Thread: Previously Deported MS-13 Gang Member Arrested at Border

by BOB PRICE
1 Aug 2017
Arivaca, AZ

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector arrested a previously deported MS-13 gang member after he illegally crossed the border in southern Arizona.

The agents working the area south of Arivaca, Arizona, Saturday evening discovered a group of five men who recently crossed the border without documentation. Agents quickly moved in and arrested the men, according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

Agents transported the men to the Border Patrol station for processing and a background check. That check revealed one of the men was previously deported after receiving multiple felony convictions.

Agents also determined that man, a 34-year-old Honduran national named Jorge Antonio Avila-Rodas, to be a member of the hyper-violent transnational criminal gang, MS-13.

Avila’s criminal history includes felony convictions for first- and second-degree burglary in Oregon. He also has a history of immigration violations.

Avila now faces a federal felony charge of illegal re-entry after removal as a felon.

Another criminal alien with a similar conviction record from Oregon now sits in a Portland jail after he sexually assaulted two women, Breitbart Texas reported. Portland police previously arrested that man, 31-year-old Sergio Jose Martinez, in December but Sheriff Mike Reese’s sanctuary policies prohibited him being turned over to immigration officials for prosecution on felony re-entry charges. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers previously deported Martinez 20 times.

Officials with ICE confirmed in an email response to inquiries from Breitbart Texas that Sheriff Reese’s office arrested Martinez and had him in custody in their jail on December 7, 2016. Immigration officers immediately “lodged an immigration detainer against him at that time requesting that the agency be notified prior to his release,” ICE spokesperson Virginia Kice stated. “However, despite the detainer, local authorities released Mr. Martinez back into the community the following day without providing any notification to ICE.”

Sheriff Reese says turning over criminal aliens to ICE damages “community trust.”

“It simply worries me that we’ve spent so much time and energy building community trust and something outside of our control may damage that,” the sheriff told Sharyl Attkisson during an interview on Full Measure in April. His comments were about working with immigration officers to remove criminal aliens.

Kice concluded, “This case underscores yet again why immigration detainers are such a crucial enforcement tool for furthering public safety and why it is highly problematic when jurisdictions choose to ignore them.”

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...rested-border/

MS-13 gang member nabbed at border had been deported

August 01, 2017



An illegal immigrant nabbed at the Mexican border over the weekend is an MS-13 gang member who was deported for burglarizing an Oregon home as a scared 12-year-old girl hid under a blanket.

Jorge Antonio Avila-Rodas was arrested Saturday with four other men in an area 12 miles south of Arivaca, Ariz., Border Patrol agents said. The 34-year-old Honduran national was identified by agents as an MS-13 gang member during processing.

Officials said Avila-Rodas has felony convictions for burglary in Oregon, as well as immigration violations, without providing details. He now faces federal criminal charges for re-entering the country as a felon.

Reports show that Avila-Rodas was deported after serving 16 months in prison for burglarizing a house in Troutdale, Ore., in 2010 with two others.

The case generated headlines when police released a tape of a 911 call Mackenzie Hughes made as she was hiding from the burglars in her bedroom.

"Try not to cry," the 911 operator told the distraught sixth-grader, the Oregonian reported at the time. "I know it's hard. Do you have a stuffed animal or something you can hold onto?"

The paper said Mackenzie struggled to hold back tears. She told the operator she couldn't reach a stuffed animal without revealing her hiding spot.

"It's OK," the operator said. "You've got me here with you."

The paper reported that as they spoke Mackenzie told the operator her phone wasn’t cordless and wouldn’t reach into the closet.

The operator told her to hide in the bed under the blanket.

"He's in my room," Mackenzie whispered from her hiding spot.

"He's in your room?" the operator said, according to the paper. "Be quiet, OK? Don't talk to me, OK? Just don't talk."

The 911 call lasted more than eight minutes until the burglars left and cops caught them.

Prosecutors said the man who entered Mackenzie’s room was 22-year-old Alexis Colindres-Munoz, who cooperated with cops after his arrest and served a 6-month prison sentence.

They said Avila-Rodas and another man, 23-year-old Benito Flores-Amador acted as lookouts. Flores-Amador was also an illegal immigrant who was deported after serving his prison sentence.

The Oregonian reported that at the sentencing Avila-Rosas apologized to Mackenzie through an interpreter, saying “the trauma the girl is going through fills me with sadness. And the truth is I really regret that and it’s not going to happen again."

The paper reported at the time that to everyone's surprise Mackenzie attended the sentencing. She showed up with her mother, who told the burglars they picked the wrong house.

“Mackenzie Hughes is smart, and she is brave,” Tracey Ferguson told them.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/01...-deported.html