Posted on 04/04/2010 4:22:46 PM PDT by SandRat
For most of the last decade, the Phoenix office of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement has led the country in deportations.
In 2009, the office removed more than 81,000 illegal immigrants from the state of Arizona alone. In second place was the San Antonio office, which removed nearly 58,000 illegal immigrants.
The Phoenix office, part of ICE's Office of Detention and Removal Operations, has sub-offices in Tucson and Yuma, and detention centers in Eloy and Florence.
"We get a lot of people who get moved to Arizona from California," said Vincent Picard, the ICE spokesman in Phoenix.
The cost of detaining people in Arizona is cheaper than in California. The agency spent nearly $2.5 million nationally in 2009 for detention and removal operations.
"We want to be responsible with taxpayer dollars," Picard said.
While Phoenix may be the nation's busiest office, Arizona isn't the busiest state. In 2009, Texas removed 117,300 illegal immigrants among its four offices.
Mexico consistently leads all countries of origin in the number of illegal immigrants removed. In 2009, nearly 275,000 people were returned to Mexico. Guatemala was a distant second with about 30,000 removals.
In 2009, Guatemala surpassed Honduras in removals for the first time since 2004. The Dominican Republic also passed Brazil to move into the fifth spot for the first time since 2002.
Overall removals for countries combined have steadily risen over the past decade.
Lauren Adams is a University of Arizona journalism student who is apprenticing at the Star. Contact her at starapprentice@azstarnet.com
U.S. deportations in 2009
Country Total Criminal
Mexico 274,577 104,140
Guatemala 30,229 6,492
Honduras 27,566 6,934
El Salvador 21,049 6,306
Dominican Republic 3,824 2,171
Brazil 3,229 379
Colombia 2,617 1,119
Ecuador 2,503 644
Nicaragua 2,142 613
Jamaica 1,620 1,252
Border Ping
Actually, when I worked at MSP international, every Thursday in front of our hangar a 757 loaded up several in shackles and surprising enough, heading for Mexico.
This explains why Sheriff Joe Arpaio has the highest approval rating of all elected officials in Arizona. It also explains why the liberal ‘RATS bring another “lawsuit” against him every day. Arpaio loves to laugh in their faces and they hate him for it. The “race card” doesn’t work with Arpaio. If you’re a criminal, he’ll lock you up. He doesn’t care what your heritage and skin tone is. He could care less.
God Bless Sheriff Joe and his staff!
Janet Napolitano isn’t worthy enough to shine Sheriff Joe’s shoes!
Thank You MCSO!
Joe Arpaio - Please run for Governor! I’m begging you!
Phoenix has also experienced a major crime wave. I’ll bet it’s related to this.
Ping!
How many Russians, Chinese, French, Germans, Italians, Iranians, and all the other world nationalities?
They are ALL here, Mex. and So. America are not the only criminals flooding our country and taking our jobs.
I don’t give !$&# WHERE an illegal originates, I want them ALL deported, including Cubans.
If their own country is F’d up beyond endurance, it’s their job to fix it.
If they are too lazy or cowardly to fix it, too bad, they deserve to bear the result of their laziness or cowardice.
Major crime wave caused by higher deportation rates? It’d seem the other way around, I’d think.
Here’s an article from a few months ago I don’t see posted.
Mexican Cartels “tortured and cook” American in Mexico
Depicted here (to view photo’s goto: www.usborderfirereport.com ) are five gruesome beheadings believed ordered and carried out by MDC’s in Mexico.
One of the most dangerous Mexican Drug Cartels (MDC’s) known as the Gulf Cartel orders kidnappings and murders of Americans. What most Americans do not know about is that Americans have been kidnapped and murdered on both sides of the Mexican U.S. Border by Mexican Drug Cartel orders. Case in point the feds arrested suspected cartel kidnapping murderous gang members who are accused of taking American victims from Texas to Mexico where they were tortured, held for ransom and in this case — killed. The trial for alleged kidnapping ring member Luis Alberto Avila-Hernandez started before U.S. District Court Judge Randy Crane in McAllen Texas last week with out much fanfare or main stream media attention.
In still other cases the MDC’s have reached deep into the United States to kill Americans. MDC’s known member Jose Daniel Gonzalez was murdered on American soil in El Paso Texas. Gonzalez according to law enforcement was acting as an U.S. Government informant feeding important information about several Mexican Drug Cartel families to the feds.
According to Alicia A. Caldwell with the APNewsBreak reported that the eight bullets that killed Gonzalez outside his home just doors from the El Paso City’s Police chief’s own home. The hail of automatic gun fire was fired at close range and left little doubt about their message.
Gonzalez, a Juarez cartel lieutenant shot on his quiet El Paso cul-de-sac last spring. According to court records Gonzalez was indeed working for ICE officials as a confidential informant at the time of his ordered assassination.
Sources close to the investigation has told the U.S. Border Fire Report that this maybe the first substantiated assassination carried out by Mexican Drug Cartel hit men although there have been others suspected assassinations in Phoenix, Alabama and elsewhere in the states. The feds suspect his slaying is the first time assassins from one of Mexico’s violent drug gangs have killed a ranking cartel member on American soil.
Caldwell’s report indicated that experts told her the murder represents a growing brazenness of the cartels on this side of the border that will most likely lead to more deaths. And it has.
In this latest case involving MDC’s ordering kidnappings and murder several witnesses have testified against Avila-Hernandez, including the relatives of victims and his co-defendant Gerardo Zamora-Espinoza. The Associated Press reported that Zamora-Espinoza testified that the kidnappings where committed on the behalf of the Mexican Gulf cartel’s enforcers. Zamora-Espinoza told jurors that the body of kidnapping victim Daniel Ramirez, Jr. was “cooked” on a ranch in Mexico.
Court records show that Ramirez was kidnapped from his Country Village Store outside off FM 88 and 13 Mile Line north of Weslaco Texas in August 2008. A criminal complaint filed against Avila-Hernandez shows that the kidnapping took place because Ramirez refused an offer to work with the Gulf Cartel.
Avila-Hernandez acted as lookout outside the store and helped drive Ramirez to a ranch in Mission where he was held before being taken to Mexico. The Associated Press reported that Zamora-Espinoza’s nephew ran the kidnapping ring.
Zamora-Espinzoa testified that his nephew told him they were “cooking the body” of Ramirez at a ranch in Mexico. Ramirez was killed even though his father had paid $40,000 out of a $100,000 dollars ransom demand. But court documents obtained by Action 4 News show that Ramirez was not the only victim.
The group is also accused of kidnapping Antonio Gonzalez in August 2008 where they demanded $30,000 dollars and a vehicle for his release. The ring also accused of kidnapping victims Sergio Cepeda and Adrian Trevio in September 2008. The men were held at a home in Mission where one of the ring members tortured Trevio by hitting Trevio’s ankles and wrists with a hammer. The kidnappers are accused of using a rifle to hit Cepeda’s genitals. They held Cepeda for ransom for $40,000 dollars and two vehicles.
Many more kidnappings and gruesome killing’s of Americans including the abduction and murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena have been carried out by orders of the ruthless Mexican Drug Cartels both in the U.S. and Mexico.
From Brownsville Texas to San Diego California Mexican cities bordering American cities are where most Americans are being killed by assassination and execution. But other Americans are being killed by the long arm of the Mexican drug cartels which reach deep into America. There are accounts of Mexican drug cartel surrogate terrorist’s invading the U.S. by crossing the porous international border and killing Americans in Dallas Texas, Atlanta Georg, New York City, Phoenix Arizona, Las Vegas Nevada, and is believed to have reached Shelby County Alabama where five people were found murdered gangland style by Mexican nationals.
Many Americans were kidnapped in the U.S. and taken to Mexico where they were murdered. Still other Americans were abducted and slain in Mexico while visiting, others where shot gangland style in country. Dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped, or held hostage, or killed by their captors in Mexico and many cases remain unsolved. Moreover, new cases of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom and Americans being killed continue to be reported.
Authorities say still other kidnappings and murders go unreported out of fear of retaliation from the powerful drug lords in Mexico.
Names of Americans murdered in Mexico:
Ashley Lynn Dininger
Carey Marcella McClintock
Austin Kane Danielsen
Josefina Houghton
Reynaldo Valdez Jr.
Rico Armando Banuelas
Missing and suspected murdered Americans in Mexico number in the hundreds.[snip]
Why anyone would want to travel to Mexico in today’s climate is beyond me. As far as cartel violence in our country is concerned, I understand that the border states are under budgetary problems of major proportions, but since the federal government isn’t willing to step up to the plate, it’s either take on the job themselves, or support citizen militias. I’m for the latter.
“Why anyone would want to travel to Mexico in today’s climate is beyond me.”
It’s a rare day on FR that someone doesn’t tell me that there is NO danger in Mexico and they still vacation there and that the rest of us are just paranoid.
This article can’t be posted on FR, but it’s interesting, written by a former Bush adviser and sent to us by NAFBPO.
Is Arizona’s border a gateway for nukes?
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/2010/04/04/20100404davis-nukes.html
highlights: there is a growing relationship between extremist groups and drug traffickers, well entrenched at our southern border.
Known associates of terror groups have mixed with some of the same document forgers and illicit service providers
that drug cartels use. This intersection of people is a major cause for concern.
When it comes to the southern border, the key is in preventing the smuggling of nuclear devices by extremist groups, by addressing this national-security threat at our borders, we will also reduce other illicit activities such as trafficking of humans, weapons and drugs.
Duh. Any terrorist group worth its salt will seek the most vulnerable areas for incursion. And our borders, especially our Southern borders, as open as they are, are prime for the picking.
When it comes to the southern border, the key is in preventing the smuggling of nuclear devices by extremist groups, by addressing this national-security threat at our borders, we will also reduce other illicit activities such as trafficking of humans, weapons and drugs.
Many argue it's impossible to 'seal' our Southern border. That's simply wrong. And while our major focus should be on the prevention of WMD importation, we can't lose sight of the affect amnesty will have on our form of government.
To respond to your earlier post to me would those, who believe travel in Mexico is safe and recommend it, also recommend visiting gang-controlled areas in our major cities? After all, the drug cartels have turned Mexico into equally an equally dangerous area.
Major crime caused by lots of illegal aliens showing up. The high deportion rate is because so many illegals go to Phoenix.
“Major crime caused by lots of illegal aliens showing up. The high deportion rate is because so many illegals go to Phoenix.”
Wrong on both counts!
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