Posted on 09/04/2009 5:24:39 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
The deportations of thousands of Mexicans who have served time in U.S. jails into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are adding a deadly ingredient to an already volatile state of security, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.
Turf battles between rival drug cartels, and between authorities and cartels, have made Juarez one of the world's most dangerous cities. There were 305 drug-related killings in August, making it the deadliest month yet, according to the mayor's office.
Most of the recent violence has been committed by young street-level drug dealers who work for the Sinaloa or Juarez cartels, Reyes Ferriz said.
Adding deportees from the United States, some with criminal records, worsens the situation, the mayor said.
In the past 45 days, 10 percent of those killed in Juarez had been deported from the United States in the past two years, Reyes Ferriz said.
"We don't have the statistics to know if they were criminals from the United States or not," he told CNN's Rick Sanchez this week. "We know they were deported from the U.S. Most of them come from U.S. jails. They end up in the city of Juarez, and that's a problem generated for us, but also for the United States."
Most deportees are simply Mexicans who crossed the border illegally, but some hardened criminals get involved with the gangs, which have networks in the United States, Reyes Ferriz said.
But according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. agency that oversees deportations, the number of criminal deportees entering Juarez from El Paso, Texas, is not high.
"El Paso had the fewest removals among the other border areas" in fiscal 2008, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said.
About 85,400 "criminal aliens" were deported from the United States to their homelands in 2008, according to ICE.
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From the United States?
LOL.
I can understand his position. Nobody would like this in their city. HOWEVER, this appears to be a personal problem. Maybe chat with his fellow border cities and keep them from crossing the border and we won’t have to dump them back. Like our cities have a choice of who comes here. Guess it is a case of what goes around, comes around.
Stop the insane WOD
I’m sure when zero meets with Mexico’s president he will accept blame for sending these illegal felons back.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
America has lemon laws. You boys can have your lemons back!
No problema. He can pick them up at the point of entry and do what ever he wants with them. They were Mexico's problem to begin with, it's only right that he take care of business for a change.
Hey, that's an idea - releasing our overcrowded prisons into Mexico to even things out a bit. Doesn't matter to Mexico if they send over their pedophiles, rapists, murderers, thieves and burglars, so it would be a prisoner exchange of sorts (sarcasm).
Mexico City is behind you, Mayor Ferriz. Turn around and talk to them. Mind the bullets.
LOL
No chit, mayor! I grew up in EP and it’s so sad to see this once sleepy border town turned into narco capital of the world. You say these bad a$$ hombres are being deported from the US, but you forgeet that they came to dees country eeeleegally. No problema, we made sure they had “free” healthcare while they were here.
Oh, well if all they did was cross illegally we are insane to object, right? After all they aren't hardened criminals or anything.........
We need to send them our drunk drivers.
Put them on a plane, Juarez. It’s not our problemo.
Tough...
The Mayor is correct.
When Ike tossed the illegals out back in the 50s, they were sent a minium of 500 miles South of the border.
WHen Hoover and Rooooosevelt tossed the Mexicans out, they used the train to make sure the border was far, far away.
WHat is that old tune?
Got it
We did it before and we can do it again, we did it before - we CAN do it again.....
Hey, Mayor! They’re not ours! Never were.
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