Posted on 01/14/2003 7:31:00 PM PST by Jean S
(Editor's Note: The following item is from the Jan. 14 Flashfax by radio talk show host Roger Hedgecock concerning the Jan. 9, 2003 crash of a truckload of illegal aliens in San Diego and the impersonation of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents by officials from the Mexican Consulate.)
We've got to build a cast of characters on a piece of paper so that we better understand what happened on January 9th following the crash of a pick up truck loaded with illegals fleeing U.S. Border Patrol and (California Highway Patrol) officers. Two women dead at the scene.
As related in yesterday's Flash some guy from the Mexican Consulate in San Diego poses as an American INS agent and gets into the back of the ambulance with the load driver who is being taken to a hospital. Interviews the load driver during the ride and then remains at the hospital (Scripps Hillcrest) with the driver.
Later five folks enter Grossmont hospital where two Mexican foot guides are taken and say they are with the INS and get the pair released and disappeared..
Humor me please while I compose the list of names. Heck maybe you can help. Have some info etc. Roger is demanding answers from Border Patrol, INS, CHP and John Ashcroft. Naming names might also get some local newsies interested in pursuing the matter. Boss is livid. Agents of a foreign government interfering in a murder investigation, a human smuggling investigation...on our side of the border. Next we'll folks from the Iraqi consulate wearing INS badges. Yeeeech.
CARLOS SANCHEZ-MORENO...the load driver. A Mexican who is well known to the BP (once threatened to kill a BP agent). He has been charged with murder.
SENIOR PATROL AGENT RAFAEL FREGOSO...on the scene of the murder crash...we guess he is with the BP. He also later shows up at hospital where load driver is located.
FERNANDO GRIJALVA. We think he is with the BP and perhaps a supervisor of some sort..also at the murder scene.
CHARLES DEERKOP. Also with BP? And also in charge of stuff.
ERROL A. SENA. A BP field ops person not at the scene but kept tabs on hospital distribution of crash/murder victims.
CHP OFFICER JENKINS of the El Cajon office. He was in the ambulance with our bud Carlos the load driver and was also at Scripps Hillcrest.
MANUEL DIEGO. BP guy at El Cajon. Seems to be buds with Ivan (see next entry)
IVAN CASTILLO-RODRIGUEZ. The Mexican guy who jumps into the load driver ambulance and passes himself off as an American INS officer...and when finally confronted admits that he is actually with the Mexican Consuls office.
MARIO CUEVAS. With the Mexican Consuls office in SD. He vouches for Ivan and apparently leads BP supervisors around by the nose.
RAUL GARZA....don't know who he is but we assume he's BP and may be buds with Mario.
CHP OFFICER PEARLSTEIN...at Scripps Hillcrest, joining Officer Jenkins.
BP AGENT KRAUSE...at Scripps Hillcrest. He is a guy who investigates when folks get dead and like that.
J. MULVEY...BP guy somehow associated with Errol A. Sena, see above.
TANYA WALLS...Scripps Hillcrest security.
GUILLERMO GUITIERREZ...don't know but a baggie of pot was found in his pants.
FRANK HAYES..BP guy...he shows up at Scripps Hillcrest.
MARK WOODY..BP guy..he also is at Scripps Hillcrest.
BP GUY HAYES...no clue but he's also at Scripps Hillcrest (we're getting crowded in here)
JENNIFER...a nurse at Grossmont Hospital (this is where the two foot guides were taken)
A WOMAN AND FOUR MEN...folks who show up at Grossmont the evening of January 9th , tell hospital staff they are with the American INS...all in business attire and all wearing INS badges.They demand that hospital staff release the two foot guides. They are handed over to the folks with INS badges. (we're told they have now disappeared)
MR. CARLOS NAVARRO...one of the four men referenced above. He is with the Mexican Consuls office.
DUNCAN...the paramedic who was in the ambulance with the load driver and CHP Officer Jenkins.
VALENTINE...Duncan's partner. (no relation)
WELL THAT IS THE COMPLEX CAST OF CHARACTERS. The script is real simple. At least six Mexican nationals passed themselves off as American INS agents on American soil. One had direct and unauthorized access to a murder suspect in American custody. (we're told that our bud Carlos is now in the custody of the SD Sheriff and has been charged with murder). Five others spirited away two accomplices who may have been charged and certainly would have been held to testify in a murder trial against bud Carlos.
ALL OF THIS HAPPENS WITH THE COMPLIANCE OF SEVERAL SWORN OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. Somebody gave these dudes INS badges that most folks think are official American Officer credentials. Somebody said it was okay for Ivan to question the load driver at Scripps Hillcrest. Somebody failed to put a guard on the two foot guides and allowed them to be whisked away by agents of a foreign government.
OH HECK IT'S JUST A MISUNDERSTANDING...Mexico is our friend. So the next time a situation like this arises the dudes with the fake INS badges will be from Iraq? And that will be okay?
WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN? The Mexican folks need to be criminally charged or kicked out of our country and never be allowed to return.
INS badges that allow foreigners to enter U.S. government facilities and parking areas should read VISITOR OR MEXICAN CONSULATE in giant letters. It should be impossible to confuse a foreigners identification with American I.D.
Crime scenes need to be controlled. We got this Mexican guy walking around the murder/crash scene and then jumping into an ambulance.
We need better triage coordination. Nobody knew what hospital any of the murder/crash victims had been taken to. It took like visits to three hospitals to find our bud Carlos.
Feds and CHP have to get their act together and ensure that suspects are UNDER GUARD. The two guys at Grossmont were unattended.
Heads should roll at BP and INS. Supervisors. The U.S. State Department should yell and scream and demand the return of the two foot guides. Tom Ridge should yell and scream. John Ashcroft should yell and scream. Duncan Hunter will yell and scream.
And then we walk over this case minute by minute and put in place regs and cross checks that never let it happen again.
HARKEN BACK WITH US TO SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 . Without access none of the 19 killers would have been able to get on those airplanes. We gave them visas, lost track of them on our computers, failed to communicate, ignored warnings, made sure they made their flights and allowed them to kill us. Now we allow our border to be crossed at whim, turn our freeways into auto roulette arenas, let agents of foreign governments pass themselves off as U.S. officials and our law enforcement folks act like dupes and dumb bells. These folks are gonna protect us?
Roger Hedgecock is a talk show host at KOGO Radio in San Diego and a guest host for the Rush Limbaugh Show. Copyright 2003, Roger Hedgecock. Used with permission.
The foot guides might have been killed ---there's a reason the Mexican government didn't want them taken into INS custody, they may have known too much or were working for a competing drug cartel.
What racist BS. Illegal immigrants should be treated like the criminals that they are, regardless of where they come from.
"Mexican Officials Who Impersonate INS Agents will Receive Credit for Hours Worked for Purposes of Social Security Benefits."
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