Tens of Thousands of Criminal Aliens Cross Mexican Border
It's old news that Presidente Vicente Fox exports Mexico's poorest
citziens into the United States for a number of reasons: It relieves him
of the responsibility of providing social and healthcare services for
them; it provides his country's economy with an influx of US cash when
these illegal workers send money the earn in the US back home; and it
defuses problems with far-left groups who are usually successful in using
the poor to advance their political agenda.
So Presidente Fox gives his poor the "bum's rush" out of Mexico: Here's
your sombrero, here's a map, here's a bottle of water, now get out!
But there is another benefit to the exportation of Mexicans into the US --
Presidente Fox saves money on his criminal justice system by exporting his
criminal population to the United States. Thus, Fox's crime problem
becomes our crime problem; his prison problem becomes our prison problem.
It's difficult to ascertain just how many criminals from Mexico are
currently committing their criminal offenses. In fact, the mainstream news
media when covering crime cases intentionally neglects to mention that an
illegal alien is responsible for a murder or a rape that's being covered.
You'll rarely, if ever, read a story in the New York Times about criminal
aliens who routinely kill, assault, rape and rob American citizens. And
when hundreds of illegal aliens were discovered working at military
installations and nuclear power plants, where were the reporters from the
wire services?
It is safe to assume, however, based on a number of government reports,
that there are upwards of 200,000 criminal aliens residing in the US. That
doesn't include gangbangers such as MS-13, a group boasting as many as
15,000 gang members nationwide.
For example, Border Patrol agents in the Tucson, AZ Sector have
apprehended 27,834 illegal aliens with criminal records, 74 of which were
for homicide. Last fiscal year, the Tucson Sector apprehended 14,506
illegal aliens with criminal records. These figures do not include the
thousands of criminal aliens apprehended by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents or those in other Border Patrol sectors in other
states.
SAMPLE APPREHENSIONS
Border Patrol agents of the Tucson Sector apprehended an illegal alien
with an outstanding murder warrant for his arrest in New York City. The
suspect killed his victim, escaped back into Mexico and then re-entered
the US at a later date.
Last month, Border Patrol agents from the Casa Grande station apprehended
a group of 13 illegal aliens west of Sells, Arizona. All 13 subjects were
transported to the Nogales Processing Center where their fingerprints were
entered into the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS),
for comparison with the FBI fingerprint database.
One of the individuals, Jose Luis Castaneda-Cardenas, a 23-year-old
Mexican National, was identified as having an outstanding felony warrant
for “Felony Murder” and “Misdemeanor Criminal Possession of a Weapon,” in
New York City. The New York City Police Department verified the warrant,
and confirmed extradition of Castaneda. Castaneda remains in federal
custody while he's awaiting extradition to New York.
The technology, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
or IAFIS, enables Border Patrol agents to search fingerprint databases
simultaneously using the Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT)
and the FBI fingerprint database. It provides rapid identification of
individuals with outstanding criminal warrants by electronically comparing
a live-scanned fingerprint with a nationwide database of biometrically
indexed fingerprints.
In other incidents, Border Patrol agents of the Tucson Sector arrested two
sexual predators. One of which was a United States Citizen, wanted for
violent sex crimes. Border agents from the Douglas Station arrested Jose
Rodriguez, a 29-year-old illegal alien from Mexico.
At the station, agents identified Rodriguez as having a criminal record in
Denver, CO. He was arrested on November 30, 1998 for “Felony Sexual
Assault on a Child.” Rodriguez plead guilty and was sentenced to three
years incarceration. As a result of his conviction, he was subsequently
ordered removed from the United States on February 18, 1999.
Rodriguez is currently in federal custody pending removal proceedings and
prosecution. Also, agents from the Ajo Station encountered Jorge M. Sam, a
20-year-old United States citizen from Prescott, AZ during a vehicle stop.
Records checks through the Tucson Sector Communications Center, revealed
that Sam had an outstanding warrant for his arrest issued by the US
Marshals Service, as a sexually violent predator. The charges on the
warrant were “Sexual Assault against a Child” and “Carnal Abuse of a
Juvenile under the Age of 14 at Time of Assault.” Sam was arrested and
turned over to the Pima County Sheriffs Office to await extradition.
The southern border of the US is a region particularly vulnerable to
cross-border criminal organizations and enterprises and the violence
associated with them. In recent years, US citizens in the region have
witnessed an unprecedented surge in brutality by drug and human smuggling
and trafficking organizations along the Southwest border.
Sources: US Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security, US Marshals
Service, American Federation of Police and Concerned Citizens
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National
Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media
Alliance (thenma.org). He's former chief at a New York City housing
project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering
the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public
safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several
major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and
trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri
writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police,
Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for
TheConservativeVoice.Com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com,
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He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and
talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox
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