Thread: South Padre Island / Precinct One Corruption & Border Wa

It is funny how every business owner on South Padre Island, who uses cheap illegal labor, will cite economic necessity as the reason for breaking our laws, but there would actually be a larger resident population using the local business services if ALL the workers were legal--there would be more money spread around South Padre Island during the off seasons.

Ironic, isn't it, once again this citizen family cannot go on a picnic at our city park because all of the tables are occupied by illegals waiting for jobs--across the street from the police station.

Trying to think of words to describe my frustration--profanity cannot sate my angst.

11:00 a.m. No illegals in city park. Hmm. Maybe cops finally did something about the problem.

1:30 p.m. About fifteen illegals back in the park hanging out apparently waiting for work.

Must have been a project going on earlier--some citizen land owner must have had a project going on:

Sell outs, cartel collaboraters, and Fanninites. . .

Originally Posted by SPILive

11:00 a.m. No illegals in city park. Hmm. Maybe cops finally did something about the problem.

1:30 p.m. About fifteen illegals back in the park hanging out apparently waiting for work.

Must have been a project going on earlier--some citizen land owner must have had a project going on:

Sell outs, cartel collaboraters, and Fanninites. . .

The destruction of my country is by no accident.

Do you think South Padre Island Mayor Bob Pinkerton, Jr. and Pricinct One Justice of the Peace Benito Ochoa, and other politicians / policy creators / law makers / law enforcers will ever take responsibility for the slums they have created through their policy actions, or even lack of action, like the slum of Laguna Heights?


Own your mess--this is your legacy: corruption, crime, and economic mismanagement (in my opinion.)

Border wars and bed bug sores, Cameron County is Gateway to the New Great American Gold Rush!!!!

Sutter's Mill is at every construction site and social service office!

Come one immigrant, come all illegals--corporate America is waiting to give you jobs, and the American Citizens will subsidize your cheap labor, so corporate America won't have to give you benefits or pay you real wages!

http://southpadreisland.tv/forum/index.php?topic=67.0

This goes out to the citizen laborers on South Padre Island and in Cameron County: Happy Legal Laborer Day!

May work another year without your job being outsourced, or taken by insourced illegal cheap labor!

Cartel-linked lawyer makes plea for asylum
MEXICO
June 09, 2009|By Todd Bensman, Hearst Newspapers



Matamoros, Mexico — Blindfolded and bound, Ernesto Gutierrez Martinez felt the guards guide him from his cell to an outdoor area. He caught a whiff of fuel and heard a man crying.
His blindfold torn away, Gutierrez saw he was in a small courtyard. Another bound person stood in a metal barrel, blubbering prayers. Someone was spraying him with a flammable liquid. Someone else flicked a lighter.
Later, back in his cell, some of the same tormentors started up a friendly banter, wondering why Gutierrez, a well-to-do attorney, had come to be a prisoner in this house of torture and murder.
Gutierrez said nothing, but knew it had to do with his role as family lawyer for Osiel Cardenas Guillen, boss of the Gulf cartel.


One day, as abruptly as they grabbed him from his law office, his tormentors let Gutierrez go with a demand that he do legal work for the cartel. Three weeks of beatings and no food left him emaciated and infected from wounds, but Gutierrez knew what he had to do: He ran for his life.
Now, 21 months later, Gutierrez and his family are hiding in the United States, feeling hunted, knowing that if the cartel's Los Zetas paramilitary enforcers find him, he won't go free a second time.
Trying for political asylum
While returning to Mexico is risky, staying in America is perilous in another way. Gutierrez is making a long-shot attempt to gain political asylum in the United States, joining a growing number of Mexican refugees - police officers, journalists and businessmen - in need of protection from cartel persecution.
But the U.S. government is opposing many asylum requests because, experts say, the law doesn't squarely apply to victims of Mexican organized crime. Immigration judges, for various reasons, have sent some of them back.
For Gutierrez, the dread of falling back into cartel clutches has prompted him to abandon or sell everything: the law practice that supported his family, two homes in Mexico, a house in Texas, a South Padre Island condo, sports cars. He left family members whom he can't contact for fear the cartel will torture them and find out where he is.
"The government is fighting these cases like crazy, any excuse to deny these claims," said Eduardo Beckett, of the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas, which has lost a number of the cases but does not represent the Gutierrez family. "They don't want to open up the floodgates."
Gutierrez may face an added hurdle because of his notorious client.
As head of the Gulf cartel, Cardenas was Mexico's most-wanted fugitive and one of America's when Mexican troops captured him in a 2003 Matamoros shootout. After the capture, Gutierrez worked for four years with the legal team that failed to block Cardenas' January extradition to Houston in January 2007
In considering asylum, the government will want to know whether Gutierrez strayed into criminal activity for Cardenas - and got burned for playing with fire - as have other Mexican attorneys.
Lawyer: Paid in pain
Gutierrez insists he was made to pay, in pain and blood, only for the lost extradition battle. That extradition cost Cardenas his continued power over the cartel. It set up Cardenas for a trial this September in Houston on some two dozen organized-crime charges that could put him away for life in a U.S. prison. And it ended any hope that Cardenas might buy an escape like the one last month, when 53 cartel gangsters walked out of a Mexican prison.
Through his Houston defense lawyers, Cardenas denies having anything to do with Gutierrez's abduction, or the bad luck of some of his other attorneys in Mexico. At least three who worked for Cardenas ended up dead, full of bullets.
"Mr. Cardenas never ordered, directed, nor even implied that the Zetas kidnap or harm Mr. Gutierrez," said Chip Lewis, part of Cardenas' defense team. "He had no problems with Mr. Gutierrez. Whatever the Zetas did or did not do was not at his direction."
Independent scrutiny
Gutierrez agreed to share his story and asylum petition files, which are not public, with Hearst Newspapers in hopes that independent scrutiny of his claims might aid his asylum bid.
Gutierrez lives in an anxious limbo, burning through his savings from the sale of properties. He won't go near any part of his old life, even on the U.S. side, in the belief that "they" are watching.
"In Mexico, there's no hiding," he said in Spanish. "There's no safe place. I can't go back. Not ever again."
In August 2008, Gutierrez and his family filed an application for political asylum. No hearing has been set. But their attorney predicts long odds because people like Gutierrez don't precisely fit the legal definitions that require judges to grant sanctuary.
Time and money are running out as they wait in hiding for their day in court. They feel no regret abandoning old lives for the greater privilege of simply living. Gutierrez is studying English, hoping maybe one day he'll try for a U.S. law degree.
Whatever hardships the future holds, they are hell-bent never to return to Mexico.
"They took everything away from us, but we are very grateful toward God because at least he's still alive," his wife, Josephina, said. "We'll never be the same people again."
(C) San Francisco Chronicle 2009

http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-06-09/n ... len-asylum

http://houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pres ... 22410b.htm