M3 Report: US Court Documents Claim Sinaloa “Cartel” Is Protected by US Government
Thursday, August 4th, 2011M3 Report from the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers:
Cartel Head Escapes, Others Caught; MALDEF wants 2nd all-Latino district in California
Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:17 AM PDT
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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican, Central and South American and U.S. on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you do so in its entirety and credit NAFBPO as being the provider.
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CAUTION There may be graphic photographs that accompany some articles in the body of this report. It is not our intention to sensationalize. We include these photos in order to give to you, the American public, a clearer understanding of the seriousness of the situation in Mexico and Central America.
ACAPULCO, GUERRERO
Mexican Marines and federal police announced they have arrested the leader of the Independent Cartel of Acapulco (CIDA) and 3 others, including one minor. The leader, known as ‘El Koreano’, retired as an agent of the state police 3 years ago. All four arrested have been flown to Mexico City. He was connected to the killing of 18 from Michoacan which were then buried in a clandestine grave in Tuncingo.-http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/782955.html
SINALOA*
The month of July recorded 157 homicides in the state, down from 178 in June. These included 17 slain law enforcement officers from different departments.-http://www.lapoliciaca.com/nota-roja/matan-a-157-en-julio/
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**Asterisk denotes death involving a police officer or a member of the military serving in that capacity.
TOPO CHICO PRISON, NUEVO LEÓN
Two inmates murdered another because he had not paid his ‘quota’, and owed 550,000 pesos (US $46,838.44). Guards caught them in the act with a shovel. The victim had been in since March 2008.
CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA
Unknown assassins beat a man to death in the street in daytime, and returned his body to the truck.
TUMBISCATÍO, MICHOACÁN
A shootout between unknown gunmen and the Mexican Army left two of the gunmen dead, with the rest escaping. Seized were two .38 Super pistols, 21 magazines , cartridges, two HK rifles, cartridge belts, among other things.
MEXICO CITY, DISTRITO FEDERAL
Héctor Guajardo Hernández, alias El Huicho, who was recovering from being shot during his May 9th capture, escaped from a private hospital. Two federal agents guarding him are also missing. El Huicho was head of the Sinaloa cartel in Baja California, heir to the cell formed by El Teo, Teodoro Garcia Simental.
GUADALUPE, NUEVO LEÓN
Municipal police investigating an abandoned taxi discovered a dismembered man’s body, with the head separate in the trunk.
ESCOBEDO, NUEVO LEÓN
The Mexican Army received a tip of armed men in an area, and came under fire when they arrived there. It was discovered to be a training camp. One gunmen was killed, and the rest escaped. Seized were five rifles, 33 magazines , a thousand 500 cartridges, two tactical vests, three plates for body armor, four ammo carriers, nine radios, silhouette shooting targets, a Volvo truck, a Toyota truck, among other things.
CULIACAN, SINALOA
Municipal and state police officers responded to a report of a dead body in La Primavera Dam. They found a woman’s body, originally discovered by people fishing there. The victim had a plastic bag secured over her head.
TAMAULIPAS
The Mexican military observed a group of gunmen near the free road between Matamoras and Reynosa. An intense shootout began, resulting in the three bad guys being killed. Inside the vehicle, two men that had been kidnapped were found handcuffed and executed. Rifles, magazines. ammunition and a vehicle were seized.
MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN
The month of August began as the end of the last month, with more bodies. Police received a report of an abandoned vehicle, and found a man and woman executed in the back seat. They had been shot multiple times in the head.
SAN NICOLAS DE LOS GARZA, NUEVO LEÓN*
It is being reported that bodies found a couple of days ago were Ernesto Hernández Medellín, municipal police supervisor, and his son Missael Hernández. (This locale on the edges of the Monterrey municipal area has lost a lot of it’s police to the violence.)
CIUDAD ALTAMIRANO, GUERRERO
Narco banners were placed around the town by the Knights Templar, directed to President Calderón.
MORELIA, MICHOACAN
Authorities today announced that Nestor Ramirez Muñoz, aka El Silver, was captued a week ago. He was the chief operating officer of the Knights Templar in Morelia, and controlled the main entances to the city. He was connected to the kidnapping of 21 people massacred in June. Rene Lopez Anguiano, 27 yrs old, was also caught. He is a fomer state policeman, and acted as Muñoz’ bodyguard.
APATZINGAN, MICHOACAN
Mexican federal police carried out major operation, capturing Nery Salgado Harrison, alias Yupo, the head of the Knights Templar for Apatzingan. he began his criminal career at 18, dealing cocaine, and a year later, joined the the LFM led by El Chango. Because of his success in getting larger amounts of ice (meth) into the US, he was given the Apatzingan plaza and control of several clandestine ice labs. After the death of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, aka El Chayo, in December 2010 during a shootout with the military and breaks in the LFM, he joined Servando Gómez Martínez, alias La Tuta and Henry Plancarte Solis, in the Knights Templar. He provided the authorities with additional information o the Knights Templar, and alliances with other cartels
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ALLENDE, NUEVO LEÓN
Authorities received a report of two dismenbered women in 3 plastic boxes left along roadway, with 2 narco messages. The remains were later identified as the nieces of the head of the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL) in Nuevo Leon.
ACAPULCO, GUERRERO
Sunday, two women were executed in the street, ith a Jeep parked nearby which belonged to them. They were later identified as two 28 year old women by relatives.
ACAPULCO, GUERRERO
Municipal police officers found 3 executed men inside a taxi, who were themselves armed. One of the weapons was an Uzi, and there was both cocaine and crack cocaine.
SAN LORENZO & ANGAHUAN, MICHOACAN
Federal highway police clashed with gunmen between the two name communities along the Uruapan-Los Reyes Highway. This resulted in five bad guys killed, and the seizure of two vehicles, five assault rifles, magazines, ammunition, among other things.
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Colombian Rebels Kill Police Officer During Rescue Operation*
Deputy Chief, a 14 yr. veteran, died during rescue of a kidnapped man.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=411999&CategoryId=12393
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Sixth Colombian Police Dies in Plane Crash******
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=411832&CategoryId=12393
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Mexican authorities confirm arrest of reputed Juarez cartel boss, present him to media
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_18588086?source=most_viewed
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Poverty grew in Mexico to nearly half the population, study finds
The government of President Felipe Calderon blames the poverty numbers on the global financial crisis that sent Mexico into recession in 2009 and the worldwide hike in food prices.
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US Court Documents Claim Sinaloa “Cartel” Is Protected by US Government
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Court rejects former Guatemalan first lady’s presidential run
“Obviously, in trying to get around this law, as the tribunal ruled, legal fraud was committed”, –Guatemalan Supreme Court Chief Justice Luis Archila
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/07/30/guatemala.sandra.torres/
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21 top prosecutors quit as Mexico continues purge
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El Salvador police say farmer and son take, then free 30 hostages at evangelical church
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Cutter Seneca makes first interdiction of Western Caribbean drug sub and underwater
recovery http://tinyurl.com/3pfe4nh
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Honduras Recovers Another 4.5 Tons of Cocaine from Drug Sub
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Honda to build new plant in Mexico
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Teen Hitwoman Arrested in Colombia
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=412273&CategoryId=12393
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Mexican police: Drug gang leader says he ordered 1,500 killings
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Mexico’s cartels rely on their cash crop:Marijuana
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Mexican police search for missing pollsters
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Colombian Rebels Release 5 Kidnapped Oil Workers
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Violence driving more affluent Mexicans to U.S. cities, including
Dallas
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Domestic News – United States
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Open letter to Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne: Prosecute the ATF People Responsible for Fast and Furious under State Law
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For Mexicans, Fast and Furious conflict confirms U.S. role in Mexico’s violence
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Obama and the Drug Cartels
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/obama_and_the_drug_cartels.html
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Life on the Line
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Latino activist group MALDEF wants a 2nd all-Latino district in California
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SAN DIEGO
49 Arrested, Drugs, Weapons Seized In Sweep
http://www.10news.com/news/28733786/detail.html
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Cartels using submarines to smuggle drugs into U.S.
(And let’s not forget that the terrorists south of the border can use these same subs to smuggle in WMD’s, whether chemical, biological, or radiological such as a dirty bomb or nuclear device.)
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Law inhibits many Mexican asylum cases
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_18587920
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VERMONT
ATF joins with Border Patrol, Vermont locals in gun crackdown
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ARIZONA
Agency helps with child adoptions from Mexico
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GEORGIA
State lists IDs needed to comply with immigration law
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CALIFORNIA
County contractors required to verify workers’ immigration status
http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/required-29134-san-bernardino.html
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Combating Drugs: DEA and ICE Interagency Agreement has Helped, say Analysts
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Farmers Oppose G.O.P. Bill on Immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/us/politics/31verify.html?_r=1
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North Carolina Illegal Alien Crime Report Archives -since 2009
http://ncfire.info/crimearchives.htm
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National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers offers Proposal for Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement and Reform
Monday, October 4th, 2010The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) on October 3rd offered a propsal for Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement and Reform.
In its cover sheet, NAFBPO notes that ” People from around the world want to come to this country to reside but we cannot uncritically open our borders to the masses of the world. What we must do, then, is create immigration policies that address, first, national needs and well-being, and second, honor our history as a nation of immigrants.”
NAFBPO goes on to state: “We are surrounded by a world in chaos and it is impacting the everyday lives of our citizens. A war on terrorism, rampant drug and alien smuggling, sex slave trading, criminal gangs, fraud of many sorts: all have roots in illegal immigration and all are tearing at the fabric of our society and eroding our sovereignty.”
One very interesting aspect of the NAFBPO proposal addresses proposed Wilderness Areas on the border. As an advocate of more Forward Observation Bases and horse patrols on the border, this is a very important issue being raised.
• Environmental legislation. There is, among environmentalists and in Congress, a move to create huge swaths of formally-designated wilderness along the borders with Mexico and Canada. In places, they will extend deep into the United States.
The controlling legislation, the Wilderness Act of 1964, prohibits any motorized conveyance or man-made structure with wilderness areas. That includes landing of aircraft.
What this means is that, as a practical matter, the Border Patrol is prohibited from patrolling wilderness areas except on foot or horseback. Smugglers and illegal aliens observe no such prohibitions.
The effect on border security is predictable – wilderness areas become a highway and haven for them. Furthermore, environmental sensitivity not having seeped into the consciousness of smugglers and illegal aliens, the lands protected from the Border Patrol become dumps as passers-through deposit all manner of trash and garbage by the ton.
The Department of Homeland Security periodically announces that it has reached an accommodation with the other agencies involved, usually the Department of the Interior’s Forest Service or the National Park Service. DHS typically goes on to say that the ability to control the border will not be impacted by the creation of wilderness areas.
At NAFBPO we have, cumulatively, hundreds of years of border enforcement experience. We declare those announcements by DHS to be, at best, willfully blind to reality and at worst, an attempt to undermine the meaning of our borders. There are some things that technology cannot compensate for, and an officer on the ground at the right place and time is one of those things. The ability to be wherever needed, whenever, is fundamental to Border Patrol operations and legislation such as that being considered is utterly foolish if a secure border is to be created.
I encourage you to read the NAFBPO proposal…whether or not you agree with some of its provision…this clearly highlights the complexity of our border and immigration issues and the size of the task needed to fully address all border and immigration problems facing the country now.
An executive summary of the NAFBPO proposal:
strong>Step 1 – Secure our borders
• Border security between the ports of entry.
– Officer strength is nearly adequate at the projected 20,000 officer level.
– Current and anticipated technology is useful as an adjunct to manpower but is no substitute for it.
– Assure adequate space to process to detain all those arrested.
– Prosecute for immigration violations wherever possible, particularly for alien smuggling violations.
• Border security at ports of entry.
– As many as one-half of illegal aliens enter through ports of entry, either surreptitiously or by fraud.
– The balance between expediting traffic and conducting meaningful inspections tilts now toward expediting traffic.The balance must be recast in favor of thorough inspections.
– Ports of entry (land, air, and sea) have not received adequate attention in recent years. They are undersized and understaffed. Criminals know that and act on it.The inspections staff must be increased significantly.
– The effectiveness of inspectors can be enhanced by technologies not yet widely used: They should be brought on-line as quickly as possible.
Step 2 – Interior enforcement
• Increase the force of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents devoted to immigration enforcement. Only a small portion of the total number of ICE agents enforces immigration laws.
• Vigorously enforce employer sanctions.This is a fundamental, but not sole, precept for interior control.
• Seek out and remove any aliens found illegally in the U.S, not just criminals. No illegal alien should feel safe from detection and removal.
• Investigate and prosecute those who commit immigration fraud , including United States citizens and lawfully admitted aliens.
• Respond to calls from other law enforcement officers who have encountered people they believe are illegal aliens.
• Ancillary units upon which ICE enforcement depends, from detention and removal to
intelligence to trial attorneys and immigration judges must be increased in size commensurate with the increase in enforcement personnel.Step 3 – Enforce existing laws and use other existing tools
• Employer sanctions – aggressively prosecute those who knowingly hire illegal aliens.
At present, there are not enough prosecutions to provide a deterrent lesson to those who knowingly hire illegal aliens.• Section 287(g) – return to widespread granting of authority to state and municipal law enforcement agencies authorizing their officers to make immigration arrests.
• E-Verify program – encourage the present use of this voluntary program that verifies the eligibility for employment of job applicants. Its diligent use should be an affirmative defense against fines when illegal aliens are found on a job.
• No-Match letters – make a matter of law the practice of having the Social Security Administration issue letters to employers when withholdings submitted under a SSAN do not match the name in SSA records.
• Non-Citizen entry-exit matching system – this process will record both the arrival and departure of aliens as they pass through ports of entry. At this time, there is no record kept of departures; thus we have no idea of who has remained longer than he should have.
• Sanctuary cities – cities that impede or fail to cooperate with ICE in detecting illegal aliens should be penalized by loss of federal funds for justice programs. In egregious cases, city authorities should be prosecuted under 8 USC 1373 for willful concealment of aliens.
Step 4 – Identification fraud
• Issue a secure, tamper-resistant Social Security card as the sole evidence of eligibility for employment in the U.S.
• Implement the Real ID Act, HR 98 – this law, if passed, would be an important tool in dealing with fraudulent documents and their use.
Step 5 – Temporary worker program
• A TWP may only be implemented after demonstration of a secure border and proof of an effective employer sanctions program.
• A TWP must be a plan for temporary workers.• Aliens may apply for jobs only from their home country.
• All aliens seeking consideration for TWP must appear in person at a consulate or dedicated office overseas to allow criminal and background checks.
• The “H” and “L” nonimmigrant classifications allow aliens to perform temporary services when legal U.S. workers are unavailable. They are fraudulently used in many cases. The programs and participants should be subjected to intense reconsideration.
Step 6 – Amnesty
• Widespread problems with the 1986 amnesty should have taught this nation something. Fraud was endemic to the entire process.
• Current proposals for a legalization program are a corrupt bargain. They allow the illegal alien to buy his way out of the offense. He pays, not a fine, but a bribe because the money changing hands gives him what he wants. The fact that he is bribing the government as a whole does not sanctify the deal.
• Registering the estimated 10-12 million applicants would be a monumental task, impossible to accomplish in any rational time frame or fashion.
• Judicial involvement in any legalization program would certainly expand it beyond recognition, just as happened with the 1986 law.
• Chain migration, that is, families following to join those getting amnesty, would number around five times as many more over 20 years as gained the benefit initially.
• An accurate cost of an amnesty is incalculable, but an estimate by the Heritage Foundation supposes that it could be around 2.6 Trillion dollars over 20 years.
• Another amnesty will again send a signal to the world that the U.S. is not serious about enforcing its immigration laws
Step 7 – What to do with those here now?
• NAFBPO does not contemplate nor encourage massive waves of arrests and deportations. A proper application of social pressures will cause millions to depart on their own.
• To create those pressures, illegal aliens must be denied access to jobs, public
benefits, sources of identification (particularly driver’s licenses,) vehicle registrations, mortgages and loans from federally-insured institutions, and tuition assistance at public educational facilities.Step 8 – Immigration legislation
• The fundamental balance of priorities for immigrants established by our immigration laws must be changed from family reunification to prefer those who bring skills and job-creating investment to this country.
• Citizenship by virtue of birth in the United States is an idea past due for change. Citizenship should be granted at birth only to children born to U.S. citizens or to aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
• Congress should issue a “sense of the Congress” statement that immigration laws matters and they deserve careful enforcement, not deliberate neglect as a policy.
Step 9 – Other matters
•Border security
Violence in Mexico by drug cartels is spilling onto and over the border. The Border Patrol’s training should be expanded to deal with armed threats by small units and their armament should be upgraded commensurate with that mission.
Use of the military on the border
The National Guard is an appropriate entity to provide logistical support, training, and armed backup for the Border Patrol.
Environmental legislation
Creation of wilderness areas along the border is sought by environmental groups and supported by apologists for illegal immigration who would prefer an open border. It must be opposed vigorously.
Visa issuance process
This is the first line of defense against illegal and fraudulent entry through ports of entry. It is often not used effectively as the tool it should be to detect and deter those who would come here for nefarious purposes.
Blanket visa waivers
– on a basis of reciprocity, we do not demand visas from nationals of many countries regarded as low-risk for fraud, and friendly. Now, the existence of terrorists in every nation, now, makes this process suspect in that people from those countries arrive on our shores without previous screening.
Departure verification
– we have no system in place to verify that an alien who has come here has departed as he stated he would or was required to do. Thus, we do not know who is here.
• Improving the tamper-resistance of immigration documents is always a worthwhile goal. Steps in that direction were recently taken; they should continue.
The Matricula card
– this is a Mexican identification card issued to Mexican citizens by Mexican consular offices in the U.S. It is not secure identification in any way, shape, or form, yet it is accepted by many government entities and private institutions, such as banks. It must be declared invalid as a matter of law for purposes other than personal identification.
State and local police cooperation
– in short, this should be encourage, not discouraged. Section 287(g) of the INA (discussed above) should be promoted as a tool for law enforcement.
The annual alien address report
– this report, discontinued in the early 1970s, should be reinstituted. Modern technology makes it easy and national security calls for its use.
Step 10 – Summary and Closing
Immigration laws exist for four primary reasons. They are:
• Protect national security and sovereignty
• Protect American jobs and social programs
• Protect public safety
• Protect public health
For decades we have neglected immigration laws, forgetting that they exist for demonstrable reasons. Good laws and diligent enforcement benefit the nation, both in what they encourage and what they forbid.
We are paying the price now for that neglect, and it is time for it to cease. The nation should reexamine its immigration laws in light of national interests and the interests of individual Americans then adopt laws and practices that benefit us all.
Here is the full text of the NAFBPO….ReformProposalNAFBPO-10
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