AZMEX UPDATE 31 OCT 2017
Note: Wonder if the investigators are aware of the Roosevelt Easement?
KOLD Investigation: Backyard Border - Government could take Arizonans land to build border wall
Monday, October 30th 2017, 7:58 pm MST
Monday, October 30th 2017, 9:23 pm MST
By Craig Thomas, AnchorCONNECT
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/36722180/kold-investigation-backyard-border-government-could-take-arizonans-land-to-build-border-wall
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
The border wall is one of the most controversial and talked about issues in the country. But there's one key part of the wall that's not being discussed, the government would need to buy land from people in order to build parts of the wall - whether or not the people want to sell.
Kelly Kimbro is one of those people. She's a fifth-generation rancher near Douglas.
"This is our life," she says, driving a truck on her property. Kimbro allowed the government to build a border fence years ago. It's less than five feet high. If the Trump administration builds the 15-foot high border wall, it would go right where the fence is now. Kimbro wants no part of it.
"The border wall is not going to increase border security. You can build a structure, but I can guarantee you people are going to go under it or over it," Kimbro said. She wants our country to have strict immigration policy. Stating the number of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers who have crossed the border on her land has steadily decreased over the last decade, and nosedived since President Trump took office.
[READ MORE: Trump's border wall models take shape in San Diego; Hammers, axes will help test Trump border wall prototypes]
Kimbro told Tucson News Now she's more scared of our government than any migrant or drug mule because of eminent domain. Eminent domain comes under the 5th amendment of the constitution – allowing the government to take somebody's private property if they give that person "just compensation."
Kimbro says there's no price tag for her land and way of life. "Eminent domain is a phrase that should not be used against United States citizens. You can't just do this in the United States of America, it's not right, to take the land from people who have worked on it for six generations. That's not right."
Tucson News Now did some research and found the government admits it doesn't exactly how they would use eminent domain to get land along the 2,000 mile border, or how much it would cost.
Earlier this year - The Department of Homeland Security issued this written response to a senator's question about eminent domain. Admitting while it hopes to buy the land from owners - "there are situations where that may not be possible."
The department also wrote it has no idea how much buying the land - or dealing with lawsuits from land owners - would cost taxpayers. We asked for clarification on the answers. DHS said it would respond, but never did.
Kimbro says she has yet to receive a letter from the government asking to buy her land. But the government has sent letters out to people in Texas.
Federal government letter to Texas landowner by Tucson News Now on Scribd
The government offers a deal for the land, but reserves the right to force people to sell. The government used eminent domain to take people's land when they built parts of the wall in Texas back in 2006, and many homeowners filed lawsuits.
Texas landowner's lawsuit over use of eminent domain by Tucson News Now on Scribd
The issue of eminent domain doesn't get the attention of other aspects of the building of a border wall.
"When it comes out, it'll be too late. It's under the radar, and that's not right. There are no ranchers or farmers who can afford to fight the federal government and try to keep their land, and in the end everybody loses," Kimbro said.
end
See also:
AZMEX UPDATE 27 AUG 2013 AZMEX SPECIAL 2 MAY 2014 AZMEX SPECIAL 12 MAR 2016 (AZ statehood in 1912 )
And:
May 27, 1907. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Mexican boundary, Preamble - WHEREAS, it is necessary for the public welfare
that a strip of land lying along the boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Mexico be reserved from the operation of the public land laws and kept free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and said Republic;
Establishment of a strip of land 60 feet wide, Location - Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that there are hereby reserved from entry, settlement or other form of appropriation under the public land laws and set apart as a public reservation, all public lands within sixty feet of the international boundary between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, within the State of California and the Territories of Arizona and New- Mexico;
and where any river or stream forms any part of said international
boundary line, this reservation shall be construed and taken as extending to and including all public lands belonging to the United States which lie within sixty feet of the margin of such river or stream.
Lands excepted - Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which are at this date embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing, selection or rights-of way duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and also excepting all lands which at this date are embraced within any withdrawal or reservation for any use or purpose to which this reservation for customs purposes is repugnant; PROVIDED, that these exceptions shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made, or unless the reservation or withdrawal to which this reservation is inconsistent continues in force;
Use for public - PROVIDED FURTHER, that the said strips, tracts, or parcels of land, reserved as aforesaid, may be used for public highways but for no other purpose whatever, so long as the reservation of same under this proclamation shall continue in force.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 27th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of[SEAL.]the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.
By the President: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
ELIHU ROOT
Secretary of State.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Sunday, October 29, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE2 26-10-17
AZMEX UPDATE2 26 OCT 2017
Note: Unfortunately, what happens in Cajeme doesn't stay in Cajeme. So we can look to more violence heading north to the AZMEX border soon?
thx
Increase in violence in Cajeme
DAILY 7 HOURS
David Vázquez and Demian Duarte
http://diariodelyaqui.mx/2017/10/25/aumenta-violencia-en-cajeme/
Fifty-one percent increased malicious killings in Cajeme, with drug use, criminal groups and the breakdown of the social fabric, leading to violence and executions in the municipality, said Mayor Faustino Felix Chavez.
The municipal president said that this situation is being combated in a coordinated way between the three levels of Government; however, added that it will take time to solve it.
"The problem is not something that is going to end overnight, we have to understand that it took nine years to develop that situation, we have two years fighting in a coordinated way, however, we see that despite the fact that all other crimes are going down, the problem of willful homicide continues, "said the mayor of Cajeme.
Finally, he pointed out that the violent events that occurred on Tuesday night were not related to the departure of Cajeme from the Gendarmerie and Navy elements, because they were still present while these corporations operated in the Municipality, so that this type of situations are related to differences between criminal groups.
RECOGNIZES PUBLIC SAFETY INCREASES IN MURDER; THERE ARE 507 CASES
However, Adolfo García Morales stressed that significant progress has been made and that other crimes
Sonora's main crime problem is murder, which has increased by 17.63 percent from September 2016 to September 2017, to record 507 cases, compared with 431 reported 12 months ago, Adolfo said. García Morales, Secretary of Public Security, during his appearance before the State Congress.
However, the official responsible for responding to the issue of crime and providing security for the citizens, stressed that other crimes such as burglary, vehicle theft, robbery, kidnapping and extortion have been achieved. degree that the INEGI has reported that in terms of perception Sonora advanced and today is the fifth highest rated state.
During almost two hours of presentation before the deputies, representatives of the Commission of Public Safety headed by Javier Dagnino Escobosa, García Morales gave details on how they have established systems of prevention and timely detection of criminal incidence, intelligence work that has allowed progress in the fight against crime, although he acknowledged that in regions such as Cajeme, the presence of organized crime has prevented progress in high-impact crimes, which has been a factor in triggering the homicide statistics.
He said that today Sonora is the number 14 with the highest incidence of murders among the 32 states of the Republic, an aspect in which he said he has stepped back from place 12 that was a couple of years ago and where 408 cases have been fired to the 507 reported.
He detailed that in the robbery to houses was controlled the incidence and that were reported 708 cases, compared to 2 787 that were had a year ago, which represents a drop of 74%; while automobile theft dropped to 3,151 cases from 3,228 a year ago, which represents a decrease of 2%, although he said that now the phenomenon is that they are robberies with violence.
The official said that the abduction practically disappeared in Sonora with only 1 case, which represents a decrease of 80% compared to the previous year when reporting 5 cases; In addition, 78 cases of extortion were reported, compared with 125 cases in 2016, which means a decrease of 78.4%. Finally in the business robbery García Morales noted that it was also possible to stop this problem with 607 cases, compared to 622 September 2016.
The head of Public Security said that coordination schemes have been established with all municipalities regardless of partisan extraction and that municipal police officers have been equipped, along with training, support in the evaluation process in the tests of confidence control.
He said that the actions of the corporations have increased the number of arrests to 16,182, that 613 firearms were seized and that 67 tons of drugs were transferred to the border region, while in actions against the more than 613 thousand doses were confiscated. He also underlined that 1 thousand 628 vehicles were recovered with theft report.
García Morales said that as part of the work of prevention and intelligence has a framework of 110 colonies located in 12 municipalities, from which arises 80% of crime, and that it is sought to reduce risk factors by applying the citizen shield scheme.
"I need your support Congress, because we have to do
understand that as they apply their programs in localized areas we will have an impact, but we will also lower the risk factors that lead to violence and crime, "the official told lawmakers. Garcia Morales noted that public safety in Sonora has made significant progress for the benefit of Sonorans in the first two years of the current administration. "I think we must insist that public safety is everyone's responsibility, we all have to see something, the risk factors that generate violence and delinquency are factors such as addictions, domestic violence, and school dropout, "he said.
Opposition MPs criticized the secretary and even the chairman of the Security Commission, Javier Dagnino put a label of disapproval, arguing that authority has been exceeded in Sonora by criminals. The PAN deputy coordinator, Luis Serrato Castell, expressed the feelings of the families with whom he has had an approach in the colonies who claim the lack of police elements in the communities and questioned the reasons why the law has not been implemented. regulates the use of public force, approved by the current legislature.
"The law is not being used, in it comes an instrument for the citizen, if the police does not respond in time, it will have consequences and that is why we ask why it has not been applied, since the first steps were to form a advice and training the police and there is no information that the Secretariat worked on this, "he said.
He said that according to figures from the Public Security System, there was an increase in crimes such as bank robbery with 500%, robbery with violence to businesses with 105.7%, violent robbery of vehicles with 85.4%, rape 17.9% and homicides 15.7%.
end
Note: Unfortunately, what happens in Cajeme doesn't stay in Cajeme. So we can look to more violence heading north to the AZMEX border soon?
thx
Increase in violence in Cajeme
DAILY 7 HOURS
David Vázquez and Demian Duarte
http://diariodelyaqui.mx/2017/10/25/aumenta-violencia-en-cajeme/
Fifty-one percent increased malicious killings in Cajeme, with drug use, criminal groups and the breakdown of the social fabric, leading to violence and executions in the municipality, said Mayor Faustino Felix Chavez.
The municipal president said that this situation is being combated in a coordinated way between the three levels of Government; however, added that it will take time to solve it.
"The problem is not something that is going to end overnight, we have to understand that it took nine years to develop that situation, we have two years fighting in a coordinated way, however, we see that despite the fact that all other crimes are going down, the problem of willful homicide continues, "said the mayor of Cajeme.
Finally, he pointed out that the violent events that occurred on Tuesday night were not related to the departure of Cajeme from the Gendarmerie and Navy elements, because they were still present while these corporations operated in the Municipality, so that this type of situations are related to differences between criminal groups.
RECOGNIZES PUBLIC SAFETY INCREASES IN MURDER; THERE ARE 507 CASES
However, Adolfo García Morales stressed that significant progress has been made and that other crimes
Sonora's main crime problem is murder, which has increased by 17.63 percent from September 2016 to September 2017, to record 507 cases, compared with 431 reported 12 months ago, Adolfo said. García Morales, Secretary of Public Security, during his appearance before the State Congress.
However, the official responsible for responding to the issue of crime and providing security for the citizens, stressed that other crimes such as burglary, vehicle theft, robbery, kidnapping and extortion have been achieved. degree that the INEGI has reported that in terms of perception Sonora advanced and today is the fifth highest rated state.
During almost two hours of presentation before the deputies, representatives of the Commission of Public Safety headed by Javier Dagnino Escobosa, García Morales gave details on how they have established systems of prevention and timely detection of criminal incidence, intelligence work that has allowed progress in the fight against crime, although he acknowledged that in regions such as Cajeme, the presence of organized crime has prevented progress in high-impact crimes, which has been a factor in triggering the homicide statistics.
He said that today Sonora is the number 14 with the highest incidence of murders among the 32 states of the Republic, an aspect in which he said he has stepped back from place 12 that was a couple of years ago and where 408 cases have been fired to the 507 reported.
He detailed that in the robbery to houses was controlled the incidence and that were reported 708 cases, compared to 2 787 that were had a year ago, which represents a drop of 74%; while automobile theft dropped to 3,151 cases from 3,228 a year ago, which represents a decrease of 2%, although he said that now the phenomenon is that they are robberies with violence.
The official said that the abduction practically disappeared in Sonora with only 1 case, which represents a decrease of 80% compared to the previous year when reporting 5 cases; In addition, 78 cases of extortion were reported, compared with 125 cases in 2016, which means a decrease of 78.4%. Finally in the business robbery García Morales noted that it was also possible to stop this problem with 607 cases, compared to 622 September 2016.
The head of Public Security said that coordination schemes have been established with all municipalities regardless of partisan extraction and that municipal police officers have been equipped, along with training, support in the evaluation process in the tests of confidence control.
He said that the actions of the corporations have increased the number of arrests to 16,182, that 613 firearms were seized and that 67 tons of drugs were transferred to the border region, while in actions against the more than 613 thousand doses were confiscated. He also underlined that 1 thousand 628 vehicles were recovered with theft report.
García Morales said that as part of the work of prevention and intelligence has a framework of 110 colonies located in 12 municipalities, from which arises 80% of crime, and that it is sought to reduce risk factors by applying the citizen shield scheme.
"I need your support Congress, because we have to do
understand that as they apply their programs in localized areas we will have an impact, but we will also lower the risk factors that lead to violence and crime, "the official told lawmakers. Garcia Morales noted that public safety in Sonora has made significant progress for the benefit of Sonorans in the first two years of the current administration. "I think we must insist that public safety is everyone's responsibility, we all have to see something, the risk factors that generate violence and delinquency are factors such as addictions, domestic violence, and school dropout, "he said.
Opposition MPs criticized the secretary and even the chairman of the Security Commission, Javier Dagnino put a label of disapproval, arguing that authority has been exceeded in Sonora by criminals. The PAN deputy coordinator, Luis Serrato Castell, expressed the feelings of the families with whom he has had an approach in the colonies who claim the lack of police elements in the communities and questioned the reasons why the law has not been implemented. regulates the use of public force, approved by the current legislature.
"The law is not being used, in it comes an instrument for the citizen, if the police does not respond in time, it will have consequences and that is why we ask why it has not been applied, since the first steps were to form a advice and training the police and there is no information that the Secretariat worked on this, "he said.
He said that according to figures from the Public Security System, there was an increase in crimes such as bank robbery with 500%, robbery with violence to businesses with 105.7%, violent robbery of vehicles with 85.4%, rape 17.9% and homicides 15.7%.
end
AZMEX I3 29-10-17
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Note: YOUR social security number? Unable to find the referenced study.
thx
Study: 44% Of DACA Recipients Worked Without Valid Social Security Number
44% of DACA recipients worked without a valid social security number
October 27, 2017
OAN Newsroom
http://www.oann.com/study-44-of-daca-recipients-worked-without-valid-social-security-number/
A new study reveals nearly half of the 800,000 DACA recipients previously worked in the U.S. without a valid social security number.
The data, released by the University of California, San Diego on Thursday, shows 44% of illegals protected under the Obama-era program were not authorized to work in the country before gaining DACA status.
The report finds the immigrants may have stolen social security numbers belonging to American citizens, shedding light on potential widespread identity theft.
The Trump administration is set to end the program within months barring congressional action.
END
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Increase in migrant flows in Nogales
POSTED ON 10/29/2017
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/10/29/aumenta-flujo-de-migrantes-en-nogales/
Everardo Rivera
Nuevo Dia / Nogales, Sonora
A fifteen percent increase has been recorded in migrant flows transiting the United States during the beginning of the fall season.
According to information from the Administrator of the Migrant Shelter Juan Bosco, 60 to 70 people are served daily between returnees and migrants.
Administrator Francisco Loureiro said that most of the services offered at the shelter are for women from Central America, from countries like Honduras and El Salvador.
He indicated that the injuries that are on the rise are the fractures caused by jumping the border wall and dehydration has shown a decrease during this season.
"Right now the injured people who have come to the shelter are those who fall from the walls when trying to cross to the other side; we have cases of older adults who have tried to cross and have gotten sick from the stomach, but dehydration has been on the decline since August, what has increased are fractures, "he said.
He added that if there is a drop in temperature will increase migrants in the shelter, since by nature they seek a shelter to protect themselves from the cold.
END
Note: YOUR social security number? Unable to find the referenced study.
thx
Study: 44% Of DACA Recipients Worked Without Valid Social Security Number
44% of DACA recipients worked without a valid social security number
October 27, 2017
OAN Newsroom
http://www.oann.com/study-44-of-daca-recipients-worked-without-valid-social-security-number/
A new study reveals nearly half of the 800,000 DACA recipients previously worked in the U.S. without a valid social security number.
The data, released by the University of California, San Diego on Thursday, shows 44% of illegals protected under the Obama-era program were not authorized to work in the country before gaining DACA status.
The report finds the immigrants may have stolen social security numbers belonging to American citizens, shedding light on potential widespread identity theft.
The Trump administration is set to end the program within months barring congressional action.
END
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Increase in migrant flows in Nogales
POSTED ON 10/29/2017
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/10/29/aumenta-flujo-de-migrantes-en-nogales/
Everardo Rivera
Nuevo Dia / Nogales, Sonora
A fifteen percent increase has been recorded in migrant flows transiting the United States during the beginning of the fall season.
According to information from the Administrator of the Migrant Shelter Juan Bosco, 60 to 70 people are served daily between returnees and migrants.
Administrator Francisco Loureiro said that most of the services offered at the shelter are for women from Central America, from countries like Honduras and El Salvador.
He indicated that the injuries that are on the rise are the fractures caused by jumping the border wall and dehydration has shown a decrease during this season.
"Right now the injured people who have come to the shelter are those who fall from the walls when trying to cross to the other side; we have cases of older adults who have tried to cross and have gotten sick from the stomach, but dehydration has been on the decline since August, what has increased are fractures, "he said.
He added that if there is a drop in temperature will increase migrants in the shelter, since by nature they seek a shelter to protect themselves from the cold.
END
AZMEX I3 29-10-17
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Note: YOUR social security number? Unable to find the referenced study.
thx
Study: 44% Of DACA Recipients Worked Without Valid Social Security Number
44% of DACA recipients worked without a valid social security number
October 27, 2017
OAN Newsroom
http://www.oann.com/study-44-of-daca-recipients-worked-without-valid-social-security-number/
A new study reveals nearly half of the 800,000 DACA recipients previously worked in the U.S. without a valid social security number.
The data, released by the University of California, San Diego on Thursday, shows 44% of illegals protected under the Obama-era program were not authorized to work in the country before gaining DACA status.
The report finds the immigrants may have stolen social security numbers belonging to American citizens, shedding light on potential widespread identity theft.
The Trump administration is set to end the program within months barring congressional action.
END
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Increase in migrant flows in Nogales
POSTED ON 10/29/2017
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/10/29/aumenta-flujo-de-migrantes-en-nogales/
Everardo Rivera
Nuevo Dia / Nogales, Sonora
A fifteen percent increase has been recorded in migrant flows transiting the United States during the beginning of the fall season.
According to information from the Administrator of the Migrant Shelter Juan Bosco, 60 to 70 people are served daily between returnees and migrants.
Administrator Francisco Loureiro said that most of the services offered at the shelter are for women from Central America, from countries like Honduras and El Salvador.
He indicated that the injuries that are on the rise are the fractures caused by jumping the border wall and dehydration has shown a decrease during this season.
"Right now the injured people who have come to the shelter are those who fall from the walls when trying to cross to the other side; we have cases of older adults who have tried to cross and have gotten sick from the stomach, but dehydration has been on the decline since August, what has increased are fractures, "he said.
He added that if there is a drop in temperature will increase migrants in the shelter, since by nature they seek a shelter to protect themselves from the cold.
END
Note: YOUR social security number? Unable to find the referenced study.
thx
Study: 44% Of DACA Recipients Worked Without Valid Social Security Number
44% of DACA recipients worked without a valid social security number
October 27, 2017
OAN Newsroom
http://www.oann.com/study-44-of-daca-recipients-worked-without-valid-social-security-number/
A new study reveals nearly half of the 800,000 DACA recipients previously worked in the U.S. without a valid social security number.
The data, released by the University of California, San Diego on Thursday, shows 44% of illegals protected under the Obama-era program were not authorized to work in the country before gaining DACA status.
The report finds the immigrants may have stolen social security numbers belonging to American citizens, shedding light on potential widespread identity theft.
The Trump administration is set to end the program within months barring congressional action.
END
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Increase in migrant flows in Nogales
POSTED ON 10/29/2017
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/10/29/aumenta-flujo-de-migrantes-en-nogales/
Everardo Rivera
Nuevo Dia / Nogales, Sonora
A fifteen percent increase has been recorded in migrant flows transiting the United States during the beginning of the fall season.
According to information from the Administrator of the Migrant Shelter Juan Bosco, 60 to 70 people are served daily between returnees and migrants.
Administrator Francisco Loureiro said that most of the services offered at the shelter are for women from Central America, from countries like Honduras and El Salvador.
He indicated that the injuries that are on the rise are the fractures caused by jumping the border wall and dehydration has shown a decrease during this season.
"Right now the injured people who have come to the shelter are those who fall from the walls when trying to cross to the other side; we have cases of older adults who have tried to cross and have gotten sick from the stomach, but dehydration has been on the decline since August, what has increased are fractures, "he said.
He added that if there is a drop in temperature will increase migrants in the shelter, since by nature they seek a shelter to protect themselves from the cold.
END
AZMEX I3 29-10-17
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Note: YOUR social security number? Unable to find the referenced study.
thx
Study: 44% Of DACA Recipients Worked Without Valid Social Security Number
44% of DACA recipients worked without a valid social security number
October 27, 2017
OAN Newsroom
http://www.oann.com/study-44-of-daca-recipients-worked-without-valid-social-security-number/
A new study reveals nearly half of the 800,000 DACA recipients previously worked in the U.S. without a valid social security number.
The data, released by the University of California, San Diego on Thursday, shows 44% of illegals protected under the Obama-era program were not authorized to work in the country before gaining DACA status.
The report finds the immigrants may have stolen social security numbers belonging to American citizens, shedding light on potential widespread identity theft.
The Trump administration is set to end the program within months barring congressional action.
END
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Increase in migrant flows in Nogales
POSTED ON 10/29/2017
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/10/29/aumenta-flujo-de-migrantes-en-nogales/
Everardo Rivera
Nuevo Dia / Nogales, Sonora
A fifteen percent increase has been recorded in migrant flows transiting the United States during the beginning of the fall season.
According to information from the Administrator of the Migrant Shelter Juan Bosco, 60 to 70 people are served daily between returnees and migrants.
Administrator Francisco Loureiro said that most of the services offered at the shelter are for women from Central America, from countries like Honduras and El Salvador.
He indicated that the injuries that are on the rise are the fractures caused by jumping the border wall and dehydration has shown a decrease during this season.
"Right now the injured people who have come to the shelter are those who fall from the walls when trying to cross to the other side; we have cases of older adults who have tried to cross and have gotten sick from the stomach, but dehydration has been on the decline since August, what has increased are fractures, "he said.
He added that if there is a drop in temperature will increase migrants in the shelter, since by nature they seek a shelter to protect themselves from the cold.
END
Note: YOUR social security number? Unable to find the referenced study.
thx
Study: 44% Of DACA Recipients Worked Without Valid Social Security Number
44% of DACA recipients worked without a valid social security number
October 27, 2017
OAN Newsroom
http://www.oann.com/study-44-of-daca-recipients-worked-without-valid-social-security-number/
A new study reveals nearly half of the 800,000 DACA recipients previously worked in the U.S. without a valid social security number.
The data, released by the University of California, San Diego on Thursday, shows 44% of illegals protected under the Obama-era program were not authorized to work in the country before gaining DACA status.
The report finds the immigrants may have stolen social security numbers belonging to American citizens, shedding light on potential widespread identity theft.
The Trump administration is set to end the program within months barring congressional action.
END
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2017
Increase in migrant flows in Nogales
POSTED ON 10/29/2017
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/10/29/aumenta-flujo-de-migrantes-en-nogales/
Everardo Rivera
Nuevo Dia / Nogales, Sonora
A fifteen percent increase has been recorded in migrant flows transiting the United States during the beginning of the fall season.
According to information from the Administrator of the Migrant Shelter Juan Bosco, 60 to 70 people are served daily between returnees and migrants.
Administrator Francisco Loureiro said that most of the services offered at the shelter are for women from Central America, from countries like Honduras and El Salvador.
He indicated that the injuries that are on the rise are the fractures caused by jumping the border wall and dehydration has shown a decrease during this season.
"Right now the injured people who have come to the shelter are those who fall from the walls when trying to cross to the other side; we have cases of older adults who have tried to cross and have gotten sick from the stomach, but dehydration has been on the decline since August, what has increased are fractures, "he said.
He added that if there is a drop in temperature will increase migrants in the shelter, since by nature they seek a shelter to protect themselves from the cold.
END
Friday, October 27, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE 26-10-17
AZMEX UPDATE 26 OCT 2017
Note: Santa Cruz county be tuff on crime.
thx
Law and order briefs: Probation for defendants in heroin, stolen truck cases
Nogales International
Oct 24, 2017 Updated Oct 24, 2017
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/law-and-order-briefs-probation-for-defendants-in-heroin-stolen/article_8dc7efcc-b84c-11e7-ab89-6fd3a067c30f.html
Teen heroin smuggler convicted as an adult
A teenager from Sahuarita was sentenced to three years of probation for trying to smuggle heroin from Mexico to Phoenix through Santa Cruz County.
According to her pre-sentence report, the teen, who was a few months shy of her 18th birthday at the time, was riding on a northbound shuttle on July 22, 2016 when the van was sent for a secondary inspection at the Border Patrol's checkpoint on Interstate 19.
During the inspection, agents noticed the young woman was acting suspiciously, including walking backwards to prevent them from seeing her front waistline area while also holding her purse in front of her waist. When an agent asked to see her purse and she handed it over, tan plastic tape protruded from her waist area, the report says.
At that point, the teen volunteered that she wanted to cooperate and told agents that she had something on her, but didn't know what it was. She was taken to a room where agents removed two square-shaped packages from around her waist.
The packages reportedly contained brown crystals that gave off a vinegar-like smell. The substance later tested positive for heroin.
The girl said someone she knew only as "Cuate" had put the packages on her in Nogales, Sonora, and she was supposed to bring them to Phoenix, where someone would meet her at the shuttle office and give her $500. Upon returning to Nogales, Sonora with the money, she expected be paid $400, she said.
The suspect was later released to the custody of her mother and prosecuted in the local court system as an adult.
She pleaded guilty to a Class 6 undesignated felony, meaning the offense can be designated a misdemeanor if she successfully completes her sentence, which includes three years of probation and 30 days of suspended jail time.
The defendant, now 19, was sentenced Oct. 16 by Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
Stolen truck driver gets probation
On Aug. 4, 2016, then 18-year-old Karim Leonardo Payanes of Nogales, Sonora tried to drive a Ford F-350 pickup into Mexico through the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers conducting outbound checks stopped the truck and learned that it had been stolen in Phoenix.
Payanes was prosecuted in the local court system, and on Oct. 16, Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court sentenced him to three years probation, including 30 days of deferred jail time.
The judge also ordered that he pay $451 in restitution to the owner of the truck. According to Payanes' pre-sentence report, the vehicle suffered damage to its driver's side door and ignition.
Payanes was convicted of a Class 6 undesignated felony, meaning the offense can be designated a misdemeanor if he successfully completes his punishment.
During a pre-sentence interview, Payanes told a probation officer that some friends asked him to cross the truck into Mexico in exchange for $100. "I had a bad feeling once I started driving the truck," he said, adding: "I had no idea why I had a bad feeling about it."
When he was stopped at the port, he thought the vehicle might have been loaded with drugs, he said.
Payanes was arrested and spent the next nine days in the county jail. When he was released from jail, he said, he thought the matter had been resolved and he went back to Mexico. However, when he returned to the United States, he learned that there was a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear for court hearings.
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Note: The gun guys will find the photo at the link also of interest.
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ESP will fight criminal groups
Details Posted on Thursday October 26, 2017,
Written by Jesús Esquer / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=99839
Hermosillo.
Cajeme has a new criminal group that entered through Sinaloa and joins the two already existing in that municipality, admitted Adolfo García Morales, who admitted that the National Gendarmerie temporarily left there and focused its efforts in Puerto Peñasco in order deal with a fisheries problem.
The State Secretary of Public Security stressed that during the last month has increased the intentional homicide and some of that is due to the the Military Police that hardly knows the area, in addition to the exit of Gendarmería that had helped in the rural sector.
He admitted that the arrival of a third criminal group was on the border with Sinaloa that made use of its strategies to evade checkpoints such as Don Station checkpoint and stressed that if a good job is done with intelligence that will allow them to contain them . "What happens is that it breaks up and splits organized crime groups and they become groups, the same group becomes two sometimes, that's the problem," he said.
The head of the SESP said that the State Public Security Police will make an effort to send more agents, but in addition will make a strategic modification that will include their presence for a few days and manage to recompose the operational plan to expect that there are no presence of those groups in other municipalities.
Garcia Morales noted that the Gendarmerie left Ciudad Obregon on federal orders and although at first it was thought that only part of the elements would leave, later confirmed that it needed the more than 200 soldiers in Sonora.
"They left temporarily to Puerto Peñasco because of the problem of the fisheries, there was a problem with the fishermen that altered the security situation and that is why they went there, but hopefully in about 15 days they will return to Cajeme," he said.
The head of the SESP explained that the fishermen of the region did not allow the work of officials of the National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries who were under pressure, in addition to the recent confrontations that included damages to a patrol of the PESP.
end
Note: Santa Cruz county be tuff on crime.
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Law and order briefs: Probation for defendants in heroin, stolen truck cases
Nogales International
Oct 24, 2017 Updated Oct 24, 2017
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/law-and-order-briefs-probation-for-defendants-in-heroin-stolen/article_8dc7efcc-b84c-11e7-ab89-6fd3a067c30f.html
Teen heroin smuggler convicted as an adult
A teenager from Sahuarita was sentenced to three years of probation for trying to smuggle heroin from Mexico to Phoenix through Santa Cruz County.
According to her pre-sentence report, the teen, who was a few months shy of her 18th birthday at the time, was riding on a northbound shuttle on July 22, 2016 when the van was sent for a secondary inspection at the Border Patrol's checkpoint on Interstate 19.
During the inspection, agents noticed the young woman was acting suspiciously, including walking backwards to prevent them from seeing her front waistline area while also holding her purse in front of her waist. When an agent asked to see her purse and she handed it over, tan plastic tape protruded from her waist area, the report says.
At that point, the teen volunteered that she wanted to cooperate and told agents that she had something on her, but didn't know what it was. She was taken to a room where agents removed two square-shaped packages from around her waist.
The packages reportedly contained brown crystals that gave off a vinegar-like smell. The substance later tested positive for heroin.
The girl said someone she knew only as "Cuate" had put the packages on her in Nogales, Sonora, and she was supposed to bring them to Phoenix, where someone would meet her at the shuttle office and give her $500. Upon returning to Nogales, Sonora with the money, she expected be paid $400, she said.
The suspect was later released to the custody of her mother and prosecuted in the local court system as an adult.
She pleaded guilty to a Class 6 undesignated felony, meaning the offense can be designated a misdemeanor if she successfully completes her sentence, which includes three years of probation and 30 days of suspended jail time.
The defendant, now 19, was sentenced Oct. 16 by Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
Stolen truck driver gets probation
On Aug. 4, 2016, then 18-year-old Karim Leonardo Payanes of Nogales, Sonora tried to drive a Ford F-350 pickup into Mexico through the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers conducting outbound checks stopped the truck and learned that it had been stolen in Phoenix.
Payanes was prosecuted in the local court system, and on Oct. 16, Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court sentenced him to three years probation, including 30 days of deferred jail time.
The judge also ordered that he pay $451 in restitution to the owner of the truck. According to Payanes' pre-sentence report, the vehicle suffered damage to its driver's side door and ignition.
Payanes was convicted of a Class 6 undesignated felony, meaning the offense can be designated a misdemeanor if he successfully completes his punishment.
During a pre-sentence interview, Payanes told a probation officer that some friends asked him to cross the truck into Mexico in exchange for $100. "I had a bad feeling once I started driving the truck," he said, adding: "I had no idea why I had a bad feeling about it."
When he was stopped at the port, he thought the vehicle might have been loaded with drugs, he said.
Payanes was arrested and spent the next nine days in the county jail. When he was released from jail, he said, he thought the matter had been resolved and he went back to Mexico. However, when he returned to the United States, he learned that there was a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear for court hearings.
END
Note: The gun guys will find the photo at the link also of interest.
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ESP will fight criminal groups
Details Posted on Thursday October 26, 2017,
Written by Jesús Esquer / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=99839
Hermosillo.
Cajeme has a new criminal group that entered through Sinaloa and joins the two already existing in that municipality, admitted Adolfo García Morales, who admitted that the National Gendarmerie temporarily left there and focused its efforts in Puerto Peñasco in order deal with a fisheries problem.
The State Secretary of Public Security stressed that during the last month has increased the intentional homicide and some of that is due to the the Military Police that hardly knows the area, in addition to the exit of Gendarmería that had helped in the rural sector.
He admitted that the arrival of a third criminal group was on the border with Sinaloa that made use of its strategies to evade checkpoints such as Don Station checkpoint and stressed that if a good job is done with intelligence that will allow them to contain them . "What happens is that it breaks up and splits organized crime groups and they become groups, the same group becomes two sometimes, that's the problem," he said.
The head of the SESP said that the State Public Security Police will make an effort to send more agents, but in addition will make a strategic modification that will include their presence for a few days and manage to recompose the operational plan to expect that there are no presence of those groups in other municipalities.
Garcia Morales noted that the Gendarmerie left Ciudad Obregon on federal orders and although at first it was thought that only part of the elements would leave, later confirmed that it needed the more than 200 soldiers in Sonora.
"They left temporarily to Puerto Peñasco because of the problem of the fisheries, there was a problem with the fishermen that altered the security situation and that is why they went there, but hopefully in about 15 days they will return to Cajeme," he said.
The head of the SESP explained that the fishermen of the region did not allow the work of officials of the National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries who were under pressure, in addition to the recent confrontations that included damages to a patrol of the PESP.
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AZMEX I3 26-10-17
AZMEX I3 26 OCT 2017
INM Announces Increase in Migrants Passing through
Details Posted on Thursday October 26, 2017,
Written by Jesús Esquer / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=99842
Hermosillo.
The National Immigration Institute expects a 10% increase in the flow of South American migrants seeking to conquer the American dream by crossing the Sonora border to the United States, said Juan Manuel Hurtado Monreal.
The INM delegate in Sonora admitted that in the last years there has been a rise in the crossing during the last months of the year and although it has not yet recovered and is maintained in about 100 migrants per month, that number is expected to increase, though not significantly.
"We are estimating if a 5-10% no more," he said to comment that in the months of lower heat, the rise is recorded, but then stabilized by the cooler weather in the regions of Sonoyta and El Sásabe.
He emphasized that many of the migrants evade the animals or insects, etc. like vipers or coyotes.
Hurtado Monreal recalled that binational travels with their counterparts across the border are maintained and have found signs of where people cross and assistance, which helps them to obtain resources from the Merida Initiative program.
"Throughout the year material is being given to Sonora from cars, to binoculars of the Mérida Initiative," he said, adding that Mexican or undocumented migrants, with ladders, to jump the fence, saws or tools,to cut though, but they are placed again and when the passing location does not appear to be damaged.
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Serving 20 Honduran migrants
manuel POSTED ON 10/19/2017
Hiram G. Machi
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/10/19/atienden-a-20-migrantes-hondurenos/
New Day / Nogales, Sonora
Yesterday morning, a group of more than 30 Central American migrants arrived in the city after a long trip aboard freight trains from Chiapas to Nogales, in more than a month of time, with the intention of entering the United States ; the group was located to the south of the city requesting help to feed and to continue its way.
Dozens of young people from Honduras and El Salvador, mainly, were caught on a crossing requesting charity from motorists to purchase food; dozens of citizens responded to the call by taking them, water and food.
The young people, according to his words, had more than a month since they left their native country, approaching "La Bestia", as the freighter train is known in Tapachula, Chiapas, to arrive weeks later at the Nogales border.
The journey of thousands of Central Americans is incredible, taking their chances with gangs, and the Mexican Migra, as they know it, all the way, among other dangers.
In their statements they detailed the death of a companion who lost his balance when it mounted the train in Sinaloa.
The young people were also assisted by the Red Cross hours later in a program of humanitarian support and localization of family members, at least eleven of them chatting with relatives.
But the youth odyssey is not yet over, they will now face an even greater challenge: the desert and the security of the United States, all for trying to get the so-called "American dream," which often turns into a nightmare.
END
INM Announces Increase in Migrants Passing through
Details Posted on Thursday October 26, 2017,
Written by Jesús Esquer / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=99842
Hermosillo.
The National Immigration Institute expects a 10% increase in the flow of South American migrants seeking to conquer the American dream by crossing the Sonora border to the United States, said Juan Manuel Hurtado Monreal.
The INM delegate in Sonora admitted that in the last years there has been a rise in the crossing during the last months of the year and although it has not yet recovered and is maintained in about 100 migrants per month, that number is expected to increase, though not significantly.
"We are estimating if a 5-10% no more," he said to comment that in the months of lower heat, the rise is recorded, but then stabilized by the cooler weather in the regions of Sonoyta and El Sásabe.
He emphasized that many of the migrants evade the animals or insects, etc. like vipers or coyotes.
Hurtado Monreal recalled that binational travels with their counterparts across the border are maintained and have found signs of where people cross and assistance, which helps them to obtain resources from the Merida Initiative program.
"Throughout the year material is being given to Sonora from cars, to binoculars of the Mérida Initiative," he said, adding that Mexican or undocumented migrants, with ladders, to jump the fence, saws or tools,to cut though, but they are placed again and when the passing location does not appear to be damaged.
END
Serving 20 Honduran migrants
manuel POSTED ON 10/19/2017
Hiram G. Machi
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/10/19/atienden-a-20-migrantes-hondurenos/
New Day / Nogales, Sonora
Yesterday morning, a group of more than 30 Central American migrants arrived in the city after a long trip aboard freight trains from Chiapas to Nogales, in more than a month of time, with the intention of entering the United States ; the group was located to the south of the city requesting help to feed and to continue its way.
Dozens of young people from Honduras and El Salvador, mainly, were caught on a crossing requesting charity from motorists to purchase food; dozens of citizens responded to the call by taking them, water and food.
The young people, according to his words, had more than a month since they left their native country, approaching "La Bestia", as the freighter train is known in Tapachula, Chiapas, to arrive weeks later at the Nogales border.
The journey of thousands of Central Americans is incredible, taking their chances with gangs, and the Mexican Migra, as they know it, all the way, among other dangers.
In their statements they detailed the death of a companion who lost his balance when it mounted the train in Sinaloa.
The young people were also assisted by the Red Cross hours later in a program of humanitarian support and localization of family members, at least eleven of them chatting with relatives.
But the youth odyssey is not yet over, they will now face an even greater challenge: the desert and the security of the United States, all for trying to get the so-called "American dream," which often turns into a nightmare.
END
AZMEX I3-2 26-10-17
AZMEX I3-2 26 OCT 2017
Immigrant population in Arizona increases to nearly 1 million in 2016
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BY KTAR.COM | OCTOBER 26, 2017 AT 4:35 AM
UPDATED: OCTOBER 26, 2017 AT 2:53 PM
http://ktar.com/story/1804120/immigrant-population-in-arizona-increases-to-nearly-1-million-in-2016/
Alma Lopez holds her son Javier's and husband Javier Flores Garcia's hands during a news conference outside of the Arch Street United Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. Javier Flores Garcia, who has been living in the church for nearly a year to avoid deportation to Mexico, has walked free Wednesday. In 2004, he was stabbed and worked with the government to capture the men responsible. His actions made him eligible for a special type of visa for people who help police. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
PHOENIX — There's one state that a large number of immigrants like to call home: Arizona.
Arizona was among the states with the largest increase in immigrants — both legal and illegal — between 2010 and 2016, according to the non-profit organization Center for Immigration Studies.
The number of immigrants increased by more than 78,000 over that six-year period, jumping from 856,663 in 2010 to 934,883 in 2016.
This put Arizona among the top 15 states in the nation for immigrant growth, joining the likes of states that included Texas, Florida, California, New York and New Jersey.
The trend in Arizona represents the same pattern nationwide: The national immigrant population increased by 3.8 million from 2010 to 43.7 million in 2016, making up more than 13 percent of the entire population.
A majority of those immigrants came from Mexico, with 1.1 million new immigrants arriving from the country between 2010 and 2016.
But due to return migration and natural mortality, the overall Mexican-born population has not increased in that same time period.
However, the numbers for Arizona may not be accurate in 2017.
More than 5,000 illegal immigrants were removed from Arizona in the first three months of 2017 alone, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In an email, ICE said 5,283 people had been removed as of March 31. Of those, 1,780 were removed from the state in January, followed by 1,613 in February and 1,890 in March.
The figures include immigrants who were forcibly deported, those who voluntarily deported and those removed from the country by Border Patrol.
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Immigrant population in Arizona increases to nearly 1 million in 2016
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BY KTAR.COM | OCTOBER 26, 2017 AT 4:35 AM
UPDATED: OCTOBER 26, 2017 AT 2:53 PM
http://ktar.com/story/1804120/immigrant-population-in-arizona-increases-to-nearly-1-million-in-2016/
Alma Lopez holds her son Javier's and husband Javier Flores Garcia's hands during a news conference outside of the Arch Street United Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. Javier Flores Garcia, who has been living in the church for nearly a year to avoid deportation to Mexico, has walked free Wednesday. In 2004, he was stabbed and worked with the government to capture the men responsible. His actions made him eligible for a special type of visa for people who help police. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
PHOENIX — There's one state that a large number of immigrants like to call home: Arizona.
Arizona was among the states with the largest increase in immigrants — both legal and illegal — between 2010 and 2016, according to the non-profit organization Center for Immigration Studies.
The number of immigrants increased by more than 78,000 over that six-year period, jumping from 856,663 in 2010 to 934,883 in 2016.
This put Arizona among the top 15 states in the nation for immigrant growth, joining the likes of states that included Texas, Florida, California, New York and New Jersey.
The trend in Arizona represents the same pattern nationwide: The national immigrant population increased by 3.8 million from 2010 to 43.7 million in 2016, making up more than 13 percent of the entire population.
A majority of those immigrants came from Mexico, with 1.1 million new immigrants arriving from the country between 2010 and 2016.
But due to return migration and natural mortality, the overall Mexican-born population has not increased in that same time period.
However, the numbers for Arizona may not be accurate in 2017.
More than 5,000 illegal immigrants were removed from Arizona in the first three months of 2017 alone, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In an email, ICE said 5,283 people had been removed as of March 31. Of those, 1,780 were removed from the state in January, followed by 1,613 in February and 1,890 in March.
The figures include immigrants who were forcibly deported, those who voluntarily deported and those removed from the country by Border Patrol.
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
AZMEX SPECIAL 25-10-17
AZMEX SPECIAL 25 OCT 2017
Note: from a couple years ago now, but still relevant. From our friends at Borderland Beat.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
The Tarahumara Mountains: Migrant Death Camps
Posted by DD Republished from Mexican Journalism Translation Project
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/10/the-tarahumara-mountains-migrant-death.html#more
Proceso published this report on 14 December 2015. It has been translated in anticipation of Patricia Mayorga receiving the Committee to Protect Journalists' Press Freedom Award this November.
Translator Patrick Timmons is human rights investigator and lawyer, and a journalist. His articles have appeared in the Texas Observer, CounterPunch and NACLA. He collaborates with the Freedom of Expression Project at the Transborder Institute at the University of San Diego. He is participating in #agendadeperiodistas, a new group formed by journalists to protect journalists. He lives in Mexico City.
By Patricia Mayorga
Migrants at the Julio Ornelas Station (Photo: Proceso)
They make them eat rotten meat. They beat them until they lose consciousness. They watch over them so they won't escape. They stop them from washing. They do not earn a cent. These are the forced labor campus in the Tarahumara Mountains. It's a place where drug traffickers dump migrants and exploit them after they have stolen their freedom.
Proceso managed to interview three of the survivors of these camps: Adrián, Mauricio and Aurelio. Their stories reveal a perfectly placed hell on earth, organized and sustained by the authorities.
"Welcome to hell!"
"Welcome to hell! In a moment we are going to introduce you to the devil!" they tell the migrants who get out at the Julio Ornelas train station. While they "invite" them to "work" they beat them.
Julio Ornelas is located in Guazapares, adjacent to Urique. These two municipalities border the state of Sinaloa, near the Golden Triangle where the states of Chihuaha, Sinaloa, and Durango come together.
That's where Adrián was recruited. He's restless but happy and comes from Baja California. He is 22 years old and talks about what he has already lived through. "When I was deported from the U.S., the authorities told us we were going to be taken to Ciudad Acuña in Coahuila. They told us it was a new system of migratory control so that we don't try to cross the U.S. border again: leaving us far from where we are from so that we have to battle to go back."
They arrived at the migrant refuge in two buses full of deportees. Adrián joined five other people who had been deported and he separated himself from them along the way. He only received a quarter of what the bus trip cost because in that month, September, Coahuila had gone through a natural disaster and the state had to direct funds to the people who had been affected.
They managed to get to Torreón in vehicles. Then they walked to Durango. Later they were put on a truck bound for Chihuahua.
"On September 15th we slept by the train tracks in Chihuahua. The other two guys began to smoke marijuana. The train left early in the morning. I parted ways with them and joined up with another. There were many people by the train tracks but only three of us got on the train. One was about 30 years old and came from Chihuahua. The other was from Hermosillo."
They fell asleep and hours later they woke up to an AK-47 in their faces. "They poked us in the ribs with another gun. It was like five in the morning. They got us up by saying terrible things: "Move it you sons of bitches."
Three men had stopped the train. Previously they had placed colored flags to tell the engineer to stop.
"They were youngsters just like us. One was the leader's son … they forced other people out of different boxcars. We didn't know what they were going to do. We were seven. One old man refused to go. I thought they were soldiers but they didn't search us. They forced me out with a bayonet and gave me a kick."
They walked for a day and a half towards the camp. They walked through a town called Tojabó. That's where they think the food came from for the band of criminals.
They were forced from the train. Then they were told that they were going to make a "stop" for "a marijuana break." They would pay them 200 pesos a day. They never received the money. "They told us that when we arrived they were going to butcher a cow. They did that. But the carcass was rotten and filled with worms. There was no way to negotiate with them. Iron or lead, that's what they told us."
On the way to the camp they saw many ranches and camps. They saw women who were walking and who were all bloody. "It was their time of the month. We did not speak to them. We almost did not see them. They did not let anybody wash or change their clothes. Sometimes we could bathe if we passed through an arroyo but no more than that."
"Now I'm going to introduce you to the 'devil,' said the son of the thug in charge. They had arrived.
He received them dressed in military fatigues and he warned them: "Whoever escapes will not find freedom. We control these hills. This is not the only camp."
Adrián was not accustomed to fieldwork. He had to learn. But he suffered physical abuse because he would not give in like the others. "One time they almost broke my arm."
For almost three months Adrián prepared the fields where they planted poppies and marijuana. They even grew tobacco.
"They fed us bean soup. They spooned us animal feed. Sometimes it was animal feed gruel, or milk whey, or a broth of bones. The thugs ate well. They stole livestock, mostly cows for their meals. We only smelled them grilling meat."
After six weeks soldiers arrived in a helicopter. "We already had a plot of marijuana drying. I ran away. I did not know if they had landed or if they had arrived and established a cordon. I ran all afternoon. That was my first escape attempt. The next day I awoke after taking shelter under a boulder. I knew that I had no other option but to go back."
"I went back frightened. I knew they were going to hit me for leaving. I saw that the soldiers had cut down several trees so the helicopter could land." Only two of the six who had arrived with Adrián made it back. They were from Sinaloa, Honduras, Aguascalientes, Torreón and Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, a town in Chihuahua.
The soldiers did not burn all of the drugs. They left half intact. The forced labor continued.
The three interviewees say that the leader comes from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, employed by the cartel carrying that state's name.
Mauricio arrived after the next trip to press-gang more migrants. He is 27 years old and comes from the state of Chihuahua. They also forced him to get out at the Julio Ornelas station. He was trying to get back home. He had left from the Sufragio station in Los Mochis in Sinaloa.
Target Practice
At the camp there is a cabin for the overseers. But the workers sleep under a tree with the chickens. They give some of them a blanket but others have to wrap themselves up in jackets or just the clothes they have. They take their worn out shoes or sneakers away from them during the night so they won't escape.
At the first crow of the cock, around five in the morning, they have to be ready, with their blankets folded. When the cock crows again they can eat a spoonful of soup. With the third cockcrow, that's when work begins.
Adrián has brushed up against death. He survived target practice. When one of the bosses became angry because somebody tried to escape he took three or four of them and put a bottle filled with water on their heads. It was target practice. He shot at them one by one. If he hit the bottle they were all saved and they deserved to live. If not, they killed them.
Sick of the insults and the beatings, Adrián tried to flee but the dogs stopped him. The punishment: target practice. When it was his turn the bullet missed. But he was saved.
Mauricio heard that one of the men who arrived with another group was killed. "They showed me where they burned him. There were some bones. They told me that the bosses threw a man off the cliff that made cheese for them. He had stolen a cheese. One of the guys told me that we were surviving thanks to the three or four tortillas they gave us each day."
"They treated us rudely. They always hit us on the back with a club. One boss almost broke my right arm. It was swollen. I could not carry firewood or bales of marijuana," says Mauricio.
Adrián finishes what the other was saying. "Mauricio was working in the field and it was easier for him. But all of it was humiliating. What they wanted to do was kill your self-esteem."
Mauricio continues, "We only talked about what we were going to do when we got out of there. We all said that the person who made it out had to say where we were, to do something for the rest of us."
The three told Proceso about their experiences in Ciudad Chihuahua. That's where they received support from the civil society organization Uno de Siete Migrantes (One of Seven Migrants).
The Tarahumara Mountains turned into a hidden training camp for killers, a center of forced labor to plant marijuana, a hell for migrants deported from the United States and who had to ride the rails in cargo trains.
Although they seem invisible to people in the state capital, hundreds of Mexican and Central American migrants arrive in Ciudad Chihuahua to ride the cargo train that runs through the mountains towards the state of Sinaloa.
On December 4th, Chihuahua's Attorney General received a complaint for people trafficking from Mauricio. He decided to file a complaint because that's what he promised his still enslaved friends.
On different dates, three of the migrants mentioned climbed into boxcars at the Sufragio station in El Fuerte Municipio. They were trying to make it to Sinaloa. They were forced from the train in Julio Ornelas station in Guazapares township before they made it to Sinaloa.
Like them, dozens of migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras had been held by force. Several managed to flee but fear paralyzed them and stopped them from filing a complaint.
The Escape
Near the camp were two hills that served as reference points. One was Tojabó mountain and the other El Manzano, where there is an airstrip.
Adrián and Mauricio agreed to flee when they sent them to milk the cows, an activity that took around an hour. They walked away from the Tojabó village and its five or six houses.
They walked for more than a day. They arrived at La Guáchara ranch. They asked a family for help. They gave them food and offered them work for three days in marijuana fields but with better treatment. They managed to get a ride to Cerocahui in Urique municipality.
The mining town of Cerocahui is guarded by lookouts from the Sinaloa cartel but with bosses different from those of Guazapares. "When we got out from the truck, they found us and questioned us. We told them the truth because we already knew that they came from a different group. It was like a survival instinct. They offered us work. They told us it was voluntary and that we could be there for two weeks to decide if we wanted to stay there or not. They were armed but not with long guns," Mauricio remembers.
They took us to another hill where there were indigenous adolescents from about 14 to 17 years old. They were from the region. They just had to move the irrigation from one marijuana field to another. They gave them food and allowed them to prepare what they want. It was like a dream. They treated them well.
They soon figured out that the armed men went into the hills to recruit youngsters for their training camps. "They give them weapons and they go to attack another territory and make them shoot. The ones that can't shoot well they leave until they learn."
On November 20th, when there were festivals in Cerocahui and Bahuichivo (both places have cartel bosses), one indigenous person from the region said they wouldn't let them go and it was still forced labor. He showed them how they could escape.
They left Cerocahui for Bahuichivo by walking. They hitched a ride to San Rafael and from there they got to Ciudad Chihuahua. They went to the train tracks where they found food and were interviewed by members of the organization, Mas de Siete Migrantes (More than Seven Migrants), who offered them legal, psychological and economic aid while they stayed in the city to file their complaint with the Attorney General.
On December 4th, Adrián filed his complaint and returned to where he comes from. Mauricio also went back to where is from. Aurelio has left for the United States with the intention of rejoining his family.
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Investigative reporter Patricia Mayorga is a prize-winning Mexican journalist from Chihuahua. She works with Proceso, Mexico's premier investigative news magazine. After the murder of her friend and colleague Miroslava Breach in March 2017 in Ciudad Chihuahua, she went into exile and is currently in hiding. The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor her with its Press Freedom Award this November.
Borderland Beat Reporter dd Posted at 9:04
Note: from a couple years ago now, but still relevant. From our friends at Borderland Beat.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
The Tarahumara Mountains: Migrant Death Camps
Posted by DD Republished from Mexican Journalism Translation Project
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/10/the-tarahumara-mountains-migrant-death.html#more
Proceso published this report on 14 December 2015. It has been translated in anticipation of Patricia Mayorga receiving the Committee to Protect Journalists' Press Freedom Award this November.
Translator Patrick Timmons is human rights investigator and lawyer, and a journalist. His articles have appeared in the Texas Observer, CounterPunch and NACLA. He collaborates with the Freedom of Expression Project at the Transborder Institute at the University of San Diego. He is participating in #agendadeperiodistas, a new group formed by journalists to protect journalists. He lives in Mexico City.
By Patricia Mayorga
Migrants at the Julio Ornelas Station (Photo: Proceso)
They make them eat rotten meat. They beat them until they lose consciousness. They watch over them so they won't escape. They stop them from washing. They do not earn a cent. These are the forced labor campus in the Tarahumara Mountains. It's a place where drug traffickers dump migrants and exploit them after they have stolen their freedom.
Proceso managed to interview three of the survivors of these camps: Adrián, Mauricio and Aurelio. Their stories reveal a perfectly placed hell on earth, organized and sustained by the authorities.
"Welcome to hell!"
"Welcome to hell! In a moment we are going to introduce you to the devil!" they tell the migrants who get out at the Julio Ornelas train station. While they "invite" them to "work" they beat them.
Julio Ornelas is located in Guazapares, adjacent to Urique. These two municipalities border the state of Sinaloa, near the Golden Triangle where the states of Chihuaha, Sinaloa, and Durango come together.
That's where Adrián was recruited. He's restless but happy and comes from Baja California. He is 22 years old and talks about what he has already lived through. "When I was deported from the U.S., the authorities told us we were going to be taken to Ciudad Acuña in Coahuila. They told us it was a new system of migratory control so that we don't try to cross the U.S. border again: leaving us far from where we are from so that we have to battle to go back."
They arrived at the migrant refuge in two buses full of deportees. Adrián joined five other people who had been deported and he separated himself from them along the way. He only received a quarter of what the bus trip cost because in that month, September, Coahuila had gone through a natural disaster and the state had to direct funds to the people who had been affected.
They managed to get to Torreón in vehicles. Then they walked to Durango. Later they were put on a truck bound for Chihuahua.
"On September 15th we slept by the train tracks in Chihuahua. The other two guys began to smoke marijuana. The train left early in the morning. I parted ways with them and joined up with another. There were many people by the train tracks but only three of us got on the train. One was about 30 years old and came from Chihuahua. The other was from Hermosillo."
They fell asleep and hours later they woke up to an AK-47 in their faces. "They poked us in the ribs with another gun. It was like five in the morning. They got us up by saying terrible things: "Move it you sons of bitches."
Three men had stopped the train. Previously they had placed colored flags to tell the engineer to stop.
"They were youngsters just like us. One was the leader's son … they forced other people out of different boxcars. We didn't know what they were going to do. We were seven. One old man refused to go. I thought they were soldiers but they didn't search us. They forced me out with a bayonet and gave me a kick."
They walked for a day and a half towards the camp. They walked through a town called Tojabó. That's where they think the food came from for the band of criminals.
They were forced from the train. Then they were told that they were going to make a "stop" for "a marijuana break." They would pay them 200 pesos a day. They never received the money. "They told us that when we arrived they were going to butcher a cow. They did that. But the carcass was rotten and filled with worms. There was no way to negotiate with them. Iron or lead, that's what they told us."
On the way to the camp they saw many ranches and camps. They saw women who were walking and who were all bloody. "It was their time of the month. We did not speak to them. We almost did not see them. They did not let anybody wash or change their clothes. Sometimes we could bathe if we passed through an arroyo but no more than that."
"Now I'm going to introduce you to the 'devil,' said the son of the thug in charge. They had arrived.
He received them dressed in military fatigues and he warned them: "Whoever escapes will not find freedom. We control these hills. This is not the only camp."
Adrián was not accustomed to fieldwork. He had to learn. But he suffered physical abuse because he would not give in like the others. "One time they almost broke my arm."
For almost three months Adrián prepared the fields where they planted poppies and marijuana. They even grew tobacco.
"They fed us bean soup. They spooned us animal feed. Sometimes it was animal feed gruel, or milk whey, or a broth of bones. The thugs ate well. They stole livestock, mostly cows for their meals. We only smelled them grilling meat."
After six weeks soldiers arrived in a helicopter. "We already had a plot of marijuana drying. I ran away. I did not know if they had landed or if they had arrived and established a cordon. I ran all afternoon. That was my first escape attempt. The next day I awoke after taking shelter under a boulder. I knew that I had no other option but to go back."
"I went back frightened. I knew they were going to hit me for leaving. I saw that the soldiers had cut down several trees so the helicopter could land." Only two of the six who had arrived with Adrián made it back. They were from Sinaloa, Honduras, Aguascalientes, Torreón and Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, a town in Chihuahua.
The soldiers did not burn all of the drugs. They left half intact. The forced labor continued.
The three interviewees say that the leader comes from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, employed by the cartel carrying that state's name.
Mauricio arrived after the next trip to press-gang more migrants. He is 27 years old and comes from the state of Chihuahua. They also forced him to get out at the Julio Ornelas station. He was trying to get back home. He had left from the Sufragio station in Los Mochis in Sinaloa.
Target Practice
At the camp there is a cabin for the overseers. But the workers sleep under a tree with the chickens. They give some of them a blanket but others have to wrap themselves up in jackets or just the clothes they have. They take their worn out shoes or sneakers away from them during the night so they won't escape.
At the first crow of the cock, around five in the morning, they have to be ready, with their blankets folded. When the cock crows again they can eat a spoonful of soup. With the third cockcrow, that's when work begins.
Adrián has brushed up against death. He survived target practice. When one of the bosses became angry because somebody tried to escape he took three or four of them and put a bottle filled with water on their heads. It was target practice. He shot at them one by one. If he hit the bottle they were all saved and they deserved to live. If not, they killed them.
Sick of the insults and the beatings, Adrián tried to flee but the dogs stopped him. The punishment: target practice. When it was his turn the bullet missed. But he was saved.
Mauricio heard that one of the men who arrived with another group was killed. "They showed me where they burned him. There were some bones. They told me that the bosses threw a man off the cliff that made cheese for them. He had stolen a cheese. One of the guys told me that we were surviving thanks to the three or four tortillas they gave us each day."
"They treated us rudely. They always hit us on the back with a club. One boss almost broke my right arm. It was swollen. I could not carry firewood or bales of marijuana," says Mauricio.
Adrián finishes what the other was saying. "Mauricio was working in the field and it was easier for him. But all of it was humiliating. What they wanted to do was kill your self-esteem."
Mauricio continues, "We only talked about what we were going to do when we got out of there. We all said that the person who made it out had to say where we were, to do something for the rest of us."
The three told Proceso about their experiences in Ciudad Chihuahua. That's where they received support from the civil society organization Uno de Siete Migrantes (One of Seven Migrants).
The Tarahumara Mountains turned into a hidden training camp for killers, a center of forced labor to plant marijuana, a hell for migrants deported from the United States and who had to ride the rails in cargo trains.
Although they seem invisible to people in the state capital, hundreds of Mexican and Central American migrants arrive in Ciudad Chihuahua to ride the cargo train that runs through the mountains towards the state of Sinaloa.
On December 4th, Chihuahua's Attorney General received a complaint for people trafficking from Mauricio. He decided to file a complaint because that's what he promised his still enslaved friends.
On different dates, three of the migrants mentioned climbed into boxcars at the Sufragio station in El Fuerte Municipio. They were trying to make it to Sinaloa. They were forced from the train in Julio Ornelas station in Guazapares township before they made it to Sinaloa.
Like them, dozens of migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras had been held by force. Several managed to flee but fear paralyzed them and stopped them from filing a complaint.
The Escape
Near the camp were two hills that served as reference points. One was Tojabó mountain and the other El Manzano, where there is an airstrip.
Adrián and Mauricio agreed to flee when they sent them to milk the cows, an activity that took around an hour. They walked away from the Tojabó village and its five or six houses.
They walked for more than a day. They arrived at La Guáchara ranch. They asked a family for help. They gave them food and offered them work for three days in marijuana fields but with better treatment. They managed to get a ride to Cerocahui in Urique municipality.
The mining town of Cerocahui is guarded by lookouts from the Sinaloa cartel but with bosses different from those of Guazapares. "When we got out from the truck, they found us and questioned us. We told them the truth because we already knew that they came from a different group. It was like a survival instinct. They offered us work. They told us it was voluntary and that we could be there for two weeks to decide if we wanted to stay there or not. They were armed but not with long guns," Mauricio remembers.
They took us to another hill where there were indigenous adolescents from about 14 to 17 years old. They were from the region. They just had to move the irrigation from one marijuana field to another. They gave them food and allowed them to prepare what they want. It was like a dream. They treated them well.
They soon figured out that the armed men went into the hills to recruit youngsters for their training camps. "They give them weapons and they go to attack another territory and make them shoot. The ones that can't shoot well they leave until they learn."
On November 20th, when there were festivals in Cerocahui and Bahuichivo (both places have cartel bosses), one indigenous person from the region said they wouldn't let them go and it was still forced labor. He showed them how they could escape.
They left Cerocahui for Bahuichivo by walking. They hitched a ride to San Rafael and from there they got to Ciudad Chihuahua. They went to the train tracks where they found food and were interviewed by members of the organization, Mas de Siete Migrantes (More than Seven Migrants), who offered them legal, psychological and economic aid while they stayed in the city to file their complaint with the Attorney General.
On December 4th, Adrián filed his complaint and returned to where he comes from. Mauricio also went back to where is from. Aurelio has left for the United States with the intention of rejoining his family.
*********************
Investigative reporter Patricia Mayorga is a prize-winning Mexican journalist from Chihuahua. She works with Proceso, Mexico's premier investigative news magazine. After the murder of her friend and colleague Miroslava Breach in March 2017 in Ciudad Chihuahua, she went into exile and is currently in hiding. The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor her with its Press Freedom Award this November.
Borderland Beat Reporter dd Posted at 9:04
AZMEX UPDATE 25-10-17
AZMEX UPDATE 25 OCT 2017
Note: So far, the immediate AZMEX border area remains fairly calm. But no one should bet on it staying this way for much longer.
Mexico, like Chicago, a pervasive culture of corruption. From our friends at Borderland Beat.
Thx
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Mexico, about to break all records of murders in 2017
Posted by DD material from el Pais and Mexico News Daily
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/10/mexico-about-to-break-all-records-of.html#more
Nearly 50 killed in weekend of violence
Mexico News Daily reported a spate of armed attacks across several states left close to 50 people dead over the weekend, further adding to an already alarmingly high 2017 death toll that is likely to make this year Mexico's most violent of the past two decades.
Guerrero saw the worst of it: 17 homicides occurred in the state where where six of the victims were found in a clandestine grave in Acapulco. The other 11 fatalities were caused by shootings in both the port city and other municipalities including Técpan de Galeana and Alcholoa.
Sixteen people were killed in Baja California Sur on Friday and Saturday including a one-year-old infant who was caught in the crossfire in an attack at a restaurant in the state capital La Paz. It brought the number of people killed in the state last week to 35.
A further seven murders were recorded in the northern border state of Chihuahua.
Counted among the dead were three bullet-riddled bodies found in the back of an abandoned pick-up truck with New Mexico license plates in the municipality of Riva Palacio. Based on their clothing the victims were believed to be members of the Mennonite community.
Another two people were shot dead at a party in Ciudad Juárez.
In San Luis Potosí, the owner of a cantina in the state capital found two people dead when he arrived to clean the venue at approximately 11:30am yesterday, police reported.
Violence also hit the border city of Tijuana in Baja California.
Attacks on a bar in the downtown area and a seafood restaurant in the southeast of the city left four dead and 10 wounded, according to the municipal Secretariat of Public Security. The perpetrator of the bar attack was arrested and taken into custody.
A 22-year-old man was also fatally wounded by gunfire in Tlalnepantla, México state.
The wave of violence over the weekend added to a record high death toll that is set to exceed Mexico's previous annual record, registered in 2011 when former President Felipe Calderón was waging a war against drug cartels.
El Pais reported in the first nine months of this year, 18,505 homicides were recorded, according to statistics from the Interior Secretariat. The figure equates to more than 68 murders per day, six higher than the 62 per day recorded in 2011.
Several months and quarters of 2017 have been among Mexico's most violent in the last 20 years including record high numbers for intentional homicides in May that was promptly relegated to second place after even higher numbers were recorded in June.
Rising crime has also affected popular tourist destinations including Los Cabos, Baja California Sur and Cancún, Quintana Roo, leading the United States Department of State to issue an updated travel warning in August.
With just over two months until the end of 2017, this year is set to become not only the bloodiest in President Enrique Peña Nieto's six-year term but also the most violent since records were made publicly available in 1997.
Not even in the cruelest years of the war against drug trafficking were recorded such high homicide figures as those that have endured this 2017 . In the first nine months of the year, according to figures released by the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, up to 18,505 felony homicides - more than 68 a day - were counted. So far, Mexico's deadliest year had been 2011, in full open battle against drug lords, a time when corpses filled the front pages of national newspapers. These nine months have, however, exceeded that dark stage and, according to the figures, everything points to become one of the most violent years in its history.
The first public data on the Executive Secretariat's page on homicides is from 1997. From January to September of that year, there were 12,504 victims. That number has risen mercilessly to the 62 killed a day in 2011 . Many then believed that violence in the country had hit the ceiling.
The following year, 2012, the figure relaxed a bit: almost 1,000 fewer victims. And in 2013, almost 3,000 less. It was from 2015 when numbers began to rise. In 2016, the violence was about to go back to the one that lived the deadly 2011. And began to jump the alarms.
In May this year, the national press warned that it was the deadliest month in two decades . And, the following month, a new consecutive record was broken with 43 more victims. The increase was also reflected in the number of kidnappings. In September they have risen to 866 in just nine months, 70 more than the same period last year.
A year ago, it was with concern that 2016 had become the most violent year since four years when President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in the government. But given the figures of the first nine months of this, the horizon is even darker. Mexico is 90 days from crossing the goal of the most violent year since records were made available.
Borderland Beat Reporter dd Posted at 7:43 AM
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Note: So far, the immediate AZMEX border area remains fairly calm. But no one should bet on it staying this way for much longer.
Mexico, like Chicago, a pervasive culture of corruption. From our friends at Borderland Beat.
Thx
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Mexico, about to break all records of murders in 2017
Posted by DD material from el Pais and Mexico News Daily
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/10/mexico-about-to-break-all-records-of.html#more
Nearly 50 killed in weekend of violence
Mexico News Daily reported a spate of armed attacks across several states left close to 50 people dead over the weekend, further adding to an already alarmingly high 2017 death toll that is likely to make this year Mexico's most violent of the past two decades.
Guerrero saw the worst of it: 17 homicides occurred in the state where where six of the victims were found in a clandestine grave in Acapulco. The other 11 fatalities were caused by shootings in both the port city and other municipalities including Técpan de Galeana and Alcholoa.
Sixteen people were killed in Baja California Sur on Friday and Saturday including a one-year-old infant who was caught in the crossfire in an attack at a restaurant in the state capital La Paz. It brought the number of people killed in the state last week to 35.
A further seven murders were recorded in the northern border state of Chihuahua.
Counted among the dead were three bullet-riddled bodies found in the back of an abandoned pick-up truck with New Mexico license plates in the municipality of Riva Palacio. Based on their clothing the victims were believed to be members of the Mennonite community.
Another two people were shot dead at a party in Ciudad Juárez.
In San Luis Potosí, the owner of a cantina in the state capital found two people dead when he arrived to clean the venue at approximately 11:30am yesterday, police reported.
Violence also hit the border city of Tijuana in Baja California.
Attacks on a bar in the downtown area and a seafood restaurant in the southeast of the city left four dead and 10 wounded, according to the municipal Secretariat of Public Security. The perpetrator of the bar attack was arrested and taken into custody.
A 22-year-old man was also fatally wounded by gunfire in Tlalnepantla, México state.
The wave of violence over the weekend added to a record high death toll that is set to exceed Mexico's previous annual record, registered in 2011 when former President Felipe Calderón was waging a war against drug cartels.
El Pais reported in the first nine months of this year, 18,505 homicides were recorded, according to statistics from the Interior Secretariat. The figure equates to more than 68 murders per day, six higher than the 62 per day recorded in 2011.
Several months and quarters of 2017 have been among Mexico's most violent in the last 20 years including record high numbers for intentional homicides in May that was promptly relegated to second place after even higher numbers were recorded in June.
Rising crime has also affected popular tourist destinations including Los Cabos, Baja California Sur and Cancún, Quintana Roo, leading the United States Department of State to issue an updated travel warning in August.
With just over two months until the end of 2017, this year is set to become not only the bloodiest in President Enrique Peña Nieto's six-year term but also the most violent since records were made publicly available in 1997.
Not even in the cruelest years of the war against drug trafficking were recorded such high homicide figures as those that have endured this 2017 . In the first nine months of the year, according to figures released by the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, up to 18,505 felony homicides - more than 68 a day - were counted. So far, Mexico's deadliest year had been 2011, in full open battle against drug lords, a time when corpses filled the front pages of national newspapers. These nine months have, however, exceeded that dark stage and, according to the figures, everything points to become one of the most violent years in its history.
The first public data on the Executive Secretariat's page on homicides is from 1997. From January to September of that year, there were 12,504 victims. That number has risen mercilessly to the 62 killed a day in 2011 . Many then believed that violence in the country had hit the ceiling.
The following year, 2012, the figure relaxed a bit: almost 1,000 fewer victims. And in 2013, almost 3,000 less. It was from 2015 when numbers began to rise. In 2016, the violence was about to go back to the one that lived the deadly 2011. And began to jump the alarms.
In May this year, the national press warned that it was the deadliest month in two decades . And, the following month, a new consecutive record was broken with 43 more victims. The increase was also reflected in the number of kidnappings. In September they have risen to 866 in just nine months, 70 more than the same period last year.
A year ago, it was with concern that 2016 had become the most violent year since four years when President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in the government. But given the figures of the first nine months of this, the horizon is even darker. Mexico is 90 days from crossing the goal of the most violent year since records were made available.
Borderland Beat Reporter dd Posted at 7:43 AM
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
AZMEX I3 25-10-17
AZMEX I3 25 OCT 2017
Comment: Phoenix "community values". Feds "disrespectful" to the illegal immigrant community that is.
thx
Phoenix official: Working with feds on immigration hurts local policing
BY JOEL T. VERNILE | CRONKITE NEWS
OCTOBER 25, 2017 AT 4:00 PM
http://ktar.com/story/1802662/phoenix-official-working-feds-immigration-hurts-local-policing/
Border Patrol officers with one of four immiigrants arrested by a force of 30 agents, 15 trucks and a helicopter, a response sharply criticized by some. (Photo courtesy Customs and Border Protection)
WASHINGTON – Phoenix Assistant City Manager Milton Dohoney joined local officials from across the country Tuesday who said it's not their job to do the work of federal immigration authorities.
Dohoney joined state and local officials on a conference call in which they said that helping federal agencies in raids and in "rounding people up for deportation" would divert from local priorities and damage community trust, which is vital to local policing.
"We're not trying to supplement ourselves or replace what we do … as if we were federal officials," Dohoney said on the call organized by the International City/County Management Association. "We're trying to build trust."
Dohoney and others on the call said that having local authorities assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law would have a "negative impact" on communities.
"For us to solve criminal matters, we need information from the public," Dohoney said.
But in a statement Tuesday, an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that it was a failure to cooperate with federal officials that would hurt public safety, not cooperation as the local officials claimed.
"ICE's goal is to build cooperative, respectful relationships with our law enforcement partners to help prevent dangerous criminal aliens from being released back onto the streets to potentially victimize our communities," ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe said in the statement. "Non-cooperation policies severely undermine that effort at the expense of public safety."
Calling for a greater local role in immigration was one of the first things President Donald Trump did after taking office in January.
Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 25 that called on federal agencies to "empower state and local law enforcement agencies across the country to perform the functions of an immigration officer" to the maximum extent permitted by law." That included helping in the "investigation, apprehension, or detention of aliens."
Trump also reinstated the Secure Communities program, which prohibits sanctuary cities and creates a partnership between local law enforcement and Immigration Customs Enforcement.
Rosalinda Gold, a senior director for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, said the administration has been disrespectful to the immigrant community.
"Many of our elected leaders are very angry with the current administration," said Gold, who echoed the complaint that aiding federal immigration enforcement "diverts resources away from the concerns of local law enforcement."
Immigration is "an issue that has been with cities literally since the beginning," said Ron Carlee, director of the Center for Regional Excellence at Old Dominion University.
But Carlee said on the call that state and local agencies do not enforce "complicated" immigration laws, just as when they make a traffic stop, "they don't ask to see their income tax returns" to enforce federal tax law.
Carlee said that Phoenix "has almost been ground-zero for immigration," calling the city a "welcoming" place that provides for all its citizens.
Dohoney said Phoenix government is working on providing "clear communication" to residents, so that they know what to expect from police and public safety services.
Phoenix closely reviews federal orders and grants, Dohoney said, and "there are certain things we won't do" even if it means risking the loss of federal dollars. "Our role is to serve the local community," he said.
For example, Phoenix police have a "contractual relationship" with schools and do not ask students about the status of their parents. He also said local law enforcement would not detain people for extended periods of time for a federal agency because the local agencies are "not ICE."
Dohoney said local governments should have the chance to "carve out" their own policies based on community values. "Productive citizens is what we're all about."
END
Don't forget:
Mexico decides who enters our country
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Comment: Phoenix "community values". Feds "disrespectful" to the illegal immigrant community that is.
thx
Phoenix official: Working with feds on immigration hurts local policing
BY JOEL T. VERNILE | CRONKITE NEWS
OCTOBER 25, 2017 AT 4:00 PM
http://ktar.com/story/1802662/phoenix-official-working-feds-immigration-hurts-local-policing/
Border Patrol officers with one of four immiigrants arrested by a force of 30 agents, 15 trucks and a helicopter, a response sharply criticized by some. (Photo courtesy Customs and Border Protection)
WASHINGTON – Phoenix Assistant City Manager Milton Dohoney joined local officials from across the country Tuesday who said it's not their job to do the work of federal immigration authorities.
Dohoney joined state and local officials on a conference call in which they said that helping federal agencies in raids and in "rounding people up for deportation" would divert from local priorities and damage community trust, which is vital to local policing.
"We're not trying to supplement ourselves or replace what we do … as if we were federal officials," Dohoney said on the call organized by the International City/County Management Association. "We're trying to build trust."
Dohoney and others on the call said that having local authorities assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law would have a "negative impact" on communities.
"For us to solve criminal matters, we need information from the public," Dohoney said.
But in a statement Tuesday, an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that it was a failure to cooperate with federal officials that would hurt public safety, not cooperation as the local officials claimed.
"ICE's goal is to build cooperative, respectful relationships with our law enforcement partners to help prevent dangerous criminal aliens from being released back onto the streets to potentially victimize our communities," ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe said in the statement. "Non-cooperation policies severely undermine that effort at the expense of public safety."
Calling for a greater local role in immigration was one of the first things President Donald Trump did after taking office in January.
Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 25 that called on federal agencies to "empower state and local law enforcement agencies across the country to perform the functions of an immigration officer" to the maximum extent permitted by law." That included helping in the "investigation, apprehension, or detention of aliens."
Trump also reinstated the Secure Communities program, which prohibits sanctuary cities and creates a partnership between local law enforcement and Immigration Customs Enforcement.
Rosalinda Gold, a senior director for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, said the administration has been disrespectful to the immigrant community.
"Many of our elected leaders are very angry with the current administration," said Gold, who echoed the complaint that aiding federal immigration enforcement "diverts resources away from the concerns of local law enforcement."
Immigration is "an issue that has been with cities literally since the beginning," said Ron Carlee, director of the Center for Regional Excellence at Old Dominion University.
But Carlee said on the call that state and local agencies do not enforce "complicated" immigration laws, just as when they make a traffic stop, "they don't ask to see their income tax returns" to enforce federal tax law.
Carlee said that Phoenix "has almost been ground-zero for immigration," calling the city a "welcoming" place that provides for all its citizens.
Dohoney said Phoenix government is working on providing "clear communication" to residents, so that they know what to expect from police and public safety services.
Phoenix closely reviews federal orders and grants, Dohoney said, and "there are certain things we won't do" even if it means risking the loss of federal dollars. "Our role is to serve the local community," he said.
For example, Phoenix police have a "contractual relationship" with schools and do not ask students about the status of their parents. He also said local law enforcement would not detain people for extended periods of time for a federal agency because the local agencies are "not ICE."
Dohoney said local governments should have the chance to "carve out" their own policies based on community values. "Productive citizens is what we're all about."
END
Don't forget:
Mexico decides who enters our country
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
AZMEX I3 22-10-17
AZMEX I3 22 OCT 2017
Note: "scared Mexican nationals" ? Why would Mexican nationals in Texas, legally, be scared? As usual it is all about illegal immigration. If trying to influence our election wasn't enough, now Mexico is trying to interfere with our national sovereignty and our right to have our own laws.
gracias
Mexico joins legal fight against Texas' sanctuary city crackdown
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2017/10/21/mexico-joins-legal-fight-texas-sanctuary-city-crackdown
WASHINGTON — The government of Mexico has aligned itself with municipalities suing the state of Texas over a new law that, if implemented, would crack down on sanctuary cities, arguing that the state's action hurts Mexico's relationship with Washington.
Lawyers for the Mexican government argue that Texas Senate Bill 4 creates unnecessary tension in relations between Mexico and the United States. It forces Mexico to treat Texas differently from other states and interferes with diplomatic interests and ongoing negotiations on a range of bilateral matters, from trade to security.
"Given the importance of the international relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, it is essential that Mexico be able to approach its discussions with one consistent negotiating partner rather than having to enter into 50 different negotiations with each state regarding the type and extent of immigration enforcement that will occur in that state," the Mexican government wrote in an amicus brief filed late Thursday night.
In August, a federal judge in San Antonio temporarily halted the implementation of the state law that punishes officials who don't honor requests by immigration authorities to detain people suspected of being in the country illegally. But the state appealed and, last month, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans allowed Texas officials to implement part of the law while awaiting a full hearing on the appeal in November.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed the law in May.
It would prevent municipalities from adopting their own policies to limit enforcement of immigration laws and empowers police officers to question people about their immigration status when they are detained.
Civil rights activists in Texas and around the country say the law will promote racial profiling. Some call it the "show your papers" law.
Mexico is the third-largest U.S. trading partner and a crucial ally in a wide range of security, migration and trade issues.
The two sides are in heated negotiations over NAFTA, the trade agreement that President Donald Trump has threatened to exit if the United States, Mexico and Canada can't work out a better deal for the United States.
The Mexican government says the Texas law will only make it harder to reach an agreement on this and other diplomatic matters between the two countries.
Leon Fresco, a lawyer representing the government of Mexico, argues in the brief that SB-4 has already harmed the relationship between Mexico and the United States.
Mexican consulate officials in Texas have been flooded with calls from scared Mexican nationals.
Fears are so widespread that Mexican nationals were afraid to seek government assistance during Hurricane Harvey.
"The reason immigration law is meant to be federal is because when 50 states pass 50 different laws, this negatively impacts foreign policy in ways that the federal government is unable to control," Fresco said.
END
Don't forget:
Mexico decides who enters our country
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
end
Note: "scared Mexican nationals" ? Why would Mexican nationals in Texas, legally, be scared? As usual it is all about illegal immigration. If trying to influence our election wasn't enough, now Mexico is trying to interfere with our national sovereignty and our right to have our own laws.
gracias
Mexico joins legal fight against Texas' sanctuary city crackdown
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2017/10/21/mexico-joins-legal-fight-texas-sanctuary-city-crackdown
WASHINGTON — The government of Mexico has aligned itself with municipalities suing the state of Texas over a new law that, if implemented, would crack down on sanctuary cities, arguing that the state's action hurts Mexico's relationship with Washington.
Lawyers for the Mexican government argue that Texas Senate Bill 4 creates unnecessary tension in relations between Mexico and the United States. It forces Mexico to treat Texas differently from other states and interferes with diplomatic interests and ongoing negotiations on a range of bilateral matters, from trade to security.
"Given the importance of the international relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, it is essential that Mexico be able to approach its discussions with one consistent negotiating partner rather than having to enter into 50 different negotiations with each state regarding the type and extent of immigration enforcement that will occur in that state," the Mexican government wrote in an amicus brief filed late Thursday night.
In August, a federal judge in San Antonio temporarily halted the implementation of the state law that punishes officials who don't honor requests by immigration authorities to detain people suspected of being in the country illegally. But the state appealed and, last month, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans allowed Texas officials to implement part of the law while awaiting a full hearing on the appeal in November.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed the law in May.
It would prevent municipalities from adopting their own policies to limit enforcement of immigration laws and empowers police officers to question people about their immigration status when they are detained.
Civil rights activists in Texas and around the country say the law will promote racial profiling. Some call it the "show your papers" law.
Mexico is the third-largest U.S. trading partner and a crucial ally in a wide range of security, migration and trade issues.
The two sides are in heated negotiations over NAFTA, the trade agreement that President Donald Trump has threatened to exit if the United States, Mexico and Canada can't work out a better deal for the United States.
The Mexican government says the Texas law will only make it harder to reach an agreement on this and other diplomatic matters between the two countries.
Leon Fresco, a lawyer representing the government of Mexico, argues in the brief that SB-4 has already harmed the relationship between Mexico and the United States.
Mexican consulate officials in Texas have been flooded with calls from scared Mexican nationals.
Fears are so widespread that Mexican nationals were afraid to seek government assistance during Hurricane Harvey.
"The reason immigration law is meant to be federal is because when 50 states pass 50 different laws, this negatively impacts foreign policy in ways that the federal government is unable to control," Fresco said.
END
Don't forget:
Mexico decides who enters our country
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
end
Thursday, October 19, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE 19-10-17
AZMEX UPDATE 19 OCT 2017
Note: Close to home. From the good folks at Borderland Beat http://www.borderlandbeat.com
thx
Sinaloa Cartel cell responsible for recent murder of journalist
Posted by Stevectpa-Republished from El Universal translated by Mexico Daily
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/10/sinaloa-cartel-cell-responsible-for.html#more
The murder last March in Chihuahua of journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, 54, has been linked to hired gunmen associated with the Sinaloa Cartel, the state Attorney General's office revealed this week.
The investigation has found that one of the four hitmen who killed Breach on March 23 is the nephew of Crispín Salazar, leader of a regional gang known as Los Salazar.
Thought to be a cell of the Sinaloa Cartel, the gang is based in and operates from the remote mountain Chihuahua municipality of Chínipas, close to the border with Sonora and also Breach's hometown.
Sources quoted by the Attorney General said Breach's murder was revenge by Los Salazar, who felt betrayed by the journalist's exposés on their modus operandi.
"What we know is that Los Salazar were not pleased with her, not so much about the content of her stories, but because they were being singled out by someone from their own hometown . . . shining the light on the abuses they committed and the way they attempted to impose candidates during the most recent [state] elections," said Attorney General César Augusto Peniche Espejel.
Los Salazar operate in the border region between Chihuahua and Sonora, cultivating and trafficking marijuana and opium poppies, which they smuggle into the United States across the border between Sonora and Arizona.
Arrest warrants have been issued for the four individuals suspected in Breach's murder.
Rosa María Breach, the victim's sister, recently won an amparo, or injunction, in which a federal judge ordered that the state provide her with all information it had gathered regarding the journalist's murder.
The Attorney General had refused to release the information on the grounds that Rosa María Breach was a third party, and that only the journalist's children could be granted access to the case file.
Note:
The Salazars operate in Sonora and in the mountains of Chihuahua. They control the planting, production and transfer of drugs to Arizona, in addition to the trafficking of undocumented migrants. Their founder, Adamo Salaar Zamorano, was an lieutenant of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
Borderland Beat Reporter guest reporter Posted at 10:09 AM
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Border gunbattles leave 11 dead in northern Mexico
Updated 3:58 pm, Tuesday, October 17, 2017
http://www.lmtonline.com/news/texas/article/Border-gunbattles-leave-11-dead-in-northern-Mexico-12282868.php?utm_campaign=hpborder
FILE - A Mexican federal police officer mans an automatic weapon during a patrol in Reynosa, where drug cartels battle each other for dominance over trade routes to the U.S. Officials said shootouts in the border city of Reynosa and around towns in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas have caused at least 11 deaths. Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News / San Antonio Express-News
Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A running series of gunbattles caused at least 11 deaths in the northern Mexico border state of Tamauilpas, authorities said Monday.
Officials said the shootouts in the border city of Reynosa and the nearby town of Rio Bravo started late Sunday. Gunmen hijacked vehicles and used them to block streets, and spread bent nails to puncture tires to facilitate their getaways. Authorities called in a helicopter to support ground patrols moving to break up the roadblocks.
One group of four gunmen was killed near a gas station after they opened fire on a military patrol, officials said. Three other bodies were discovered at other points around Rio Bravo.
Police found 13 improvised armored vehicles, which are usually light trucks with welded steel plating. Such vehicles are often used by drug gangs in Tamaulipas. Officers also found six hand grenades, 17 40-mm rifle-launched grenades and about three dozen guns, including a .50-caliber sniper rifle.
The dead included a man apparently killed by assailants after he and a child sought shelter from gunfire in a house on their way to school. The man and child emerged from the house when the shooting died down temporarily, and that is when the man was hit.
Three people also were killed in what appeared to be targeted shootings in the town of Padilla, farther south.
Reynosa is across the border from McAllen, Texas, and has been the scene of turf battles between factions of the Gulf cartel.
In Chihuahua, another northern border state, prosecutors said Monday that the death toll from a shootout in the remote mountain town of Uruachi had risen to seven. About 100 state police officers were sent to the town after the Friday gunfight, which apparently involved a dispute between rival gunmen.
end
Note: Close to home. From the good folks at Borderland Beat http://www.borderlandbeat.com
thx
Sinaloa Cartel cell responsible for recent murder of journalist
Posted by Stevectpa-Republished from El Universal translated by Mexico Daily
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/10/sinaloa-cartel-cell-responsible-for.html#more
The murder last March in Chihuahua of journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, 54, has been linked to hired gunmen associated with the Sinaloa Cartel, the state Attorney General's office revealed this week.
The investigation has found that one of the four hitmen who killed Breach on March 23 is the nephew of Crispín Salazar, leader of a regional gang known as Los Salazar.
Thought to be a cell of the Sinaloa Cartel, the gang is based in and operates from the remote mountain Chihuahua municipality of Chínipas, close to the border with Sonora and also Breach's hometown.
Sources quoted by the Attorney General said Breach's murder was revenge by Los Salazar, who felt betrayed by the journalist's exposés on their modus operandi.
"What we know is that Los Salazar were not pleased with her, not so much about the content of her stories, but because they were being singled out by someone from their own hometown . . . shining the light on the abuses they committed and the way they attempted to impose candidates during the most recent [state] elections," said Attorney General César Augusto Peniche Espejel.
Los Salazar operate in the border region between Chihuahua and Sonora, cultivating and trafficking marijuana and opium poppies, which they smuggle into the United States across the border between Sonora and Arizona.
Arrest warrants have been issued for the four individuals suspected in Breach's murder.
Rosa María Breach, the victim's sister, recently won an amparo, or injunction, in which a federal judge ordered that the state provide her with all information it had gathered regarding the journalist's murder.
The Attorney General had refused to release the information on the grounds that Rosa María Breach was a third party, and that only the journalist's children could be granted access to the case file.
Note:
The Salazars operate in Sonora and in the mountains of Chihuahua. They control the planting, production and transfer of drugs to Arizona, in addition to the trafficking of undocumented migrants. Their founder, Adamo Salaar Zamorano, was an lieutenant of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
Borderland Beat Reporter guest reporter Posted at 10:09 AM
END
Border gunbattles leave 11 dead in northern Mexico
Updated 3:58 pm, Tuesday, October 17, 2017
http://www.lmtonline.com/news/texas/article/Border-gunbattles-leave-11-dead-in-northern-Mexico-12282868.php?utm_campaign=hpborder
FILE - A Mexican federal police officer mans an automatic weapon during a patrol in Reynosa, where drug cartels battle each other for dominance over trade routes to the U.S. Officials said shootouts in the border city of Reynosa and around towns in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas have caused at least 11 deaths. Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News / San Antonio Express-News
Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A running series of gunbattles caused at least 11 deaths in the northern Mexico border state of Tamauilpas, authorities said Monday.
Officials said the shootouts in the border city of Reynosa and the nearby town of Rio Bravo started late Sunday. Gunmen hijacked vehicles and used them to block streets, and spread bent nails to puncture tires to facilitate their getaways. Authorities called in a helicopter to support ground patrols moving to break up the roadblocks.
One group of four gunmen was killed near a gas station after they opened fire on a military patrol, officials said. Three other bodies were discovered at other points around Rio Bravo.
Police found 13 improvised armored vehicles, which are usually light trucks with welded steel plating. Such vehicles are often used by drug gangs in Tamaulipas. Officers also found six hand grenades, 17 40-mm rifle-launched grenades and about three dozen guns, including a .50-caliber sniper rifle.
The dead included a man apparently killed by assailants after he and a child sought shelter from gunfire in a house on their way to school. The man and child emerged from the house when the shooting died down temporarily, and that is when the man was hit.
Three people also were killed in what appeared to be targeted shootings in the town of Padilla, farther south.
Reynosa is across the border from McAllen, Texas, and has been the scene of turf battles between factions of the Gulf cartel.
In Chihuahua, another northern border state, prosecutors said Monday that the death toll from a shootout in the remote mountain town of Uruachi had risen to seven. About 100 state police officers were sent to the town after the Friday gunfight, which apparently involved a dispute between rival gunmen.
end
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
AZMEX F&F EXTRA 17-10-17
AZMEX F&F EXTRA 17 OCT 2017
Note: The Obama regime's "Fast & Furious" - Mexican Lives didn't Matter.
Neither did law enforcement lives.
Thx
Authorities make final arrest in death of Border Patrol agent in Arizona
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
OCTOBER 17, 2017 AT 3:33 AM
http://ktar.com/story/1788977/authorities-make-final-arrest-in-death-of-border-patrol-agent-in-arizona/
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry (AP Photo)
PHOENIX — Authorities in Mexico have arrested the final of seven defendants accused in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death exposed a bungled federal gun operation, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga was arrested Saturday without incident and faces first-degree murder and other charges in the December 2010 killing of 40-year-old Brian Terry in Arizona.
The 37-year-old is the last of the defendants in the case, including five men who have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty in federal court in Tucson.
Another suspect, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, was arrested in Mexico in April, but a judge has yet to approve his extradition to the U.S.
Favela-Astorga was a member of a crew that planned on robbing marijuana smugglers when it encountered Terry and other agents who were on a stakeout in the southern Arizona desert, authorities said.
The killing unveiled the Fast and Furious operation, in which federal agents allowed criminals to buy guns with the intention of tracking them to criminal organizations.
But the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost most of the guns, including two that were found at scene of Terry's death.
The operation set off political backlash against the Obama administration and led the agent's family to sue.
Terry was in an elite Border Patrol unit staking out the southern Arizona desert for "rip-off" crew members who rob drug smugglers.
The four-man team encountered a group and identified themselves as police in trying to arrest them.
But authorities say the men refused to stop, prompting an agent to fire non-lethal bean bags at them. They responded by firing from AK-47-type assault rifles. Terry was struck in the back and died shortly afterward.
Among those already serving time are Manual Osorio-Arellanes, who pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2014, and Jesus Leonel Sanchez-Meza and Ivan Soto-Barraza, who were found guilty of murder and other charges in 2015.
A man who was not present during the shooting but is charged with assembling the rip-off crew, Rosario Rafael Burboa-Alvarez, also pleaded guilty to murder.
Rito Osorio-Arellanes, who was not at the shooting, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery.
end
Note: The Obama regime's "Fast & Furious" - Mexican Lives didn't Matter.
Neither did law enforcement lives.
Thx
Authorities make final arrest in death of Border Patrol agent in Arizona
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
OCTOBER 17, 2017 AT 3:33 AM
http://ktar.com/story/1788977/authorities-make-final-arrest-in-death-of-border-patrol-agent-in-arizona/
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry (AP Photo)
PHOENIX — Authorities in Mexico have arrested the final of seven defendants accused in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death exposed a bungled federal gun operation, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga was arrested Saturday without incident and faces first-degree murder and other charges in the December 2010 killing of 40-year-old Brian Terry in Arizona.
The 37-year-old is the last of the defendants in the case, including five men who have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty in federal court in Tucson.
Another suspect, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, was arrested in Mexico in April, but a judge has yet to approve his extradition to the U.S.
Favela-Astorga was a member of a crew that planned on robbing marijuana smugglers when it encountered Terry and other agents who were on a stakeout in the southern Arizona desert, authorities said.
The killing unveiled the Fast and Furious operation, in which federal agents allowed criminals to buy guns with the intention of tracking them to criminal organizations.
But the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost most of the guns, including two that were found at scene of Terry's death.
The operation set off political backlash against the Obama administration and led the agent's family to sue.
Terry was in an elite Border Patrol unit staking out the southern Arizona desert for "rip-off" crew members who rob drug smugglers.
The four-man team encountered a group and identified themselves as police in trying to arrest them.
But authorities say the men refused to stop, prompting an agent to fire non-lethal bean bags at them. They responded by firing from AK-47-type assault rifles. Terry was struck in the back and died shortly afterward.
Among those already serving time are Manual Osorio-Arellanes, who pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2014, and Jesus Leonel Sanchez-Meza and Ivan Soto-Barraza, who were found guilty of murder and other charges in 2015.
A man who was not present during the shooting but is charged with assembling the rip-off crew, Rosario Rafael Burboa-Alvarez, also pleaded guilty to murder.
Rito Osorio-Arellanes, who was not at the shooting, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery.
end
Monday, October 16, 2017
AZMEX EXTRA 15-10-17
AZMEX EXTRA 15 OCT 2017
Note: photos at link.
Arms, drugs and money seized by Sedena (Mexican Army)
Details Posted on Saturday October 14, 2017,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=98945
Nogales, Son
Drugs, armaments and large sums of cash were confiscated in several municipalities, including Sonoyta and El Sáric, Sonora, in recent hours by the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) through its military base in Nogales.
According to an official report from the 45th Military Zone based in Nogales, seizures were made in the last 48 hours, in Baja California and Sonora, where military personnel in cooperation with authorities of the three levels of government, arrested 11 people in criminal flagrante delicto
Six kilos of methamphetamine, two packets of marijuana, 12 long guns, four handguns, 608 cartridges of different calibers, 18 magazines of different calibers and 52 wrappers (doses) of cristal were also secured.
In addition, the seizure of nine vehicles, a tractor trailer, as well as five thousand 920 dollars and 656 thousand 250 pesos, as well as diverse tactical equipment, were reported.
The report adds that these events were carried out in Tijuana and San Felipe, B.C., as well as in Opodepe, corresponding to the municipality of Hermosillo, San Emeterio, Sonoyta municipality and El Sáric, municipality of Caborca, Sonora.
In view of the foregoing, military personnel in coordination with the aforementioned civil authorities, who, as first responders, proceeded to transfer detainees, drugs, weapons and vehicles to the premises of the P.G.R. of the different municipalities, to make them available to the corresponding Federal Public Prosecutors.
Photo gallery
end
Note: photos at link.
Arms, drugs and money seized by Sedena (Mexican Army)
Details Posted on Saturday October 14, 2017,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=98945
Nogales, Son
Drugs, armaments and large sums of cash were confiscated in several municipalities, including Sonoyta and El Sáric, Sonora, in recent hours by the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) through its military base in Nogales.
According to an official report from the 45th Military Zone based in Nogales, seizures were made in the last 48 hours, in Baja California and Sonora, where military personnel in cooperation with authorities of the three levels of government, arrested 11 people in criminal flagrante delicto
Six kilos of methamphetamine, two packets of marijuana, 12 long guns, four handguns, 608 cartridges of different calibers, 18 magazines of different calibers and 52 wrappers (doses) of cristal were also secured.
In addition, the seizure of nine vehicles, a tractor trailer, as well as five thousand 920 dollars and 656 thousand 250 pesos, as well as diverse tactical equipment, were reported.
The report adds that these events were carried out in Tijuana and San Felipe, B.C., as well as in Opodepe, corresponding to the municipality of Hermosillo, San Emeterio, Sonoyta municipality and El Sáric, municipality of Caborca, Sonora.
In view of the foregoing, military personnel in coordination with the aforementioned civil authorities, who, as first responders, proceeded to transfer detainees, drugs, weapons and vehicles to the premises of the P.G.R. of the different municipalities, to make them available to the corresponding Federal Public Prosecutors.
Photo gallery
end
AZMEX DOPER SPECIAL 15-10-17
AZMEX DOPER SPECIAL 15 OCT 2017
Note: Video, etc. at links. Seems to be very little media interest in this one.
Comment: Are we sure he is not really a Russian? After all, Mexico's participation during the US election seen to have escaped notice. If dopers are locked up, they can't steal your stuff. Or do we and Mexico need even more thieving doper parasites?
thx
Ex-Mexican President in Phoenix promoting pot legalization
Posted: Oct 14, 2017 5:54 PM MST
Updated: Oct 14, 2017 7:18 PM MST
By Carissa PlanalpCONNECT
Ex-Mexican President in Phoenix promoting pot legalization
http://www.azfamily.com/story/36598836/ex-mexican-pres-in-phoenix-promoting-pot-legalization?autostart=true
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox spoke Saturday at the Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo in downtown Phoenix where he hit on topics including legalizing weed, NAFTA negotiations and the fate of those protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
"You need to start by putting the issue to public debate," Fox said as he described changing attitudes toward pot use.
Mexico just legalized medical marijuana. Fox claims more than 60 percent of Mexicans support taking the movement further to allow recreational use which, he believes, will eliminate the black market and boost economies.
Fox soon jumped to the topic of NAFTA as the United States tries to negotiate new trade terms with Mexico. If demands are not met, President Donald Trump has said he's willing to leave the negotiating table in favor of an agreement solely with Canada.
One proposal seeks to increase the number of American-made car parts.
"If Sr Trump is so stubborn and forces GM, and Chrysler and Ford to come back and manufacture in the United States, you'd have to read history," says Fox who insists car companies would go bankrupt and need taxpayer bailouts.
Now that the deadline for DACA recipients to apply for renewals has now passed, the fate of those brought here illegally as children is uncertain. Fox said "doors are open in Mexico," insisting the country would welcome them home where they could find job opportunities.
"I understand that you want to stay here and be sure you're going to win this battle. You are right, the other guy is wrong," said Fox.
President Trump has said the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is unconstitutional. He's now looking to Congress to find a solution. There are about 28,000 people in Arizona protected from deportation under DACA terms.
end
More:
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/3rd-annual-southwest-cannabis-conference-and-expo-comes-to-phoenix
Note: Video, etc. at links. Seems to be very little media interest in this one.
Comment: Are we sure he is not really a Russian? After all, Mexico's participation during the US election seen to have escaped notice. If dopers are locked up, they can't steal your stuff. Or do we and Mexico need even more thieving doper parasites?
thx
Ex-Mexican President in Phoenix promoting pot legalization
Posted: Oct 14, 2017 5:54 PM MST
Updated: Oct 14, 2017 7:18 PM MST
By Carissa PlanalpCONNECT
Ex-Mexican President in Phoenix promoting pot legalization
http://www.azfamily.com/story/36598836/ex-mexican-pres-in-phoenix-promoting-pot-legalization?autostart=true
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox spoke Saturday at the Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo in downtown Phoenix where he hit on topics including legalizing weed, NAFTA negotiations and the fate of those protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
"You need to start by putting the issue to public debate," Fox said as he described changing attitudes toward pot use.
Mexico just legalized medical marijuana. Fox claims more than 60 percent of Mexicans support taking the movement further to allow recreational use which, he believes, will eliminate the black market and boost economies.
Fox soon jumped to the topic of NAFTA as the United States tries to negotiate new trade terms with Mexico. If demands are not met, President Donald Trump has said he's willing to leave the negotiating table in favor of an agreement solely with Canada.
One proposal seeks to increase the number of American-made car parts.
"If Sr Trump is so stubborn and forces GM, and Chrysler and Ford to come back and manufacture in the United States, you'd have to read history," says Fox who insists car companies would go bankrupt and need taxpayer bailouts.
Now that the deadline for DACA recipients to apply for renewals has now passed, the fate of those brought here illegally as children is uncertain. Fox said "doors are open in Mexico," insisting the country would welcome them home where they could find job opportunities.
"I understand that you want to stay here and be sure you're going to win this battle. You are right, the other guy is wrong," said Fox.
President Trump has said the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is unconstitutional. He's now looking to Congress to find a solution. There are about 28,000 people in Arizona protected from deportation under DACA terms.
end
More:
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/3rd-annual-southwest-cannabis-conference-and-expo-comes-to-phoenix
Friday, October 13, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE 13-10-17
AZMEX UPDATE 13 OCT 2017
Seven migrants rescued in Arizona desert
Details Posted on Thursday October 12, 2017,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=98818
Nogales, Az
Thanks to the activation of an emergency beacon and a call to the 9-1-1 emergency number, a total of seven migrants were rescued in the last hours by Border Patrol agents and Maritime and Air Operations agents, who responded to the call.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a report on the recovery of undocumented migrants in the desert area of western Arizona.
In a first case, agents assigned to the Ajo Station, they got a call to 9-1-1 of a man who explained that, along with three other subjects, they had crossed the line days before and that they had run out of water.
A helicopter assisted in locating the group and after determining that they did not require medical assistance, they were taken to the station for processing.
In the second call, agents from the Casa Grande Station responded to the activation of an emergency beacon in the Tohono O'odham Reservation, where they found three Mexican migrants, who also did not require medical checkups.
They surprise "burreros"
Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents in the Yuma Sector arrested nine undocumented migrants carrying more than 400 pounds of marijuana, a cargo valued at about $ 208,000.
The "burreros" group was detected in the desert area west of Gila Bend, where officers followed the tracks north of the border line and overtook the traffickers, who carried several packages on their backs.
END
N4T Investigators: Border Patrol arrests gang members in southern Arizona
Posted: Oct 12, 2017 4:08 PM MST
Updated: Oct 12, 2017 11:03 PM MST
Written By Paul Birmingham
Written By John Overall
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36586170/n4t-investigators-border-patrol-arrests-gang-members-in-southern-arizona
The Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is ground zero in the fight against illegal immigration. As the News 4 Tucson Investigators discovered, some of those illegal crossers have already had multiple encounters with the U.S. justice system. That's because they're dangerous gang members.
The most recent gang members busted in southern Arizona were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents just a few days ago. Authorities say both men were known to law enforcement here in the United States, and both men had previously been deported.
"We identify everyone who illegally attempts to come across into the United States when we make the arrest. We identify if they have criminal history, and we identify if they have any affiliation to gangs," Border Patrol Agent Christopher Sullivan told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
Agent Sullivan added that the Border Patrol is always on the lookout for people who are intent on criminal activity. That includes members of MS-13, a criminal gang that originally formed in Los Angeles.
"Here in the Tucson Sector, we have come in contact with MS-13 members attempting to illegally enter the United States," Sullivan told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
In fact, just last month agents in the Tucson Sector arrested two other previously deported MS-13 gang members. Again, both of those men have extensive criminal histories.
"Often times, you know, gang members have gang-affiliated tattoos that identify them. Some admit to being gang members," Agent Sullivan told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
"Tucson isn't a destination city. It's kind of a corridor city. They're on their way somewhere else," said Captain Sean Stewart, the head of security at the Pima County Adult Detention Center.
Captain Stewart is familiar with most of the criminal gangs operating in southern Arizona. He told the News 4 Tucson Investigators, while many people focus on MS-13, there are other gangs that are already well-established and operating in our state.
"So, if an MS-13 individual tried to set-up shop in one of these neighborhoods, they'd be run out," Captain Stewart said.
Captain Stewart also told the News 4 Tucson Investigators, all inmates who have gang affiliations are put on notice just as soon as they're booked into jail.
"Our security staff will sit down and talk with them - we recognize your tattoos, we know who you are, we know what you're about. Don't cause us problems, because we're watching," Captain Stewart said.
Captain Stewart also told the News 4 Tucson Investigators, it's critical that jail security keep close watch over every inmate who is locked up. That includes monitoring their phone calls.
"It's a chess game. It's not a game, but you're playing mental chess with somebody. They're trying to get drugs and cellphones into your prison system, and you're trying to stop them," Captain Stewart told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
Trying to stop the gang members from ever stepping foot in the U.S. in the first place is the primary job of the agents working on the front lines of illegal immigration in southern Arizona.
"We want to prevent that from happening, whether that be arresting them here in Tucson, while they're transitioning to their intended destination, and stop them from coming across the border," Agent Sullivan told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
Click here for the most recent information on the number of arrests of individuals with criminal convictions.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-alien-statistics
end
Seven migrants rescued in Arizona desert
Details Posted on Thursday October 12, 2017,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=98818
Nogales, Az
Thanks to the activation of an emergency beacon and a call to the 9-1-1 emergency number, a total of seven migrants were rescued in the last hours by Border Patrol agents and Maritime and Air Operations agents, who responded to the call.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a report on the recovery of undocumented migrants in the desert area of western Arizona.
In a first case, agents assigned to the Ajo Station, they got a call to 9-1-1 of a man who explained that, along with three other subjects, they had crossed the line days before and that they had run out of water.
A helicopter assisted in locating the group and after determining that they did not require medical assistance, they were taken to the station for processing.
In the second call, agents from the Casa Grande Station responded to the activation of an emergency beacon in the Tohono O'odham Reservation, where they found three Mexican migrants, who also did not require medical checkups.
They surprise "burreros"
Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents in the Yuma Sector arrested nine undocumented migrants carrying more than 400 pounds of marijuana, a cargo valued at about $ 208,000.
The "burreros" group was detected in the desert area west of Gila Bend, where officers followed the tracks north of the border line and overtook the traffickers, who carried several packages on their backs.
END
N4T Investigators: Border Patrol arrests gang members in southern Arizona
Posted: Oct 12, 2017 4:08 PM MST
Updated: Oct 12, 2017 11:03 PM MST
Written By Paul Birmingham
Written By John Overall
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36586170/n4t-investigators-border-patrol-arrests-gang-members-in-southern-arizona
The Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is ground zero in the fight against illegal immigration. As the News 4 Tucson Investigators discovered, some of those illegal crossers have already had multiple encounters with the U.S. justice system. That's because they're dangerous gang members.
The most recent gang members busted in southern Arizona were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents just a few days ago. Authorities say both men were known to law enforcement here in the United States, and both men had previously been deported.
"We identify everyone who illegally attempts to come across into the United States when we make the arrest. We identify if they have criminal history, and we identify if they have any affiliation to gangs," Border Patrol Agent Christopher Sullivan told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
Agent Sullivan added that the Border Patrol is always on the lookout for people who are intent on criminal activity. That includes members of MS-13, a criminal gang that originally formed in Los Angeles.
"Here in the Tucson Sector, we have come in contact with MS-13 members attempting to illegally enter the United States," Sullivan told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
In fact, just last month agents in the Tucson Sector arrested two other previously deported MS-13 gang members. Again, both of those men have extensive criminal histories.
"Often times, you know, gang members have gang-affiliated tattoos that identify them. Some admit to being gang members," Agent Sullivan told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
"Tucson isn't a destination city. It's kind of a corridor city. They're on their way somewhere else," said Captain Sean Stewart, the head of security at the Pima County Adult Detention Center.
Captain Stewart is familiar with most of the criminal gangs operating in southern Arizona. He told the News 4 Tucson Investigators, while many people focus on MS-13, there are other gangs that are already well-established and operating in our state.
"So, if an MS-13 individual tried to set-up shop in one of these neighborhoods, they'd be run out," Captain Stewart said.
Captain Stewart also told the News 4 Tucson Investigators, all inmates who have gang affiliations are put on notice just as soon as they're booked into jail.
"Our security staff will sit down and talk with them - we recognize your tattoos, we know who you are, we know what you're about. Don't cause us problems, because we're watching," Captain Stewart said.
Captain Stewart also told the News 4 Tucson Investigators, it's critical that jail security keep close watch over every inmate who is locked up. That includes monitoring their phone calls.
"It's a chess game. It's not a game, but you're playing mental chess with somebody. They're trying to get drugs and cellphones into your prison system, and you're trying to stop them," Captain Stewart told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
Trying to stop the gang members from ever stepping foot in the U.S. in the first place is the primary job of the agents working on the front lines of illegal immigration in southern Arizona.
"We want to prevent that from happening, whether that be arresting them here in Tucson, while they're transitioning to their intended destination, and stop them from coming across the border," Agent Sullivan told the News 4 Tucson Investigators.
Click here for the most recent information on the number of arrests of individuals with criminal convictions.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-alien-statistics
end
AZMEX I3 8-10-17
AZMEX I3 8 OCT 2017
Comment: No, did not make this up. Unknown at this time as to why the rest of the family didn't return to Mexico with him.
A informal study shows far less stress if a immigrant enters the country legally. Far less likely to be deported.
thx
DEATH OF A WOULD-BE DREAMER
Did Frankie Madrid have to die?
MAX LANCASTER Sun Staff Reporter 6 hrs ago
http://azdailysun.com/news/did-frankie-madrid-have-to-die/article_96b0a7ea-51da-587e-a5f1-20aa483ef170.html#tncms-source=home-featured
Frankie Madrid, center in pink pants, speaks at an immigration rally outside Flagstaff City Hall in April 2014.
Eva Putzova / Facebook
An undocumented community activist, convicted drug felon and longtime Flagstaff resident has taken his own life less than two months after being deported to Mexico.
Francisco "Frankie" Madrid-Holguin died by suicide in Hermosillo, Mexico on Monday, according to his lawyer Lee Phillips.
Madrid, who lived undocumented in Flagstaff since he was 4-months old, was deported in August after serving a total of 1.5 years in detention and prison for heroin possession.
Flagstaff Police arrested him in January 2016
for possession of narcotic drugs for sale,
possession of drug paraphernalia and
carrying a weapon in the commission of a felony crime.
Madrid was in possession of 20 grams of heroin at the time of his arrest and was transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He pleaded guilty to possession of a dangerous drug in March 2017.
Some community leaders were deeply saddened over the loss of a committed activist for LGBQT and immigration rights, as well as his involvement with organizations such as the Northern Arizona Interfaith Council and the Sunnyside I AM Youth Group.
"I woke up this morning to a message sent to me late last night that Frankie took his life," Putzova said. "I feel incredibly sad because his death could have been prevented. The cruel immigration laws of this country killed him. I can't imagine being sent to an exile to a foreign country I have no connections to without the ability to see my family ever again. The cruelty of his situation is incomprehensible to most of us."
Others, such as former city Councilman Jeff Oravits, expressed sympathy over those affected by the opioid epidemic, but said "We are a nation with immigration laws and drugs laws," and that undocumented individuals who break the law have to face consequences.
He also stated that if the country wants to give leniency to individuals such as Madrid then citizens should work to change the law.
Putzova disagreed, saying that Madrid's immigration status and legal troubles should have been separate issues. "Frankie got into legal trouble but paid his debt to society. America was made whole," Putzova said. "He was rehabilitated by serving his 1.5-year sentence. His trouble with criminal law should be a completely separate issue from his undocumented status under the immigration law. In what meaningful way was he different than any other citizen, naturalized or US-born that he deserved to be exiled?"
Putzova's GoFundMe page for Madrid's legal defense did not mention his drug arrest, a point of contention for her critics.
"If you come to this country illegally and you commit a felony you shouldn't be welcome," said local political activist Rob Wilson. Wilson added that individuals like Madrid, who have lived in the United States their entire life, should be even more cautious about committing a felony. "They are more aware than anyone about the risk," Wilson said. "The deterrents should be even greater in their case."
But Flagstaff Mayor Coral Evans also expressed frustration at the system that deported Madrid.
"We don't often talk about the mental and emotional toll it takes on people when their immigration status is vulnerable and being taken away, or the stress and challenge of trying to take care of a family when you don't have legal status," Evans said. "My heart breaks, not just for Frankie and his family, but for all Dreamers whose lives are being held in limbo."
DISTRSSED AND DEPRESSED
Madrid, who had been living with distant relatives in Mexico, was becoming increasingly anxious and depressed at the thought of never seeing his family, according to Phillips, who spoke to Madrid days before his suicide.
"He seemed to be distressed and depressed over the thought that at 25-years old he would never see his family or go back home again," Phillips said. "He started saying that he couldn't see a future alone in Mexico."
Madrid was also upset over his mother's hospitalization due to heart troubles, according to Phillips.
Madrid lost his work visa in 2014 after his immigration attorney failed to file his application for the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. He then could no longer legally drive and was unable to support his family while his brother, Norberto "Beto" Ramos-Madrid, faced trial for the murder of Juan Hernandez. Madrid's brother was found not guilty in 2015, but by then Madrid had become addicted to heroin.
Frankie Madrid, back left, campaigns for current Flagstaff City Council member Eva Putzova, front left.
Courtesy of Eva Putzova
Madrid's friend, Mary Black, said the culmination of his addiction and deportation led him to suicide.
"His sensitive heart and soul had been through so much," Black wrote on social media. "He tried and had one bad luck thing after another. He just wanted to come home to Flagstaff and be with his family, friends and daughter."
Phillips said that taking away Madrid's ability to work pushed him to start using heroin, which got him arrested and then deported. "People without legal status are in the worst possible situation," Phillips said. "We force them into these situations where they do things they wouldn't normally do, like shoplifting and drugs. We take away their chance to raise up and then punish them for it."
Evans described Madrid as "one of my kids," who she knew since he was 9 years old and said she was "heartbroken over the loss of such a beautiful life."
Phillips said he and his family had grown close with Madrid and they would all miss having dinners and long talks with him.
Phillips wished he could have done more to stop Madrid's deportation, but conceded that the circumstances were dire because of Madrid's drug offense. "In theory we could have stopped his deportation, but it would have been extremely unlikely," Phillips said. "When you are dealing with drug charges it is very unlikely."
Phillips went on to say that Madrid was a good person despite his legal troubles.
"He was a sweet and happy soul who just couldn't handle what life threw at him."
Family and friends will plan a memorial service for Madrid once his remains are brought back to the U.S.
end
Max Lancaster is the crime and courts reporter for the Arizona Daily Sun. He enjoys all things music and just learned how Kombucha is made.
Comment: No, did not make this up. Unknown at this time as to why the rest of the family didn't return to Mexico with him.
A informal study shows far less stress if a immigrant enters the country legally. Far less likely to be deported.
thx
DEATH OF A WOULD-BE DREAMER
Did Frankie Madrid have to die?
MAX LANCASTER Sun Staff Reporter 6 hrs ago
http://azdailysun.com/news/did-frankie-madrid-have-to-die/article_96b0a7ea-51da-587e-a5f1-20aa483ef170.html#tncms-source=home-featured
Frankie Madrid, center in pink pants, speaks at an immigration rally outside Flagstaff City Hall in April 2014.
Eva Putzova / Facebook
An undocumented community activist, convicted drug felon and longtime Flagstaff resident has taken his own life less than two months after being deported to Mexico.
Francisco "Frankie" Madrid-Holguin died by suicide in Hermosillo, Mexico on Monday, according to his lawyer Lee Phillips.
Madrid, who lived undocumented in Flagstaff since he was 4-months old, was deported in August after serving a total of 1.5 years in detention and prison for heroin possession.
Flagstaff Police arrested him in January 2016
for possession of narcotic drugs for sale,
possession of drug paraphernalia and
carrying a weapon in the commission of a felony crime.
Madrid was in possession of 20 grams of heroin at the time of his arrest and was transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He pleaded guilty to possession of a dangerous drug in March 2017.
Some community leaders were deeply saddened over the loss of a committed activist for LGBQT and immigration rights, as well as his involvement with organizations such as the Northern Arizona Interfaith Council and the Sunnyside I AM Youth Group.
"I woke up this morning to a message sent to me late last night that Frankie took his life," Putzova said. "I feel incredibly sad because his death could have been prevented. The cruel immigration laws of this country killed him. I can't imagine being sent to an exile to a foreign country I have no connections to without the ability to see my family ever again. The cruelty of his situation is incomprehensible to most of us."
Others, such as former city Councilman Jeff Oravits, expressed sympathy over those affected by the opioid epidemic, but said "We are a nation with immigration laws and drugs laws," and that undocumented individuals who break the law have to face consequences.
He also stated that if the country wants to give leniency to individuals such as Madrid then citizens should work to change the law.
Putzova disagreed, saying that Madrid's immigration status and legal troubles should have been separate issues. "Frankie got into legal trouble but paid his debt to society. America was made whole," Putzova said. "He was rehabilitated by serving his 1.5-year sentence. His trouble with criminal law should be a completely separate issue from his undocumented status under the immigration law. In what meaningful way was he different than any other citizen, naturalized or US-born that he deserved to be exiled?"
Putzova's GoFundMe page for Madrid's legal defense did not mention his drug arrest, a point of contention for her critics.
"If you come to this country illegally and you commit a felony you shouldn't be welcome," said local political activist Rob Wilson. Wilson added that individuals like Madrid, who have lived in the United States their entire life, should be even more cautious about committing a felony. "They are more aware than anyone about the risk," Wilson said. "The deterrents should be even greater in their case."
But Flagstaff Mayor Coral Evans also expressed frustration at the system that deported Madrid.
"We don't often talk about the mental and emotional toll it takes on people when their immigration status is vulnerable and being taken away, or the stress and challenge of trying to take care of a family when you don't have legal status," Evans said. "My heart breaks, not just for Frankie and his family, but for all Dreamers whose lives are being held in limbo."
DISTRSSED AND DEPRESSED
Madrid, who had been living with distant relatives in Mexico, was becoming increasingly anxious and depressed at the thought of never seeing his family, according to Phillips, who spoke to Madrid days before his suicide.
"He seemed to be distressed and depressed over the thought that at 25-years old he would never see his family or go back home again," Phillips said. "He started saying that he couldn't see a future alone in Mexico."
Madrid was also upset over his mother's hospitalization due to heart troubles, according to Phillips.
Madrid lost his work visa in 2014 after his immigration attorney failed to file his application for the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. He then could no longer legally drive and was unable to support his family while his brother, Norberto "Beto" Ramos-Madrid, faced trial for the murder of Juan Hernandez. Madrid's brother was found not guilty in 2015, but by then Madrid had become addicted to heroin.
Frankie Madrid, back left, campaigns for current Flagstaff City Council member Eva Putzova, front left.
Courtesy of Eva Putzova
Madrid's friend, Mary Black, said the culmination of his addiction and deportation led him to suicide.
"His sensitive heart and soul had been through so much," Black wrote on social media. "He tried and had one bad luck thing after another. He just wanted to come home to Flagstaff and be with his family, friends and daughter."
Phillips said that taking away Madrid's ability to work pushed him to start using heroin, which got him arrested and then deported. "People without legal status are in the worst possible situation," Phillips said. "We force them into these situations where they do things they wouldn't normally do, like shoplifting and drugs. We take away their chance to raise up and then punish them for it."
Evans described Madrid as "one of my kids," who she knew since he was 9 years old and said she was "heartbroken over the loss of such a beautiful life."
Phillips said he and his family had grown close with Madrid and they would all miss having dinners and long talks with him.
Phillips wished he could have done more to stop Madrid's deportation, but conceded that the circumstances were dire because of Madrid's drug offense. "In theory we could have stopped his deportation, but it would have been extremely unlikely," Phillips said. "When you are dealing with drug charges it is very unlikely."
Phillips went on to say that Madrid was a good person despite his legal troubles.
"He was a sweet and happy soul who just couldn't handle what life threw at him."
Family and friends will plan a memorial service for Madrid once his remains are brought back to the U.S.
end
Max Lancaster is the crime and courts reporter for the Arizona Daily Sun. He enjoys all things music and just learned how Kombucha is made.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE 10-10-17
AZMEX UPDATE 10 OCT 2017
Note: "but released from Pima County Jail without a bond." Photo at link.
WANTED: AZ Drug Trafficker on the Run
For Immediate Release: October 10, 2017
Contact: Mia Garcia (602) 339-5895 or Mia.Garcia@azag.gov
https://www.azag.gov/press-release/wanted-az-drug-trafficker-run-0
Jury Found Him Guilty of Transporting 70 Pounds of Cocaine
SOUTHERN ARIZONA - Attorney General Mark Brnovich is warning the public to be on the lookout for a convicted drug trafficker who is currently on the run.
A jury found Mario Sergio Dorame guilty of transporting more than 70 pounds of cocaine, as well as conducting a criminal enterprise and conspiracy.
Dorame absconded during trial. To date, law enforcement efforts to find Dorame have been unsuccessful.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Dorame was driving his truck west on Interstate 10 in Pima County when he was pulled over for a traffic violation in November 2016.
An Arizona Department of Public Safety Trooper found more than 70 pounds of cocaine in a hidden compartment in Dorame's truck.
Dorame was arrested that day, but released from Pima County Jail without a bond.
Although Dorame showed up for pre-trial hearings, he absconded just before a jury trial started in September 2017.
This is not the first time Dorame transported drugs in Arizona.
In July 2012, Dorame was arrested for transporting 279 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle.
He pleaded guilty in federal court and was sentenced to a short prison term.
Additionally, in 2010, he was found guilty of Theft of Means of Transportation in Cochise County, AZ.
Assistant Attorney General Jordan Emerson prosecuted this matter.
Anyone with information on Dorame's whereabouts should immediately call their local law enforcement agency.
end
Another link.
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/ag-warns-of-drug-trafficking-fugitive
end
Note: "but released from Pima County Jail without a bond." Photo at link.
WANTED: AZ Drug Trafficker on the Run
For Immediate Release: October 10, 2017
Contact: Mia Garcia (602) 339-5895 or Mia.Garcia@azag.gov
https://www.azag.gov/press-release/wanted-az-drug-trafficker-run-0
Jury Found Him Guilty of Transporting 70 Pounds of Cocaine
SOUTHERN ARIZONA - Attorney General Mark Brnovich is warning the public to be on the lookout for a convicted drug trafficker who is currently on the run.
A jury found Mario Sergio Dorame guilty of transporting more than 70 pounds of cocaine, as well as conducting a criminal enterprise and conspiracy.
Dorame absconded during trial. To date, law enforcement efforts to find Dorame have been unsuccessful.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Dorame was driving his truck west on Interstate 10 in Pima County when he was pulled over for a traffic violation in November 2016.
An Arizona Department of Public Safety Trooper found more than 70 pounds of cocaine in a hidden compartment in Dorame's truck.
Dorame was arrested that day, but released from Pima County Jail without a bond.
Although Dorame showed up for pre-trial hearings, he absconded just before a jury trial started in September 2017.
This is not the first time Dorame transported drugs in Arizona.
In July 2012, Dorame was arrested for transporting 279 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle.
He pleaded guilty in federal court and was sentenced to a short prison term.
Additionally, in 2010, he was found guilty of Theft of Means of Transportation in Cochise County, AZ.
Assistant Attorney General Jordan Emerson prosecuted this matter.
Anyone with information on Dorame's whereabouts should immediately call their local law enforcement agency.
end
Another link.
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/ag-warns-of-drug-trafficking-fugitive
end
Monday, October 9, 2017
AZMEX POLICY 8-10-17
AZMEX POLICY 8 OCT 2017
Landowner rights at center of challenge to border wall
Proposal would bar use of eminent domain for border barrier
LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER Follow @lorenzozazueta 20 hrs ago
http://www.themonitor.com/news/immigration/article_9b3a41fa-abc2-11e7-b937-17e5bc2e8e22.html
In this Sept. 6, 2012, photo, cotton farmer Teofilo "Junior" Flores stands on one side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence that passes across his property in Brownsville, Texas. Since 2008, hundreds of landowners on the border have sought fair prices for property that was condemned to make way for the fence, but many of them received initial offers that were far below market value. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Eric Gay
In response to President Donald Trump's administration continuing efforts to make good on his polarizing campaign promise of constructing new border walls on the U.S. Mexico border, U.S. Reps. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., announced new legislation designed to prevent the federal government from usurping private land to do so.
During a news conference earlier in the week, O'Rourke and Gallego discussed how the legislation — The Protecting the Property Rights of Border Landowners Act — would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to forbid the Secretary of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General from using eminent domain to acquire land for construction of new border walls, or any other barrier along the U.S. Mexico border.
"We do not need a 2,000-mile, 30-foot-high wall separating us from Mexico," O'Rourke said during the call. "And if the Trump administration moves forward with the construction of this wall, it will be built not on the international boundary line but in the U.S. — much of it on private property in the state of Texas."
In July, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated that the Army Corps of Engineers had begun preparations for the construction of a wall in several places along the border, including El Paso.
Additionally, the president requested funding to double the number of Department of Justice attorneys who work in land acquisition. And construction on eight prototypes for the wall began last week with Trump saying he would pick the design himself.
All this has occurred while nearly 100 eminent domain condemnation cases remain open from more than a decade ago — the last time the government seized land for a wall in the Rio Grande Valley, including in Los Ebanos, where Efren Olivares of the Texas Civil Rights Project worked extensively.
A dry corn field stretches across the land toward the U.S. border fence along Old Military Highway in San Benito as the U.S. Attorney's Office seeks to settle remainging landowner cases.
AP
While working with the private landowners, Olivares said he saw firsthand what he characterized as abuse on behalf of the federal government.
" For almost 10 years, we at Texas Civil Rights Project have seen how the federal government abused the eminent domain process and violated the rights of landowners in the Texas borderlands in the process to build the existing border fence," Olivares said. "People were paid cents on the dollar for their land, almost in all cases without proper consultation processes and with confusing or incomplete information, at best. We are glad to see this bill introduced as a way to ensure that people in border communities are not railroaded again in the government's obstinate pursuit of a border wall."
O'Rourke visited the Valley in late July and toured the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, one of the region's several locations the administration has picked for border wall construction.
That same month, O'Rourke and Gallego opposed the inclusion of $1.6 billion to start building Trump's border wall.
At Wednesday's conference, O'Rourke said the administration — in planning the construction of these barriers — has neglected the rights of property owners who live in, and around the border. O'Rourke also noted that two-thirds of the land along the border is private or state-owned, most of which falling within Texas.
The idea of Texan private landowners going up against the federal government is nothing new.
More than four years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management claimed that sections of a 116-mile stretch of land along the Red River belonged to the federal government. Officials with BLM cited a 1923 Supreme Court decision as the basis for their claim, saying that the court assigned land north of the river to Oklahoma and the territory south of the river to Texas. The patches in between belong to the federal government.
But private landowners, farmers and ranchers who have paid taxes on the land in dispute say the property is actually theirs.
Asked about similarities with the Red River issue, and the federal government's attempt to use eminent domain to strip landowners of their private property, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, focused instead on his three-prong approach to border security.
Cornyn worked with U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, on the issue
Along with two other Republican senators, Cornyn — who worked with U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, on the Red River issue — introduced legislation on Wednesday that would increase resources along the border, as well as boost trade through ports of entry and strengthen enforcement of existing laws,
"I believe any border security solution should contain a combination of three things: physical and tactical infrastructure, personnel and technology," Cornyn said. "How those combinations of three things work will vary at different locations along the border, because each mile is unique and presents a different challenge in terms of what's needed."
Just last month, DHS's Office of Immigration Statistics released a report that stated 55 to 85 percent of attempted illegal crossings were unsuccessful. This is up from just over a decade ago when that percentage was in the 35 to 70 percent range, the document states.
"We do not need a border wall that raids the land of private citizens, ransacks the businesses and ranches of hard-working Texans and strips property rights away from Americans," O'Rourke said.
END
BUTTERFLIES? Don't miss this one.
https://www.texasobserver.org/border-wall-lawsuit-butterfly-center-trump/
end
Landowner rights at center of challenge to border wall
Proposal would bar use of eminent domain for border barrier
LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER Follow @lorenzozazueta 20 hrs ago
http://www.themonitor.com/news/immigration/article_9b3a41fa-abc2-11e7-b937-17e5bc2e8e22.html
In this Sept. 6, 2012, photo, cotton farmer Teofilo "Junior" Flores stands on one side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence that passes across his property in Brownsville, Texas. Since 2008, hundreds of landowners on the border have sought fair prices for property that was condemned to make way for the fence, but many of them received initial offers that were far below market value. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Eric Gay
In response to President Donald Trump's administration continuing efforts to make good on his polarizing campaign promise of constructing new border walls on the U.S. Mexico border, U.S. Reps. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., announced new legislation designed to prevent the federal government from usurping private land to do so.
During a news conference earlier in the week, O'Rourke and Gallego discussed how the legislation — The Protecting the Property Rights of Border Landowners Act — would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to forbid the Secretary of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General from using eminent domain to acquire land for construction of new border walls, or any other barrier along the U.S. Mexico border.
"We do not need a 2,000-mile, 30-foot-high wall separating us from Mexico," O'Rourke said during the call. "And if the Trump administration moves forward with the construction of this wall, it will be built not on the international boundary line but in the U.S. — much of it on private property in the state of Texas."
In July, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated that the Army Corps of Engineers had begun preparations for the construction of a wall in several places along the border, including El Paso.
Additionally, the president requested funding to double the number of Department of Justice attorneys who work in land acquisition. And construction on eight prototypes for the wall began last week with Trump saying he would pick the design himself.
All this has occurred while nearly 100 eminent domain condemnation cases remain open from more than a decade ago — the last time the government seized land for a wall in the Rio Grande Valley, including in Los Ebanos, where Efren Olivares of the Texas Civil Rights Project worked extensively.
A dry corn field stretches across the land toward the U.S. border fence along Old Military Highway in San Benito as the U.S. Attorney's Office seeks to settle remainging landowner cases.
AP
While working with the private landowners, Olivares said he saw firsthand what he characterized as abuse on behalf of the federal government.
" For almost 10 years, we at Texas Civil Rights Project have seen how the federal government abused the eminent domain process and violated the rights of landowners in the Texas borderlands in the process to build the existing border fence," Olivares said. "People were paid cents on the dollar for their land, almost in all cases without proper consultation processes and with confusing or incomplete information, at best. We are glad to see this bill introduced as a way to ensure that people in border communities are not railroaded again in the government's obstinate pursuit of a border wall."
O'Rourke visited the Valley in late July and toured the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, one of the region's several locations the administration has picked for border wall construction.
That same month, O'Rourke and Gallego opposed the inclusion of $1.6 billion to start building Trump's border wall.
At Wednesday's conference, O'Rourke said the administration — in planning the construction of these barriers — has neglected the rights of property owners who live in, and around the border. O'Rourke also noted that two-thirds of the land along the border is private or state-owned, most of which falling within Texas.
The idea of Texan private landowners going up against the federal government is nothing new.
More than four years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management claimed that sections of a 116-mile stretch of land along the Red River belonged to the federal government. Officials with BLM cited a 1923 Supreme Court decision as the basis for their claim, saying that the court assigned land north of the river to Oklahoma and the territory south of the river to Texas. The patches in between belong to the federal government.
But private landowners, farmers and ranchers who have paid taxes on the land in dispute say the property is actually theirs.
Asked about similarities with the Red River issue, and the federal government's attempt to use eminent domain to strip landowners of their private property, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, focused instead on his three-prong approach to border security.
Cornyn worked with U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, on the issue
Along with two other Republican senators, Cornyn — who worked with U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, on the Red River issue — introduced legislation on Wednesday that would increase resources along the border, as well as boost trade through ports of entry and strengthen enforcement of existing laws,
"I believe any border security solution should contain a combination of three things: physical and tactical infrastructure, personnel and technology," Cornyn said. "How those combinations of three things work will vary at different locations along the border, because each mile is unique and presents a different challenge in terms of what's needed."
Just last month, DHS's Office of Immigration Statistics released a report that stated 55 to 85 percent of attempted illegal crossings were unsuccessful. This is up from just over a decade ago when that percentage was in the 35 to 70 percent range, the document states.
"We do not need a border wall that raids the land of private citizens, ransacks the businesses and ranches of hard-working Texans and strips property rights away from Americans," O'Rourke said.
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