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    Seven arrested in Texas crash that killed 9 illegal aliens

    Seven arrested in Texas crash that killed nine illegal immigrants

    By Jared Taylor | Reuters – 11 mins ago...

    PALMVIEW, Texas (Reuters) - Authorities have arrested seven people, including a 15-year-old boy, in connection with a late-night wreck that killed nine illegal immigrants in southern Texas earlier this week, police said on Friday.

    The boy, believed to be the driver who tried to outrun U.S. Border Patrol agents in a minivan overcrowded with 19 illegal immigrants, was tracked down at his rural Hidalgo County home Thursday night, said Chris Barrera, the police chief in Palmview.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement have detained six other people, who now face human smuggling charges, officials said.

    In a criminal complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in McAllen, Texas, those six adults were charged with organizing and maintaining an immigrant stash house less than a mile from where the fatal rollover occurred.

    The 15-year-old driver lost control of the minivan after he fled a traffic stop by Border Patrol agents, the complaint states. All of the van's passengers were tossed from the vehicle onto a frontage road along U.S. Highway 83 in Palmview, about 240 miles south of San Antonio.

    Investigators will meet with the local district attorney Monday to determine whether the teen will face juvenile or adult charges for his role in the smuggling ring, Barrera said. The boy is too young to be tried in federal court, Barrera said.

    The illegal immigrants, believed to be from Mexico, were to be transported to a point near a Border Patrol checkpoint close to Sarita, Texas, according to the complaint. From there, they were to walk through the brush to avoid detection. Their ultimate destinations included Houston, Atlanta and New York.

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    Seven charged in van wreck that killed 9


    On Wednesday funeral home personnel prepare to pick up a body at the scene of Tuesday's
    wreck involving a van carrying suspected undocumented immigrants in Palmview. Nine people
    were killed and seven were hurt in the crash.

    By JARED JANES/The Monitor

    PALMVIEW — Seven people — including the 15-year-old driver — have been arrested following a fatal van rollover that killed nine undocumented immigrants Tuesday night along Expressway 83.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested six people accused of participating in a human smuggling ring that left nine men dead after a Chevrolet Astro Van carrying 18 immigrants rolled over about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday along an expressway frontage road.

    The criminal complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in McAllen came a day after Palmview police arrested the minivan’s 15-year-old driver, who could be charged as an adult for his role in the fatal accident.

    The van filled with the immigrants had been headed north to drop people off in the brush so they could walk around a Border Patrol checkpoint near Sarita, the criminal complaint filed Friday states.

    The six-page complaint filed in federal court outlines the accusations against the smuggling ring and details events and background information.

    Late Tuesday night, Border Patrol agents attempted to stop the gray minivan suspected of transporting undocumented immigrants along Green Road in Palmview — a few blocks from a stash house that was to be used, authorities said.

    Carmelo Diaz Gopar, 25, bailed out of the minivan during a traffic stop before the van’s 15-year-old driver sped away from the scene, authorities said.

    A Border Patrol agent chased Diaz and apprehended and arrested him, the complaint states.

    Excessive speed led to the van’s rollover along eastbound Expressway 83 frontage, resulting in the death of nine of the 16 immigrants inside, the complaint states.

    The 16 immigrants in the van counters previous statements by police that 18 people had been in the vehicle when it rolled over., not counting Diaz, who jumped out just before the wreck.

    The remaining seven were taken to local hospitals.

    Stash house

    ICE agents learned the immigrants were going to a stash house at 702 Greenland Circle, Palmview, and that other immigrants were still there, the complaint states.

    Agents detained 12 undocumented immigrants at the stash house, a newer gray brick home that would have appeared to house a family rather than migrants heading north. A barbecue grill and Foosball table stood on a porch in the back, along with a dog that remained sleeping near its house under a tree Friday afternoon.

    In addition to the dozen immigrants, agents detained U.S. citizen Gloria Solis, 26; Mexican national Alexander Barrios Grajales, 27; and Mexican national Alejandro Garcia Nava, 18, for allegedly harboring the immigrants at the house.

    Diaz told agents he was "simply" an immigrant heading to Atlanta, Ga., and that he had not paid anyone to smuggle him. He said he planned on paying his smuggling fees after arriving in Georgia, where he would work off the debt.

    Solis told agents the house was owned by her mother, who lives in New York City. She admitted she was hired to allow illegal immigrants to stay at the house before they were move elsewhere, the complaint states.

    Solis told agents she received $20 for each illegal immigrant at the house. On Tuesday night, there were 23 immigrants there.

    Barrios told agents he had known Solis for "some time" and asked her if he could stay at the house. He said he was an undocumented immigrant heading to New York City, according to the complaint filed Friday.

    Garcia said he was an undocumented immigrant planning to travel with Barrios to New York City.

    Witnesses

    Agents have detained five undocumented immigrants as material witnesses in the case. Four of them were in the van that rolled over and had been staying at the stash house prior to the accident.

    One of the material witnesses identified Diaz as the person who ran from the van when Border Patrol stopped the van shortly before the accident.

    The witness, Maria Del Rosales Morales Bedolla, told agents Diaz said to the others that he would guide them through the brush north of the Rio Grande Valley and to tell their relatives in Houston to prepare to pay their smuggling fees. For one of the immigrants, that was $4,000, the complaint states.

    Diaz traveled to Mexico and escorted at least one of the immigrants as they made their way north to the border, the complaint states.

    Further investigation led agents to Mexican national Jose Vega Zapata, 36, and U.S. citizen Luis Julian Vargas, 20, the complaint says.

    Vega told agents he worked for the smuggling organization responsible for the deaths of the nine immigrants in Palmview on Tuesday, the complaint states. He told investigators he earned $1,000 per week for his duties, which included arranging food for the immigrants and scouting potential stash houses "among other things."

    Vargas told agents he had been asked to drive the van filled with immigrants to just south of the Sarita checkpoint along U.S. Highway 77, but declined, the complaint states. He said he’d been offered $40 per person.

    Young driver

    Instead, the driving duties went to a 15-year-old boy, who was arrested by Palmview police on Thursday. He is too young to be charged in federal court.

    Palmview Police Chief Chris Barrera said officers tracked the boy to his home near the intersection of 8 Mile Line and Abram Road about 8 p.m. Thursday.

    Investigators will meet with the Hidalgo County District Attorney’s Office on Monday to determine whether the boy will be charged as an adult.

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    ADDED SECOND ARTICLE TO ALIPAC HOMEPAGE News with amended title ..

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    U.S., Mexico work to repatriate the remains of victims of van accident

    April 13, 2012 10:11 PM
    By ILDEFONSO ORTIZ/The Monitor

    McALLEN — In the wake of the rollover accident that killed nine undocumented immigrants, U.S. authorities are working with the Mexican Consulate to notify relatives and return the bodies home.

    Late Tuesday, a van carrying 18 people on the eastbound Expressway 83 frontage road in Palmview rolled over near Minnesota Road. At the scene, authorities confirmed nine dead and rushed several others to hospitals.

    “From the first moment, we began working with local authorities,” said Jose Manuel Gutierrez Minera, Mexican Consulate spokesman. “We visited (the victims) at the hospital to check their health status, monitor their treatment, gather information and to help meet any other need they may have.”

    While the identities of the nine individuals who died were not released, Gutierrez said the Mexican Consulate is working to contact the families and formally notify them. The immigrants are for the most part from the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

    “We are working with the authorities in the U.S. in regard to all of the necessary steps needed for the repatriation of the remains,” Gutierrez said.

    As of Thursday afternoon, only one of the immigrants remained at a local hospital. The rest had been released into the custody of U.S. authorities.

    The matter of returning to their homes the bodies of immigrants who die during their trek north is all too familiar for Mexican officials, said Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C.

    “Sadly enough, we face this situation in various circumstances and various locations,” Alday said.

    In addition to the repatriation of the bodies, when the families don’t have the means, the Mexican government will step in to cover the funeral costs, he said.

    “This is an unfortunate tragedy, but it shows that the Mexican government will deploy all the resources available to help the deceased and those injured and to bring legal, moral and economical help to their families,” Alday said.

    U.S. authorities are working hard in tracking down and arresting the individuals or criminal organizations who smuggled the immigrants into the country, said Nina Pruneda, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    “We are putting the pieces of the puzzle together to determine who was responsible, how they came into the country, who were the members of the criminal organization or organizations,” Pruneda said. “We want to find those individuals and bring them to justice.”

    Investigators are waiting on medical clearance to meet with the immigrants who survived the crash and gather further information that can be used in the investigation with some of them turning into material witnesses, she said.

    The Homeland Security Investigations division of ICE is working with U.S Border Patrol, Palmview police and Mission police to solve the case, Pruneda said.

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    Texas teen facing murder charges in van crash

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    PALMVIEW, Texas (AP) – A 15-year-old South Texas boy has been charged with nine counts of murder among other charges after a van he was driving crashed, killing nine of the suspected illegal immigrants packed inside.

    The boy, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, appeared at a probable cause hearing Monday. He was also charged with 17 counts of smuggling a person and causing serious bodily harm including death, and one count of evading.

    The boy told investigators he drove the van because his family had been threatened, Palmview police Chief Chris Barrera said.

    Barrera said prosecutors would decide whether to try the boy as an adult.

    The nine killed in the rollover crash last Tuesday were all Mexican citizens. Barrera said the ground around the van was scattered with bodies.

    The boy, a U.S. citizen from Hidalgo County, has cooperated with police since his arrest at home Thursday night.

    "You could tell that he wanted to come clean," Barrera said.

    He said the boy told them he had not done this before, but he did have a previous record.

    Border Patrol agents had stopped the van in Palmview, 10 miles west of McAllen, when officials said some of the passengers immediately sprinted away and agents pursued them on foot, catching one. As the foot chase unfolded, the van sped off.

    The agents came across the wreck three or four blocks away on U.S. 83. The scene was strewn with backpacks and water bottles, Border Patrol said.

    ICE's investigation led to the discovery of a stash house where a dozen illegal immigrants were located. At least four of the six crash survivors were detained as material witnesses.

    The teen was arrested along with six others who allegedly acted as caretakers at the stash house.

    According to a complaint filed last week, two other suspects admitted after their arrests to participating in the smuggling of the illegal immigrants involved in the crash and those in the stash house. One said he was offered $40 per passenger to drive the van, but refused and instead put the 15-year-old in contact with the organization, the complaint says.

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    Updated April 17, 2012, 2:31 p.m. ET

    Woman denied bond in immigrant smuggling case

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    MCALLEN, Texas — A U.S. judge denied bond Tuesday for one of six people facing federal charges for their alleged involvement in an immigrant smuggling operation that left nine Mexican citizens dead.

    Gloria Solis was ordered held on charges of harboring illegal immigrants by U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, who noted the seriousness of the case and the suspect's tenuous ties to the area. Solis is a U.S. citizen but moved to South Texas recently.

    Border Patrol agents pulled over a van April 10 about 10 miles west of McAllen. As it stopped, one person jumped from the vehicle and ran. When agents pursued him, the van sped off. It crashed just a few blocks away scattering a parking lot with bodies, backpacks and water bottles. The 15-year-old driver escaped but was arrested two days later at his home. He faces nine state murder charges.

    Sixteen illegal immigrants were stuffed into the van, along with the driver and another alleged smuggler. Interviews led federal agents to a stash house in Mission where they found 25-year-old Solis and two other alleged accomplices.

    Four of the six defendants waived their detention hearings Tuesday. One requested a continuance.

    Assistant U.S. attorney Linda Requenez said "this wasn't your typical alien harboring case," noting that in addition to the nine killed, one remained in a coma. She said that besides the 16 people who were packed into the minivan for the fated trip from Solis' house, 12 others were still there when agents arrived. Someone with common sense would have questioned loading so many people into a small van, she said.

    Carlos A. Garcia, Solis' attorney, pointed out to Ormsby that his client was a U.S. citizen with no prior criminal record. He said the tragic accident was not "reasonably foreseeable" for her.

    Later, Garcia said there was almost a presumption that anyone involved in the chain could have foreseen the result.

    Solis' mother, Maria Fuentes, arrived from New York Monday and was in court Tuesday morning. She owns the Mission house but said she had no idea what was going on there. She said her daughter had moved there just a couple of months earlier.

    Fuentes said as a migrant farmworker she had been dividing her time between South Texas and Kendall, New York, near Rochester for about 18 years.

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