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An illegal alien apprehended by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency during the last fiscal year had an estimated 84 percent chance of never being prosecuted, according to figures compiled by the office of Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas).
Culberson submitted the figures for the record during a hearing Wednesday of the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security.
Of 447,731 illegal aliens apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol during fiscal year 2010 (which ended last September), only 73,263 (16.4 percent) were prosecuted, according to the submitted data. That means that 374,468 illegal aliens that were taken into custody (83.6 percent) were never prosecuted.
Last May, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents searched and took Pascal Abidor’s laptop and external hard drive when he was returning home to New York City from Montreal, Canada, where he attends graduate school. When his laptop and hard drive were returned to him 11 days later, Abidor discovered agents had opened numerous files, including personal photographs, a transcript of a chat with his girlfriend, copies of email correspondence, class notes, journal articles, tax returns, his graduate school transcript, and his resume.
This past fall, we, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys (NACDL) filed a suiton behalf of Abidor, the NACDL, and the National Press Photographers Association, challenging the government’s policy of searching and keeping laptops, cell phones, and other electronic devices at the border in the absence of any suspicion of wrongdoing. Today, we filed a brief asking the court to reject the government’s attempt to dismiss our suit.
As Abidor’s situation makes all too clear, in today’s world, the search of a computer or phone is akin to — if not more invasive than — the search of a home or office. But while the government ordinarily needs probable cause and a warrant issued by a judge to search a home or office, it claims the authority to look through your laptop or phone simply because you choose to cross the international border with them, and to keep them after you leave so it can continue searching them.
Mexicali – Army troops found a tunnel running between 30 meters and 50 meters (98 feet and 164 feet) that was used to move drugs and illegal immigrants under the U.S.-Mexican border.
The tunnel was built in Mexicali, the capital of Baja California, and is about three kilometers (1.8 miles) from a U.S. immigration control post.
The tunnel was constructed to look like a drainage pipe, 2nd Military Zone commander Gen. Gilberto Landeros Briseño said.
I’m amazed at the courage displayed by the local Mexican police, fighting against all odds to protect their unarmed border-state populations from the marauding terrorist gangs, heavily armed and aided by two governments — one having already disarmed the Mexican people, while the other moves at break-neck speed in disarming the people of the United States. These Mexican cops are the canaries in the coal mine. They are the early warning system alerting danger at our common border. Unlike local law officers here in the States, who are lucky to be backed by an armed populace the local Mexican police have no such luxury. I think it’s about time we start paying attention to what is happening on the border, instead of pooh-poohing the border news as inconsequential. We got us some border problems folks, so please lend this an eye.
Yesterday, news broke concerning the disappearance of the police chief of a small town outside Ciudad Juarez called Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero. Chief Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20 year old college criminology student, who was the only one in the small town left that qualified for the position, or would take the position back in October of 2010, has gone missing. An unidentified relative told sources that she left quickly to seek asylum in the US for herself and her 8 month old son. This following some very serious death threats from local gang members. It’s been almost a week now and no word at all on her whereabouts. Authorities deny reports the Mexican police chief has fled.
Ms Garcia is not the first police chief to disappear from a small town outlying the border state of Chihuahua’s biggest city, Ciudad Juarez, situated just across the Rio Grande from El Paso Texas. It’s also Mexico’s murder capital with 3100 killings in 2010 alone. Just before Christmas 2010 in the town of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos, about 45 minutes from Juarez, 3.1 miles from the border, police chief Erika Gándara, 28 was violently abducted from her home. Erika Gándara is still missing — she was the last holdout of what in the summer of 2009 had been a functioning 12 officer force… Just like in the nearby town of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero reported earlier, the police force exterminating violence started at the time BATFE Gun-running operation “Fast and Furious” was initiated. Coincidence?
Another female police chief killed was Hermila Garcia on Nov. 29, 2010 in Meoqui, a town about 43 miles from Chihuahua City, the state capital, she was the first female police chief violently murdered in Mexico. There are 4 women police chiefs still sitting in the state of Chihuahua, but for how long I wonder… without an armed population willing to protect themselves against the high powered weapons the BATFE is allowing the gangs to smuggle, Things look bleak, especially considering the “More of the Same” meeting last week as Obama and Calderon Discuss the Violence:
“President Barack Obama met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday to extend their collaboration on combating drug violence. During the joint news conference at the White House, Obama said that he would speed up aid from the U.S. meant to train and equip Mexican forces, but he also acknowledged that the countries should make a greater effort to keep that aid out of the hands of the drug cartels.
Obama, McCain, Biden, Holder, Clinton, heck… the whole rascally bunch in Washington, and all the federal wannabees in state governments, would have us totally disarmed and unprotected, completely defenseless in a New York second. It’s this very bunch, Barry and his gang of Chicago thugs, who through the BATFE have been arming the “drug gangs” — so Filepe “the despot” Calderon can use our Foreign Aid Dollars — our taxes, to build up his army and supposedly to go after and stop the gangs?
Many of the so-called “drug gangs” are not drug gangs at all, they are fighters in the 20 year old war for Mexican Liberty against a corrupt and despotic government. A government that supports, and is supported by an equally despotic, corporate-rogue, the fraudulent US federal government. The media wrongly blends and mixes the Liberty fighters in with the “drug gangs. Which makes the drug war seem much more ominous and huge, when not all of the violence is drug related, yet a majority of the border town violence is globalist terror related with border control as the object. You can easily tell the difference between the gangs and the anti-Despot Freedom Fighters by who they put in the cross-hairs. The Mexican liberty fighters target corrupt fat-cat politicians, federales, and highly placed officers, military, and elites who are loyal to the Despot, in and around Mexico city and the surrounding southern states.
The “drug gangs,” the terrorist weasels — they kill small town police and town folks terrorize families and wipe out small rural towns in the border states along the main routes that connect with the United states, and even snipe across the border. These are the gunmen that are being armed by the BATFE — they are really the NWO shock troops amassing along the border. They use the agency smuggled arms to kill some folks in this little town… then smuggle some coke or crank across a few miles away, killing a border agent or two. Then they move to another unprotected little town and behead a few there, after raping and sodomizing them for a few days — just biding their time — just awaiting the word, when Martial Law is declared in America, and the Constitution comes crashing DOWN. Let’s not allow this to happen!
Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot while driving from Mexico City to Monterrey on Tuesday, another sign of escalating drug violence in Mexico.
One of the agents was killed, and the other, who was shot twice in the leg, is in stable condition.
Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon took office and waged war on drug cartels, nearly 35,000 people have been killed in violence related to a crackdown on the trafficking.
While American officials, including the 30 ICE officers assigned to the Mexico City office, haven’t been targets of the violence, the U.S. government now has further cause for concern. The shooting happened shortly after the December murder of a Border Patrol agent on the Arizona-Mexico border.
(Reuters) - Less than half of the United States' porous southwest border with Mexico is under the operational control of the U.S. Border Patrol, a government watchdog reported on Tuesday.
The study by the Government Accountability Office said that the Border Patrol had achieved "varying levels of operational control" over just 873 miles, or 44 percent, of the nearly 2,000-mile border by the end of last year.
The report found that the number of miles under operational control increased an average of 126 miles per year from 2005 through 2010.
The GAO, which is the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, noted that only 129 of those miles, or 15 percent, were classified as "controlled" -- the highest level for detecting and arresting intruders.
President Barack Obama's administration has been under intense pressure to beef up security on the southwest border to prevent raging drug cartel violence spilling over from Mexico and to stem an influx of illegal immigrants.
Of the nine Border Patrol sectors along the southwest border, only Yuma, in far western Arizona, had achieved complete operational control along its stretch of the border. The remaining sectors noted between 11 and 86 percent of their area under operational control .
The "Border Patrol attributed the uneven progress across sectors to multiple factors, including prioritizing resource deployment to sectors deemed to have greater risk from illegal activity," the report said.
Of the 1,120 miles of the border where operational control had not been achieved, around two-thirds were classified as "monitored," meaning that the Border Patrol had a high probability of detecting intrusions, although their ability to respond depended on the available resources.
