Posted on 09/25/2011 5:17:49 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Jesus Alejandro Meraz-Martinez has spent more than half his life in the Birmingham area. During that time, he has been sent back to his native Mexico an even dozen times.
Nine times he voluntarily left after being arrested by federal immigration authorities. He went before judges in three other cases.
After one arrest on Oct. 9, 2006, by the U.S. Border Patrol in Santa Teresa, N.M., he was convicted of illegally re-entering the country and served an 18-month sentence in prison before being deported.
The 33-year-old man, who has worked in construction, has been back in an Alabama jail since July, awaiting his Jan. 3 sentencing after pleading guilty Sept. 15 to another illegal re-entry charge. That charge carries another possible prison sentence and a 13th deportation.
Meraz-Martinez is part of the growing number of people in Alabama and the nation charged with illegal re-entry by an alien previously deported -- a crime that now represents nearly a quarter of all federal criminal prosecutions in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.al.com ...
More than 40 percent of the people in Mexico live under that country's poverty level, Threatt said. "It's (the re-entry charge is) not acting as a deterrent," he said.
Brower said he had a federal judge about two years ago ask one of his clients who had been deported to Mexico just a week before how long he had stayed in that country before returning. He told her three hours. Easy in-easy out.easy in again
Take them down to them guatemala border.
Somebody in Alabama needs to go Gator hunting. They already have the bait.
Nah. Air drop 'em into Antarctica. The penguins need someone to Zamboni their ice floes.
They should be given a choice... they either stay put in their home country after deportation or be given a LONG prison sentence here... with the bill for their incarceration and any other costs (health care, etc.) sent to the government of their home country. And they should be joined in prison by their employers.
How could we possibly object to having him in the U.S.?
“Since 2000, Meraz-Martinez has been arrested for DUI five times by sheriff’s deputies in Shelby and Butler counties, and by police in Gardendale, Alabaster and Hueytown. He also pleaded guilty to theft of property charges in Shelby County in 2000, and later was arrested for probation violations, according to an affidavit by an immigration agent.”
Look for an innocent citizen to be killed by this dirtbag in the near future.
Yes, but what about his children? Don’t they deserve a college education?
They need to imprison them for longer periods of time and send the bill to Mexico.
People like this should be shipped to a isolated island and left there. They are a menace and will continue to be. Johnston Atoll?
A previous poster said that they should be put in prison farms.
That is the perfect solution. They come here wanting to work- we will put them to work. They can pay for their stay by working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. The only difference is that they are not able to leave to go drink and drive and kill innocent Americans and they won’t be repatriating American money back to Mexico since, first, we won’t pay them and second, if they did make money, we would confiscate it for room, board and taxes. Also, we won’t have to give them foodstamps since they will be growing the food they want to eat. And we can make the prison a foreign country so when the women go into labor- they all come over here pregnant- they will not be Americans since they didn’t give birth on American soil.
With them imprisoned, we will know where they are at all times so we dont’ have to hunt them down when their sentence is up to deport them.
And, I believe a Texas hospital sent a $60,000 bill to Mexico for ob-gyn services rendered by pregnant mexicans. They were laughed at.
That is exactly what ran through my mind. He’ll get drunked up and kill or maim somebody.
Only if they move to Texas. The article said he has a child by a U.S. citizen so looks like his child isn't eligible for special treatment.
Legally hurt the employers and this crap will end. Fine, fine bigger and then add some jail time and asset confiscation to whoever is employing illegals.
Neither party wants that, and certainly Perry don’t, as it’s the big biz owners and fat corps who bankroll the politicians to make sure that border stays open, and their never ending conga-line of low wage labor continues.
Neither party wants that, and certainly Perry don’t, as it’s the big biz owners and fat corps who bankroll the politicians to make sure that border stays open, and their never ending conga-line of low wage labor continues.
“The 33-year-old man, who has worked in construction, has been back in an Alabama jail since July”
Let’s see, working construction, getting paid under the table, no taxes, employer not having to worry about those pesky Dept. of Labor laws. Nope, just doing the job Americans won’t do.
They should not be allowed to self deport after being arrested by the authorities. I understand why this is done, but he will come back with a new identity and start all over.
Build a concertina wire encampment in the middle of Nowhere, Texas and place Texas Hold ‘Em.
Also agree with going after the employers.
We had one run two down over the weekend, drunk and fleeing from the police.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/278443/3/Pedestrian-killed-during-police-chase
Admitted to being in the country illegally and if let out on bond, he will flee.
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