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MILWAUKEE - A 5-year veteran of the Milwaukee police force is on suspension and accused of living under a false identity since taking the name of a dead cousin eight years ago. Federal prosecutors said the identity change by Oscar Ayala-Cornejo was documented in high school yearbooks of 1999: one showed he attended Pulaski High School under his own name before moving to Hamilton High School and attending as Jose A. Morales, the name of his cousin. A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court Thursday said Ayala-Cornejo, 24, was born in Mexico and is not a U.S. citizen but...

The Santa Fe Police Department is looking at the possibility of recruiting Mexican nationals to fill vacancies on the city police force, say sergeants in charge of training and recruiting. Sgts. Gillian Alessio and Marvin Paulk told the city's Public Safety Committee on Tuesday that they are trying to think outside the box to fill 20 vacancies on the 155-person force. New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy regulations currently prohibit noncitizens from serving as police officers, Police Chief Eric Johnson said later. Alessio told the city panel: ``Every day, we get approached by young men and women from Mexico who are...

Santa Fe cops may recruit Mexicans Wednesday, May 16, 2007 SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Police Department is considering the possibility of recruiting Mexican nationals to fill vacant police jobs. Sgts. Gillian Alessio and Marvin Paulk, who are in charge of the department's recruiting and training, said Tuesday they are considering alternative approaches to fill 20 vacancies on the city's 155-person police force. For the plan to work would require changes to the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy regulations that prohibit those who aren't citizens from serving as police officers. Alessio said the Santa Fe police force, like others...

KnoxNews http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_5292769,00.html Foreign dependents have rights to workers' comp aid By Associated Press January 20, 2007 NASHVILLE - Foreign dependents of employees covered by the workers' compensation system are eligible to receive benefits if the worker is killed, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled. The case hinged on the 2002 death of Jaime Humberto Diaz Pedraza, a Mexican national who fell while working at a Nashville construction site. Pedraza's parents in Zempoala, Mexico, sought workers' compensation benefits, claiming that they were wholly supported by the money their son wired to them between 1999 and his death. Article truncated

MORENO VALLEY Three people, including two Mexican nationals, were arrested on drug charges after authorities said they seized 65 pounds of cocaine and 43 pounds of methamphetamine worth a combined $3.7 million. Ramon Medina, 36, Pedro Medina, 39, both of Mexico, and Sylvia Payan, 39, of Moreno Valley were arrested late Thursday when authorities raided a house in this Riverside County community, sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez said. Payan's four children, all under 10 years old, were home during the raid. They were taken into child protective custody, Gutierrez said. The three suspects were jailed on $1 million bail each for...

DENVER - The driver of a minivan that careened off a snowy highway with 14 passengers inside — killing four and injuring 10 — was jailed Wednesday on suspicion of human smuggling. Jose Francisco Franco-Rodriguez, 23, was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail on 14 counts of human smuggling, four counts of careless driving resulting in death, 14 counts of failing to give aid and 14 counts of reckless endangerment, Idaho Springs Police Chief Dave Wohlers said. Immigration officials also placed a detainer hold on him, Wohlers said. Everyone in the van was believed to be a Mexican national,...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - A Cuban exile arrested for allegedly stashing more than 1,000 guns in his home claims to be a member of a militant group that wants to overthrow Fidel Castro. Robert Ferro, 61, was arrested after authorities raided his Upland home on Friday and found dozens of assault weapons, machine guns and handguns. Authorities believe Ferro may have been running a black-market gun ring out of the home. But Ferro told federal investigators that he was a member of Alpha 66, "a militant group who collectively desire to overthrow Fidel Castro and liberate the country of...

RIALTO - Police have dismantled a major heroin ring they say distributed the drug across the Inland Empire and Los Angeles and Orange counties. Seven men and three women, all Mexican nationals, were behind bars Thursday on suspicion of running the drugs out of two homes, one in the 300 block of South Forest Avenue and the other in the 600 block of East Carter Street. Narcotics detectives served search warrants at the two residences and made the arrests Tuesday and Wednesday, seizing a half pound of the drug with an estimated street value of $10,000 in the process, said...

This is my first post so I hope I got it right. This is breaking here in San Anonio. A single engine plane has been forced down at Stenson Field south of San Antonio. Homeland Security, DPS and SAPD are on the scene. They are waiting for a Chinese tranlator but they have Chinese illegals in custody and said that the pilot was someone Homeland Security has been looking for. I'll post more as it comes available.

A year ago, this organization warned that the Bush Administration was planning to do something unthinkable - they were seriously considering signing a pact with Mexico that would give any Mexican who had worked in the U.S., including illegal aliens, full U.S. Social Security benefits, paid out of your Social Security Trust Fund! It seemed so far fetched, we had trouble convincing the Congress that it could happen. A White House spokesman denied our claim that it was on a fast track, stating the ongoing discussions for Totalization were just informal and preliminary. But we knew better. We had obtained...