Border Patrol Officer shoots rock throwing Mexican invader
Hisler
border-shooting,0,530601.story
DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) � Authorities say an illegal immigrant was shot
and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was attacked with
rocks in southern Arizona.
Border Patrol spokesman Omar Candelaria says the shooting occurred
Monday after the agent and his dog encountered the man in an area
known as "D'' Hill just outside Douglas.
Authorities say the man assaulted the agent with rocks, and the
unidentified agent shot back. The man, whose name also was not
released, died while being transported to a hospital.
Candelaria says the agent also was taken to the hospital but was
later released.
The incident is being investigated by the Cochise County Sheriff's
Office, FBI and Border Patrol.
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Obama to American workers: Drop dead
http://www.macon.com/203/story/970308.html?storylink=omni_popular
Last month, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill, introduced legislation
in the House to reward the hordes of illegal aliens who made it
past our Border Patrol agents with legalization, jobs, public
benefits and eventually the right to vote as citizens.
With the open borders lobby's usual shameless contempt for the
intellect of the American people, Gutierrez is calling his bill
"Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and
Prosperity."
The 2010 battle for repeating the "one-time" amnesty of 1986 has
begun.
Don't expect the legislation to receive nearly as much attention
from the media as Tiger Woods' love life. The hope is that we are
too busy to remember that President Obama promised to deliver
amnesty as part of his "Hope and Change" election campaign � or to
consider that nagging detail about America's raging unemployment
crisis.
The contrived talking point is that legalizing the current batch of
job thieves would result in a "boon to American workers" and
somehow "strengthen our economy." I am not making this up.
America's unemployment rate dipped from 10.2 percent in October to
10 percent in November. Many economists put the actual unemployment
rate at 17 percent. Using the most positive figures, about 16
million Americans are out of work.
Official statistics show a loss of 11,000 jobs last month. About
190,000 jobs were lost in October.
While monitoring CNN, I heard a reporter tell viewers that there
are at least six applicants for each available job.
One pundit put it this way: "Unemployment isn't just worse than
Obama said it would be with the stimulus. It's even worse than he
said it would be without the stimulus."
In addition to his recent "jobs summit" designed to get ideas on
how to cut unemployment, the American president has publicly
promised to pursue "every additional and responsible step" to get
America back to work. Except, apparently, to stem the flow of
illegal immigration into the U.S. and to remove the black market
replacement labor from the work force.
Obama could put about 8 million Americans in jobs next week if he
would only enthusiastically enforce existing immigration and
employment laws today. As a longtime American who studies the
organized crime that is illegal immigration � which is directly
related to American unemployment � let me share some facts that
Gutierrez and Obama hope you will never see.
You are supposed to believe the fairy tale that American borders
have been secured.
U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 556,040 new "undocumented workers"
illegally crossing our borders in fiscal year 2009, which ended
Sept. 30. Optimistic official estimates are one in four or five
illegal alien border crossers are captured at the border.
Do the math.
Statistics from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reveal
significant drops in work site enforcement activity since last
year. Administrative alien arrests (arrests of illegal aliens who
will be placed into deportation proceedings) have dropped 68
percent.
Nationwide, criminal arrests are down 60 percent, criminal
indictments have fallen 58 percent and criminal convictions are
down 63 percent.
Obama has rescinded the Bush administration's common sense "No-
Match Rule" in which the Social Security Administration sent
letters to employers when employees' names and Social Security
numbers fail to match.
So much change in only one year.
There will never be a time when another amnesty is the answer,
including in these desperate times.
The amnesty of 1986 actually increased illegal immigration and
illegal employment. It would have the same result today. D.A. King
is a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration. He is
president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society. On the Web:
www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_14116420
As Israel Gonzalez-Reyes recently stood before a San Jose judge for
sentencing, his case had all the ingredients of the most common
crime in the nation's federal courts over the past year.
The 39-year-old defendant had been deported to his native Mexico on
eight separate occasions, repeatedly returning to the United States
before winding up in jail, usually charged with a variety of state
crimes ranging from burglary to drunken driving. Federal
prosecutors had had enough � this time around, Gonzalez-Reyes was
charged under criminal immigration laws forbidding the illegal re-
entry of a deported alien back into the United States.
More than ever, federal prosecutors are using such felony charges
and the threat of serious federal prison time to make lawbreakers
think twice before making another trip across the border. In 2009,
the U.S. Justice Department filed nearly 92,000 immigration-related
criminal cases in the federal courts. The record-breaking trend
accounted for more than half of all new federal prosecutions in the
country, according to Justice Department data maintained at
Syracuse University.
As of October, the latest figures available, federal prosecutors
had filed nearly 300 such cases in the Northern California federal
courts, which include San Jose. Syracuse researchers projected that
figure would reach nearly 400 by the end of the year, more than
double the number filed in 2005. The Bay Area federal courts ranked
10th
out of the country's 93 districts in such filings.
Spurred by the relentless surge of illegal immigration in border
states such as Texas and Arizona, where immigration prosecutions
total in the thousands, the federal government has concluded that
simple deportation is no longer an adequate response to repeat
offenders with criminal records. Experts attribute the steady rise
in prosecutions to several factors, including an increase in
immigration and border patrol agents during the Bush
administration, and greater emphasis on prosecuting cases that are
often easy to prove.
There is ample doubt that criminal enforcement can put much of a
dent in the nation's illegal immigration problems. And critics
worry that many routine immigration matters are being transformed
into federal felony charges with increasingly lengthy sentences.
There is also concern about a disproportionate impact on Mexican
nationals. A Mercury News review of 52 immigration cases filed in
the San Jose federal courts between January and October found every
defendant was from Mexico.
"It's riding and walking while Hispanic," said Barry Portman, the
Bay Area's federal public defender, whose office typically
represents immigrants too poor to pay for their own lawyers.
Supporters of the tougher enforcement approach say the prosecutions
are needed to target illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds
who keep re-entering the country. Indeed, the review of the San
Jose cases shows these defendants are often unsympathetic. They
have typically been deported numerous times, and they carry rap
sheets that run the gamut from drug and robbery charges to domestic
violence.
In some instances, they have even been prosecuted before in federal
court, serving time for immigration crimes before being deported,
only to return to the United States. One San Jose defendant charged
this year, Esequiel Sandoval-Ramos, has been deported eight times
and was convicted four separate times in San Diego federal court on
illegal re-entry charges before his most recent arrest here, court
records show.
Prosecutors say they must deter illegal immigration by those with
criminal records, which is driving up the numbers.
"Does it always work? Of course not," said Brian Stretch, chief of
the criminal division for the Bay Area U.S. attorney's office. "But
it's important to keep trying."
Advocates for tighter immigration enforcement say such prosecutions
are overdue, but they caution criminal charges are only part of
dealing with the sprawling immigration issue.
"We need to have these prosecutions, but they are not the silver
bullet," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for
Immigration Studies, which advocates stricter measures such as
curtailing the ability of illegal immigrants to secure jobs here.
For defendants such as Gonzalez-Reyes, the aggressive prosecutions
mean a long prison stay before deportation. In October, a defense
lawyer argued that Gonzalez-Reyes' sentence should only be about a
year because he had returned to the U.S. this time to earn money
for a prosthetic for a child who'd just lost a leg in an accident.
But Gonzalez-Reyes' record was too disturbing for U.S. District
Judge James Ware, who sentenced the defendant to 37 months in
prison. The question now, as with the tens of thousands of cases
being prosecuted in the federal courts, is whether the system will
see him again.
"It seems to me like we're putting a finger in the dike," said
Kevin Johnson, a University of California-Davis law professor and
immigration expert. "These prosecutions are more a gesture than a
meaningful attempt to deal with the immigration problem."
Contact Howard Mintz at 408-286-0236.
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Posted: 01/04/2010 12:37:29 AM MST
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14115353?source=most_viewed
GOMEZ PALACIO, Mexico - They were aware of the dangers. Agustin
Roberto "Bobby" Salcedo and his wife Betzy knew that this town,
like much of Mexico, was no longer the tranquil spot it had been.
"I've been coming regularly," Salcedo's widow Betzy said Saturday
of her hometown. "We knew how bad it had become."
And yet, the Salcedos ventured out for a few beers the night before
New Year's Eve.
"We were just going out with a group of friends," Betzy Salcedo
said, speaking slowly and casting her eyes downward. "You are
careful, you look around, but you never think this kind of thing
can happen . . . to innocent people. We were having a good time.
Then we were in the mouth of the wolf."
Hours later, Bobby Salcedo was dead, hauled away from the bar with
five other men, their bodies dumped in a dried-grass field on the
outskirts of town.
Arrangements were being made Saturday to repatriate Salcedo's body.
The 33-year-old, who was born and raised in the Los Angeles area,
was a well-respected teacher and board of education member in El
Monte.
His slaying underscores the random volatility of the violence in
Mexico and the ease with which the pain it causes can seep past
Mexico's borders. The Salcedos might also have been lulled into a
false sense of security by outdated memories and the comfort of old
friends.
Betzy Salcedo cited an old Mexican saying: He who doesn't owe
anything has nothing to fear. She always figured that people who
had nothing to do with drug trafficking would not be targets in the
country they loved.
One can follow the gruesome news out of Mexico, much of it
involving the government's ongoing war against powerful drug
cartels, yet still feel a sense of immunity - that "it can't happen
to me," that the dangers are remote. It is a common thought among
many Mexicans, a defense mechanism, perhaps.
But now Betzy Salcedo and her family are bitter and Mexico has
become a poison for them.
The Salcedos and their companions had ended up at the Iguanas Ranas
bar on Miguel Aleman Boulevard in Gomez Palacio on Wednesday night.
By day and to the uninitiated, the strip may seem harmless enough.
There are dives with names like Mens Club-Boomerang, but also taco
stands and convenience stores. The Iguanas Ranas is painted almost
whimsically with, as its name suggests, bright yellow and green
frogs and iguana lizards.
At night, however, the environment shifts. "We don't even go out at
night anymore. We are exposed to everything," said Gerardo
Gonzalez, the bar's accountant.
Routinely, he said, gunmen commandeer cars from passing motorists,
demand bribes, enter bars to lord over the patrons. "We are living
in times of terrible, daily crime," said the lifelong Gomez Palacio
resident, whose nephew was kidnapped and shot to death on Christmas
Eve.
It didn't used to be like this. Until about two years ago, the
Iguanas Ranas admitted families - parents with their children. But
then the violence started. About that time, several men were
kidnapped from the place and killed.
This year the bar has endured a bomb threat, an extortion threat
and robbery. Things have gotten so rough that the owner is
considering shutting it down, Gonzalez said.
Betzy Salcedo, 26, remembers the days of her youth, when she and
friends could go out at any time of the day or night without
thinking twice. "That's all completely gone," she said.
Bobby Salcedo's brother Juan, a banker in the Los Angeles area,
added: "I've read all the stories. Sixteen bodies found here,
bodies there. But I always thought it was (happening to) bad
people. You mind your own business and you'll be fine."
Gomez Palacio is a gritty industrial city in the north part of
Durango state, one of the deadliest states in Mexico last year, as
two drug gangs battle for territory. It is part of the same fight
raging across the nation, which has claimed more than 15,000 lives
in the last three years.
In December, federal police intercepted a shipment of more than 400
pounds of crystal meth, a few days after intercepting a similar
amount of cocaine, both being transported through Gomez Palacio
toward the U.S.
Police stations in Durango state came under grenade attack Dec. 14.
The former mayor of Gomez Palacio was kidnapped Dec. 6 (and
eventually released) and the local police chief, Roberto de Jesus
Torres, was gunned down the evening of Dec. 2 as he left his home.
On New Year's Eve, a few hours after Salcedo's body was found, two
detectives were kidnapped in the middle of the day, their bodies
left in the bed of a pickup on a major highway on the outskirts of
Gomez Palacio.
Investigators reported no new developments in the Salcedo case
Saturday. They repeated that they were looking into whether any of
the people killed with Salcedo had criminal ties, but had found
none.
Betzy Salcedo said none of the group was involved in drug
trafficking; they included one of her oldest friends, Luis Fernando
Santillan Hernandez, 27, a lawyer, and his two younger brothers.
Another victim, Javier Gerardo Garcia Camargo, 28, was married to
her best friend.
Gunmen armed with rifles burst into the bar around 2 a.m. Thursday;
there were conflicting accounts of what they were looking for,
investigators said Saturday. Some witnesses said the men asked for
the owner of a truck parked outside. Others said they demanded to
know who in the group of men was a cop.
The patrons were forced to the floor and ordered not to look as the
gunmen hauled off Salcedo and the five others, who had been crowded
around a pool table. They were shot to death and the bodies dumped
alongside a canal in a poor neighborhood called September 11.
Although there were calls in the Los Angeles area to solve
Salcedo's killing and bring the guilty to justice, the norm in
Mexico is impunity. Most crimes go unresolved.
Manuel Acosta, the lead investigator with the state prosecutor's
office, vowed in an interview Saturday to get to the bottom of the
Salcedo slaying. Sometime next week, he said, investigators would
begin pulling together testimony from various witnesses.
Betzy Salcedo said she hoped some good would come out of "all these
horrors" - that a serious investigation would be launched and "this
will not keep happening to innocent people."
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Federal officer arrested in slaying of policeman
By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Posted: 01/04/2010 12:00:00 AM MST
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14116645?source=most_viewed
A Mexican federal police sergeant has been arrested in the fatal
shooting of a federal police officer over the weekend at a Ju�rez
hotel.
Sgt. Gabriel Sanchez Dominguez is accused of killing police Cpl.
Alejandro Lopez Lopez while they were off duty early Saturday,
Joint Operation Chihuahua officials said.
The shooting occurred about 2:45 a.m. when the men got into an
argument while drinking alcohol in a room in the Chula Vista hotel
on Avenida Paseo Triunfo de la Republica.
Sanchez allegedly grabbed an R-15 rifle and shot Lopez on the left
side. Lopez, a 33-year-old native of the Mexico City area, died at
the scene.
Mexican federal police have been housed in hotels while deployed to
Ju�rez as part of the federal government's effort to try to quell a
violent crime wave in the city fueled by a war among drug
traffickers.
There have been more than a dozen homicides in the Ju�rez area this
year.
Since January 2008, more than 4,200 people have been killed since
the start of a war between the Sinaloa and Ju�rez drug cartels for
control of the regional smuggling corridor into the United States.
Daniel Borunda may be reached at dbor...@elpasotimes.com; 546-
6102.
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Former Ju�rez police officer caught with 4.5 tons of pot
Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Posted: 01/04/2010 03:24:58 PM MST
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14120281
A former Ju�rez police officer was arrested Monday morning at a
Mexican army checkpoint where he was found allegedly transporting
4.5 tons of marijuana, Joint Operation Chihuahua officials said.
Jose Luis Parra Barragan claimed that he was carrying a shipment of
milk in a cargo truck when he pulled up to checkpoint near
Samalayuca south of Ju�rez.
Officials said an inspection found 57 bundles of marijuana inside
the truck, which had been reported stolen.
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http://www.kpho.com/news/22120979/detail.html
PHOENIX -- Phoenix police are asking for the public's help in
identifying a man who was the target of a possible kidnapping.
A surveillance camera captured a picture of the victim as he called
for a cab at the Dairy Queen near 75th Avenue and Camelback Road.
After the man entered the taxi, a maroon Mitsubishi Galant pulled
in front of the vehicle, preventing it from leaving, said Detective
James Holmes of the Phoenix Police Department.
A man then began yelling at the victim in Spanish, Holmes said.
The man grabbed the victim from the cab, placed him in a headlock
and forced him into car that was driven by a second male, who
ranged in age from 17 to 20, Holmes said.
The vehicle then left north on 75th Avenue.
Police said the victim is described as Hispanic. He is 5 feet to 5
feet 9 inches tall. The man is between 40 to 50 years old. He had a
beard and moustache.
Although no weapons were seen, the man who removed the victim from
the cab kept one of his hands in his pocket the entire time,
leading witnesses to believe he was concealing a weapon, police
said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581945,00.html
TIJUANA, Mexico � Mexican authorities arrested seven police
officers in the border city of Tijuana on suspicion of connections
to drug cartels.
The federal Attorney General's Office in Baja California state said
Monday in a statement that the officers can be held for 40 days
while they are investigated for ties to organized crime.
No charges have been filed.
Last week, authorities arrested a former Tijuana policeman who
allegedly led at least 10 criminal cells working for Teodoro Garcia
Simental, who allegedly broke away from the Arellano Felix cartel
to sell drugs on his own.
Twenty-nine police officers were killed last year in Tijuana,
across the border from San Diego
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Well the east coast can get ready for the next flood of them!!!!!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-immigration1-
2010jan01,0,4208275.story
Reporting from Tucson - Cristina, an illegal immigrant living in
South Tucson, recently went to a government office to sign up her
children for a state-run Medicaid program.
The boy and girl, ages 7 and 3, respectively, are U.S. citizens and
entitled to the benefits. But Cristina, who spoke on condition her
last name not be used, was fearful. She'd heard of a new state law
requiring public workers to alert Immigration and Customs
Enforcement when illegal immigrants apply for benefits they are not
legally entitled to.
So when workers asked Cristina, 32, for identification, she fled.
She now says she has no way to treat her daughter's liver problems
or her son's asthma and impacted tooth.
Cristina, a single mother and part-time house cleaner, is even
reluctant to take her children to a hospital emergency room. "I
feel so alone," she said.
The new law has terrified the immigrant community here, leading to
agonized discussions at schools, churches and community meetings
about whether it is safe to get government help in Arizona. The
author of the law, state Sen. Russell Pearce, is happy about that.
"I have a hard time having compassion for criminals," Pearce said.
"It's about time people started being afraid."
Pearce contends that a large number of illegal immigrants
improperly receive public benefits, and his law makes it a
misdemeanor for a public worker to fail to report one. The law also
allows citizens to sue public agencies if they believe immigrants
are receiving improper benefits.
"I want the law enforced," he said. "Every time you pass something
it becomes a toothless tiger." He acknowledged that his bill is not
supposed to apply to people like Cristina's children, who are
legally entitled to federal benefits.
The law took effect in late November, and it is not yet clear what
government services it applies to. Some fear it could mean
libraries and fire stations are obligated to report illegal
immigrants, an interpretation Pearce said is silly.
He said the bill applies only to a range of welfare, Medicaid and
other government aid programs that are not already guaranteed to
illegal immigrants under federal law.
But many Arizonans are awaiting an opinion from the state's
attorney general on the law's scope and which government workers
are obligated to report illegal immigrants.
Critics of the law say it creates fear and uncertainty over a
problem that doesn't exist.
"It's already the law in Arizona that we cannot give benefits to
people who are in the country illegally," said Ken Strobeck,
executive director of the Arizona League of Cities and Towns, which
unsuccessfully sued to halt the law's implementation.
Experts on both sides of the immigration debate agree that illegal
immigrants rarely receive government benefits illegally. Many
economists have found that immigrants pay for benefits they receive
through taxes, though some studies show a net loss to government.
The main cost to taxpayers comes from the use of public schools or
emergency medical care -- benefits guaranteed illegal immigrants
under federal law.
Also, children of illegal immigrants who are U.S. citizens are
eligible for the same benefits as those of any other citizen, such
as food stamps.
"There's not much that Arizona can do about it," said Steven A.
Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies
in Washington, which favors restrictions on immigration. "The only
solution is for us to have fewer illegals and fewer U.S.-born
children" of illegal immigrants, he added.
Camarota estimated that families headed by illegal immigrants
receive public assistance at about the same rate as families of
native-born citizens who lack a high school education. A 2002 study
by the Urban Institute found that illegal-immigrant families used
benefits at a far lower rate than native-born ones -- for example,
11% of illegal-immigrant families in Los Angeles County used food
stamps, compared with 33% of low-income native-born ones.
Randy Capps, who worked on the Urban Institute study and is now at
the Migration Policy Institute, said illegal immigrants shy away
from government aid. "When you're in an anti-immigrant, hostile
environment, like in Arizona, the message is clear that you put
yourself at risk with any contact with the government," Capps said.
In 2004, Pearce, a Republican, helped write a ballot initiative
that required state workers to report illegal immigrants who
receive benefits. But Arizona Atty. Gen. Terry Goddard, a Democrat,
interpreted the measure narrowly so the law applied to only a
couple of obscure programs.
This year, as the state struggled to address its budget deficit,
Pearce inserted language in the budget bill reiterating those
requirements. Many immigrant advocates and local officials were
unaware of the move until the law took effect. Its impact was
swift.
Jennifer Allen, executive director of the Border Action Network
here, said the group has been swamped with calls from terrified
parents, like Cristina, fearful of seeking benefits for their U.S.
citizen children.
"It's sent a shock wave of fear through immigrant communities,"
Allen said.
The state Department of Economic Services, which administers
welfare benefits, has referred to federal authorities more than 750
people who applied for benefits without proof of legal residency.
Officials at ICE have not said whether they have taken action on
those cases, but stressed that their priorities in deportations lie
with violent criminals.
On a recent morning, a group of immigrants sat in the modest
offices of the Border Action Network, sharing stories of fearful
trips to apply for benefits. Sofia Machado, an English teacher and
volunteer at the group, said one of her neighbors had been deported
after seeking Medicaid for her U.S.-born children.
Just as Machado finished telling the story, her cellphone rang. The
caller's daughter was three months pregnant and had started
bleeding, but the caller feared taking her to the hospital. Machado
tried to reassure the caller that hospitals should not be checking
immigration status.
"There's a lack of information and a panicked ignorance," she said
afterward. "Look at the disaster these people have created."
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