Posted on 07/09/2006 10:43:12 AM PDT by dalereed
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT GIVES INSTRUCTIONS, AND MONEY TO ILLEGALS AS THEY ENTER THE US Randy L. Harrington
Randy L. Harrington July 7, 2006 PHOENIX—Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that his deputies have not made one illegal alien arrest in two weeks. The Mexican Consulate is briefing illegal aliens, and providing them with US cash, and intelligence data designed to defeat Sheriff Arpaio's efforts to combat illegal immigration.
Salvadore Enriquez is an illegal alien who arrived in Chandler, Arizona two weeks ago. He has been working steadily from a street corner in Chandler doing day labor jobs.
Enriquez said that in early June he was preparing to cross the US-Mexico border at San Luis, Mexico south of Yuma, when he was stopped by an official from the Mexican Consulate who wanted him to go to a meeting that would show him how to enter the United States, and avoid capture.
Enriquez went to a meeting at a freestanding building in San Luis. There he met Ramon Hererra Cisneros who identified himself as an officer with the Mexican Consulate. Cisneros provided the almost 100 meeting attendees with food, and refreshments.
Cisneros then proceeded to show meeting attendees large maps of the US-Mexico Border, and the Maricopa County desert. For an hour he showed meeting participants where Maricopa County Sheriffs Deputies were making arrests. He provided them with times that the deputies change shifts, and when the Sheriff's office resources were the most vulnerable.
He then provided Enriquez with 10 pages of written instructions on how to get to the Mexican city of Aqua Prieta on the US-Mexican Border with Douglas, Arizona. Cisneros told meeting attendees that they would be safe in the deserts between Douglas, and Queen Creek, Arizona, because Maricopa County Sheriff's had “no authority in these areas.” The written instructions provided Enriquez with information on how to get to Norton's Corner in Queen Creek. Once at Norton's Corner, illegal aliens were given instructions on how to use the free prepaid telephone calling cards provided to them, to call a local shuttle service. The shuttle service would bring them to Chandler, Mesa, or Tempe, Arizona using “safer” streets instead of highways, and freeways.
Before the meeting ended each meeting attendee was given a bag that had an envelope which contained $250 in US currency. 2 gallons of water. Canned food. And a prepaid telephone calling card.
The written instructions also provided “Contact Numbers” for illegal aliens to call if they got in trouble in the United States. One of the telephone numbers was the office of US Senator John McCain in Phoenix. The instructions in Spanish said “that if you have any problems you should call Senator McCain's office who has agreed to help Mexican nationals in the United States.”
Enriquez said that when he arrived at Norton's Corner in Queen Creek there were many illegal aliens from his home waiting to be picked up by the shuttle service. The shuttle van that picked him up—that generally holds 15 passengers—held almost 32 passengers. Passengers were charged $38 for the trip from Queen Creek to Chandler, Mesa, and Tempe, Arizona.
Anthony Alvarez Martines tells a similar story, except when he was going to cross the border from San Luis into Yuma, Arizona it was an American Border Patrol Officer that provided him with the meeting notice. The Border Patrol Officer gave him written directions on how to get to the meeting being held by the Mexican Consulate in San Luis.
After the Mexican Consulate briefed Martines, he was given written instructions to get to the Agua Prieta border crossing just south of Douglas, Arizona. He also received a bag that held $250 in US cash, a gallon of water, canned food, and a prepaid telephone calling card. He also received written instructions to Queen Creek where he called a shuttle that brought him to Mesa, Arizona for $40.
Fausto Marquez, an illegal alien in Chandler tells a similar story. He was also told by the Mexican Consulate representative in San Luis, as well as Agua Prieta that Maricopa County Sheriffs deputies had no authority over the desert between Douglas, and Queen Creek. He was told that Maricopa County Sheriffs deputies don't have authority in Chandler, Arizona, which is a “safe zone” in Arizona.
Roberto Gutierrez, an illegal alien in the United States for the fifth time confirms the story. Gutierrez is smarter than the average illegal alien. He claims to have attended and graduated from the University in Mexico City with a degree in law. He said that he was a federal police officer in Jalisco until he, and his brother were caught stealing guns from the Mexican Army, and selling them on the streets in San Diego, California.
After Gutierrez got out of jail in Mexico he started coming to the United States. He says that he comes here, because even if he is arrested US authorities can't find his Mexican criminal record.
Gutierrez says that while he was a federal policeman in Mexico he worked with US law enforcement in cross border investigations, and operations. He is familiar with Mexican, and United States law enforcement procedures.
He claims that when he attended the Mexican Consulate meeting in San Luis that Cisneros was referring to a stack of documents that bore the badge, and name of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Cisnero's made many references to Maricopa County Sheriff's personnel shift changes, as well as how many cars, SUV's, and other vehicles that patrolled the desert between Yuma and Phoenix.
Joaquin Sanchez Morales received written, and verbal instructions in San Luis from a representative of the “Government of Mexico” on how to avoid being caught. He was told that Maricopa County Sheriff's personnel had no authority over the deserts between Douglas, and Queen Creek.
He was given the same bag of goodies as other illegal aliens that contained United States currency, water, food, and a prepaid telephone calling card. When he got to Agua Prieta just south of Douglas he expressed reluctance in crossing the border illegally, to a Mexican government representative who told him “You've come this far, and taken government money, it's too late to turn back now.” He was put on a Mexican government van, and driven to within 1,000 feet of the US-Mexico Border, and dropped off.
Norton's Corner is a nondescript restaurant on Ocatillo Road in Queen Creek. The area is mainly rural. I spoke with Leticia Obradorres who was waiting outside of Norton's Corner for a Shuttle van that would take her to Chandler, Arizona.
Obradorres was at first reluctant to talk with me because of the “perverts that had been trying to get” her all morning. However, once we started to talk she told me that she had just gotten to Norton's Corner a few hours before.
She showed me a 10 page document written in Spanish. She said that the Mexican Consulate provided this to her in Agua Prieta. Along with the written instructions on how to enter the United States, and how to avoid capture. She said that she received some US money, water, and food, along with a prepaid telephone calling card so that she could call a shuttle when she arrived in Queen Creek.
Obradorres said that she had a close call when she crossed into the United States. She ran into an American Soldier. He said that his name was Jeff and that he was from Utah. Her fears were diminished because the Soldier “didn't have a gun.” After he felt her breasts, and kissed her, he gave her some water. He also told her not to go in a specific direction, or area because that's where the Border Patrol was.
Obradorres spent 6 days in the Arizona desert before she got to Queen Creek. While I was speaking with Obradorres her shuttle van showed up.
Roberto wouldn't give his last name, but said that he is an illegal alien. He says that he has been driving a shuttle van for 5 years. He has no drivers license, and there is no insurance on the 2005 Ford Passenger van. The van has the name of the company on the side, and a telephone number. It indicates that it is a shuttle from Nogales, to Phoenix.
Roberto says that he likes to stay on the streets, and back roads, and off the highways and freeways so that he won't get stopped by Police. He says that he has never been stopped by the police, partly because of the painted sign, and advertising on his van. He feels that the sign lends legitimacy to his business, and that's why he doesn't get stopped by the police.
Roberto says that he used to have to make the long trip to Yuma to pick up passengers. Sheriff Arpaio's operation shifted his business to Queen Creek, Florence, and Coolidge which is closer, and easier to drive to by surface streets. On one of Roberto's last trips to Yuma a month ago, he had a van load of illegal aliens he was bringing to Phoenix. He stopped to use the restroom at a rest stop, and there was a Maricopa County Sheriffs Deputy also using the restroom. Roberto was afraid that he would be caught. The Deputy finished in the restroom, then looked at Roberto and told him to “have a nice day” as he left the rest area.
Roberto claims to have had an unspecified problem with a Tempe city official last year. The Mexican Consulate told him to call Senator John McCain in Phoenix. Roberto called McCain's office, who apparently intervened, because Roberto says that the problem was settled.
Roberto says that he supports those politicians that are friendly to his business by encouraging illegal immigration. He showed me at least 50 money order receipts dated last week. He indicates that these are anonymous donations sent to Senator John McCain, and Janet Napolitano. He claims that if he were doing business in Mexico he would have to make these payments to local government officials. “It's a cost of doing business that American's will never understand” he says. Asked if he had contributed to Sheriff Arpaio's campaign? He said that maybe he “should because Arpaio's efforts have sent my business closer, and to a better spot.”
Roberto, who has a family in Mexico makes about $4,000 a week from his $38 fares picked up and delivered to Phoenix, and surrounding cities. He sends about $3,000 of this money home to his family, and keeps the rest in his Chase Bank savings account that he opened a year ago. Roberto wants to buy 10 vans, and run shuttles from Texas, to Arizona. He says that illegal aliens would keep him in business for many more years. When asked if he would become a US citizen? Roberto replied “Why? If I were a citizen ½ of my $4,000 a week would be taken by taxes, and used for immigration enforcement. Why would I want to pay for immigration enforcement, when it is illegal immigration that keeps me in business.”
A month ago Roberto became fearful of the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office crackdown. He called the Mexican Consulate, who referred him to Senator John McCain's office. He claims that McCain's office told him that a “good solution to the problem would be to shift his business out of Maricopa County”, and indicated that other counties are not enforcing the immigration laws like “Arpaio does.”
Mike Johnson is a security guard. He claims to have stopped at the rest stop “Off of 8” a few weeks ago. He showed me several pages of documents that he claims to have found in the trash.
The documents were mainly nondescript memos, and forms with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office badge, and name on them. They appeared to be various memo's discussing operations of the Sheriff's office, and providing “crime stats.” One document in particular was disturbing in that it appeared to have the names, and employee identification numbers, with “Unit designations” of Maricopa County Sheriffs' personnel operating in an unknown area.
Johnson claims to have called the Sheriff's office to report his find. The “Detective” that took his telephone call replied to Johnson “What do you want our people to do? Take this stuff home, and put it in their scarp books.” Johnson was told that what he had “was garbage” and that he should not “disseminate it to a non-criminal justice agency or that [he] would be prosecuted.”
I called the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, who would not “officially comment” on the meetings being conducted in Mexico. A spokesman for the consulate who spoke on condition of anonymity said “What do you expect. America places its Army on our borders. We will fight for justice of our citizens to cross the international border. They will enjoy the God given right to international border freedom. We do what we have to do. Until America comes up with a solution acceptable to the Government of Mexico you can expect more actions from the Government of Mexico.”
Over the past several months Sheriff Joe Arpaio has made about 245 arrests of illegal aliens in Maricopa County Arizona. In a televised interview Arpaio said that when he was with DEA he worked the borders in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, and he has always said that “putting these people in jail would be a deterrent.” Sheriff Arpaio's operation was a success, and he should be applauded for his actions. However, without statewide enforcement action, Arpaio's activities are akin to a finger in a leaky dike. Moreover, with the Mexcian government providing intelligence, money, and resources that allow their citizens to cross the borders illegally Sheriff Arpaio's work is in vain.
SOURCES/CONTRIBUTORS: Alfonso Perez, a freelance journalist in Mexico contributed to this article.
© Copyright 2006 Randy L. Harrington. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Sure, no shocker there, they get rid of their poor that way, they get rid of criminals that way, and they get money sent back to Mexico from the US that way, and they get to start building Azatlan that way too.
What a deal!
These people must NOT be given citizenship.
Invasion.
Bump.
I wonder what the Mexican government has in mind? Is it simply to avoid problems at home by ridding themselves of excess population? Is it really "Reconquista?" Increase their influence among our vice addicted politicians? It will be interesting.
The Senate bill requires this, I believe.
Disturbing and disgusting.
I can't wait for your next book to be available - looks like you have hit the right theme at the right time.
Which doesn't surprise me in the least. We should all call his office and ask for 'help'.
It looks better in red.
$250 ?? No. $50 Maybe.
The whole article sounds bogus to me.
The guy intervied too many that gave him the same info to be bogus.
When they expect hugh amounts to be sent back monthly $250 doesn't seem out of line at all.
I think it will be available soon.
I agree, way over the top to be believable.
Amazing the reporter found the right people, a woman that had been fondled, a van driver making $,000 a week, a guy who "found documents", a Mexican official", and a Maricopa County deputy who says "have a good day".
And John McCain must NOT become President.
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