Posted on 02/04/2009 6:38:08 PM PST by Cindy
February 4, 2009
Note: Photo included.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0902/090204elpaso.htm
Mexican man deported; wanted in Sonora for possessing military-type weapons
ICE located fugitive through its Criminal Alien Program (CAP)
EEL PASO, Texas - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday deported a man to Mexico who had been a fugitive for seven years for possessing military-type weapons.
ICE officers escorted Miguel Angel Camacho-Aguilar, 25, to the middle of El Paso's Stanton Street Bridge Feb. 3 and turned him over to Mexican authorities. He was wanted by the 6th District Judge of Sonora, Mexico, for possessing firearms which are authorized for the exclusive use of the Mexican army. Mexican authorities have sought Camacho-Aguilar since 2002.
ICE previously deported Camacho-Aguilar in March 2005 after he was convicted in 2004 of conspiracy with intent to distribute marijuana; he was sentenced to 60 months in prison. He was also convicted in 2002 for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and received a 10-month sentence. It is a felony to re-enter the United States after having been officially deported, and is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
ICE agents located Camacho-Aguilar at the Cibola County Correctional Institution in Milan, N.M., through its Criminal Alien Program (CAP). Through close cooperation with local law enforcement, the CAP program identifies aliens who are in detention facilities on criminal charges and ensures that they are released to ICE after their criminal proceedings are completed. Ultimately, ICE deports these aliens to the country of origin.
During fiscal year 2008, ICE's CAP program identified 6,800 aliens in the El Paso area, which includes the 16 westernmost counties of Texas and the State of New Mexico. This is a 266 percent increase over the 2,550 aliens identified the previous year.
"Our success with the Criminal Alien Program is largely due to the cooperative spirit between ICE and local law enforcement agencies that results in removing thousands of criminal aliens from our communities every year," said Robert. Jolicoeur, field office director for the ICE Office of Detention and Removal Operations in El Paso.
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In other words, the poor guy had a .30-06 bolt action rifle. Another victimless crime!
Where is EEL Paso Tx? Near the red river? ;)
Probably a typo...I put El Paso in the key words, but I quote exactly what’s in the text.
SPECULATION - OPINION:
I don’t know...if the guy was a Zeta or related to that group; he probably had something bigger than that.
It’s in the article, it’s not your fault!
In Mexico, “military-style” means any weapon that’s chambered in a caliber used by the military. Possession of firearms in “military” calibers is prohibited in Mexico.
You know, it might be a good idea to open shooting ranges along the border. Facing Mexico. Help the economy and all that....
You have an excellent idea.
This is a bit off subject, but an interesting tid bit I heard on the news last night:
We’ve often thought people were making big bucks working with drug cartels.
The investigator that tried to expose Bernie Madoff explained.
Some of Madoff’s money “came from the Russian mob and the Latin American drug cartels,” Markopolos explained. “If he would have known my name and he knew that we had a team tracking him, I didn’t think I was long for this world.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020403182.html
My point was simply that in Mexicao, a ‘militart-type weapon is anything in caliber .30-06, .45 ACP, 9mm, .223, etc. They outlaw just by ammunition CALIBER, DESPITE having a “2nd Amendment” in their Constitution - they copied ours, basically.
Ping!
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What a delightful thought! Shooting ranges along the Mexican border and facing south.
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