Prison for driver who killed girl, Omaha World-Herald, December 4, 2009

A solemn Douglas County District Judge J Russell Derr sentenced Rangel-Ochoa to 32 months to six years years in prison — the maximum sentence for misdemeanor motor-vehicle homicide and for felony driving while he was suspended.

Rangel-Ochoa, 27, ran a red light about 7:30 a.m. May 12 — crashing a truck into a van driven by Jayme Bluhm and carrying the Bluhms’ three children.

Josie’s father, Kyle, and mother, Jayme, tearfully talked about their bubbly daughter. With her blonde-hair and a button nose, their middle child had an infectious personality.

Jayme Bluhm had been headed to day care to drop off her children, then ages 5, 4 and 1. The collision ejected Josie, 4, and caused her death.

Josie’s then-5-year-old brother and best friend, Cayden, suffered six broken bones in the crash.

Rangel-Ochoa, an illegal immigrant, had lost his license for 15 years after his third drunken-driving conviction in 2003.

He wasn’t drunk on May 12 — hence the misdemeanor motor-vehicle homicide charge.

The case sparked concern about why Rangel-Ochoa hadn’t been deported after his 2003 conviction. His previous attorney has said that immigration officials now are more stringent and that Rangel-Ochoa wouldn’t be treated with such leniency today. He likely will face deportation after he serves his sentence.

That word “likely” is disturbing. Deportation should be set in stone for illegal alien felons when their prison time is up, so citizens don’t have to depend upon the kindness of the legal system.

Josie’s parents, Kyle and Jayme Bluhm (above), spoke about the heartache of losing their beloved little girl, like setting the table for four instead of five. Josie had thought she wanted to be a teacher like her dad, but all those plans for the future are gone now.

(See my original report: Illegal Alien Causes Crash: Little Girl Dead in Omaha).

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Investigators continued to search for two men who walked out of a federal prison Friday.

By Patrick George
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

As the search continued Monday for two men who escaped from a Bastrop County federal prison, authorities said they obtained security camera footage of one of the men at an Austin grocery store and think he may be headed to Mexico.

Adan Chavez, 53, who had been sentenced to 30 years in prison for cocaine and weapons convictions, and Leandro Luna, 52, who had been sentenced to 10 years for marijuana importation, walked out of a low-security area of the Bastrop federal prison Friday, officials said. They have been on the loose since.

Hector Gomez, supervisory deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service, said Monday that officials discovered an abandoned Ford Crown Victoria government car at the H-E-B at Interstate 35 and East William Cannon Drive. A review of security camera footage from about 9 p.m. Friday showed Luna stepping out of the car, which Gomez said was from the Bastrop prison and may have been used in the escape, and into a blue or silver Chevrolet pickup.

The truck's license plate could not be seen on the video, Gomez said. The video did not show Chavez, he said.

Investigators have learned that Luna has relatives in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, which is near Del Rio.

"It's not far-fetched to say he could be there now," Gomez said. "We feel pretty certain he's not in the Austin area."

Authorities have fewer leads on Chavez, Gomez said. He has no relatives in the Central Texas area and also may be headed to Mexico. Both men are U.S. citizens, so if they are caught south of the border they probably will be deported quickly, Gomez said.

It's typical for investigators to not release information about fugitives for the first 24 to 48 hours after an escape because during that time, they have the "element of surprise" and can track them down based on who their associates and families are, Gomez said. Once that window passes, investigators enlist the public's help, but he said that publicity often causes fugitives to go deeper into hiding, he said.

"We are doing everything we possibly can," he said.

Luna is described as being 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 334 pounds. Officials say he has gray hair, brown eyes and a scar on his abdomen.

Officials said Chavez is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 215 pounds. He has graying black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force at 916-5393.

New GPS tool will help immigrants cross border

Full story: www.ocregister.com

There seems to be a mobile phone application for just about everything these days -- even illegal border crossing. An application still in the testing stages is designed to point border-crossers to nearby water, show them safer routes and provide them with a series of poems to make them feel welcome along their way.

Individuals trekking north may soon be able to download the program into an inexpensive web-enabled cellular phone that is supposed to help them safely navigate the treacherous desert crossing between Mexico and the United States, known as the Devil's Highway.

"The point of the project is to offer multiple spaces of sustenance," said Ricardo Dominguez, who led the creation of the tool. Dominguez, an associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego, leads a team at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology where he is a principal investigator.

The team -- which involved a collection of researchers from different disciplines of study -- is hoping to have the application, called a Transborder Immigrant Tool, officially up and running by mid-2010 after a series of test runs in the desert to adjust the kinks and make necessary tweaks. For now, the invention is in its beta stage.

While U.S. Border Patrol officials say they are not worried by the invention, which they see as more of a nuisance, the news has already made its way into anti-illegal immigration Web chat rooms, enraging members of that movement.

"He is aiding and abetting criminal activity," said Barbara Coe, founder of Huntington Beach-based California Coalition for Immigration Reform. "He should be arrested and prosecuted."

Dominguez, who calls himself an Artivist -- a cross between an artist and activist -- said he's expecting a flurry of criticism from what he calls the "hard-core conservative Lou Dobbs community." He claims that he isn't bothered by it.

"We're not trying to resolve the border issues...," Dominguez said. "We're just trying to create a poetic safety tool. Anyone can agree on safety as a far as a core human right."

The idea for the tool began with a Virtual Hiker Tool, developed by a university colleague with an impaired sense of direction who favored desert hikes.

"Then we began to speak about another possibility It was kind of a non-event," Dominguez said. "Here we are in the border. We know people are dying crossing. To us it was obvious...It was 'how can we tweak this GPS algorithm and develop it for another concern -- the question of people dying on the border.' "

The tool pairs cheap cell phone technology with a global-positioning system and consistently updated online data to guide individuals who are trying to cross international borders. The GPS system, however, doesn't contact all three satellites so authorities would not be able to triangulate where the person is, unless he or she used the phone to make a call.

Border Patrol officials said the device won't stop them from nabbing border-crossers.

"The technology is not new...," said U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Mark Qualia. He added that he's seen these sort of tools used before. "That's the nature of our job. We have to learn to overcome and to adapt."

While he said the tool may provide border-crossers with a slight advantage, he said the agency has a variety of detection tools at their disposal.

"We have ground radar. We have cameras. Our enforcement and technology that we are using is not onefold," Qualia said. "But once there is detection if they cross and hit a sensor the GPS is not going to help them."

As for whether the government would go after someone like Dominguez, Qualia said he could not answer and that it would be up to the U.S. Attorney's Office to prosecute, if they deem appropriate.

Dominguez said he's not worried about the government cracking down on his project.

"If we were the kind to sit around and be concerned about that, the last 20 years of my research would never have gotten done," he said. "We're not hiding. We're not anonymous. We're not sneaking around. We're willing to have a discussion on multiple levels."

Dominguez said he is in contact with non-governmental organizations on the border and churches that already help individuals with safe passage north, hoping to ultimately form a partnership for free distribution and training of the devices.

Some immigrant rights activists are already praising his work.

Enrique Morones, founder of Border Angels in San Diego, said the device would help save lives in the desert.

"Ricardo just wants to save people's lives. He's not encouraging people to cross," Morones said.

His group is known for setting water out in the middle of the desert for border-crossers.

"I get calls every week about a person lost out there," he said. "If he could save the life of one person with that device, all of that work would be worth it. You can't put a price on someone's life."

Others, however, are skeptical of the device's effectiveness.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera, spokesman for Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said the device won't solve what he called the real problem.

"We have pushed migrants to go into remote areas such as the Arizona desert," Cabrera said. "This is more of an issue of policy, not the lack of technology that is producing these deaths."

Minuteman Britt Craig, who splits his time between the Campo border and his home in Mission Viejo, said he understands Dominguez' invention on a humanitarian level.

"I'm sure his intentions are good. He doesn't want people to die in the desert. I don't want people to die in the desert either," said Craig, 60.

Still, he said, the device won't do the border-crosser or the American people any favors.

"As soon as they get over here the problem hasn't ended, it's just begun," he said. "They are in an immediate state between a slave and a legal free man laborer. They are totally at the mercy of the people who hire them and they just begin ruining the economy for the people who are legal to work here."

Craig said he doesn't believe the device will keep people from dying in the desert. He said he fears that it may have an opposite affect of emboldening some to make the journey on their own with the device.

Craig said he doesn't believe the device will keep people from dying in the desert. He said he fears that it may have an opposite affect of emboldening some to make the journey on their own with the device.

"It may give people the confidence to go out and not be able to physically cross it and die," he said. "He may actually lead someone to their doom with the device... an unintended consequence. If they think a cell phone is going to get them through 80 miles of desert, south of Yuma. They are mistaken."

Women, Children Raped In 'Most Dangerous Area' By The Border
Posted on Thursday, November 19 @ 22:03:42 EST
Topic: Mexican Mexico Border illegal immigratio SAN DIEGO -- Authorities said a desolate corner of San Diego County may be its most violent area. It is so dangerous 10News crews had to put on bulletproof vests before entering the area near Boulevard.

"The violence in this area is so bad that a 12-year-old was raped to death," said Estela De Los Rios of the Center for Social Advocacy.

Topics: Illegal Immigration, San Diego County, border violence, U.S. Border Patrol, human smugglers, rapes

November 18, 2009
10news.com
Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.

In the area, authorities said there are pieces of evidence left behind that serve as a grim reminder of the violence happening near the U.S.-Mexico border

They're ruthless; they'll come over here, they'll pick one out that they want, they drag her off onto the rocks, they'll rape her and they just leave them here," said Carl Braun, founder of the Border Patrol Auxiliary, a group that assists U.S. Border Patrol agents.

The rapes are committed by the people the victims trust, authorities said. The women and their families give their life savings to human smugglers, only to be hurt by them.

"What they'll do is they'll get them in sight of the border or right across the border and then they'll demand a form of payment that wasn't agreed to on the front end. They will take them off and then rape them," said Braun.

After raping the women, authorities said the smugglers hang their underwear on the trees as trophies to mark their brutal conquests.

Braun said he has witnessed a woman being raped but could not help because it happened on the south side of the border.

"In the morning, we found her undergarments hanging from that stick that's sticking up by the fence there," said Braun.

Braun said the violence has now crossed the border into San Diego County.

Armed with guns, Braun and his colleague Mike Schmid escorted 10News to a place where they said rapes have happened.

A young girl's underwear hanging from a tree and a woman's pair of pants was found on the ground during 10News' journey. Braun said he has also found women wandering lost in the area who just wanted to go home.

"These people are afraid, these women are in danger, they're afraid for their lives," said Schmid.

De Los Rios said most victims are too scared to come forward, and without evidence or witnesses no investigations are ever started.

"We cannot let children be raped on the border, regardless of what side. It's very sad to know that this is occurring on a daily basis," said De Los Rios.

U.S. Prof. Maps Out Safe Routes For Mexicans Heading North
Posted on Wednesday, November 18 @ 02:03:44 EST
An activist Chicano professor at a taxpayer-funded university has created special technology to help Mexicans enter the United States illegally by mapping the safest routes through the notoriously rigorous southern border desert.

Subjects: Illegal Immigration, Transborder Immigrant Tool, U.S./Mexico border, Border Patrol, Ricardo Dominguez, taxpayers

November 17, 2009
Judicial Watch

The innovative Transborder Immigrant Tool is a simple mobile application—inserted into the cheapest available cell phone on the market—which guides illegal aliens through the least dangerous routes, areas with shelter, food, water and so-called Quaker help centers that provide medical attention and directions to the nearest major U.S. highway.

The Transborder Immigrant Tool is simply the latest of several devices created by members of a technologically sophisticated, pro illegal immigration group (Mexico/U.S. Border Disturbance Art Project) that aims to help Mexican migrants evade the U.S. Border Patrol. The new mobile program is touted as an “intelligent agent algorithm” that parses out the best routes and trails on a particular day and hour so that Mexicans can cross the “vertiginous landscape” as safely as possible.

It was created because hundreds of would-be illegal immigrants have died crossing the U.S./Mexico border because they got lost in the treacherous terrain. The virtual geography application will mark new trails and secure routes that will facilitate illegal aliens in reaching their U.S. destination unscathed, according to Mexico/U.S. Border Disturbance Art Project officials.

The rebel group is headed by a visual arts professor (Ricardo Dominguez) at the University of California San Diego, a major public institution not far from the Mexican border. His university biography boasts that he earned scrutiny from the National Security Agency for creating a program that allows activists to slow any web site to a halt by flooding it with requests (known as a virtual sit-in).

In the past Mexico’s government has provided its nationals with valuable tools to help them cross the border safely but this marks the first time an American resident, whose salary is provided by U.S. taxpayers, openly promotes such a gadget. A few years ago Mexican officials published a 32-page booklet (Guia Del Migrante Mexicano) with safety tips for border crossers and distributed hand-held satellite devices to ensure the violators complete their journey safely.

 

 

ICE agent making an arrest
photo courtesy of ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have taken Los Angeles family practice physician Levon Tebelekian, 72, into custody after an investigation revealed that he was allegedly charging immigrants a fee in exchange for disease-free medical reports.

Allegedly, Dr. Tebelekian was charging patients $150 each to fill-out a medical exam form with a favorable result. No examinations or tests were ever actually performed.

ICE claims that on one occasion, Dr. Tebelekian told an undercover agent that he would not "disturb his blood" and that he "did not look like he had AIDS.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Miguel Unzueta told the Associated Press: "Aspiring immigrants are required to undergo a medical exam as part of the application process to ensure they don't have any medical conditions or diseases that might pose a public health threat."

He continued: "By allegedly giving some of his patients a clean bill of health without even examining them, this physician potentially put our communities at risk.”

Dr. Tebelekian was charged with fraud and making false statements. If convicted, he could face a sentence of up to 80 years in prison.

It is unclear as to whether or not Dr. Tebelekian even has a current medical license, as his profile on Healthgrades website states that his license expired on September 30, 2009.

In addition to ICE, the California Medical Board is also investigating the doctor.

Once considered to be eradicated in this country, Tuberculosis has been making a comeback largely due to illegal immigration.

In March of 2002, The Washington Post reported that Virginia's Prince William County experienced a 188 percent increase of TB infections over the previous year. Of course, the streets of Prince William County have been over-run with illegal aliens seeking day-laborer jobs.

In April 2009, another outbreak of TB was feared in Chicago as an infected doctor possibly spread the virus throughout area hospitals. The unidentified physician worked at Evanston Hospital, Children´s Memorial and Northwestern Memorial´s Prentice Women´s Hospital. Chicago has a "sanctuary" policy for illegal aliens, and consequently has a very large illegal population.

It costs between $250K to $1million to treat a patient with TB.

 

 

Police: Suspected illegal immigrant in Brewster sexually abused boy, 8

By Rob Ryser • rryser@LoHud.com • November 9, 2009

 

BREWSTER - A 24-year-old village man suspected of being in the United States illegally was arrested on a felony charge after he was accused of sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy, police said.

 

The boy told a doctor during an Oct. 30 appointment that he had been sexually abused, according to a release from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.

 

 

The doctor reported the incident to police, who arrested the suspect on Wednesday after serving him with a search warrant.

 

 

Nelson Mendez-Depaz was charged at his home at 53 Oak St. with first-degree sexual abuse. He was being held without bail in Putnam County jail.

 

 

Police said the abuse happened at the suspect's home. Other details were not released.

 

 

The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a retainer on the case, preventing the suspect from being released until investigators determine his immigration status.

 

 

The suspect is due in Village Court tonight.

 

Gunmen kill US airman in attack on bar in Mexico

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.

Meanwhile, gunmen assassinated an army general recently named police chief of Garcia, a town in the northern state of Nuevo Leon. It the latest attack against a military official appointed to take over municipal police forces, which President Felipe Calderon has acknowledged are plagued with corruption.

All 70 officers of the Garcia police force were questioned in the attack, Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina said at a news conference. He said soldiers and state police will be sent to patrol the town.

There was no immediate information on a motive for the attack that killed the U.S. airman at the Amadeus bar in Ciudad Juarez, which also left a seventh person wounded, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state. But the methods bore the hallmarks of attacks by drug cartels.

The attacks raised to 30 the number of homicides in Ciudad Juarez in just four days. The city is one of the world's most violent, with 1,900 people killed in drug-related attacks this year alone.

Staff Sgt. David Booher, assigned to the medical unit of the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman Air Force outside Alamogordo, New Mexico, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Ciudad Juarez, was among those killed in the bar, the U.S. Air Force said.

Earlier this year, the 12th Air Force barred airmen from traveling in Mexico's Chihuahua state. Soldiers from Fort Bliss, just outside El Paso, Texas, across the border from Juarez, also are barred from going to Chihuahua.

Prosecutors later said four men were found dead outside the perimeter wall of Pedro E. Medina Gonzalez primary school in another part of Ciudad Juarez. Classes were in session at the time.

The wall, which abuts the school's playing fields, was pockmarked by bullets. A sign posted on the government-run school's entrance said classes were suspended for security reasons.

In Garcia, gunmen killed police chief Brig. Gen. Juan Arturo Esparza as he drove to the home of town Mayor Jaime Rodriguez, who had reported a threat to his life, the mayor told Mexican media. Four others riding in the car with Esparza were also killed.

Shortly before the shooting, Rodriguez said he had called police to report that armed men had driven up to his home and warned him to be careful. Esparza was on his way to Rodriguez's home when armed men opened fire on his car, the mayor said.

Esparza had been appointed Garcia police chief just days earlier — part of a trend to name active or retired military officers to Mexico's municipal police forces.

In April, an army colonel was shot to death less than three weeks after taking over the local police force in Piedras Negras, a Coahuila city across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. In August, an ex-general serving as police chief in the northern city of Monclova escaped an assassination attempt that killed three of his bodyguards.

Esparza's assassination came as the new police chief of another city in Nuevo Leon vowed to fire corrupt cops. In an interview with El Norte newspaper, Gonzalo Adalid, police chief of San Pedro Garza Garcia, also promised to create incentives for loyalty so police "will not have to ask for a cent from anyone."

Last month, soldiers detained 20 police officers from San Pedro, an affluent suburb of the northern city of Monterrey, for allegedly collaborating with the Beltran Levya drug cartel.

Calderon has acknowledged that corruption permeates Mexican police at all levels. He has deployed tens of thousands of army soldiers and federal police across the country to lead the battle against cartels.

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MS-13 Gang Member
FBI

The Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force just released a report which claims that due to tougher laws and a concerted effort by law enforcement, many illegal alien gangs are leaving Virginia for the safe havens of Maryland.

The report said: "Many gang members from Northern Virginia are moving or driving to Prince George's and other Maryland counties, into the District of Columbia or further south and west into Virginia to avoid dealing with police departments that are unrelenting in their efforts to keep gangs under control.”

The report also found that there are 5,000 gang members in Northern Va., including 3,000 MS-13 members. Because of more cooperation between local and federal agencies, violent crime in the region has decreased by 17 percent from 2003-2008.

However, as a direct result of Maryland’s continued lax attitude toward illegal immigration, the state’s sanctuary cities, and lack of cooperation with federal authorities, violent crimes committed by illegal aliens have recently soared.

Maryland is also one of a handful of states which issues driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Additionally, the Maryland State Board of Education recently announced that they will not allow county school districts to count the number of illegal alien students registered in their respective districts.

Several high profile murders committed by illegal aliens in Montgomery County, MD forced city officials to change their policy in reporting criminal aliens to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. However, as Judicial Watch recently pointed-out, Montgomery County police only report illegal aliens to the feds when they have been arrested for a very serious crime such as rape or murder.

Illegal aliens arrested for burglary, simple assault, and most weapons violations are still not reported to ICE for deportation. Just as with any offender, bail is set for them and they are released back onto the streets to either commit more crimes in the county or to flee elsewhere.

The following is a short list of some of the violent crimes recently committed by illegal aliens in Montgomery County, MD:

-In July 2009, Edwin Umana, 21, was stabbed to death by seven Hispanic gang members.

-In November 2008, Tai Lam, 14 was shot to death on a crowded bus by 20-year-old MS-13 member and Takoma Park resident Hector Mauricio Hernandez. Unfortunately, this killing could have been avoided if Hernandez had been reported to federal authorities a month earlier, when the illegal alien was released after being caught carrying a concealed weapon.

-In October 2008, police arrested Honduran national Jose Juan Garcia-Perlera, 33, for the murder of Frances Havenstein, 63, after being linked to the crime with DNA evidence. He was also charged with several counts of robbery in a string of home invasions which targeted elderly homeowners. He always tied-up his victims, one of whom was 92-years-old.

At the time of his arrest, Garcia-Perlera was living in Hyattsville, MD and working for an electrical contractor. He had been in the country illegally for six years.

-In September 2008, while at a local mall, a Gaithersburg teenager was stabbed nearly 50 times by gang members Ricardo Mejia, 16, Oswaldo Michael Lainez, 16, Omar Diaz, 16, and Edgar Garcia, 15. Though he was stabbed in the heart, the teen survived the attack. All of the assailants were charged as adults with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and two conspiracy charges.

In April 2009, Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger announced that criminal activity committed by illegal alien gangs MS-13 and the Latin Kings had increased significantly and accounted for the higher numbers of serious crimes such as rape, robbery, and murder.

According to the Maryland State’s Attorney’s Office, there are 40 active gangs in Montgomery County with a total of about 1,150 members.

Chief of the FBI’s MS-13 National Gang Task Force, Aaron Escorza recently said that gangs “know what law enforcement is doing. Word of mouth spreads quickly.” Illegal alien gangs are now spreading the word that Maryland is part of the “wild wild East.”

In December 2008, the Center for Immigration Studies released a comprehensive report on law enforcement’s handling of illegal alien gangs, entitled “Taking Back Our Streets.“ An excerpt taken directly from that report follows:

“Consider the case of Milton Calderon-Menendez (age 25, citizen of El Salvador), who was arrested in March 2008, by the Prince William County, Va., gang unit. Following procedures put in place just weeks before, Prince William police checked his immigration status and learned that Calderon was an illegal alien. The policy also requires them to notify ICE, which promptly put a hold on Calderon so that he would be held pending immigration charges, and would not be released (under Virginia law, illegal aliens are presumed to be ineligible for bail). As it turned out, Calderon had been arrested nine months before in Montgomery County, Md., about 40 miles away, for punching a 15-year old in the face. Calderon had admitted to Montgomery police that he was a member of MS-13. However, that department’s policy is to not inquire about immigration status. Montgomery County released Calderon on $2,500 bail and told him to return a month later for trial. He did not. About three days after his scheduled trial, Calderon and a friend assaulted the friend’s roommate — the friend beat his roommate in the head with a baseball bat while Calderon stabbed him in the chest. It was after this attack that Calderon was arrested in the neighboring state of Virginia.”

The Congressional Research Service has listed the following cities and counties that have “don’t ask, don’t tell” sanctuary policies in place:

-Anchorage, Alaska
-Fairbanks, Alaska
-Chandler, Arizona
-Tucson, Arizona
-Fresno, California
-Los Angeles, California
-San Bernardino, California
-San Diego, California
-San Jose, California
-Sonoma County, California
-Denver, Colorado
-Durango, Colorado
-Lafayette, Colorado
-Chicago, Illinois
-Cicero, Illinois
-Evanston, Illinois
-Cambridge, Massachusetts
-Orleans, Massachusetts
-Portland, Maine
-Baltimore, Maryland
-Takoma Park, Maryland
-Ann Arbor, Michigan
-Detroit, Michigan
-Minneapolis, Minnesota
-Durham, North Carolina
-Albuquerque, New Mexico
-Aztec, New Mexico
-Rio Ariba County, New Mexico
-Santa Fe, New Mexico
-Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
-Sante Fe, New Mexico
-New York, New York
-Ashland, Oregon
-Gaston, Oregon
-Marion County, Oregon
-Austin, Texas
-El Cenizo, Texas
-Houston, Texas
-Katy, Texas
-Seattle, Washington
-Madison, Wisconsin.

Both Alaska and Oregon have state-wide policies that forbid state agencies from using resources to enforce federal immigration law. Oregon law, however, does provide an exception to allow law enforcement officers to share information on immigration status with federal authorities with those arrested for criminal offenses.

 

 

SAN DIEGO - A Fallbrook couple who admitted being part of smuggling organization that brought more than 100 illegal immigrants into the United States from Mexico were sentenced on Monday to federal prison terms.

Maria Del Carmen Alvarez and Indalecio Alvarez-Montoya, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring in illegal aliens for financial gain and filing a false income tax return, were sentenced to 37 months and 21 months behind bars, respectively.

U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff also imposed a Criminal Forfeiture order in the amount of $606,770, which represents the total amount of alien smuggling proceeds obtained by the defendants from 2000 through 2005, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

According to court papers, Maria Del Carmen Alvarez admitted making arrangements to have the illegal aliens brought into the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry by having them present false immigration documents or by hiding them in the trunk of a vehicle.

The defendants admitted making arrangements to have the illegal immigrants transported to their residence in Fallbrook and sheltering the undocumented residents in a guesthouse before their sponsors wired money to pay the smuggling fees.

Prosecutors said the defendants also jointly filed a false tax return that understated their total income and tax due for the year 2003.