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    City Heights woman arrested for harboring 44 undocumented immigrants

    City Heights woman arrested for harboring 44 undocumented immigrants

    Posted: Nov 07, 2016 6:09 PM PST
    Updated: Nov 07, 2016 6:17 PM PST


    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A City Heights resident was arrested and charged with harboring and hiding 44 undocumented immigrants, some of whom reported that they were locked in a small backyard shed with dozens of others, without light, ventilation or a bathroom, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday.

    According to a complaint filed in federal court, the San Diego Police Department received calls from neighbors who were concerned about two vehicles dropping off multiple individuals who then nervously and hurriedly entered a home in the 4900 block of University Avenue.

    When police arrived to investigate, defendant Dania Olivero, 51, told officers she had invited the people over to drink beer.

    Officers found people who appeared to be nervous, not drinking unopened beer in front of them. Some of the people ran to the backyard when they saw the officers.

    Police suspected the people were undocumented immigrants and asked the U.S. Border Patrol for assistance. When Border Patrol officers questioned the people in the house, all but two identified themselves as Mexican nationals without legal status in the United States; the other two said they were citizens of Guatemala without legal status in the United States. All were taken into custody.

    Prosecutors said seven people arrested remained in custody as material witnesses. The rest are in the custody of immigration authorities pending immigration proceedings.

    http://www.cbs8.com/story/33652995/w...ted-immigrants

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    Cuban national arrested for harboring 44 illegal aliens in San Diego

    By Linda Bentley - November 14, 2016


    Dania Olivero

    SAN DIEGO – A complaint was filed on Nov. 7 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California against Dania Olivero, 51, charging her with concealing, harboring and shielding from detection certain illegal aliens in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii).

    Seven of the 44 illegal aliens found at Olivero’s home were being detained as material witnesses.

    All admitted to being citizens of a country other than the United States and all admitted they are deportable.

    Shortly after 6 a.m. on Nov. 6, U.S. Border Patrol Dispatch received a call from the Sand Diego Police Department requesting assistance at a residence in the 4900 block of University Avenue in San Diego.

    Agent T. Wong responded to the call and met with Sgt. Y. Quintos, who informed Wong that he and his fellow officers were dispatched to the residence in response to two separate citizens’ reports “concerning two vehicles dropping off multiple individuals, who then nervously and hurriedly entered the home.”

    Quintos said he later identified one of the residents as Dania Olivero and observed multiple individuals inside the house.

    When questioned about the individuals, Olivero told Quintos she invited them all to the house to drink beer.

    Quintos noticed the beer appeared to be recently removed from the refrigerator and the individuals appeared nervous and were not drinking the beer, which had yet to be opened.

    Police officers also encountered numerous individuals in the backyard of the residence, some of whom absconded upon their arrival.


    Javier Cid

    Because the officers suspected the individuals might be illegal aliens, they contacted the Border Patrol for assistance.

    Officers detained 44 suspected illegal aliens for an immigration evaluation.

    They also detained Olivero and two other residents of the house, Javier Cid and Abril Rojas-Jimenez.

    Forty-two of the individuals detained claimed to be citizens of Mexico while two claimed to be citizens of Guatemala.

    Another individual, Miriam Lopez, who admitted earlier to Wong to being in the United States illegally, presented an expired U.S. Employment Authorization card and a Social Security card.


    Abril Rojas-Jimenez

    It was later discovered Lopez was a friend of Olivero and not one of the smuggled aliens.

    Lopez was separated from the group of smuggled aliens and detained along with Olivero, Cid and Rojas as a potential principal in the case.

    After being read her Miranda right, Rojas said she understood those rights and was willing to speak without an attorney.

    Rojas said she was born in San Diego, is a citizen of the United States and is Cid’s girlfriend.

    She told agents she and Cid were currently living with Olivero, Cid’s mother.

    She said a couple of months earlier she observed several individuals in the backyard she suspected were illegal aliens because they appeared dirty and disheveled.

    Rojas said Olivero told her that she knew the individuals were illegal and was housing them in order to pay for the house.

    Rojas also stated she heard Olivero telling the various individuals coming to the house not to use the front door because she didn’t want to draw too much attention and “burn” the house.

    After Olivero was read her Miranda Rights, she too said she understood them and was willing to speak without an attorney.

    Olivero told agents she is a lawfully present citizen of Cuba and admitted she knew the individuals arrested at her house were illegal aliens.

    She also admitted she has been involved in smuggling illegal aliens since 2014.

    Describing that day’s event, Olivero stated she met a friend named “Juan” at a bar. After leaving the bar, they both returned to Olivero’s residence.

    Olivero said Juan told her he was going to bring some friends to her house and he would pick them up in the morning. Juan left and returned a short while later with numerous individuals.

    Olivero said she agreed to house the people because Juan promised to pay her and she needed the money for rent.

    Although she wasn’t told how much she would be paid, Olivero said she assumed it would be $50 per alien, which is what she was paid in the past.

    After Cid stated he understood his Miranda Rights and agreed to speak without an attorney, he claimed he had no knowledge of there being illegal aliens in the house and only Olivero and/or Lopez could have let them in the house.

    Lopez confirmed she is a citizen of Mexico and that she was in possession of a legally issued employment authorization document as the result of a battered spouse petition she filed, which allowed her to remain in the United States legally.

    She said Olivero is her friend and she sleeps over occasionally.

    That day, Lopez said she was present when approximately six unknown men arrived. A short while later she heard some noise and saw it was the police.

    Lopez said she told Olivero to open the gate for the police while she went to go check on some children sleeping in the bedroom.

    On her way to the bedroom, Lopez said she stepped on numerous people lying on the floor and stated it was difficult to maneuver her way through all of them to get to the bedroom.

    The illegal aliens detained as material witnesses told agents they are citizens of Mexico and were not in possession of any documents that would allow them to enter and/or remain in the United States legally.

    They said they made their smuggling arrangements in Mexico and that they each agreed to pay between $5,000 and $8,500 to be smuggled into the United States.

    One of the illegal alien witnesses said Olivero asked them for and wrote down the contact information of the persons that were going to pay their smuggling fees and then instructed them to get into a small shed occupied by approximately 30 other people.

    He stated there was no bathroom in the shed and they were given only a bucket to use.

    He said they were not provided any food or water while in the shed.

    Another illegal alien stated they were locked inside the shed, which had no light or ventilation.

    Olivero executed a personal appearance bond of $30,000 secured by the co-signatures of financially responsible (related) adults.

    The court’s pretrial conditions of release restricts Olivero’s travel to the Southern District of California with a specific condition that she not enter Mexico.

    http://sonorannews.com/new/2016/11/1...ens-san-diego/
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    LOCK HER UP!!!
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    We need to terminate the Cuban Adjustment Act too.

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    How do these so-called poor migrants come up with that kind of money to pay smugglers?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lorrie View Post
    How do these so-called poor migrants come up with that kind of money to pay smugglers?
    Some sell their homes and/or farm land and everything they own, and they borrow money from their family, friends, neighbors and sometimes drug cartels. That's why they have to send money back home, to pay off their loans.
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    LOL!!! They sell everything they own and borrow money to sneak into another country to break the law. Really??!!!

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    Woman going to prison for hiding 44 unauthorized immigrants in her City Heights home

    Kristina Davis Contact Reporter

    Fog rolled into Otay Mesa in the early morning hours of Nov. 6, shrouding the hole someone had cut in the U.S.-Mexico border fence. The conditions were ripe to move a large group of unauthorized immigrants through, and the smugglers took advantage.

    In City Heights, Dania Olivero had agreed to have her small rented house used as a temporary staging point for the crossers. She said she thought only a handful of people would be brought to her, as had happened previous times. But wave after wave of people showed up. She protested at first, but took the extra money offered to her, she told investigators.


    When San Diego police arrived, after two neighbors had reported seeing suspicious activity at the University Avenue home, they found 44 people in her house, in the backyard and in a shed.


    On Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Hayes sentenced Olivero to three years and one month in prison for her role in the smuggling effort. He said the number of people, as well as the “grim” conditions they were kept in, made it an aggravated crime.


    Some of the immigrants complained they were locked inside a small shed without access to a bathroom, lights or ventilation, according to court records.


    All of the immigrants were Mexican, except for two Guatemalans.


    Olivero, 51, also is an immigrant, coming legally to the U.S. from Cuba at the age of 28, according to a sentencing document filed by her attorney.


    Her involvement in human smuggling was an act of desperation, attorney Hootan Baigmohammadi said. The father of four of her children had died in 2011, and she made ends meet with food stamps, recycling cans, working odd jobs and support from her oldest son. An accident that left her with an injured wrist made it hard to work. She also was raising her partner’s two young children, whose mother had been deported.


    “Life became really difficult for me,” Olivero wrote in a letter to the judge.

    When she accepted the latest offer to hide immigrants from a man she’d met at a bar, she owed $1,100 in rent and back rent.


    On a few occasions, she said, she had accepted $50 per unauthorized immigrant, and never more than a handful had shown up to her home. On Nov. 6, circumstances spiraled out of her control, her attorney argued. Five to seven waves of people came, her attorney said.


    “I did it without thinking,” Olivero told the judge, apologizing for her actions. “I did it to pay my rent.”


    Assistant U.S. Attorney Julia Cline said Olivero should have known there was a risk of more people showing up than she had anticipated.


    In sentencing Olivero, the judge also took into consideration her criminal history, which included misdemeanor convictions for spousal abuse and theft.

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    On Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Hayes sentenced Olivero to three years and one month in prison for her role in the smuggling effort. He said the number of people, as well as the “grim” conditions they were kept in, made it an aggravated crime.

    And what about her citizenship?( In sentencing Olivero, the judge also took into consideration her criminal history, which included misdemeanor convictions for spousal abuse and theft.) She has a criminal background, she doesn't deserve citizenship! REVOKE it as soon as she gets out of prison.

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    Get a bus, load them up and deport all of them!


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