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D.A.'s office let illegal immigrants go Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, June 23, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' office on Monday defended allowing about a half dozen first-time drug offenders to clear their records by going through a job-training program, even after prosecutors learned they were deportable as undocumented immigrants. But Harris' aides said they have since made changes in the program that would prevent a recurrence of instances in which illegal immigrants got their criminal records cleared by going through the Back on Track jobs program, which trains offenders for jobs that...

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' office on Monday defended allowing about a half dozen first-time drug offenders to clear their records by going through a job-training program, even after prosecutors learned they were deportable as undocumented immigrants. The L.A. Times first reported Monday that illegal immigrants had been enrolled in the program and that Harris' office had let several graduate and go free even after learning of their status. Harris was quoted in the Times as saying that enforcing federal immigration law was not the job of local authorities. The district attorney was explaining how her office handled the...

With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state's prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation. The idea faces certain hurdles — for one thing, commuting some sentences will require court approval — and immigration authorities warn that a mass release of inmates from California and other states could swamp the federal system, which is already at capacity. But Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Lisa Page said: "Every dollar not spent to house an undocumented immigrant inmate is a...

Reporting from San Francisco -- The assault on Amanda Kiefer at dusk in San Francisco's posh Pacific Heights was extraordinary enough for its cruelty. A stranger, later identified as Alexander Izaguirre, snatched her purse and hopped into an SUV, police say. The driver sped forward to run Kiefer down. Terrified, she leaped onto the hood and saw Izaguirre and the driver laughing. The driver slammed on the brakes, propelling Kiefer to the pavement. Her skull fractured. Blood oozed from her ear. Only after the July 2008 attack did Kiefer learn of the crime's political ramifications. Izaguirre, police told her, was...

SNIPPET: "Police were nearby and took one suspect into custody while another was arrested after a getaway car was followed to a nearby trailer park."

Editor’s note: This is the next in a continuing series about the forgotten victims of illegal alien crime – weekly stories you do not see in the mainstream media. Mississippi – Frankie “Blue Eyes” Brooks Five-year-old Frankie died after being hit by a speeding SUV allegedly driven by an intoxicated illegal alien who fled the scene of the crime in rural Mississippi. On the morning of May 24, 2008, five-year-old Frank Brooks, “Frankie Blue Eyes,” died in his mother’s arms just steps away from their home in rural Tate County, Mississippi. Frankie and his brother Drew and his sister Penelope...

Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon used the occasion of a fatal shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC – allegedly by a white supremacist – to accuse Sheriff Joe Arpaio of being sympathetic to Nazis and neo-Nazis. At a news conference called to discuss Phoenix's light rail system, Gordon led off expressing his sympathies to the family of the victim in the DC shooting. He then called white supremacists "despicable" and wondered aloud why community and law enforcement leaders across the Valley have repeatedly denounced white Supremacists, except for Arpaio. According to Gordon, the sheriff has had numerous occasions to...

Editor’s note: This is the next in a continuing series about the forgotten victims of illegal alien crime – a weekly series you will not see in the mainstream media. America’s Most Forgotten is dedicated to the Americans who have died at the hands of illegal aliens because of the refusal of our elected officials to enforce United States immigration law and to secure our borders from this unwanted invasion of unidentified people from across the world. No region of the country has been spared and the citizens presented come from all walks of life. Crisscrossing the nation, we have...

El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 6/3/09 The rain of white powder that falls from above is not snow or heavenly manna, it’s part of the cocaine that the drug cartels pass through Honduras without major problem. The passage of narcotics across the country – be it by air, land or sea – is producing terrifying sequels of violence. According to an annual report of the “Ministerio Público”, 55 kilos were seized in 2005, 2,714 in 2006, 1,704 in 2007, 6,764 in 2008 and in 2009 the tally is already at 6,655 kilos. The increase in seizures is not a result of...

FamilySecurityMatters.org introduces a weekly series to remember those United States citizens killed by illegal aliens. Are American lives worth nothing to the President and the Congress of the United States? And now, the first in this groundbreaking series: California – Jamiel Shaw An illegal alien gang member has been charged in the shooting death of high school football star. "Illegal aliens are not the responsibility of the American people. The lives of fellow citizens are."

As we saw this morning, American citizens are not faring too well in the era of the Eric Holder Justice Department. But aliens — especially those who are illegally in our country, or who commit crimes in our country — continue to thrive. The Legal Times is reporting that Attorney General Holder has reversed the ruling by Attorney General Mukasey that aliens in immigration removal proceedings have no right to effective assistance of counsel. As Mukasey explained back in January, in a well-reasoned 34-page opinion which carefully analyzed the pertinent law, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel applies only to...

Human Events; 10/17/97, Vol. 53 Issue 39, p11, 2/3p, 1 bw On July 1, 1992, Nelson Castellanos was arrested in New York City outside his apartment in Harlem and charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He was holding the keys to his apartment and a white shopping bag containing about $10,000, mostly in $1 and $20 bills. That evening, pursuant to a warrant, federal Drag Enforcement Agency (DEA) personnel searched his apartment and found over 1,200 grams of cocaine, six live rounds of ammunition, a .44 caliber revolver and incriminating notebooks. All this evidence was thrown out by District Court...

A federal immigration judge denied bail Friday to a 23-year-old engineering student from Tampa who has been charged by the U.S. government for engaging in terrorism. The defendant, Youssef Megahed, has already been acquitted by a federal jury of related charges. But now, he faces essentially the same charges again in an immigration court, where if he is found guilty he faces deportation back to his native Egypt. The case has inflamed Muslim immigrant groups, and has become a cause célèbre in Egypt, where President Barack Obama makes a much anticipated trip next week. The issue: Whether an immigrant defendant...

Note: The following text is a quote: Eight Uzbekistan Nationals Among 12 Charged with Racketeering, Human Trafficking & Immigration Violations in Scheme to Employ Illegal Aliens in 14 States Twelve defendants, including eight Uzbekistan nationals, have been charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on May 6, 2009, on RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges related to labor racketeering, forced labor trafficking and immigration and other violations in 14 states. Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan residing in Mission, Kan.; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek...

For five months in 2007 and 2008, a masked man with a gun and blue surgical gloves terrorized residents and travelers of the Columbia River Gorge. Robber has record in California He robbed a pair of college students as they gazed up at the stars at Crown Point. After taking their cell phones, cash and car keys, they ran two miles to the nearest home to call police. He ordered a pregnant woman and her two children to the floor of a restaurant -- the stress causing her to go into contractions. Her children, ages 9 and 11, were so...

Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies arrested six Mexican gang members in April 2008 in connection with the murder of one of their criminal associates. The case was notable not only for the sheer number of suspects involved but also because all had entered the country illegally shortly before the slaying. At the time, Sheriff Lupe Treviño seized on the arrests as an example of the rising number of undocumented migrants who enter the country for primarily criminal motives. Now, more than a year later, that population is still growing while the money used to pay for their detention could be drying...

A 29-year-old man accused of raping and suffocating a 3-year-old girl inside the South Sioux City home where her family was sleeping Saturday morning was in an Iowa jail Sunday, awaiting extradition to Nebraska. De Jesus Melisio-Camacho was arrested in Sioux City, Iowa, around 6 a.m. Saturday, less than an hour-and-a-half after South Sioux City police got a call from the hospital where the girl was pronounced dead. She had been taken there by family. Authorities have not released the victim’s name or address, but said both parents and two siblings were in the house at the time of the...

HAWAIIAN GARDENS, Calif. (AP) - A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate the city’s black residents through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday. Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies arrested 63 of them by early Thursday, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien said at a news conference. Another 35 defendants were already in custody on unrelated charges. Weapons and drugs worth more than $1 million also were seized in what O’Brien called “the largest gang takedown in...

Four men arrested after planting what they thought were explosives near two synagogues and plotting to shoot down a military plane were bent on carrying out a holy war against America, authorities said Thursday. The suspects were arrested Wednesday night, shortly after planting a 37-pound mock explosive device in the trunk of a car outside the Riverdale Temple and two mock bombs in the backseat of a car outside the Riverdale Jewish Center, another synagogue a few blocks away, authorities said. Police blocked their escape with an 18-wheel truck, smashing their tinted SUV windows and apprehending the unarmed suspects. At...

Federal authorities said they would announce today a huge sweep of Latino gang members allegedly responsible for violence against law enforcement and racially motivated attacks against blacks. The announcement followed the arrests of dozens of suspected gang members during raids early this morning. A news release from the U.S. attorney's office called it the "largest gang takedown in United States history." The indictment is the latest of several investigations that found gangs participating in race-based violence. Federal prosecutors two years ago charged members of a Latino gang with a violent campaign to drive blacks out of the unincorporated Florence-Firestone neighborhood...

(05-18) 18:10 PDT San Bernardino, Calif. (AP) -- Arrest warrants have been issued for two illegal immigrants suspected of bursting into a family's home and kidnapping a 3-year-old who was later found wandering the streets in Mexico, authorities said Monday.

Got a tip? Anyone with information about De Leon's alleged aggravated robberies is urged to contact Hidalgo County Crime Stoppers at (956) 668-8477. EDINBURG - Authorities arrested a man wanted for at least one aggravated robbery at a home near here. Juan Ramon De Leon is accused of an aggravated robbery in an apartment about 4:37 a.m. Tuesday at 3428 N. Alamo Road. De Leon is suspected of several other home invasions in the area. "This guy is a criminal illegal immigrant and he got kicked out of the country once before," Treviño said. "We are going to make sure...

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, a 54-year-old drug cartel leader whose nickname means "Shorty," is the most wanted man in Mexico. He's also one of the most wanted men in the United States. The past year witnessed unprecedented bloodshed as the two cartels battled for control of the border's lucrative drug-trafficking corridors. The cartels are fighting over control of Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas; Sonora Nogales, across from Nogales, Arizona; and Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California. The violence involves beheadings, running gunbattles and discoveries of mass graves and huge arms caches. Police and...

CARTHAGE, MO. - A 15 month old Carthage girl is on life support Friday night after being abused by a man police say is in the country illegally. Police say Esvin Mendez allegedly abused the toddler and is charged with first degree assault. The toddler was his girlfriend's daughter. The Jasper County sheriff's office says the baby was taken to McCune Brooks Hospital on Wednesday - unresponsive. She has since been transferred to Children's Mercy in Kansas City and placed on life support. Authorities say they do not yet know the full extent of the girl's injuries. They say Mendez,...

Here we go again: Serial drunk driver. Countless trips through the revolving door. Immigration status ignored. Now, a four-year-old girl dead. Her mother and brother hospitalized. The community is outraged. Politicians claim to be perplexed. And the pro-illegal alien amnesty group is ready to pounce on anyone who dares talk about this case as a right-wing, hate-mongering extremist. Same old, same old bloody, open-borders nightmare:

I've mentioned Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) before, regarding his letter to President Obama, urging him to impose an executive order banning the importation of so-called "assault weapons." Here's Engel's justification for taking that course of action: Over 90% of firearms confiscated yearly in Mexico orginate in the United States. In other words, although the supposed exportation of firearms was cited as the problem, the banning of their importation was offered as the solution. Even ignoring that strange bit of "logic," a major problem with that idea (beyond, of course, the fact that criminal misuse of smuggled firearms in other countries...

Mexico’s crime nightmare hits home for Texan trying to rescue siblings DURANGO, Mexico — They have been missing now for more than three months — the two brothers and sister of Texan Jose Esparza — snatched by armed men from their rural town in the high desert of Durango state. From his home in San Antonio, Esparza has spent all his money and countless hours unsuccessfully lobbying Mexican and U.S. officials to help rescue his siblings. He has brought from Mexico his aging mother and a niece and a nephew to try to keep them safe. He has been consumed...

Four men accused of planning to kidnap two Roanoke County women and hold them for ransom were indicted Thursday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke. Joshua Kasongo, 19, of Roanoke; Mohammed Hussein Guhad, 19, of Roanoke; Luke Musa Elbino, 19, of Vinton; and Anthony Eugene Muse, 18, of Roanoke are each charged with conspiring to kidnap and attempted kidnapping. Guhad and Muse are students at Patrick Henry High School. Elbino is a student at Virginia Western Community College.

Several juveniles and adults face charges following a melee ...that began when police stopped and arrested a shoplifting suspect and an unruly crowd gathered. Police responded to a report that a man had stolen two bottles of vodka ... Workers at the store provided a description of the suspect and the car he left in, and police pulled the car over at Franklin Arterial and Fox Street a couple of minutes later. As police were arresting Jimmy Odong, 19, of Portland and recovering the stolen merchandise, a group of about 15 to 30 people gathered, with about 10 of them...

SACRAMENTO (CBS 5) ― Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said that thousands of inmates could be forced out of state prisons if his proposed ballot measures fail in the upcoming special election. Schwarzenegger said he will open prison doors if voters don't approve the measures to close a projected $6 billion budget hole during the May 19th vote. ... The governor's plan would release 38,000 inmates, 19,000 of those are what the state considers low risk. The other 19,000 inmates are illegal immigrants whose offenses are said to be non-serious. The governor would commute their sentences and release all of them...

President Barack Obama has asked Congress to end federal payments to states and communities for jailing illegal immigrants as he continues along a path toward legalization of undocumented aliens. The budget plan Obama released on Thursday would end the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), under which states received $400 million in the current fiscal year to cover the cost of incarcerating convicts and pre-trial detainees who are illegally in the U.S. Specifically, the SCAAP reimburses states and counties for jailer's salaries for holding illegal immigrants who are apprehended and found to have at least one felony and two misdemeanor...

In March, federal and regional authorities shut down a central Florida shoplifting ring, arresting 21 suspects - all illegal immigrants - who were paid up to $300 a day to steal baby formula. The group stole $17.5 million worth of formula, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, which had 40 detectives assigned to the case.

A Clarke County judge sentenced a teenage illegal immigrant to eight years in prison for hitting and killing a woman while driving drunk along Commerce Road last summer. Abel Gonzalez-Perez will be held in a youth detention facility until he turns 17 in September, then will be transferred to adult prison, according to prosecutors. Superior Court Judge Steve Jones on Thursday ordered Gonzalez-Perez to serve seven years of probation after he is released from prison. Federal immigration officials will decide whether to deport the teen to his native Mexico after he finishes his prison sentence, according to Brian Patterson, chief...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent 200 deputies and volunteers to the Avondale area to crack down on crime and illegal immigration. The sheriff’s office is setting up a command base for the effort on Van Buren Street in the west-side suburb. The sheriff has organized similar crime sweeps over the past year in Mesa, east Phoenix, north Phoenix and Guadalupe. Critics say the tactics unfairly target Hispanics. The American Civil Liberties Union and Hispanic activists sued Arpaio in federal court saying the raids amount to racial profiling. The Obama administration also is looking into Arpaio’s enforcement policy.

In semi-rural Hidalgo County which lies to the north of the Rio Grande River separating Texas and Mexico, Sheriff Guadalupe Trevino reckons that there are about two dozen hardcore gangs operating -- a staggering number for a county with about 750,000 people. "We have a serious gang problem here and have for a long time ... I believe we have more gangs than any other county on the border," Trevino told Reuters. The extent of the problem -- the gangs often keep their fighting among themselves -- is hard to comprehend driving past citrus orchards or down the busy roads...

CINCINNATI (AP) - FBI says a suspect is now under arrest in Mexico in December 2007 slaying of four Mexican construction workers in Sharonville. The four men were found murdered in the apartment they shared in December of 2007. FBI spokesperson Mike Brooks says the suspect is identified as 34 years old Santiago Moreno who was also a roommate of the four men. Moreno was picked up by Mexican authorities on Sunday. Police say he fled to his homeland after the murders. 21 year old Jose De Jesus Davila-Duenas, 31 year old Manuel Davila-Duenas, 45 year old Lino Guardado-Davila and...

TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters)- When the heavy battering started to buckle the front door of her new home in Tucson, Maria remained frozen to the spot with fear. As her family scattered to hide in the bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen, masked men toting guns and dressed in flack jackets stormed into the living room shouting "Police! Everyone on the floor!" Her cheek pressed to the ground, she watched as the men fanned out through the comfortable suburban house, pistol whipping her brother-in-law and shouting, "Where are the guns and the drugs?"

On Sunday, April 19, 2009, Secretary Napolitano went on CNN’s “State of the Union” and proclaimed that crossing the border illegally is not a crime. This statement left a lot of folks scratching their heads given that U.S. law—the law Napolitano is sworn to uphold—says quite the opposite. Section 8, Title 1325 of the U.S. code clearly states that those who enter the U.S. illegally are committing a crime. This ‘interpretation’ of the law by Secretary Napolitano seems to be the latest in an effort by the Obama Administration to scale back interior immigration enforcement efforts in the United States....

A bomb threat demanding the release of immigrants being held for deportation was received by the Weld County Sheriff ‘s Office on Thursday. The threat was a handwritten letter in Spanish threatening judicial and law enforcement officers with the bombs with the “intent to kill the most number of Americans,” according to a press release. Currently, there are 58 inmates with immigration holds being held in the Weld County Jail. In the letter, the writer threatened to place bombs in and around Greeley after April 20 unless the immigration holds are released. “Sheriff (John) Cooke wants the public to know...

Special treatment for illegal alien drug dealers at the expense of the rest of us? That would be insane! Of course, that's exactly what's happening in NY State. EC interviews NY State Assemblyman Greg Ball, who's doing his best to expose this aspect of the rewrite of NY's notorious Rockefeller Drug Laws. Assemblyman Ball takes us inside the upside-down world of Albany, where the quickest way to a government benefit may soon be to be an illegal alien with a pocketful of drug money.

WESLACO — Police here arrested three illegal immigrants from Mexico on Friday in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a South Texas College student. Efrain Ozuna, 30, Martin Rosas, 33, and Benito Zaragoza, 22, were each charged Friday with aggravated kidnapping. Ozuna and Zaragoza are also accused of sexually assaulting the 23-year-old woman. Wednesday's kidnapping took place about 8:15 a.m. as the student parked at the southeast parking lot of South Texas College's Mid-Valley Campus, 400 N. Border Ave., said David Molina, a spokesman with the Weslaco Police Department. The woman told police one of the men grabbed...

Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- A man suspected of pulling a badly injured USC student off a car windshield after a deadly hit-and-run accident was arrested while trying to cross back into the United States from Mexico, police said Saturday. Josue (HOH'-sway) Luna, 32, of Los Angeles, was detained by federal agents at the San Ysidro border crossing at about 5:30 p.m. Friday after his name prompted a computer alert that he was wanted in Los Angeles, LAPD Officer April Harding said. Luna was driven back to Los Angeles by LAPD officers and jailed on suspicion of being an accessory...

Man sentenced for sexual abuse of daughter April 17, 2009 The emergency call came in as a domestic violence assault: A man had stabbed his girlfriend in the parking lot of a Las Vegas hospital. But as detectives began to investigate, they unearthed a terrible family secret. The suspect was not the victim’s boyfriend but her father, who had been sexually assaulting her for nearly two decades and had fathered her three children. The assaults, the victim told authorities, started when she was 6 years old and living in Los Angeles. She said her father, a martial arts instructor, threatened...

The Oslo Police have over the past three years investigated 41 cases of aggravated sexual assault, which resulted in rape. All of them were carried out by non-western immigrants to Norway. The police now urge that more efforts be put into preventive measures among men with immigrant background. The police have investigated all reported cases of aggravated sexual assault over the past three years, and have gained a clear imprssion of the offenders: Most of the rapists have a Kurdish or African background, NRK reports. The cases of aggravated sexual assults all have one thing in common, namely the use...

Note: The following text is a quote: April 14, 2009 BEST team arrests 2 men who allegedly tried to smuggle guns into Mexico Mexican nationals were willing to pay $2 million for cache of automatic weapons El Paso, Texas - Two men were arrested April 11 by members of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-led (ICE) Border Security Enforcement Task Force (BEST) after they tried to buy automatic weapons and ammunition to smuggle into Mexico. In December 2008, the El Paso Police Department provided information to BEST team members that led to a joint investigation and resulted in the arrests....

United States Attorney Johnny Sutton announced that in El Paso this morning, six members of the Barrio Aztecas gang were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David Briones on federal racketeering (RICO) related charges. “These six men are members of a violent criminal gang that works with vicious Mexican drug cartels,” stated U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. “Today, they received their just punishment, life in federal prison.” Carlos “Shotgun” Perea, Manuel “Tolon” Cardoza and Benjamin “T-Top” Alvaez were all sentenced to life in federal prison on three counts of RICO, RICO conspiracy, and drug conspiracy, and also received an additional twenty...

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- A Foley man accused of vehicular homicide lied to police about his role in an accident in February because he was "scared of being deported back to Mexico," Foley Police homicide investigator Jack Nelson testified in court today. Carlos Padilla Carlos Padilla, 28, originally told officers on the scene that he was not driving a 2002 Ford Focus that collided with a motorcycle but later recanted his story to a Spanish-speaking investigator, Nelson said. Padilla was arrested after the accident on Baldwin County 12, police said. Padilla's case will go before a grand jury in May.

Illegal Immigrant Pleads To Raping Child Tuesday, April 07, 2009 WBAL Radio as reported by Anne Kramer Prosecutors in Anne Arundel County say an illegal immigrant from El Salvador has pleaded guilty to the second degree rape of an 11-year-old girl. The Annapolis Capital reports Danilo Ramirez who is 30-years-old is expected to be deported after serving an 18 month jail sentence. The State's Attorney's Office tells the paper that the victim thought that Ramirez was her boyfriend and would let him in to her home to have sex while her father slept. Prosecutors say that someone reported what the...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- An illegal immigrant working maintenance at a West Knoxville motel has been indicted on charges he broke into a guest's room, raped and killed her, and dumped her body into the Clinch River in September of 2009. A Knox County grand jury indicted Valentino Vasquez Miranda, 20, Tuesday on charges of first degree murder, felony murder, aggravated burglary, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, and abuse of a corpse in connection with the murder of Jennifer Lee Hampton, 21. Hampton was staying at the Days Inn on Lovell Road on September 20th last year when according to...

HAMDEN — Less than a week after a town woman was brutally attacked, allegedly by a co-worker, friends and strangers are coming forward to help her. Two bank accounts for her needs have been set up, and a nurse who works at Yale-New Haven Hospital said she wants employees from 65 area bars and restaurants to donate a portion of their tips May 1 to help the woman with what the nurse believes will be enormous medical bills. Eli’s on Whitney, 2392 Whitney Ave., has agreed to be the dropoff point for the one-day event. The victim, 25, was released...