Porous Southern Border Does Little to Stop Deported Immigrants From Trying Again
July 7, 2019 Updated: July 8, 2019
TECUN UMAN, Guatemala—Boris, who declined to give his last name, was waiting by the Guatemala–Mexico border for his mother to wire some money from California.
He had four quetzales on him (54 cents), and the extra money wouldn’t arrive until the next morning, so he was stuck without the 10 quetzale ($1.35) fare across the Suchiate River to Mexico.
The 38-year-old had just been deported back to El Salvador, but he immediately restarted the trek north.
“I was almost to Tijuana,” he said on June 25, adding that he was “going to try one more time” to get into the United States, illegally.
Boris said he was deported from the United States on Feb. 4 after being picked up at the California restaurant where he worked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“I stayed a little bit working in my country to make a couple of bucks and then tried to come back—and I got deported from Mexico,” he said.
He said he previously lived with his mother in Ventura County, California. She cleans houses for a living and is in the U.S. legally.
Boris said, this time, if he makes it back undetected, he will look for a job in landscaping or construction. He’s not concerned about being deported from the United States again. “I’m not worried about it. I’ll just be more careful with working.”
President Donald Trump has recently threatened to increase deportations of illegal immigrants.
“After July 4th, a lot of people are going to be brought back out. So people that come up may be here for a short while, but they’re going to be back to their countries,” he said during a bill signing in the Oval Office on July 1.
At the behest of Democrats, Trump had given deportations a two-week reprieve after announcing on June 17 that ICE would start deporting “millions” of illegal aliens who had already been ordered to leave the country.
20 Years in Idaho
Honduran Juan Mendez had made it across to Mexico already and was waiting in Tapachula for his legal documents from Mexico’s National Migration Institute.
He said he crossed into the United States illegally in 1999 and was deported two months ago after living in Idaho for 20 years. His wife is from Mexico, but she is a U.S. citizen, along with his two children, aged 7 and 18 months.
Mendez said he was deported after being stopped for driving without a license. ICE was waiting at the police station. He said he is unable to go back to the United States for 20 years.
He said he was going to stay in Mexico and get a job, so that his family can visit, but the allure of the United States may prove stronger once he gets closer.
Border Patrol agents have apprehended thousands of illegal aliens re-entering the country after being deported—many of whom have criminal convictions.
More Than 19,000 Criminals
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has arrested more than 19,000 convicted criminals since the beginning of 2019, according to data released by ICE on July 1.
In the month of June, CBP issued news releases about 10 convicted criminals who were trying to re-enter the United States.
Convicted felons who re-enter the United States after deportation, face a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
On June 1, a Mexican national was arrested by San Diego Border Patrol agents. The 41-year-old man had multiple prior convictions, including for aggravated sex abuse of a child in the state of Utah in 2000, according to CBP. He was deported in January 2001.
The next day, in the same sector, a 33-year-old Mexican national was arrested. Records showed he had a previous conviction of sexual intercourse with a minor in Los Angeles in 2004. The man was sentenced to 27 days in jail and subsequently deported to Mexico in April 2005.
A convicted murderer from Mexico was arrested after illegally entering California on June 4. Mario Sagasta Rodriguez, 59, had served more than 30 years in prison for the murder and was deported in February 2017.
A child molester was arrested by Yuma agents on June 19 after he illegally entered the United States with a group of family units. Juan Rojas-Rodriguez, 41, a previously deported Mexican national, was convicted of sex with a minor under 14 years of age in California in 1996. Rojas-Rodriguez was last deported in 2008.
In El Paso, Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported sex offender as he attempted to enter the United States illegally on June 20. Juan Carlos Bustamante-Pena, 30, previously served two years in a Colorado youth corrections facility for a 2005 felony sexual assault. He was deported in January 2009, and then arrested again four years later for illegal re-entry.
Eagle Pass Border Patrol agents arrested 45-year-old Mexican national Pedro Tiempo-Garcia on June 20. Tiempo-Garcia was arrested in Rocksprings for murder in 2001, subsequently convicted of attempted capital murder, and sentenced to 22 years incarceration. He was deported in February 2019 after serving 18 years of his sentence.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a 29-year-old Ecuadorian national after he entered the country illegally in Nogales on June 21. The previously deported man, Walter Patricio Juela-Pinancela, has a violent criminal history, including an aggravated felony conviction in New York for a 2016 statutory rape.
A Mexican national with a previous conviction for attempted murder was arrested for illegal entry on June 23. He had been deported in 2011 and has an extensive criminal history, according to CBP.
Eagle Pass Border Patrol arrested a Mexican national on June 24 with a 2004 conviction for aggravated criminal sex abuse. He was previously deported to Mexico in April 2012.
Several hours later, in the same sector, agents arrested a Honduran national who was arrested for sexual assault in 2010, and convicted of that crime and subsequently deported in 2011.
Deportations
Deportations have increased from 19,856 in January to 23,081 in March, according to ICE data.
More than 91 percent of them had received criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, according to Nathalie Asher, ICE executive associate director.
But ICE has also had to divert resources to the border crisis, which has resulted in a 14 percent drop in administrative arrests compared to the same time last year.
Due to a shortage in detention capacity, ICE has released more than 200,000 migrants into the U.S. interior since Dec. 1, 2018, then-acting ICE Director Mark Morgan told reporters on June 19.
Nearly 90 percent of recent asylum-seekers have failed to report to court for their proceedings, he said.
In total, more than 1 million illegal aliens in the United States have deportation orders.
“[They] entered the country illegally, filed a false claim, have received due justice through the immigration proceedings, and they’ve found to be false, and they’ve received a deportation order removal,” Morgan told The Epoch Times in a previous interview. “A million, and they still remain here illegally.”
Sunday bombshell: Pool for deportation is up to 1 million illegals who have already had due process
Sunday morning's network talking head shows yielded one eye-popping statement.
"They're ready to just perform their mission, which is to go and find and detain and then deport the approximately one million people who have final removal orders," Acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli said on "Face the Nation" on Sunday, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) branch charged with removal operations.Cuccinelli, an immigration hardliner who took the helm of the agency last month, said it is within ICE's discretion to determine who among those with final orders of deportation will be targeted in operations, suggesting the full pool of approximately one million immigrants might not face deportation after all."They've been all the way through the due process and have final removal orders. Who among those will be targeted for this particular effort ... is really just information kept within ICE at this point," he added. "The pool of those with final removal orders is enormous."
(Full transcript here.)
Full nine-minute segment:
The number one million has tremendous resonance: it is what first comes to mind as a really big number. It signals "mass deportations" — a bugaboo for Democrats and advocates of illegal immigration.
Having Cuccinelli lay out this number serves two functions.
1. It is a signal to Trump's base that he will deliver on their concerns about illegal immigration. Many are disappointed that the border wall has not been completed or even adequately funded. Trump needs them to turn out in 2020. He cannot afford to discourage them.
2. It is also bait to lure the Democrats into hysteria over "dividing families" and all the other heartstring-tugging memes they can devise. Trump wants this reaction because the Democrats, by advocating for people who have received due process and have flouted court orders, are defending outright lawlessness. Let them go out on that limb, and Trump will gladly saw it off during a presidential debate.
Note that Cuccinelli is a former NeverTrump who has agreed to serve in the Trump administration. If he handles this well, there may be greater things ahead for him, as he is a very smart and capable guy. I don't know him well, but I have spoken to him and regard him as rock-solid, despite his early reservations about and serious opposition to Trump's nomination.
Speaking with the White House in the background makes it unmistakable that he is on board and speaking for the president.
Judge: No Death Penalty for Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering Grant Ronnebeck
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An illegal alien gang member accused of murdering 21-year-old Grant Ronnebeck in January 2015 has been deemed ineligible for the death penalty due to his “intellectual disability.”
Judge Michael Kemp in the Grant Ronnebeck murder trial ruled that 34-year-old illegal alien Apolinar Altamirano, an alleged self-proclaimed member of the Sinaloa Cartel, is ineligible for the death penalty because he is intellectually disabled, the Associated Pressreports.
Kemp said that Altamirano only has a fifth-grade education and was unable to obtain special education because he grew up in rural Mexico. Last year, Kemp ruled that prosecutors in the case would not be allowed to mention that Altamirano is an illegal alien who has been living in the U.S. for more than 20 years.
A spokesperson for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office told the Associated Press that prosecutors “are reviewing the analysis and the record to assess next steps” in whether or not they plan to appeal Kemp’s decision that rules out the death penalty for Altamirano.
On January 22, 2015, Altamirano allegedly entered a QuickTrip convenience store in Mesa, Arizona, where Grant Ronnebeck worked as a store clerk and allegedly shot the young man to death after demanding a pack of cigarettes, Breitbart News reported at the time.
After shooting and killing Ronnebeck, prosecutors say Altamirano stepped over the body of the young man to grab a couple more packs of cigarettes before fleeing the scene. Following the alleged murder, the illegal alien sent police on a high-speed chase and was eventually arrested and taken into custody.
At the time of the alleged murder, Altamirano had been out of police custody on bond despite having orders to be deported from the U.S.
Angel Dad Steve Ronnebeck has said that Altamirano is a member of the violent Sinaloa Cartel and had previously been convicted for burglary in 2012 that was reportedly pleaded down from a home invasion and sexual assault charge.
Altamirano has been charged with first-degree murder and the trial begins on August 1.
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