INS had ordered suspect in nun's slaying deported

AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer ^ | September 7, 2002

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PORTLAND -- The man charged with raping and killing a Bellevue nun was apprehended in the Portland railroad yards in 1992 by a federal immigration official who made him promise to leave the country.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service agent who arrested Maximiliano Silerio Esparza on Oct. 21, 1992, apparently was unaware that Esparza had been in a California prison earlier that year and had already received formal deportation orders.

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	With interpreter Chely Tillson, Maximiliano Silerio Esparza sits in jail in Klamath Falls, Ore., accused of killing a Bellevue nun.

Esparza was asked to sign an I-210, a form that is part of the INS' most casual deportation program, which some INS agents derisively call "catch-and-release."

The document made him acknowledge that he was in the United States illegally and promise to leave shortly, according to an internal INS record obtained by The Oregonian in Portland.

A month later, Portland police arrested Esparza on suspicion of selling cocaine, but again Esparza was released. Esparza was indicted on the drug charges but never showed up at court. He has had a warrant out for his arrest since.

Ed Sale, spokesman for the INS Portland District, said he couldn't comment on any of the agency's encounters with Esparza.

A Klamath County grand jury indicted Esparza Thursday on 11 counts, including aggravated murder, rape and sodomy.

Police say Esparza rode a train from Portland to Klamath Falls last weekend before visiting a strip bar. They say he attacked two nuns early Sunday morning while they were praying on a downtown bike path.

Authorities say he head-butted one of the nuns and raped them both while controlling them with the rosary beads around their necks. Helen Chaska -- who went by the name Sister Helena Maria -- died in the attack, strangled by her own beads, according to an autopsy.

Klamath County Prosecutor Ed Caleb is seeking the death penalty for Esparza. He said he is putting two staff investigators on the case full time to try to piece together Esparza's past. Investigators, Caleb said, are looking into as many as nine aliases Esparza has used.

Esparza's 1992 record shows:

• He was released from a California prison under the alias Martin Martinez on Jan. 15 after serving three years for robbery and kidnapping. He was supposed to be deported then, but it's unclear whether he was. Immigration records, however, show that he was ordered deported Jan. 31 in Florence, Ariz., but this time under the alias Victor Batres-Martinez.

• When he was picked up by the INS and Portland police later that year, he went by Maximiliano Silerio Esparza, which is the name under which he is held in Klamath Falls.

  It is the name of the governor of the Mexican state of Durango from 1989 to 1998.

  Klamath County investigators suspect that Esparza used other aliases, including Mateo Jimenez, Manuel Martinez Martinez, Victor Martinez Guerrero and Jose Garcia Perez.

  A computerized fingerprinting program called IDENT has helped the INS track criminal immigrants far better than it could 10 years ago, Sale said, noting that the new technology makes it much harder for people to maintain multiple fake identities.

  Chaska, 53, was a nun with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a small order unaffiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.

  In her missionary work, Chaska repeatedly visited Darlene Brody of Auburn.

  Brody recalled Chaska quite differently than did her siblings, who portrayed their oldest sister as loving but strong-minded and preachy before they lost contact with her years ago.

  "She was a very, very shy person," Brody said of Chaska.

  "She hardly said anything. She was extremely shy about everything. It just hurts so much for it to happen to her. She was a wonderful woman."

[Texas_Jarhead]

damn shame!

[End Times Sentinel]

who made him promise to leave the country...Esparza was asked to sign an I-210...A computerized fingerprinting program called IDENT has helped the INS track criminal immigrants far better than it could 10 years ago

 

It's a sad day indeed when we can't trust an illegal alien convicted of felonies to respect the awesome power of the I-210.  I, however, will feel much safer knowing that the IDENT program will allow our government to do a much better job of knowing roughly where our criminal illegal immigrants are, from time to time.

Hats off to you, INS!

 

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[dennisw]

He had 9 aliases??? Most Mexicans only have 3 or 4.

[dennisw]

Klamath County investigators suspect that Esparza used other aliases, including Mateo Jimenez, Manuel Martinez Martinez, Victor Martinez Guerrero and Jose Garcia Perez.
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My real name JOSE JIMENEZ

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I wonder whether he had one of those Mexican consular ID cards.

[dennisw]

I wonder whether he had one of those Mexican consular ID cards.

More like ten of them!

[sarcasm]

Couldn't possible be true - the Mexican government has assured us that they can't be forged.

[dennisw]

Couldn't possible be true - the Mexican government has assured us that they can't be forged.

You can find a free Mexican consular ID card in certain brands of nacho chips. Kinda like the prize in the box of cracker jacks.

[Coeur de Lion]

As a Mexican you probably don't need anymore than 3 or 4 IDs. When I refinanced my house I started up a conversation with the person who came by with the papers for me to sign. I don't know why the conversation came up, but she mentioned at one time she was a teller, and Mexicans would come in and present her with three checks or more. One would be a regular paycheck, one would a check from general relief and one would be for unemployment. Now, each check was written out for a different person but, they had ID for each one of those persons. The first time this happened she asked the bank manager what she should do and his response was, "He has an ID for each check, you need to cash them." Now latter she found out multiple IDs with multiple checks wasn't uncommon for Mexicans at all.

Now the bank manager probably couldn't have cared less whether this guy was breaking the law, but of course any one with half a brain knew the person was illegally claiming general relief and unemployment.

She also said, every month, Mexicans would clear out their accounts and then a month later re-establish them. She started noticing that everytime she cleared out an account that some government agency would soon afterward contact the bank as to whether this person had any assets in their accounts.

[jordan8]

Would you throw this scum in with your family? Have him live in the same house as your daughters? You would have to hate your family to do so, wouldn't you say? Yet the establishment continues to foist tens of thousands (or more) just like him onto the American public every year, in violation of the law, common sense, and the will of the people. Sort of the equivalent of closing your eyes and shooting into a crowd. Doesn't that show hatred and criminal intent? Esparza is just the bullet, the gun is in other hands.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

When you first posted this, I wanted to say I bet he's an illegal, but the RACE BAITERS would have come after me. Now I see that I'm right.

Can't stand those stupid race baiters.

[FITZ]

He had 9 aliases??? Most Mexicans only have 3 or 4.

I know of one who had 4 and got caught shoplifting. They found out she was collecting 4 welfare checks in 3 different states with them, she jumped bail is back in Mexico ---ironically she can't get a job now in Mexico because she doesn't have a birth certificate from there. She was one of the 1980s amnestied but now that she's a felon she might have a harder time getting in on the next one.