Illegals released by feds committed 19 murders, 142 sex crimes

[koshergrl]

Obama's doing great on all fronts:

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The Obama administration released illegal immigrants who went on to commit more crimes, including charges of 19 murders, 3 attempted murders and 142 sex crimes, the House Judiciary Committee said in a report Tuesday.
All told, the nearly 47,000 illegal immigrants the administration was notified of but declined to deport between 2008 and 2011 under its Secure Communities program had a recidivism rate of 16 percent, the committee said.
They were just part of the nearly 160,000 immigrants — most of them here legally — who were flagged by Secure Communities during the three year period but who were either not eligible to be deported or who the administration decided to release. Those immigrants went on to be charged in nearly 60,000 more crimes, according to the committee and the Congressional Research Service, which issued a report on the matter.
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Report: Illegals released by feds committed 19 murders, 142 sex crimes - Washington Times

I love how Obama stands for the little people!

Particularly sex crime victims. He's really standing for them.

 

[beagle9]

If true, then all I can say is wow, but then again nothing surprises me anymore..

 

[daveman]

Can't be deportin' Democrat voters, can we?

 

[RoadVirus]

Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.

 

[IGetItAlready]

Hmmm
Maybe there was something to that whole, "uphold the laws of the United States" thing that Obama recently told us he was going to pass on.

 

[waltky]

Must be costin' AZ a lot of money to house and feed the illegals...

Average of 2,800 people held daily in Ariz. by ICE
Aug. 2, 2012 - Immigrations and Customs Enforcement holds a daily average of 2,824 immigration detainees at five facilities in Arizona, according to ICE spokeswoman Amber Cargile.

ICE directly runs only one of the five facilities: the Florence Detention Center, which has 717 beds for men and women. That center also houses ICE's primary intake operation, from which detainees are transferred to other facilities. Under an agreement with Pinal County, ICE houses up to 625 males at the Pinal County Jail in Florence.

ICE also uses three facilities operated by the country's largest private-prison firm, Corrections Corp. of America: the Eloy Detention Center, with 1,500 beds; the Florence Correctional Center, with 1,824 beds (but most of which house federal inmates and inmates from Vermont); and the Central Arizona Detention Center, with 2,304 beds (most of which house other federal inmates), in Florence. Up to 600 of the beds at the Florence and Central Arizona centers are used by ICE under contract for immigration detainees.

The Eloy Detention Center has come under fire over eight alleged incidents of sexual abuse of immigrant detainees between 2007 and last year. That was the most of any immigrant-detention facility in the country, according to federal documents obtained by the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act. Federal documents reported 185 incidents of sexual abuse at immigrant detention facilities during that time period. A CCA spokesman said the company has a "zero-tolerance" policy on sexual abuse.

In May, the Department of Justice announced long-delayed regulations meant to reduce sexual assaults in federal prisons; but the Department of Homeland Security was given a 12-month extension on complying with the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act, under which the regulations were issued.

Read more: Average of 2,800 people held daily in Ariz. by ICE

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Border trade strong, but delays are a challenge
Thursday, August 2, 2012 - U.S.- Mexico commerce has recovered from the Great Recession and reclaimed opportunities lost a decade ago to China, yet remains stifled by transportation bottlenecks, criminal violence, corruption and other challenges, experts at a border trade conference agreed Thursday.

"The trade relationship between the United States and Mexico is not just coming back - it's coming back strong," Anthony Wayne, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, told several hundred trade professionals gathered in Mexico City. "But the increase in bilateral trade also brings with it a new set of challenges our two countries must be prepared to address." Hosted by the San Antonio-based Border Trade Alliance and Mexico Now, a Mexican publication focused on trade and manufacturing, the meeting aimed to evaluate and perhaps influence the risks and opportunities posed by the new six-year Mexican administration that begins with Enrique Peña Nieto's inauguration on Dec. 1. Gangland violence, which has killed some 60,000 people in six years, at various times has besieged and continues threatening Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana, Monterrey, and other industrial and border ports. But many companies simply have enhanced security measures and factored the costs in to their business plans.

Five hours or more

A more pressing issue, many speakers argued, is improving border crossing times for consumers, cargo trucks and rail cars along the entire border. Depending on the hour and the location, crossing cargo from Mexico into Texas and other U.S. border states can take five hours or more. As in any business, time is money. "Logistics are many more times important than manufacturing," said Sam Vale, a McAllen businessman and the trade alliance's chairman, whose family owns one of two privately held bridges spanning the Rio Grande. "That's what this is all about."

Seen as a priority

Though recognizing those concerns, U.S. officials say that securing the border against the threat of terrorists, violent drug gangs and undocumented migrants has to be a priority. "While we all want people and goods to transit the border swiftly, we know that efficiency cannot come at the expense of security," Ambassador Wayne told the gathering. Sharing both a border and time zones with the United States, Mexico holds a distinct advantage for U.S. companies over Chinese and other Asian operations in the speed and cost of shipping as well as communications between factories and home offices.

"Being close to markets is critical for all manufacturers, in that sense Mexico has become much more competitive than it used to be," said Luis Sada, a vice president of business development for FINSA, which operates industrial parks in cities bordering South Texas. "China has become much a less competitive opportunity or option for manufacturers." But Mexico's logistics advantage can be nearly erased by Asia's cheaper labor and other costs. And the competition will stiffen as well with the pending completion of the widening of the Panama Canal's locks to serve larger container ships. That will greatly lower shipping costs from across the Pacific to the U.S. Gulf and East Coast ports, warned Jaime Roberts, president of the Mexican Association of Industrial Parks.

Pacific port's growth

 

[waltky]

132 Inmates Escape From Mexican Border Prison...

Mexico: 132 inmates escape from border prison
Monday, September 17, 2012 — More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a prison in northern Mexico on Monday, setting off a massive search by police and soldiers in an area close to the U.S. border.

Authorities in Coahuila state said the 132 inmates fled the prison in Piedras Negras, a city across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, through a tunnel that was 21 feet long and 4 feet in diameter, then cut their way through a chain link barrier and escaped onto a neighboring property. Coahuila Attorney General Homero Ramos Gloria said the director and two other employees of the state prison have been detained for an investigation into the escape and are being questioned about possible involvement by authorities at the penitentiary. The prison houses about 730 inmates and the escape represented almost a fifth of its population. The tunnel "was not made today. It had been there for months," Ramos told the Milenio TV station. "The prison was not overcrowded, none of our prisons are. We have 132 inmates escaping through a tunnel, and it doesn't make sense."

Authorities say they also found ropes and electric cables they believe were used in the break. Federal police units and Mexican troops were deployed to search for the inmates and authorities in Coahuila state offered rewards of up to $15,000 for information leading to the arrests of each prisoner. Ramos said 70 members of an elite military special forces unit had been sent to search for the prison along with federal police. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it was aware of the prison break and officials are in communication with Mexican law enforcement, according to an e-mailed statement.

Ramos said in a press conference that police are investigating a shootout 160 miles south of Piedras Negras after the prison break to determine if any of the four people killed were fugitives. He said that 86 of the escaped inmates were serving sentences or pending trials for federal crimes, such as drug trafficking, and the rest faced state charges. Other Mexican states have said in the past that they are not prepared to handle highly dangerous federal prisoners. It was one of the larger prison breaks to hit Mexico's troubled penitentiary system in recent years. In December 2010, 153 inmates escaped from a prison in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, right across Laredo, Texas. Authorities charged 41 guards with aiding the inmates in that escape. Mexico's drug gangs frequently try to break their members out of prison.

Coahuila, where Monday's prison break took place, has seen a wave of violence tied to the brutal Zetas cartel's battles with the Sinaloa cartel, allies of the now weakened Gulf Cartel. Authorities in Coahuila did not say which gang was believed to be behind the escape. Last week, Gulf cartel leader Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez was arrested, leading experts to anticipate an increase in violence in parts of northern Mexico as the Zetas Cartel attempted to take over turf. In Piedras Negras, family members had gathered outside the prison to hear word of their loved ones.

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11 killed in Nuevo Laredo drug battles
Sept. 18,`12 (UPI) -- A battle between rival organized crime groups in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has left 11 dead in the past two days, federal police said.

Seven people were killed Saturday and four more Sunday in various sections of the city across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, the Laredo Morning Times reported Tuesday.

"We have now recorded 74 deaths since Sept. 5," a federal source whose name was not reported told the newspaper.

Of those 74, 11 died in gunfights against police, three were killed by Tamaulipas state police and eight by the Mexican Army. The rest died in incidents between members of criminal organizations loyal to Miguel "Z-40" Trevino or Ivan "El Taliban" Velasquez Caballero, authorities said.

The rival groups are battling for control of drug trafficking routes through Nuevo Laredo, the Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office said.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-N...Nuevo-Laredo-drug-battles/UPI-82491347994724/

 

[waltky]

Mexico Captures Ivan Velazquez 'El Taliban' Caballero Cartel Boss...

Mexico catches Zetas drug capo 'El Taliban'
Sep 27, 2012 - Zetas arrest could end surge in massacres

Mexico appeared to strike a major blow against one faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel Wednesday night, with the navy announcing it had captured one of the country's most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as "El Taliban." Velazquez Caballero has been fighting a bloody internal battle with top Zetas' leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, and officials have said the split was behind a recent surge in massacres and shootouts, particularly in northern Mexico. "A person who is presumed to be, and acknowledges being, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, was captured in the state of San Luis Potosi" in north-central Mexico, the navy said in a statement. Also known as "Z-50," Velazquez Caballero has a 30 million peso ($2.3 million) reward on his head.

If confirmed, Velazquez Caballero's arrest could calm some of the brutal violence that has hit border cities like Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, in recent weeks. On Sept. 14, eight men were found shot to death and one hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, territory traditionally controlled by Trevino Morales, alias "Z-40." Analysts say 14 bullet-ridden bodies stuffed in a van in mid-August in San Luis Potosi were men loyal to "El Taliban," left there as a warning by Trevino Morales' underlings. Discussing recent fighting, a U.S. official in Mexico who was not authorized to be quoted by name said earlier this week that "I think right now the uptick that I'm seeing is between `40' and `50'," referring to Trevino Morales and Velazquez Caballero by their "Z" aliases.

The official said Velazquez Caballero appeared to have formed an alliance of convenience with the Knights Templar cartel based in southern Michoacan state for his fight with Trevino Morales. A number of banners signed by various elements of the Zetas and hung from overpasses in several Mexican states appeared to confirm mutual hatred between Trevino Morales and Velazquez Caballero. In the obscenity-laden banners, the two capos accused each other of betraying their fellow traffickers. If the man arrested as "El Taliban" is confirmed, the development could strengthen Trevino Morales, who shares leadership of the Zetas with Heriberto Lazcano, alias "El Lazca."

The U.S. official played down recent speculation that Trevino Morales and Lazcano had also fallen out. "I'm not familiar with a fight between him (Trevino Morales) and Lazca," the official said. "I think he and Lazca - Lazca is doing his thing and he is doing his, and they're still together from what I understand." A strengthened hand for Trevino Morales would be something few in Mexico want to see. Lawmen and even competing drug capos picture Trevino as a brutal assassin who favors getting rid of foes by stuffing them into oil drums, dousing them with gasoline and setting them on fire, a practice known as a "guiso," a Spanish word for "stew." The Zetas are already considered the hemisphere's most violent criminal organization. They have been blamed for a large share of the tens of thousands of deaths in Mexico's war on drugs, though other gangs also have repeatedly committed mass slayings.

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