Posted on 08/23/2010 12:00:36 PM PDT by La Lydia
It seems that the Obama administration is more interested in protecting Mexicans than Americans. Case in point; Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has eleven suspects accused of murdering law enforcement officers in his maximum security county jail in downtown Phoenix. As reported in the August 18 Washington Post, “Justice Department officials in Washington have issued a rare threat to sue (Arpaio) if he does not cooperate with their investigation of whether he discriminates against Hispanics.”
“The standoff comes just weeks after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer because of the state’s new immigration law,” the Post noted.
The latest word from Americans for Legal Immigration is that lawmakers in 22 states are now developing versions of Arizona’s illegal immigration crackdown bill SB 1070.
So nearly half the states are aligning themselves with Arizona. Why? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that, according to Mexican figures released recently, the toll in the drug wars is said to be 28,000. That includes growing numbers of “civilian victims,” ranging from toddlers caught in the crossfire to students massacred at parties.
Mexico’s disintegration as a civil society is so severe its government is considering legalizing drugs to reduce the internecine battles between the cartels. Little wonder that Mexicans are fleeing their war-torn nation to the safety of the United States. Earlier this year at least 30 residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, crossed into the U.S. and asked for political asylum, telling authorities they fear for their lives. The chief deputy sheriff of Hudspeth County reported that a cartel had threatened to kill children in schools across the border unless the parents paid $5,000 pesos.
Mexico has a slim hold on anything resembling a civil society where the law enforcement authorities can stem the violence or journalists can report it. Support for building a Mexican border fence is up to 68% according to Rasmussen Reports in late July. Other surveys indicate that 56% of voters nationwide oppose the Justice Department’s decision to challenge the Arizona law and 61% favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own State.
Why would anyone would consider vacationing in Mexico when, according to State Department figures, 79 U.S. citizens were killed there in 2009, up from 35 in 2007. In Juarez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, 23 Americans were killed in 2009, compared with two in 2007. Earlier this year, in April, three people linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez were ambushed and murdered. As many as half of the 2,660 killings in that city are attributed to paid assassins from the Barrio Azteca gang.
The most widely reported murder was that of Robert Krentz on his southern Arizona ranch in March. An illegal alien is the primary suspect in the killing. Meanwhile, La Raza (the “Race”) -- an immigration advocacy group in the U.S. -- is supporting driver’s licenses and in-state tuition discounts for illegal aliens. They are, of course, opposed to a secure fence and cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities.
The worst of all this data is the further fact that Congress continues to progress toward “comprehensive immigration reform,” another way of saying mass amnesty for illegal aliens. In 2007, then-Sen. Obama voted to double legal immigration from 1.2 million annually to 2.4 million....
The irony is that the U.S. has spent billions in Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of nation building, but is doing little comparatively here at home to cope with the flood of illegal immigration.
Instead, the U.S. Department of Justice is doing whatever it can to punish states like Arizona for taking even the most minimal steps to protect Americans. As for the Department of Homeland Security, its preference is to ignore the problem. We are being ill-served by the Obama administration and are likely to be stabbed in the back by a lame-duck Congress.
The latest on our south of the border neighbors from Nafbpo:
OVER THE WEEKEND: ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CREATING RACIAL TENSIONS; MEXICO CLAIMS INCREASE IN HATE CRIMES
Saturday 8/21/10
El Universal and El Financiero (Mexico City) 8/20/10
Arrests begin for mayor’s murder
This past week, Edelmiro Cavazos, the 38-year-old mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, an upscale tourist town near Monterrey, was kidnapped from his own home. Three days later his body was found. He had died by gunfire and had signs of torture. Last Friday, six police agents were arrested for their presumed participation in the crime. Some are accused of being lookouts while the others carried out the abduction. Among those arrested was the mayor’s own personal bodyguard who was ostensibly abducted with him and then released, but “had no signs of physical mistreatment, not one scratch.” Interrogation of those arrested led to the arrest of a seventh man and then to a raid on a house in which four more suspects were arrested while at least 17 managed to escape.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/703074.html
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 8/20/10
Major drug boss arrested in Colombia
Bogota, Colombia – Colombian and US police agents captured Venezuelan narcotrafficker Walid Makled Garcia, “El Arabe,,” one of the most wanted drug bosses in Venezuela and under an international warrant of arrest for murder. He is a suspect in the 2008 assassination of one of his associates, Wilber Alirio Varela, “Jabon,” and also for the murder of Venezuelan attorney and journalist Orel Zambrano in 2009. According to local police, Garcia is chief of one of the most powerful criminal organizations in South America and has connections with the Colombian rebel group, FARC.
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Narcotraffic scheme closed down in El Salvador
San Salvador – Tipped off by an arrest by Nicaraguan police last November, Salvadoran National Police (PNC) launched an investigation that led to the dismantling of a cocaine smuggling network using two Salvadoran tour businesses. The 2009 Nicaraguan arrests involved two passengers of a Salvadoran tour bus who were in possession of 286 kilos of cocaine. The PNC began surveillance of two suspected tour businesses and noted that some passengers not only made repeated tour bus trips, but were either relatives of the business owners or employees. The suspicions led to the arrest of seven people for drug trafficking. The group carried drugs in bus luggage compartment on trips from Panama to Guatemala, where it is presumed the loads were turned over to others to be transported through Mexico to the US. According to the PNC, a Colombian, not identified, was head of the smuggling operation. All those arrested were Salvadorans.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 8/20/10
Another large marihuana seizure in Tamaulipas
Soldiers of the Mexican Army seized more than 1.5 tons of packaged marihuana in two operations carried out in the towns of Nuevo Laredo and Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas. The separate operations took place along the Rio Grande separating the states of Tamaulipas and Texas.
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Nacional/20082010/464384.aspx
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The French solution
Romania is preparing for the repatriation of a total of 371 gypsies after the French government decided to send them back to their country of origin due to the problems their illegal settlements cause in France. Certain human rights groups have declared the measures France has taken against the gypsy settlements to be racist. France counters that the gypsy settlements are against community laws and have caused the same problems in Italy. Romania, however, has been cautious in its statements and takes the position of defending the rights of its citizens to travel freely throughout the European Union. Both Romania and Bulgaria, the poorest European countries, have large populations of gypsies living at the poverty level.
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Internacional/20082010/464411.aspx
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Venezuela crime rate nearly 10 times greater than Mexico
In Venezuela, 19,133 assassinations were reported in 2009, putting the rate of homicides at 75 for every 100,000 inhabitants, according to a study by the Venezuelan National Institute of Statistics. The Venezuelan newspaper El National (Caracas) compared the country’s homicide rate with those of Colombia – a country with an armed conflict – where the rate is 32 per 100,000 inhabitants and with Mexico with 8 per 100,000. President Hugo Chavez said the publication of the controversial data was to form part of the “conspiracy” against his government in upcoming elections.
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Internacional/20082010/464410.aspx
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Sunday 8/22/10
El Financiero (Mexico City) 8/21/10
Presence of Hispanics in New Orleans generating social tension and distrust
Washington (Notimex) – The increasing arrival of Hispanics in New Orleans is gradually changing the racial lines of the city and generating tensions within the African-American population, the Washington Post reported today. Defined for many years as a city of whites and blacks, the presence of Hispanics has given rise to complaints by residents that they are being “displaced” and their jobs and “status” are now threatened. The Hispanic influx after hurricane Katrina was triggered by the arrival of hundreds of workers from other states to participate in the reconstruction of the city. Although many have returned to their previous places of residence, others have decided to put down roots in New Orleans.
Other factors have also contributed to the local distrust of this new segment of the population. Authorities of one subdivision tried to limit the number of people who can reside in a house, an action some critics said was directed at the Hispanics. Another prohibited mobile taco vendors and a state legislator is considering a bill authorizing the local police to verify the migratory status of detained Hispanics. Uneasiness for this persistent flow of Hispanics into the city is expressed on opinion programs by residents who blame them for taking jobs and lowering salaries. One African-American who lives in one of the hardest hit districts of the city said he understands the distrust toward the Hispanics, but does not blame them for taking jobs others refuse. “They even work on holidays. I’m not going to work on a day of rest,” he said, pointing out that many who accuse the Hispanics of taking jobs from them do nothing to look for work.
[The Washington Post story on which Notimex based theirs can be accessed (we hope) at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082005636.html ]
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 8/21/10
More than two tons of Marihuana seized
Three vehicles abandoned in the Otay Vista area of Tijuana were found to contain a total of more than two tons of packaged marihuana. According to a Mexican Army spokesman, the discovery was the result of a citizen report that the three vehicles parked on Vista Bonita street were emitting a strong odor of marihuana. No arrests were reported.
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/21082010/464522.aspx
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La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali, Baja California) 8/21/10
Marihuana destroyed
An “incredible” discovery of nearly 300,000 marihuana plants was made by Mexican federal agents in the mountains west of Laguna Salada and south of La Rumorosa grade in Baja California. The field was on a hillside nearly inaccessible except by helicopter. Agents were delivered to the area by air and then located the field on foot. They destroyed the crop in place because it would have been extremely difficult to remove it. The plants were irrigated by a system using water captured in containers. No arrests were made.
http://www.oem.com.mx/lavozdelafrontera/notas/n1753506.htm
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El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 8/21/10
Mexico detains 61 illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Ecuador
Chiapas, Mexico – A total of 61 undocumented immigrants from Guatemala and Ecuador were detained while being guided by smugglers in a wooded zone of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, according to Mexican immigration officials (INM). The office received a call reporting the smuggling operation Friday night and dispatched agents to the area where they made the arrests. The two guides escaped, but the 61 aliens were taken into custody for processing. There were 53 Guatemalans and 8 Ecuadorians. More than 500,000 foreigners enter Mexico illegally each year en route to the US, according to the National Commission for Human Rights.
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n1753700.htm
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Monday 8/23/10
El Universal (Mexico City) 8//22/10
Increase in hate crimes against Mexicans
The Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE) documented a series of “hate attacks” between September 2009 and July 2010 carried out against Mexicans who live and work in New York. Between April and July of this year, authorities have reported a total of 11 such attacks. The aggressors were mostly African American. One man attacked 11 months ago by three African Americans in Brooklyn, NY, only because he was Mexican, lost his ability to speak and walks with difficulty.
New York is only one place where racial tensions are rising. Five years ago, hundreds of undocumented Mexicans came to New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. They were well received because they provided cheap labor. Today things are different. A Republican legislator, Joe Harrison, renewed his attempt to introduce and pass a bill (HB 1215) that seeks to criminalize the presence of undocumented immigrants in Louisiana. It is the example of Arizona that ever more finds sympathizers among a population bothered by the presence of these same “illegals” and their families who, five years ago, rescued their city.
“These workers, mainly of Mexican origin, have changed the demographic complexion of New Orleans by converting it to a city where the enchilada has become as common as jambalaya,” asserted Jose Torres Tama, an Ecuadorian artist and writer who has resided in New Orleans since 1984.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/703287.html
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El Diario de Juarez (Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua) 8/22/10
Equal employment opportunities working well in Cd. Juarez
Women have taken a major part in organized crime operations in Cd. Juarez, mainly because of unemployment, as well as pressures from their husbands or boyfriends and the impunity that exists. Most of them are used to transport drugs, arms and money from one point to another, but some become hired “hit-women” and others, actual leaders of crime cells. They turn to crime because of the job opportunities, but also for some, the attraction of the life style of the narcotrafficker, according to an analysis by several authorities.
http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=d706dcd1d8151244f04315ef5bc39d45
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Excelsior (Mexico City) 8/22/10
Decapitations continue to paint a grisly picture
Police in Cuernavaca, state capital of Morelos, were alerted that an organized crime group had decapitated and hung the bodies of four men from a bridge over a highway to the city. Arriving at the scene, police found the bodies of four young men, estimated ages 20 -25, hanging headless, upside down, from the bridge with hands and feet tied and their genitals mutilated. Their heads were left on the pavement of the highway and their genitals were found hanging over a narco-message.
http://www.nuevoexcelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=652550
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Oh, the stories I heard.
He should be cloned. He is one of my hero's!
I look forward to some really interesting Congressional hearings come January 2011.
Everything is all hunky-dorry, South of Border...
I do believe that if a white guy was accused of murdering a law enforcement officer then Sheriff Joe Arpaio would not have a problem finding room in his maximum security county jail in downtown Phoenix for the white guy.
While reminiscing about the stories and admiring the Sheriff as a hero.......
This desecration of our flag occurred on the main lawn directly in front of the Arizona Capital building on 7-31-2010....All caught on video.
These illegals and their Mexican pro-illegal alien supporters, spray painted, "Burn this racist city to the ground" and placed a toilet seat on Old Glory as they walked all over our flag....
Sheriff Joe rocks!!!
Working out of Chi-town with Liddy: I bet he knows LOADS of dirt. Hope the man publishes a biography.
Don’t like burning/desecrating the flag, but support a citizens first amendment rights.
Just like I support burning and/or other activities on a Qur’an.
A little civics lesson is in order here.
1st lesson - Jurisdiction.
*Notice the pictures; are those Sheriff Deputies or Police Officers?
2nd lesson – Election vs. Appointment
*Sheriffs are ELECTED in Arizona http://www.mcso.org/
*Police Chiefs are APPOINTED by Mayor/Council etc. http://www.azdoa.gov/agencies/default.asp
Or
http://www.phoenixpolice.com/
The location were the protest took place is under the jurisdiction of the local police. Take your beef up with them. Besides, do your research. Do you actually believe that Sheriff Joe Arpaio would let this happen considering the fact that he just arrested 2 of the County Commissioners aka County Supervisors this past month? The actually hold the purse strings to his jail.
Good Grief man, use a little common sense.
Obama’s August Surprise: Turning AZ and 22 other States over to the UN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2579789/posts
“States rebel and physically resist federal force, the military is split in performing war actions against individual states, Zer0 calls for UN forces on the pretense that the states in rebellion are committing human rights violations as set forth in prior complaints. And the UN can’t wait to get in on the act.”
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