March 6, 2008
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix (58), a convicted Mexican drug cartel boss has been freed to return back to Mexico just weeks after he began his sentence in a U.S. Prison.
Felix is the eldest of a clan of brothers who ran Mexico’s popular Tijuana cartel. As he had no pending charges in Mexico against him he was allowed to go as a freed man.
Just one more example of why America fails on the war on drugs.
March 7, 2008
ALEXANDRIA, Va — Lloyd W. Miner (49), a former Assistant Chief of Internal Affairs Investigations for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, better known as I.C.E. has been sentenced to a year of prison for harboring, since 2005, an illegal immigrant.
The 21-year-old immigrant from Mongolia also happens to be his girlfriend. She has been sentenced to a month in prison for identification fraud.
Is a new website updated daily by the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s department. This new website will allow county residents to be able to track sex offenders in their area.
Dona Ana County currently has 205 registered sex offenders.
10 to 1 odds they never find these individuals again to prosecute them for this illegal act. It seems to be the story with law enforcement, over and over they come face to face with law breakers, and they just let them go. If I noticed open cages, a wire cutter and a person carrying a bag of chicken feathers near where I had chickens penned. I would not need a second guess to know what they were doing, and I would not need to spend years in college to figure it out.
LATIMES
Highway Patrol Interrupts Rooster Retrieval Scheme
Two men intent on stealing back a flock of cockfighting roosters from a Bakersfield animal shelter Friday had their middle-of-the-night plan interrupted by California Highway Patrol officers, authorities said.
The men were apprehended near the Bakersfield Animal Shelter carrying burlap sacks containing feathers, said Lt. Brad Wahl of the Bakersfield Police Department. A check of their vehicle turned up cockfighting videos but no roosters, so the vehicle was impounded and the men were released, Wahl said.
The CHP officers were unaware that a day earlier 45 roosters had been removed from a home by a police task force that was serving search warrants on a different matter, Wahl said. However, the CHP officers did notify animal control officials of the suspicious activity. When animal control officers counted the impounded cocks, they discovered that 13 were missing, said Denise Haynes of Kern County Animal Control.
The cages were not locked so it would have been easy to retrieve the roosters once the thieves got over a barbed-wire fence around the shelter, Haynes said. A pair of bolt cutters was found near the cages.
“My guess is the CHP caught them on a return trip. They were coming back for more,” Haynes said.
The suspects are at large but detectives with the Police Department were investigating the thefts, Wahl said.
March 7, 2008
WATERFORD, Conn — Waterford has suspended three officers and a sergeant which were found to be spending time at home while they should have been on patrol.
While the names of the individuals involved will not be released, the officers in question were to be working the midnight shift but were at home instead. An investigation involving technology available to the police department including police cars equip with global positioning made it possible for supervisors to track the cruiser as well as how long it was parked at a location.
While there were no missed emergency calls resulting from the officer’s behavior, there was a great failure to do their job and patrol the streets to keep people safe. The job that Taxpayer dollars pays them to do.
On February 8, 2008 Leonard A. Kelly, a Houston police cadet was terminated of his position for violation of departmental rules and regulations. The charge theft.
Lucas Peterson (23), was accused of killing his 10 month old daughter and dumping her body. Yet charges of child abuse and murder of a child have been thrown out and replaced with lesser charge of concealing the death. This means Peterson faces up to a year in prison rather than a life sentence.
So lets get this right. The man murders his daughter, conceals the murder, buries the child in a shallow grave and lies to the police. Finally breaking down he takes the police to the body and he’s basically free to go.
This makes no sense at all and is a total OUTRAGE! That child’s death deserves to be defended and that means assuring her murderer isn’t given a slap on the wrist and sent to his room to “think about it”. One can only hope Prison justice is his reward.
India may have taken giant strides in every possible sphere of life across the world, but there are things that come as real blot to its global image.
Quoting a US Department of Homeland Security report, mercurynews reports that Indians are the fastest-growing group of illegal immigrants in the United States.
The report says there are 2,70,000 unauthorized Indians in the United States - a 125 percent jump since 2000, the largest percentage increase of any nation with more than 100,000 illegal immigrants in that country.
What continues to shock is that they are able to give accurate figures of how many illegal aliens are in this country, yet claim they are unable to find them to return them to their homelands
The report says though the number of Indian immigrants is low when compared to people from Mexico, the Indian context is appalling as the illegal immigrants mostly consist of high-skilled workers. Illegal immigrants from other countries are mostly low-skilled workers.
This combination of high-skilled illegal workers and low-skilled illegal workers end up forcing all American’s into having to fight each other for middle-skilled jobs or deal with unemployment all together.
Mercurynews, in its report, also says if the trend continues India will only trail only Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala in illegal immigration.
The report quoting experts says virtually all immigrants enter the US legally and then violate the visa terms, thus becomimg illegal immigrants.
“How do you get in? You come across the border, or you arrive here with a visa,” Lindsay Lowell, policy director for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University told Mercurynews.
“Indians aren’t going to be walking across the border like Mexicans,” he said.
There have been numerous reports of OTM’s (Other Than Mexican’s) crossing our Southern and Northern borders. Some learning Spanish, and carrying mexican passports and documents.
Federal officials calculated the number of illegal immigrants by using census estimates of the total number of immigrants from individual countries, compiling the total number of legal immigrants using federal immigration and naturalization records, and then subtracting the number of legal residents from the total immigrant population to determine the number of undocumented people, the report said.
Asked by Mercurynews about the number of illegal Indians in Silicon Valley, Banjit Singh, an Indian-born taxi driver, said, “Here, there is a little bit. But you go to another city or state, like Los Angeles or New York, there are many illegal people.”
Local immigration lawyers say that particularly among Indians, the ups and downs of Silicon Valley’s economy since 2001 are one reason why Indians have fallen out of legal status.
The problems with the ups and downs would be less an issue and reduce illegal aliens if companies made a motto and lived by it of “American’s first”
“Most are bachelors; the way they get here is they have a job,” Gabriel Jack, a San Jose immigration lawyer, said of many of his Indian clients.
“They come here as professionals, most often in the H-1B program, and given the fluctuations of Silicon Valley, the business climate, these guys lose their jobs. They get laid off or they wager their hands on a start-up coming in,” Jack said.
“The problem with the H-1B program is, you can’t have any significant time between jobs” without falling out of legal status.
In most countries, if you loose your job you are returned to your home country. Why is this policy not implemented in the United States? It was stated that the whole reason they came here is due to having a job, once that job goes they should be returned home until another hires them on a new H-1B.
Indians made up 44 percent of H-1B applicants in the 2005-06 fiscal year, five times the number from second-place China, the report says.
The report says another source is relatives from India who arrive for a visit on a tourist visa and never go home.
“America is a very attractive country; everybody who comes here wants to stay,” said Shah Peerally, a Silicon Valley immigration lawyer. “I can tell you right now, there are nearly 1 billion people in India, of which maybe 800 million want to come here.”
The United States deported close to 500 Indians a year in recent years, another expert tells Mecurynews.
500 deported out of 270,000 currently here and how many more entering yearly? It seems progress in fixing this situation is failing.
“Unless Congress reforms the immigration system we are going to see this high-skilled, illegal workforce emerging,” said Frank D. Bean, director of the Immigration Research Center at the University of California-Irvine.
No, unless Congress finally agrees to enforce the current Federal Laws regarding illegal aliens, we will see this illegal trend continue. But then I guess it’s easier to rebuild the house, rather then just tighten the loose screw in the door handle.
Phoenix police officers came out on Tuesday against proposed changes to Operations Order 1.4, saying the new immigration-enforcement policy would not give them sufficient discretion to enforce the law.
The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association sought a policy that allows officers to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement whenever they have “reasonable suspicion” that someone they detain is living in the country illegally.
It would be up to ICE whether that person should be held or deported.
“Your police officers maintain the need for an immediate, real-time, discretionary phone call to ICE based upon reasonable suspicion, and nothing else,” said Mark Spencer, PLEA president.
Mary Jo Pitzl
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 19, 2008 01:16 PM
A federal judge today denied a request for an injunction to block the state’s employer-sanctions law pending an appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The ruling means that prosecutors are free to begin enforcement actions on March 1.
U.S. District Court Judge Neil V. Wake rejected the injunction request from business and Hispanic civil-rights groups, saying they failed to show it is likely they would prevail in an appeals-court hearing. He also said they didn’t demonstrate that businesses in Arizona would suffer greater hardships from having to comply with the sanctions law than the state in general would suffer if the law were not enforced.
Wake upheld the employer sanctions law Feb. 7 in a landmark ruling that was appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court.
The sanctions law gives the state authority to take action against a business’ licenses if the employer is found to have knowingly or intentionally hired an illegal worker.
Provisions
Penalties
The court would order that the employment of all undocumented workers at the business be terminated, and require the employer to sign an affidavit stating that the workers were fired and they will not hire such workers in the future. Employers would be placed on probation for three years (five, for “intentional” violations)
Enforcement
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