Posted on 01/15/2004 4:08:50 AM PST by Robert Drobot
The following is an excerpt from the website:
On April 29, 2002, Deputy Dave March was murdered on the streets of Los Angeles County. The suspected gunman then fled the Country to Mexico.
It is believed by many that the Mexican Government has refused to extradite the suspected killer because he may be imprisoned for life or executed for the crime.
The reason for this website is to bring to light the terrible problem Law Enforcement and United States Citizens face when criminals can flee to Mexico to be considered untouchable.
Mexico's lack of cooperation has led to a suspected murderer running free, laughing at the United States, it's people, and its Law Enforcement.
Our hope is that this suspect, Armando Garcia, is brought to justice and that Mexico changes it's policies regarding harboring murderers of Americans.
April 29th, 2002, was the worst day of my life. I found out that my sole-mate, David March, was shot and killed on duty while doing a routine traffic stop at 10:30 in the morning. He was shot in the side of his chest, where the vest did not cover, then executed in the head. I also learned that his killer fled the scene.
Instantly the news media was at the hospital, and at my home to catch the drama as it unfolded. I didn’t want to be on camera, but needed the worlds help finding the person(s), that fled from the scene in a black Maxima. Within two days, the face of the expected killer was all over the news. I wanted to see the eyes of a killer who took my dreams away.
As I sat there, ill in despair, two Hispanic men told the media, they had told Armando Garcia, “Chato” to flee to the border (Mexico). I thought this was a place to run and hide. Not a place to seek a safe haven. I was soon to find out how broken our justice system really was.
I began to learn new terminology such as; extradition, deportation, bounty hunters, treaty, corruption within Mexico, and worst of all our own governments lack of involvement. This was very overwhelming considering my future, as I saw it, was never going to be the same.
As I approach the one year mark, I cannot believe that this is a battle I need to fight. My husband protected the citizens and loved this career. This was his lifelong dream to make this world a better place. I want to believe that his death brings attention to the very real problem that if people kill and flee to the border, they are getting away with murder.
This isn’t a new problem. How could this not be a huge concern? After September 11th, this nation was attacked by terrorists. We learned that we are not safe, and our homeland needs a better protection system.
Mexico is harboring Mr. Garcia.
A cop killer is still living a free life in Mexico.
This is a continuous nightmare. Mexico will not extradite a violent criminal wanted for murder, because they don’t agree with the death penalty, or life in prison. This monster moved from Mexico and illegally came to the United States, and resided here in California. He plagued our streets with drugs, and criminal activities. Why isn’t he accountable to our laws, if he lived here and committed murder here? Why is Mexico forcing their laws on our country? Where is the mutual respect? Why would Mexico protect a criminal, who had been deported three times, and had two previous attempted murders, prior to Dave’s death? I want the assurances he is paying for the crime here in the United States. Our family will not settle for a lesser crime such as manslaughter. He took a life, and should be willing to give up his own. That is why the law is in place.
I’m so grateful to our law enforcement, our Sheriff, Lee Baca, and our District Attorney, Steve Cooley, for being a voice, and supporting our family during this most difficult time. This is in the hands of our federal Government, and our President. We appreciate the prayers and want this tragedy to shed light on our broken system. We cannot let the bad guys win. Our citizens and our police officers are not safe. Please write to your local Congressman and our leaders in Washington D.C. More voices and letters will increase our chances in making our government accountable.
I know I'm going to get pounded for this, but is it possible Vincente Fox has some pics of GWB, from his Tijuana carousing days? The way the President panders to the Mexicans on every single issue has got me thinking laterally.
This is more a diplomatic snafu. Very frustrating I will admit. It parallels a case in Philadelphia, where some rich leftist, I beleive his name is Einhorn, skipped off to France, when they found a body of a dead woman in his closet. The frenchies wouldn't give him up either.
Would mass deportation solve it? The only thing that will solve it is a better extradition treaty.
I urge you to copy this thread and pass it on to anyone and everyone concerned for the future of our country.
High time to annex Mexico
"Government mandates on hospitals have them absorbing costs of "emergency" care for illegals who use ER rooms as their primary care physicians. LA County spent $350 million for illegals' care at hospitals and free clinics last year. I have entertained myself on many a graveyard stint in the ER by telling my compadres that my employer is INS. I can clear the room in 35 seconds. "
MEXICAN NEWSPAPER (El Sol de Mexico) Front Page: "USA To Offer Visas to 8 Million Illegals"
The path of Bush Amnesty isn't the path to Amigos with Mexico, it's the path to War with Mexico
"Bush thinks we are going to be brothers with the dirt of Mexico by taking this course of flattening our borders and “welcoming” more, ever more, illegals. And yet, exactly the opposite will be the result...."
Smuggling alien interests? (Arabs through Mexico)
Factory Work Shifts to Mexico After NAFTA Goes to Asia
"For nearly two decades, Nancy DeWendt hunched over the clackety machinery of the Swingline stapler plant in Long Island City, dreaming that the tedious but steady work would put her younger son through college.
"Then they pulled the rug out from under me," said DeWendt, a widow who has been jobless since Swingline laid off its 450 assemblyline workers almost five years ago and moved its Queens operation to Mexico.
At Swingline's new plant in Nogales, a gritty industrial city on Mexico's northern border, Alma Arenas worries she's about to lose the stapler-assembling job she inherited from DeWendt, which earns her $1.27 an hour, compared to DeWendt's final hourly wage of $18.
Mexico Prods State on Driver's Licenses
"President Vicente Fox called Thursday for the restoration of a California law that would allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, saying it would benefit more than 1 million Mexicans who are "working people … decent people." (........and criminal trespassers who do not respect American law!!!!)
Canadian convicted in Mexico of child prostitution, then freed
"A Canadian man has been convicted of prostituting children in this Pacific coast resort, but he avoided imprisonment by paying a fine of about $1,000.
Judge Jose de Jesus Pineda said he imposed a three-year, six-month sentence on 65-year-old Donald McVeigh (a name sometimes spelled as McBeight by officials here) earlier this month.
Under Mexican law, first-time offenders sentenced to terms of that length are eligible to post a bond and avoid imprisonment.
McVeigh's bond was set at 10,000 pesos (about $1,000).
Mexico Seeks Retrial for [Mexican] Citizens on U.S. Death Row
Mexico challenges American death sentences in World Court
Kidnapping in Candelaria: Jon Dougherty on recent battle in escalating border war with Mexico
"According to law-enforcement sources I spoke with, a squad of armed Mexican paramilitary police or soldiers crossed into the U.S. near Candelaria Nov. 24 around 5 p.m. and took a five-member family – a husband, a wife and three minor children – captive at gunpoint. The Mexicans then brought the American family back across the border into Mexico, where they held them for several hours.
Eventually the wife and children were released and the following day they reported the incident to local authorities, who then passed the buck to Washington, via the FBI. As of Dec. 3, sources say, the husband was still being held in Mexico.
Bear in mind this family was on their own property and were well inside the boundaries of the United States. They were shooting rabbits on their own land and, according to those in the know, were not threatening any Mexican military or police units and did not fire their weapons across the border.
Getting local authorities or the FBI to talk about this incident was virtually impossible....."
Sales of Mexican Green Onions Plummet After U.S. Hepatitis Outbreak Traced to Northwestern Mexico
Navarrette: Mexico has no interest in stemming illegal immigration
"Americans should do the same and pursue immigration policies that are in their country's best interest. But first, they have to decide what that is. And this requires squaring law and order with dollars and cents."
Greenville vs. Mexico
"2,700 Electrolux employees arrived at work to hear the company's stunning announcement it may shut the 100-year-old Greenville factory in 2005 and move production to Mexico.
Shades of Elian? Leving Seeks to Return a Child Taken to the USA, Back to His Father in Mexico
" Jeffery M. Leving is involved in another Elian Gonzalez kind of case. Leving is representing Angel Villegas, a Mexican national who resides in Mexico City, in a complex international case where Mr. Villegas, the father, asserts his son was abducted by the mother and taken from Mexico to the United States. "
Annan backs global approach to immigration woes(harmonize Laws The commission is co-chaired Mexico)
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Lamenting that "stronger borders are not necessarily smarter ones," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged governments on Friday to work together to harmonize their immigration policies.
Smugglers' tunnel linking California, Mexico discovered
"Agents from the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, for the second time in two months, have discovered a tunnel connecting Mexicali, Mexico, to Calexico, Calif. — just 200 yards east of another tunnel unearthed in mid-September.
"The methods that smugglers use are becoming more and more sophisticated and dangerous as our enforcement efforts are enhanced," said Chief Ken Stitt, who heads the Border Patrol sector in El Centro, Calif. "This is yet another reminder of why the Border Patrol must be ever vigilant in its mission to secure our nation's borders."
Mexico-U.S. meeting on education
" The United States and Mexico face an array of common educational challenges." (??????)
Raytheon wire harness work going to Mexico (350 Jobs Lost)
"Raytheon Aircraft Co. will outsource its wire harness work currently done at its plant in Wichita to a multinational company with a plant in Mexico, the Machinists union said today."
AP: U.S.-Mexico Border Patrol Failing
"A crackdown along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to prevent terrorists from entering the United States hasn't stopped even one known militant from slipping into America since Sept. 11, an Associated Press investigation has found. "
350 Trane workers to lose their jobs; Firm moving some La Crosse operations to Mexico and China
"About 350 La Crosse workers will lose their jobs as Trane moves two of its production operations to Mexico and China. "
Arizona Border Fence Halted(concrete achievments of collaboration between Az & Mexico)
The article for this thread is a total crock of crap.
Social Security proposal with Mexico stirs angry debate
"Hundreds of millions of dollars in Social Security payments may someday be headed south of the border.
A Social Security Administration spokesman said U.S. and Mexican officials are continuing "informal discussions" about a potential agreement that would allow millions of Mexicans working here to collect U.S. Social Security benefits in Mexico.
The controversial proposal has riled Republican lawmakers. They worry that it could reward scores of undocumented Mexican immigrants with a U.S. pension, draining the country's Social Security trust fund at a time when its future solvency is in doubt."
Mexico reform plan eyes voters, campaigns in U.S.
"President Vicente Fox is crafting a bill that would allow absentee voting by Mexico's 10 million citizens living abroad, a move that could push Mexican election campaigns across the border into the United States.
Under current rules, Mexicans can only vote inside the country, a requirement that effectively disenfranchises hundreds of thousands of expatriates, many of them undocumented workers in the United States. It forces those who want to vote to pay for trips home and, for illegals, to undertake potentially dangerous efforts to sneak across the border."
Part of factory operation off to Mexico
"Westling Mfg., which remanufactures auto parts, has been in business since 1933. John Westling´s father, the late Don Westling, started the company on the family farm in Princeton by remanufacturing shock absorbers for Ford Model A cars."
Drones Tested to Patrol US-Mexico Border
The United States is testing pilotless drone aircraft, used in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the U.S.-Mexico border where they might be deployed to detect drug traffickers and illegal immigrants, a government spokesman said on Friday. The Department of Homeland Security is conducting tests of the unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, in remote areas of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Mario Villarreal, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, told Reuters.
Mexico fears Schwarzenegger is bad news for migrants
Mexico wins production of Ford Futura
"Ford Motor Co. plans to invest $1 billion to develop its next generation of midsize vehicles and to start building them at its Hermosillo, Mexico, complex, the company announced Monday."
Texans Assail Repatriation Flights: Illegal Immigrants Being Returned From Arizona to Mexico
"Texas officials have joined the Mexican government in protesting a new U.S. program that each week packs thousands of illegal Mexican immigrants onto chartered planes in Arizona, flies them up to 850 miles to Texas and shuffles them across the border there. "
Sigma Chi party outrages Latinos (Duke University Frat Hosts "Viva Mexico" Party)
"Members of the University's Latino community are furious over Sigma Chi fraternity's "Viva Mexico" party, held last Saturday night.
The concerned students and faculty said they see the party--which included invitations in the form of expired green cards and a "border control" at the door--as derogatory towards Mexicans and Latinos, and as a continuing example of how Latinos are marginalized on campus and beyond. "
The Road to Aztlan--MEChA marches to "reclaim" the American Southwest for Mexico.
U.S.: Mexico won't allow return of immigrants to interior
Mayor: Source Says Whirlpool Might Move; Rumors Circulate About Relocation To Mexico
Whirlpool Corp. is examining moving some of its facilities to Mexico and could make an announcement as early as October, Fort Smith Mayor Ray Baker said Tuesday, citing a "reliable source" who told him of the plans.
Mexico blasts new U.S. repatriation strategy
"Mexican government officials in Washington announced opposition to the U.S. lateral repatriation program that has flooded Matamoros with almost 200 undocumented immigrants who were detained in Arizona. The Mexican officials said the measure won’t resolve the immigration flow in the area.
Under the program, the United States reintroduces immigrants from northwestern Mexico to points along the Texas-Mexico border. Officials say the strategy should prevent further deaths in Arizona’s Sonora Desert and give the immigrants incentive to return home, rather than try to re-enter the U.S. illegally.
“Our government is strongly opposed to the program because the operation doesn’t provide any comprehensive solution to Arizona’s border migration problem,” said Miguel Monterubio, Mexican Embassy spokesman in Washington.
“All our Mexican Consulate officials are working to watch very closely every repatriation to be sure that their human rights have been respected.”
Bill gives 1930s deportees until 2007 to seek damages; Californians were forcibly deported to Mexico
"U.S. citizens and residents of Mexican descent were forcibly moved in vans and trains to Mexico during the 1930s and 1940s...."
Mexico benefits accord rapped
The General Accounting Office said yesterday the administration has not done the research to justify signing a "totalization agreement" with Mexico, which would allow Mexican nationals including some one-time illegal immigrants to collect Social Security benefits earned during their time in the United States.
Totalization allows citizens of one country to earn credit for Social Security benefits for time they worked in another country. At retirement, the credits from both countries would be "totaled" to calculate eligibility for benefits, and each nation would be responsible for paying a part of the benefits.
The Bush administration last year stepped up negotiations with the Mexican government to try to secure an agreement.
But Barbara D. Bovbjerg, director of education, workforce and income-security issues for the GAO, told the House Judiciary immigration subcommittee that the Social Security Administration has failed to do basic research on Mexico's ability to cooperate in a totalization program.
"SSA provided no information showing that it assessed the reliability of Mexican earnings data and the internal controls in place to ensure the integrity of information that SSA will rely on to pay Social Security benefits," she said.
She also disputed the administration's estimate of totalization's cost, calling the actual cost "highly uncertain."
The SSA predicted a first-year cost of $78 million based on an estimate of 50,000 beneficiaries currently living in Mexico and predicted the number of beneficiaries would grow sixfold over time.
FBI Director Stresses Need For Secure Mexico Border
"An estimated 8 to 10 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States, with more than 500,000 of them in Texas."
Mexico Loses Jobs to China
Mexicans who took factory work from Americans are now losing their jobs to the Chinese.
South Gate: Mexico Comes to California
"While we are engaged overseas in a mission to recreate countries in our own image and likeness, many of our own cities are being transformed into the image and likeness of Mexican villages."
Where Immigrants Live -Mexico top sending country
According to the 2000 Census, one in seven residents in California are not American Citizens. The norm is one in fifty for the rest of the states.
Policy Discussion: The political costs to American citizens is clearly something to consider when debating immigration policy. While some may be tempted to exclude illegals or even other non-citizens from apportionment, doing so is both administratively impractical and would encounter fierce opposition from high immigration states. It would also require years of litigation to determine its constitutionality. Alternatively, enforcing immigration law and reducing legal immigration would significantly lessen the problem of U.S. citizens losing political representations. Encourage legal immigrants to naturalize would help alleviate the problem. This, of course would not address the problem of illegal aliens nor would it change the basic fact that low-immigration states are losing political power.
Mexico Frees Suspect in Deputy's Death
A man arrested in Mexico last week in the 1979 killing of a Texas sheriff's deputy has been released after a Mexican judge ruled the statute of limitations in the case had expired.
A foreign-exchange program for illegals in Mexico?
"Do you think the citizens of Mexico will feel inclined to rally in support of a dumb gringo?"
Immigrant Diversity Declining; Mexico, Latin America Growing Share of Foreign-Born
"During the 1990s, America's immigrant population grew by 11.3 million, faster than at any time in our history, and at the same became significantly less diverse. One country -- Mexico -- and one region -- Spanish-speaking Latin America -- have come to dominate U.S. immigration. This is true not only nationally but also in most of the states.
DA decries murderers in Mexico, fraud
"....the U.S. State Department should set higher priority on pressuring Mexico to extradite the fugitives who gain refuge south of the border because of disparities between United States and Mexican law."
Powell: U.S. Still Working on Mexico Migration Deal
Mexico calls for review of patrol action
Mexican officials are demanding an investigation into an Aug. 1 incident in which a group of 29 illegal border crossers - including children - were intercepted and detained by armed members of Tombstone-based Civil Homeland Defense.
Gunbattle near Mexico border kills at least three [195 COPS SUSPENDED AFTER WILD MEXICAN SHOOTOUT]
How Mexico undermines U.S. law
Mexico won't halt unlawful U.S. entry
"We are not going to do that," said Secretary of Governance Santiago Creel. The Mexican Constitution guarantees "complete freedom of movement" within Mexico, said Creel. "We can't put up a checkpoint or a customs station inside our territory." (?????)
Why Is Mexico’s Voter Registration System Better Than ours?
".....the U.S. has a long way to go to get up to Mexico’s standards......[voter] Photo ID....works here in Mexico, where almost everybody is Hispanic!"
"....Hispanic pressure groups like MALDEF and National Council of La Raza wouldn’t like it. Every time the suggestion of a photo ID comes up, some so-called Hispanic activist or defender attacks it as discriminatory. In Massachusetts, a federal judge struck down a municipal regulation requiring voters to show an ID before voting on the grounds that it “unfairly burdened Latino voters.”
Politicos from Mexico stump in California
As I recall, you are required to relinquish a former citizenship, when you are naturalized. This thread suggests a significant number of Mexicans have chosen not to be American Citizens and or have broken their naturalization oath which declares they will relinquished their Mexican citizenship.
Illegal Border Crossings Increase In N.M. - Tighter Security On Arizona-Mexico Border Blamed
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