, is the staff at the hostel, where if they remain inside and are safe and do not have to leave.
He also gave the example that in the case of toothbrushes, use it once and thrown away, do not like to wash them to continue using them, contrary to the custom in Mexico situation and Haitians are upset if they are advised to wash them for continuous use, a fact that complicates the delivery of brushes, because you can not give three every day.
end
Friday, November 4, 2016
AZMEX EXTRA 1-11-16
AZMEX EXTRA 1 NOV 2016
Note: Many Arizonans will remember the false hysteria back in 1994 when the CCW program was passed and implemented. Many years later in 2016, still no blood in the streets. Currently 291,386 CCW permits active in AZ, plus uncounted numbers of Constitutional Carry. Still no bloodbaths.
thx
Not everyone will carry a weapon, there will be tests': Jorge Luis Preciado
01/11/2016 11:55 / PHOTO: Cuartoscuro.
Senator reiterated his proposal by saying that tests will be given to applicants to reduce misuse
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/11/01/1125614
MEXICO CITY.
Senator Jorge Luis Preciado confirmed his proposal to bear arms by ensuring that persons wishing to have the legal use of them have to go through a series of tests of various kinds, in order to qualify the attitudes and skills of stakeholders: 'the chances that misuse would be reduced'.
In a telephone interview with Adela Micha for Grupo Imagen, Preciado Rodriguez stressed that the tests applied are of a psychological nature, fingerprints of citizens, which will be entered into a database and that, unlike what is believed, 'it will not be anything like the old west':
For example, in other countries allow their citizens arm themselves, you can see that not all do; in Uruguay, in Chile, Guatemala, Switzerland, was a decrease in crime rates because criminals know that people can bring a weapon "for purposes of personal protection of loved ones.
He clarified that the National Action Party (PAN) indicated that the proposal is' a personal capacity ', although they have not shown a sharp denial for the same:' but argue that there are other ways to combat insecurity-and - but it must be seen from a complementary aspect 'and not as a belligerent data.
Aspects such as lack of access to education, poverty, hunger (and other basic needs) are responsible for the violence, (ending) in crime; but when the citizens are prepared, we see that the (proposal aims) to defend your life, your loved ones and heritage ".
Rodriguez Preciado intends to amend the General Law on Carrying Firearms and Explosives, so as to harmonize standards and other requirements caliber 'today have a weapon is a very selective practice; unless one possesses money or political influence 'and / or administrative' friends you can access; ordinary citizens can not.
In addition, if we can have firearms at home, but if you want to take it to be repaired , for example, you risk an arrest for possession (...) if this is carried out and that's what the proposal is "remove some topics or legal issues that, together, form a series of contradictions in the field of arms regulation.
The senator recalled a campaign like More Guns Less Crime, which was implemented in the USA where a forum of opinion was conducted with individuals and groups, both pro and con, to serve as reference for the citizens, discussion points, and let the people consider the pros and cons.
We will meet on November 19 at the Monument to the Revolution for the right to life. The respect for others, as others should respect my life and family, "he said.
END
More: ISBN-13: 978-0226493664
ISBN-10: 0226493660
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226493660/ref=nosim/?tag=johnrlotttrip-20
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com
end
Note: Many Arizonans will remember the false hysteria back in 1994 when the CCW program was passed and implemented. Many years later in 2016, still no blood in the streets. Currently 291,386 CCW permits active in AZ, plus uncounted numbers of Constitutional Carry. Still no bloodbaths.
thx
Not everyone will carry a weapon, there will be tests': Jorge Luis Preciado
01/11/2016 11:55 / PHOTO: Cuartoscuro.
Senator reiterated his proposal by saying that tests will be given to applicants to reduce misuse
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/11/01/1125614
MEXICO CITY.
Senator Jorge Luis Preciado confirmed his proposal to bear arms by ensuring that persons wishing to have the legal use of them have to go through a series of tests of various kinds, in order to qualify the attitudes and skills of stakeholders: 'the chances that misuse would be reduced'.
In a telephone interview with Adela Micha for Grupo Imagen, Preciado Rodriguez stressed that the tests applied are of a psychological nature, fingerprints of citizens, which will be entered into a database and that, unlike what is believed, 'it will not be anything like the old west':
For example, in other countries allow their citizens arm themselves, you can see that not all do; in Uruguay, in Chile, Guatemala, Switzerland, was a decrease in crime rates because criminals know that people can bring a weapon "for purposes of personal protection of loved ones.
He clarified that the National Action Party (PAN) indicated that the proposal is' a personal capacity ', although they have not shown a sharp denial for the same:' but argue that there are other ways to combat insecurity-and - but it must be seen from a complementary aspect 'and not as a belligerent data.
Aspects such as lack of access to education, poverty, hunger (and other basic needs) are responsible for the violence, (ending) in crime; but when the citizens are prepared, we see that the (proposal aims) to defend your life, your loved ones and heritage ".
Rodriguez Preciado intends to amend the General Law on Carrying Firearms and Explosives, so as to harmonize standards and other requirements caliber 'today have a weapon is a very selective practice; unless one possesses money or political influence 'and / or administrative' friends you can access; ordinary citizens can not.
In addition, if we can have firearms at home, but if you want to take it to be repaired , for example, you risk an arrest for possession (...) if this is carried out and that's what the proposal is "remove some topics or legal issues that, together, form a series of contradictions in the field of arms regulation.
The senator recalled a campaign like More Guns Less Crime, which was implemented in the USA where a forum of opinion was conducted with individuals and groups, both pro and con, to serve as reference for the citizens, discussion points, and let the people consider the pros and cons.
We will meet on November 19 at the Monument to the Revolution for the right to life. The respect for others, as others should respect my life and family, "he said.
END
More: ISBN-13: 978-0226493664
ISBN-10: 0226493660
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226493660/ref=nosim/?tag=johnrlotttrip-20
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com
end
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
AZMEX I3 1-11-16
AZMEX I3 1 NOV 2016
More people from far-flung corners of world sneaking into US
Tuesday, November 1st 2016, 11:49 am MST
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/33542805/more-people-from-far-flung-corners-of-world-sneaking-into-us
WASHINGTON (AP) - An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department.
The arrests of more than 8,000 people from India, China, Romania, Bangladesh and Nepal between October 2015 and the end of August is offering a new challenge to immigration agents tasked with fully identifying would-be immigrants and quickly deporting people caught crossing the border illegally.
The group of overseas migrants represents a tiny fraction of the more than 408,000 people caught crossing the Mexican border illegally in the last year. But the arrests suggest a rising trend in the number of migrants opting for a convoluted trek that sometimes wends across the seas to South America, over land to Central America and then through Mexico before arriving at the U.S. border illegally.
For decades Mexico dominated the discussion on illegal immigration as the country from which most immigrants went to the border illegally. But in recent years the number of Mexican nationals who have been trying to sneak into the United States has dropped.
India and China are now squarely among the top 10 countries of origin for people caught trying to sneak into the United States. Large numbers of immigrants from those two countries have long come to the United States legally and many have overstayed visas to remain here. Now some people are taking a different approach altogether by making their way to Mexico to try to sneak into the United States as visas are harder to come by.
Victor Manjarrez, a former Border Patrol sector chief and director of the Center for Law & Human Behavior at the University of Texas at El Paso, said the rising number of migrants from countries far beyond the Americas should be seen as a growing concern.
"That is very unusual. If I was still sitting as the chief of El Paso or Tucson...I'd be a little concerned," Manjarrez said. "In the grand scheme, as a percentage, it's relatively small but the raw numbers are such a big jump historically."
The changing face of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border is a small part of a broader trend of global migration, with millions of people fleeing their home countries. But the arrival of so many people from far beyond U.S. borders brings with it broad implications for U.S. border security and other immigration enforcement efforts.
The Homeland Security Department has made arresting, jailing and deporting recent border crossers a top priority for immigration agents. Most Mexican migrants caught at the border are sent home within just a few days. But for migrants from countries a continent away the process is often far longer and costlier for the U.S. government as the migrants wait in immigration jails for travel documents to return home or a judge to decide their fate.
The uptick in arrivals of people from other continents, combined with an increase in overall border crossings in the last 12 months, has led to a spike of more than 40,000 people being held in immigration jails in recent weeks. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's budget gives them enough money to house 34,000 people at any given time and the recent overflow has officials worried they may face a budget shortfall of more than $130 million in the coming months if the trend continues.
DHS spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said the agency has enough money to "operate at current levels" until Dec. 9, when a temporary budget resolution expires. After that, she said, DHS will work to either shift money from other parts of the department or find another "alternative budget strategy." She described the possible budget adjustment as "common."
Manjarrez said border agents and immigration officials face multiple challenges with a rise in immigrants from so far away, including language barriers and crowded detention centers.
"The further away you get from the Americas, the more difficult it is to really know who they are," Manjarrez said of the government's ability to fully identify some would-be immigrants.
The director of the Washington Office on Latin America's Mexico program, Maureen Meyer, said it appears that many of the overseas migrants are making their way through Mexico via South American countries, including Brazil, where entry visas are either easy to come by or not required. And their final destination is more often than not the United States.
"I think it's reflecting a gradual trend, as of at least particularly the last year," Meyer said.
While the exact draw of the round-the-world route isn't entirely clear, Meyer said an expanding network of human smugglers appear to be taking advantage of the increasingly popular smuggling routes that use Mexico as a transit country.
"There's a lot of smuggling that goes through Mexico that you don't see," Meyer said. She added that rumors of lenient treatment of some immigrants in the United States may also be a factor.
The recent influx of overseas migrants may be a harbinger of things to come.
More than 7,000 people who claimed to be from Africa have been arrested in Mexico between January and August, according to statistics maintained by Mexican federal immigration authorities. The number of such immigrants has been on the rise in recent years.
In 2013 Mexican immigration authorities arrested fewer than 1,000 migrants from Asia and Africa, while the number rose to nearly 11,000 from January through August.
Follow Alicia A. Caldwell on Twitter at www.twitter.com/acaldwellap
END
More people from far-flung corners of world sneaking into US
Tuesday, November 1st 2016, 11:49 am MST
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/33542805/more-people-from-far-flung-corners-of-world-sneaking-into-us
WASHINGTON (AP) - An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department.
The arrests of more than 8,000 people from India, China, Romania, Bangladesh and Nepal between October 2015 and the end of August is offering a new challenge to immigration agents tasked with fully identifying would-be immigrants and quickly deporting people caught crossing the border illegally.
The group of overseas migrants represents a tiny fraction of the more than 408,000 people caught crossing the Mexican border illegally in the last year. But the arrests suggest a rising trend in the number of migrants opting for a convoluted trek that sometimes wends across the seas to South America, over land to Central America and then through Mexico before arriving at the U.S. border illegally.
For decades Mexico dominated the discussion on illegal immigration as the country from which most immigrants went to the border illegally. But in recent years the number of Mexican nationals who have been trying to sneak into the United States has dropped.
India and China are now squarely among the top 10 countries of origin for people caught trying to sneak into the United States. Large numbers of immigrants from those two countries have long come to the United States legally and many have overstayed visas to remain here. Now some people are taking a different approach altogether by making their way to Mexico to try to sneak into the United States as visas are harder to come by.
Victor Manjarrez, a former Border Patrol sector chief and director of the Center for Law & Human Behavior at the University of Texas at El Paso, said the rising number of migrants from countries far beyond the Americas should be seen as a growing concern.
"That is very unusual. If I was still sitting as the chief of El Paso or Tucson...I'd be a little concerned," Manjarrez said. "In the grand scheme, as a percentage, it's relatively small but the raw numbers are such a big jump historically."
The changing face of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border is a small part of a broader trend of global migration, with millions of people fleeing their home countries. But the arrival of so many people from far beyond U.S. borders brings with it broad implications for U.S. border security and other immigration enforcement efforts.
The Homeland Security Department has made arresting, jailing and deporting recent border crossers a top priority for immigration agents. Most Mexican migrants caught at the border are sent home within just a few days. But for migrants from countries a continent away the process is often far longer and costlier for the U.S. government as the migrants wait in immigration jails for travel documents to return home or a judge to decide their fate.
The uptick in arrivals of people from other continents, combined with an increase in overall border crossings in the last 12 months, has led to a spike of more than 40,000 people being held in immigration jails in recent weeks. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's budget gives them enough money to house 34,000 people at any given time and the recent overflow has officials worried they may face a budget shortfall of more than $130 million in the coming months if the trend continues.
DHS spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said the agency has enough money to "operate at current levels" until Dec. 9, when a temporary budget resolution expires. After that, she said, DHS will work to either shift money from other parts of the department or find another "alternative budget strategy." She described the possible budget adjustment as "common."
Manjarrez said border agents and immigration officials face multiple challenges with a rise in immigrants from so far away, including language barriers and crowded detention centers.
"The further away you get from the Americas, the more difficult it is to really know who they are," Manjarrez said of the government's ability to fully identify some would-be immigrants.
The director of the Washington Office on Latin America's Mexico program, Maureen Meyer, said it appears that many of the overseas migrants are making their way through Mexico via South American countries, including Brazil, where entry visas are either easy to come by or not required. And their final destination is more often than not the United States.
"I think it's reflecting a gradual trend, as of at least particularly the last year," Meyer said.
While the exact draw of the round-the-world route isn't entirely clear, Meyer said an expanding network of human smugglers appear to be taking advantage of the increasingly popular smuggling routes that use Mexico as a transit country.
"There's a lot of smuggling that goes through Mexico that you don't see," Meyer said. She added that rumors of lenient treatment of some immigrants in the United States may also be a factor.
The recent influx of overseas migrants may be a harbinger of things to come.
More than 7,000 people who claimed to be from Africa have been arrested in Mexico between January and August, according to statistics maintained by Mexican federal immigration authorities. The number of such immigrants has been on the rise in recent years.
In 2013 Mexican immigration authorities arrested fewer than 1,000 migrants from Asia and Africa, while the number rose to nearly 11,000 from January through August.
Follow Alicia A. Caldwell on Twitter at www.twitter.com/acaldwellap
END
Saturday, October 29, 2016
AZMEX UPDATE 27-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 27 OCT 2016
Note: This one close to home: ( A large Yaqui settlement in Guadalupe, AZ. South of Phx )
By lack of guarantees in Sonora Yaqui Tribe considers seek refuge in the US,
Yaqui leader says Anabela Carlón!
Jose "Pepe" Alvarado
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/62094
Indigenous leaders of the Loma de Bácum publicly declare that the tribe is already planning to seek refuge in the US mainly due to lack of guarantees from the state of Sonora, so affirms Yaqui leader Anabela Carlón who condemned the attitude of state and federal officials who suspiciously and openly only listen to and support the few Yaquis that support the pipeline and who's interests and views are very clear said Yaqui leader Anabel Carlón that are they totally violating their customs and habits.
Because the state government wants it at all costs according to the Yaquis supporting the pipeline and also are other people that have nothing to do with the traditional authorities of the Loma de Bácum who do not accept or support the pipeline.
And so the state and those few Yaquis who come from other towns even the Yaqui governor of them, that they approve all and pass the pipeline through here, but that we will never allow it nor the state government that is supporting it, they can not trample our people, for all these reasons and because we have no guarantees in Sonora we are asking for refuge in the US with our Yaqui brothers in Tucson .
We will knowledge of the UN (United Nations Organization) to intervene and see the grave harm the governments are doing here in Mexico and Sonora.
So I, Anabela Carlón, adamantly declare as the Yaqui leader of Loma de Bácum .
end
Pinal deputies arrest 3 after chase near Maricopa
Staff Reports Updated Oct 26, 2016
http://www.pinalcentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/pinal-deputies-arrest-after-chase-near-maricopa/article_e7f1f4d6-9bcc-11e6-8597-030855378209.html
3 Arrested After Chase
PCSO
Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills
MARICOPA -- Three suspects in the country illegally are now in the custody of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office after leading deputies on a chase Wednesday morning.
Deputies also uncovered 238 pounds of marijuana in the trio's SUV.
According to PCSO, Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills were driving in the area of Ralston Road and Mockingbird Lane when a deputy tried to pull their vehicle over for speeding. The vehicle instead led officers on a pursuit at speeds greater than 97 miles per hour as the suspects went eastbound on State Road 238.
Just before 9:30 a.m., about 15 minutes after the chase ensued, the vehicle suddenly stopped in a residential neighborhood, and all three occupants fled into the surrounding desert on foot.
"The Pinal County Sheriff's helicopter was overhead, and as the suspects attempted to run and hide, their location was called out from above by the tactical flight officer," said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in a PCSO statement.
All three suspects were ultimately found and arrested, at which time they admitted to being in the United States illegally.
They have been charged with transportation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale, and Amador-Aispuro, the driver, also faces a charge of felony flight.
end
Private police shoot at migrants on 'The Beast'
Carlos Rocha / La Jornada de Oriente |
Thursday, October 27, 2016 13:14
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/10/27/persiguen-y-disparan-contra-migrantes-centroamericanos-en-puebla
Chalchicomula de Sesma, Pue. The Wednesday night elements of private police who guard the train Ferrosur in poblano territory, known as the Beast, chased and shot at and Central American migrants when they arrived in the back of the train to the railway station Nazareno, in the municipality of Chalchicomula Sesma, better known as Ciudad Serdan.
It was about nine o'clock at night when the train came from Orizaba began to slow and then they began shouting for the Central Americans to get off the train; they began to run, but a 15 year old boy shot in the foot.
The boy Carlos José 15 years came from Guatemala and was traveling with two companions from the same community, one of them narrated the facts as they sheltered in a house where he was given asylum and then was taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Serdan where is given assistance to migrants.
"We were on the train then he (Carlos) said we get off and but did not give us a chance to get off; then we ran. I said let's go to my friend that was when he was shot, I ran until I got to the road. I was very scared when I got to a village and asked for help, " said the young Guatemalan.
People in the region found him and asked that what was wrong, then gave him coffee and took him in.
"I just told them what had happened to my friend, the train police had shot him. That's what happened, I told them, "he recalled.
Were he shot in the foot? He was asked.
"Yes, I saw, I was with him three companions were coming. I saw everything that happened after I panic and just kept running and running, I did not mind the rest. I want to know is my friend. "
Was the police dressed in black, which guards the train?
"Yes. He had black boots, all black and his face covered in black and had as a rifle in his hands, "he said.
The 15 year old boy who was shot called Carlos José, is 15 and is originally from San Martin Zapotitlán, Guatemala. Like his partner, who is just a little older than him.
Immigration agents captured him Thursday morning. The police of the State Security Commission (ESC), the State of Mexico, which in poblano territory guarding the Ferrosur train, denied the facts but said that agents of the National Migration Institute (INM) had detained migrants night Wednesday.
But Carla Aguilar Morales, delegate in Puebla INM said that his staff was not Wednesday night in Nazareth and did not know the whereabouts of the Central American boy.
Monday La Jornada de Oriente reported that early last Friday a group of 75 migrants left Orizaba and station Nazareno were surprised by thirty soldiers who pursued them across tracks, the bushes, the harvest fields and on the road.
Only nine of the group that left from Veracruz were able to escape and one was beaten and taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Ciudad Serdan.
END
Also: Story in Spanish, of the 4,000, some 85% from Africa or Haiti.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/politica/2016/10/27/sre-hay-4-mil-migrantes-en-mexico-85-son-haitianos
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/27102016/1142992-Destina-Gobierno-recursos-a-25-albergues-para-Migrantes-en-BC.html
Also: In English.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2016/10/27/us-sanctions-9-mexicans-linked-powerful-cartels
END END
Note: This one close to home: ( A large Yaqui settlement in Guadalupe, AZ. South of Phx )
By lack of guarantees in Sonora Yaqui Tribe considers seek refuge in the US,
Yaqui leader says Anabela Carlón!
Jose "Pepe" Alvarado
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/62094
Indigenous leaders of the Loma de Bácum publicly declare that the tribe is already planning to seek refuge in the US mainly due to lack of guarantees from the state of Sonora, so affirms Yaqui leader Anabela Carlón who condemned the attitude of state and federal officials who suspiciously and openly only listen to and support the few Yaquis that support the pipeline and who's interests and views are very clear said Yaqui leader Anabel Carlón that are they totally violating their customs and habits.
Because the state government wants it at all costs according to the Yaquis supporting the pipeline and also are other people that have nothing to do with the traditional authorities of the Loma de Bácum who do not accept or support the pipeline.
And so the state and those few Yaquis who come from other towns even the Yaqui governor of them, that they approve all and pass the pipeline through here, but that we will never allow it nor the state government that is supporting it, they can not trample our people, for all these reasons and because we have no guarantees in Sonora we are asking for refuge in the US with our Yaqui brothers in Tucson .
We will knowledge of the UN (United Nations Organization) to intervene and see the grave harm the governments are doing here in Mexico and Sonora.
So I, Anabela Carlón, adamantly declare as the Yaqui leader of Loma de Bácum .
end
Pinal deputies arrest 3 after chase near Maricopa
Staff Reports Updated Oct 26, 2016
http://www.pinalcentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/pinal-deputies-arrest-after-chase-near-maricopa/article_e7f1f4d6-9bcc-11e6-8597-030855378209.html
3 Arrested After Chase
PCSO
Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills
MARICOPA -- Three suspects in the country illegally are now in the custody of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office after leading deputies on a chase Wednesday morning.
Deputies also uncovered 238 pounds of marijuana in the trio's SUV.
According to PCSO, Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills were driving in the area of Ralston Road and Mockingbird Lane when a deputy tried to pull their vehicle over for speeding. The vehicle instead led officers on a pursuit at speeds greater than 97 miles per hour as the suspects went eastbound on State Road 238.
Just before 9:30 a.m., about 15 minutes after the chase ensued, the vehicle suddenly stopped in a residential neighborhood, and all three occupants fled into the surrounding desert on foot.
"The Pinal County Sheriff's helicopter was overhead, and as the suspects attempted to run and hide, their location was called out from above by the tactical flight officer," said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in a PCSO statement.
All three suspects were ultimately found and arrested, at which time they admitted to being in the United States illegally.
They have been charged with transportation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale, and Amador-Aispuro, the driver, also faces a charge of felony flight.
end
Private police shoot at migrants on 'The Beast'
Carlos Rocha / La Jornada de Oriente |
Thursday, October 27, 2016 13:14
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/10/27/persiguen-y-disparan-contra-migrantes-centroamericanos-en-puebla
Chalchicomula de Sesma, Pue. The Wednesday night elements of private police who guard the train Ferrosur in poblano territory, known as the Beast, chased and shot at and Central American migrants when they arrived in the back of the train to the railway station Nazareno, in the municipality of Chalchicomula Sesma, better known as Ciudad Serdan.
It was about nine o'clock at night when the train came from Orizaba began to slow and then they began shouting for the Central Americans to get off the train; they began to run, but a 15 year old boy shot in the foot.
The boy Carlos José 15 years came from Guatemala and was traveling with two companions from the same community, one of them narrated the facts as they sheltered in a house where he was given asylum and then was taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Serdan where is given assistance to migrants.
"We were on the train then he (Carlos) said we get off and but did not give us a chance to get off; then we ran. I said let's go to my friend that was when he was shot, I ran until I got to the road. I was very scared when I got to a village and asked for help, " said the young Guatemalan.
People in the region found him and asked that what was wrong, then gave him coffee and took him in.
"I just told them what had happened to my friend, the train police had shot him. That's what happened, I told them, "he recalled.
Were he shot in the foot? He was asked.
"Yes, I saw, I was with him three companions were coming. I saw everything that happened after I panic and just kept running and running, I did not mind the rest. I want to know is my friend. "
Was the police dressed in black, which guards the train?
"Yes. He had black boots, all black and his face covered in black and had as a rifle in his hands, "he said.
The 15 year old boy who was shot called Carlos José, is 15 and is originally from San Martin Zapotitlán, Guatemala. Like his partner, who is just a little older than him.
Immigration agents captured him Thursday morning. The police of the State Security Commission (ESC), the State of Mexico, which in poblano territory guarding the Ferrosur train, denied the facts but said that agents of the National Migration Institute (INM) had detained migrants night Wednesday.
But Carla Aguilar Morales, delegate in Puebla INM said that his staff was not Wednesday night in Nazareth and did not know the whereabouts of the Central American boy.
Monday La Jornada de Oriente reported that early last Friday a group of 75 migrants left Orizaba and station Nazareno were surprised by thirty soldiers who pursued them across tracks, the bushes, the harvest fields and on the road.
Only nine of the group that left from Veracruz were able to escape and one was beaten and taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Ciudad Serdan.
END
Also: Story in Spanish, of the 4,000, some 85% from Africa or Haiti.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/politica/2016/10/27/sre-hay-4-mil-migrantes-en-mexico-85-son-haitianos
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/27102016/1142992-Destina-Gobierno-recursos-a-25-albergues-para-Migrantes-en-BC.html
Also: In English.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2016/10/27/us-sanctions-9-mexicans-linked-powerful-cartels
END END
AZMEX UPDATE 27-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 27 OCT 2016
Note: This one close to home: ( A large Yaqui settlement in Guadalupe, AZ. South of Phx )
By lack of guarantees in Sonora Yaqui Tribe considers seek refuge in the US,
Yaqui leader says Anabela Carlón!
Jose "Pepe" Alvarado
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/62094
Indigenous leaders of the Loma de Bácum publicly declare that the tribe is already planning to seek refuge in the US mainly due to lack of guarantees from the state of Sonora, so affirms Yaqui leader Anabela Carlón who condemned the attitude of state and federal officials who suspiciously and openly only listen to and support the few Yaquis that support the pipeline and who's interests and views are very clear said Yaqui leader Anabel Carlón that are they totally violating their customs and habits.
Because the state government wants it at all costs according to the Yaquis supporting the pipeline and also are other people that have nothing to do with the traditional authorities of the Loma de Bácum who do not accept or support the pipeline.
And so the state and those few Yaquis who come from other towns even the Yaqui governor of them, that they approve all and pass the pipeline through here, but that we will never allow it nor the state government that is supporting it, they can not trample our people, for all these reasons and because we have no guarantees in Sonora we are asking for refuge in the US with our Yaqui brothers in Tucson .
We will knowledge of the UN (United Nations Organization) to intervene and see the grave harm the governments are doing here in Mexico and Sonora.
So I, Anabela Carlón, adamantly declare as the Yaqui leader of Loma de Bácum .
end
Pinal deputies arrest 3 after chase near Maricopa
Staff Reports Updated Oct 26, 2016
http://www.pinalcentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/pinal-deputies-arrest-after-chase-near-maricopa/article_e7f1f4d6-9bcc-11e6-8597-030855378209.html
3 Arrested After Chase
PCSO
Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills
MARICOPA -- Three suspects in the country illegally are now in the custody of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office after leading deputies on a chase Wednesday morning.
Deputies also uncovered 238 pounds of marijuana in the trio's SUV.
According to PCSO, Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills were driving in the area of Ralston Road and Mockingbird Lane when a deputy tried to pull their vehicle over for speeding. The vehicle instead led officers on a pursuit at speeds greater than 97 miles per hour as the suspects went eastbound on State Road 238.
Just before 9:30 a.m., about 15 minutes after the chase ensued, the vehicle suddenly stopped in a residential neighborhood, and all three occupants fled into the surrounding desert on foot.
"The Pinal County Sheriff's helicopter was overhead, and as the suspects attempted to run and hide, their location was called out from above by the tactical flight officer," said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in a PCSO statement.
All three suspects were ultimately found and arrested, at which time they admitted to being in the United States illegally.
They have been charged with transportation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale, and Amador-Aispuro, the driver, also faces a charge of felony flight.
end
Private police shoot at migrants on 'The Beast'
Carlos Rocha / La Jornada de Oriente |
Thursday, October 27, 2016 13:14
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/10/27/persiguen-y-disparan-contra-migrantes-centroamericanos-en-puebla
Chalchicomula de Sesma, Pue. The Wednesday night elements of private police who guard the train Ferrosur in poblano territory, known as the Beast, chased and shot at and Central American migrants when they arrived in the back of the train to the railway station Nazareno, in the municipality of Chalchicomula Sesma, better known as Ciudad Serdan.
It was about nine o'clock at night when the train came from Orizaba began to slow and then they began shouting for the Central Americans to get off the train; they began to run, but a 15 year old boy shot in the foot.
The boy Carlos José 15 years came from Guatemala and was traveling with two companions from the same community, one of them narrated the facts as they sheltered in a house where he was given asylum and then was taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Serdan where is given assistance to migrants.
"We were on the train then he (Carlos) said we get off and but did not give us a chance to get off; then we ran. I said let's go to my friend that was when he was shot, I ran until I got to the road. I was very scared when I got to a village and asked for help, " said the young Guatemalan.
People in the region found him and asked that what was wrong, then gave him coffee and took him in.
"I just told them what had happened to my friend, the train police had shot him. That's what happened, I told them, "he recalled.
Were he shot in the foot? He was asked.
"Yes, I saw, I was with him three companions were coming. I saw everything that happened after I panic and just kept running and running, I did not mind the rest. I want to know is my friend. "
Was the police dressed in black, which guards the train?
"Yes. He had black boots, all black and his face covered in black and had as a rifle in his hands, "he said.
The 15 year old boy who was shot called Carlos José, is 15 and is originally from San Martin Zapotitlán, Guatemala. Like his partner, who is just a little older than him.
Immigration agents captured him Thursday morning. The police of the State Security Commission (ESC), the State of Mexico, which in poblano territory guarding the Ferrosur train, denied the facts but said that agents of the National Migration Institute (INM) had detained migrants night Wednesday.
But Carla Aguilar Morales, delegate in Puebla INM said that his staff was not Wednesday night in Nazareth and did not know the whereabouts of the Central American boy.
Monday La Jornada de Oriente reported that early last Friday a group of 75 migrants left Orizaba and station Nazareno were surprised by thirty soldiers who pursued them across tracks, the bushes, the harvest fields and on the road.
Only nine of the group that left from Veracruz were able to escape and one was beaten and taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Ciudad Serdan.
END
Also: Story in Spanish, of the 4,000, some 85% from Africa or Haiti.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/politica/2016/10/27/sre-hay-4-mil-migrantes-en-mexico-85-son-haitianos
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/27102016/1142992-Destina-Gobierno-recursos-a-25-albergues-para-Migrantes-en-BC.html
Also: In English.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2016/10/27/us-sanctions-9-mexicans-linked-powerful-cartels
END END
Note: This one close to home: ( A large Yaqui settlement in Guadalupe, AZ. South of Phx )
By lack of guarantees in Sonora Yaqui Tribe considers seek refuge in the US,
Yaqui leader says Anabela Carlón!
Jose "Pepe" Alvarado
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/62094
Indigenous leaders of the Loma de Bácum publicly declare that the tribe is already planning to seek refuge in the US mainly due to lack of guarantees from the state of Sonora, so affirms Yaqui leader Anabela Carlón who condemned the attitude of state and federal officials who suspiciously and openly only listen to and support the few Yaquis that support the pipeline and who's interests and views are very clear said Yaqui leader Anabel Carlón that are they totally violating their customs and habits.
Because the state government wants it at all costs according to the Yaquis supporting the pipeline and also are other people that have nothing to do with the traditional authorities of the Loma de Bácum who do not accept or support the pipeline.
And so the state and those few Yaquis who come from other towns even the Yaqui governor of them, that they approve all and pass the pipeline through here, but that we will never allow it nor the state government that is supporting it, they can not trample our people, for all these reasons and because we have no guarantees in Sonora we are asking for refuge in the US with our Yaqui brothers in Tucson .
We will knowledge of the UN (United Nations Organization) to intervene and see the grave harm the governments are doing here in Mexico and Sonora.
So I, Anabela Carlón, adamantly declare as the Yaqui leader of Loma de Bácum .
end
Pinal deputies arrest 3 after chase near Maricopa
Staff Reports Updated Oct 26, 2016
http://www.pinalcentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/pinal-deputies-arrest-after-chase-near-maricopa/article_e7f1f4d6-9bcc-11e6-8597-030855378209.html
3 Arrested After Chase
PCSO
Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills
MARICOPA -- Three suspects in the country illegally are now in the custody of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office after leading deputies on a chase Wednesday morning.
Deputies also uncovered 238 pounds of marijuana in the trio's SUV.
According to PCSO, Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills were driving in the area of Ralston Road and Mockingbird Lane when a deputy tried to pull their vehicle over for speeding. The vehicle instead led officers on a pursuit at speeds greater than 97 miles per hour as the suspects went eastbound on State Road 238.
Just before 9:30 a.m., about 15 minutes after the chase ensued, the vehicle suddenly stopped in a residential neighborhood, and all three occupants fled into the surrounding desert on foot.
"The Pinal County Sheriff's helicopter was overhead, and as the suspects attempted to run and hide, their location was called out from above by the tactical flight officer," said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in a PCSO statement.
All three suspects were ultimately found and arrested, at which time they admitted to being in the United States illegally.
They have been charged with transportation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale, and Amador-Aispuro, the driver, also faces a charge of felony flight.
end
Private police shoot at migrants on 'The Beast'
Carlos Rocha / La Jornada de Oriente |
Thursday, October 27, 2016 13:14
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/10/27/persiguen-y-disparan-contra-migrantes-centroamericanos-en-puebla
Chalchicomula de Sesma, Pue. The Wednesday night elements of private police who guard the train Ferrosur in poblano territory, known as the Beast, chased and shot at and Central American migrants when they arrived in the back of the train to the railway station Nazareno, in the municipality of Chalchicomula Sesma, better known as Ciudad Serdan.
It was about nine o'clock at night when the train came from Orizaba began to slow and then they began shouting for the Central Americans to get off the train; they began to run, but a 15 year old boy shot in the foot.
The boy Carlos José 15 years came from Guatemala and was traveling with two companions from the same community, one of them narrated the facts as they sheltered in a house where he was given asylum and then was taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Serdan where is given assistance to migrants.
"We were on the train then he (Carlos) said we get off and but did not give us a chance to get off; then we ran. I said let's go to my friend that was when he was shot, I ran until I got to the road. I was very scared when I got to a village and asked for help, " said the young Guatemalan.
People in the region found him and asked that what was wrong, then gave him coffee and took him in.
"I just told them what had happened to my friend, the train police had shot him. That's what happened, I told them, "he recalled.
Were he shot in the foot? He was asked.
"Yes, I saw, I was with him three companions were coming. I saw everything that happened after I panic and just kept running and running, I did not mind the rest. I want to know is my friend. "
Was the police dressed in black, which guards the train?
"Yes. He had black boots, all black and his face covered in black and had as a rifle in his hands, "he said.
The 15 year old boy who was shot called Carlos José, is 15 and is originally from San Martin Zapotitlán, Guatemala. Like his partner, who is just a little older than him.
Immigration agents captured him Thursday morning. The police of the State Security Commission (ESC), the State of Mexico, which in poblano territory guarding the Ferrosur train, denied the facts but said that agents of the National Migration Institute (INM) had detained migrants night Wednesday.
But Carla Aguilar Morales, delegate in Puebla INM said that his staff was not Wednesday night in Nazareth and did not know the whereabouts of the Central American boy.
Monday La Jornada de Oriente reported that early last Friday a group of 75 migrants left Orizaba and station Nazareno were surprised by thirty soldiers who pursued them across tracks, the bushes, the harvest fields and on the road.
Only nine of the group that left from Veracruz were able to escape and one was beaten and taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Ciudad Serdan.
END
Also: Story in Spanish, of the 4,000, some 85% from Africa or Haiti.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/politica/2016/10/27/sre-hay-4-mil-migrantes-en-mexico-85-son-haitianos
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/27102016/1142992-Destina-Gobierno-recursos-a-25-albergues-para-Migrantes-en-BC.html
Also: In English.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2016/10/27/us-sanctions-9-mexicans-linked-powerful-cartels
END END
AZMEX UPDATE 27-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 27 OCT 2016
Note: This one close to home: ( A large Yaqui settlement in Guadalupe, AZ. South of Phx )
By lack of guarantees in Sonora Yaqui Tribe considers seek refuge in the US,
Yaqui leader says Anabela Carlón!
Jose "Pepe" Alvarado
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/62094
Indigenous leaders of the Loma de Bácum publicly declare that the tribe is already planning to seek refuge in the US mainly due to lack of guarantees from the state of Sonora, so affirms Yaqui leader Anabela Carlón who condemned the attitude of state and federal officials who suspiciously and openly only listen to and support the few Yaquis that support the pipeline and who's interests and views are very clear said Yaqui leader Anabel Carlón that are they totally violating their customs and habits.
Because the state government wants it at all costs according to the Yaquis supporting the pipeline and also are other people that have nothing to do with the traditional authorities of the Loma de Bácum who do not accept or support the pipeline.
And so the state and those few Yaquis who come from other towns even the Yaqui governor of them, that they approve all and pass the pipeline through here, but that we will never allow it nor the state government that is supporting it, they can not trample our people, for all these reasons and because we have no guarantees in Sonora we are asking for refuge in the US with our Yaqui brothers in Tucson .
We will knowledge of the UN (United Nations Organization) to intervene and see the grave harm the governments are doing here in Mexico and Sonora.
So I, Anabela Carlón, adamantly declare as the Yaqui leader of Loma de Bácum .
end
Pinal deputies arrest 3 after chase near Maricopa
Staff Reports Updated Oct 26, 2016
http://www.pinalcentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/pinal-deputies-arrest-after-chase-near-maricopa/article_e7f1f4d6-9bcc-11e6-8597-030855378209.html
3 Arrested After Chase
PCSO
Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills
MARICOPA -- Three suspects in the country illegally are now in the custody of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office after leading deputies on a chase Wednesday morning.
Deputies also uncovered 238 pounds of marijuana in the trio's SUV.
According to PCSO, Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills were driving in the area of Ralston Road and Mockingbird Lane when a deputy tried to pull their vehicle over for speeding. The vehicle instead led officers on a pursuit at speeds greater than 97 miles per hour as the suspects went eastbound on State Road 238.
Just before 9:30 a.m., about 15 minutes after the chase ensued, the vehicle suddenly stopped in a residential neighborhood, and all three occupants fled into the surrounding desert on foot.
"The Pinal County Sheriff's helicopter was overhead, and as the suspects attempted to run and hide, their location was called out from above by the tactical flight officer," said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in a PCSO statement.
All three suspects were ultimately found and arrested, at which time they admitted to being in the United States illegally.
They have been charged with transportation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale, and Amador-Aispuro, the driver, also faces a charge of felony flight.
end
Private police shoot at migrants on 'The Beast'
Carlos Rocha / La Jornada de Oriente |
Thursday, October 27, 2016 13:14
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/10/27/persiguen-y-disparan-contra-migrantes-centroamericanos-en-puebla
Chalchicomula de Sesma, Pue. The Wednesday night elements of private police who guard the train Ferrosur in poblano territory, known as the Beast, chased and shot at and Central American migrants when they arrived in the back of the train to the railway station Nazareno, in the municipality of Chalchicomula Sesma, better known as Ciudad Serdan.
It was about nine o'clock at night when the train came from Orizaba began to slow and then they began shouting for the Central Americans to get off the train; they began to run, but a 15 year old boy shot in the foot.
The boy Carlos José 15 years came from Guatemala and was traveling with two companions from the same community, one of them narrated the facts as they sheltered in a house where he was given asylum and then was taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Serdan where is given assistance to migrants.
"We were on the train then he (Carlos) said we get off and but did not give us a chance to get off; then we ran. I said let's go to my friend that was when he was shot, I ran until I got to the road. I was very scared when I got to a village and asked for help, " said the young Guatemalan.
People in the region found him and asked that what was wrong, then gave him coffee and took him in.
"I just told them what had happened to my friend, the train police had shot him. That's what happened, I told them, "he recalled.
Were he shot in the foot? He was asked.
"Yes, I saw, I was with him three companions were coming. I saw everything that happened after I panic and just kept running and running, I did not mind the rest. I want to know is my friend. "
Was the police dressed in black, which guards the train?
"Yes. He had black boots, all black and his face covered in black and had as a rifle in his hands, "he said.
The 15 year old boy who was shot called Carlos José, is 15 and is originally from San Martin Zapotitlán, Guatemala. Like his partner, who is just a little older than him.
Immigration agents captured him Thursday morning. The police of the State Security Commission (ESC), the State of Mexico, which in poblano territory guarding the Ferrosur train, denied the facts but said that agents of the National Migration Institute (INM) had detained migrants night Wednesday.
But Carla Aguilar Morales, delegate in Puebla INM said that his staff was not Wednesday night in Nazareth and did not know the whereabouts of the Central American boy.
Monday La Jornada de Oriente reported that early last Friday a group of 75 migrants left Orizaba and station Nazareno were surprised by thirty soldiers who pursued them across tracks, the bushes, the harvest fields and on the road.
Only nine of the group that left from Veracruz were able to escape and one was beaten and taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Ciudad Serdan.
END
Also: Story in Spanish, of the 4,000, some 85% from Africa or Haiti.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/politica/2016/10/27/sre-hay-4-mil-migrantes-en-mexico-85-son-haitianos
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/27102016/1142992-Destina-Gobierno-recursos-a-25-albergues-para-Migrantes-en-BC.html
Also: In English.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2016/10/27/us-sanctions-9-mexicans-linked-powerful-cartels
END END
Note: This one close to home: ( A large Yaqui settlement in Guadalupe, AZ. South of Phx )
By lack of guarantees in Sonora Yaqui Tribe considers seek refuge in the US,
Yaqui leader says Anabela Carlón!
Jose "Pepe" Alvarado
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/62094
Indigenous leaders of the Loma de Bácum publicly declare that the tribe is already planning to seek refuge in the US mainly due to lack of guarantees from the state of Sonora, so affirms Yaqui leader Anabela Carlón who condemned the attitude of state and federal officials who suspiciously and openly only listen to and support the few Yaquis that support the pipeline and who's interests and views are very clear said Yaqui leader Anabel Carlón that are they totally violating their customs and habits.
Because the state government wants it at all costs according to the Yaquis supporting the pipeline and also are other people that have nothing to do with the traditional authorities of the Loma de Bácum who do not accept or support the pipeline.
And so the state and those few Yaquis who come from other towns even the Yaqui governor of them, that they approve all and pass the pipeline through here, but that we will never allow it nor the state government that is supporting it, they can not trample our people, for all these reasons and because we have no guarantees in Sonora we are asking for refuge in the US with our Yaqui brothers in Tucson .
We will knowledge of the UN (United Nations Organization) to intervene and see the grave harm the governments are doing here in Mexico and Sonora.
So I, Anabela Carlón, adamantly declare as the Yaqui leader of Loma de Bácum .
end
Pinal deputies arrest 3 after chase near Maricopa
Staff Reports Updated Oct 26, 2016
http://www.pinalcentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/pinal-deputies-arrest-after-chase-near-maricopa/article_e7f1f4d6-9bcc-11e6-8597-030855378209.html
3 Arrested After Chase
PCSO
Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills
MARICOPA -- Three suspects in the country illegally are now in the custody of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office after leading deputies on a chase Wednesday morning.
Deputies also uncovered 238 pounds of marijuana in the trio's SUV.
According to PCSO, Manuel Amador Aispuro, Ramon Martinez and Josue Teran Grandarills were driving in the area of Ralston Road and Mockingbird Lane when a deputy tried to pull their vehicle over for speeding. The vehicle instead led officers on a pursuit at speeds greater than 97 miles per hour as the suspects went eastbound on State Road 238.
Just before 9:30 a.m., about 15 minutes after the chase ensued, the vehicle suddenly stopped in a residential neighborhood, and all three occupants fled into the surrounding desert on foot.
"The Pinal County Sheriff's helicopter was overhead, and as the suspects attempted to run and hide, their location was called out from above by the tactical flight officer," said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in a PCSO statement.
All three suspects were ultimately found and arrested, at which time they admitted to being in the United States illegally.
They have been charged with transportation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale, and Amador-Aispuro, the driver, also faces a charge of felony flight.
end
Private police shoot at migrants on 'The Beast'
Carlos Rocha / La Jornada de Oriente |
Thursday, October 27, 2016 13:14
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/10/27/persiguen-y-disparan-contra-migrantes-centroamericanos-en-puebla
Chalchicomula de Sesma, Pue. The Wednesday night elements of private police who guard the train Ferrosur in poblano territory, known as the Beast, chased and shot at and Central American migrants when they arrived in the back of the train to the railway station Nazareno, in the municipality of Chalchicomula Sesma, better known as Ciudad Serdan.
It was about nine o'clock at night when the train came from Orizaba began to slow and then they began shouting for the Central Americans to get off the train; they began to run, but a 15 year old boy shot in the foot.
The boy Carlos José 15 years came from Guatemala and was traveling with two companions from the same community, one of them narrated the facts as they sheltered in a house where he was given asylum and then was taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Serdan where is given assistance to migrants.
"We were on the train then he (Carlos) said we get off and but did not give us a chance to get off; then we ran. I said let's go to my friend that was when he was shot, I ran until I got to the road. I was very scared when I got to a village and asked for help, " said the young Guatemalan.
People in the region found him and asked that what was wrong, then gave him coffee and took him in.
"I just told them what had happened to my friend, the train police had shot him. That's what happened, I told them, "he recalled.
Were he shot in the foot? He was asked.
"Yes, I saw, I was with him three companions were coming. I saw everything that happened after I panic and just kept running and running, I did not mind the rest. I want to know is my friend. "
Was the police dressed in black, which guards the train?
"Yes. He had black boots, all black and his face covered in black and had as a rifle in his hands, "he said.
The 15 year old boy who was shot called Carlos José, is 15 and is originally from San Martin Zapotitlán, Guatemala. Like his partner, who is just a little older than him.
Immigration agents captured him Thursday morning. The police of the State Security Commission (ESC), the State of Mexico, which in poblano territory guarding the Ferrosur train, denied the facts but said that agents of the National Migration Institute (INM) had detained migrants night Wednesday.
But Carla Aguilar Morales, delegate in Puebla INM said that his staff was not Wednesday night in Nazareth and did not know the whereabouts of the Central American boy.
Monday La Jornada de Oriente reported that early last Friday a group of 75 migrants left Orizaba and station Nazareno were surprised by thirty soldiers who pursued them across tracks, the bushes, the harvest fields and on the road.
Only nine of the group that left from Veracruz were able to escape and one was beaten and taken to the delegation of the Red Cross in Ciudad Serdan.
END
Also: Story in Spanish, of the 4,000, some 85% from Africa or Haiti.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/politica/2016/10/27/sre-hay-4-mil-migrantes-en-mexico-85-son-haitianos
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/27102016/1142992-Destina-Gobierno-recursos-a-25-albergues-para-Migrantes-en-BC.html
Also: In English.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2016/10/27/us-sanctions-9-mexicans-linked-powerful-cartels
END END
Thursday, October 27, 2016
AZMEX UPDATE 25-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 25 OCT 2016
Nearly 200 arrested in desert criminal sweep near Tucson
Tuesday, October 25th 2016, 1:42 pm MST
By Phil Benson
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/33479412/nearly-200-arrested-in-desert-criminal-sweep-near-tucson
TUCSON, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) -
Nearly 200 people have been arrested, many of them criminals and previously deported illegal immigrants, in a desert crime sweep in Arizona.
Multiple law enforcement agencies took part in the seven-day Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats operation southwest of Tucson. It was led by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
More than $2 million in marijuana was seized, DPS Capt. Damon Cecil said.
Law enforcement conducted foot and vehicle patrols, arrested criminal-network operatives and undocumented immigrants, interviewed suspects and tracked criminal elements, Cecil said.
"These coordinated efforts leverage the capabilities and jurisdictional authorities of federal, state, and local law enforcement to dismantle criminal networks," Col. Frank Milstead, director of Arizona Department of Public Safety, said. "ACTT's strategic approach creates an environment that denies, degrades, disrupts and dismantles the criminal elements' ability to operate in Arizona."
ACTT leverages the resources of more than 60 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies in Arizona.
end
Note: Numerous rumors going around about this one.
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/west-phoenix/pd-2-bodies-found-with-wrecked-car-at-phoenix-home
PHOENIX - Police are investigating after two bodies were found with a wrecked car at a Phoenix home.
Officials arrived at the scene near 31st Avenue and Pierce Street early Monday morning in response to the crash.
Video from the scene showed a black passenger car wrecked into a block wall just outside of a home.
Phoenix fire officials say two victims in the car suffered multiple gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead on scene. Police have identified the victims as Ronnie Orozco, 20, and Manuel Sanchez, 17.
At least one weapon was found in their vehicle.
Police say the incident is under investigation as a homicide. They are working to find any witnesses who may be able to help determine what happened.
Police have said there appears to be no connection to the unsolved Serial Street Shooter cases.
Nearby streets have been blocked off and are expected to remain closed into the afternoon.
Stay with ABC15 for updates.
end
Defense for Border Patrol agent asks to close José Elena case
Details Published on Tuesday October 25, 2016,
Written by Notimex
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=80713
TUCSON, AZ.
They argue that murder charge Lonnie Swartz officer should be prosecuted by state or county authorities, and not by the feds.
The defense for agent Lonnie US Border Patrol Swartz, accused of shooting and killing across the border in 2012 teenager Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in Nogales, Sonora, asked to dismiss the case.
In a hearing before the Federal Court in Tucson, held on October 18, Swartz's lawyers argued that instance lacks jurisdiction to prosecute the matter.
They added that the agent was "standing within the state of Arizona and the county of Santa Cruz, when he fired his gun and killed an individual in Mexico".
Jim Calle, one of the lawyers said the federal government has the authority to prosecute drug trafficking and illegal immigration in federal court.
But, he added, the second degree murder charge against Swartz must be prosecuted by state authorities or county.
Calle said the US federal government had gave up the land from where Swartz shot through the border fence on October 10, 2012 to kill Elena Rodriguez.
"We are challenging the court complaint," Street said, arguing that "implicitly and explicitly" federal government abandoned the strip of land along the US border, known as the Roosevelt Reserve.
This strip of 18 meters was created by President Theodore Roosevelt by proclamation in 1907, in order to maintain the "unobstructed" land that hindered the movement of goods between the US and Mexico. "
At the hearing, federal prosecutors argued that the place where Swartz was when shot belongs to the US government because it was acquired in the Gadsden Purchase in 1854, which was ratified in proclamations by President William McKinley in 1897, and President Roosevelt in 1907.
Federal Judge Raner C. Collins said it would consider the issue and gave the defense for Swartz within 10 days to gather some evidence that privately owned land is within the range.
If not disposed of the case, the trial against Swartz agent would take place in February, after having been postponed several times.
END
MAYOR TEMO GALINDO AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS SEEKING BETTER SUPPORT OPTIONS FOR HAITIANS
25 / Oct / 2016
Drafting
http://www.nuevodia.com.mx/Nota.aspx?p=19754
Nuevo Dia / Nogales, Sonora
collaborative activities with state and federal authorities, carried out by the City Government to address the 58 Haitian migrants who are stranded at the border waiting to get political asylum in the United States.
The mayor, Temo Galindo Delgado and Francisco Loureiro, as well as staff of the National Migration Institute, attendees of the Red Cross and representatives of the Municipal and State Civil Protection Unit, conducted a tour to observe the situation of the foreign migrants .
In a meeting between all involved in the care of these people, they agreed to join Tuesday 25 with the State Delegate of Mexican Migration to agree strategies joint work that allow greater fluidity at the intersection of these people stranded on the Dennis Deconcinni port of entry.
In his meeting with representatives of state and federal authorities and civilian aid agencies, the Mayor said in transit to the border about 1,200 migrants from Haiti and African nations, which could trigger a adverse social situation, as is happening in San Luis Rio Colorado and Tijuana.
"We must work together to resolve this situation and in the case of the City Government, is providing a place for the transfer of these people so they can clean up and consume food at the hostel San Juan Bosco, but also we are giving them security" he said.
Meanwhile, immigration attorney in the United States, Garret Wilkies, who was also at the meeting, reported that unfortunately many that have come from far away to the border of Mexico, are deported because they do not meet the requirements required by the government to give them political asylum.
Samuel Lozano, representative of a Christian congregation, which has also given support to these migrants, expressed concern to facilitate the process for US immigration authorities expedite the procedures for obtaining asylum.
altruists have brought food to foreigners who are resigned to losing their turn to enter the neighboring country, so they are virtually permanent vigil on the pedestrian crossing.
END
Nearly 200 arrested in desert criminal sweep near Tucson
Tuesday, October 25th 2016, 1:42 pm MST
By Phil Benson
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/33479412/nearly-200-arrested-in-desert-criminal-sweep-near-tucson
TUCSON, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) -
Nearly 200 people have been arrested, many of them criminals and previously deported illegal immigrants, in a desert crime sweep in Arizona.
Multiple law enforcement agencies took part in the seven-day Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats operation southwest of Tucson. It was led by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
More than $2 million in marijuana was seized, DPS Capt. Damon Cecil said.
Law enforcement conducted foot and vehicle patrols, arrested criminal-network operatives and undocumented immigrants, interviewed suspects and tracked criminal elements, Cecil said.
"These coordinated efforts leverage the capabilities and jurisdictional authorities of federal, state, and local law enforcement to dismantle criminal networks," Col. Frank Milstead, director of Arizona Department of Public Safety, said. "ACTT's strategic approach creates an environment that denies, degrades, disrupts and dismantles the criminal elements' ability to operate in Arizona."
ACTT leverages the resources of more than 60 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies in Arizona.
end
Note: Numerous rumors going around about this one.
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/west-phoenix/pd-2-bodies-found-with-wrecked-car-at-phoenix-home
PHOENIX - Police are investigating after two bodies were found with a wrecked car at a Phoenix home.
Officials arrived at the scene near 31st Avenue and Pierce Street early Monday morning in response to the crash.
Video from the scene showed a black passenger car wrecked into a block wall just outside of a home.
Phoenix fire officials say two victims in the car suffered multiple gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead on scene. Police have identified the victims as Ronnie Orozco, 20, and Manuel Sanchez, 17.
At least one weapon was found in their vehicle.
Police say the incident is under investigation as a homicide. They are working to find any witnesses who may be able to help determine what happened.
Police have said there appears to be no connection to the unsolved Serial Street Shooter cases.
Nearby streets have been blocked off and are expected to remain closed into the afternoon.
Stay with ABC15 for updates.
end
Defense for Border Patrol agent asks to close José Elena case
Details Published on Tuesday October 25, 2016,
Written by Notimex
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=80713
TUCSON, AZ.
They argue that murder charge Lonnie Swartz officer should be prosecuted by state or county authorities, and not by the feds.
The defense for agent Lonnie US Border Patrol Swartz, accused of shooting and killing across the border in 2012 teenager Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in Nogales, Sonora, asked to dismiss the case.
In a hearing before the Federal Court in Tucson, held on October 18, Swartz's lawyers argued that instance lacks jurisdiction to prosecute the matter.
They added that the agent was "standing within the state of Arizona and the county of Santa Cruz, when he fired his gun and killed an individual in Mexico".
Jim Calle, one of the lawyers said the federal government has the authority to prosecute drug trafficking and illegal immigration in federal court.
But, he added, the second degree murder charge against Swartz must be prosecuted by state authorities or county.
Calle said the US federal government had gave up the land from where Swartz shot through the border fence on October 10, 2012 to kill Elena Rodriguez.
"We are challenging the court complaint," Street said, arguing that "implicitly and explicitly" federal government abandoned the strip of land along the US border, known as the Roosevelt Reserve.
This strip of 18 meters was created by President Theodore Roosevelt by proclamation in 1907, in order to maintain the "unobstructed" land that hindered the movement of goods between the US and Mexico. "
At the hearing, federal prosecutors argued that the place where Swartz was when shot belongs to the US government because it was acquired in the Gadsden Purchase in 1854, which was ratified in proclamations by President William McKinley in 1897, and President Roosevelt in 1907.
Federal Judge Raner C. Collins said it would consider the issue and gave the defense for Swartz within 10 days to gather some evidence that privately owned land is within the range.
If not disposed of the case, the trial against Swartz agent would take place in February, after having been postponed several times.
END
MAYOR TEMO GALINDO AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS SEEKING BETTER SUPPORT OPTIONS FOR HAITIANS
25 / Oct / 2016
Drafting
http://www.nuevodia.com.mx/Nota.aspx?p=19754
Nuevo Dia / Nogales, Sonora
collaborative activities with state and federal authorities, carried out by the City Government to address the 58 Haitian migrants who are stranded at the border waiting to get political asylum in the United States.
The mayor, Temo Galindo Delgado and Francisco Loureiro, as well as staff of the National Migration Institute, attendees of the Red Cross and representatives of the Municipal and State Civil Protection Unit, conducted a tour to observe the situation of the foreign migrants .
In a meeting between all involved in the care of these people, they agreed to join Tuesday 25 with the State Delegate of Mexican Migration to agree strategies joint work that allow greater fluidity at the intersection of these people stranded on the Dennis Deconcinni port of entry.
In his meeting with representatives of state and federal authorities and civilian aid agencies, the Mayor said in transit to the border about 1,200 migrants from Haiti and African nations, which could trigger a adverse social situation, as is happening in San Luis Rio Colorado and Tijuana.
"We must work together to resolve this situation and in the case of the City Government, is providing a place for the transfer of these people so they can clean up and consume food at the hostel San Juan Bosco, but also we are giving them security" he said.
Meanwhile, immigration attorney in the United States, Garret Wilkies, who was also at the meeting, reported that unfortunately many that have come from far away to the border of Mexico, are deported because they do not meet the requirements required by the government to give them political asylum.
Samuel Lozano, representative of a Christian congregation, which has also given support to these migrants, expressed concern to facilitate the process for US immigration authorities expedite the procedures for obtaining asylum.
altruists have brought food to foreigners who are resigned to losing their turn to enter the neighboring country, so they are virtually permanent vigil on the pedestrian crossing.
END
AZMEX EXTRA 25-10-16
AZMEX EXTRA 25 OCT 2016
Note: The people of Mexico getting tired of criminals, in and out of government, operating with impunity?
Can expect the same establishment / media hysteria as in the U.S.
Gracias
Sen. Preciado creates its own 'society of the rifle' to arm Mexico
PAN Senate created a front to support their initiative; calls for a mass demonstration in favor of carrying weapons
10/25/2016 14:02 HÉCTOR FIGUEROA / PHOTO: FILE Cuartoscuro
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/10/25/1124366
MEXICO CITY.
Senator Jorge Luis Preciado, the National Action Party (PAN), created a organization for citizen support for their initiative so that every person may possess a pistol or rifle in your car or even away from home, in business and commerce to confront crime.
In this way it maintains its proposal for constitutional reform to Article 10 which states that all over 18 may possess firearms, except arms for the exclusive use of the Army.
He announced the collection of citizens' signatures in support of their initiative and put it on a table in the Senate itself. He said he already has more than 500 citizens who support it and the proposal seeking to become a Citizen Initiative.
He also called for a demonstration in favor of carrying arms for Saturday November 19 at the Monument to the Revolution.
Allowing by the Constitution a citizen who wanted to defend themselves when there is an imminent attack on his person, when the action is present and has no other way to do it, because they has the legitimate right to defend their life, heritage and safety. That's what this reform contemplates and therefore have invited fellow associations, "said Preciado.
Thus, Jorge Luis Preciado was presented accompanied by the leaders of the groups as "Mexico Armando" and "Mexican Association of Users of Firearms", and private consultants.
We can not just stop and think, tomorrow that Oxxo will sell weapons, anyone can go buy a gun wherever; that's not the way we need to take, we need to understand, become conscious to do things the right way, "said Raymundo Marcos Romero, a businessman from a private security company.
( Oxxo is a large chain of stores, similar to Walmart, Target, etc.)
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Note: The people of Mexico getting tired of criminals, in and out of government, operating with impunity?
Can expect the same establishment / media hysteria as in the U.S.
Gracias
Sen. Preciado creates its own 'society of the rifle' to arm Mexico
PAN Senate created a front to support their initiative; calls for a mass demonstration in favor of carrying weapons
10/25/2016 14:02 HÉCTOR FIGUEROA / PHOTO: FILE Cuartoscuro
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/10/25/1124366
MEXICO CITY.
Senator Jorge Luis Preciado, the National Action Party (PAN), created a organization for citizen support for their initiative so that every person may possess a pistol or rifle in your car or even away from home, in business and commerce to confront crime.
In this way it maintains its proposal for constitutional reform to Article 10 which states that all over 18 may possess firearms, except arms for the exclusive use of the Army.
He announced the collection of citizens' signatures in support of their initiative and put it on a table in the Senate itself. He said he already has more than 500 citizens who support it and the proposal seeking to become a Citizen Initiative.
He also called for a demonstration in favor of carrying arms for Saturday November 19 at the Monument to the Revolution.
Allowing by the Constitution a citizen who wanted to defend themselves when there is an imminent attack on his person, when the action is present and has no other way to do it, because they has the legitimate right to defend their life, heritage and safety. That's what this reform contemplates and therefore have invited fellow associations, "said Preciado.
Thus, Jorge Luis Preciado was presented accompanied by the leaders of the groups as "Mexico Armando" and "Mexican Association of Users of Firearms", and private consultants.
We can not just stop and think, tomorrow that Oxxo will sell weapons, anyone can go buy a gun wherever; that's not the way we need to take, we need to understand, become conscious to do things the right way, "said Raymundo Marcos Romero, a businessman from a private security company.
( Oxxo is a large chain of stores, similar to Walmart, Target, etc.)
jpg
Monday, October 24, 2016
AZMEX I3 23-10-16
AZMEX I3 23 OCT 2016
Comment: Re: AZMEX I3 22-10-16" As have been reminded by a friend, the progressive island paradise of Cuba is very close. Santiago de Cuba at about 250, Cienfuegos at 580, and Havana at about 720 miles.
The progressive non island paradise of Venezuela is also much closer than Nogales, AZ, Caracas at about 666, and Maracaibo even closer at 550 miles. Managua, NI at a long 1030 miles.
Parle français? New Orleans, LA at 1,365, and Montreal, QC at 1,860 miles.
( Distances are from Port au Prince. for Km. multiply miles by 1.609 )
Unknown why groups like the Clinton Global Initiative, etc. are not providing good union scale jobs in Haiti for these young men to stay and rebuild their country.
( comments solely of your correspondent )
Merci
Refuting refugee rumors: Mayor says asylum seekers not crowding into Yuma County
By Blake Herzog,
Updated 16 hrs ago (0)
http://www.yumasun.com/news/refuting-refugee-rumors-mayor-says-asylum-seekers-not-crowding-into/article_918760da-98a8-11e6-aa02-47589e2763a8.html
The wave of refugees from Haiti and other nations seeking entry into the U.S. at the Mexico border has spread eastward from Tijuana into San Luis Rio Colorado, giving rise to a variety of rumors in Yuma County.
Yuma Mayor Doug Nicholls said at a press conference Thursday that he, San Luis Mayor Jerry Sanchez and Sheriff Leon Wilmot met with federal officials to learn more about the current situation.
"There is no large group of Haitians or foreign nationals without legal status to be in the U.S. being released into the Yuma community," he said. Most are attempting to enter the country legally, turning themselves in to officials at the border ports in hopes of being granted asylum.
Single adults are being taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as their cases are being heard, and families are transported to Phoenix for further processing, he said.
"The second rumor is the Haitians are bringing diseases into the community, such as the Zika virus, open sores and parasites. When the process of CPB and ICE is to conduct a medical exam, as part of the regular processing of taking them into the center, those with any medical conditions are escorted to Yuma Regional Medical Center, and they would be under guard or accompanied by an agent," he said. "No such diseases or conditions have existed."
He added there is no "large, chaotic unrest at the San Luis port, particularly on the Mexican side," as has also been claimed. American and Mexican officials have been working cooperatively to schedule court hearings for refuge in a way that doesn't interfere with regular crossings.
And there's no expectation that most refugees currently seeking entry at San Luis will eventually be granted asylum, at which point they could choose to settle in or around Yuma.
"All Haitians currently in custody, from what I've been told, are slated for deportation to Haiti. There is a slight situation in Haiti right now with the hurricane (Matthew) and the pending elections, (prompting the U.S.) to accept them at this time, but once the new leaders are in place they fully expect the repatriation of all the Haitians currently scheduled for deportation," he said.
Haiti's first round of voting, delayed because of the hurricane, is now scheduled for Nov. 20, with a second round on Jan. 29.
The Associated Press reported earlier this month that several thousand Haitian citizens had traveled from Brazil, having emigrated for work after the 2010 earthquake, to Tijuana in recent months, while immigration authorities are only able to process a few dozen cases each day.
It's not clear how many refugees from Haiti or other nations are currently seeking entry to the U.S. via San Luis, Ariz. Public Affairs Officer Annica Zacarias said Friday that figures are currently being tabulated for the 2016 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 31, so no data will be available for a couple of months.
Zacarias said there has been an "uptick" in the number of Haitians coming to the San Luis port with no credentials for legal entry: "We are processing arrivals on a case by case basis. After CBP processes an individual with no status to legally enter the U.S., the person is placed in removal proceedings, according to their situation, and placed in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody pending further disposition."
Nicholls' remarks only referred to Haitian refugees, apparently the subject of most of the rumors, and he said his main concern would be whether local agencies would be able to provide enough food, shelter and other assistance to those who needed it. "And the rumors we heard were concerning because they would probably be too much for our local nonprofits to handle, and we would have to have an alternate plan," he said.
Asylum seekers from Central American countries have been reportedly massing at Mexican crossings into the U.S., with the numbers peaking two years ago, then rising again in 2016, according to a report released last week by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
The same report included a statement about the growing numbers of Haitian asylum seekers, and said that as of Sept. 22 CBP was detaining Haitians apprehended coming to the border without authorization, as is the practice with most foreign nationals. The policy for Haitians was relaxed after the 2010 earthquake there, and they were generally allowed to enter the U.S. on temporary humanitarian parole.
Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti Oct. 4, killing hundreds and leaving an estimated 1.4 million needing food, shelter or other assistance. Johnson said the storm would delay deportations, but wouldn't affect the policy.
"DHS and the Department of State are working with the Government of Haiti and other key partners to ensure that removals occur in as humane and minimally disruptive a manner as possible," he said.
Yuma County Interfaith has been operating a shelter near Immaculate Conception Church in Yuma for families crossing the border who are being sponsored by relatives in the U.S. Interfaith coordinator Melanie Nelson said the overall number of people coming through has been fluctuating in the last few months.
But just a small percentage have been from Haiti, with most of the rest coming from Central American nations wracked by poverty and violence.
"I have heard things about there being large numbers, but where people are seeing them are at the border, not here," Nelson said. "They'll say it took me an hour to get through with my SENTRI card instead of half an hour."
Most of the immigrants who do come through the shelter stay only about 12 to 24 hours while waiting on tickets purchased for them by their sponsors to arrive. None that she is aware of have stayed in the Yuma area, or even Arizona.
Sheriff Wilmot said since he, Sanchez and Nicholls met with border officials on Wednesday, his department has still been getting questions from the public and the media, but the level of concern seems to have been dropping.
He added that the key to handling the volume of refugees at the border will be to have adequate federal funding for additional employees, as well as for housing those who are taken into detention. Otherwise, the costs could be passed down to the state and local level.
"From Yuma's perspective, we're asking Senators (John) McCain and (Jeff) Flake, and (Rep. Paul) Gosar to give them the personnel they need, because it's going to put a significant stressor on them," he said.
END
Also:
http://www.kyma.com/news/exclusive-interview-yuma-mayor-on-haitian-migrants/129570131
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/haitian-migrants-arrive-in-nogales-sonora-after-months-long-journey/article_859edb06-97ed-11e6-8166-8f727c352eca.html
end
From several days ago: (mostly computer english )
Alert on both borders of massive influx of Haitian migrants
Organizacion Editorial Mexicana
October 12, 2016
Nidia Marin
| SPECIAL |
http://www.oem.com.mx/tribunadesanluis/notas/n4301704.htm
The two borders of Mexico are prepared to the increased migration of Haitians after the hurricane "Matthew". Both the south and the north have been taking measures not only contention, but attention to these groups, in the second case after the meeting between the governor of Baja California, Francisco Vega and Interior Minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, as there are estimates that warn of a new wave that could reach 10,000.
And the resumption of humanitarian permit the United States had granted via the Department of Security (suspended since last September 22) will depend on who wins the electoral process in that country on the eighth of November. If Hillary Clinton wins it may decongest the border. If the victory is for Donald Trump it will be the problem for Mexico (unless the current government of Barack Obama take emergency measures).
Hence, in our country the authorities are watching both scenarios in search of strategies leading because African migration has continued, in the same way that Central Armerican, while the Haitian accelerates.
In addition, new guidelines from the Ministry of the Interior and the Government of Baja California, are part of the response to the National Commission of Human Rights makes a few days considered imperative that in coordination between federal and local authorities the designated entity urgently to ensure adequate humanitarian aid measures are implemented, as well as through diplomatic channels with countries involved in the transit and destination of foreign-mentioned actions are generated to have an orderly and respectful migration of its human rights.
Meanwhile, Haitians begin to cover several border cities. Until a few days ago they were located in Tijuana and Mexicali in Baja California, but they arrived early to San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora and there is also the consideration that they might reach Nogales.
Amnesty International recently warned:
"Hundreds of Haitians and African and Mexican internally displaced persons, are stranded in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Mexicali, many of them waiting for appointments with the Customs Service and Protection of US borders, across the border" .
In addition, it warned about the short term, after the interruption of humanitarian permit that had been granted to the Haitian people after the earthquake of 2010, noting that it also "announced the resumption of regular expulsions, which intensified the flood of Haitians to the border between Mexico and the United States before they start again deportations ".
So far discouragement has not spread among Haitians who are still in their Caribbean country and intend to emigrate, however, that the main Haitian migration in 2016 came largely from Brazil, "where they had worked temporarily after being displaced by the earthquake 2010 "in their homeland, according to AI.
TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA ARE IN ADDITION
And the problem more disappointments are added, as just a health scare was presented by the case of malaria combined with tuberculosis in a migrant stranded in Tijuana. And it is that as Amnesty International warned, the influx of African migrants, Haitians, Central Americans and Mexicans seeking to cross the border "has overstepped the shelters" that were already at full capacity with many Mexicans deported and some Central Americans fleeing violence . 14 shelters.
Such situations have already been identified, including the Sudcaliforniano published yesterday that "the Metropolitan Archbishop Monsignor Francisco Moreno Barron said at the end of the religious ceremony yesterday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be taking agreements to prepare" for something to flare up ".
But it is in both borders where there is some alarm. In the south before the arrival of Haitians (according to Ruben Zuniga), the mayor of Tapachula, Neftali Armando del Toro Guzman, will ask the federal government "to increase health services to this population group."
He also said he already asked the Federal Ministry of Health, specifically the secretary Jose Narro, support in the field and an analysis of such a situation "because the number of foreigners exceeds the possibilities of care."
According to AI, Mexican authorities should work together with the US to ensure proper detection of those seeking to cross into the United States and immediately send officials to these areas "to ensure proper selection of migrants that they can be entitled to international protection, ensuring close cooperation with the US authorities and giving priority to respect for human rights and the principles of family reunification ".
end
Comment: Re: AZMEX I3 22-10-16" As have been reminded by a friend, the progressive island paradise of Cuba is very close. Santiago de Cuba at about 250, Cienfuegos at 580, and Havana at about 720 miles.
The progressive non island paradise of Venezuela is also much closer than Nogales, AZ, Caracas at about 666, and Maracaibo even closer at 550 miles. Managua, NI at a long 1030 miles.
Parle français? New Orleans, LA at 1,365, and Montreal, QC at 1,860 miles.
( Distances are from Port au Prince. for Km. multiply miles by 1.609 )
Unknown why groups like the Clinton Global Initiative, etc. are not providing good union scale jobs in Haiti for these young men to stay and rebuild their country.
( comments solely of your correspondent )
Merci
Refuting refugee rumors: Mayor says asylum seekers not crowding into Yuma County
By Blake Herzog,
Updated 16 hrs ago (0)
http://www.yumasun.com/news/refuting-refugee-rumors-mayor-says-asylum-seekers-not-crowding-into/article_918760da-98a8-11e6-aa02-47589e2763a8.html
The wave of refugees from Haiti and other nations seeking entry into the U.S. at the Mexico border has spread eastward from Tijuana into San Luis Rio Colorado, giving rise to a variety of rumors in Yuma County.
Yuma Mayor Doug Nicholls said at a press conference Thursday that he, San Luis Mayor Jerry Sanchez and Sheriff Leon Wilmot met with federal officials to learn more about the current situation.
"There is no large group of Haitians or foreign nationals without legal status to be in the U.S. being released into the Yuma community," he said. Most are attempting to enter the country legally, turning themselves in to officials at the border ports in hopes of being granted asylum.
Single adults are being taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as their cases are being heard, and families are transported to Phoenix for further processing, he said.
"The second rumor is the Haitians are bringing diseases into the community, such as the Zika virus, open sores and parasites. When the process of CPB and ICE is to conduct a medical exam, as part of the regular processing of taking them into the center, those with any medical conditions are escorted to Yuma Regional Medical Center, and they would be under guard or accompanied by an agent," he said. "No such diseases or conditions have existed."
He added there is no "large, chaotic unrest at the San Luis port, particularly on the Mexican side," as has also been claimed. American and Mexican officials have been working cooperatively to schedule court hearings for refuge in a way that doesn't interfere with regular crossings.
And there's no expectation that most refugees currently seeking entry at San Luis will eventually be granted asylum, at which point they could choose to settle in or around Yuma.
"All Haitians currently in custody, from what I've been told, are slated for deportation to Haiti. There is a slight situation in Haiti right now with the hurricane (Matthew) and the pending elections, (prompting the U.S.) to accept them at this time, but once the new leaders are in place they fully expect the repatriation of all the Haitians currently scheduled for deportation," he said.
Haiti's first round of voting, delayed because of the hurricane, is now scheduled for Nov. 20, with a second round on Jan. 29.
The Associated Press reported earlier this month that several thousand Haitian citizens had traveled from Brazil, having emigrated for work after the 2010 earthquake, to Tijuana in recent months, while immigration authorities are only able to process a few dozen cases each day.
It's not clear how many refugees from Haiti or other nations are currently seeking entry to the U.S. via San Luis, Ariz. Public Affairs Officer Annica Zacarias said Friday that figures are currently being tabulated for the 2016 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 31, so no data will be available for a couple of months.
Zacarias said there has been an "uptick" in the number of Haitians coming to the San Luis port with no credentials for legal entry: "We are processing arrivals on a case by case basis. After CBP processes an individual with no status to legally enter the U.S., the person is placed in removal proceedings, according to their situation, and placed in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody pending further disposition."
Nicholls' remarks only referred to Haitian refugees, apparently the subject of most of the rumors, and he said his main concern would be whether local agencies would be able to provide enough food, shelter and other assistance to those who needed it. "And the rumors we heard were concerning because they would probably be too much for our local nonprofits to handle, and we would have to have an alternate plan," he said.
Asylum seekers from Central American countries have been reportedly massing at Mexican crossings into the U.S., with the numbers peaking two years ago, then rising again in 2016, according to a report released last week by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
The same report included a statement about the growing numbers of Haitian asylum seekers, and said that as of Sept. 22 CBP was detaining Haitians apprehended coming to the border without authorization, as is the practice with most foreign nationals. The policy for Haitians was relaxed after the 2010 earthquake there, and they were generally allowed to enter the U.S. on temporary humanitarian parole.
Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti Oct. 4, killing hundreds and leaving an estimated 1.4 million needing food, shelter or other assistance. Johnson said the storm would delay deportations, but wouldn't affect the policy.
"DHS and the Department of State are working with the Government of Haiti and other key partners to ensure that removals occur in as humane and minimally disruptive a manner as possible," he said.
Yuma County Interfaith has been operating a shelter near Immaculate Conception Church in Yuma for families crossing the border who are being sponsored by relatives in the U.S. Interfaith coordinator Melanie Nelson said the overall number of people coming through has been fluctuating in the last few months.
But just a small percentage have been from Haiti, with most of the rest coming from Central American nations wracked by poverty and violence.
"I have heard things about there being large numbers, but where people are seeing them are at the border, not here," Nelson said. "They'll say it took me an hour to get through with my SENTRI card instead of half an hour."
Most of the immigrants who do come through the shelter stay only about 12 to 24 hours while waiting on tickets purchased for them by their sponsors to arrive. None that she is aware of have stayed in the Yuma area, or even Arizona.
Sheriff Wilmot said since he, Sanchez and Nicholls met with border officials on Wednesday, his department has still been getting questions from the public and the media, but the level of concern seems to have been dropping.
He added that the key to handling the volume of refugees at the border will be to have adequate federal funding for additional employees, as well as for housing those who are taken into detention. Otherwise, the costs could be passed down to the state and local level.
"From Yuma's perspective, we're asking Senators (John) McCain and (Jeff) Flake, and (Rep. Paul) Gosar to give them the personnel they need, because it's going to put a significant stressor on them," he said.
END
Also:
http://www.kyma.com/news/exclusive-interview-yuma-mayor-on-haitian-migrants/129570131
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/haitian-migrants-arrive-in-nogales-sonora-after-months-long-journey/article_859edb06-97ed-11e6-8166-8f727c352eca.html
end
From several days ago: (mostly computer english )
Alert on both borders of massive influx of Haitian migrants
Organizacion Editorial Mexicana
October 12, 2016
Nidia Marin
| SPECIAL |
http://www.oem.com.mx/tribunadesanluis/notas/n4301704.htm
The two borders of Mexico are prepared to the increased migration of Haitians after the hurricane "Matthew". Both the south and the north have been taking measures not only contention, but attention to these groups, in the second case after the meeting between the governor of Baja California, Francisco Vega and Interior Minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, as there are estimates that warn of a new wave that could reach 10,000.
And the resumption of humanitarian permit the United States had granted via the Department of Security (suspended since last September 22) will depend on who wins the electoral process in that country on the eighth of November. If Hillary Clinton wins it may decongest the border. If the victory is for Donald Trump it will be the problem for Mexico (unless the current government of Barack Obama take emergency measures).
Hence, in our country the authorities are watching both scenarios in search of strategies leading because African migration has continued, in the same way that Central Armerican, while the Haitian accelerates.
In addition, new guidelines from the Ministry of the Interior and the Government of Baja California, are part of the response to the National Commission of Human Rights makes a few days considered imperative that in coordination between federal and local authorities the designated entity urgently to ensure adequate humanitarian aid measures are implemented, as well as through diplomatic channels with countries involved in the transit and destination of foreign-mentioned actions are generated to have an orderly and respectful migration of its human rights.
Meanwhile, Haitians begin to cover several border cities. Until a few days ago they were located in Tijuana and Mexicali in Baja California, but they arrived early to San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora and there is also the consideration that they might reach Nogales.
Amnesty International recently warned:
"Hundreds of Haitians and African and Mexican internally displaced persons, are stranded in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Mexicali, many of them waiting for appointments with the Customs Service and Protection of US borders, across the border" .
In addition, it warned about the short term, after the interruption of humanitarian permit that had been granted to the Haitian people after the earthquake of 2010, noting that it also "announced the resumption of regular expulsions, which intensified the flood of Haitians to the border between Mexico and the United States before they start again deportations ".
So far discouragement has not spread among Haitians who are still in their Caribbean country and intend to emigrate, however, that the main Haitian migration in 2016 came largely from Brazil, "where they had worked temporarily after being displaced by the earthquake 2010 "in their homeland, according to AI.
TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA ARE IN ADDITION
And the problem more disappointments are added, as just a health scare was presented by the case of malaria combined with tuberculosis in a migrant stranded in Tijuana. And it is that as Amnesty International warned, the influx of African migrants, Haitians, Central Americans and Mexicans seeking to cross the border "has overstepped the shelters" that were already at full capacity with many Mexicans deported and some Central Americans fleeing violence . 14 shelters.
Such situations have already been identified, including the Sudcaliforniano published yesterday that "the Metropolitan Archbishop Monsignor Francisco Moreno Barron said at the end of the religious ceremony yesterday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be taking agreements to prepare" for something to flare up ".
But it is in both borders where there is some alarm. In the south before the arrival of Haitians (according to Ruben Zuniga), the mayor of Tapachula, Neftali Armando del Toro Guzman, will ask the federal government "to increase health services to this population group."
He also said he already asked the Federal Ministry of Health, specifically the secretary Jose Narro, support in the field and an analysis of such a situation "because the number of foreigners exceeds the possibilities of care."
According to AI, Mexican authorities should work together with the US to ensure proper detection of those seeking to cross into the United States and immediately send officials to these areas "to ensure proper selection of migrants that they can be entitled to international protection, ensuring close cooperation with the US authorities and giving priority to respect for human rights and the principles of family reunification ".
end
Saturday, October 22, 2016
AZMEX I3 22-10-16
AZMEX I3 22 OCT 2016
Note: Still very curious why the 7,000 mile trip to AZ or CA borders?
When Miami, FL. is about 700 miles away, and Key West, FL is about 730 miles from Port Au Prince. (Haiti)
Merci
Haitian migrants arrive in Nogales, Sonora after months-long journey
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International Updated 16 hrs ago (0)
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/haitian-migrants-arrive-in-nogales-sonora-after-months-long-journey/article_859edb06-97ed-11e6-8166-8f727c352eca.html
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
As many as 65 migrants were camped out on the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Friday, waiting for a chance to enter the United States.
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
Paulo JeanLouis, from Haiti, arrived to the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Wednesday, where he has been waiting to enter the United States.
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
Belongings from the nearly 65 Haitian migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry lined the wall on Friday morning.
A long row of backpacks and duffel bags brimming with quilts, clothes and the few other items belonging to of a group of about 65 Haitian migrants were piled along the wall separating incoming and outgoing border-crossers in Nogales, Sonora on Friday.
The would-be U.S. immigrants are part of a recent surge of Haitians who are seeking entry at the nation's southern border with Mexico.
The group Friday – all men – lined up outside the metal turnstile on the Sonoran side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. Like thousands of other Haitian migrants who have been showing up along Mexico's northern border in Tijuana and other parts of Baja California in recent of months, they have come mainly from Brazil, an approximately 7,000-mile trek over land and sea.
"We came on foot, and sometimes we swam," said Paulo Jean-Louis, who said the journey through South and Central America took him five months. Several others said they made the trip in about two-and-a-half months.
Like many of the men who have been camped out at port for nearly three days now, Jean-Louis said he had lived and worked in Brazil for more than five years before leaving for the United States.
After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, many people fled the county, tens of thousands making their way to Brazil. But conditions in the South American nation have changed. Amid economic and political unrest, work has largely dried up, causing many Haitians to look north for better opportunities.
Sitting on bags or reclining on tattered blankets and thin blue mats, many of the Haitian men waiting outside the port don't want to leave, even to sleep at night, said Hilda Loureiro, who runs the Juan Bosco migrant shelter in Nogales, Sonora.
"We've had about 10 Haitians come here since the night before last," she said, adding that the few who came left first thing in the morning, worried they might miss their turn for an interview with a U.S. immigration officer.
The migrants are being processed "on a case-by-case basis" and those without legal status "are placed in removal proceedings according to their situation," according to a statement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in reference to the increasing number of Haitians arriving in Arizona.
During this fiscal year through Oct. 1, more than 5,000 Haitian immigrants have entered the United States without visas, up from 339 the year before, Reuters reported. Most of these immigrants have come through the ports from Tijuana and Mexicali and are asking for asylum.
Many of the Haitians who are trying to enter through ports in California have been waiting for weeks in Mexico, and so far the process for those in Arizona has also been slow. As of midday on Friday, some migrants who had been waiting south of the DeConcini port for more than two days had not had any interaction with U.S. officials and did not know what to expect or how long it would take.
"We can't enter like the others," said migrant Alex Givny, indicating to the line of border-crossers slowly filing past. "We have to wait for the police, for immigration to give us authorization to enter. But we have to wait right here."
Givny said that the line of men camped out in the tiled port passageway are trying to help their families, especially after the "catastrophe" two weeks ago when Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, devastating the impoverished Caribbean nation and leaving many without access food or water.
"I have two children. My mom, my dad, brothers and sisters," he said. The most recent natural disaster has increased his desperation to send aid home.
The Haitian migrants waiting in Nogales, Sonora received permission to stay in Mexico for 25 days when they crossed the border from Guatemala earlier this month, but their time runs out next week, Givny said.
Sick and injured migrants are receiving treatment from the Red Cross and Grupos Beta, and the Kino Border Initiative, along with residents and businesses in Nogales, Sonora, are trying to help the waiting Haitians by bringing food, water, blankets and even clothes.
"They are humans just like us," said Sergio Urrea, who dropped off bags of fruit after hearing about the migrants during a Mass at his church. "Today it's them, but tomorrow it could be any of us."
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced on Oct. 4 that his previous decision to resume removals of Haitians in late September would be temporarily suspended in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Until those removals resume, Haitians entering the country without authorization will be placed in immigration detention, he said.
end
Note: Still very curious why the 7,000 mile trip to AZ or CA borders?
When Miami, FL. is about 700 miles away, and Key West, FL is about 730 miles from Port Au Prince. (Haiti)
Merci
Haitian migrants arrive in Nogales, Sonora after months-long journey
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International Updated 16 hrs ago (0)
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/haitian-migrants-arrive-in-nogales-sonora-after-months-long-journey/article_859edb06-97ed-11e6-8166-8f727c352eca.html
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
As many as 65 migrants were camped out on the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Friday, waiting for a chance to enter the United States.
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
Paulo JeanLouis, from Haiti, arrived to the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Wednesday, where he has been waiting to enter the United States.
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
Belongings from the nearly 65 Haitian migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry lined the wall on Friday morning.
A long row of backpacks and duffel bags brimming with quilts, clothes and the few other items belonging to of a group of about 65 Haitian migrants were piled along the wall separating incoming and outgoing border-crossers in Nogales, Sonora on Friday.
The would-be U.S. immigrants are part of a recent surge of Haitians who are seeking entry at the nation's southern border with Mexico.
The group Friday – all men – lined up outside the metal turnstile on the Sonoran side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. Like thousands of other Haitian migrants who have been showing up along Mexico's northern border in Tijuana and other parts of Baja California in recent of months, they have come mainly from Brazil, an approximately 7,000-mile trek over land and sea.
"We came on foot, and sometimes we swam," said Paulo Jean-Louis, who said the journey through South and Central America took him five months. Several others said they made the trip in about two-and-a-half months.
Like many of the men who have been camped out at port for nearly three days now, Jean-Louis said he had lived and worked in Brazil for more than five years before leaving for the United States.
After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, many people fled the county, tens of thousands making their way to Brazil. But conditions in the South American nation have changed. Amid economic and political unrest, work has largely dried up, causing many Haitians to look north for better opportunities.
Sitting on bags or reclining on tattered blankets and thin blue mats, many of the Haitian men waiting outside the port don't want to leave, even to sleep at night, said Hilda Loureiro, who runs the Juan Bosco migrant shelter in Nogales, Sonora.
"We've had about 10 Haitians come here since the night before last," she said, adding that the few who came left first thing in the morning, worried they might miss their turn for an interview with a U.S. immigration officer.
The migrants are being processed "on a case-by-case basis" and those without legal status "are placed in removal proceedings according to their situation," according to a statement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in reference to the increasing number of Haitians arriving in Arizona.
During this fiscal year through Oct. 1, more than 5,000 Haitian immigrants have entered the United States without visas, up from 339 the year before, Reuters reported. Most of these immigrants have come through the ports from Tijuana and Mexicali and are asking for asylum.
Many of the Haitians who are trying to enter through ports in California have been waiting for weeks in Mexico, and so far the process for those in Arizona has also been slow. As of midday on Friday, some migrants who had been waiting south of the DeConcini port for more than two days had not had any interaction with U.S. officials and did not know what to expect or how long it would take.
"We can't enter like the others," said migrant Alex Givny, indicating to the line of border-crossers slowly filing past. "We have to wait for the police, for immigration to give us authorization to enter. But we have to wait right here."
Givny said that the line of men camped out in the tiled port passageway are trying to help their families, especially after the "catastrophe" two weeks ago when Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, devastating the impoverished Caribbean nation and leaving many without access food or water.
"I have two children. My mom, my dad, brothers and sisters," he said. The most recent natural disaster has increased his desperation to send aid home.
The Haitian migrants waiting in Nogales, Sonora received permission to stay in Mexico for 25 days when they crossed the border from Guatemala earlier this month, but their time runs out next week, Givny said.
Sick and injured migrants are receiving treatment from the Red Cross and Grupos Beta, and the Kino Border Initiative, along with residents and businesses in Nogales, Sonora, are trying to help the waiting Haitians by bringing food, water, blankets and even clothes.
"They are humans just like us," said Sergio Urrea, who dropped off bags of fruit after hearing about the migrants during a Mass at his church. "Today it's them, but tomorrow it could be any of us."
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced on Oct. 4 that his previous decision to resume removals of Haitians in late September would be temporarily suspended in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Until those removals resume, Haitians entering the country without authorization will be placed in immigration detention, he said.
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