Posted on 10/24/2007 10:33:18 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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Rolando Mota-Campos, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has racked up convictions for drunken driving, domestic assault and threatening to cut someone's head off with a machete.
Yet the 42-year-old scallop boat worker has slipped easily into the country after being deported three times.
He'll be deported again after serving a 14 1/2-year federal prison term imposed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, but he has already vowed to sneak back in.
"United States is stupid," Mota-Campos reportedly told an immigration agent after his latest arrest, court records say. "I come back every time."
Mota-Campos has skirted the law - and harsh jail terms - until now by using 16 different names and fake identification papers in the 19 years he has lived here on and off.
He claims to have killed someone in a drunken-driving accident in Mexico City and has a tattoo - a teardrop on his left cheek - that indicates ties to the Mexican mafia, according to the court records.
U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr., citing Mota-Campos' "brazen lack of respect for the law and the citizens of the United States," more than doubled Mota-Campos' prison term. With a clean record, Mota-Campos would have faced a minimum of six years and two months in prison.
Court records filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office and defense lawyers detail a chronology of Mota-Campos' criminal past and border-hopping:
Mota-Campos first crossed the border illegally in Arizona in 1988. He made his way to Brooklyn, where arrests began piling up. He was arrested twice in 1993 on assault charges, and in 1995 he was charged with drunken driving and vehicular assault. Warrants for his arrest remain on all those charges.
The records don't indicate what brought him to Hampton Roads, but he was arrested in Hampton in 1992 on an abduction charge and in 1993 on a drunken-driving charge. After the 1993 arrest, he told an immigration agent about his DUI fatality conviction in Mexico City. His deportation case that year was dropped, according to an immigration spokeswoman in Washington. The court records do not explain why. After being convicted on the Peninsula of maiming and drunk in public in 1997, he was deported on Jan. 22, 1998. Six days later, he walked across the border in Texas and then returned to Newport News. That same year, he was charged with attempted robbery, but the case was dropped and immigration was never notified.
He was deported again in April 2003, but sneaked back into the country a short time later. He was arrested twice in Newport News that November for driving without a license and drunken driving, respectively.
In September 2004, he was charged again with drunken driving. In each of the three DUI convictions, Mota-Campos never received more than a 30-day jail term. Authorities said that was because he always used a different name.
The day after the September arrest, Mota-Campos was charged with beating his wife and son. His wife became so fearful of him that she moved her and her children into hiding. Then the following February, he was charged with threatening a social worker assigned to his case who refused to tell him where his wife was living.
He told the social worker that he carried a machete and that the social worker's " sweet little head can come right off. "
After his domestic violence conviction, Mota-Campos was again deported in May 2005. Less than a month later, he used a phony passport to return to the United States through Tijuana.
In August 2005, Mota-Campos was arrested in Newport News on a warrant for threatening the social worker. He was convicted and served a short jail term before being turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
That led to the current federal indictment.
In court papers, Morgan cited his fear that Mota-Campos will again return.
"The defendant has expressly stated that he has no respect for the United States and that once deported he will re-enter again and come back to Newport News, where his history of alcohol abuse will further endanger the residents of this district," the judge wrote.
In court Wednesday, Morgan asked Mota-Campos if he wished to speak before sentencing.
"I have nothing to say," Mota-Campos responded, through an interpreter.
Tim McGlone, (757) 446-2343, tim.mcglone@pilotonline.com
Does sending someone to Hell count as deportation? I think in this case, a quiet trip there would be the best method of, ummmm, FIXING his particular problem.
thx for the link. It’s a 4 or 5 tissue site.
Nice guy. We need at least a three strike law. Caught three times, and go to prison for life.
That should be a deterrent.
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Just another one of Bush’s wonderful, goodhearted people, whose family values are so admirable, and whom we should welcome with open arms, lest we be bigoted vigilantes who don’t want what’s best for America.
we need to adopt the policy that Mexico has on their southern border. Shoot on sight. Problem solved. He will do no more return visits.
Another poster child for GW.
Oh, that we could. But, Johnny Sutton would prosecute anyone who even thought of that.......(like Ramos and Compean?) Instead, we give them immunity, amnesty, money in their pocket, and tell them to bring their whole family with them when they return.
“I Bump your “Un-freakin’-believable.” and raise you an “Incredibly Outrageous”. “
I’ll see your “incredibly outrageous” and raise you WTF?
And Mexico wonders why we don’t want their trash?
The damages you speak of are - truly - too numerous to count.
Yeah, I hear ya.
What you’re saying raises citizens anger to a powder keg status that’s waiting for a spark and, BOOM.........
Senators not listening, illegal invaders committing heinous crimes, lack of enforcement, Suttons punishing LEOs, etc...... will ALL be responsible for an eventual explosion that, I believe, will lead to a civil war.
What I said may sound “too emotional” but it’s an extremely emotional issue and it’s now considered by political cowards as the third rail of politics.
Third time’s the charm. Execute him.
What you said (IMHO) was not too emotional. It was the raw truth. This administration’s disregard for the law and the will of it’s people is like a huge, gigantic boil, and it is very close to bursting wide open!
You're right, of course. They have no idea how serious their insistence on amnesty is doing to the people.
It reminds me of teasing children until they burst crying and break things. Only the "children" who are pushed to the limit are their actual "adult" bosses and are not as weak and sheepish as perceived.
The ADULTS may very well take things in their hands and spank everybody in sight! LOL
Then WHY THE HELL DO YOU WANT TO BE HERE?????
Can’t we just bring back firing squads in his native country’s tradition and shoot his ass?
I’m thinking a shotgun could just get it over with.
There’s truly no incentive from within the U.S. not to! If the U.S. would actually fully enforce all of the present laws that deal with everything related to illegal immigration, then things such as this wouldn’t still be happening!
“I come back every time.”
Hopefully, a rival gang member in prison will take care of this piece of excrement, so he won’t get out to come back.
Could someone get him a recidivist conviction? Then they could just keep him in prison for life.
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