Thread: Border crosser admits gang membership

Border crosser admits gang membership

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By: ABC15.com staff, wire reports

YUMA, AZ - Authorities say Border Patrol agents took an admitted gang member into custody Wednesday.

According to a Thursday news release, a man approached U.S. Park Rangers in Kelso, California and requested food and water. He claimed to be an illegal alien and asked that the Border Patrol be contacted.

Agents transported the man to the Blythe Border Patrol Station in the Yuma sector where he admitted to being an MS-13 gang member.

The MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, gang is reported to be dangerous and violent with factions throughout the U.S., Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and other South American countries.

The FBI Web site says the MS-13 perpetrate violence from assaults to homicides, using firearms, machetes, or blunt objects to intimidate rival gangs, law enforcement, and the general public.

The suspect faces prosecution under Operation Streamline , which orders federal criminal charges for persons who cross the border illegally.

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_ce ... membership

Get him 3 hots and a cot for a few days on us and he'll be back in a week.

Originally Posted by TakingBackSoCal

Get him 3 hots and a cot for a few days on us and he'll be back in a week.

Are you kidding?

Nappy , dumbomba and Holder want them here

Probably get a hardship visa , a free house , and welfare

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

Originally Posted by TakingBackSoCal

Get him 3 hots and a cot for a few days on us and he'll be back in a week.

Are you kidding?

Nappy , dumbomba and Holder want them here

Probably get a hardship visa , a free house , and welfare

Or he'll be cutting Congressman Luis Guiterrez lawn!

He just wanted transportation home for Christmas.

The suspect faces prosecution under Operation Streamline , which orders federal criminal charges for persons who cross the border illegally.

Operation Streamline
. . . The daily trials are mandated by a program called Operation Streamline. When Streamline was announced by President George W. Bush it promised to bring criminal charges agaist everyone who enters the country illegally . . .

http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/02/were-a ... treamline/

Operation Streamline Nets 1200-Plus Prosecutions in Arizona

- CBP.gov
Jul 24, 2007 ... U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol's Yuma, Ariz. sector recently expanded Operation Streamline, which has resulted in the ...

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/new ... 2007_3.xml

Operation Streamline: Border enforcement that doesn't work

Arizona Sens. McCain and Kyl want to expand the program, but the evidence shows that it is ineffective and should be ended.

May 14, 2010|Joanna Lydgate

On the same day the Arizona Legislature passed a strict and controversial immigration bill, the state's two U.S. senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, announced a tough new federal border enforcement plan.

The federal plan got far less attention than the headline-grabbing state initiative, but it deserves the same scrutiny. Among other problematic suggestions, McCain and Kyl have recommended expanding Operation Streamline, a costly initiative aimed at criminally prosecuting and imprisoning every immigrant who crosses the U.S.-Mexico border unlawfully.

I recently conducted a study of Operation Streamline for the Warren Institute, a think tank at UC Berkeley School of Law, traveling to four border cities where the program is in place. In each city, I observed court proceedings and interviewed federal judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys. I also analyzed prosecution data from the border district courts.

Our report concludes that Operation Streamline forces federal prosecutors to spend their time and resources on people with no criminal history — men and women looking for work in U.S. factories and farms — instead of focusing on the drug cartels responsible for the recent surge in border violence.

Before Operation Streamline began in 2005, most unlawful border crossers were processed in the civil immigration system. The Department of Homeland Security returned first-time border crossers to their home countries or detained and deported them. The U.S. attorney's office usually saved prosecution for immigrants with criminal records and for those who made repeated attempts to cross the border.

But in many border cities today, federal prosecutors no longer get to choose which immigrants to prosecute; they must prosecute everyone. As a result, nonviolent border crossers are clogging up federal courts and straining the resources of judges, attorneys, U.S. marshals and court personnel. From 2002 to 2009, federal magistrate judges along the U.S.-Mexico border saw their misdemeanor immigration caseloads skyrocket.

Criminal prosecutions of petty immigration-related offenses increased by more than 340% in the border district courts.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/14 ... n-20100514

This is a pretty common occurence. You can look at actual border patrol reports on Jan Brewer's website here: http://www.azgovernor.gov/AZBorderSecurity.asp You can find some interesting reads.