Most deported illegal immigrants from 4 Latin American countries

[Angelhair]

Four Latin American countries accounted for 91 percent of the record number of people deported in the recently-completed fiscal year.

Nearly 363,000 of the 396,900 people deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in fiscal year 2011 were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, government figures show. Here’s the breakdown:

• Mexico - 286,893 (72 percent)

• Guatemala - 33,324 (8 percent)

• Honduras - 23,822 (6 percent)

• El Salvador - 18,870 (5 percent)

There was a big dropoff to the next country, Brazil, which accounted for 3,364 deportations. Only seven other countries accounted for more than 1,000 deportations: Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Jamaica, China and Peru.

The combined deportations of citizens from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have accounted for 87-91 percent of the yearly deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement every year since 2001, government figures show.

Mexico has been the leading country of origin for deportees every year in this span, accounting for 57-73 percent of the yearly deportations.

Criminal illegal immigrants

The breakdown of the felony and misdemeanor crimes committed by the nearly 217,000 deportees defined as "criminal" illegal immigrants is not yet available for the completed fiscal year 2011.

But, the figures through the first 10 1/2 months of fiscal 2011 show that five crimes account for 62 percent of the people in this category:

• Dangerous drugs - 37,083 (22 percent)

• Driving under the influence, liquor - 28,214 (17 percent)

• Immigration offenses - 28,110 (17 percent)

• Miscellaneous traffic offense - 14,331 (8 percent)

• Assault - 11,386 (7 percent).

Four of these crimes — drugs, DUI, immigration and assault — have been among the top five every year since 2001.

But the miscellaneous traffic offenses category has not always been among the leaders. The percentage of criminal illegal immigrants who have committed some kind of traffic offense has been on the rise each of the past five years.

This category includes hit and run; transporting dangerous material; driving under the influence of drugs; driving under the influence of liquor; and other traffic offenses. Here is a look at how this category has increased as a percentage of the total deportations of “criminal” illegal immigrants:

Fiscal 2011* — 44,136 (26 percent)

Fiscal 2010 — 42,339 (22 percent)

Fiscal 2009 — 27,354 (20 percent)

Fiscal 2008 — 16,249 (14 percent)

Fiscal 2007 — 10,787 (10 percent)

Fiscal 2006 — 6,154 (7 percent)

The Obama administration has taken criticism from both sides of the immigration debate for rising deportation levels.

Republican border hawks and critics of the administration's immigration enforcement strategy call the deportation numbers inflated because they include people who voluntarily leave with no penalties and may be able to cross back into the country illegally.

Immigrant rights groups contend the government is unfairly targeting illegal immigrants who are not a menace to society, separating families and creating fear in immigrant communities.

Most deported illegal immigrants from 4 Latin American countries

 

[waltky]

Violence explodes in Honduras as drug mafias expand their networks...

Grim toll as cocaine trade expands in Honduras
December 26,`11 — In the most murderous part of the most murderous country in the world, the families of murdered sons and husbands and sisters meet each month in a concrete building next to the Nuestra Senora de Guada*lupe church.

They sit in plastic chairs, leaning forward to speak, and the anguish pours out. There is the dread of birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas. Or knowing who the killer is, and that he will not be arrested, and the perversity of that. The group had 10 families when it started three years ago. Today it has 60, and all but one of their cases remain unsolved. “We are living in constant fear,” said Blanca Alvarez, wearing a pin bearing a portrait of her dead son, Jason, shot in a carjacking in 2006. “We have had marches for peace, wearing white, releasing white balloons into the air. Nothing is going to change here. Nothing.”

Honduras had 82.1 homicides per 100,000 residents last year, the highest per-capita rate in the world, according to a global homicide report published by the United Nations in October that included estimates for Iraq and Afghanistan. Security concerns prompted the U.S. Peace Corps to announce last week that it would pull all 158 volunteers out of Honduras. As in Guatemala and El Salvador, Honduras’s neighbors in the Northern Triangle region of Central America, the homicide problem goes back decades. But as Mexico’s billionaire drug mafias expand their smuggling networks deeper into Central America to evade stiffer enforcement in Mexico and the Caribbean, violence has exploded, as if the cocaine were gasoline tossed on a fire.

Honduras’s grim tally reached 6,239 killings in 2010, compared with 2,417 in 2005, and researchers say the count will be even higher this year. The largest number of homicides occurred here around San Pedro Sula, a once-booming manufacturing center that is fast becoming the Ciudad Juarez of Central America. That troubled city on the U.S.-Mexico border and San Pedro Sula share more than a reputation for low-wage assembly plants and fratricidal violence. They are at opposite ends of the billion-dollar smuggling chain that extends from the north coast of Honduras to the United States.

It starts on the isolated beaches and jungle airstrips of Honduras’s Mosquitia region, where 95 percent of the suspected drug flights from South America to Central America land, according to U.S. narcotics agents. U.S. radar detected 90 such flights into Honduras last year, compared with 24 in 2008, marking a major shift in trafficking patterns that indicates a strong preference for the country’s rugged geography and feeble institutions. In March, authorities raided a cocaine processing lab in the mountains near San Pedro Sula. The facility was the first of its kind in Central America, capable of churning out a ton of powder each month by combining imported coca paste with hydrochloric acid and other chemicals.

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[waltky]

Honduras is the murder capital of the world...

Graft, greed, mayhem turn Honduras into murder capital of world
Sunday, 01.22.12 - An unholy alliance of cops, crooks, prisoners and politicians has turned the nation into a shooting gallery.

Sitting in the plant-filled patio of his home outside the capital, anti-corruption crusader Gustavo Alfredo Landaverde uttered what few people have the courage to say out loud in this poor Central American nation: “We are rotten to the core,” he said of the drug-related graft infecting virtually every layer of law enforcement in Honduras. “We are at the border of an abyss. These are criminal organizations inside and out.” The soft-spoken, bespectacled former deputy drug czar had been fired, sued for libel and saw his last boss murdered. “I have asked myself: ‘Why am I still alive?’ ”

Two weeks later, the 71-year-old security expert was dead. Hit men on motorbikes approached him at a traffic light Dec. 7 and peppered the driver’s side window of his Kia sedan with bullets. Landaverde has become another tragic figure in the country’s ongoing struggle with corruption that threatens nearly every major government institution in Honduras. It’s a country where the son of a university president was gunned down by cops, where prisoners are forced to leave the jail to run drugs and are then shot down, and where the Peace Corps has pulled out, saying conditions are too dangerous to carry out its mission.

Honduras, a nation of 7.6 million, now has the highest homicide rate in the world — 82.1 murders per 100,000 residents, compared to 5.5 per 100,000 in Florida. Landaverde was one of few who dared to say that elements of the Honduran National Police are closely tied to drug cartels which, in turn, are protected by politicians, judges and prosecutors. According to Honduran law enforcement, military and human rights sources, crimes committed by authorities here range from murder to extortion to car theft. Even drug operations are often run by police, with complicity of their bosses who drive luxury cars and live outside their means.

When one congressman was carjacked last year, he found the culprits — when he went to file a report at the police station, a leading human rights investigator said. The last Minister of Security publicly accused police of being “air traffic controllers” for drug planes. Landaverde was one of only a handful of people willing to be quoted by name in this story. Other high-ranking police officials, a military intelligence officer, top law enforcement investigator and human rights activists insisted that they not be identified, lest they be killed. “It never occurred to me when I took over this ministry that inside police stations there were people committing crimes and acting against human life,” said Security Minister Pompeyo Bonilla, named recently to lead a sweep of law enforcement. “We have a serious problem.”

A murder, arrests and then the suspects go free

 

[waltky]

El Salvador gettin' tough on crime...

El Salvador gets 'tough' amid worsening crime
February 6, 2012 - President Mauricio Funes has appointed career military personnel to head the police and national security. Many fear a return to failed policies of the past, writes guest blogger Hanna Stone.

El Salvador’s government says it is taking a radical stance on crime, using the military to police the country's most violent areas and now appointing military men to top security posts. But the changes sound more like a return to the failed “iron fist” policies of the past. In November, Mauricio Funes -- the first president elected under the banner of guerrilla group-turned-political party FMLN since the civil war ended in 1992 -- named David Munguia Payes, a retired general and former defense minister, as security minister. On January 23, Funes selected Francisco Ramon Salinas Rivers as head of the police (PNC) (in Spanish), a former army general who had handed in his resignation just days before.

Since he took power two and a half years ago, Funes has also expanded the army by some 57 percent to more than 17,000 people, and has periodically deployed the military onto El Salvador’s streets to share policing duties. The trend began prior to Funes' term. As El Faro reports (in Spanish), the defense budget has risen 32 percent in the last 10 years. And Funes is also following a region-wide pattern. Former General Otto Perez was elected Guatemala's president last year, while Honduras’ President Porfirio Lobo has given policing powers to the armed forces in Honduras.

But putting ex-military men at the head of both the police and the security cabinet struck opponents as a dangerous move to militarize the country’s security. And in a stinging rebuke over the Munguia appointment, members of Funes' own FMLN party said it appeared to be “a decision that was made somewhere in the U.S. capital.” Funes’ justification for the move is simple: The country’s deteriorating security situation requires a "more forceful" approach (in Spanish). His work to strengthen the armed forces seems to be inspired by the desire to take, and to be seen taking, decisive action.

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[waltky]

Deadly prison fire in Honduras...

Hundreds Dead in Honduras Prison Fire
February 15, 2012 - A massive fire at a Honduran prison has killed hundreds of inmates, in what is believed to be one of the worst such disasters in Latin America.

Officials say more than 350 prisoners are missing and presumed dead, although some of those who are unaccounted for may have escaped. The head of Honduras' prison system, Danilo Orellana, says the fire broke out late Tuesday in the town of Comayagua, north of the capital, Tegucigalpa. He said authorities are looking into whether it was caused by a prisoner or an electrical short circuit. Authorities say many of the inmates burned to death or suffocated in their cells.

Distraught relatives surrounded the prison Wednesday morning, desperate to learn the fate of their loved ones. Some threw rocks at police and tried to force their way into the facility. Police fired tear gas in an effort to hold back the crowd. The Organization of American States is sending a delegation to investigate. OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza expressed "deep consternation regarding the tragic events" and expressed solidarity with the government.

The Comayagua prison housed about 850 prisoners. Honduran prisons are notoriously overcrowded and are often the scene of riots and clashes between rival gang members. The U.S. State Department has criticized Honduras for "harsh prison conditions." The Central American nation's last major prison fire struck the town of San Pedro Sula in 2004, killing more than 100 prisoners.

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[ivanchase]

these numbers are big numbers and the good thing is all these numbers cross the border legally, but you do not know how many of them cross the border illegally.

 

[Douger]

OK.
U.S. Interventions in Latin America

 

[Needyou527]

Milburn Drysdale for President!

 

[Douger]

OK.
U.S. Interventions in Latin America

No comments. Not surprising.
Fucking Nazi worshipers.

 

[Flopper]

Four Latin American countries accounted for 91 percent of the record number of people deported in the recently-completed fiscal year.

Nearly 363,000 of the 396,900 people deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in fiscal year 2011 were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, government figures show. Here’s the breakdown:

• Mexico - 286,893 (72 percent)

• Guatemala - 33,324 (8 percent)

• Honduras - 23,822 (6 percent)

• El Salvador - 18,870 (5 percent)

There was a big dropoff to the next country, Brazil, which accounted for 3,364 deportations. Only seven other countries accounted for more than 1,000 deportations: Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Jamaica, China and Peru.

The combined deportations of citizens from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have accounted for 87-91 percent of the yearly deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement every year since 2001, government figures show.

Mexico has been the leading country of origin for deportees every year in this span, accounting for 57-73 percent of the yearly deportations.

Criminal illegal immigrants

The breakdown of the felony and misdemeanor crimes committed by the nearly 217,000 deportees defined as "criminal" illegal immigrants is not yet available for the completed fiscal year 2011.

But, the figures through the first 10 1/2 months of fiscal 2011 show that five crimes account for 62 percent of the people in this category:

• Dangerous drugs - 37,083 (22 percent)

• Driving under the influence, liquor - 28,214 (17 percent)

• Immigration offenses - 28,110 (17 percent)

• Miscellaneous traffic offense - 14,331 (8 percent)

• Assault - 11,386 (7 percent).

Four of these crimes — drugs, DUI, immigration and assault — have been among the top five every year since 2001.

But the miscellaneous traffic offenses category has not always been among the leaders. The percentage of criminal illegal immigrants who have committed some kind of traffic offense has been on the rise each of the past five years.

This category includes hit and run; transporting dangerous material; driving under the influence of drugs; driving under the influence of liquor; and other traffic offenses. Here is a look at how this category has increased as a percentage of the total deportations of “criminal” illegal immigrants:

Fiscal 2011* — 44,136 (26 percent)

Fiscal 2010 — 42,339 (22 percent)

Fiscal 2009 — 27,354 (20 percent)

Fiscal 2008 — 16,249 (14 percent)

Fiscal 2007 — 10,787 (10 percent)

Fiscal 2006 — 6,154 (7 percent)

The Obama administration has taken criticism from both sides of the immigration debate for rising deportation levels.

Republican border hawks and critics of the administration's immigration enforcement strategy call the deportation numbers inflated because they include people who voluntarily leave with no penalties and may be able to cross back into the country illegally.

Immigrant rights groups contend the government is unfairly targeting illegal immigrants who are not a menace to society, separating families and creating fear in immigrant communities.

Most deported illegal immigrants from 4 Latin American countries

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Of course there are more deportation to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. We get more people from those countries because they are the closest Latin American countries to our boarder. The 4,000 mile distance to Brazil might have something to do with the much smaller number.

The types of crimes are interesting. None of the top 4 crimes listed are property crimes, yet the 4 most common crimes in the US are property crimes.

What are the most common crimes committed in the U.S.?