nice,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, those hard working illegals, right?
no photo of the victim.
Origional find--- Hotair.com
http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=18741670&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=569380&rfi=8
73-year-old rape victim: Security, independence, privacy, pet all gone
By: Heather Nann Collins, Journal Inquirer
08/23/2007
For a 73-year-old disabled East Hartford woman, the life she had before Alejandro Cuy Xum raped and beat her early one morning is gone forever.
Gone, she told a Hartford Superior Court judge on Wednesday, are her sense of safety and security.
Gone are the friendships she had with her neighbors at the Willow Arms apartment complex on Main Street.
Gone is her independence: Since the attack, she has moved to an assisted living facility, where instead of privacy and a home filled with a lifetime of memories she shares a room with another person and must confine her personal items to one dresser.And gone too is the canine companion that Cuy Xum also beat when he sneaked into the woman's apartment just after 4 a.m. on July 18, 2005."When someone invades your home and there is nothing you can do to protect yourself, you feel terribly vulnerable," she wrote in a statement to Judge Thomas P. Miano.
The woman - who is confined to an electric wheelchair and tethered to an oxygen tank - was accompanied by her daughter, who read her mother's three-page statement at Cuy Xuy's sentencing Wednesday."I am afraid of people in a way I never have been before," the woman wrote. "My confidence in most things is gone. That part of my life ended."
In a plea deal Cuy Xum, 27, was convicted in July of first-degree sexual assault, first-degree burglary, and assault on an elderly person.Cuy Xum also was convicted of second-degree burglary for a break-in at a home near the woman's apartment the night before the rape.
In that case, Cuy Xum crept into the sleeping homeowner's bedroom, rifled through the man's trousers that were hanging over a chair, and stole from his wallet. He also took a ring, prosecutor Edward R. Narus told Miano.
Narus had sought a 25-year prison sentence for Cuy Xum, a Guatemalan native who had illegally been in the United States for less than a month when he was arrested by East Hartford police.It wasn't an unreasonable request, Narus said, given the "savage attack" by Cuy Xum.
The woman's electric wheelchair was parked next to her bed, Narus said, making it obvious to anyone that she was vulnerable and essentially defenseless. Rather than simply taking whatever valuables he could and leaving the apartment, Cuy Xum responded to the woman's vulnerability by raping and beating her."The violence he then inflicted upon her was totally gratuitous in every sense of the word," Narus said.
And Narus made reference to the June 23 break-in at a Chesire home that ended with a mother and her two daughters murdered and the father's savage beating. Two of the dead were sexually assaulted. Police there have charged a pair of career burglars who now face the death penalty."We can all understand the fear," Narus said. "While we might be in our home, people can enter and do what they will."But Miano said he considered a host of factors in reducing Cuy Xum's sentence to 20 years to serve, including his low IQ and other mental health issues, and potential problems with police searches done after the fact.
Nevertheless, the judge noted, the "devastating act that just affronts humanity" committed by Cuy Xum won't likely be erased for the woman, even with a lengthy prison sentence for her attacker."No one can appreciate what that lady has gone through," Miano said. "It's much more painful than the bruises. No one should be subjected to that - no one."With the assistance of a Spanish interpreter, Cuy Xum repeatedly asked for forgiveness and apologized for what he did.And his lawyer, Public Defender William C. O'Connor, said the 20-year sentence handed down by the court very likely will be exactly that - not the 85 percent some defendants serve before they're paroled.Given the Chesire case and the current lawmakers' response - some are calling for 25-year mandatory minimum sentences for home invasions and an examination of parole policies is under way - Cuy Xum "is never going to get parole in a case like this."After Cuy Xum serves his prison sentence, Narus said, it is very likely he will be deported to Guatemala.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Sanctuary cities listed
see below......
http://www.billoreilly.com/blog;jsessionid=A55E83A4735C4B51DAEA96C523444510?action=viewBlog&blogID=362056141532353188
Sanctuary cities and counties
August 23, 2007
Below is a list of cities and counties that have sanctuary policies, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service from June 2007.
Alaska
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Arizona
Chandler
California
Fresno
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Sonoma County
Connecticut
New Haven
Illinois
Evanston
Cicero
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Orleans
Maine
Portland
Maryland
Baltimore
Takoma Park
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Detroit
Minnesota
Minneapolis
North Carolina
Durham
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Aztec
Rio Arriba County
Santa Fe
New York
New York City
Oregon
Ashland
Gaston
Marion County
Texas
Austin
Katy
Washington
Seattle
Wisconsin
Madison
There are two statewide policies regarding providing sanctuary for illegal aliens:
In May 2003, Alaska's state legislature passed a joint resolution prohibiting state agencies from using resources or institutions for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration laws.
In 1987, Oregon passed a law that prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from using agency moneys, equipment or personnel for the purpose of detecting or apprehending foreign citizens based on violation of federal immigration law. Oregon law, however, does permit their law enforcement officers to exchange information with federal authorities to verify the immigration status of an individual arrested for criminal offenses.Most cities that are considered sanctuary cities have adopted a "don't ask-don't tell" policy where they don't require their employees, including law enforcement officers, to report to federal officials aliens who may be illegally present in the country. Localities, and in some cases individual police departments, in such areas that are considered "sanctuary cities," have utilized various mechanisms to ensure that unauthorized aliens who may be present in their jurisdiction illegally are not turned in to federal authorities. Some municipalities address the issue through resolutions, executive orders or city ordinances, while many police departments address the issues through special orders, departmental policy and general order.
Posted by BillOReilly.com Staff at 5:28 PM
http://www.billoreilly.com/blog;jsessionid=A55E83A4735C4B51DAEA96C523444510?action=viewBlog&blogID=362056141532353188
Sanctuary cities and counties
August 23, 2007
Below is a list of cities and counties that have sanctuary policies, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service from June 2007.
Alaska
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Arizona
Chandler
California
Fresno
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Sonoma County
Connecticut
New Haven
Illinois
Evanston
Cicero
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Orleans
Maine
Portland
Maryland
Baltimore
Takoma Park
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Detroit
Minnesota
Minneapolis
North Carolina
Durham
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Aztec
Rio Arriba County
Santa Fe
New York
New York City
Oregon
Ashland
Gaston
Marion County
Texas
Austin
Katy
Washington
Seattle
Wisconsin
Madison
There are two statewide policies regarding providing sanctuary for illegal aliens:
In May 2003, Alaska's state legislature passed a joint resolution prohibiting state agencies from using resources or institutions for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration laws.
In 1987, Oregon passed a law that prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from using agency moneys, equipment or personnel for the purpose of detecting or apprehending foreign citizens based on violation of federal immigration law. Oregon law, however, does permit their law enforcement officers to exchange information with federal authorities to verify the immigration status of an individual arrested for criminal offenses.Most cities that are considered sanctuary cities have adopted a "don't ask-don't tell" policy where they don't require their employees, including law enforcement officers, to report to federal officials aliens who may be illegally present in the country. Localities, and in some cases individual police departments, in such areas that are considered "sanctuary cities," have utilized various mechanisms to ensure that unauthorized aliens who may be present in their jurisdiction illegally are not turned in to federal authorities. Some municipalities address the issue through resolutions, executive orders or city ordinances, while many police departments address the issues through special orders, departmental policy and general order.
Posted by BillOReilly.com Staff at 5:28 PM
New details on NJ executions
More details, how much longer will the good people of the USA tollerate these Criminals amongst us. Nasty stuff below if the facts prove out. Since the govm't is unwilling to protect you, be armed and be villigiant!
read on, dusgusting as it may be......
McClain said the mortician told him he had to work for three days to put his grand-niece’s face back together.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/23/the-newark-massacre-new-details-of-the-heinous-crimeand-how-to-contact-your-state-attorney-general-to-help-stop-the-criminal-alien-revolving-door/
The Newark massacre:
New details of the heinous crime…and how to contact your state attorney general to help stop the criminal alien revolving door
By Michelle Malkin • August 23, 2007 05:28 AM
Update: Near the site of 3 killings, a couple can only ask why
***Local NY/NJ media outlets reported chilling new details about the attack by criminal aliens on young Newark students Iofemi Hightower, Doshen Harvey, Terrance Aeriel, and Natasha Aeriel. From today’s NYPost:
The thugs who shot four college students in Newark reportedly preceded their sick attack by trying to sexually assault their two female victims.
The group of six assailants - who shot two men and a woman dead and wounded another woman - failed in their attempt at a sexual attack, and then decided to kill their victims, according to 1010 WINS radio.
Six suspects have now been charged in the Aug. 4 atrocity, in which the victims were blasted execution-style.
Yesterday, a family member of one of the slain victims, Iofemi Hightower, described the level of savagery of the attack. He said the thugs used a machete to hack their victims.
“They cut my niece’s face off,” said John McClain, who is Hightower’s great-uncle, and the chaplain of the Newark Police Department. “They cut her from cheek to cheek. They left her head hanging.”
McClain said the mortician told him he had to work for three days to put his grand-niece’s face back together.
“Most people couldn’t tell, when he was done, but the family could tell,” he said.
If this monstrous evil doesn’t motivate you to get off your duff and do something to stop the criminal alien revolving door in your neighborhood, I don’t know what will.
Here’s a transcript I typed up of a radio report aired yesterday on 1010WINS by Steve Sandberg (hat tip - James):
Sources tell 1010WINS three of the college kids were being held at gunpoint as their attackers went after the fourth. With every breath, the young woman bravely fought off a sexual assault, so much so the assailant gave up and shot her [survivor Natasha Ariel] in the head.
Sources say they moved in on the other woman, pulling a machete, slashing and marking up her face and forehead, sexually assaulting her [Iofemi Hightower].
Defensive wounds on her arms and hands show how valiantly she resisted. In the end, she and her two friends were forced to kneel before a wall, face first, all three executed with bullets to the back of their heads.
Law enforcement sources familiar with gangs say this vicious attack has MS-13 written all over it, similar in its brutality to massacres they’ve committed throughout Latin America. Once convinced this was a robbery gone bad, officials have since conceded several of the suspects have MS-13 affiliations and are now, say sources, giving gang motivations strong consideration.
Other local media have also heard more from sources about the MS-13 angle and the sexual assaults and knife attacks on both female victims. WABC-7:
Even while Rodolfo Godinez waits in protective custody for an extradition hearing, a source tells Eyewitness News that the evidence appears to be growing that he is an MS-13 gang leader who ordered the murderers of the three college students.
Some who knew the suspects say they were destined for trouble. “They’d just mess with anybody,” an acquaintance of the suspects said. “They don’t care if they’re Spanish, black, white, they’d mess with anybody. They don’t care who it is.”
In addition, a source tells Eyewitness News that there are more troublesome details about the murders of Iofemi Hightower, Doshen Harvey and Terrance Aeriel, and the attempted murder of Natasha Aeriel. It appears that the women were also the victims of sexual attacks.
Authorities believe at least one was groped, which apparently escalated the tension and led to a knife attack and, finally, the executions.
There have been references over the last week to possible machete use in previous stories about this case, but it is worth underscoring what Sandberg’s sources told him given the stubborn denial by some officials to acknowledge the criminal alien gang imprint head on:
“…this vicious attack has MS-13 written all over it.”
Over the past several years, I’ve written before about MS-13 machete attacks in northern Virginia (more here and here and here and here. Last month, a convicted MS-13 gang member in the DC area who had served 18 months for gang stabbings was convicted again after being stopped with machetes on the way to another gang battle. In December 2004, I blogged:
“I think this El Salvador-based gang’s ascendance was one of the underreported stories of the year. I predict you’ll be seeing and hearing a lot more of this savage criminal enterprise in the year to come–and not just because of its suspected ties to al Qaeda. The gang has spread across the country–not just in major metropolitan areas, but in suburbs like my own backyard. Machete-wielding members have also settled in North Carolina, Nassau County, NY, and Boston. And if you think MS-13 members are only a threat to each other, think again.”
To rid our cities of this evil scourge, mayors and governors and law enforcers must acknowledge their role in allowing it to fester.The NJ state attorney general took a step in the right direction in ordering all NJ law enforcers to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving is found to be an illegal immigrant. The toll of sanctuary cities has been too high, but belated action to stop the bloody madness is better than no action at all.
Now, it is time for every state attorney general across the country to do as NJ State Attorney General Anne Milgram has done. Contact yours now and let me know the responses you get. We’ll be keeping track at DeportThemNow.com:
Alabama: Troy King (R) (334) 242-7300State House, 11 S. Union St. Montgomery, AL 36130http://www.ago.state.al.us
Alaska: Talis J. Colberg (R) (907) 465-3600P.O. Box 110300, Diamond Courthouse, Juneau, AK 99811-0300http://www.law.state.ak.us/
Arizona: Terry Goddard (D) (602) 542-42661275 W. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85007http://www.azag.gov/
Arkansas: Dustin McDaniel (D) (800) 482-8982200 Tower Bldg., 323 Center St., Little Rock, AR 72201-2610http://www.ag.arkansas.gov/
California: Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. (D) (916) 445-95551300 I St., Ste. 1740, Sacramento, CA 95814http://ag.ca.gov
Colorado: John Suthers (R) (303) 866-45001525 Sherman Street, Denver, CO 80203http://www.ago.state.co.us/index.cfm
Connecticut: Richard Blumenthal (D) (860) 808-531855 Elm St., Hartford, CT 06141-0120http://www.ct.gov/ag/
Delaware: Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III (D) (302) 577-8338Carvel State Office Bldg., 820 N. French St., Wilmington, DE 19801http://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/
District of Columbia: Linda Singer (D) (202) 724-1305John A. Wilson Building, 1350 PA Ave, NW Suite 409, Washington, DC 20009http://occ.dc.gov
Florida: Bill McCollum (R) (850) 414-3300The Capitol, PL 01, Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050http://myfloridalegal.com/
Georgia: Thurbert E. Baker (D) (404) 656-330040 Capitol Square, SW, Atlanta, GA 30334-1300http://ganet.org/ago/
Hawaii: Mark J. Bennett (R) (808) 586-1500425 Queen St., Honolulu, HI 96813http://www.state.hi.us/ag/index.html
Idaho: Lawrence Wasden (R) (208) 334-2400Statehouse, Boise, ID 83720-1000http://www2.state.id.us/ag/
Illinois: Lisa Madigan (D) (312) 814-3000James R. Thompson Ctr., 100 W. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601http://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/
Indiana: Steve Carter (R) (317) 232-6201Indiana Government Center South - 5th Floor, 402 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN 46204http://www.in.gov/attorneygeneral/
Iowa: Tom Miller (D) (515) 281-5164Hoover State Office Bldg., 1305 E. Walnut, Des Moines, IA 50319http://www.IowaAttorneyGeneral.org
Kansas: Paul Morrison (D) (785) 296-2215120 S.W. 10th Ave., 2nd Fl., Topeka, KS 66612-1597http://www.ksag.org/home/
Kentucky: Greg Stumbo (D) (502) 696-5300State Capitol, Rm. 116, Frankfort, KY 40601http://ag.ky.gov
Louisiana: Charles Foti (D) 225-326-6000P.O. Box 94095, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-4095http://www.ag.state.la.us/
Maine: G. Steven Rowe (D) (207) 626-8800State House Station 6, Augusta, ME 04333http://www.state.me.us/ag
Maryland: Douglas F. Gansler (D) (410) 576-6300200 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, MD 21202-2202http://www.oag.state.md.us
Massachusetts: Martha Coakley (D) (617) 727-22001 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108-1698http://www.ago.state.ma.us
Michigan: Mike Cox (R) (517) 373-1110P.O.Box 30212, 525 W. Ottawa St., Lansing, MI 48909-0212http://www.michigan.gov/ag
Minnesota: Lori Swanson (D) (651) 296-3353State Capitol, Ste. 102, St. Paul, MN 55155http://www.ag.state.mn.us
Mississippi: Jim Hood (D) (601) 359-3680Department of Justice, P.O. Box 220, Jackson, MS 37205-0220http://www.ago.state.ms.us/
Missouri: Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon (D) (573) 751-3321Supreme Ct. Bldg., 207 W. High St., Jefferson City, MO 65101http://www.ago.mo.gov/
Montana: Mike McGrath (D) (406) 444-2026Justice Bldg., 215 N. Sanders, Helena, MT 59620-1401http://www.doj.mt.gov
Nebraska: Jon Bruning (R) (402) 471-2682State Capitol, P.O.Box 98920, Lincoln, NE 68509-8920http://www.ago.state.ne.us/
Nevada: Catherine Cortez Masto (D) (775) 684-1100Old Supreme Ct. Bldg., 100 N. Carson St., Carson City, NV 89701http://ag.state.nv.us/
New Hampshire: Kelly Ayotte (R) (603) 271-3658State House Annex, 33 Capitol St., Concord, NH 03301-6397http://www.state.nh.us/nhdoj/
New Mexico: Gary King (D) (505) 827-6000P.O. Drawer 1508, Sante Fe, NM 87504-1508http://www.ago.state.nm.us
New York: Andrew Cuomo (D) (518) 474-7330Dept. of Law - The Capitol, 2nd fl., Albany, NY 12224http://www.oag.state.ny.us
North Carolina: Roy Cooper (D) (919) 716-6400Dept. of Justice, P.O.Box 629, Raleigh, NC 27602-0629http://www.ncdoj.com/default.jsp
North Dakota: Wayne Stenehjem (R) (701) 328-2210State Capitol, 600 E. Boulevard Ave., Bismarck, ND 58505-0040http://www.ag.state.nd.us
Ohio: Marc Dann (D) (614) 466-4320State Office Tower, 30 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH 43266-0410http://www.ag.state.oh.us
Oklahoma: W. A. Drew Edmondson (D) (405) 521-3921State Capitol, Rm. 112, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105http://www.oag.state.ok.us
Oregon: Hardy Myers (D) (503) 378-4732Justice Bldg., 1162 Court St., NE, Salem, OR 97301http://www.doj.state.or.us
Pennsylvania: Tom Corbett (R) (717) 787-33911600 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120http://www.attorneygeneral.gov
Rhode Island: Patrick Lynch (D) (401) 274-4400150 S. Main St., Providence, RI 02903http://www.riag.state.ri.us
South Carolina: Henry McMaster (R) (803) 734-3970Rembert C. Dennis Office Bldg., P.O.Box 11549, Columbia, SC 29211-1549http://www.scattorneygeneral.org
South Dakota: Larry Long (R) (605) 773-32151302 East Highway 14, Suite 1, Pierre, SD 57501-8501http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/
Tennessee: Robert E. Cooper, Jr. (D) (615) 741-5860500 Charlotte Ave., Nashville, TN 37243http://www.attorneygeneral.state.tn.us
Texas: Greg Abbott (R) (512) 463-2100Capitol Station, P.O.Box 12548, Austin, TX 78711-2548http://www.oag.state.tx.us
Utah: Mark Shurtleff (R) (801) 538-9600State Capitol, Rm. 236, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-0810http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/
Vermont: William H. Sorrell (D) (802) 828-3173109 State St., Montpelier, VT 05609-1001http://www.state.vt.us/atg
Virginia: Bob McDonnell (R) (804) 786-2071900 E. Main St., Richmond, VA 23219http://www.oag.state.va.us
Washington: Rob McKenna (R) (360) 753-62001125 Washington St. SE, PO Box 40100, Olympia, WA 98504-0100http://www.atg.wa.gov/
West Virginia: Darrell V. McGraw Jr. (D) (304) 558-2021State Capitol, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. , E., Charleston, WV 25305http://www.wvago.us/
Wisconsin: J.B. Van Hollen (R) (608) 266-1221State Capitol, Ste. 114 E., P.O.Box 7857, Madison, WI 53707-7857http://www.doj.state.wi.us
Wyoming: Pat Crank (D) (307) 777-7841State Capitol Bldg., Cheyenne, WY 82002http://attorneygeneral.state.wy.us
read on, dusgusting as it may be......
McClain said the mortician told him he had to work for three days to put his grand-niece’s face back together.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/23/the-newark-massacre-new-details-of-the-heinous-crimeand-how-to-contact-your-state-attorney-general-to-help-stop-the-criminal-alien-revolving-door/
The Newark massacre:
New details of the heinous crime…and how to contact your state attorney general to help stop the criminal alien revolving door
By Michelle Malkin • August 23, 2007 05:28 AM
Update: Near the site of 3 killings, a couple can only ask why
***Local NY/NJ media outlets reported chilling new details about the attack by criminal aliens on young Newark students Iofemi Hightower, Doshen Harvey, Terrance Aeriel, and Natasha Aeriel. From today’s NYPost:
The thugs who shot four college students in Newark reportedly preceded their sick attack by trying to sexually assault their two female victims.
The group of six assailants - who shot two men and a woman dead and wounded another woman - failed in their attempt at a sexual attack, and then decided to kill their victims, according to 1010 WINS radio.
Six suspects have now been charged in the Aug. 4 atrocity, in which the victims were blasted execution-style.
Yesterday, a family member of one of the slain victims, Iofemi Hightower, described the level of savagery of the attack. He said the thugs used a machete to hack their victims.
“They cut my niece’s face off,” said John McClain, who is Hightower’s great-uncle, and the chaplain of the Newark Police Department. “They cut her from cheek to cheek. They left her head hanging.”
McClain said the mortician told him he had to work for three days to put his grand-niece’s face back together.
“Most people couldn’t tell, when he was done, but the family could tell,” he said.
If this monstrous evil doesn’t motivate you to get off your duff and do something to stop the criminal alien revolving door in your neighborhood, I don’t know what will.
Here’s a transcript I typed up of a radio report aired yesterday on 1010WINS by Steve Sandberg (hat tip - James):
Sources tell 1010WINS three of the college kids were being held at gunpoint as their attackers went after the fourth. With every breath, the young woman bravely fought off a sexual assault, so much so the assailant gave up and shot her [survivor Natasha Ariel] in the head.
Sources say they moved in on the other woman, pulling a machete, slashing and marking up her face and forehead, sexually assaulting her [Iofemi Hightower].
Defensive wounds on her arms and hands show how valiantly she resisted. In the end, she and her two friends were forced to kneel before a wall, face first, all three executed with bullets to the back of their heads.
Law enforcement sources familiar with gangs say this vicious attack has MS-13 written all over it, similar in its brutality to massacres they’ve committed throughout Latin America. Once convinced this was a robbery gone bad, officials have since conceded several of the suspects have MS-13 affiliations and are now, say sources, giving gang motivations strong consideration.
Other local media have also heard more from sources about the MS-13 angle and the sexual assaults and knife attacks on both female victims. WABC-7:
Even while Rodolfo Godinez waits in protective custody for an extradition hearing, a source tells Eyewitness News that the evidence appears to be growing that he is an MS-13 gang leader who ordered the murderers of the three college students.
Some who knew the suspects say they were destined for trouble. “They’d just mess with anybody,” an acquaintance of the suspects said. “They don’t care if they’re Spanish, black, white, they’d mess with anybody. They don’t care who it is.”
In addition, a source tells Eyewitness News that there are more troublesome details about the murders of Iofemi Hightower, Doshen Harvey and Terrance Aeriel, and the attempted murder of Natasha Aeriel. It appears that the women were also the victims of sexual attacks.
Authorities believe at least one was groped, which apparently escalated the tension and led to a knife attack and, finally, the executions.
There have been references over the last week to possible machete use in previous stories about this case, but it is worth underscoring what Sandberg’s sources told him given the stubborn denial by some officials to acknowledge the criminal alien gang imprint head on:
“…this vicious attack has MS-13 written all over it.”
Over the past several years, I’ve written before about MS-13 machete attacks in northern Virginia (more here and here and here and here. Last month, a convicted MS-13 gang member in the DC area who had served 18 months for gang stabbings was convicted again after being stopped with machetes on the way to another gang battle. In December 2004, I blogged:
“I think this El Salvador-based gang’s ascendance was one of the underreported stories of the year. I predict you’ll be seeing and hearing a lot more of this savage criminal enterprise in the year to come–and not just because of its suspected ties to al Qaeda. The gang has spread across the country–not just in major metropolitan areas, but in suburbs like my own backyard. Machete-wielding members have also settled in North Carolina, Nassau County, NY, and Boston. And if you think MS-13 members are only a threat to each other, think again.”
To rid our cities of this evil scourge, mayors and governors and law enforcers must acknowledge their role in allowing it to fester.The NJ state attorney general took a step in the right direction in ordering all NJ law enforcers to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving is found to be an illegal immigrant. The toll of sanctuary cities has been too high, but belated action to stop the bloody madness is better than no action at all.
Now, it is time for every state attorney general across the country to do as NJ State Attorney General Anne Milgram has done. Contact yours now and let me know the responses you get. We’ll be keeping track at DeportThemNow.com:
Alabama: Troy King (R) (334) 242-7300State House, 11 S. Union St. Montgomery, AL 36130http://www.ago.state.al.us
Alaska: Talis J. Colberg (R) (907) 465-3600P.O. Box 110300, Diamond Courthouse, Juneau, AK 99811-0300http://www.law.state.ak.us/
Arizona: Terry Goddard (D) (602) 542-42661275 W. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85007http://www.azag.gov/
Arkansas: Dustin McDaniel (D) (800) 482-8982200 Tower Bldg., 323 Center St., Little Rock, AR 72201-2610http://www.ag.arkansas.gov/
California: Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. (D) (916) 445-95551300 I St., Ste. 1740, Sacramento, CA 95814http://ag.ca.gov
Colorado: John Suthers (R) (303) 866-45001525 Sherman Street, Denver, CO 80203http://www.ago.state.co.us/index.cfm
Connecticut: Richard Blumenthal (D) (860) 808-531855 Elm St., Hartford, CT 06141-0120http://www.ct.gov/ag/
Delaware: Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III (D) (302) 577-8338Carvel State Office Bldg., 820 N. French St., Wilmington, DE 19801http://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/
District of Columbia: Linda Singer (D) (202) 724-1305John A. Wilson Building, 1350 PA Ave, NW Suite 409, Washington, DC 20009http://occ.dc.gov
Florida: Bill McCollum (R) (850) 414-3300The Capitol, PL 01, Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050http://myfloridalegal.com/
Georgia: Thurbert E. Baker (D) (404) 656-330040 Capitol Square, SW, Atlanta, GA 30334-1300http://ganet.org/ago/
Hawaii: Mark J. Bennett (R) (808) 586-1500425 Queen St., Honolulu, HI 96813http://www.state.hi.us/ag/index.html
Idaho: Lawrence Wasden (R) (208) 334-2400Statehouse, Boise, ID 83720-1000http://www2.state.id.us/ag/
Illinois: Lisa Madigan (D) (312) 814-3000James R. Thompson Ctr., 100 W. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601http://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/
Indiana: Steve Carter (R) (317) 232-6201Indiana Government Center South - 5th Floor, 402 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN 46204http://www.in.gov/attorneygeneral/
Iowa: Tom Miller (D) (515) 281-5164Hoover State Office Bldg., 1305 E. Walnut, Des Moines, IA 50319http://www.IowaAttorneyGeneral.org
Kansas: Paul Morrison (D) (785) 296-2215120 S.W. 10th Ave., 2nd Fl., Topeka, KS 66612-1597http://www.ksag.org/home/
Kentucky: Greg Stumbo (D) (502) 696-5300State Capitol, Rm. 116, Frankfort, KY 40601http://ag.ky.gov
Louisiana: Charles Foti (D) 225-326-6000P.O. Box 94095, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-4095http://www.ag.state.la.us/
Maine: G. Steven Rowe (D) (207) 626-8800State House Station 6, Augusta, ME 04333http://www.state.me.us/ag
Maryland: Douglas F. Gansler (D) (410) 576-6300200 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, MD 21202-2202http://www.oag.state.md.us
Massachusetts: Martha Coakley (D) (617) 727-22001 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108-1698http://www.ago.state.ma.us
Michigan: Mike Cox (R) (517) 373-1110P.O.Box 30212, 525 W. Ottawa St., Lansing, MI 48909-0212http://www.michigan.gov/ag
Minnesota: Lori Swanson (D) (651) 296-3353State Capitol, Ste. 102, St. Paul, MN 55155http://www.ag.state.mn.us
Mississippi: Jim Hood (D) (601) 359-3680Department of Justice, P.O. Box 220, Jackson, MS 37205-0220http://www.ago.state.ms.us/
Missouri: Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon (D) (573) 751-3321Supreme Ct. Bldg., 207 W. High St., Jefferson City, MO 65101http://www.ago.mo.gov/
Montana: Mike McGrath (D) (406) 444-2026Justice Bldg., 215 N. Sanders, Helena, MT 59620-1401http://www.doj.mt.gov
Nebraska: Jon Bruning (R) (402) 471-2682State Capitol, P.O.Box 98920, Lincoln, NE 68509-8920http://www.ago.state.ne.us/
Nevada: Catherine Cortez Masto (D) (775) 684-1100Old Supreme Ct. Bldg., 100 N. Carson St., Carson City, NV 89701http://ag.state.nv.us/
New Hampshire: Kelly Ayotte (R) (603) 271-3658State House Annex, 33 Capitol St., Concord, NH 03301-6397http://www.state.nh.us/nhdoj/
New Mexico: Gary King (D) (505) 827-6000P.O. Drawer 1508, Sante Fe, NM 87504-1508http://www.ago.state.nm.us
New York: Andrew Cuomo (D) (518) 474-7330Dept. of Law - The Capitol, 2nd fl., Albany, NY 12224http://www.oag.state.ny.us
North Carolina: Roy Cooper (D) (919) 716-6400Dept. of Justice, P.O.Box 629, Raleigh, NC 27602-0629http://www.ncdoj.com/default.jsp
North Dakota: Wayne Stenehjem (R) (701) 328-2210State Capitol, 600 E. Boulevard Ave., Bismarck, ND 58505-0040http://www.ag.state.nd.us
Ohio: Marc Dann (D) (614) 466-4320State Office Tower, 30 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH 43266-0410http://www.ag.state.oh.us
Oklahoma: W. A. Drew Edmondson (D) (405) 521-3921State Capitol, Rm. 112, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105http://www.oag.state.ok.us
Oregon: Hardy Myers (D) (503) 378-4732Justice Bldg., 1162 Court St., NE, Salem, OR 97301http://www.doj.state.or.us
Pennsylvania: Tom Corbett (R) (717) 787-33911600 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120http://www.attorneygeneral.gov
Rhode Island: Patrick Lynch (D) (401) 274-4400150 S. Main St., Providence, RI 02903http://www.riag.state.ri.us
South Carolina: Henry McMaster (R) (803) 734-3970Rembert C. Dennis Office Bldg., P.O.Box 11549, Columbia, SC 29211-1549http://www.scattorneygeneral.org
South Dakota: Larry Long (R) (605) 773-32151302 East Highway 14, Suite 1, Pierre, SD 57501-8501http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/
Tennessee: Robert E. Cooper, Jr. (D) (615) 741-5860500 Charlotte Ave., Nashville, TN 37243http://www.attorneygeneral.state.tn.us
Texas: Greg Abbott (R) (512) 463-2100Capitol Station, P.O.Box 12548, Austin, TX 78711-2548http://www.oag.state.tx.us
Utah: Mark Shurtleff (R) (801) 538-9600State Capitol, Rm. 236, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-0810http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/
Vermont: William H. Sorrell (D) (802) 828-3173109 State St., Montpelier, VT 05609-1001http://www.state.vt.us/atg
Virginia: Bob McDonnell (R) (804) 786-2071900 E. Main St., Richmond, VA 23219http://www.oag.state.va.us
Washington: Rob McKenna (R) (360) 753-62001125 Washington St. SE, PO Box 40100, Olympia, WA 98504-0100http://www.atg.wa.gov/
West Virginia: Darrell V. McGraw Jr. (D) (304) 558-2021State Capitol, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. , E., Charleston, WV 25305http://www.wvago.us/
Wisconsin: J.B. Van Hollen (R) (608) 266-1221State Capitol, Ste. 114 E., P.O.Box 7857, Madison, WI 53707-7857http://www.doj.state.wi.us
Wyoming: Pat Crank (D) (307) 777-7841State Capitol Bldg., Cheyenne, WY 82002http://attorneygeneral.state.wy.us
Friday, August 17, 2007
That New Jersy Illegal
Finally getting around to this one. Maybe some MS13 activity?
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzNmOTI0NGY4ODdjMTZiZDliNDZlYWNhYjllMGZhNWY=
Newark Massacre Update [Greg Pollowitz]
Judicial Watch has some good stuff on Newark, NJ as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants and the consequences of that policy. An excerpt:
Dozens of cities across the nation have proudly become illegal immigrant sanctuaries, but officials in one municipality are pondering the status after a Peruvian man with a felony record massacred three college-bound students.
Had authorities in Newark New Jersey contacted federal immigration officials after illegal alien Jose Carranza’s first felony indictment last year he would have been deported and therefore prevented from murdering three innocent youngsters in a schoolyard this month.
Instead Carranza was released on bail, despite being charged with raping a 5-year-old girl and aggravated assault and weapons violations. This week he was charged with the gruesome execution-style murders of three college-bound students, ages 18 to 20.
The shootings evidently pushed Newark authorities to violate their sanctuary policy and contact federal immigration officials who had not been previously informed about Carranza’s crime spree. If they had, Carranza would have placed in removal proceedings after his first felony arrest in October 2006.
But like a growing number of municipalities across the nation, Newark is an official illegal immigrant “Sanctuary City” in which police cannot ask a suspect about immigration status. Other sanctuary havens include Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and New Haven.
Some states—such as Alaska, Oregon and New Jersey—actually have blanket sanctuary laws. In fact, New Jersey passed legislation in 2006 that bars law enforcement agencies throughout the Garden State from asking about immigration status.
08/15 04:22 PM
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzNmOTI0NGY4ODdjMTZiZDliNDZlYWNhYjllMGZhNWY=
Newark Massacre Update [Greg Pollowitz]
Judicial Watch has some good stuff on Newark, NJ as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants and the consequences of that policy. An excerpt:
Dozens of cities across the nation have proudly become illegal immigrant sanctuaries, but officials in one municipality are pondering the status after a Peruvian man with a felony record massacred three college-bound students.
Had authorities in Newark New Jersey contacted federal immigration officials after illegal alien Jose Carranza’s first felony indictment last year he would have been deported and therefore prevented from murdering three innocent youngsters in a schoolyard this month.
Instead Carranza was released on bail, despite being charged with raping a 5-year-old girl and aggravated assault and weapons violations. This week he was charged with the gruesome execution-style murders of three college-bound students, ages 18 to 20.
The shootings evidently pushed Newark authorities to violate their sanctuary policy and contact federal immigration officials who had not been previously informed about Carranza’s crime spree. If they had, Carranza would have placed in removal proceedings after his first felony arrest in October 2006.
But like a growing number of municipalities across the nation, Newark is an official illegal immigrant “Sanctuary City” in which police cannot ask a suspect about immigration status. Other sanctuary havens include Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and New Haven.
Some states—such as Alaska, Oregon and New Jersey—actually have blanket sanctuary laws. In fact, New Jersey passed legislation in 2006 that bars law enforcement agencies throughout the Garden State from asking about immigration status.
08/15 04:22 PM
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Illegals and sex slaves
Note: nowhere is it listed that these folks are legal or tourists.
In fact they are listed as Guatemalans and were paying off their smuggled visti to the US
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292853,00.html?sPage=fnc.national/crime
9 Guatemalans Charged in L.A. for Alleged Role in Prostitution Ring
Friday, August 10, 2007
LOS ANGELES — Nine Guatemalans were indicted for their roles in an alleged sex trafficking ring that lured young women to the United States with promises of good jobs and then forced them into prostitution, according to federal court records.
Four of the defendants pleaded not guilty in January to sex trafficking charges in the case. A superseding indictment, unsealed Thursday, includes more serious allegations that five of the 12 victims were minors.
According to the new 50-count indictment, the defendants at times sold Guatemalan women and girls to one another like slaves and allegedly brought the victims to witch doctors who threatened to put curses on them and their families if they ran away.
"These young women were enticed into coming to this country by promises of the American dream only to arrive and discover that what awaited was a nightmare," said Robert Schoch, a special agent in charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned the indictment against Gladys Vasquez Valenzuela, 36; her sisters, Mirna Jeanneth, 26, and Albertina, 49; and Albertina's daughter, Maria Vicente de los Angeles, 28.
The four face charges of sex trafficking of minors; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; violating federal laws prohibiting interstate or foreign transport of minors for prostitution; and importing and harboring undocumented immigrants and harboring them for prostitution.
Five others also were charged in the indictment for their roles in the scheme, including guarding the women to prevent them from escaping, threatening their families in Guatemala, and beating and forcing the women to work, authorities said.
Four of the female defendants were arrested in December during raids in Los Angeles. One additional suspect, Flor Morales Sanchez, 33, was arrested Thursday. Six defendants remain in custody without bond. Another, Maribel Rodriguez Vasquez, is a fugitive.
A lawyer representing Luis Vicente Vasquez, 31, who faces counts of bringing women into the country illegally for prostitution, denies his client did anything wrong.
"We are going to court on this," attorney Philip Deitch said.
Attorney Errol Stambler, who represents Mirna Jeanneth Vasquez, said his client was a victim, not a trafficker. He said his own investigation revealed she had been forced into prostitution to repay smugglers who brought her to the U.S, and that her pimp forced her to house teenage prostitutes.
Messages left with two other attorneys representing defendants were not immediately returned.
The investigation began last year when two victims escaped with the help of a male customer and contacted authorities, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Two other victims were rescued by investigators in November. Ten women at the locations raided also were believed to have been working as prostitutes
In fact they are listed as Guatemalans and were paying off their smuggled visti to the US
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292853,00.html?sPage=fnc.national/crime
9 Guatemalans Charged in L.A. for Alleged Role in Prostitution Ring
Friday, August 10, 2007
LOS ANGELES — Nine Guatemalans were indicted for their roles in an alleged sex trafficking ring that lured young women to the United States with promises of good jobs and then forced them into prostitution, according to federal court records.
Four of the defendants pleaded not guilty in January to sex trafficking charges in the case. A superseding indictment, unsealed Thursday, includes more serious allegations that five of the 12 victims were minors.
According to the new 50-count indictment, the defendants at times sold Guatemalan women and girls to one another like slaves and allegedly brought the victims to witch doctors who threatened to put curses on them and their families if they ran away.
"These young women were enticed into coming to this country by promises of the American dream only to arrive and discover that what awaited was a nightmare," said Robert Schoch, a special agent in charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned the indictment against Gladys Vasquez Valenzuela, 36; her sisters, Mirna Jeanneth, 26, and Albertina, 49; and Albertina's daughter, Maria Vicente de los Angeles, 28.
The four face charges of sex trafficking of minors; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; violating federal laws prohibiting interstate or foreign transport of minors for prostitution; and importing and harboring undocumented immigrants and harboring them for prostitution.
Five others also were charged in the indictment for their roles in the scheme, including guarding the women to prevent them from escaping, threatening their families in Guatemala, and beating and forcing the women to work, authorities said.
Four of the female defendants were arrested in December during raids in Los Angeles. One additional suspect, Flor Morales Sanchez, 33, was arrested Thursday. Six defendants remain in custody without bond. Another, Maribel Rodriguez Vasquez, is a fugitive.
A lawyer representing Luis Vicente Vasquez, 31, who faces counts of bringing women into the country illegally for prostitution, denies his client did anything wrong.
"We are going to court on this," attorney Philip Deitch said.
Attorney Errol Stambler, who represents Mirna Jeanneth Vasquez, said his client was a victim, not a trafficker. He said his own investigation revealed she had been forced into prostitution to repay smugglers who brought her to the U.S, and that her pimp forced her to house teenage prostitutes.
Messages left with two other attorneys representing defendants were not immediately returned.
The investigation began last year when two victims escaped with the help of a male customer and contacted authorities, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Two other victims were rescued by investigators in November. Ten women at the locations raided also were believed to have been working as prostitutes
Another news story with illegals
No idea if any of the miners have survived in the Utah mine collapse.
I hope they all survive.
Say a little prayer for those trapped men.
First it was the Minnesota bridge collapse, now the Utah mine disaster. Are we that overrun with illegals that every tragety will involve an illegal?
Remember if the story doesn't say they are legal or tourists, they are illegals
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20146566/page/2/
Three Mexican citizens among missing
Little was known about the six miners; only one has been identified. The Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City said three of the men are Mexican citizens.
In Huntington, 10 miles from the mine, residents were anxious for news, and the strain could be seen in their somber looks. The families of the trapped miners were sequestered at a junior high school in Huntington, about six miles from the mine, and police stood guard on the grounds.
LaRena Collards, 71, was making cakes for families of the trapped miners, just as she did in 1984 when a fire killed 27 people at another mine.
“You just ask the Lord to bless the families and give them the strength to get through this,” Collards said
I hope they all survive.
Say a little prayer for those trapped men.
First it was the Minnesota bridge collapse, now the Utah mine disaster. Are we that overrun with illegals that every tragety will involve an illegal?
Remember if the story doesn't say they are legal or tourists, they are illegals
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20146566/page/2/
Three Mexican citizens among missing
Little was known about the six miners; only one has been identified. The Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City said three of the men are Mexican citizens.
In Huntington, 10 miles from the mine, residents were anxious for news, and the strain could be seen in their somber looks. The families of the trapped miners were sequestered at a junior high school in Huntington, about six miles from the mine, and police stood guard on the grounds.
LaRena Collards, 71, was making cakes for families of the trapped miners, just as she did in 1984 when a fire killed 27 people at another mine.
“You just ask the Lord to bless the families and give them the strength to get through this,” Collards said
illegal's in oddest news stories
Are we so over run with illegals that they are to pop up in otherwise non-illegal related news stories?
May he rest in peace.
But here are 2 more, this time wrapped up in the Minnesota bridge collapse
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-02-bridge-victims_N.htm
Five confirmed dead in Minneapolis bridge collapse
Updated
By Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune via AP
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed five deaths Thursday from the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge. Seventy-nine people were injured. Police said the death count would surely grow because bodies had been spotted in the fast-moving currents. As many as 30 people were still reported missing. Here is a closer look at the lives lost:
ARTEMIO TRINIDAD-MENA
Artemio Trinidad-Mena, 29, lived in Minneapolis but was a Mexican citizen with a young family scattered across the two countries.
His widow, Abundia Martinez, told Radio Formula in a telephone interview that her husband was a vegetable salesman and that he was heading home at the time of the accident.
Martinez, who lives in Minneapolis with the couple's 2-month-old baby girl, said her husband arrived in the United States 10 years ago. She said she moved to Minneapolis from Mexico a year ago and that both were living in the Unites States illegally.
The couple has three other children, ages 11 to 2, living with relatives in their hometown of Ixcateopan de Cuauhtemoc, in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, Martinez said.
"We're asking for financial help mainly because my children are in Mexico and I have a little girl here and more importantly because we want to send my husband's body to Mexico," she said, sobbing.
At New York Plaza Produce, where Trinidad-Mena worked, friends and family gathered Thursday night to remember him.
Julio Alvarado recalled a man with an outsize personality and a cheery outlook.
"He was very happy, always looking at everything in just a positive, good way," he said.
Alvarado said Trinidad Mena left work around 5:30 Wednesday night.
He was driving a pickup, which apparently caught fire after the bridge collapsed
May he rest in peace.
But here are 2 more, this time wrapped up in the Minnesota bridge collapse
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-02-bridge-victims_N.htm
Five confirmed dead in Minneapolis bridge collapse
Updated
By Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune via AP
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed five deaths Thursday from the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge. Seventy-nine people were injured. Police said the death count would surely grow because bodies had been spotted in the fast-moving currents. As many as 30 people were still reported missing. Here is a closer look at the lives lost:
ARTEMIO TRINIDAD-MENA
Artemio Trinidad-Mena, 29, lived in Minneapolis but was a Mexican citizen with a young family scattered across the two countries.
His widow, Abundia Martinez, told Radio Formula in a telephone interview that her husband was a vegetable salesman and that he was heading home at the time of the accident.
Martinez, who lives in Minneapolis with the couple's 2-month-old baby girl, said her husband arrived in the United States 10 years ago. She said she moved to Minneapolis from Mexico a year ago and that both were living in the Unites States illegally.
The couple has three other children, ages 11 to 2, living with relatives in their hometown of Ixcateopan de Cuauhtemoc, in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, Martinez said.
"We're asking for financial help mainly because my children are in Mexico and I have a little girl here and more importantly because we want to send my husband's body to Mexico," she said, sobbing.
At New York Plaza Produce, where Trinidad-Mena worked, friends and family gathered Thursday night to remember him.
Julio Alvarado recalled a man with an outsize personality and a cheery outlook.
"He was very happy, always looking at everything in just a positive, good way," he said.
Alvarado said Trinidad Mena left work around 5:30 Wednesday night.
He was driving a pickup, which apparently caught fire after the bridge collapsed
Grim reality for LEO's
Officer killed by illegal
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/11/14/open-borders-dead-cops/
OPEN BORDERS, DEAD COPS
By Michelle Malkin • November 14, 2005 04:36 PM
More bloody consequences of lax immigration enforcement…from Dallas, Tx., via the Dallas Morning News:
Marta Cruz had told police that her ex-boyfriend had been threatening her for weeks.
But as he emptied his handgun in an act of rage early Sunday, police say, his last bullet found another victim.
Dallas police Officer Brian Jackson died of a gunshot wound to his right underarm suffered in a gunfight on Madera Street near North Henderson Avenue in Old East Dallas.
Dallas police officers help secure the scene in the 2400 block of Madera in the area where a police pursuit turned deadly.
“He was proud to be a cop. He did his job with a lot of emotion and passion,” Police Chief David Kunkle said.
Officer Jackson was the 76th Dallas police officer to die in the line of duty and the first officer slain since November 2001.
Officer Jackson came to the department in January 2001 from Rhode Island. He married JoAnn DeMello Jackson in August.
Juan Lizcano, a 28-year-old Mexican immigrant, was being held at Lew Sterrett Justice Center on charges of capital murder and aggravated assault. Bail was set at $1 million and $25,000, respectively.
The Dallas Morning News does not mention in the above-linked story that Lizcano has been here illegally for the past two years, and had at least two prior run-ins with the law. According to WFAA, he was “first booked in September for threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend with a knife. Six days later, he posed again for a mug shot for a charge of driving while intoxicated.”
Officer Jackson was a Rhode Island native. His hometown paper has background here. An excerpt:
“(Brian) was killed in the line of duty, doing the job he loved, helping to secure the safety of the citizens of Dallas,” Jackson’s parents wrote in a prepared statement released on Sunday. “He will be remembered for his good sense of humor, his sense of duty and his love for his family.”
Jackson was a Kingston Fire Department volunteer and member of the University of Rhode Island Ambulance Corps. A graduate of Portsmouth High School and URI, he had been married only two months to former Charlestown Ambulance member JoAnn DeMello - who works as a pediatric respiratory therapist in the Dallas area.
The couple had just returned from a delayed honeymoon trip to Hawaii, according to Jackson’s family.
Jackson joined Charlestown Ambulance as an EMT volunteer in 1995, and later became a part-time reserve officer in 1998 following his completion of the department’s training program, McMahon said.
McMahon described Jackson as “a very dedicated, public service-oriented person.”
“It’s a shame, it’s awful,” he said on Sunday night. “His life is over, and her (DeMello’s) life has been turned upside down.”
Officer Brian Jackson, R.I.P.
I’m checking out reports that Lizcano was yet another beneficiary of catch-and-release immigration loopholes. Will pass on anything I learn.
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Law abiding illegals????
Get this
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/01/09/how-often-are-illegal-aliens-repeat-offenders/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010800285.html
The Justice findings by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine examined the criminal histories of 100 illegal immigrants arrested and then released by local and state authorities in 2004, the latest complete data available. Of the sample group of 100, according to the audit, 73 immigrants were later arrested a collective 429 times _ on charges ranging from traffic tickets to weapons and drug charges.
The data suggest "the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high," the audit noted.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/01/09/how-often-are-illegal-aliens-repeat-offenders/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010800285.html
The Justice findings by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine examined the criminal histories of 100 illegal immigrants arrested and then released by local and state authorities in 2004, the latest complete data available. Of the sample group of 100, according to the audit, 73 immigrants were later arrested a collective 429 times _ on charges ranging from traffic tickets to weapons and drug charges.
The data suggest "the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high," the audit noted.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
illegal murders NY Actress
Murder victim's photo
STAR'S SUICIDE WAS KILLER COVER-UP
WORKER ADMITS SLAY: COPS
By LARRY CELONA, MURRAY WEISS and DAN MANGAN
SHOCK: Cops say Adrienne Shelly, initially thought to have killed herself, was slain by laborer Diego Pillco, who allegedly struck the actress and hanged her to make it look like a suicide.
November 7, 2006 -- In a stunning turnaround, a construction worker yesterday confessed to killing indie actress Adrienne Shelly, whose death in a Greenwich Village apartment last week was first thought to be suicide, cops said.
"I was having a bad day," illegal immigrant Diego Pillco, 19, allegedly told cops. "I didn't mean to kill her. But I did kill her."
Pillco told detectives that he punched Shelly, 40, last Wednesday afternoon outside the Abingdon Square apartment she was using as an office after she yelled at him about the noise he was making while working in a vacant apartment below.
Pillco, who is from Ecuador and speaks only Spanish, also claimed that Shelly slapped him first.
After seeing she was unconscious and believing she was dead, Pillco claimed, he dragged Shelly into her apartment, wrapped a bed sheet around her neck and attached it to a shower rod in the bathroom to make it appear she had hanged herself, sources said. The medical examiner has not yet released autopsy results.
Shelly's marketing-exec husband, Andrew Ostroy, found her body just before 6 that evening.
Pillco was nabbed early yesterday at his Brooklyn apartment after detectives matched several Reebok sneaker prints from the toilet seat in Shelly's bathroom to a print they found in the apartment downstairs.
Pillco's boss told detectives the laborer had been wearing sneakers while working.
Reebok Allen Iverson-model sneakers found at Pillco's home matched the prints, sources said.
The suspect's stunned boss, contractor Louis Hernandez, called his employee "a good kid."
"I don't know what happened. I don't think he did it," he said.
But investigators said Pillco was sly enough to try to mask his deadly deed.
"He tried to cover his tracks, but he ended up leaving his tracks," one police source said of Pillco, who entered the United States from Ecuador on July 7, and who now is charged with second-degree murder. "It was the tenacity of the investigators that led to an arrest. It had all the appearances of a suicide, but they didn't give up."
Shelly's family and friends had insisted all along that the loving wife and mother had no reason to kill herself.
"The entire family knew this was a murder from the outset," one relative said yesterday.
Shelly's family had been so convinced that they had hired renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who performed a second autopsy on her Saturday at a funeral home, under the watch of two detectives.
After yesterday's development, Ostroy said in a statement: "We are incredibly grateful to the New York City Police Department for their dedication, professionalism and tenacity in following up on every lead in this case. We hope everyone will respect that this is a difficult and private time for our families."
Ostroy and Shelly, a TriBeCa resident who first gained notice for her performances in two classic independent films - "The Unbelievable Truth" and "Trust" - have a 3-year-old daughter, Sophie.
Earlier this year, Shelly, a Long Island native, appeared in the film "Factotum" with Matt Dillon, and at the time of her death was on the verge of releasing a movie called "Waitress," which she directed and wrote.
illegal kills one in Seattle
Murdered girl's photo
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003648679_uwshooting03m.html
Months of stalking end with 2 dead at UW
By Jim Brunner and Nick Perry
Seattle Times staff reporters
Rebecca Griego was the victim of a shooting at UW.
Related
Co-workers recall victim's loyalty, passion
Protection order can't stop person hellbent on doing harm
Excerpts from Rebecca Griego's petition for an order of protection
Griego's petition for protection order (PDF)
Description poster of ex-boyfriend Griego emailed colleagues (PDF)
Letter from UW President Mark A. Emmert
Rebecca Griego called her ex-boyfriend Jonathan Rowan "a psycho from the past." He wouldn't stop calling her office at the University of Washington. When she no longer would answer the phone, he harassed her sister and threatened to kidnap her dogs.
Griego, 26, did what she could to avoid her 41-year-old stalker, whom she described as a suicidal alcoholic who had grown increasingly menacing. She obtained a domestic-violence protection order March 6, changed addresses and phone numbers and asked co-workers to watch out for him.
On Monday morning, Rowan found Griego alone in her fourth-floor office in Gould Hall and fatally shot her before killing himself.
Griego was a program coordinator at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and recently had shepherded a design team to victory in a regional competition.
But for months she had lived in fear of Rowan, who was angry over her efforts to break off contact.
In police reports and court papers, Griego said she dated Rowan for four years starting in 2000. Although the relationship ended in 2004, they shared a home until earlier this year.
Rowan is described in court documents as a British immigrant who had lived in the United States for 10 years, telling friends he couldn't go back to England. According to the documents, he wore tinted glasses, stuttered when nervous and had a pot belly. He sometimes went by the names Robert Richardson and Nathan Rowan.
He was an alcoholic, according to Griego, and police reports say he was arrested last June for drunken driving after ignoring a stop sign and trying to run from police. His blood-alcohol content was measured at more than three times the legal limit.
In January, Griego said, she came home to find Rowan drunk. Rowan threw candlesticks at her and tackled her to the floor, punching her, according to documents she filed seeking a protection order.
"I forgave him because he was drunk, but now I see that was wrong and he has threatened to hurt me again," she said, according to the court papers filed in King County Superior Court. She also reported that he had hurt her in a fight more than a year earlier, shoving her and slamming her ankle in a door.
Griego and her sister, Rachel, both sought protection orders against Rowan last month. They called him "very dangerous," citing his past violence, and said he left phone messages threatening to kill himself. Griego described him as "on the run" after he stole from his roommates.
In her March 6 plea for a protective order, Griego said, "Rowan called me to tell me I cannot find him but he can find me ... and to look over my shoulder because I would see him again."
UW police were notified that Rowan had left threatening messages for Griego on March 6 and March 14, said Assistant UW Police Chief Ray Wittmier. Officers were told about the threats but did not place Griego under surveillance or provide an escort.
Wittmier said Griego did not wish to press charges at the time. If she had, UW police might have been able to arrest Rowan for violating the protection order, he said.
Co-workers said Griego had taken steps to avoid Rowan, who called the office so often that she would no longer answer the phone. He then left messages including threats to kill her, one co-worker said.
Police had not been able to serve the protection order because they couldn't find Rowan. The paperwork was left at Griego's office in case he showed up there.
She described him as "a psycho from the past" and asked co-workers to watch out for him, said Lance Nguyen, who worked in the office.
Griego was so frightened of Rowan that she moved a couple of times, changed her phone number and worked from home for a month so he couldn't find her at work, Nguyen said.
Nguyen was in the building at the time of the shooting, in a first-floor class. He heard the shots but didn't realize it was gunfire at first. When he heard someone had been killed, he said, "I pretty much knew right away. I feel terrible."
Meghan Pinch, a graduate student in the Urban Planning department, had heard that Griego had been having relationship troubles. But, she said, Griego always maintained a smile and cheerful demeanor.
"She didn't have a mean bone in her body," Pinch said. "She had a lot of friends; she was well-liked."
Griego, who had helped launch a real-estate program in the department, helped students understand the technical details of mortgages and finance in real-estate courses, Pinch said. She said Griego was sometimes a guest lecturer.
The shooting occurred Monday as morning classes were under way. A witness saw a man fumbling with something in a bag before entering Griego's fourth-floor office, police said.
At about 9:30 a.m., police received reports of six shots fired in Gould Hall, according to Wittmier. When police arrived, they found a man and a woman dead, and a six-shot revolver nearby.
About 300 students were in the building at the time.
Wittmier said he did not expect to see changes in campus security procedures after the shooting. "It's a public building. You can't protect everybody from everything," he said.
The UW has about 65,000 students, faculty and staff on campus and about 200 buildings. About four or five officers are on patrol on a given weekday, Wittmier said. Police receive numerous reports of death threats on campus.
"Part of the situation on campus is that you have a number of students who are moving in and out of relationships and it can be very emotional, and so such threats and emotional situations are not uncommon," Wittmier said.
"We're looking at this as a tragic event, an isolated domestic situation not involving anyone [else] on campus."
Seattle Times staff reporters Jonathan Martin, Mike Lindblom, Sanjay Bhatt, Susan Gilmore, Jennifer Sullivan, Alex Fryer, Sara Jean Green, Brian Alexander and Natalie Singer and news researchers Miyoko Wolf, Gene Balk and David Turim contributed to this report.
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Police toughening stand on illegal immigrants
By Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporter
KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Jose Luis Diaz, 25, an illegal immigrant, was arrested by Pacific police in May after a traffic stop. He's now in the process of gaining legal status. His wife, Erika Marysol Diaz, 21, is a U.S. citizen.
When police in the small Southeast King County town of Pacific stopped Jose Luis Diaz for speeding in May, officers joked about a flier for an immigration rally on his front seat.
Up in Seattle they may tolerate that sort of thing, Diaz recalls the officers grousing, but not so down here.
Across the Puget Sound, local law-enforcement agencies use various approaches — from written and unwritten policies to individual officer discretion — when dealing with illegal immigrants.
Months of stalking end with 2 dead at UW
By Jim Brunner and Nick Perry
Seattle Times staff reporters
Rebecca Griego was the victim of a shooting at UW.
Related
Co-workers recall victim's loyalty, passion
Protection order can't stop person hellbent on doing harm
Excerpts from Rebecca Griego's petition for an order of protection
Griego's petition for protection order (PDF)
Description poster of ex-boyfriend Griego emailed colleagues (PDF)
Letter from UW President Mark A. Emmert
Rebecca Griego called her ex-boyfriend Jonathan Rowan "a psycho from the past." He wouldn't stop calling her office at the University of Washington. When she no longer would answer the phone, he harassed her sister and threatened to kidnap her dogs.
Griego, 26, did what she could to avoid her 41-year-old stalker, whom she described as a suicidal alcoholic who had grown increasingly menacing. She obtained a domestic-violence protection order March 6, changed addresses and phone numbers and asked co-workers to watch out for him.
On Monday morning, Rowan found Griego alone in her fourth-floor office in Gould Hall and fatally shot her before killing himself.
Griego was a program coordinator at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and recently had shepherded a design team to victory in a regional competition.
But for months she had lived in fear of Rowan, who was angry over her efforts to break off contact.
In police reports and court papers, Griego said she dated Rowan for four years starting in 2000. Although the relationship ended in 2004, they shared a home until earlier this year.
Rowan is described in court documents as a British immigrant who had lived in the United States for 10 years, telling friends he couldn't go back to England. According to the documents, he wore tinted glasses, stuttered when nervous and had a pot belly. He sometimes went by the names Robert Richardson and Nathan Rowan.
He was an alcoholic, according to Griego, and police reports say he was arrested last June for drunken driving after ignoring a stop sign and trying to run from police. His blood-alcohol content was measured at more than three times the legal limit.
In January, Griego said, she came home to find Rowan drunk. Rowan threw candlesticks at her and tackled her to the floor, punching her, according to documents she filed seeking a protection order.
"I forgave him because he was drunk, but now I see that was wrong and he has threatened to hurt me again," she said, according to the court papers filed in King County Superior Court. She also reported that he had hurt her in a fight more than a year earlier, shoving her and slamming her ankle in a door.
Griego and her sister, Rachel, both sought protection orders against Rowan last month. They called him "very dangerous," citing his past violence, and said he left phone messages threatening to kill himself. Griego described him as "on the run" after he stole from his roommates.
In her March 6 plea for a protective order, Griego said, "Rowan called me to tell me I cannot find him but he can find me ... and to look over my shoulder because I would see him again."
UW police were notified that Rowan had left threatening messages for Griego on March 6 and March 14, said Assistant UW Police Chief Ray Wittmier. Officers were told about the threats but did not place Griego under surveillance or provide an escort.
Wittmier said Griego did not wish to press charges at the time. If she had, UW police might have been able to arrest Rowan for violating the protection order, he said.
Co-workers said Griego had taken steps to avoid Rowan, who called the office so often that she would no longer answer the phone. He then left messages including threats to kill her, one co-worker said.
Police had not been able to serve the protection order because they couldn't find Rowan. The paperwork was left at Griego's office in case he showed up there.
She described him as "a psycho from the past" and asked co-workers to watch out for him, said Lance Nguyen, who worked in the office.
Griego was so frightened of Rowan that she moved a couple of times, changed her phone number and worked from home for a month so he couldn't find her at work, Nguyen said.
Nguyen was in the building at the time of the shooting, in a first-floor class. He heard the shots but didn't realize it was gunfire at first. When he heard someone had been killed, he said, "I pretty much knew right away. I feel terrible."
Meghan Pinch, a graduate student in the Urban Planning department, had heard that Griego had been having relationship troubles. But, she said, Griego always maintained a smile and cheerful demeanor.
"She didn't have a mean bone in her body," Pinch said. "She had a lot of friends; she was well-liked."
Griego, who had helped launch a real-estate program in the department, helped students understand the technical details of mortgages and finance in real-estate courses, Pinch said. She said Griego was sometimes a guest lecturer.
The shooting occurred Monday as morning classes were under way. A witness saw a man fumbling with something in a bag before entering Griego's fourth-floor office, police said.
At about 9:30 a.m., police received reports of six shots fired in Gould Hall, according to Wittmier. When police arrived, they found a man and a woman dead, and a six-shot revolver nearby.
About 300 students were in the building at the time.
Wittmier said he did not expect to see changes in campus security procedures after the shooting. "It's a public building. You can't protect everybody from everything," he said.
The UW has about 65,000 students, faculty and staff on campus and about 200 buildings. About four or five officers are on patrol on a given weekday, Wittmier said. Police receive numerous reports of death threats on campus.
"Part of the situation on campus is that you have a number of students who are moving in and out of relationships and it can be very emotional, and so such threats and emotional situations are not uncommon," Wittmier said.
"We're looking at this as a tragic event, an isolated domestic situation not involving anyone [else] on campus."
Seattle Times staff reporters Jonathan Martin, Mike Lindblom, Sanjay Bhatt, Susan Gilmore, Jennifer Sullivan, Alex Fryer, Sara Jean Green, Brian Alexander and Natalie Singer and news researchers Miyoko Wolf, Gene Balk and David Turim contributed to this report.
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Police toughening stand on illegal immigrants
By Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporter
KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Jose Luis Diaz, 25, an illegal immigrant, was arrested by Pacific police in May after a traffic stop. He's now in the process of gaining legal status. His wife, Erika Marysol Diaz, 21, is a U.S. citizen.
When police in the small Southeast King County town of Pacific stopped Jose Luis Diaz for speeding in May, officers joked about a flier for an immigration rally on his front seat.
Up in Seattle they may tolerate that sort of thing, Diaz recalls the officers grousing, but not so down here.
Across the Puget Sound, local law-enforcement agencies use various approaches — from written and unwritten policies to individual officer discretion — when dealing with illegal immigrants.
On a routine traffic stop, the first clue to a motorist's immigration status may come when an officer runs a driver's license and gets all zeros in place of a Social Security number.
What they do after that depends largely on the jurisdiction.
Seattle police and King County deputies would likely just ignore it, operating as they do under an official policy of not asking a person's legal status.
But not so in tiny Pacific, where Latinos now represent 6 percent of the town's 6,000 or so residents and where illegal immigrants, like Diaz, are increasingly finding themselves in deportation proceedings following an encounter with local police.
Pacific Police Chief John Calkins says he has a duty to enforce the law. Period.
"I'm proud of my officers and the job they're doing," Calkins said. "I told them if there's a violation, whether federal, state, whatever, they're not to just turn their backs on it."
Growing trend, confusion
Nationwide, state and local law-enforcement agencies are grappling with this very thing — how to deal with a growing population of illegal immigrants and some of the potential local problems that arise, ranging from overcrowded housing to day-labor-site complaints.
There's a growing inclination among local police to take a tougher stand in the wake of well-publicized crimes by deportable immigrants — including a few in the Puget Sound region, such as Jonathan Rowan who fatally shot his former girlfriend at the University of Washington.Seattle police and King County deputies would likely just ignore it, operating as they do under an official policy of not asking a person's legal status.
But not so in tiny Pacific, where Latinos now represent 6 percent of the town's 6,000 or so residents and where illegal immigrants, like Diaz, are increasingly finding themselves in deportation proceedings following an encounter with local police.
Pacific Police Chief John Calkins says he has a duty to enforce the law. Period.
"I'm proud of my officers and the job they're doing," Calkins said. "I told them if there's a violation, whether federal, state, whatever, they're not to just turn their backs on it."
Growing trend, confusion
Nationwide, state and local law-enforcement agencies are grappling with this very thing — how to deal with a growing population of illegal immigrants and some of the potential local problems that arise, ranging from overcrowded housing to day-labor-site complaints.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials report a marked increase in information relayed to them by local law enforcement.
"There's a lot of confusion about what the appropriate role for state and local law enforcement is, what their actual authority is," said Gene Voegtlin, legislative counsel for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
"It's a volatile issue in a lot of places. It's complex and not an area local police are trained ... in."
Many larger jurisdictions, including King County and the city of Seattle, have policies against any employee, including police, asking about a person's immigration status.
Voegtlin said police chiefs have become so overwhelmed by the problems posed by illegal immigration that the association recently issued a guide on basic immigration laws and issues.
"You'd be hard-pressed to find a chief anywhere who's not dealing with some aspect of this," Voegtlin said.
A Washington, D.C.-based research organization, the Pew Hispanic Center, has estimated 200,000 to 250,000 Washington state residents are in this country illegally.
Before local police can enforce immigration law, they must first contact ICE to check the background and immigration status of an individual. ICE spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said ICE works closely with local law-enforcement agencies and "always stands ready to respond."
But some advocates, particularly in South King County, where a growing number of illegal immigrants live, are worried this relationship may lead some immigrants not to report crime. These groups are trying to sound the alarm with mayors and chiefs of police to raise this concern.
Patchwork system
There's a quiltlike approach across the Puget Sound area to handling illegal immigration — from written policies that bar inquiries into a person's immigration status to unwritten policies that may encourage them. Some departments leave it to the discretion of individual officers, and often immigration officers are contacted only in cases of serious offenses.
Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan said, in practice, officers generally don't ask about immigration status unless it is relevant. "We want people who are undocumented and are victims of crime to report it and not to feel that out of fear they can't report crimes," Strachan said.
Other jurisdictions, like Lynnwood police, say they have a close relationship with immigration authorities and provide courtesy space in their offices for an ICE agent, who, in turn, works with local police throughout King County.
It's a convenient arrangement, spokeswoman Shannon Sessions said, and "has been helpful for educating our officers."
Bothell enjoys a similar relationship, working "hand in hand with ICE agents," Capt. Denise Langford said. Often, attorney Adolfo Ojeda-Casimiro said, immigrants are being turned over to ICE even in cases where local police aren't prepared to bring criminal charges against them.
In Lynnwood, some clients who showed up to pay parking tickets ended up being detained by ICE.
Calkins, the Pacific chief, said his officers know not to proceed with immigration enforcement until they've contacted ICE. And every case, he said, started with either criminal behavior or a traffic violation by the illegal immigrant.
Diaz lives in Lakewood, Pierce County, and is married to an U.S. citizen. He was in the process of obtaining legal status when he was pulled over in Pacific in May. But he said the officers didn't believe him and, after contacting an ICE agent, drove him to the detention center in Tacoma.
He was released on bond eight days later after presenting his paperwork to an immigration judge. But he said he lost a good-paying job as a granite installer because "the police scared my boss."
"You'd be hard-pressed to find a chief anywhere who's not dealing with some aspect of this," Voegtlin said.
A Washington, D.C.-based research organization, the Pew Hispanic Center, has estimated 200,000 to 250,000 Washington state residents are in this country illegally.
Before local police can enforce immigration law, they must first contact ICE to check the background and immigration status of an individual. ICE spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said ICE works closely with local law-enforcement agencies and "always stands ready to respond."
But some advocates, particularly in South King County, where a growing number of illegal immigrants live, are worried this relationship may lead some immigrants not to report crime. These groups are trying to sound the alarm with mayors and chiefs of police to raise this concern.
Patchwork system
There's a quiltlike approach across the Puget Sound area to handling illegal immigration — from written policies that bar inquiries into a person's immigration status to unwritten policies that may encourage them. Some departments leave it to the discretion of individual officers, and often immigration officers are contacted only in cases of serious offenses.
Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan said, in practice, officers generally don't ask about immigration status unless it is relevant. "We want people who are undocumented and are victims of crime to report it and not to feel that out of fear they can't report crimes," Strachan said.
Other jurisdictions, like Lynnwood police, say they have a close relationship with immigration authorities and provide courtesy space in their offices for an ICE agent, who, in turn, works with local police throughout King County.
It's a convenient arrangement, spokeswoman Shannon Sessions said, and "has been helpful for educating our officers."
Bothell enjoys a similar relationship, working "hand in hand with ICE agents," Capt. Denise Langford said. Often, attorney Adolfo Ojeda-Casimiro said, immigrants are being turned over to ICE even in cases where local police aren't prepared to bring criminal charges against them.
In Lynnwood, some clients who showed up to pay parking tickets ended up being detained by ICE.
Calkins, the Pacific chief, said his officers know not to proceed with immigration enforcement until they've contacted ICE. And every case, he said, started with either criminal behavior or a traffic violation by the illegal immigrant.
Diaz lives in Lakewood, Pierce County, and is married to an U.S. citizen. He was in the process of obtaining legal status when he was pulled over in Pacific in May. But he said the officers didn't believe him and, after contacting an ICE agent, drove him to the detention center in Tacoma.
He was released on bond eight days later after presenting his paperwork to an immigration judge. But he said he lost a good-paying job as a granite installer because "the police scared my boss."
Derb and Mac Donald
Read the City Journal Article linked by the Derb.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Heather Mac Donald On Illegal Aliens [John Derbyshire]
Simply devastating report by Heather Mac Donald in the current CityJournal on illegal-alien crimeNormally when I post a link like this I extract a sentence or two to giveyou the flavor. I simply couldn't do that with Heather's piece. It is toouniformly good — and horrifying. There is something quotable in everyparagraph. You must just read the whole thing.And I mean "must." If you are an American who loves your country, youmust read Heather's article.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Heather Mac Donald On Illegal Aliens [John Derbyshire]
Simply devastating report by Heather Mac Donald in the current CityJournal on illegal-alien crimeNormally when I post a link like this I extract a sentence or two to giveyou the flavor. I simply couldn't do that with Heather's piece. It is toouniformly good — and horrifying. There is something quotable in everyparagraph. You must just read the whole thing.And I mean "must." If you are an American who loves your country, youmust read Heather's article.
comming crime wave??
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Crime & Immigration [Mark Krikorian]
The DC Examiner opines today on what it calls "competing studies" on immigrant crime. The hawkish Family Security Matters site recently released an analysis finding that illegal aliens annually kill more Americans than the Iraq War. Meanwhile, the research wing of the open-borders American Immigration Lawyers Association (headed by "Jihad Jeannie" Butterfield, former head of a political arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — see here and here) has released a report finding that immigrants are less likely to be in prison than the native-born.
Despite problems with the data (the second study is based on census data that even people in the Census Bureau acknowledge is worthless and unusable), these aren't really competing studies at all, since both tell us things that we've long known: immigrants as a group have a lower crime rate than the native-born (other than the multiple federal crimes committed by illegal aliens), but even at a lower crime rate, if you let in millions of immigrants, they're going to commit thousands of crimes.
For policymakers, the real story is the one the immigration lawyers study downplays: There is a massive increase in criminality from the first to the second generation. The study may exaggerate the shift due to its amateurish mistakes, but it found that native-born Hispanic male high-school dropouts are 11 times more likely to be incarcerated than their foreign-born counterparts. This suggests that as the sons of the current immigration wave (which is mostly Hispanic — a lack of diversity unprecedented in American history) reach the peak ages for criminality, we may well see a reversal of the past decade's decline in crime.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Crime & Immigration [Mark Krikorian]
The DC Examiner opines today on what it calls "competing studies" on immigrant crime. The hawkish Family Security Matters site recently released an analysis finding that illegal aliens annually kill more Americans than the Iraq War. Meanwhile, the research wing of the open-borders American Immigration Lawyers Association (headed by "Jihad Jeannie" Butterfield, former head of a political arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — see here and here) has released a report finding that immigrants are less likely to be in prison than the native-born.
Despite problems with the data (the second study is based on census data that even people in the Census Bureau acknowledge is worthless and unusable), these aren't really competing studies at all, since both tell us things that we've long known: immigrants as a group have a lower crime rate than the native-born (other than the multiple federal crimes committed by illegal aliens), but even at a lower crime rate, if you let in millions of immigrants, they're going to commit thousands of crimes.
For policymakers, the real story is the one the immigration lawyers study downplays: There is a massive increase in criminality from the first to the second generation. The study may exaggerate the shift due to its amateurish mistakes, but it found that native-born Hispanic male high-school dropouts are 11 times more likely to be incarcerated than their foreign-born counterparts. This suggests that as the sons of the current immigration wave (which is mostly Hispanic — a lack of diversity unprecedented in American history) reach the peak ages for criminality, we may well see a reversal of the past decade's decline in crime.
Denver's mayor in on it too?
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Deadly Sanctuary [Mark Krikorian]
Illegal alien murders Denver police officer. Said illegal was protected by the city’s “sanctuary” policy that prohibits officers from using immigration offenses without some other major crime being involved. Said illegal also worked at a restaurant owned by the mayor, which had been informed that the worker’s Social Security number was fake. So what does the mayor do? He defends the city’s sanctuary policy!
05/19 02:35 PM
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
Is Illegal Immigration a “Victimless” Crime? [Mark Krikorian]
Denver’s “sanctuary” policy, which prohibits cops from using immigration law to fight crime, has claimed the life of a Denver cop. Detective Donnie Williams was murdered early Sunday morning by an illegal alien whom the police had encountered at least three times before. The city government is furiously spinning, but the facts speak for themselves — the (alleged) murderer presented a Mexican driver’s license three times as the result of traffic stops, but was never asked for an immigration document. Any legal Mexican driver in the U.S. has to carry with him at all times either a Border Crossing Card, a U.S. visa attached to the inside of his Mexican passport, or a green card. And it gets worse: the (alleged) murderer worked illegally in a restaurant owned by — wait for it – the mayor. And the restaurant had been notified by the government that the employee’s Social Security number was invalid. Even if the various levels of government were to enforce the immigration law and protect the citizenry, some illegal immigrants are going to get through and some of them will commit crimes –but responsibility for this murder is clearly shared by federal and local officials.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Deadly Sanctuary [Mark Krikorian]
Illegal alien murders Denver police officer. Said illegal was protected by the city’s “sanctuary” policy that prohibits officers from using immigration offenses without some other major crime being involved. Said illegal also worked at a restaurant owned by the mayor, which had been informed that the worker’s Social Security number was fake. So what does the mayor do? He defends the city’s sanctuary policy!
05/19 02:35 PM
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGQwY2ExMzNhNjQwNWY3M2E2MDVhY2Y2ZDJhM2Q3MmE=
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Is Illegal Immigration a “Victimless” Crime? [Mark Krikorian]
Denver’s “sanctuary” policy, which prohibits cops from using immigration law to fight crime, has claimed the life of a Denver cop. Detective Donnie Williams was murdered early Sunday morning by an illegal alien whom the police had encountered at least three times before. The city government is furiously spinning, but the facts speak for themselves — the (alleged) murderer presented a Mexican driver’s license three times as the result of traffic stops, but was never asked for an immigration document. Any legal Mexican driver in the U.S. has to carry with him at all times either a Border Crossing Card, a U.S. visa attached to the inside of his Mexican passport, or a green card. And it gets worse: the (alleged) murderer worked illegally in a restaurant owned by — wait for it – the mayor. And the restaurant had been notified by the government that the employee’s Social Security number was invalid. Even if the various levels of government were to enforce the immigration law and protect the citizenry, some illegal immigrants are going to get through and some of them will commit crimes –but responsibility for this murder is clearly shared by federal and local officials.
Way back from 1993
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Oh, the memories.
United Press International, August 26, 1993:
[Janet] Reno said last week the administration is studying ways to deal with the problem of its sieve-like southern border, and that illegal immigrants made up 26 percent of the federal prison population.Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros said earlier this week he does not favor Wilson's constitutional amendment [preventing the children of illegal immigrants from getting citizenship].But Cisneros said he agrees with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: Illegal immigrants should not be included in any universal health care mandated by President Clinton's health care reform package.And Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., also is warning about the danger of too many illegal immigrants. She said the United States can no longer afford to be the ''welfare system'' for Mexico's poor.
Some ten million illegal immigrants later, the Democrat Party has reversed course. And hardly anyone has noticed.
Oh, the memories.
United Press International, August 26, 1993:
[Janet] Reno said last week the administration is studying ways to deal with the problem of its sieve-like southern border, and that illegal immigrants made up 26 percent of the federal prison population.Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros said earlier this week he does not favor Wilson's constitutional amendment [preventing the children of illegal immigrants from getting citizenship].But Cisneros said he agrees with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: Illegal immigrants should not be included in any universal health care mandated by President Clinton's health care reform package.And Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., also is warning about the danger of too many illegal immigrants. She said the United States can no longer afford to be the ''welfare system'' for Mexico's poor.
Some ten million illegal immigrants later, the Democrat Party has reversed course. And hardly anyone has noticed.
illegal kills 2 in Hollywood
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Illegal Immigration Fatally Hits Hollywood@Home [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
AP :
LOS ANGELES - A Mexican national accused of causing the crash that killed "A Christmas Story" director Bob Clark and his son will face deportation proceedings once the charges against him are resolved, officials said Thursday.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put an immigration hold Wednesday on Hector Velazquez-Nava, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles, said agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice.The action means Velazquez-Nava will be turned over to federal immigration officials and placed in deportation proceedings once his local case is completed. He was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol and gross vehicular manslaughter, and was being held on $100,000 bail in a county jail.
04/06 07:25 AM
Friday, April 06, 2007
Illegal Immigration Fatally Hits Hollywood@Home [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
AP :
LOS ANGELES - A Mexican national accused of causing the crash that killed "A Christmas Story" director Bob Clark and his son will face deportation proceedings once the charges against him are resolved, officials said Thursday.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put an immigration hold Wednesday on Hector Velazquez-Nava, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles, said agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice.The action means Velazquez-Nava will be turned over to federal immigration officials and placed in deportation proceedings once his local case is completed. He was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol and gross vehicular manslaughter, and was being held on $100,000 bail in a county jail.
04/06 07:25 AM
Cement head LEO in OR
The murdered girl's photo
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"It's none of my business."
Another story of an illegal immigrant with a long history of arrests who now stands accused of murdering a 15-year-old Oregon girl. From The Oregonian:
Portland-area police arrested Alejandro Emeterio "Alex" Rivera Gamboa four times on drunken driving charges over the past seven years, but he went unnoticed by immigration officials until this week, when he and a cousin were accused in the death of 15-year-old Dani Countryman in Milwaukie.
Both Rivera Gamboa and his cousin, Gilberto Javier "Gabe" Arellano Gamboa, recently admitted that they entered the country illegally from Mexico, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed Thursday. If Rivera Gamboa's illegal status had been discovered at the time of his earlier arrests, it is likely — but not certain — that he would have been deported, immigration officials said.
The case illustrates a gap that often exists between the activities of Portland-area police agencies, who focus on enforcing local and state laws, and those of the federal officials who enforce immigration law.
"I've never asked somebody if they're legal or illegal," said Lt. Jason Gates, spokesman for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. "It's none of my business."
(H/T HotAir)
08/11 11:36 AM
http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/oregon/stories/NW_080907ORN_countryman_suspects_illegal_entry_LJ.195b1137.html
Suspects in girl's murder admit they entered the U.S. illegally
09:27 AM PDT on Thursday, August 9, 2007
From KGW.com Staff, The Dallas Morning News and Associted Press
MILWAUKIE, Ore. - Two suspects charged with aggravated murder in the killing of a Texas teen admitted they came to the United States illegally.
Police said 15-year-old Dani Countryman was trying to fight off Alejandro Rivera Gamboa and his cousin, 23-year-old cousin Gilberto Javier Rivera Gamboa when they strangled her at a Milwaukie apartment in late July.
Alejandro was taken into custody last Saturday on an outstanding warrant for an unrelated probation violation involving drunk driving. The murder charges were later added.
Gilberto Javier Rivera Gamboa was arrested Monday on aggravated murder charges at the Balboa apartment complex where he lives just a few doors from where Countryman was discovered.
The two also faced an immigration hearing after the murder investigation was complete. According to immigration officials, both of the suspects admitted to entering the country illegally six months ago.Court records showed Alejandro admitted to stepping on the girl and holding her down and that the two tried to sexually assault her.
More:
Countryman surprised her attackers by fighting back
"She was only 5 foot and 95 pounds," said 20-year-old Ashley Countryman, the half-sister who found Dani's body the morning after a going-away party. "I don't think they were expecting such a fight out of her."
Ashley said she can't get the image of her half-sister's lifeless body out of her head.
"I mean it was just a harmless night that went terribly, terribly wrong," she said.
Ashley thinks there was only a small window of opportunity for the attack. She said she last spoke with her half sister about 5 a.m. that day. Three hours later, she found Dani dead.
"They had to have been planning this, at least had the idea in their head... it's just random... I mean, this is the first time they'd ever met her," she said.
According to Ashley, the two men had been outside an adjacent apartment and at one point gave Dani a beer. They were vulgar toward other women, witnesses said, but never got physical with Dani, at least not from what Ashely could see.
"You know, I remember them flirting with her, but it wasn't a big thing, you know," Ashley Countryman said.
Also: Timeline
Clackamas County investigators said Countryman scratched the men who killed her, providing valuable DNA evidence under her fingernails that led to two arrests, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Forensic scientists from Oregon State Police said a shoe seized from one of the suspects, Alejandro, 24, had blood on it. The pattern of the shoe was also consistent with the imprint on Countryman's chest, according to investigators.
"They've taken her life, why should they be alive?" Countryman's great-uncle Carl Barton said. "I have no sympathy for people like that."
On July 27, the sisters attended a party at an apartment complex in the Portland suburb of Milwaukie. Then, they spent the night in separate apartments, and Ashley found Dani's body under a blanket when she went to get her in the morning.
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Ashley Countryman said other guests were sleeping in the room where she found Dani. And the couple who lived there with their two toddlers were asleep elsewhere in the apartment.
Countryman, from Kaufman, Texas, was from a troubled home and struggled with drugs, according to family members.
More: Victim was having rough year with father in jail
"It is very satisfying for the sheriff's office to announce the arrest of these murder suspects, which will hopefully bring a modicum of relief to the community, the victim's family and friends," said Detective Jim Strovink, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.
Some neighbors described the apartment building as a trouble spot.
Background: 55 police calls to apartment complex
The two suspects were arraignmed on Tuesday. If convicted, both men could face the death penalty.
If the case goes to trial, there's no guarantee they'll be deported after that. Officials said the criminal process takes precedence.
(AP and the Dallas Morning News also contributed to this article.)
Murder in WI
The murdered girl's photo.
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_022124807.html
Woman's Body Found Outside Wis. Church
(AP) La Crosse, Wis. The purse and credit card of a woman found dead outside a La Crosse church were recovered from the vehicle of a man arrested in Minnesota with blood on his face and hands, according to a criminal complaint.
Irvin Ramirez, 24, of Onalaska was charged in La Crosse County Circuit Court with one count of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Danielle Gorectke, 23, of Minocqua, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the complaint said.
Gorectke's partially clothed body was found at the bottom of the stairs outside Christ Covenant Church about 8 a.m. Sunday by a worker plowing the church's parking lot, authorities said. She was naked from the waist down and had "multiple contusions and lacerations to her head," the complaint said.
Ramirez had been arrested about three and a half hours earlier in La Crescent, Minn. He got into an argument with a convenience store clerk, who called police to deal with what seemed to be an intoxicated driver, the complaint said.
The responding officer noticed Ramirez had blood on his face, coat and hands. Police searched his vehicle and found a purse, pink billfold and credit card with Gorectke's name, the complaint said.
Gorectke's sister told investigators that she last saw her sister at the Helm Bar in downtown La Crosse early Sunday, and they became separated, the complaint said. Gorectke was in La Crosse visiting her sister, who attends Viterbo University.
Ramirez was charged in Houston County Court in Caledonia, Minn., with two counts of driving under the influence and one count of driving without a Minnesota license.
He waived extradition Monday afternoon at a hearing before Houston County Judge James Fabian, saying through an interpreter that he knew police were looking for him "so I may as well go back to Wisconsin.
"He was expected to appear Tuesday in court at La Crosse.
http://www.wjfw-nbc12.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4579&Itemid=51
Minocqua Woman Murdered
January 22, 2007
Woman's Body Found Outside Wis. Church
(AP) La Crosse, Wis. The purse and credit card of a woman found dead outside a La Crosse church were recovered from the vehicle of a man arrested in Minnesota with blood on his face and hands, according to a criminal complaint.
Irvin Ramirez, 24, of Onalaska was charged in La Crosse County Circuit Court with one count of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Danielle Gorectke, 23, of Minocqua, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the complaint said.
Gorectke's partially clothed body was found at the bottom of the stairs outside Christ Covenant Church about 8 a.m. Sunday by a worker plowing the church's parking lot, authorities said. She was naked from the waist down and had "multiple contusions and lacerations to her head," the complaint said.
Ramirez had been arrested about three and a half hours earlier in La Crescent, Minn. He got into an argument with a convenience store clerk, who called police to deal with what seemed to be an intoxicated driver, the complaint said.
The responding officer noticed Ramirez had blood on his face, coat and hands. Police searched his vehicle and found a purse, pink billfold and credit card with Gorectke's name, the complaint said.
Gorectke's sister told investigators that she last saw her sister at the Helm Bar in downtown La Crosse early Sunday, and they became separated, the complaint said. Gorectke was in La Crosse visiting her sister, who attends Viterbo University.
Ramirez was charged in Houston County Court in Caledonia, Minn., with two counts of driving under the influence and one count of driving without a Minnesota license.
He waived extradition Monday afternoon at a hearing before Houston County Judge James Fabian, saying through an interpreter that he knew police were looking for him "so I may as well go back to Wisconsin.
"He was expected to appear Tuesday in court at La Crosse.
http://www.wjfw-nbc12.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4579&Itemid=51
Minocqua Woman Murdered
January 22, 2007
A Minocqua woman is murdered in La Crosse- and police say they have a suspect in custody.
23-year old Danielle Gorectke was last seen at the Helm Bar in LaCrosse.
The 23-year old Minocqua Native and UW Stevens Point student went missing after going out in downtown LaCrosse with her sister Saturday night. Gorectke's body was found outside Christ Covenant church early Sunday Morning. A criminal complaint says she had multiple cuts and bruises to her body.
24-year old Irvin Mauricio Ramirez is now charged with Gorectke's murder. Investigators say Ramirez had Gorectke's purse and credit card in his car. Today- Ramirez appeared in a Minnesota Courtroom and waived his right to extradition and will now be sent back to Wisconsin. Ramirez is charged with first degree intentional homicide of Danielle Gorectke.
Earlier that same night - Irvin Ramirez was arrested for DWI - driving while intoxicated - in Minnesotta. According to the LaCrosse Police Department - the arresting officer noticed something was amiss when he saw blood on Ramirez's shirt and Gorectke's purse and credit card in his car. This led to Ramirez being brought into custody as a suspect for Gorectke's death.
Danielle Gorectke was a student at UW Stevens Point. There will be a memorial service for her tomorrow at 3 PM on the UW Stevens Point Campus.
http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/7453126.html
Irvin Ramirez asked for a new lawyer for his murder trial and the judge granted his request Thursday. Ramirez also asked for a copy of all reports in Spanish because he did not understand what was in the reports. Ramirez briefly talked with family on his way out of the courtroom. His trial will now begin in August.
Judge Gonzalez, Ramirez and the prosecutors were all hoping for a quick trial but the State Public Defenders Office says this plays no role in deciding whether a request for new defense is granted.
"The request is a request that is honored no matter what the reason is,” says Elliot Levine with the State Public Defenders Office. “The rules allow him to make a request, actually, ultimately the court has to make the decision whether it's within something they will grant or not and so Judge Gonzalez made the decision to grant the request that he's making"
Levine says there is a short list of attorneys available and qualified to handle a murder trial like Ramirez’s.
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