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Category: Illegal Immigrants

  • Border Security “Overemphasized”? Hardly.

    Many people claim that the US is wasting money on border security operations.  In fact, some go so far as to say that we should have open borders, advocating an utterly ridiculous and nonexistent “right to migrate” – and thus don’t need to control our border at all.

    Others say the threat from terrorism is “overemphasized”.  In fact, some people openly proclaim both of these (no need for border security and the threat from terrorism being overemphasized) to be true.

    Well, “Riddle me this, Batman”:  just how many encounters were there in the US with known and suspected terrorists during the one-year period ending 20 July 2016?

    If you guessed more than 7,700  – or an average of more than 21 every day  – give yourself a gold star.

    I’m not joking. 

    I’m normally a bit hesitant to use Breitbart as a primary source.  But here, the author at Breitbart seems to have gotten access to bona fide documentation of his claims – documentation, as in an official briefing prepared by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center.  The 7,700+ figure comes from the FBI briefing.

    No, all of those known/suspected terrorists weren’t radical Islamists.  And yes, some of the reports were doubtless false alarms.

    But in the one state for which the FBI gave detailed figures, over half were assessed to be Islamic radicals.  And even if only 10% of the reports nationwide are accurate, that still means we have somewhere over 700 terrorists running around loose.  Recent news (the San Bernardino massacre, the Pulse nightclub shooting, the NYC bombings, and possibly the WA mall shooting) certainly proves the number isn’t zero.

    And if you’re wondering how this ties to border security:  from looking over the sketchy data available, it certainly appears that a helluva lot of the foreign terrorists currently in the US likely came into the country by crossing the US border illegally.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that preventing such illegal crossings makes getting terrorists into the US significantly more difficult.

    The biggest issue with US border security is not that it’s a waste of time.  Rather, the biggest problem is that we’re still in denial.  We’re still not taking it seriously enough.

    And I’m wondering how many more attacks – and dead US citizens – it will take until we do.

  • Hiding the Truth? Sure Looks Like It to Me.

    The DHS claimed earlier this year that they prevent roughly 81% of adults trying to sneak into the US across the southwestern border from doing that.  Specifically, they claimed an interdiction rate (defined as apprehension or forcing the individual to turn back) of 81.01%.

    Now, having lived in that part of the country for a while myself . . . IMO that claim doesn’t pass the “smell test”.  But regardless, that was their claim.

    If that number seems suspiciously low to you too, well, there may be a good reason.

    It seems in last year’s Fiscal 2016 Omnibus Bill required DHS to provide Congress a report on the matter.  The report still hasn’t been provided to Congress.  DHS says the report “isn’t finished”.

    Sources familiar with the situation say that is bull.

    Instead, those familiar with the subject say such a report was completed last November by a contractor for DHS – specifically, the Institute for Defense Analyses.  Apparently DHS already had such a study underway when Congress demanded one from them.

    Those knowledgeable  further indicate that the report is unclassified and is not marked to preclude public release.  They further say it’s also reportedly the “most extensive survey” of US illegal immigration and enforcement along our southwestern border conducted to date.

    Contrary to DHS claims, the report apparently shows that the actual interdiction rate (apprehension or turned back while attempting to cross) for adults attempting to cross the US border illegally is about 50% – not the 81% DHS claims.   The DHS figure was produced by “padding the numbers”.  It was calculated after including unaccompanied children and those who voluntarily surrendered (likely because they were either lost or in severe distress) vice being apprehended.

    In short, that “81%” number simply isn’t accurate.  DHS did not apprehend or force back 81% of adults attempting to cross the US southwestern border illegally; the actual fraction is far lower.  They’re engaging in intentional spin and dissembling.  Again.

    Gee, you don’t think maybe that’s why they’re “stonewalling” release of the report that exposes the truth – do you?  Why, this Administration would never do something like that!  (I trust the sarcasm in the preceding two sentences was obvious.)

    Fox News has an article giving more details.  It’s worth a read.

    “Most transparent Administration in history.”  Yeah. Right.

     

  • Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez; murderer deported six times

    Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez; murderer deported six times

    Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez

    On Monday, Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez murdered three people and wounded another in Woodburn, Oregon, according to KTVC.

    Late Monday morning, Marion County sheriff’s deputies were summoned to the farm, and when they arrived they found two dead men, a wounded man and a wounded woman, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. The woman died at the hospital.

    Late Monday night, Marion County authorities identified the triple-homicide suspect as Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez, 29, who had been booked into the county jail in Salem. He is due for arraignment Tuesday afternoon on three counts of aggravated murder and one count of attempted aggravated murder.

    It turns out that Bonifacio has been deported from the United States six times since 2003, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    “After conducting a comprehensive review of Mr. Oseguera’s immigration and criminal history, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has designated this as a federal interest case. To that end, the agency filed a notice of action with the Marion County Jail asking to be alerted if or when Mr. Oseguera is slated for release so the agency can take custody o[r] pursue further administrative enforcement action. Relevant databases indicate Mr. Oseguera has no significant prior criminal convictions. However, he has been repatriated to Mexico six times since 2003, most recently in 2013”

    The left is fond of saying that if more gun control can save even one life, then it’s worth it to restrict law-abiding Americans’ Constitutional rights. Doesn’t that same principle apply to non-US citizen illegal immigrants?

    Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez is accused of shooting and killing 60-year old Ruben Rigoberto-Reyes, 26-year old Edmundo Amaro-Bajonero and 30 year old Katie Gildersleeve. He also shot and injured 27-year old Refugio Modesto-DeLaCruz on June 27th.

  • About That Recent Fire in Los Angeles . . . .

    Last Monday, a vacant building was intentionally torched in Los Angeles. Some homeless people were in it at the time.

    Five of them died.

    The police have a suspect in custody: Johnny Sanchez. Authorities believe he intentionally set the fire with intent to kill.

    Sanchez is a Honduran citizen. He’s 21 years old.

    Sanchez was arrested for illegally crossing the US border in 2012. At the time, Sanchez was released by authorities because he “had no previous criminal history.”

    Instead of being immediately deported to Honduras, Sanchez was placed “under supervision” and ordered to report to authorities regularly. He did – for a while. But he stopped doing that in 2014.

    In January of this year, Sanchez was arrested again – this time on suspicion of domestic violence. He was arrested again twice afterwards on suspicion of drug possession.

    So, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement began deportation proceedings after one of those arrests, right? After all: Sanchez was arrested three times this year for serious crimes, and had also been in violation of the conditions that allowed him to remain in the US (periodic check-in with authorities) for between one and two years.

    Well . . . that would be a “no”.

    Why not, you ask? When asked here’s what ICE had to say:

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement never started the process of deporting him, spokeswoman Virginia Kice said, adding that the reason why was unclear. She told the newspaper it’s ICE policy “to focus on individuals who pose a public safety threat.”

    Sanchez reportedly set the arson fire which killed five Monday after a fight with some of those killed. As noted above, authorities think his intent in setting the fire was to kill.

    Hmm . . . let’s see. Sanchez quit reporting in to authorities as ordered close to 2 years ago, as was required for him to remain in the US. He’d been arrested for domestic violence, and twice had been arrested for drugs, since the beginning of the year. Based on all of that, I’d certainly say Sanchez that damn well did seem to pose a threat to public safety. But apparently ICE felt he didn’t.

    I must have it wrong, though; ICE must have been right about Sanchez not posing a threat to public safety. After all: they apparently didn’t lift a finger when Sanchez was arrested for domestic violence after being “on the lam” for well over a year, then was arrested twice again for serious criminal offenses. But ICE assures us they focus on those illegal immigrants who “pose a public safety threat.” And we know that ICE cares first and foremost about the safety and security of the US public, and that they work tirelessly to protect us.

    I have to wonder, though, if the proverbial “man on the street” would would agree with ICE regarding their hands-off treatment of Sanchez. Or what the next-of-kin of those killed in the fire Sanchez started might say concerning the situation.

     

    (Hopefully the sarcasm in the next to last para of the above was obvious. If it wasn’t, you might want to have your sarcasm detector checked by a competent repair shop.)

  • Taliban captured in Arizona

    Taliban captured in Arizona

    Fox News reports that Representative Duncan Hunter found evidence that a Taliban operative was captured by Border Patrol agents in Arizona last year along with five Pakistanis and two Mexican smugglers after they crawled under the border fence from Mexico. He told officers that he had traveled to Brazil, then to Peru and then up the Central American isthmus. He was stopped once in Panama and then released when his identity didn’t pop hot on any computers.

    According to a letter sent Wednesday from Hunter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, all six were initially served with an “Expedited Removal.” The Afghan national “sought U.S. immigration benefits, and was processed as having credible fear after he stated his life was in danger,” Hunter wrote.

    However, according to the letter, the individual was in fact identified in a separate database, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), as having terror ties.

    Hunter wrote that the individual was said to be “involved in a plot to conduct an attack in the U.S. and/or Canada and has family ties to members of the Taliban.”

    For an unknown reason, the individual was not initially watch-listed in the separate Terrorist Screening Database, according to the letter – and so these associations were not initially noticed.

    Officials apparently noticed the error in time, as the individual remains in U.S. custody in Arizona.

    Hunter says that the location of other seven guys who were caught with him is unknown. So that’s reassuring.

  • Rene Quintana; Illegal alien steals vet’s ID for fun and profit

    Rene Quintana; Illegal alien steals vet’s ID for fun and profit

    Rene Quintana

    Instinct sends us a link to KGUN that tells the story of Rene Quintana, a man who has been in this country illegally for more than 50 years – he stole the identity of Ruben J. Gallardo, a veteran who has been dead since 1994, in order to get Social Security and Veterans Affairs’ benefits;

    Under that name, police say, he got an Arizona identification card, a state health card, a Phoenix health plan card and a VA choice card. The VA choice card was given to veterans in response to long delays in getting medical care from VA hospitals. It allows veterans to get medical care at Non-VA facilities.

    He also received Social security benefits under the name Ruben Gallardo.

    Quintana received benefits totaling $29,062.19.

    Meanwhile, real veterans are queued up to get enrolled in the VA, to get what they earned, like they’re at Space Mountain.

  • Daniel Torres; US citizen

    Daniel Torres; US citizen

    Daniel Torres

    On Thursday, Daniel Torres became a US citizen. Torres served in the war in Iraq as a US Marine in 2007, but he had falsified his identification documents because he had immigrated to the US illegally as a teen. So when that was discovered, he voluntarily deported himself to Mexico after being honorably discharged from the Marines;

    Under special provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, people who served in the military during a period of hostility may become US citizens without typical requirements such as permanent residence in the US.

    After his swearing in, Torres told reporters he’d chosen to become a Marine nearly a decade earlier to fulfill a life goal.

    “When I enlisted in the Marines I knew the risks. It was something that could come up, it was something that could come back and hurt me,” he said. “I was just hoping that I wasn’t going to pay for that mistake for the rest of my life. And now I’m able to finally go home and live the life I feel like I need to.”

    […]

    “We don’t choose where we are born. I didn’t even choose to come to this country, but we can choose who we are loyal to and I’m loyal to the United States,” Torres told reporters.

  • Honduran cartel kidnapping squad busted in Alabama

    According to an AL.com article, police officers in Oxford, Alabama, during a traffic stop, encountered three illegal aliens who were being paid $60,000 to rob a house and kidnap it’s residents to turn over to a Honduran drug kingpin.

    Camilo Antonio Espinoza-Medrano, 31, of Honduras and backseat passengers Josue Lopez Benegas, 24, of Honduras, and Enrique Echeverria Benitez, 24, of Mexico were each charged Friday with being Illegal Aliens in Possession of a Firearm, federal court records show.

    […]

    On March 25, Oxford Police Officer David Cash was notified by a local citizen, who reported observing two males climbing over his fence onto his private property. The citizen then followed a white four-door vehicle in which the two men had left the property.

    The citizen pointed out a white four-door car to Cash, who observed it travelling westbound on Bynum Boulevard in Oxford. Cash caught up to the vehicle near the intersection of Bynum Boulevard and Beck Road and initiated a traffic stop of the Dodge Dart

    When Cash stopped the vehicle and made contact with the driver, two males in the back seat were wearing camouflage.

    Cash recovered a Smith & Wesson pistol – model SD9 – with an attached laser and a loaded magazine containing 15 rounds from the glovebox. The Smith & Wesson pistol was confirmed stolen by the Arlington, Texas Police Department.

    Cash also recovered a loaded Caspian Arms .45 caliber pistol from under the driver’s seat and from the trunk a Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm pistol and a SIG Sauer SP2022 pistol and loaded magazines. “Other items found in the vehicle included a tactical vest, a knife, utility rope, a machete, handcuffs, and a black ski mask,” according to the affidavit.

    Benegas told the Feds that he was paid and equipped by a Honduran drug lord and enforcer. Medrano had been ordered to deport himself in 2014 by an immigration judge, apparently, he failed to comply. Benitez had prior drug and evasion convictions in Texas. All three are in the US illegally, of course.