AZMEX I3 SPECIAL - Update 19 APR 2019
Note: video, photos, etc. at link.
Court docs shed light on human smuggling case that ended in deadly Ahwatukee shootout
4 ICE agents injured, 1 woman killed
Laura Lollman, Maria Hechanova, David Baker
Posted 23 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/court-docs-shed-light-on-human-smuggling-case-that-ended/article_21274428-620d-11e9-8a0e-3f3942ce792f.html
According to documents, ICE agents attempted to arrest 35-year-old Warren Jose on a federal felony warrant on April 11.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- A newly released criminal complaint provides new details about last week's deadly shootout
between ICE agents and suspected human smugglers.
According to documents, ICE agents attempted to arrest 35-year-old Warren Jose on a federal felony warrant on April 11.
[WATCH: What led up to the shootout?]
[READ MORE: Family IDs woman killed in Ahwatukee shooting that sent 4 federal agents to hospital]
Agents spotted Jose's Chevy Trailblazer on Interstate 10 south of Riggs Road and began following him
as he exited the freeway into an Ahwatukee neighborhood and attempted a traffic stop.
[PDF: Federal complaint for Warren Jose, Valentina Valenzuela]
[WATCH: Gun fight involving ICE broke out in Ahwatukee community]
Documents state that Jose's vehicle, driven by a woman identified as Theresa Medina-Thomas (aka Theresa Juan),
did not stop and fled from agents, striking multiple vehicles and causing an agent's SUV to crash into a wall.
[WATCH: Human smuggling investigation becomes Awatukee shooting with ICE]
Jose's SUV then spun out. Documents state that he began shooting at agents with an AK-47-type assault rifle, striking multiple vehicles.
[PHOTOS: Federal agents shot in Ahwatukee]
Agents then returned fire, shooting and killing the driver, Medina-Thomas.
Three additional people were in the backseat of Jose's car.
Two were illegal immigrants, Genaro Jimenez-Sanchez and a juvenile, who were allegedly smuggled into the country by Jose.
The third was identified as 23-year-old Valentina Valenzuela, who agents say was a co-conspirator.
The four Homeland Security Investigations special agents involved in the shooting were treated for injuries not considered life-threatening,
were released from the hospital and are recovering.
Investigators said the Phoenix Police Department is conducting the homicide and attempted murder investigation,
and HSI is conducting the human smuggling resulting in a death investigation.
WHY JOSE WAS WANTED BY ICE
Jose's warrant stems from an incident in mid-March, in which a man, later identified as Adrian Hernandez Morales
and determined to be an illegal immigrant, was found by police officers on the Tohono O'Odham reservation.
He was taken to a hospital because he was suffering from dehydration and blistered feet.
[PDF: Court documents for Warren Jose]
While at the hospital, the man told officers that he was picked up by Jose after crossing into Arizona from Mexico.
He told police that Jose offered to take him to a hospital but instead took him to a residence.
The man said he was kept at the house despite multiple requests to be taken to a hospital.
He said at one point, he was threatened with a knife and had all of his personal property taken from him.
He told police he escaped through a window and flagged down a Tohono O'Odham police officer.
He was interviewed and later shown two photo lineups. He positively identified Jose as the man who picked him up.
Previous alleged involvement in human smuggling scheme
Jose tried to extort more money from an illegal immigrant back in November, sources said.
New documents show Jose was holding a person who had been smuggled into the country illegally
for ransom at a Tempe hotel in November of 2018.
Police said the victim paid 30,000 Guatemalan dollars to be smuggled into the U.S. and when he was brought to the hotel,
Jose demanded an extra 15,000 U.S. dollars from the victim, or he would be killed.
Police said the victim was able to call 911 and officers arrested Jose.
Jose said he was paid $200 to "babysit" the victim but denied holding him against his will at gunpoint, police said.
He also had cocaine on him, police said.
Bond was originally set at $75,000. but then changed to a. secured bond of $5,000. (?)
Jose posted that in January.
ICE released the following statement on April 18:
"While the human smuggling investigation associated with the agent involved shooting remains ongoing,
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) can confirm that Warren Jose, 35, ... was initialed in federal court in Tucson this afternoon.
Jose was the subject of a District of Arizona federal criminal arrest warrant ... connected to the HSI human smuggling investigation.
One of the passengers in the vehicle, Valentina Valenzuela ... has been charged in federal court in the human smuggling conspiracy.
The four HSI special agents that sought medical treatment for non-life threatening (sic) injuries
were released from the hospital and are recovering.
The Phoenix Police Department is conducting the homicide and attempted murder investigation,
and HSI is conducting the human smuggling resulting in a death investigation."
END
Friday, April 19, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 18-4-19
AZMEX UPDATE 18 APR 2019
FGR in Sonora destroys more than four tons of narcotics
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/79404
Statement FGR 177/19
The Public Ministry of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) in Sonora,
in coordination with personnel of the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) and the State Public Security Police,
destroyed four tons 261 kilos 310 grams 400 milligrams of narcotics .
The incineration event was held at a station in the city of Hermosillo,
where 4 tons,104 kilos 352 grams 600 milligrams of marijuana were destroyed
153 kilos 756 grams 300 milligrams of methamphetamine and
three kilos 201 grams 500 milligrams of heroin.
Also destroyed were 39 marijuana plants and nine poppy plants.
The narcotics were related to 13 investigative folders, for the probable commission of crimes against health, in its different modalities.
The drug was insured in various operations carried out in the state of Sonora by
the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM), SEDENA, the State Public Security Police, the Federal Police (PF),
the Secretariat of the Navy Navy of Mexico (SEMAR), State Investigative Police and Municipal Police.
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) in Sonora instructed the destruction of the drugs,
under the supervision of personnel of the Internal Control Body, who verified the quantity and weight of the drug,
as well as accrediting the legality of the incineration.
End
FGR in Sonora destroys more than four tons of narcotics
http://www.elregionaldesonora.com.mx/noticia/79404
Statement FGR 177/19
The Public Ministry of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) in Sonora,
in coordination with personnel of the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) and the State Public Security Police,
destroyed four tons 261 kilos 310 grams 400 milligrams of narcotics .
The incineration event was held at a station in the city of Hermosillo,
where 4 tons,104 kilos 352 grams 600 milligrams of marijuana were destroyed
153 kilos 756 grams 300 milligrams of methamphetamine and
three kilos 201 grams 500 milligrams of heroin.
Also destroyed were 39 marijuana plants and nine poppy plants.
The narcotics were related to 13 investigative folders, for the probable commission of crimes against health, in its different modalities.
The drug was insured in various operations carried out in the state of Sonora by
the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM), SEDENA, the State Public Security Police, the Federal Police (PF),
the Secretariat of the Navy Navy of Mexico (SEMAR), State Investigative Police and Municipal Police.
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) in Sonora instructed the destruction of the drugs,
under the supervision of personnel of the Internal Control Body, who verified the quantity and weight of the drug,
as well as accrediting the legality of the incineration.
End
AZMEX I3 SPECIAL 18-4-19
AZMEX I3 SPECIAL 18 APR 2019
Note: the smuggling has a very long history of violence.
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AK-47-toting migrant smuggler sparked deadly shootout with ICE
In this Dec. 3, 2014, file picture, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agent watches cars as they wait to enter the United States
from Tijuana, Mexico, through the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 17, 2019
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/17/warren-jose-ak-47-toting-migrant-smuggler-sparked-/
An AK-47-toting man smuggling illegal immigrants opened fire on ICE agents in Phoenix last week,
sparking a shootout that left another member of his smuggling gang dead, according to court documents detailing the latest episode
in what authorities say is growing violence in the illegal immigrant economy.
The incident has drawn scant national attention, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federal prosecutors
have been tight with details, saying the April 11 shootout is still under investigation.
But the picture that emerges from the court documents is of an abusive immigration-smuggling gang
running a stash house on an Indian reservation that spans the border, preying off the misery of migrants whom they kidnapped
and extorted for money before delivering to their destinations.
Authorities were tipped to the gang when one of the migrants, who'd wasn't a client but whom the gang kidnapped
just after he snuck across the border, managed to escape through a window and flagged down a police officer.
As agents from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations worked to roll up the smuggling ring,
they encountered some of its members apparently making a run to California carrying two illegal immigrant customers.
When agents tried to make a traffic stop on the gang's Chevrolet Trailblazer the SUV sped off,
plowing through other cars and smashing one ICE vehicle into a wall, according to the court documents.
Eventually the SUV spun out of control and agents closed in, which is when they say
Warren Jose, one of the smugglers, grabbed an AK-47 assault rifle and began spraying the HSI agents' vehicles with gunfire.
The agents returned fire and the SUV's driver was slain, agents said.
Four agents were taken to the hospital for medical evaluation.
An ICE spokeswoman said Wednesday the four were treated for non-life threatening injuries and released.
"It's a violent game right now because there's a lot of money wrapped up in this," said former acting ICE Director Tom Homan.
"I think we'll see an escalation in the violence."
He said the mix of the surge of illegal immigrants, the involvement of the Mexican cartels and the large sums paid —
or able to be extorted — for smuggling have fueled the violence.
Mexicans regularly pay fees of $10,000 to be smuggled across, while those from Central America can pay more.
Brazilians can pay $20,000, while Chinese migrants are known to pay $70,000 or more to be smuggled over to Mexico and across the border.
The surge of cash and the cat-and-mouse game between U.S. authorities and the smugglers
has in some ways cheapened the value of life.
Other border incidents this month alone include a minivan that tried to elude Border Patrol agents in New Mexico
on April 6, swerved to miss a tire deflation device and lost control,
ejecting two of the 10 migrants being smuggled. Both of them died.
A day earlier in Texas agents tried to stop a GMC pickup, again using a tire deflation device.
That truck was brought to a stop and most of the migrants bailed,
but agents found one person unresponsive. He later died at a local hospital.
Earlier this week agents startled a smuggler making a pickup of migrants in California.
The vehicle sped off, dragging one of the migrants for more than 30 feet.
Stash house operators and drivers who carry illegal immigrants through border checkpoints
stand to make some serious cash for their efforts.
Fees of $1,000 per illegal immigrant are common for drivers, so someone willing to pile five people into a car's trunk
and back seat can walk away with $5,000 for several hours' work.
And prosecution decisions are uneven at best,
meaning some perpetrators are given a pass their first or even second time they're caught.
( "uneven" or corrupt? )
In the Arizona smuggling ring from last week's shootout, authorities have lodged smuggling charges against four people:
Johnson Ortiz, Regina Ramon, Valentina Valenzuela and Mr. Jose, the man accused of doing the shooting.
As of Wednesday morning, no charges stemming from the shooting had been filed.
Mr. Morales, the illegal immigrant whose story unraveled the smuggling ring, said he climbed the border fence the night of March 17
and was pointed north by his foot guide, who told him to walk until he got to Sells,
a town XX miles north of the border, where he should turn himself in to authorities.
That's become a popular move for many migrants who sneak into the U.S. then find Border Patrol agents and demand asylum,
counting on the lengthy legal delays to give them a chance to disappear into the shadows as illegal immigrants.
In Mr. Morales's case, he had the misfortune to be spotted by Mr. Jose, who was driving along the same route on Highway 86.
Mr. Jose offered to take the illegal immigrant to the hospital,
but once he was inside the car Mr. Jose took him to the stash house instead, according to court documents.
At the stash house, Mr. Morales says he was threatened at knife-point, relieved of his phone and wallet
and told he would be held for ransom until someone was willing to pay for his release.
He was told he would be killed if he tried to flee.
On March 20 the illegal immigrant managed to climb out a window and abscond, flagging down a tribal police officer
and finally getting to a hospital to be treated for dehydration and his blistered feet.
HSI agents then worked to wrap up the gang, finding five adult illegal immigrants and one Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC)
still at the stash house.
Agents on March 21 charged Mr. Ortiz and Ms. Ramon with running operating the stash house,
then last week charged Mr. Jose with smuggling Mr. Morales.
Two days later, on April 11, agents spotted Mr. Jose in the Trailblazer SUV driving near Phoenix.
They tried to pull the SUV over, sparking the attempted getaway and shootout.
ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe said Phoenix police are conducting a homicide and attempted investigation,
while federal authorities are conducting a human smuggling investigation.
Phoenix police this week revealed the identity of 29-year-old Theresa Medina Thomas,
the driver of the SUV who was slain.
Thomas had her own long history with smuggling and drug offenses, including being busted by Border Patrol agents
just after Christmas in 2017 for smuggling two illegal immigrants on the Tohono O'odham reservation.
She pleaded guilty and was sentenced in March 2018 to five months in prison and three years' probation for that crime.
END
Note: the smuggling has a very long history of violence.
Thx
AK-47-toting migrant smuggler sparked deadly shootout with ICE
In this Dec. 3, 2014, file picture, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agent watches cars as they wait to enter the United States
from Tijuana, Mexico, through the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 17, 2019
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/17/warren-jose-ak-47-toting-migrant-smuggler-sparked-/
An AK-47-toting man smuggling illegal immigrants opened fire on ICE agents in Phoenix last week,
sparking a shootout that left another member of his smuggling gang dead, according to court documents detailing the latest episode
in what authorities say is growing violence in the illegal immigrant economy.
The incident has drawn scant national attention, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federal prosecutors
have been tight with details, saying the April 11 shootout is still under investigation.
But the picture that emerges from the court documents is of an abusive immigration-smuggling gang
running a stash house on an Indian reservation that spans the border, preying off the misery of migrants whom they kidnapped
and extorted for money before delivering to their destinations.
Authorities were tipped to the gang when one of the migrants, who'd wasn't a client but whom the gang kidnapped
just after he snuck across the border, managed to escape through a window and flagged down a police officer.
As agents from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations worked to roll up the smuggling ring,
they encountered some of its members apparently making a run to California carrying two illegal immigrant customers.
When agents tried to make a traffic stop on the gang's Chevrolet Trailblazer the SUV sped off,
plowing through other cars and smashing one ICE vehicle into a wall, according to the court documents.
Eventually the SUV spun out of control and agents closed in, which is when they say
Warren Jose, one of the smugglers, grabbed an AK-47 assault rifle and began spraying the HSI agents' vehicles with gunfire.
The agents returned fire and the SUV's driver was slain, agents said.
Four agents were taken to the hospital for medical evaluation.
An ICE spokeswoman said Wednesday the four were treated for non-life threatening injuries and released.
"It's a violent game right now because there's a lot of money wrapped up in this," said former acting ICE Director Tom Homan.
"I think we'll see an escalation in the violence."
He said the mix of the surge of illegal immigrants, the involvement of the Mexican cartels and the large sums paid —
or able to be extorted — for smuggling have fueled the violence.
Mexicans regularly pay fees of $10,000 to be smuggled across, while those from Central America can pay more.
Brazilians can pay $20,000, while Chinese migrants are known to pay $70,000 or more to be smuggled over to Mexico and across the border.
The surge of cash and the cat-and-mouse game between U.S. authorities and the smugglers
has in some ways cheapened the value of life.
Other border incidents this month alone include a minivan that tried to elude Border Patrol agents in New Mexico
on April 6, swerved to miss a tire deflation device and lost control,
ejecting two of the 10 migrants being smuggled. Both of them died.
A day earlier in Texas agents tried to stop a GMC pickup, again using a tire deflation device.
That truck was brought to a stop and most of the migrants bailed,
but agents found one person unresponsive. He later died at a local hospital.
Earlier this week agents startled a smuggler making a pickup of migrants in California.
The vehicle sped off, dragging one of the migrants for more than 30 feet.
Stash house operators and drivers who carry illegal immigrants through border checkpoints
stand to make some serious cash for their efforts.
Fees of $1,000 per illegal immigrant are common for drivers, so someone willing to pile five people into a car's trunk
and back seat can walk away with $5,000 for several hours' work.
And prosecution decisions are uneven at best,
meaning some perpetrators are given a pass their first or even second time they're caught.
( "uneven" or corrupt? )
In the Arizona smuggling ring from last week's shootout, authorities have lodged smuggling charges against four people:
Johnson Ortiz, Regina Ramon, Valentina Valenzuela and Mr. Jose, the man accused of doing the shooting.
As of Wednesday morning, no charges stemming from the shooting had been filed.
Mr. Morales, the illegal immigrant whose story unraveled the smuggling ring, said he climbed the border fence the night of March 17
and was pointed north by his foot guide, who told him to walk until he got to Sells,
a town XX miles north of the border, where he should turn himself in to authorities.
That's become a popular move for many migrants who sneak into the U.S. then find Border Patrol agents and demand asylum,
counting on the lengthy legal delays to give them a chance to disappear into the shadows as illegal immigrants.
In Mr. Morales's case, he had the misfortune to be spotted by Mr. Jose, who was driving along the same route on Highway 86.
Mr. Jose offered to take the illegal immigrant to the hospital,
but once he was inside the car Mr. Jose took him to the stash house instead, according to court documents.
At the stash house, Mr. Morales says he was threatened at knife-point, relieved of his phone and wallet
and told he would be held for ransom until someone was willing to pay for his release.
He was told he would be killed if he tried to flee.
On March 20 the illegal immigrant managed to climb out a window and abscond, flagging down a tribal police officer
and finally getting to a hospital to be treated for dehydration and his blistered feet.
HSI agents then worked to wrap up the gang, finding five adult illegal immigrants and one Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC)
still at the stash house.
Agents on March 21 charged Mr. Ortiz and Ms. Ramon with running operating the stash house,
then last week charged Mr. Jose with smuggling Mr. Morales.
Two days later, on April 11, agents spotted Mr. Jose in the Trailblazer SUV driving near Phoenix.
They tried to pull the SUV over, sparking the attempted getaway and shootout.
ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe said Phoenix police are conducting a homicide and attempted investigation,
while federal authorities are conducting a human smuggling investigation.
Phoenix police this week revealed the identity of 29-year-old Theresa Medina Thomas,
the driver of the SUV who was slain.
Thomas had her own long history with smuggling and drug offenses, including being busted by Border Patrol agents
just after Christmas in 2017 for smuggling two illegal immigrants on the Tohono O'odham reservation.
She pleaded guilty and was sentenced in March 2018 to five months in prison and three years' probation for that crime.
END
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
AZMEX I3 17-4-19
AZMEX I3 17 APR 2019
INAMI intercepts caravan of Cubans in Chiapas
INAMI deported 148 Cubans who had irregular stay
Cuban is crucified in Chiapas migratory station
Police frustrate 'levantón' of Cuban migrants in Tamaulipas
INAMI intercepts caravan of Cubans in Chiapas
The islanders traveled aboard a dozen buses from the city of Tapachula, and all carried a document that protected free transit through Mexico
04/17/2019 21:23 GASPAR ROMERO / PHOTO: SPECIAL
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/inami-intercepta-caravana-de-cubanos-en-chiapas/1308182
The Cubans are led by José Luis Villagrán and Ramón Verdugo, pro-migrant activists, who left early in the morning
from the bicentennial park in the city of Tapachula.
CHIAPAS.
The caravan of Cuban citizens who were traveling aboard a dozen buses were intercepted by elements of the National Institute of Migration,
at the CAITF Comprehensive Frontier Transit Center, located in the municipality of Huixtla, Chiapas.
The islanders traveled aboard a dozen buses from the city of Tapachula, and they all carried a document that protected free transit through Mexico;
however, they were not allowed to continue on their way, so they got out of the units and continued on foot.
The group of people are headed by José Luis Villagrán and Ramón Verdugo, both pro-migrant activists.
They had left from the Bicentennial Park of the city of Tapachula since the morning,
after receiving an injunction that was not validated by the Migration elements.
INAMI deported 148 Cubans who had irregular stay
Cuban is crucified in Chiapas migratory station
Police frustrate 'levantón' of Cuban migrants in Tamaulipas
RELATED
Two soldiers involved in the murder of soldier Brenda Orquídea
Arde Chiapas ... for the record of 16 forest fires
They choose to edil tzotzil by uses and customs; Chiapas municipality banishes parties
Mexican police give their food to migrant children in Tapachula
They threaten the inhabitants of Oxchuc, Chiapas; CNDH asks to protect election
Hondurans enroll 'viacrucis migrante' to try to get to the US
END
INAMI intercepts caravan of Cubans in Chiapas
INAMI deported 148 Cubans who had irregular stay
Cuban is crucified in Chiapas migratory station
Police frustrate 'levantón' of Cuban migrants in Tamaulipas
INAMI intercepts caravan of Cubans in Chiapas
The islanders traveled aboard a dozen buses from the city of Tapachula, and all carried a document that protected free transit through Mexico
04/17/2019 21:23 GASPAR ROMERO / PHOTO: SPECIAL
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/inami-intercepta-caravana-de-cubanos-en-chiapas/1308182
The Cubans are led by José Luis Villagrán and Ramón Verdugo, pro-migrant activists, who left early in the morning
from the bicentennial park in the city of Tapachula.
CHIAPAS.
The caravan of Cuban citizens who were traveling aboard a dozen buses were intercepted by elements of the National Institute of Migration,
at the CAITF Comprehensive Frontier Transit Center, located in the municipality of Huixtla, Chiapas.
The islanders traveled aboard a dozen buses from the city of Tapachula, and they all carried a document that protected free transit through Mexico;
however, they were not allowed to continue on their way, so they got out of the units and continued on foot.
The group of people are headed by José Luis Villagrán and Ramón Verdugo, both pro-migrant activists.
They had left from the Bicentennial Park of the city of Tapachula since the morning,
after receiving an injunction that was not validated by the Migration elements.
INAMI deported 148 Cubans who had irregular stay
Cuban is crucified in Chiapas migratory station
Police frustrate 'levantón' of Cuban migrants in Tamaulipas
RELATED
Two soldiers involved in the murder of soldier Brenda Orquídea
Arde Chiapas ... for the record of 16 forest fires
They choose to edil tzotzil by uses and customs; Chiapas municipality banishes parties
Mexican police give their food to migrant children in Tapachula
They threaten the inhabitants of Oxchuc, Chiapas; CNDH asks to protect election
Hondurans enroll 'viacrucis migrante' to try to get to the US
END
AZMEX EXTRA 17-4-19
AZMEX EXTRA 17 APR 2019
Note: photo, etc. at link.
They seize in customs of the Country 1,700 weapons
By: Eliana Alvarado | 04/17/2019 5:37
https://www.elimparcial.com/Nacional/2019/04/17/1424343-Aseguran-en-aduanas-del-Pais-mil-700-armas.html
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
More than 1,700 firearms have been seized among the 49 customs points of the country in the last four months,
said the general administrator of customs, Ricardo Peralta Saucedo.
So far in the current federal administration, he said, they have also secured nearly four kilos of drugs, mainly cocaine and fentanyl precursors.
He assured that all these seizures have been possible with the use of technologies with which the customs points have been in place for years,
but that they had been underused and did not meet the objective.
Although he did not specify the data of seizures for Sonora or other border states, he affirmed that the main problem is the same in all the country's borders:
"It is the arrival of drugs from some parts of the world that passes through Mexico and passes to the United States,
the entry of irregular vehicles, weapons, everywhere is very similar. "
He said that in one of the first seizures of this administration, 1,400 new magazines of the so-called "cuernos de chivo" (AK)
were seized, but even though this seizure was achieved, it is not known for which criminal group they were or where the weapons are.
"We do not know if the weapons are in here, if they are coming, where the cartridges are,
but they are just weapons, objects to be damaged, and that is what we have to attack," he said.
Peralta Saucedo presented yesterday to the Sonoran businessmen the "National Customs Strategy", which, he said,
goes from the re-launching of the Customs of Mexico brand to the technological use and changes in the legal framework of the institution.
PLAN TO REDUCE WAITING TIMES AT THE BORDER
With the promise of reducing waiting times by up to 80%, the new X-ray inspection systems at the border crossings
will be operational in about six months, assured the general administrator of Customs Mexico, Ricardo Peralta Saucedo.
Without specifying amounts of investment, he indicated that high technology will be acquired in X-rays
that will be installed on both sides of the border between Mexico and the United States, which will take a first image of the merchandise to be crossed.
"Then, 200 meters before arriving at the border crossing, a photo is taken with some stops at the moment the light heavy vehicle passes,
passes those stops and takes a picture of the chassis,
that's to do a data mining of everything that happens inside our Country towards the United States and towards here, "he explained.
This change will mean eliminating the semaphores that are used up to now and the revision will be non-intrusive, said the official,
only in the case of vehicles in which illicit products are detected will they be separated from the normal line.
"The line will be advancing at approximately 30 kilometers per hour, which will not only increase vehicle traffic,
but also increase foreign trade, which will encourage investments," he said.
WILL USE TECHNOLOGY
The project is part of the objectives that the institution has for the coming months,
focused on the use of technology to ensure better reviews at all customs points.
Peralta Saucedo said that the Customs of Mexico has for several years with technological equipment
that has not been used in the right way, which has led to illegal goods entering the country.
He cited as an example that in a review that was made at the data processing center in Queretaro,
where the 49 customs offices in the country are monitored in real time, it was detected that the 15 thousand cameras were poorly located.
TOPICS: CUSTOMS OF MEXICO, FIREARMS, ARMS CONFISCATION
END
Note: photo, etc. at link.
They seize in customs of the Country 1,700 weapons
By: Eliana Alvarado | 04/17/2019 5:37
https://www.elimparcial.com/Nacional/2019/04/17/1424343-Aseguran-en-aduanas-del-Pais-mil-700-armas.html
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
More than 1,700 firearms have been seized among the 49 customs points of the country in the last four months,
said the general administrator of customs, Ricardo Peralta Saucedo.
So far in the current federal administration, he said, they have also secured nearly four kilos of drugs, mainly cocaine and fentanyl precursors.
He assured that all these seizures have been possible with the use of technologies with which the customs points have been in place for years,
but that they had been underused and did not meet the objective.
Although he did not specify the data of seizures for Sonora or other border states, he affirmed that the main problem is the same in all the country's borders:
"It is the arrival of drugs from some parts of the world that passes through Mexico and passes to the United States,
the entry of irregular vehicles, weapons, everywhere is very similar. "
He said that in one of the first seizures of this administration, 1,400 new magazines of the so-called "cuernos de chivo" (AK)
were seized, but even though this seizure was achieved, it is not known for which criminal group they were or where the weapons are.
"We do not know if the weapons are in here, if they are coming, where the cartridges are,
but they are just weapons, objects to be damaged, and that is what we have to attack," he said.
Peralta Saucedo presented yesterday to the Sonoran businessmen the "National Customs Strategy", which, he said,
goes from the re-launching of the Customs of Mexico brand to the technological use and changes in the legal framework of the institution.
PLAN TO REDUCE WAITING TIMES AT THE BORDER
With the promise of reducing waiting times by up to 80%, the new X-ray inspection systems at the border crossings
will be operational in about six months, assured the general administrator of Customs Mexico, Ricardo Peralta Saucedo.
Without specifying amounts of investment, he indicated that high technology will be acquired in X-rays
that will be installed on both sides of the border between Mexico and the United States, which will take a first image of the merchandise to be crossed.
"Then, 200 meters before arriving at the border crossing, a photo is taken with some stops at the moment the light heavy vehicle passes,
passes those stops and takes a picture of the chassis,
that's to do a data mining of everything that happens inside our Country towards the United States and towards here, "he explained.
This change will mean eliminating the semaphores that are used up to now and the revision will be non-intrusive, said the official,
only in the case of vehicles in which illicit products are detected will they be separated from the normal line.
"The line will be advancing at approximately 30 kilometers per hour, which will not only increase vehicle traffic,
but also increase foreign trade, which will encourage investments," he said.
WILL USE TECHNOLOGY
The project is part of the objectives that the institution has for the coming months,
focused on the use of technology to ensure better reviews at all customs points.
Peralta Saucedo said that the Customs of Mexico has for several years with technological equipment
that has not been used in the right way, which has led to illegal goods entering the country.
He cited as an example that in a review that was made at the data processing center in Queretaro,
where the 49 customs offices in the country are monitored in real time, it was detected that the 15 thousand cameras were poorly located.
TOPICS: CUSTOMS OF MEXICO, FIREARMS, ARMS CONFISCATION
END
Sunday, April 14, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 14-4-19
AZMEX UPDATE 14 APR 2019
Armed confrontation alarm in García Morales; identify 4 of the victims
https://www.elimparcial.com/Policiaca/2019/04/14/1423709-Genera-alarma-arfrentamiento-armado-en-el-Garcia-Morales-identifican-a-4-de-los-abatidos.html
By: Drafting / GH | 04/14/2019 6:29
RELATED INFORMATION
Hermosillo will be the next priority region in Sonora for entrance of the National Guard: Durazo
It registers CO confrontation between criminal groups; there were more than 300 shots
They find two bodies without life in Las Guásimas
Loses man's life that was thrown into the channel after receiving 3 shots in Ciudad Obregón
They shoot 5 in Caborca; there is intense police mobilization
Photo gallery
They die six meters from AMIC
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
Patrols, ambulances, police and people, some of them relatives of the alleged criminals trying to approach the crime scene,
was what was observed yesterday on the Boulevard Garcia Morales, near the offices of Grupo México,
in the site where elements of the Ministerial Agency had an armed confrontation.
AMIC personnel shot down six people, who allegedly operated their weapons after being chased and ignored the order to stop the units
in which they were traveling; everything was recorded around 1:30 p.m., when traffic got complicated.
Some citizens mentioned through social networks that in neighborhoods around the place, such as Real del Llano and La Manga,
they heard some firearm detonations.
In addition employees of some nearby businesses had reported that for security reasons, their superiors did not let anyone leave
until more reinforcements arrived from different police agencies.
At the intersection in front of the Pantheon, three vehicles arrived from the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena),
without knowing whether their arrival was coincidence or responding to the call of the armed attack.
"Download your cell phone, do not take video", was what police officers told motorists who tried to focus the camera
and take a picture to send it to their contacts or upload it on social networks.
CAOS
This confrontation between police officers and alleged criminals caused a traffic chaos; long lines that began after the boulevard Quintero Arce
where a large line of vehicles moved slowly down the Boulevard Garcia Morales because a little more than a mile and a half happened the violent event.
Around 20 to 30 minutes the cars passed the traffic lights of the Antonio Quiroga Boulevard,
while crossing the bridge of the aforementioned street, with García Morales, the traffic was slightly more fluid.
Some family members who tried to enter the cordoned off area were removed beyond the yellow line, as well as some civilians.
Little by little the flow was lighter, while the forensic agents and forensic doctors carried out their work inspecting the scene
where the shooting took place where some weapons were secured.
They divert traffic
From the front of the airport there was a Municipal Transit staff to divert the vehicles that went from West to East;
the second point of detour was in front of the Pantheon La Manga.
Motorists who moved through the area expressed their annoyance, as the traffic became increasingly heavy
and alternate routes were very diverted.
In front of the Municipal Pantheon the agents did not let anyone pass, only the pedestrians had access,
but to where the area was cordoned off, about two blocks south of the scene.
IDENTIFY 4 OF THE DEAD
In compliance with the execution of an arrest warrant, for illegal deprivation of aggravated liberty,
AMIC agents were attacked with firearms and when repelling the aggression they killed six individuals,
according to the statement of the Attorney General of the State.
In the events that occurred at 1:15 p.m. yesterday on Boulevard Garcia Morales,
three vehicles, six firearms and one fragmentation grenade were secured.
Elements of the Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigation (AMIC) detected Cutberto "N.", "El Boina", in a car,
who was escorted by five more individuals in two other cars.
They were identified as Víctor Daniel "N.", Luis Alberto "N.", Alejandro "N.",
and two other people who they are working to establish their identity.
All had tattooed, in different part of the body, the initials "CCC", name of Cutberto "N.",
and the drawing of a person wearing a beret, which apparently identified them as members of a criminal gang that operated in the city.
They traveled in three different vehicles at the time they were located:
A gray Volkswagen Jetta that had a ministerial warrant for the crime of fraud, a white Nissan March and a gray Dodge Neon.
Various weapons were recovered such as
.45 American Tactical pistol,
.40-caliber Prieto Beretta pistol,
Colt .40 revolver,
9-millimeter Glock,
9-millimeter Smith and Wesson pistol,
another Smith and Wesson revolver,
and the fragmentation grenade.
At the moment that the subjects noticed the presence of the elements, they began firing at AMIC personnel,
impacting in various parts the pilot's side in the Dodge Ram Hemi pick-up,
the agents with their weapons of charge answering the attack.
At that moment, came to support elements of the PESP of the Ministry of Public Security.
END
Armed confrontation alarm in García Morales; identify 4 of the victims
https://www.elimparcial.com/Policiaca/2019/04/14/1423709-Genera-alarma-arfrentamiento-armado-en-el-Garcia-Morales-identifican-a-4-de-los-abatidos.html
By: Drafting / GH | 04/14/2019 6:29
RELATED INFORMATION
Hermosillo will be the next priority region in Sonora for entrance of the National Guard: Durazo
It registers CO confrontation between criminal groups; there were more than 300 shots
They find two bodies without life in Las Guásimas
Loses man's life that was thrown into the channel after receiving 3 shots in Ciudad Obregón
They shoot 5 in Caborca; there is intense police mobilization
Photo gallery
They die six meters from AMIC
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
Patrols, ambulances, police and people, some of them relatives of the alleged criminals trying to approach the crime scene,
was what was observed yesterday on the Boulevard Garcia Morales, near the offices of Grupo México,
in the site where elements of the Ministerial Agency had an armed confrontation.
AMIC personnel shot down six people, who allegedly operated their weapons after being chased and ignored the order to stop the units
in which they were traveling; everything was recorded around 1:30 p.m., when traffic got complicated.
Some citizens mentioned through social networks that in neighborhoods around the place, such as Real del Llano and La Manga,
they heard some firearm detonations.
In addition employees of some nearby businesses had reported that for security reasons, their superiors did not let anyone leave
until more reinforcements arrived from different police agencies.
At the intersection in front of the Pantheon, three vehicles arrived from the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena),
without knowing whether their arrival was coincidence or responding to the call of the armed attack.
"Download your cell phone, do not take video", was what police officers told motorists who tried to focus the camera
and take a picture to send it to their contacts or upload it on social networks.
CAOS
This confrontation between police officers and alleged criminals caused a traffic chaos; long lines that began after the boulevard Quintero Arce
where a large line of vehicles moved slowly down the Boulevard Garcia Morales because a little more than a mile and a half happened the violent event.
Around 20 to 30 minutes the cars passed the traffic lights of the Antonio Quiroga Boulevard,
while crossing the bridge of the aforementioned street, with García Morales, the traffic was slightly more fluid.
Some family members who tried to enter the cordoned off area were removed beyond the yellow line, as well as some civilians.
Little by little the flow was lighter, while the forensic agents and forensic doctors carried out their work inspecting the scene
where the shooting took place where some weapons were secured.
They divert traffic
From the front of the airport there was a Municipal Transit staff to divert the vehicles that went from West to East;
the second point of detour was in front of the Pantheon La Manga.
Motorists who moved through the area expressed their annoyance, as the traffic became increasingly heavy
and alternate routes were very diverted.
In front of the Municipal Pantheon the agents did not let anyone pass, only the pedestrians had access,
but to where the area was cordoned off, about two blocks south of the scene.
IDENTIFY 4 OF THE DEAD
In compliance with the execution of an arrest warrant, for illegal deprivation of aggravated liberty,
AMIC agents were attacked with firearms and when repelling the aggression they killed six individuals,
according to the statement of the Attorney General of the State.
In the events that occurred at 1:15 p.m. yesterday on Boulevard Garcia Morales,
three vehicles, six firearms and one fragmentation grenade were secured.
Elements of the Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigation (AMIC) detected Cutberto "N.", "El Boina", in a car,
who was escorted by five more individuals in two other cars.
They were identified as Víctor Daniel "N.", Luis Alberto "N.", Alejandro "N.",
and two other people who they are working to establish their identity.
All had tattooed, in different part of the body, the initials "CCC", name of Cutberto "N.",
and the drawing of a person wearing a beret, which apparently identified them as members of a criminal gang that operated in the city.
They traveled in three different vehicles at the time they were located:
A gray Volkswagen Jetta that had a ministerial warrant for the crime of fraud, a white Nissan March and a gray Dodge Neon.
Various weapons were recovered such as
.45 American Tactical pistol,
.40-caliber Prieto Beretta pistol,
Colt .40 revolver,
9-millimeter Glock,
9-millimeter Smith and Wesson pistol,
another Smith and Wesson revolver,
and the fragmentation grenade.
At the moment that the subjects noticed the presence of the elements, they began firing at AMIC personnel,
impacting in various parts the pilot's side in the Dodge Ram Hemi pick-up,
the agents with their weapons of charge answering the attack.
At that moment, came to support elements of the PESP of the Ministry of Public Security.
END
Friday, April 12, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL2 12-4-19
AZMEX SPECIAL2 12 APR 2019
Note: a little more info released. Photo, etc. at link.
DEVELOPING
Family IDs woman killed in Ahwatukee shooting that sent 4 federal agents to hospital
azfamily.com News Staff
Updated 5 hrs ago | Posted on Apr 11, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/pd-federal-agents-in-hospital-woman-dead-in-ahwatukee-shooting/article_3f7af95c-5c80-11e9-9151-bb0e588dbed1.html
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Family members on Friday identified the woman killed in a shootout between federal agents
and suspected human traffickers in Ahwatukee.
Her name is Theresa Juan.
[WATCH: Grandparents want answers in granddaughter's death]
The incident happened just before 10 a.m. Thursday near 48th Street just south of Elliot Road.
Four federal agents were hospitalized and four other people were hurt , according to the Phoenix Police Department.
[SEE: Ahwatukee community recalls ICE-involved gun battle]
Of the four agents hurt, two of them were shot, according to Councilman Sal DiCiccio's office.
[VIEW: Human smuggling investigation turns to shooting with ICE]
DiCiccio's office told Arizona's Family that Phoenix police briefed them on the situation.
According to police, one of the suspects was armed with an assault rifle.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the shooting was connected to a human smuggling investigation.
[WATCH: Gunfight involving ICE broke out in Ahwatukee community]
A source tells Arizona's Family that the four agents involved had injuries that aren't life-threatening.
Phoenix police said ICE agents were trying to stop a driver and make an arrest. All five suspects were in the vehicle.
Investigators said the suspect tried to run, but the agents forced the vehicle to stop.
[PHOTOS: Police situation in Ahwatukee]
That's when the front-seat passenger opened fire on the agents.
They returned fire.
Juan, who was identified to Arizona's Family by her grandparents, died at the scene.
The other four were taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.
"There was [sic] a lot of shots and you know, it wasn't just a couple, it was like repeated for awhile.
I mean it was enough time to where I got out of bed, I went outside, I walked out the backdoor and there's still bullets being shot,"
said Brady Buchberger whose grandfather lives near where the shootout happened.
"I was like, 'oh man there's a shootout!' I was ducking down because bullets could fly through the house,
I didn't know where the shots were coming from," Nick Dalton said. "I was trying to count because
I thought eventually somebody's gotta run out of bullets but it just wouldn't stop."
[VIDEO: ICE agents involved in shooting in Ahwatukee]
Authorities have not released any other information about the suspects.
According to a statement released Thursday afternoon by ICE, "special agents discharged their firearms,
striking two suspects while executing a federal felony arrest warrant connected to human smuggling."
[VIDEO: Heavy police scene after shooting in Ahwatukee]
ICE says the Phoenix Police Department is investigating the incident,
and ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing the incident.
Stay with azfamily.com for more on this developing story.
End
Note: a little more info released. Photo, etc. at link.
DEVELOPING
Family IDs woman killed in Ahwatukee shooting that sent 4 federal agents to hospital
azfamily.com News Staff
Updated 5 hrs ago | Posted on Apr 11, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/pd-federal-agents-in-hospital-woman-dead-in-ahwatukee-shooting/article_3f7af95c-5c80-11e9-9151-bb0e588dbed1.html
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Family members on Friday identified the woman killed in a shootout between federal agents
and suspected human traffickers in Ahwatukee.
Her name is Theresa Juan.
[WATCH: Grandparents want answers in granddaughter's death]
The incident happened just before 10 a.m. Thursday near 48th Street just south of Elliot Road.
Four federal agents were hospitalized and four other people were hurt , according to the Phoenix Police Department.
[SEE: Ahwatukee community recalls ICE-involved gun battle]
Of the four agents hurt, two of them were shot, according to Councilman Sal DiCiccio's office.
[VIEW: Human smuggling investigation turns to shooting with ICE]
DiCiccio's office told Arizona's Family that Phoenix police briefed them on the situation.
According to police, one of the suspects was armed with an assault rifle.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the shooting was connected to a human smuggling investigation.
[WATCH: Gunfight involving ICE broke out in Ahwatukee community]
A source tells Arizona's Family that the four agents involved had injuries that aren't life-threatening.
Phoenix police said ICE agents were trying to stop a driver and make an arrest. All five suspects were in the vehicle.
Investigators said the suspect tried to run, but the agents forced the vehicle to stop.
[PHOTOS: Police situation in Ahwatukee]
That's when the front-seat passenger opened fire on the agents.
They returned fire.
Juan, who was identified to Arizona's Family by her grandparents, died at the scene.
The other four were taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.
"There was [sic] a lot of shots and you know, it wasn't just a couple, it was like repeated for awhile.
I mean it was enough time to where I got out of bed, I went outside, I walked out the backdoor and there's still bullets being shot,"
said Brady Buchberger whose grandfather lives near where the shootout happened.
"I was like, 'oh man there's a shootout!' I was ducking down because bullets could fly through the house,
I didn't know where the shots were coming from," Nick Dalton said. "I was trying to count because
I thought eventually somebody's gotta run out of bullets but it just wouldn't stop."
[VIDEO: ICE agents involved in shooting in Ahwatukee]
Authorities have not released any other information about the suspects.
According to a statement released Thursday afternoon by ICE, "special agents discharged their firearms,
striking two suspects while executing a federal felony arrest warrant connected to human smuggling."
[VIDEO: Heavy police scene after shooting in Ahwatukee]
ICE says the Phoenix Police Department is investigating the incident,
and ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing the incident.
Stay with azfamily.com for more on this developing story.
End
AZMEX SPECIAL 12-4-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 12 APR 2019
Note: still very little info coming out. Videos, photos. etc. at links.
Thx
Phoenix Police: 4 Homeland Security agents taken to the hospital following shooting in Ahwatukee
Ahwatukee residents shocked after Homeland Security agents shoot suspects Thursday morning
Shooting, car crash involving federal agents under investigation in Ahwatukee
By Associated Press , FOX 10 Staff
Posted Apr 11 2019 10:57AM MST
Video Posted Apr 11 2019 09:22PM MST
Updated Apr 11 2019 09:23PM MST
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/police-situation-involving-federal-agents-happening-in-ahwatukee
PHOENIX (AP/FOX 10) - Phoenix Police officials say four Homeland Security Investigation agents were taken to the hospital for medical evaluation,
following a shooting in the Ahwatukee area of Phoenix Thursday morning.
In a statement, police say the incident happened at around 9:48 a.m., when HSI agents conducting a human smuggling investigation
tried to stop a car to make an arrest on the 11000 block of S. 48th Street. Gunfire was later exchanged.
Video from TV stations at the scene show several police patrol cars and emergency vehicles surrounding a pickup truck that crashed into a brick wall.
An SUV and a pickup truck also appear to have crashed into each other, and one of the vehicles seems to have had its windows shot out.
Image Gallery 2 PHOTOS
Phoenix Police officials say there were five people in the suspect vehicle. One of them, identified as a woman, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The rest were taken to the hospital, and their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Phoenix Police officials say their officers were not involved in the human smuggling investigation or the shooting.
HSI is the investigative arm of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
It investigates a variety of cross-border criminal activity including financial crimes, immigration fraud and weapons and drug trafficking.
As of Thursday night, an investigation at the scene is ongoing. Meanwhile, residents talked about what they heard, as the incident unfolded.
"All of a sudden, I heard this 'dah dah dah dah dah', you know, gunshots," said Jennier Foster.
"And then, it went silent, and then, it was again and again and again, so it ended up being, like, it was about 70 gunshots."
"It sounded like you were in a warzone, like in Syria or something, or Iraq," said Nick Dalton.
Foster said her neighborhood is filled with senior citizens who came to the area for peace and safety,
and they are now recovering from a traumatizing day.
"Just very scary, 'cause this is actually one of the safest neighborhoods I've ever lived in," said Foster.
End
Also: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/federal-agents-hospitalized-after-shootout-with-human-smuggling-suspects-in-ahwatukee-ice-says/75-697170fb-1142-4afc-9086-c221bf7bc844
End
Note: still very little info coming out. Videos, photos. etc. at links.
Thx
Phoenix Police: 4 Homeland Security agents taken to the hospital following shooting in Ahwatukee
Ahwatukee residents shocked after Homeland Security agents shoot suspects Thursday morning
Shooting, car crash involving federal agents under investigation in Ahwatukee
By Associated Press , FOX 10 Staff
Posted Apr 11 2019 10:57AM MST
Video Posted Apr 11 2019 09:22PM MST
Updated Apr 11 2019 09:23PM MST
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/police-situation-involving-federal-agents-happening-in-ahwatukee
PHOENIX (AP/FOX 10) - Phoenix Police officials say four Homeland Security Investigation agents were taken to the hospital for medical evaluation,
following a shooting in the Ahwatukee area of Phoenix Thursday morning.
In a statement, police say the incident happened at around 9:48 a.m., when HSI agents conducting a human smuggling investigation
tried to stop a car to make an arrest on the 11000 block of S. 48th Street. Gunfire was later exchanged.
Video from TV stations at the scene show several police patrol cars and emergency vehicles surrounding a pickup truck that crashed into a brick wall.
An SUV and a pickup truck also appear to have crashed into each other, and one of the vehicles seems to have had its windows shot out.
Image Gallery 2 PHOTOS
Phoenix Police officials say there were five people in the suspect vehicle. One of them, identified as a woman, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The rest were taken to the hospital, and their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Phoenix Police officials say their officers were not involved in the human smuggling investigation or the shooting.
HSI is the investigative arm of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
It investigates a variety of cross-border criminal activity including financial crimes, immigration fraud and weapons and drug trafficking.
As of Thursday night, an investigation at the scene is ongoing. Meanwhile, residents talked about what they heard, as the incident unfolded.
"All of a sudden, I heard this 'dah dah dah dah dah', you know, gunshots," said Jennier Foster.
"And then, it went silent, and then, it was again and again and again, so it ended up being, like, it was about 70 gunshots."
"It sounded like you were in a warzone, like in Syria or something, or Iraq," said Nick Dalton.
Foster said her neighborhood is filled with senior citizens who came to the area for peace and safety,
and they are now recovering from a traumatizing day.
"Just very scary, 'cause this is actually one of the safest neighborhoods I've ever lived in," said Foster.
End
Also: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/federal-agents-hospitalized-after-shootout-with-human-smuggling-suspects-in-ahwatukee-ice-says/75-697170fb-1142-4afc-9086-c221bf7bc844
End
Thursday, April 11, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 11-4-19
AZMEX POLICY 11 APR 2019
AMLO presents the high command of the National Guard
Details Published on Thursday, April 11, 2019,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=127592
CDMX
In the National Palace, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador introduced the members of the General Staff
and the National Guard command with the aim of confronting the violence in the country to safeguard the population.
According to the president and the head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, Alfonso Durazo,
the General Staff is composed of elements and elements of the Armed Forces and a representative of the Federal Police.
The members of this Institutional Operative Coordination should advise the commander on various issues,
particularly in the preparation of the security strategy and the definition of the final plans of this security group.
In addition, it will be a retired commander who is the commander of the National Guard in the work of public security.
Next we present the high commands of the National Guard:
Luis Rodríguez Bucio
The brigadier general, graduate of the General Staff, in process of retirement, Luis Rodríguez Bucio, will be the commander of the National Guard.
The current president of the Council of Delegates of the Inter-American Board of Defense
was born on August 27, 1956 in Condembaro, municipality of Tancitaro, Michoacán,
and graduated as a second lieutenant and Infantry in 1977 from the Heroico Colegio Militar, which he entered four years earlier.
Later, in 1988 he graduated from the War College as a Staff Officer.
Other academic degrees with the accounts are a master's degree in national security, a doctorate in national defense, and studies in Germany.
Among the positions he has held are his performance in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where between 1981 and 1982
he served as assistant to the head of that unit.
From 1989 to 1990 he served as Deputy Chief of Section Four already in the Presidential General Staff,
at the official residence of Los Pinos, in Mexico City.
Patricia Rosalinda Galindo Mariel
The general commissioner of the Federal Police and medical surgeon, originally from Veracruz, will represent this agency in the National Guard.
She joined the Federal Police in September 2009, is a teacher in forensic medicine and has 12 doctorates,
of which three were in the field of reeducation and social reintegration, forensic investigation
and science of human behavior at the philosophical level, and nine more honoris cause.
She has generated studies in 34 graduates, is the author of 28 books and co-author of six others;
She has also participated in the planning of plans, programs, projects, and action protocols
and has developed homologated models at the national level that have generated the realization of new competences.
It stands out as a forerunner in the area of certification and accreditation in the police field.
She was the first woman to be distinguished with the position of Division of the Scientific Division,
of which she is founder. In addition to having national and international recognition,
she was the first woman to obtain the rank of general commissioner.
Xicoténcatl de Azolohua Núñez Márquez
The brigadier general, a graduate of the General Staff, who is currently attached to the headquarters of the military zone
where he is waiting for his withdrawal, is the representative of the National Defense Secretariat in the General Staff of the National Guard.
Between 2017 and 2018, from the Fifth Infantry Battalion based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (2013-2017),
he served as commander of the 18th Military Zone, in Hidalgo.
He entered the Armed Forces in August 1976 in the 19 Infantry Battalion in Petatlán, Guerrero,
then went to the Heroic Military College in the course of Infantry Weapons Officers; in the Superior School of War
he studied the degree in Military Administration;
meanwhile, the National Defense College has a master's degree in National Security and Defense.
Among the positions he has held are section commander, battalion company in group of mortars in Guerrero, Michoacán and Chihuahua;
in addition, in activities of the General Staff of the Sedena, he was chief of section 7, operations against drug trafficking.
Gabriel García Chávez
The Rear Admiral of Marine Infantry, already in retirement, is the representative of the Navy of Mexico that will be in this security force.
He entered the Heroic Naval School in 1978 and graduated from it in 1982.
Among the activities he has performed are the command of marine infantry number 11, the battalion of services,
the amphibious brigade of marine infantry, number 1, in Tuxpán , the infantry battalion 14 in Nayarit.
Already in the General Staff he was chief of the first and second sections of the first naval region
and has courses such as command, masters in naval administration and a diploma in Human Rights.
END
AMLO presents the high command of the National Guard
Details Published on Thursday, April 11, 2019,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=127592
CDMX
In the National Palace, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador introduced the members of the General Staff
and the National Guard command with the aim of confronting the violence in the country to safeguard the population.
According to the president and the head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, Alfonso Durazo,
the General Staff is composed of elements and elements of the Armed Forces and a representative of the Federal Police.
The members of this Institutional Operative Coordination should advise the commander on various issues,
particularly in the preparation of the security strategy and the definition of the final plans of this security group.
In addition, it will be a retired commander who is the commander of the National Guard in the work of public security.
Next we present the high commands of the National Guard:
Luis Rodríguez Bucio
The brigadier general, graduate of the General Staff, in process of retirement, Luis Rodríguez Bucio, will be the commander of the National Guard.
The current president of the Council of Delegates of the Inter-American Board of Defense
was born on August 27, 1956 in Condembaro, municipality of Tancitaro, Michoacán,
and graduated as a second lieutenant and Infantry in 1977 from the Heroico Colegio Militar, which he entered four years earlier.
Later, in 1988 he graduated from the War College as a Staff Officer.
Other academic degrees with the accounts are a master's degree in national security, a doctorate in national defense, and studies in Germany.
Among the positions he has held are his performance in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where between 1981 and 1982
he served as assistant to the head of that unit.
From 1989 to 1990 he served as Deputy Chief of Section Four already in the Presidential General Staff,
at the official residence of Los Pinos, in Mexico City.
Patricia Rosalinda Galindo Mariel
The general commissioner of the Federal Police and medical surgeon, originally from Veracruz, will represent this agency in the National Guard.
She joined the Federal Police in September 2009, is a teacher in forensic medicine and has 12 doctorates,
of which three were in the field of reeducation and social reintegration, forensic investigation
and science of human behavior at the philosophical level, and nine more honoris cause.
She has generated studies in 34 graduates, is the author of 28 books and co-author of six others;
She has also participated in the planning of plans, programs, projects, and action protocols
and has developed homologated models at the national level that have generated the realization of new competences.
It stands out as a forerunner in the area of certification and accreditation in the police field.
She was the first woman to be distinguished with the position of Division of the Scientific Division,
of which she is founder. In addition to having national and international recognition,
she was the first woman to obtain the rank of general commissioner.
Xicoténcatl de Azolohua Núñez Márquez
The brigadier general, a graduate of the General Staff, who is currently attached to the headquarters of the military zone
where he is waiting for his withdrawal, is the representative of the National Defense Secretariat in the General Staff of the National Guard.
Between 2017 and 2018, from the Fifth Infantry Battalion based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (2013-2017),
he served as commander of the 18th Military Zone, in Hidalgo.
He entered the Armed Forces in August 1976 in the 19 Infantry Battalion in Petatlán, Guerrero,
then went to the Heroic Military College in the course of Infantry Weapons Officers; in the Superior School of War
he studied the degree in Military Administration;
meanwhile, the National Defense College has a master's degree in National Security and Defense.
Among the positions he has held are section commander, battalion company in group of mortars in Guerrero, Michoacán and Chihuahua;
in addition, in activities of the General Staff of the Sedena, he was chief of section 7, operations against drug trafficking.
Gabriel García Chávez
The Rear Admiral of Marine Infantry, already in retirement, is the representative of the Navy of Mexico that will be in this security force.
He entered the Heroic Naval School in 1978 and graduated from it in 1982.
Among the activities he has performed are the command of marine infantry number 11, the battalion of services,
the amphibious brigade of marine infantry, number 1, in Tuxpán , the infantry battalion 14 in Nayarit.
Already in the General Staff he was chief of the first and second sections of the first naval region
and has courses such as command, masters in naval administration and a diploma in Human Rights.
END
AZMEX I3 10-4-19
AZMEX I3 10 APR 2019
Note: as always "migrants" means illegal immigrants.
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Phoenix nonprofit has given medical aid to almost 7,000 migrants this year
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BY JESSICA SWARNER
APRIL 10, 2019 AT 4:25 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2525639/phoenix-nonprofit-has-given-medical-aid-to-almost-7000-migrants-this-year/
PHOENIX — Phoenix-based nonprofit One Hundred Angels has provided almost 7,000 migrants
released from federal detention with medical assistance since it began working with churches in December.
Cecilia Garcia, the group's founder, told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Tuesday that the nonprofit was founded in August.
"We are just looking to transform the physical, mental and spiritual health of humanity," she said.
Arizona and other border states have been overwhelmed with the number of migrants seeking asylum
who are detained at the border then released from federal detention into the U.S.
Related Links
Nielsen in Yuma says 'outdated laws' are 'main cause' of border problems
'Our country is full': Trump says migrants straining system
Man with flu symptoms dies in immigration custody in Arizona
Phoenix nonprofit providing phone kits to migrants released by ICE
St. Vincent de Paul of Arizona tests a temporary relief center for migrants
Numbers released by Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday show that more than 15,000 migrants
were apprehended in the Yuma and Tucson sectors in March alone.
One Hundred Angels CEO Yadira Torres told KTAR News that the group works to do as much as it can to improve the migrants' condition.
"We take medical supplies and with medical help
… we triage the immigrants and look for any emergencies or nonemergencies," she said.
"Sometimes they have coughs, foot fungus, they have diarrhea, dehydration …
and sometimes they have injuries from jumping the border —
ankle sprains to broken bones to lacerations from the wires at the border."
Garcia said their outreach is much needed.
"They all come in very weak conditions.
They have … stomach issues, pain, allergy issues," she said.
"They've been traveling for many, many days. They've been in custody for many days.
They haven't been eating well, they are dehydrated."
She said from Jan. 1 to March 31, the group served 6,551 migrants,
and she estimated that more than half of those were children.
Torres gave the example of a mother who was carrying her child when she jumped the border and got her foot stuck in the wire.
She fell backward, protecting the child, and fractured several ribs.
Torres said border agents gave the mother an X-ray and a brace but released her without medication,
which is where One Hundred Angels stepped in and provided her with pain relievers.
Some of the immigrants are afraid to receive medical treatment because they think they will get in trouble, Torres said.
"We try to explain to them that they're safe now," she said.
"Nobody's going to take their children away, they're not going to be put in prison. It's for their best and the best for the child."
She said the group tries to treat immediate issues but also helps immigrants stock up on resources they may need while traveling.
"We get donations of over-the-counter medication and that's what we provide to them," she said.
"We try to give them comfort for that day, and if they're traveling we try to provide it for three to five days for their travel."
Garcia said about 50 medical professionals volunteer with One Hundred Angels, and the group is always looking for more.
She said the group also benefits from donated prepaid gas cards because members drive hundreds of miles daily,
trying to be on the scene of three arrivals per day.
END
Note: as always "migrants" means illegal immigrants.
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Phoenix nonprofit has given medical aid to almost 7,000 migrants this year
Share
BY JESSICA SWARNER
APRIL 10, 2019 AT 4:25 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2525639/phoenix-nonprofit-has-given-medical-aid-to-almost-7000-migrants-this-year/
PHOENIX — Phoenix-based nonprofit One Hundred Angels has provided almost 7,000 migrants
released from federal detention with medical assistance since it began working with churches in December.
Cecilia Garcia, the group's founder, told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Tuesday that the nonprofit was founded in August.
"We are just looking to transform the physical, mental and spiritual health of humanity," she said.
Arizona and other border states have been overwhelmed with the number of migrants seeking asylum
who are detained at the border then released from federal detention into the U.S.
Related Links
Nielsen in Yuma says 'outdated laws' are 'main cause' of border problems
'Our country is full': Trump says migrants straining system
Man with flu symptoms dies in immigration custody in Arizona
Phoenix nonprofit providing phone kits to migrants released by ICE
St. Vincent de Paul of Arizona tests a temporary relief center for migrants
Numbers released by Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday show that more than 15,000 migrants
were apprehended in the Yuma and Tucson sectors in March alone.
One Hundred Angels CEO Yadira Torres told KTAR News that the group works to do as much as it can to improve the migrants' condition.
"We take medical supplies and with medical help
… we triage the immigrants and look for any emergencies or nonemergencies," she said.
"Sometimes they have coughs, foot fungus, they have diarrhea, dehydration …
and sometimes they have injuries from jumping the border —
ankle sprains to broken bones to lacerations from the wires at the border."
Garcia said their outreach is much needed.
"They all come in very weak conditions.
They have … stomach issues, pain, allergy issues," she said.
"They've been traveling for many, many days. They've been in custody for many days.
They haven't been eating well, they are dehydrated."
She said from Jan. 1 to March 31, the group served 6,551 migrants,
and she estimated that more than half of those were children.
Torres gave the example of a mother who was carrying her child when she jumped the border and got her foot stuck in the wire.
She fell backward, protecting the child, and fractured several ribs.
Torres said border agents gave the mother an X-ray and a brace but released her without medication,
which is where One Hundred Angels stepped in and provided her with pain relievers.
Some of the immigrants are afraid to receive medical treatment because they think they will get in trouble, Torres said.
"We try to explain to them that they're safe now," she said.
"Nobody's going to take their children away, they're not going to be put in prison. It's for their best and the best for the child."
She said the group tries to treat immediate issues but also helps immigrants stock up on resources they may need while traveling.
"We get donations of over-the-counter medication and that's what we provide to them," she said.
"We try to give them comfort for that day, and if they're traveling we try to provide it for three to five days for their travel."
Garcia said about 50 medical professionals volunteer with One Hundred Angels, and the group is always looking for more.
She said the group also benefits from donated prepaid gas cards because members drive hundreds of miles daily,
trying to be on the scene of three arrivals per day.
END
Monday, April 8, 2019
AZMEX NOT SO SPECIAL 8-4-19
AZMEX NOT SO SPECIAL 8 APR 2019
Temporary fix in the works as sewage from Mexico keeps flowing into Nogales Wash
By Chloe Jones
Cronkite News Apr 8, 2019 Updated 2 hrs ago
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/temporary-fix-in-the-works-as-sewage-from-mexico-keeps/article_fd362cac-5a58-11e9-93f1-8fcf00f9aea7.html
Los Alisos Pumps
Four out of the five pumps at the Los Alisos Wastewater Treatment Plant in Nogales, Sonora have been malfunctioning since January.
Photo by Chloe Jones/Cronkite News
Wastewater containing raw sewage has been intermittently flowing into the Nogales Wash from Mexico
since mid-January, spurring concerns about health and the water supply for communities on both sides of the border.
Four of the five pumps at the Los Alisos Wastewater Treatment Plant in Nogales,
Sonora have been malfunctioning since mid-January, but a temporary fix is in the works.
Jesús Pujol Irastorza, mayor of Nogales, Sonora, said replacement pumps would cost more than $100,000 each.
But with the help of the International Boundary and Water Commission, the city purchased a motor to fix one of the four broken pumps.
The pump is expected to be fixed within five weeks.
Without working pumps, wastewater can't be pumped over the hills of Nogales effectively, so in peak usage times,
like in the morning or when people get home from work, wastewater flows into the Nogales Wash at about 180 gallons per minute,
according to Lori Kuczmanski, spokeswoman for the IBWC, which "applies the boundary and water treaties of the United States and Mexico
and settles differences that may arise in their application," according to its website.
The Nogales Wash runs north from Mexico into Nogales, Ariz., and eventually empties into the Santa Cruz River, which also flows north at this point.
Because the river provides drinking water to communities in Santa Cruz County in southern Arizona,
the risk of contamination is a big concern for many residents.
Friends of the Santa Cruz River, a nonprofit volunteer group devoted to protecting the watershed,
regularly hosts cleanups and spreads awareness of the situation.
"If it's mixed with raw sewage,
A, this goes through the city of Nogales, Ariz., exposing the populace to raw sewage, and
B, it flows eventually into the Santa Cruz River as it goes north and exposes the rest of the county to some raw sewage,"
said Sherry Sass, the group's president.
Los Alisos Pumps
Sherry Sass, president of the Friends of the Santa Cruz River, is concerned about the environmental impact of the sewage flows.
Photo by Chloe Jones/Cronkite News
The IBWC has been providing engineering help and other technical assistance to Nogales, Sonora since the overflow was discovered.
Mayor Pujol Irastorza said the Los Alisos Wastewater Treatment Plant in his city was built to take pressure
off the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant in Rio Rico.
"It just takes time. It takes money," said Jayne Harkins, the U.S. commissioner of the IBWC.
"We have to figure it out and we have to do it with Mexico."
The city would not say if the motor would fix the issue completely or serve as a permanent solution.
END
Temporary fix in the works as sewage from Mexico keeps flowing into Nogales Wash
By Chloe Jones
Cronkite News Apr 8, 2019 Updated 2 hrs ago
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/temporary-fix-in-the-works-as-sewage-from-mexico-keeps/article_fd362cac-5a58-11e9-93f1-8fcf00f9aea7.html
Los Alisos Pumps
Four out of the five pumps at the Los Alisos Wastewater Treatment Plant in Nogales, Sonora have been malfunctioning since January.
Photo by Chloe Jones/Cronkite News
Wastewater containing raw sewage has been intermittently flowing into the Nogales Wash from Mexico
since mid-January, spurring concerns about health and the water supply for communities on both sides of the border.
Four of the five pumps at the Los Alisos Wastewater Treatment Plant in Nogales,
Sonora have been malfunctioning since mid-January, but a temporary fix is in the works.
Jesús Pujol Irastorza, mayor of Nogales, Sonora, said replacement pumps would cost more than $100,000 each.
But with the help of the International Boundary and Water Commission, the city purchased a motor to fix one of the four broken pumps.
The pump is expected to be fixed within five weeks.
Without working pumps, wastewater can't be pumped over the hills of Nogales effectively, so in peak usage times,
like in the morning or when people get home from work, wastewater flows into the Nogales Wash at about 180 gallons per minute,
according to Lori Kuczmanski, spokeswoman for the IBWC, which "applies the boundary and water treaties of the United States and Mexico
and settles differences that may arise in their application," according to its website.
The Nogales Wash runs north from Mexico into Nogales, Ariz., and eventually empties into the Santa Cruz River, which also flows north at this point.
Because the river provides drinking water to communities in Santa Cruz County in southern Arizona,
the risk of contamination is a big concern for many residents.
Friends of the Santa Cruz River, a nonprofit volunteer group devoted to protecting the watershed,
regularly hosts cleanups and spreads awareness of the situation.
"If it's mixed with raw sewage,
A, this goes through the city of Nogales, Ariz., exposing the populace to raw sewage, and
B, it flows eventually into the Santa Cruz River as it goes north and exposes the rest of the county to some raw sewage,"
said Sherry Sass, the group's president.
Los Alisos Pumps
Sherry Sass, president of the Friends of the Santa Cruz River, is concerned about the environmental impact of the sewage flows.
Photo by Chloe Jones/Cronkite News
The IBWC has been providing engineering help and other technical assistance to Nogales, Sonora since the overflow was discovered.
Mayor Pujol Irastorza said the Los Alisos Wastewater Treatment Plant in his city was built to take pressure
off the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant in Rio Rico.
"It just takes time. It takes money," said Jayne Harkins, the U.S. commissioner of the IBWC.
"We have to figure it out and we have to do it with Mexico."
The city would not say if the motor would fix the issue completely or serve as a permanent solution.
END
AZMEX POLICY 8-4-19
AZMEX POLICY 8 APR 2019
Comment: Another corrupt federal judge?
Federal judge blocks Trump's policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico
Growing numbers of families are fleeing poverty and gang violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 2:59 PM PDT April 8, 2019
Updated: 2:59 PM PDT April 8, 2019
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/nation-world/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-policy-requiring-asylum-seekers-to-wait-in-mexico/509-240ed870-8a9b-4fb0-b56f-5bc026cd05fa
A U.S. judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico
as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases but the order won't immediately go into effect.
Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted a request by civil liberties groups to halt the practice while their lawsuit moves forward.
He put the decision on hold until Friday to give U.S. officials the chance to appeal.
The launch of the policy in January in San Diego at the nation's busiest border crossing marked an unprecedented change to the U.S. asylum system,
government officials and asylum experts said.
Families seeking asylum typically had been released in the U.S. with notices to appear in court.
President Donald Trump's administration says the policy responds to a crisis at the southern border
that has overwhelmed the ability of immigration officials to detain migrants.
Growing numbers of families are fleeing poverty and gang violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
The lawsuit on behalf of 11 asylum seekers from Central America and legal advocacy groups says the Trump administration is violating U.S. law
by failing to adequately evaluate the dangers that migrants face in Mexico.
It also accuses Homeland Security and immigration officials of depriving migrants of their right to apply for asylum
by making it difficult or impossible for them to do so.
RELATED: Trump administration wants 2 years to find migrant kids separated from families
RELATED: Trump visits California-Mexico border, declares 'our country is full'
Under the new policy, asylum seekers are not guaranteed interpreters or lawyers and don't get to argue to a judge
that they face the potential of persecution or torture if they are sent back to Mexico,
Judy Rabinovitz, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said at a March court hearing.
Seeborg appeared skeptical of the lawsuit's argument that the administration misapplied a U.S. law that allows the return of immigrants to Mexico.
The ACLU and other groups that are suing say that law does not apply to asylum seekers
who cross the border illegally or arrive at a border crossing without proper documents.
The judge also questioned the Justice Department's argument that asylum seekers sent back to Mexico
are not eligible for certain protections, such as a hearing before an immigration judge.
The administration hopes that making asylum seekers wait in Mexico will discourage weak claims
and help reduce an immigration court backlog of more than 800,000 cases.
Justice Department attorney Scott Stewart said there is a process to protect immigrants who could face harm in Mexico.
All 11 plaintiffs in the lawsuit are represented by attorneys, and 10 already have appeared for court proceedings, he said.
Border Patrol arrests, the most widely used gauge of illegal crossings, have risen sharply over the last year
but are relatively low in historical terms after hitting a 46-year low in 2017.
The launch of the policy followed months of delicate talks between the U.S. and Mexico.
Mexicans and children traveling alone are exempt from it.
End
Comment: Another corrupt federal judge?
Federal judge blocks Trump's policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico
Growing numbers of families are fleeing poverty and gang violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 2:59 PM PDT April 8, 2019
Updated: 2:59 PM PDT April 8, 2019
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/nation-world/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-policy-requiring-asylum-seekers-to-wait-in-mexico/509-240ed870-8a9b-4fb0-b56f-5bc026cd05fa
A U.S. judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico
as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases but the order won't immediately go into effect.
Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted a request by civil liberties groups to halt the practice while their lawsuit moves forward.
He put the decision on hold until Friday to give U.S. officials the chance to appeal.
The launch of the policy in January in San Diego at the nation's busiest border crossing marked an unprecedented change to the U.S. asylum system,
government officials and asylum experts said.
Families seeking asylum typically had been released in the U.S. with notices to appear in court.
President Donald Trump's administration says the policy responds to a crisis at the southern border
that has overwhelmed the ability of immigration officials to detain migrants.
Growing numbers of families are fleeing poverty and gang violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
The lawsuit on behalf of 11 asylum seekers from Central America and legal advocacy groups says the Trump administration is violating U.S. law
by failing to adequately evaluate the dangers that migrants face in Mexico.
It also accuses Homeland Security and immigration officials of depriving migrants of their right to apply for asylum
by making it difficult or impossible for them to do so.
RELATED: Trump administration wants 2 years to find migrant kids separated from families
RELATED: Trump visits California-Mexico border, declares 'our country is full'
Under the new policy, asylum seekers are not guaranteed interpreters or lawyers and don't get to argue to a judge
that they face the potential of persecution or torture if they are sent back to Mexico,
Judy Rabinovitz, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said at a March court hearing.
Seeborg appeared skeptical of the lawsuit's argument that the administration misapplied a U.S. law that allows the return of immigrants to Mexico.
The ACLU and other groups that are suing say that law does not apply to asylum seekers
who cross the border illegally or arrive at a border crossing without proper documents.
The judge also questioned the Justice Department's argument that asylum seekers sent back to Mexico
are not eligible for certain protections, such as a hearing before an immigration judge.
The administration hopes that making asylum seekers wait in Mexico will discourage weak claims
and help reduce an immigration court backlog of more than 800,000 cases.
Justice Department attorney Scott Stewart said there is a process to protect immigrants who could face harm in Mexico.
All 11 plaintiffs in the lawsuit are represented by attorneys, and 10 already have appeared for court proceedings, he said.
Border Patrol arrests, the most widely used gauge of illegal crossings, have risen sharply over the last year
but are relatively low in historical terms after hitting a 46-year low in 2017.
The launch of the policy followed months of delicate talks between the U.S. and Mexico.
Mexicans and children traveling alone are exempt from it.
End
Friday, April 5, 2019
AZMEX POLICY UPDATE 5-4-19
AZMEX POLICY UPDATE 5 APR 2019
Note: Not yet confirmed, but from the UofA Komsomol chapter?
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Third UA student cited following on-campus confrontation with Border Patrol
Posted: 6:51 AM, Apr 05, 2019 Updated: 7:12 AM, Apr 05, 2019
By: KGUN 9 Digital Staff
TUCSON, Ariz. — A third University of Arizona student has been cited following a confrontation with Border Patrol agents in a campus classroom.
According to the university, graduate student Marianna Ariel Coles-Curtis is facing a charge of interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution.
She will appear in Pima County Justice Court on April 25.
According to reports, Border agents were visiting a criminal justice classroom to talk to students when the confrontation occurred.
Video of the incident shows two students yelling at the agents and arguing with club members.
Those two students, Mariel Alexandra Bustamante, and Denisse Moreno Melchor,
were also cited for interference with the peaceful conduct of an education institution earlier this week.
In addition, Moreno Melchor was cited for threats and intimidation.
UAPD is continuing to investigate this incident.
UA's president has sent multiple letters to campus.
He says he plans to hold informative talks about free speech on campus.
RELATED: UA students facing charges after campus confrontation with Border Patrol
UA students facing charges after campus confrontation with Border Patrol
Posted: 9:34 AM, Apr 02, 2019 Updated: 9:34 AM, Apr 02, 2019
By: Sam Radwany
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/ua-students-facing-charges-after-campus-confrontation-with-border-patrol
TUCSON, Ariz. — Two University of Arizona students who confronted Border Patrol agents
on campus earlier this month are now facing criminal charges.
Bystanders and students involved streamed video of the incident online.
Border Patrol agents visited a criminal justice classroom to talk to students.
The video shows the two students yelling at the agents and arguing with club members.
University of Arizona President Robert Robbins sent a letter to the campus community Friday,
saying "U of A Police is charging those students with 'interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution.'"
Robbins says police will continue to investigate the incident, including actions involving university employees.
end
Komsomol?
https://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/komsomol/
Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, b.1918) was a youth organization controlled
by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The name comes from the first syllables of three Russian words meaning Communist Union of Youth.
In Russian - Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodyozhi.
This became a typical model for the formation of acronyms after the 1917 Revolution.
It was used both for organizations and people.
For example, many children were named Vladlen or Vladilen after the Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin.
end
Note: Not yet confirmed, but from the UofA Komsomol chapter?
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Third UA student cited following on-campus confrontation with Border Patrol
Posted: 6:51 AM, Apr 05, 2019 Updated: 7:12 AM, Apr 05, 2019
By: KGUN 9 Digital Staff
TUCSON, Ariz. — A third University of Arizona student has been cited following a confrontation with Border Patrol agents in a campus classroom.
According to the university, graduate student Marianna Ariel Coles-Curtis is facing a charge of interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution.
She will appear in Pima County Justice Court on April 25.
According to reports, Border agents were visiting a criminal justice classroom to talk to students when the confrontation occurred.
Video of the incident shows two students yelling at the agents and arguing with club members.
Those two students, Mariel Alexandra Bustamante, and Denisse Moreno Melchor,
were also cited for interference with the peaceful conduct of an education institution earlier this week.
In addition, Moreno Melchor was cited for threats and intimidation.
UAPD is continuing to investigate this incident.
UA's president has sent multiple letters to campus.
He says he plans to hold informative talks about free speech on campus.
RELATED: UA students facing charges after campus confrontation with Border Patrol
UA students facing charges after campus confrontation with Border Patrol
Posted: 9:34 AM, Apr 02, 2019 Updated: 9:34 AM, Apr 02, 2019
By: Sam Radwany
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/ua-students-facing-charges-after-campus-confrontation-with-border-patrol
TUCSON, Ariz. — Two University of Arizona students who confronted Border Patrol agents
on campus earlier this month are now facing criminal charges.
Bystanders and students involved streamed video of the incident online.
Border Patrol agents visited a criminal justice classroom to talk to students.
The video shows the two students yelling at the agents and arguing with club members.
University of Arizona President Robert Robbins sent a letter to the campus community Friday,
saying "U of A Police is charging those students with 'interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution.'"
Robbins says police will continue to investigate the incident, including actions involving university employees.
end
Komsomol?
https://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/komsomol/
Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, b.1918) was a youth organization controlled
by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The name comes from the first syllables of three Russian words meaning Communist Union of Youth.
In Russian - Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodyozhi.
This became a typical model for the formation of acronyms after the 1917 Revolution.
It was used both for organizations and people.
For example, many children were named Vladlen or Vladilen after the Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin.
end
Thursday, April 4, 2019
AZMEX I3 4-4-19
AZMEX I3 4 APR 2019
Note: videos at link.
Comment: is it past time to end "catch and release" and to be building detention camps?
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Nearly 1,000 apprehended by Yuma Sector Border Patrol
By: Crystal Bedoya
Posted: Apr 03, 2019 02:22 PM MST
Updated: Apr 04, 2019 08:26 AM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/nearly-1-000-apprehended-by-yuma-sector-border-patrol-1/1065527624
Nearly 1,000 apprehended…
YUMA, Ariz. - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 1,000 people in the last three days.
Customs and Border Protection officials said most of the 1,000 apprehended are Central Americans.
End
Note: videos at link.
Comment: is it past time to end "catch and release" and to be building detention camps?
Thx
Nearly 1,000 apprehended by Yuma Sector Border Patrol
By: Crystal Bedoya
Posted: Apr 03, 2019 02:22 PM MST
Updated: Apr 04, 2019 08:26 AM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/nearly-1-000-apprehended-by-yuma-sector-border-patrol-1/1065527624
Nearly 1,000 apprehended…
YUMA, Ariz. - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 1,000 people in the last three days.
Customs and Border Protection officials said most of the 1,000 apprehended are Central Americans.
End
AZMEX DOPER UPDATE/2 4-4-19
AZMEX DOPER UPDATE/2 4 APR 2019
Note: mug shots at link. Immigration status if any will NOT be reported.
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MCSO: Drug trafficking organization taken down in downtown Phoenix
Shane DeGrote
Posted 5 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/mcso-drug-trafficking-organization-taken-down-in-downtown-phoenix/article_0fc24cac-56e4-11e9-9f6f-dbf72a1392e8.html
Francisco Vergara Salgado (far left), Daniel Gonzalez Savala (middle left) Oscar Bejar (middle right),
and Daniel Moreno (far right).
(Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- The Maricopa Sheriff's Office said a drug trafficking organization was shut down in early April,
ending with several suspects behind bars.
According to MCSO, detectives began an investigation into a group known as "Just Grinding" in Oct. 2018.
The group sold illegal drugs in Maricopa County and shipped them to other U.S. states and foreign countries.
MCSO said investigators determined that members of the group would go to Los Angeles each weekend
to collect marijuana, narcotic cartridges (commonly used in E-cigarettes) and promethazine.
They would then transport the product back to a downtown Phoenix apartment.
The drugs would then be unloaded and picked up by other sellers who would arrive at the apartment within the next few hours.
MCSO said after detectives conducted hundreds of hours of physical surveillance and investigative techniques,
a two-day takedown operation was conducted, as part of the Maricopa County Drug Suppression Task Force.
A total of six residentual search warrants were served and six vehicles were impounded.
Nine suspects were identified in the case, Oscar Bejar, 26, Daniel Moreno, 21, Marco Guerro, 25, Francisco Vergara Salgado, 20,
Daniel Gonzalez Savala, 21, Andres Gerardo Cardova Jr., Steven Villalobos, 33, Andres Rojas Monge, 21, and Reymundo Herrera, 23.
Only Savala, Moreno, Salgado and Bejar were booked into jail.
The other suspects will have to go to court to answer to charges. (???).
Detectives seized 95 pounds of marijuana, which is approximately worth $230,000, 190 pounds of narcotic cannabis,
approximately worth $500,000, vape cartridges, THCA, slabs, and oils.
Approximately $50,000 in cash, two handguns and two rifles were also found.
One of the rifles was reported as stolen.
END
Note: mug shots at link. Immigration status if any will NOT be reported.
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MCSO: Drug trafficking organization taken down in downtown Phoenix
Shane DeGrote
Posted 5 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/mcso-drug-trafficking-organization-taken-down-in-downtown-phoenix/article_0fc24cac-56e4-11e9-9f6f-dbf72a1392e8.html
Francisco Vergara Salgado (far left), Daniel Gonzalez Savala (middle left) Oscar Bejar (middle right),
and Daniel Moreno (far right).
(Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- The Maricopa Sheriff's Office said a drug trafficking organization was shut down in early April,
ending with several suspects behind bars.
According to MCSO, detectives began an investigation into a group known as "Just Grinding" in Oct. 2018.
The group sold illegal drugs in Maricopa County and shipped them to other U.S. states and foreign countries.
MCSO said investigators determined that members of the group would go to Los Angeles each weekend
to collect marijuana, narcotic cartridges (commonly used in E-cigarettes) and promethazine.
They would then transport the product back to a downtown Phoenix apartment.
The drugs would then be unloaded and picked up by other sellers who would arrive at the apartment within the next few hours.
MCSO said after detectives conducted hundreds of hours of physical surveillance and investigative techniques,
a two-day takedown operation was conducted, as part of the Maricopa County Drug Suppression Task Force.
A total of six residentual search warrants were served and six vehicles were impounded.
Nine suspects were identified in the case, Oscar Bejar, 26, Daniel Moreno, 21, Marco Guerro, 25, Francisco Vergara Salgado, 20,
Daniel Gonzalez Savala, 21, Andres Gerardo Cardova Jr., Steven Villalobos, 33, Andres Rojas Monge, 21, and Reymundo Herrera, 23.
Only Savala, Moreno, Salgado and Bejar were booked into jail.
The other suspects will have to go to court to answer to charges. (???).
Detectives seized 95 pounds of marijuana, which is approximately worth $230,000, 190 pounds of narcotic cannabis,
approximately worth $500,000, vape cartridges, THCA, slabs, and oils.
Approximately $50,000 in cash, two handguns and two rifles were also found.
One of the rifles was reported as stolen.
END
AZMEX POLICY 4-4-19
AZMEX POLICY 4 APR 2019
Note: Comrade students from the UofA Komsomol chapter?
Thx
UA students to be charged over Border Patrol confrontation
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
APRIL 3, 2019 AT 7:45 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2517400/ua-students-to-be-charged-over-border-patrol-confrontation/
(Facebook Photo)
TUCSON, Ariz. – Two University of Arizona students have been cited after a confrontation with Border Patrol agents
visiting the Tucson campus last month.
Both students were cited for interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution, a misdemeanor offense.
One of the two also was cited for threats and intimidation.
The students face April 22 court appearances.
A coalition of UA professors say the two students were exercising their right to protest,
and they have since been getting death threats.
The Criminal Justice Association had invited U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to speak March 19.
Videos showed students disrupting a presentation by two agents with chants of "murder patrol"
and following them down the hall.
UA President Robert Robbins says the club had a right to have its presentation uninterrupted.
END
Note: Comrade students from the UofA Komsomol chapter?
Thx
UA students to be charged over Border Patrol confrontation
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
APRIL 3, 2019 AT 7:45 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2517400/ua-students-to-be-charged-over-border-patrol-confrontation/
(Facebook Photo)
TUCSON, Ariz. – Two University of Arizona students have been cited after a confrontation with Border Patrol agents
visiting the Tucson campus last month.
Both students were cited for interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution, a misdemeanor offense.
One of the two also was cited for threats and intimidation.
The students face April 22 court appearances.
A coalition of UA professors say the two students were exercising their right to protest,
and they have since been getting death threats.
The Criminal Justice Association had invited U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to speak March 19.
Videos showed students disrupting a presentation by two agents with chants of "murder patrol"
and following them down the hall.
UA President Robert Robbins says the club had a right to have its presentation uninterrupted.
END
AZMEX POLICY 4-4-19
AZMEX POLICY 4 APR 2019
Note: Comrade students from the UofA Komosol chapter?
Thx
UA students to be charged over Border Patrol confrontation
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
APRIL 3, 2019 AT 7:45 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2517400/ua-students-to-be-charged-over-border-patrol-confrontation/
(Facebook Photo)
TUCSON, Ariz. – Two University of Arizona students have been cited after a confrontation with Border Patrol agents
visiting the Tucson campus last month.
Both students were cited for interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution, a misdemeanor offense.
One of the two also was cited for threats and intimidation.
The students face April 22 court appearances.
A coalition of UA professors say the two students were exercising their right to protest,
and they have since been getting death threats.
The Criminal Justice Association had invited U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to speak March 19.
Videos showed students disrupting a presentation by two agents with chants of "murder patrol"
and following them down the hall.
UA President Robert Robbins says the club had a right to have its presentation uninterrupted.
END
Note: Comrade students from the UofA Komosol chapter?
Thx
UA students to be charged over Border Patrol confrontation
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
APRIL 3, 2019 AT 7:45 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2517400/ua-students-to-be-charged-over-border-patrol-confrontation/
(Facebook Photo)
TUCSON, Ariz. – Two University of Arizona students have been cited after a confrontation with Border Patrol agents
visiting the Tucson campus last month.
Both students were cited for interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution, a misdemeanor offense.
One of the two also was cited for threats and intimidation.
The students face April 22 court appearances.
A coalition of UA professors say the two students were exercising their right to protest,
and they have since been getting death threats.
The Criminal Justice Association had invited U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to speak March 19.
Videos showed students disrupting a presentation by two agents with chants of "murder patrol"
and following them down the hall.
UA President Robert Robbins says the club had a right to have its presentation uninterrupted.
END
AZMEX DOPER UPDATE 4-4-19
AZMEX DOPER UPDATE 4 APR 2019
Note: video, mug shots at link. Probation on weapons charges? Federal charges?
PD: Five men arrested, accused of using social media in drug trafficking ring
By Nicole Garcia
Posted Apr 03 2019 03:45PM MST
Video Posted Apr 03 2019 05:41PM MST
Updated Apr 03 2019 05:42PM MST
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/pd-five-men-arrested-accused-of-using-social-media-in-drug-trafficking-ring
PHOENIX (FOX 10) - Five men were taken into custody at a luxury apartment complex in Downtown Phoenix
after being accused of running a drug trafficking ring. These men weren't making deals on the streets - investigators say they used social media.
The group is accused of distributing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of marijuana throughout Arizona.
The men had been under surveillance by MSCO detectives for a long time and were all busted on the same evening.
Deputies say the suspects used Instagram to market marijuana and cannabis vape cartridges.
All while the alleged ring leader lived the high life in a high-rise apartment complex on Roosevelt Row,
where he kept piles of cash.
26-year-old Oscar Bejar is accused of running a drug trafficking organization that distributed marijuana throughout the state.
Bejar is being held without bond - he's already on probation for selling marijuana.
Deputies say Bejar and five others advertised their drugs on Instagram, then shipped them to buyers.
According to court documents, $200,000 dollars worth of drugs were seized from Bejar's apartment and a vehicle,
including 80 pounds of marijuana and 5,000 cannabis vape cartridges,
along with about $35,000 dollars in cash.
Four other men were arrested in connection to the drug ring.
21-year-old Daniel Gonzalez is also being held without bond -
he was already on probation for marijuana and weapons charges.
He was more worried about where he could bond out of jail.
Deputies say a stolen machine gun was in his possession as well.
Police say Paul Silva's alleged role in the drug ring was the driver -
he and three other men are accused of driving the load vehicle to and from California.
Deputies say Bejar would fly back and forth to California every week to get the drugs.
The load vehicle would meet Bejar, then drive the drugs back to his apartment.
Deputies say they've linked six Instagram accounts to the marijuana trafficking ring.
Each suspect is facing eight felony counts for using, selling, and distributing marijuana, and weapons charges.
End
Note: video, mug shots at link. Probation on weapons charges? Federal charges?
PD: Five men arrested, accused of using social media in drug trafficking ring
By Nicole Garcia
Posted Apr 03 2019 03:45PM MST
Video Posted Apr 03 2019 05:41PM MST
Updated Apr 03 2019 05:42PM MST
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/pd-five-men-arrested-accused-of-using-social-media-in-drug-trafficking-ring
PHOENIX (FOX 10) - Five men were taken into custody at a luxury apartment complex in Downtown Phoenix
after being accused of running a drug trafficking ring. These men weren't making deals on the streets - investigators say they used social media.
The group is accused of distributing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of marijuana throughout Arizona.
The men had been under surveillance by MSCO detectives for a long time and were all busted on the same evening.
Deputies say the suspects used Instagram to market marijuana and cannabis vape cartridges.
All while the alleged ring leader lived the high life in a high-rise apartment complex on Roosevelt Row,
where he kept piles of cash.
26-year-old Oscar Bejar is accused of running a drug trafficking organization that distributed marijuana throughout the state.
Bejar is being held without bond - he's already on probation for selling marijuana.
Deputies say Bejar and five others advertised their drugs on Instagram, then shipped them to buyers.
According to court documents, $200,000 dollars worth of drugs were seized from Bejar's apartment and a vehicle,
including 80 pounds of marijuana and 5,000 cannabis vape cartridges,
along with about $35,000 dollars in cash.
Four other men were arrested in connection to the drug ring.
21-year-old Daniel Gonzalez is also being held without bond -
he was already on probation for marijuana and weapons charges.
He was more worried about where he could bond out of jail.
Deputies say a stolen machine gun was in his possession as well.
Police say Paul Silva's alleged role in the drug ring was the driver -
he and three other men are accused of driving the load vehicle to and from California.
Deputies say Bejar would fly back and forth to California every week to get the drugs.
The load vehicle would meet Bejar, then drive the drugs back to his apartment.
Deputies say they've linked six Instagram accounts to the marijuana trafficking ring.
Each suspect is facing eight felony counts for using, selling, and distributing marijuana, and weapons charges.
End
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
AZMEX DOPER UPDATE 3-4-19
AZMEX DOPER UPDATE 3 APR 2019
Note: video, mug shots at link.
Thx
15-year-old girl being charged as adult in murder case in Avondale
David Baker
Posted 18 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/year-old-girl-being-charged-as-adult-in-murder-case/article_cd67adba-55c2-11e9-be1b-b78190bc5359.html.
A 15-year-old girl is being charged as an adult in an Avondale murder case.
AVONDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) --
A 15-year-old girl is being charged as an adult in connection with a shooting death during a robbery in Avondale last July,
according to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors say Arianna Ramirez, who was 14 at the time, was with her boyfriend,
Jesus Carbajal, who was 18, and his friend, Felix Rios, when they met up with another group on July 6, 2018,
at a Taco Bell parking lot.
[WATCH: 15-year-old charged as an adult in Avondale murder]
They were originally going to do a drug deal but Ramirez and her friends planned to rob the other group instead.
Prosecutors said during the exchange, Carbajal pulled out a gun and told the other group to give them all they had.
That's when a 17-year-old boy tried to run away but Carbajal and Rios shot him.
The unidentified boy died at the hospital.
Investigators said Ramirez didn't do the shooting and was sitting in a car at the time,
but was onboard with the robbery plan and suggested killing them.
Ramirez and Rios are each facing a slew of charges,
including first-degree murder, armed robbery aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Carbajal is still on the run and is believed to be in Mexico.
End
Note: video, mug shots at link.
Thx
15-year-old girl being charged as adult in murder case in Avondale
David Baker
Posted 18 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/year-old-girl-being-charged-as-adult-in-murder-case/article_cd67adba-55c2-11e9-be1b-b78190bc5359.html.
A 15-year-old girl is being charged as an adult in an Avondale murder case.
AVONDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) --
A 15-year-old girl is being charged as an adult in connection with a shooting death during a robbery in Avondale last July,
according to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors say Arianna Ramirez, who was 14 at the time, was with her boyfriend,
Jesus Carbajal, who was 18, and his friend, Felix Rios, when they met up with another group on July 6, 2018,
at a Taco Bell parking lot.
[WATCH: 15-year-old charged as an adult in Avondale murder]
They were originally going to do a drug deal but Ramirez and her friends planned to rob the other group instead.
Prosecutors said during the exchange, Carbajal pulled out a gun and told the other group to give them all they had.
That's when a 17-year-old boy tried to run away but Carbajal and Rios shot him.
The unidentified boy died at the hospital.
Investigators said Ramirez didn't do the shooting and was sitting in a car at the time,
but was onboard with the robbery plan and suggested killing them.
Ramirez and Rios are each facing a slew of charges,
including first-degree murder, armed robbery aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Carbajal is still on the run and is believed to be in Mexico.
End
AZMEX I3/3 3-4-19
AZMEX I3/3 3 APR 2019
SOCIETY
/ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019
https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/republica/sociedad/desesperan-migrantes-y-transportistas-en-fronteras-de-mexico-3269553.html
Migrants and transporters despair on the borders of Mexico
Mutiny in Tapachula and Tijuana light alert, while in Juarez, Reynosa, Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo
there are protests and economic losses
African migrants alleged that they are beaten by INM agents Chiapas / Rubén Zúñiga
OEM Publishers
Immigrant riots were registered both in the southern border and in the north, where Central Americans and Africans
show desperation to achieve the American dream,
while businessmen continue to report economic losses due to the slowness of international crossings.
In Chiapas, African migrants staged a brawl at the Siglo XXI Migration Station in Tapachula,
after one of them broke glass from the entrance to the facilities.
Mexico and the EU address migration issues
The altercation originated after the released man denounced that inside they were violated and beaten by the migratory agents,
so that in protest he broke the windows;
When arrested by security guards, the brawl formed between more migrants and policemen.
In addition, an African woman argued with the agents and then pushed each other,
which caused another group to approach the gate of the migratory station to pull it open the door
and allow their compatriot to leave, which tried to be avoided by the guards.
The migrants pointed out that agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM)
in that city have beaten them inside the federal offices.
On the other side of the country, in Tijuana, on Monday,
51 people were evacuated from the INM facilities, located in the residential subdivision
La Esmeralda, because a group burned blankets and mattresses in the bathrooms of the property.
SOCIETY
Caravan moves forward with more women and children
The head of the Municipal Public Security Secretariat, Marco Antonio Sotomayor Amezcua,
said that the elements of the corporation contained the situation
and assured all those who participated in the riot to deliver them to the Federal Police and the INM.
In the place, there were people from countries like India, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay and Cuba,
as well as several Mexicans.
MORE WAITING TIME
Meanwhile, as a result of the reinforcement of surveillance at international crossings,
cities such as Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros, from Tamaulipas to the state of Texas, United States,
face a vehicular chaos that has represented losses of time and money
for the commercial activities in this region of the country.
For the third consecutive day, the time to cross the Rio Grande to the towns of
Laredo, Pharr, McAllen and Brownsville has lasted for up to five hours, depending on the time of day.
According to Federal Ways and Bridges of Income, the problem obeys to the measures that the federal administration
of the United States has applied in the border, as it is the process of rotation of personnel
towards other points of the dividing line with Mexico.
Rescue migrants in Tamaulipas
Julio César Almanza Armas, President of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce
(Fecanaco) based in Reynosa, said that these measures by the US government
are affecting shipments of merchandise, as well as commercial life on both sides of the border.
THEY CARRY PROTESTS TO POE's
On the other hand, before the media focus, around 220 people,
according to Ernesto Chávez Nápoles and Héctor Ortiz, leaders of moneylenders in Ciudad Juárez,
demonstrated at the Zaragoza bridge, at the entrance of trailers, to protest against the policy of the border customs office
of not allowing tires to enter the Chihuahuan city.
In Tijuana, after the uncertainty about the possible closure of the steps,
Óscar Escobedo, head of the Tourism Secretariat of Baja California,
assured that after a meeting between the Business Coordinating Council and the US Customs authorities,
no closure is foreseen of the sentry boxes.
END
SOCIETY
/ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019
https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/republica/sociedad/desesperan-migrantes-y-transportistas-en-fronteras-de-mexico-3269553.html
Migrants and transporters despair on the borders of Mexico
Mutiny in Tapachula and Tijuana light alert, while in Juarez, Reynosa, Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo
there are protests and economic losses
African migrants alleged that they are beaten by INM agents Chiapas / Rubén Zúñiga
OEM Publishers
Immigrant riots were registered both in the southern border and in the north, where Central Americans and Africans
show desperation to achieve the American dream,
while businessmen continue to report economic losses due to the slowness of international crossings.
In Chiapas, African migrants staged a brawl at the Siglo XXI Migration Station in Tapachula,
after one of them broke glass from the entrance to the facilities.
Mexico and the EU address migration issues
The altercation originated after the released man denounced that inside they were violated and beaten by the migratory agents,
so that in protest he broke the windows;
When arrested by security guards, the brawl formed between more migrants and policemen.
In addition, an African woman argued with the agents and then pushed each other,
which caused another group to approach the gate of the migratory station to pull it open the door
and allow their compatriot to leave, which tried to be avoided by the guards.
The migrants pointed out that agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM)
in that city have beaten them inside the federal offices.
On the other side of the country, in Tijuana, on Monday,
51 people were evacuated from the INM facilities, located in the residential subdivision
La Esmeralda, because a group burned blankets and mattresses in the bathrooms of the property.
SOCIETY
Caravan moves forward with more women and children
The head of the Municipal Public Security Secretariat, Marco Antonio Sotomayor Amezcua,
said that the elements of the corporation contained the situation
and assured all those who participated in the riot to deliver them to the Federal Police and the INM.
In the place, there were people from countries like India, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay and Cuba,
as well as several Mexicans.
MORE WAITING TIME
Meanwhile, as a result of the reinforcement of surveillance at international crossings,
cities such as Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros, from Tamaulipas to the state of Texas, United States,
face a vehicular chaos that has represented losses of time and money
for the commercial activities in this region of the country.
For the third consecutive day, the time to cross the Rio Grande to the towns of
Laredo, Pharr, McAllen and Brownsville has lasted for up to five hours, depending on the time of day.
According to Federal Ways and Bridges of Income, the problem obeys to the measures that the federal administration
of the United States has applied in the border, as it is the process of rotation of personnel
towards other points of the dividing line with Mexico.
Rescue migrants in Tamaulipas
Julio César Almanza Armas, President of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce
(Fecanaco) based in Reynosa, said that these measures by the US government
are affecting shipments of merchandise, as well as commercial life on both sides of the border.
THEY CARRY PROTESTS TO POE's
On the other hand, before the media focus, around 220 people,
according to Ernesto Chávez Nápoles and Héctor Ortiz, leaders of moneylenders in Ciudad Juárez,
demonstrated at the Zaragoza bridge, at the entrance of trailers, to protest against the policy of the border customs office
of not allowing tires to enter the Chihuahuan city.
In Tijuana, after the uncertainty about the possible closure of the steps,
Óscar Escobedo, head of the Tourism Secretariat of Baja California,
assured that after a meeting between the Business Coordinating Council and the US Customs authorities,
no closure is foreseen of the sentry boxes.
END
AZMEX I3/2 3-4-19
AZMEX I3/2 3 APR 2019
Note: video at link.
Dramatic Arizona border video with kids surfaces amid crossing surge
Anita Snow
Posted 18 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/ap/dramatic-arizona-border-video-with-kids-surfaces-amid-crossing-surge/article_2aec4780-55ae-11e9-9102-c3d91c5e8e07.html
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released two videos on Tuesday that show how dramatic and dangerous
migrant crossings into the U.S. can be when involving small children.
PHOENIX (AP) -- As sirens wail in the background, migrant smugglers push adults and children through a hole
beneath a border wall despite an officer's demands on the other side that they return to Mexico.
"Return back!" the agent yells in one of two Customs and Border Protection videos released Tuesday
that show how dramatic and dangerous migrant crossings into the U.S. can be when involving small children.
[WATCH: Dramatic video shows border crossers going past razor wire at Arizona border]
"Don't do that! Look at the child!" the agent yells in the Dec. 18 video as smugglers push adults and children through the hole
under the wall of metal bollards and past a large coil of razor wire at the border in Yuma, Arizona.
"Hey, careful! Careful with the boy!" the agent off-camera cries in alarm as a man crawls out with the first of two small boys alongside the wire.
The videos have come to light amid a surge of migrant families arriving at the border, overwhelming processing and holding centers.
A record number of families crossed into the U.S. in recent months, resulting in the expansion of what President Donald Trump calls "catch and release" —
freeing people the system simply can't deal with.
[READ MORE: Gilbert dairy farmer would equate border closure to losing 30% of paycheck]
Since Dec. 21, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has freed more than 125,000 people into the U.S.
who came into the country as families.
In the other newly released videos, several small children cry as smugglers try to help adults and children get through a hole in a border fence
that passes through a water-filled channel. The Dec. 22 video was taken in the same general area as the other one and is a bit more difficult to follow.
Text included with the video says Mexican authorities responded in the second instance and were able to stop the smuggling attempt
that saw the children being carried through the water.
[RELATED: Phoenix couple's wedding in jeopardy as president threatens border closure]
It says one woman who was encouraged to return to her family on the Mexico side stayed in the U.S. and surrendered to Border Patrol agents.
End
Note: video at link.
Dramatic Arizona border video with kids surfaces amid crossing surge
Anita Snow
Posted 18 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/news/ap/dramatic-arizona-border-video-with-kids-surfaces-amid-crossing-surge/article_2aec4780-55ae-11e9-9102-c3d91c5e8e07.html
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released two videos on Tuesday that show how dramatic and dangerous
migrant crossings into the U.S. can be when involving small children.
PHOENIX (AP) -- As sirens wail in the background, migrant smugglers push adults and children through a hole
beneath a border wall despite an officer's demands on the other side that they return to Mexico.
"Return back!" the agent yells in one of two Customs and Border Protection videos released Tuesday
that show how dramatic and dangerous migrant crossings into the U.S. can be when involving small children.
[WATCH: Dramatic video shows border crossers going past razor wire at Arizona border]
"Don't do that! Look at the child!" the agent yells in the Dec. 18 video as smugglers push adults and children through the hole
under the wall of metal bollards and past a large coil of razor wire at the border in Yuma, Arizona.
"Hey, careful! Careful with the boy!" the agent off-camera cries in alarm as a man crawls out with the first of two small boys alongside the wire.
The videos have come to light amid a surge of migrant families arriving at the border, overwhelming processing and holding centers.
A record number of families crossed into the U.S. in recent months, resulting in the expansion of what President Donald Trump calls "catch and release" —
freeing people the system simply can't deal with.
[READ MORE: Gilbert dairy farmer would equate border closure to losing 30% of paycheck]
Since Dec. 21, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has freed more than 125,000 people into the U.S.
who came into the country as families.
In the other newly released videos, several small children cry as smugglers try to help adults and children get through a hole in a border fence
that passes through a water-filled channel. The Dec. 22 video was taken in the same general area as the other one and is a bit more difficult to follow.
Text included with the video says Mexican authorities responded in the second instance and were able to stop the smuggling attempt
that saw the children being carried through the water.
[RELATED: Phoenix couple's wedding in jeopardy as president threatens border closure]
It says one woman who was encouraged to return to her family on the Mexico side stayed in the U.S. and surrendered to Border Patrol agents.
End
AZMEX I3 3-4-19
AZMEX I3 3 APR 2019
Ex-border officer in Arizona who lied about citizenship gets probation
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | APRIL 2, 2019 AT 4:18 PM
UPDATED: APRIL 2, 2019 AT 8:28 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2516201/ex-border-officer-who-lied-about-citizenship-gets-probation/
(Customs and Border Protection Photo)
PHOENIX (AP) — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in Arizona was sentenced to a year of probation
after pleading guilty to lying about his citizenship on a passport application.
Marco Antonio De La Garza Campos has acknowledged telling authorities that he was born in Texas, when he was actually born in Mexico.
De La Garza, who was sentenced Thursday in Tucson, had worked for the federal agency for six years
and had been stationed at the border city of Douglas. He previously served five years in the U.S. Navy.
Over the years, the federal government has been criticized for not performing adequate background checks on people seeking jobs as border officers.
The issue usually crops up when the government considers adding a large number of officers at the border.
In pleading guilty, De La Garza acknowledged that he lied in 2017 on a passport application by saying he was born in Brownsville, Texas,
when he was actually born in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Investigators said De La Garza used a false Texas birth certificate to enter the United States.
In a letter to the sentencing judge, De La Garza said he was sorry for his crime and accepted responsibility for his actions.
He said he lived with his mother in Mexico until he was 19 and that his parents told him when he was growing up that he was a U.S. citizen.
"I should have pushed my parents more for information instead of dismissing it," De La Garza wrote,
adding that he would like to legalize his immigration status in the future.
De La Garza's current immigration status is unclear.
His attorney, Matthew Green, said in court records that De La Garza
will be eligible to apply for naturalization one year after the date of his conviction.
Green wrote that if his client is allowed to remain in the United States, he'll serve as a stay-at-home father for his two young children,
in an effort to reduce family expenses.
When they are old enough to go to school, he'll seek a job, Green wrote.
END
Ex-border officer in Arizona who lied about citizenship gets probation
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | APRIL 2, 2019 AT 4:18 PM
UPDATED: APRIL 2, 2019 AT 8:28 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2516201/ex-border-officer-who-lied-about-citizenship-gets-probation/
(Customs and Border Protection Photo)
PHOENIX (AP) — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in Arizona was sentenced to a year of probation
after pleading guilty to lying about his citizenship on a passport application.
Marco Antonio De La Garza Campos has acknowledged telling authorities that he was born in Texas, when he was actually born in Mexico.
De La Garza, who was sentenced Thursday in Tucson, had worked for the federal agency for six years
and had been stationed at the border city of Douglas. He previously served five years in the U.S. Navy.
Over the years, the federal government has been criticized for not performing adequate background checks on people seeking jobs as border officers.
The issue usually crops up when the government considers adding a large number of officers at the border.
In pleading guilty, De La Garza acknowledged that he lied in 2017 on a passport application by saying he was born in Brownsville, Texas,
when he was actually born in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Investigators said De La Garza used a false Texas birth certificate to enter the United States.
In a letter to the sentencing judge, De La Garza said he was sorry for his crime and accepted responsibility for his actions.
He said he lived with his mother in Mexico until he was 19 and that his parents told him when he was growing up that he was a U.S. citizen.
"I should have pushed my parents more for information instead of dismissing it," De La Garza wrote,
adding that he would like to legalize his immigration status in the future.
De La Garza's current immigration status is unclear.
His attorney, Matthew Green, said in court records that De La Garza
will be eligible to apply for naturalization one year after the date of his conviction.
Green wrote that if his client is allowed to remain in the United States, he'll serve as a stay-at-home father for his two young children,
in an effort to reduce family expenses.
When they are old enough to go to school, he'll seek a job, Green wrote.
END
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 2-4-19
AZMEX POLICY 2 APR 2019
Comment: from Comrade Julian. Make the USA like Central America !
Then where are YOU going to run to?
Gracias
Campaign 2020
Julián Castro calls for end to criminalizing border crossers
By: By PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press
Posted: Apr 02, 2019 10:28 AM MDT
Updated: Apr 02, 2019 10:28 AM MDT
https://www.kvia.com/news/campaign-2020/julian-castro-calls-for-end-to-criminalizing-border-crossers/1065098183
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Tuesday
called for the U.S. to end criminalizing illegal border crossings
under an immigration plan that marks the first policy rollout of his 2020 campaign.
The former San Antonio mayor unveiled his proposals at a time when President Donald Trump
is threatening to shut down the southern border with Mexico.
Castro, who is still searching for a toehold in a crowded Democratic field,
is also now going further on immigration than his 2020 rivals
who have all widely condemned Trump's border crackdowns and rhetoric.
"The truth is, immigrants seeking refuge in our country aren't a threat to national security.
Migration shouldn't be a criminal justice issue,"
Castro wrote in a blog post laying out his plan.
Castro is the grandson of a Mexican immigrant and the only Latino candidate in the field.
He has made reversing Trump's hardline approach to immigration a central part of his campaign since entering the race in January,
and like other candidates, has called for pathways to citizenship
and stopping construction on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
But his new immigration platform now includes specifics that would include making being in the U.S. illegally a civil, and not criminal penalty.
Trump's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal border crossings called for prosecuting every adult, even if it meant splitting families.
Castro is also calling for reconstituting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by splitting the agency in half
and putting enforcement duties elsewhere.
Other candidates have been less detailed about their plans for ICE, which some in the party's liberal flank have called to abolish it.
Castro announced a rally in his hometown of San Antonio later this month at the same time
Trump is expected to make a fundraising swing through Texas.
END
Comment: from Comrade Julian. Make the USA like Central America !
Then where are YOU going to run to?
Gracias
Campaign 2020
Julián Castro calls for end to criminalizing border crossers
By: By PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press
Posted: Apr 02, 2019 10:28 AM MDT
Updated: Apr 02, 2019 10:28 AM MDT
https://www.kvia.com/news/campaign-2020/julian-castro-calls-for-end-to-criminalizing-border-crossers/1065098183
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Tuesday
called for the U.S. to end criminalizing illegal border crossings
under an immigration plan that marks the first policy rollout of his 2020 campaign.
The former San Antonio mayor unveiled his proposals at a time when President Donald Trump
is threatening to shut down the southern border with Mexico.
Castro, who is still searching for a toehold in a crowded Democratic field,
is also now going further on immigration than his 2020 rivals
who have all widely condemned Trump's border crackdowns and rhetoric.
"The truth is, immigrants seeking refuge in our country aren't a threat to national security.
Migration shouldn't be a criminal justice issue,"
Castro wrote in a blog post laying out his plan.
Castro is the grandson of a Mexican immigrant and the only Latino candidate in the field.
He has made reversing Trump's hardline approach to immigration a central part of his campaign since entering the race in January,
and like other candidates, has called for pathways to citizenship
and stopping construction on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
But his new immigration platform now includes specifics that would include making being in the U.S. illegally a civil, and not criminal penalty.
Trump's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal border crossings called for prosecuting every adult, even if it meant splitting families.
Castro is also calling for reconstituting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by splitting the agency in half
and putting enforcement duties elsewhere.
Other candidates have been less detailed about their plans for ICE, which some in the party's liberal flank have called to abolish it.
Castro announced a rally in his hometown of San Antonio later this month at the same time
Trump is expected to make a fundraising swing through Texas.
END
AZMEX UPDATE 2-4-19
AZMEX UPDATE 2 APR 2019
Note: this story will not show up in the FCM. ( fascist corporate media, they call themselves "mainstream")
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Residents Near Texas Border Town Threatened By Human Smugglers
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 6:54 AM PT — Tuesday, April 2, 2019
https://www.oann.com/residents-near-texas-border-town-threatened-by-human-smugglers/
Residents in a Texas border town say they are living in fear of so-called "cartel coyotes."
According to residents near the Falfurrias border checkpoint on Monday, the area has become a stomping ground for human traffickers.
One rancher — identified only as Solia — said she regularly sees armed cartel gunman directing groups of illegal migrants
as with as many as 70 people through her property in hopes of bypassing border check points.
She also said the groups frequently threaten residents to stay quiet.
In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas.
While many adults crossing the border on their own in South Texas try to flee agents,
most migrant parents and children wait to surrender so they can be processed and released into the United States. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
"They just put a finger to their lips and it's like… 'you better not say anything'…they know what we drive, they know where we live," explained the Texas rancher.
"They were trying to get in towards the house."
Solia said she feels so threatened that she can no longer leave her house without a gun.
She also said the number of human traffickers she sees has increased over the past years, and clearly illustrates the need for a wall at the border.
END
Weslaco man pleads guilty to threatening Border Patrol agents
Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro - March 30, 2019
https://www.themonitor.com/2019/03/30/weslaco-man-pleads-guilty-threatening-border-patrol-agents/
A local trailer driver could receive up to six years in federal prison for threatening several U.S. Border Patrol agents at the checkpoint in Falfurrias, court records show.
Daniel Campos Jr., 49, of Weslaco pleaded guilty Thursday to one of five counts of threatening to assault a federal enforcement officer
while engaged in performance of official duties, according to a news release from the Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney's office stated.
Campos was indicted Jan. 23 on five accounts of the offense related to an incident in late December 2018,
when he was driving a tractor trailer attempting to cross the Falfurrias checkpoint.
During this encounter, Border Patrol agents tried questioning Campos at the checkpoint, but according to the Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney's office,
he became hostile, argumentative and "refused to answer questions;" also, a Border Patrol K-9 was alerted to the vehicle during this exchange.
"As a result, authorities directed Campos to secondary inspection for further processing.
While attempting to get him to proceed there, Campos yelled, cursed and refused to comply with the agents' request," the release stated.
"Campos eventually relented and proceeded to secondary inspection.
At secondary, he continued to yell, shouting, homophobic remarks and threatened five (Border Patrol) agents.
Specifically, he threatened to kick the (Border Patrol K-9) in the nose,
said he would engage in inappropriate conduct with the agents' mothers and threatened to harm the agents if he saw them outside of their uniforms."
At the hearing, Campos admitted he threatened the agents, acknowledging he did so in order to intimidate, impede and interfere with the agents' investigation.
He also confirmed the threat occurred as a result of the agents performing their official duties as agents, the release states.
In exchange for his guilty plea, government prosecutors agreed to dismiss the remaining four counts he was charged with, court records show.
Campos, who has been in custody since his initial court appearance in early February, will remain in custody pending his sentencing hearing,
currently scheduled for June 27, according to records.
The FBI conducted the investigation, and assistant U.S. attorney Jeremy C. Fugate is prosecuting the case.
END
Note: this story will not show up in the FCM. ( fascist corporate media, they call themselves "mainstream")
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Residents Near Texas Border Town Threatened By Human Smugglers
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 6:54 AM PT — Tuesday, April 2, 2019
https://www.oann.com/residents-near-texas-border-town-threatened-by-human-smugglers/
Residents in a Texas border town say they are living in fear of so-called "cartel coyotes."
According to residents near the Falfurrias border checkpoint on Monday, the area has become a stomping ground for human traffickers.
One rancher — identified only as Solia — said she regularly sees armed cartel gunman directing groups of illegal migrants
as with as many as 70 people through her property in hopes of bypassing border check points.
She also said the groups frequently threaten residents to stay quiet.
In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas.
While many adults crossing the border on their own in South Texas try to flee agents,
most migrant parents and children wait to surrender so they can be processed and released into the United States. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
"They just put a finger to their lips and it's like… 'you better not say anything'…they know what we drive, they know where we live," explained the Texas rancher.
"They were trying to get in towards the house."
Solia said she feels so threatened that she can no longer leave her house without a gun.
She also said the number of human traffickers she sees has increased over the past years, and clearly illustrates the need for a wall at the border.
END
Weslaco man pleads guilty to threatening Border Patrol agents
Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro - March 30, 2019
https://www.themonitor.com/2019/03/30/weslaco-man-pleads-guilty-threatening-border-patrol-agents/
A local trailer driver could receive up to six years in federal prison for threatening several U.S. Border Patrol agents at the checkpoint in Falfurrias, court records show.
Daniel Campos Jr., 49, of Weslaco pleaded guilty Thursday to one of five counts of threatening to assault a federal enforcement officer
while engaged in performance of official duties, according to a news release from the Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney's office stated.
Campos was indicted Jan. 23 on five accounts of the offense related to an incident in late December 2018,
when he was driving a tractor trailer attempting to cross the Falfurrias checkpoint.
During this encounter, Border Patrol agents tried questioning Campos at the checkpoint, but according to the Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney's office,
he became hostile, argumentative and "refused to answer questions;" also, a Border Patrol K-9 was alerted to the vehicle during this exchange.
"As a result, authorities directed Campos to secondary inspection for further processing.
While attempting to get him to proceed there, Campos yelled, cursed and refused to comply with the agents' request," the release stated.
"Campos eventually relented and proceeded to secondary inspection.
At secondary, he continued to yell, shouting, homophobic remarks and threatened five (Border Patrol) agents.
Specifically, he threatened to kick the (Border Patrol K-9) in the nose,
said he would engage in inappropriate conduct with the agents' mothers and threatened to harm the agents if he saw them outside of their uniforms."
At the hearing, Campos admitted he threatened the agents, acknowledging he did so in order to intimidate, impede and interfere with the agents' investigation.
He also confirmed the threat occurred as a result of the agents performing their official duties as agents, the release states.
In exchange for his guilty plea, government prosecutors agreed to dismiss the remaining four counts he was charged with, court records show.
Campos, who has been in custody since his initial court appearance in early February, will remain in custody pending his sentencing hearing,
currently scheduled for June 27, according to records.
The FBI conducted the investigation, and assistant U.S. attorney Jeremy C. Fugate is prosecuting the case.
END
Monday, April 1, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 31-3-19
AZMEX POLICY 31 MAR 2019
Taking the masses: To deal with immigrant surge, CBP and ICE agree that laws need to change
Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro - March 31, 2019
https://www.themonitor.com/2019/03/31/taking-masses-deal-immigrant-surge-cbp-ice-agree-laws-need-change/
SAN ANTONIO — Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement
pointed their fingers squarely at lawmakers this week for what they call a humanitarian, operational and policy crisis at the southwestern border;
this as detention facilities reach as much as 300 percent over capacity.
The lack of accommodations to appropriately manage the numbers prompted ICE's announcement Friday that, beginning Monday,
the agency will house about 700 adult females at the Karnes detention facility in Karnes City, Texas.
This is due to the current volume of families surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents at the southwest border,
with ICE and CBP officials agreeing that the situation has left ICE's "limited transportation resources" overwhelmed.
ICE officials said in a news release that the move would be temporary, and would last "about 90 days."
"… ICE is currently only able to route a limited number of families apprehended at that border to the one other family residential center in Texas —
the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, TX," the release stated. "Additionally, ICE adult detention space is near capacity.
As such, ICE has determined that, at this time, Karnes will better meet operational needs by also serving partially as an adult detention facility."
The decision by ICE officials comes more than a week after CBP confirmed it was releasing immigrant families with a notice to appear
due to lack of space in the detention facilities in the Rio Grande Valley sector,
with El Paso, Yuma, San Diego and Del Rio, facilities ready to do the same.
The strain on the immigration system itself is due to a growing number of immigrant families arriving in and around ports of entry,
which CBP Chief Operating Officer John P. Sanders said will push the total number of apprehensions in March past the 100,000 mark.
Sanders said of those 100,000 apprehensions expected for March, roughly 58 percent, or 58,000 will be comprised of families and another 9,000,
or nearly 10 percent, will be made up of unaccompanied children.
"… By any definition I cannot look at this and say that it is not a humanitarian crisis; there are other parts to this crisis…
There's the humanitarian crisis, there is the operational crisis, and of course there is the policy crisis that we're facing
in terms of the laws that need to be changed — all very important," Sanders said.
Ronald D. Vitiello, deputy director of ICE, said they're limited in what they can do because of laws and guidelines like the Flores settlement.
The Flores Settlement is an agreement put in place to protect children taken into custody at the southern border
that was established more than 20 years ago as part of a class-action lawsuit first filed in 1985.
The settlement agreement stipulated among other things how long the government can detain immigrants,
dictating a 20-day maximum detention period for immigrant families.
It was reached between the federal government and child welfare and legal advocates who had demanded government officials
address child welfare violations within the immigration detention system
Vitiello said if agents could detain the migrant families longer, that would allow for them to get their due process,
including taking care of any immigration status-related issues before being released.
"A fix to Flores that allows us to maintain the high standards we have for family detention,
but enough capacity across the continuum in order for people to go through their due process claims — be heard," Vitiello said.
"If they have the right to asylum, that the judge adjudicates as such, then we welcome them. But if not, they're returned.
"In my career, what I've seen, if you hand out a consequence for illegal behavior, you get less (of the behavior),
and right now that loophole is so open that people are sending their children, or coming to the border with their children,
and we don't have a way to address that operationally."
That option would require additional funding for bed space, and on the judicial end, hiring of more immigration officers
to help expedite an asylum process that can currently take anywhere from six months to several years.
Vitiello, who in the past has worked in the RGV sector as the chief Border Patrol agent,
said there is no doubt that there's a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border,
stating that ICE has released more than 108,000 immigrants since December 2018.
"There's absolutely an unmitigated crisis going on on the southwest border, and it's not about how many people are being arrested.
That number is significantly higher than it was just a year ago, but it's what has happened to the people,"
Vitiello said during a panel at the expo, adding that Border Patrol stations are not designed to house children regardless of how long they're kept.
With regard to ICE, Vitiello described the operational aspects of current laws as "a terrible scenario"
when considering the limited resources and accommodations.
"The Flores settlement agreement and subsequent court cases that have been lost as it relates to the government —
we can't keep families in detention," Vitiello said. "There's not enough space.
There's not enough time for them under the terms of the agreement to have their cases heard, whether for asylum claims or removal purposes.
"We're in a situation where we're encouraging people to take this dangerous journey."
Despite prior instances of surges in both unaccompanied minor children and families arriving at the southwest border —
and most recently in 2014 when a surge of unaccompanied minor children started arriving in droves,
leading to the utilization of emergency shelters in places like California, Texas and Arizona, to name a few
— ICE and CBP officials said the blame lies with how the laws are currently written. Laws they say that need to be changed.
In fiscal year 2014, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 68,500 unaccompanied children who arrived at the southwest border
— the highest number of apprehensions since CBP began recording that demographic in 2010.
This was a more than 75 percent increase in unaccompanied minor apprehensions at the southwest border from just the year before in 2013,
when agents apprehended 38,759 unaccompanied children, according to the agency's website.
In fiscal year 2019, CBP is reporting just through February, at about the half-year mark,
nearly 27,000 unaccompanied children apprehensions at the southwest border —
nearly half of the number of apprehensions made during the highest mark in 2014, which saw 68,500.
CBP recorded the highest number of family apprehensions last year, fiscal year 2018, with 107,212 apprehensions at the southwest border —
a more than 40 percent increase in family apprehensions from fiscal year 2017, when agents apprehended more than 75,000 families.
This was a slight decrease from fiscal year 2016.
So far this fiscal year, CBP is reporting through February that they have apprehended 136,150 families at the southwest border,
which already surpasses the 2018 mark.
Locally, the mayor of Brownsville said CBP conveyed to him Friday that they would release thousands of immigrants
throughout Brownsville, Harlingen and McAllen over the next few days.
Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez said the county would hold the federal government responsible for any
"adverse consequences" resulting from the release of more than 2,000 asylum seekers thus far.
"We are calling on the federal government to act responsibly along this nation's southern border.
Reckless rhetoric and irresponsible policy decisions have real impact on our communities,"
Cortez said in a prepared statement.
"Over 2,000 asylum seekers have been released on our streets.
We commend the tireless efforts of local CBP, ICE, DHS and other law enforcement officials
and call on the federal government to support these brave men and women by stopping unnecessary fear-mongering and
providing them the resources necessary to address this humanitarian crisis."
CBP officials stated last Tuesday that in order to avoid a safety risk to the migrants,
and their own agents due to facilities that were overcapacity, they had started releasing families from their detention facilities with a notice to appear.
They were hoping to alleviate a system that was "overwhelmed" by the number of families
and unaccompanied minors surrendering to agents at the southwest border.
President Trump threatened via Twitter on Friday to shutdown the southwest border as early as next week
if Mexico does not stop undocumented immigrants from entering the U.S.
"The DEMOCRATS have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the World.
Mexico has the strongest, & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the U.S. Therefore,
CONGRESS MUST CHANGE OUR WEAK IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW, & Mexico must stop illegals from entering the U.S.,"
Trump tweeted Friday.
On Thursday, it was announced that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
was expected to ask Congress, as part of a legislative proposal, for more bed space, the ability to hold families past the 20-day period
established by the Flores agreement, and the authority to deport unaccompanied minor children.
END
Taking the masses: To deal with immigrant surge, CBP and ICE agree that laws need to change
Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro - March 31, 2019
https://www.themonitor.com/2019/03/31/taking-masses-deal-immigrant-surge-cbp-ice-agree-laws-need-change/
SAN ANTONIO — Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement
pointed their fingers squarely at lawmakers this week for what they call a humanitarian, operational and policy crisis at the southwestern border;
this as detention facilities reach as much as 300 percent over capacity.
The lack of accommodations to appropriately manage the numbers prompted ICE's announcement Friday that, beginning Monday,
the agency will house about 700 adult females at the Karnes detention facility in Karnes City, Texas.
This is due to the current volume of families surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents at the southwest border,
with ICE and CBP officials agreeing that the situation has left ICE's "limited transportation resources" overwhelmed.
ICE officials said in a news release that the move would be temporary, and would last "about 90 days."
"… ICE is currently only able to route a limited number of families apprehended at that border to the one other family residential center in Texas —
the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, TX," the release stated. "Additionally, ICE adult detention space is near capacity.
As such, ICE has determined that, at this time, Karnes will better meet operational needs by also serving partially as an adult detention facility."
The decision by ICE officials comes more than a week after CBP confirmed it was releasing immigrant families with a notice to appear
due to lack of space in the detention facilities in the Rio Grande Valley sector,
with El Paso, Yuma, San Diego and Del Rio, facilities ready to do the same.
The strain on the immigration system itself is due to a growing number of immigrant families arriving in and around ports of entry,
which CBP Chief Operating Officer John P. Sanders said will push the total number of apprehensions in March past the 100,000 mark.
Sanders said of those 100,000 apprehensions expected for March, roughly 58 percent, or 58,000 will be comprised of families and another 9,000,
or nearly 10 percent, will be made up of unaccompanied children.
"… By any definition I cannot look at this and say that it is not a humanitarian crisis; there are other parts to this crisis…
There's the humanitarian crisis, there is the operational crisis, and of course there is the policy crisis that we're facing
in terms of the laws that need to be changed — all very important," Sanders said.
Ronald D. Vitiello, deputy director of ICE, said they're limited in what they can do because of laws and guidelines like the Flores settlement.
The Flores Settlement is an agreement put in place to protect children taken into custody at the southern border
that was established more than 20 years ago as part of a class-action lawsuit first filed in 1985.
The settlement agreement stipulated among other things how long the government can detain immigrants,
dictating a 20-day maximum detention period for immigrant families.
It was reached between the federal government and child welfare and legal advocates who had demanded government officials
address child welfare violations within the immigration detention system
Vitiello said if agents could detain the migrant families longer, that would allow for them to get their due process,
including taking care of any immigration status-related issues before being released.
"A fix to Flores that allows us to maintain the high standards we have for family detention,
but enough capacity across the continuum in order for people to go through their due process claims — be heard," Vitiello said.
"If they have the right to asylum, that the judge adjudicates as such, then we welcome them. But if not, they're returned.
"In my career, what I've seen, if you hand out a consequence for illegal behavior, you get less (of the behavior),
and right now that loophole is so open that people are sending their children, or coming to the border with their children,
and we don't have a way to address that operationally."
That option would require additional funding for bed space, and on the judicial end, hiring of more immigration officers
to help expedite an asylum process that can currently take anywhere from six months to several years.
Vitiello, who in the past has worked in the RGV sector as the chief Border Patrol agent,
said there is no doubt that there's a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border,
stating that ICE has released more than 108,000 immigrants since December 2018.
"There's absolutely an unmitigated crisis going on on the southwest border, and it's not about how many people are being arrested.
That number is significantly higher than it was just a year ago, but it's what has happened to the people,"
Vitiello said during a panel at the expo, adding that Border Patrol stations are not designed to house children regardless of how long they're kept.
With regard to ICE, Vitiello described the operational aspects of current laws as "a terrible scenario"
when considering the limited resources and accommodations.
"The Flores settlement agreement and subsequent court cases that have been lost as it relates to the government —
we can't keep families in detention," Vitiello said. "There's not enough space.
There's not enough time for them under the terms of the agreement to have their cases heard, whether for asylum claims or removal purposes.
"We're in a situation where we're encouraging people to take this dangerous journey."
Despite prior instances of surges in both unaccompanied minor children and families arriving at the southwest border —
and most recently in 2014 when a surge of unaccompanied minor children started arriving in droves,
leading to the utilization of emergency shelters in places like California, Texas and Arizona, to name a few
— ICE and CBP officials said the blame lies with how the laws are currently written. Laws they say that need to be changed.
In fiscal year 2014, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 68,500 unaccompanied children who arrived at the southwest border
— the highest number of apprehensions since CBP began recording that demographic in 2010.
This was a more than 75 percent increase in unaccompanied minor apprehensions at the southwest border from just the year before in 2013,
when agents apprehended 38,759 unaccompanied children, according to the agency's website.
In fiscal year 2019, CBP is reporting just through February, at about the half-year mark,
nearly 27,000 unaccompanied children apprehensions at the southwest border —
nearly half of the number of apprehensions made during the highest mark in 2014, which saw 68,500.
CBP recorded the highest number of family apprehensions last year, fiscal year 2018, with 107,212 apprehensions at the southwest border —
a more than 40 percent increase in family apprehensions from fiscal year 2017, when agents apprehended more than 75,000 families.
This was a slight decrease from fiscal year 2016.
So far this fiscal year, CBP is reporting through February that they have apprehended 136,150 families at the southwest border,
which already surpasses the 2018 mark.
Locally, the mayor of Brownsville said CBP conveyed to him Friday that they would release thousands of immigrants
throughout Brownsville, Harlingen and McAllen over the next few days.
Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez said the county would hold the federal government responsible for any
"adverse consequences" resulting from the release of more than 2,000 asylum seekers thus far.
"We are calling on the federal government to act responsibly along this nation's southern border.
Reckless rhetoric and irresponsible policy decisions have real impact on our communities,"
Cortez said in a prepared statement.
"Over 2,000 asylum seekers have been released on our streets.
We commend the tireless efforts of local CBP, ICE, DHS and other law enforcement officials
and call on the federal government to support these brave men and women by stopping unnecessary fear-mongering and
providing them the resources necessary to address this humanitarian crisis."
CBP officials stated last Tuesday that in order to avoid a safety risk to the migrants,
and their own agents due to facilities that were overcapacity, they had started releasing families from their detention facilities with a notice to appear.
They were hoping to alleviate a system that was "overwhelmed" by the number of families
and unaccompanied minors surrendering to agents at the southwest border.
President Trump threatened via Twitter on Friday to shutdown the southwest border as early as next week
if Mexico does not stop undocumented immigrants from entering the U.S.
"The DEMOCRATS have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the World.
Mexico has the strongest, & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the U.S. Therefore,
CONGRESS MUST CHANGE OUR WEAK IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW, & Mexico must stop illegals from entering the U.S.,"
Trump tweeted Friday.
On Thursday, it was announced that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
was expected to ask Congress, as part of a legislative proposal, for more bed space, the ability to hold families past the 20-day period
established by the Flores agreement, and the authority to deport unaccompanied minor children.
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 31 -3-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 31 MAR 2019
Note: no info so far on the origin of the chemicals. China?
Thx
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Culiacán, Sin: 5 Tons plus 19,000 Liters of Precurser Chemicals Destroyed
Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Riodoce
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/03/culiacan-sin-5-tons-plus-19000-liters.html#more
Destroyed: 5 Tons of chemical substances and 19,000 liters of precursors in Culiacán
March 27, 2019 by Editorial Staff
More than 5 Tons of chemical substances and more than 19,000 liters of precursor liquid chemicals,
secured in operations carried out by security institutions in the state, were destroyed by elements of the Public Prosecutor's Office
of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) in Sinaloa.
Incinerated 2 tons 899 kilos , 978 grams 500 milligrams of lead acetate, 512 kilos 990 grams of phenylacetic acid,
339 kilos 994 grams of sodium cyanide, 519 kilos 990 grams 7 milligrams of sodium hydroxide,
840 kilos of unknown substance, 400 milligrams tartaric acid and 200 milligrams of sodium acetate.
"Also, 2,599 liters were destroyed 815 milliliters of hydrochloric acid, 912 liters 990 milliliters of sulfuric acid,
399 liters 990 milliliters of benzyl alcohol, 509 liters 965 milliliters of ethyl alcohol, 2,312 liters 960 milliliters of methyl alcohol,
119 liters 990 milliliters of ethyl benzene, 60 liters 990 milliliters of hydrocarbon mixture and
899 liters 975 milliliters of benzyl cyanide ", are detailed.
In addition: "1,379 liters were also included, 960 milliliters of benzyl chloride, 7,219 liters, 840 milliliters of toluene,
129 liters, 988 milliliters of reactive waste, 2 ,579 liters, 940 milliliters of unknown substance,
170 liters of acetone and 5 milliliters of acetic anhydride".
The destruction, adds the statement, was made in a specialized and authorized company for this purpose,
following the practice of the proceedings conducted by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF),
with assistance from elements of the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM) and experts specialized in forensic chemistry,
as well as the supervision of the Internal Control Body to attest the weight and quantity of chemical substances and precursors.
Meanwhile on the other side of the pond; from: El Sol
Plantations of Marijuana and Poppy in Ensenada, BC were eliminated.
This action was carried out during an overflight of reconnaissance of area in the vicinity of Valle de Guadalupe.
The Navy-Navy Secretariat of Mexico, in coordination with the National Defense Secretariat
in accordance with the National Protocol of Action on the Destruction of Illicit Plants,
reports that yesterday, personnel assigned to the Second Naval Region in coordination
with elements belonging to the Second Regiment of Motorized Cavalry,
eradicated approximately one hectare of marijuana and poppy fields in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California.
This action was carried out during an overflight of reconnaissance of area in the vicinity of Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California,
carried out with a Black Hawk helicopter, where four marijuana and poppy fields were located in different points of Valle de Guadalupe;
A total of 6, 925 square meters were destroyed. All of the above was done as a result of field and investigative cabinet work.
The National Protocol for Action in the Destruction of Illegal Plantings is aimed at effectively consolidating the coordination
between the participating authorities, from the discovery or receipt of a report of illicit plantings, to their destruction; l
eaving a record of each one of its activities, with strict adherence to current regulations and respect for human rights.
NOTE: Both photos are of Poppy PLANTS not yet flowering or going to seed; the seed pods being what contains the sap or gum.
From ZETA: 600 Kilos of Marijuana PLUS
By: Marco A. Flores Friday, March 29, 2019
The 382 packages were transported in the boxes of the vehicles, covered with sheets of wood,
on a dirt road near the town of Esteban Cantú on the Pacific Coast.
Around 600 kilos of marijuana, four pick ups trucks, 4 inflatable rafts, and outboard motor and one man
were secured by elements of the Mexican Army in the area known as La Bufadora, in the Municipality of Ensenada, BC.
The Secretariat of National Defense announced in a statement that in the framework of the operation "Neptune"
the elements of the 67th Infantry Battalion carried out ground reconnaissance that led to the assurance.
According to the military institution, the elements saw several pick ups moving at high speed,
so they made the stop; according to the official version, but only one of the drivers was stopped.
The Marijuana, vehicles, motor and people were placed at the disposition of the Attorney General's Office in the city of Tijuana.
The SEDENA estimated that this shipment was more than 6 million doses,
with an economic value in the black market exceeding 4 million 560 thousand pesos.
The 67th Infantry Battalion invites to report any illicit activity to the telephone numbers
616 165 30 74 and 616 165 16 60
and the e-mail denuncia.67bi@sedena.gob.mx , 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Borderland Beat Reporter Yaqui Posted at 7:57 AM
END
Note: no info so far on the origin of the chemicals. China?
Thx
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Culiacán, Sin: 5 Tons plus 19,000 Liters of Precurser Chemicals Destroyed
Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Riodoce
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/03/culiacan-sin-5-tons-plus-19000-liters.html#more
Destroyed: 5 Tons of chemical substances and 19,000 liters of precursors in Culiacán
March 27, 2019 by Editorial Staff
More than 5 Tons of chemical substances and more than 19,000 liters of precursor liquid chemicals,
secured in operations carried out by security institutions in the state, were destroyed by elements of the Public Prosecutor's Office
of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) in Sinaloa.
Incinerated 2 tons 899 kilos , 978 grams 500 milligrams of lead acetate, 512 kilos 990 grams of phenylacetic acid,
339 kilos 994 grams of sodium cyanide, 519 kilos 990 grams 7 milligrams of sodium hydroxide,
840 kilos of unknown substance, 400 milligrams tartaric acid and 200 milligrams of sodium acetate.
"Also, 2,599 liters were destroyed 815 milliliters of hydrochloric acid, 912 liters 990 milliliters of sulfuric acid,
399 liters 990 milliliters of benzyl alcohol, 509 liters 965 milliliters of ethyl alcohol, 2,312 liters 960 milliliters of methyl alcohol,
119 liters 990 milliliters of ethyl benzene, 60 liters 990 milliliters of hydrocarbon mixture and
899 liters 975 milliliters of benzyl cyanide ", are detailed.
In addition: "1,379 liters were also included, 960 milliliters of benzyl chloride, 7,219 liters, 840 milliliters of toluene,
129 liters, 988 milliliters of reactive waste, 2 ,579 liters, 940 milliliters of unknown substance,
170 liters of acetone and 5 milliliters of acetic anhydride".
The destruction, adds the statement, was made in a specialized and authorized company for this purpose,
following the practice of the proceedings conducted by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF),
with assistance from elements of the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM) and experts specialized in forensic chemistry,
as well as the supervision of the Internal Control Body to attest the weight and quantity of chemical substances and precursors.
Meanwhile on the other side of the pond; from: El Sol
Plantations of Marijuana and Poppy in Ensenada, BC were eliminated.
This action was carried out during an overflight of reconnaissance of area in the vicinity of Valle de Guadalupe.
The Navy-Navy Secretariat of Mexico, in coordination with the National Defense Secretariat
in accordance with the National Protocol of Action on the Destruction of Illicit Plants,
reports that yesterday, personnel assigned to the Second Naval Region in coordination
with elements belonging to the Second Regiment of Motorized Cavalry,
eradicated approximately one hectare of marijuana and poppy fields in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California.
This action was carried out during an overflight of reconnaissance of area in the vicinity of Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California,
carried out with a Black Hawk helicopter, where four marijuana and poppy fields were located in different points of Valle de Guadalupe;
A total of 6, 925 square meters were destroyed. All of the above was done as a result of field and investigative cabinet work.
The National Protocol for Action in the Destruction of Illegal Plantings is aimed at effectively consolidating the coordination
between the participating authorities, from the discovery or receipt of a report of illicit plantings, to their destruction; l
eaving a record of each one of its activities, with strict adherence to current regulations and respect for human rights.
NOTE: Both photos are of Poppy PLANTS not yet flowering or going to seed; the seed pods being what contains the sap or gum.
From ZETA: 600 Kilos of Marijuana PLUS
By: Marco A. Flores Friday, March 29, 2019
The 382 packages were transported in the boxes of the vehicles, covered with sheets of wood,
on a dirt road near the town of Esteban Cantú on the Pacific Coast.
Around 600 kilos of marijuana, four pick ups trucks, 4 inflatable rafts, and outboard motor and one man
were secured by elements of the Mexican Army in the area known as La Bufadora, in the Municipality of Ensenada, BC.
The Secretariat of National Defense announced in a statement that in the framework of the operation "Neptune"
the elements of the 67th Infantry Battalion carried out ground reconnaissance that led to the assurance.
According to the military institution, the elements saw several pick ups moving at high speed,
so they made the stop; according to the official version, but only one of the drivers was stopped.
The Marijuana, vehicles, motor and people were placed at the disposition of the Attorney General's Office in the city of Tijuana.
The SEDENA estimated that this shipment was more than 6 million doses,
with an economic value in the black market exceeding 4 million 560 thousand pesos.
The 67th Infantry Battalion invites to report any illicit activity to the telephone numbers
616 165 30 74 and 616 165 16 60
and the e-mail denuncia.67bi@sedena.gob.mx , 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Borderland Beat Reporter Yaqui Posted at 7:57 AM
END
AZ-VEN UPDATE 31-3-19
AZ-VEN UPDATE 31 MAR 2019
Lavrov defends legitimacy of the Russian military presence in Venezuela
Sputnik | Sunday, March 31 2019 10:04
https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2019/03/31/defiende-lavrov-legitimidad-de-la-presencia-militar-rusa-en-venezuela-131.html
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu during a meeting held in Antalya, Turkey,
on March 29, 2019. Xinhua Photo
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski.
Russian military experts work in Venezuela on the basis of legitimate agreements with the country's authorities,
said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"We have already explained what our military is doing in Venezuela, guaranteeing in a purely legitimate and legal manner
the maintenance of the equipment that we had provided under the intergovernmental agreement, ratified by the Venezuelan Parliament,
in accordance with the Constitution of Venezuela," He told the Rossiya television channel 1.
A Russian military delegation arrived in Caracas last week to participate in a series of consultations with local authorities
on cooperation issues in the defense industry, a diplomatic source told Sputnik in the Venezuelan capital.
On Wednesday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that Russia "should leave" Venezuela,
and earlier this week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, denounced in a telephone conversation to Sergey Lavrov
"the continuous insertion of personnel Russian military "in the Latin American nation.
Meanwhile, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajárova, said on Thursday
that the presence of the military delegation was entirely legitimate within the framework of the defense cooperation agreements
between Moscow and Caracas and added that the uniformed would remain in the Caribbean country.
the time that both governments considered necessary.
END
Lavrov defends legitimacy of the Russian military presence in Venezuela
Sputnik | Sunday, March 31 2019 10:04
https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2019/03/31/defiende-lavrov-legitimidad-de-la-presencia-militar-rusa-en-venezuela-131.html
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu during a meeting held in Antalya, Turkey,
on March 29, 2019. Xinhua Photo
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski.
Russian military experts work in Venezuela on the basis of legitimate agreements with the country's authorities,
said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"We have already explained what our military is doing in Venezuela, guaranteeing in a purely legitimate and legal manner
the maintenance of the equipment that we had provided under the intergovernmental agreement, ratified by the Venezuelan Parliament,
in accordance with the Constitution of Venezuela," He told the Rossiya television channel 1.
A Russian military delegation arrived in Caracas last week to participate in a series of consultations with local authorities
on cooperation issues in the defense industry, a diplomatic source told Sputnik in the Venezuelan capital.
On Wednesday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that Russia "should leave" Venezuela,
and earlier this week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, denounced in a telephone conversation to Sergey Lavrov
"the continuous insertion of personnel Russian military "in the Latin American nation.
Meanwhile, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajárova, said on Thursday
that the presence of the military delegation was entirely legitimate within the framework of the defense cooperation agreements
between Moscow and Caracas and added that the uniformed would remain in the Caribbean country.
the time that both governments considered necessary.
END
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