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Juarez police on maximum alert after 5 killed (5:45 p.m.)
By Danial Borunda / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 06/07/2007 05:52:32 PM MDT
Juárez police are "maximum alert" after five homicides in the last few hours in the Cuahtemoc and Aldama sectors of the city, the police chief said this evening.
Police officers have been assigned assault rifles and are conducting checks of vehicles with tinted windows for armed men.
Forty specialized police units with six officers in each have also been dispatched to deal with any problems.
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U.S. seeks to extradite suspect in string of Juarez killings
June 7, 2007, 11:03PM
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Federal prosecutors want to return to Mexico a federal inmate they say confessed to killing at least 10 women in a border city there as "offerings to Satan."
The U.S. attorney's office in Harrisburg, acting on a request from the Mexican government, asked a federal judge Wednesday to extradite Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz for trial in the June 2001 slaying of a 17-year-old girl.
De la Paz, 29, is a Mexican imprisoned in Lewisburg Federal Prison on immigration charges. Authorities say he confessed last year to the deaths, which ranged from 1993 until 2006, to Mexican investigators and officials in Texas.
All took place near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the extradition complaint said.
Pennsylvania authorities specifically cited the slaying of Mayra Juliana Reyes Solis. Reyes Solis had been stabbed in the heart and dumped in a canal in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
De la Paz said he used a kitchen knife taken from his sister's home to stab the girl, then with another man concealed her body in a black bag and dumped it into a canal near Ciudad Juarez — the same place they had thrown two other victims, according to the complaint.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Behe said Thursday that he does not know whether de la Paz intends to oppose extradition.
"At this point in time, the Mexican government feels they have enough evidence to extradite him," Behe said.
In August, police in Denver arrested a suspected accomplice, construction worker Edgar Alvarez Cruz. Mexican authorities have charged him with Reyes Solis' killing. Police said another man, Alejandro Delgado Valles, admitted helping kidnap some of the women but claimed he did not participate in the killings.
More than 100 women disappeared in Ciudad Juarez in sexually motivated attacks over the decade ending in 2003, many of them younger women last seen taking a downtown bus. Often the victims were dumped in the desert outside the city.
The number of victims and the slow pace of the investigation have drawn international attention.
A hearing on the extradition complaint is scheduled for June 26. It was unclear whether de la Paz had a lawyer.
De la Paz is serving a multi-year sentence for illegally entering the United States. Federal prison officials said his release date is in 2010.
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By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Federal prosecutors want to return to Mexico a federal inmate they say confessed to killing at least 10 women in a border city there as "offerings to Satan."
The U.S. attorney's office in Harrisburg, acting on a request from the Mexican government, asked a federal judge Wednesday to extradite Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz for trial in the June 2001 slaying of a 17-year-old girl.
De la Paz, 29, is a Mexican imprisoned in Lewisburg Federal Prison on immigration charges. Authorities say he confessed last year to the deaths, which ranged from 1993 until 2006, to Mexican investigators and officials in Texas.
All took place near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the extradition complaint said.
Pennsylvania authorities specifically cited the slaying of Mayra Juliana Reyes Solis. Reyes Solis had been stabbed in the heart and dumped in a canal in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
De la Paz said he used a kitchen knife taken from his sister's home to stab the girl, then with another man concealed her body in a black bag and dumped it into a canal near Ciudad Juarez — the same place they had thrown two other victims, according to the complaint.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Behe said Thursday that he does not know whether de la Paz intends to oppose extradition.
"At this point in time, the Mexican government feels they have enough evidence to extradite him," Behe said.
In August, police in Denver arrested a suspected accomplice, construction worker Edgar Alvarez Cruz. Mexican authorities have charged him with Reyes Solis' killing. Police said another man, Alejandro Delgado Valles, admitted helping kidnap some of the women but claimed he did not participate in the killings.
More than 100 women disappeared in Ciudad Juarez in sexually motivated attacks over the decade ending in 2003, many of them younger women last seen taking a downtown bus. Often the victims were dumped in the desert outside the city.
The number of victims and the slow pace of the investigation have drawn international attention.
A hearing on the extradition complaint is scheduled for June 26. It was unclear whether de la Paz had a lawyer.
De la Paz is serving a multi-year sentence for illegally entering the United States. Federal prison officials said his release date is in 2010.
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Some of this info I haved posted should be good enough reason for some people to stop wondering why the Mexican familes and men, women, and children are desperate to get across the border
American companies are exploiting the Mexican women workers, and ruining the infrastructure, and it looks like drug cartels and others are murdering young women for fun or blood
American companies are exploiting the Mexican women workers, and ruining the infrastructure, and it looks like drug cartels and others are murdering young women for fun or blood
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Paul Pennyworth wrote:Some of this info I haved posted should be good enough reason for some people to stop wondering why the Mexican familes and men, women, and children are desperate to get across the border American companies are exploiting the Mexican women workers, and ruining the infrastructure, and it looks like drug cartels and others are murdering young women for fun or blood
And to add more disgust , these poor victims are being treated like they are the criminals...
And to add more disgust , these poor victims are being treated like they are the criminals...
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WASHINGTON, June 7 —The sweeping immigration overhaul endorsed by President Bush crumbled in the Senate on Thursday night, leaving the future of one of the administration’s chief domestic priorities in serious doubt.
Times Topics: Immigration and Refugees After a day of tension and fruitless maneuvering, senators rejected a Democratic call to move toward a final vote on the compromise legislation after Republicans complained that they had not been given enough opportunity to reshape the sprawling bill. Supporters of cutting off debate got only 45 of the 60 votes they needed; 50 senators opposed the cutoff.
“We are finished with this for the time being,” said Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada and the majority leader, as he turned the Senate to work on energy legislation.
Mr. Reid did, however, leave the door open to revisiting the immigration issue later this year and said he would continue to explore ways to advance a plan. “We all have to work, the president included, to find a way to get this bill passed,” he said.
The outcome, which followed an outpouring of criticism of the measure from core Republican voters and from liberal Democrats as well, was a significant setback for the president. It came mainly at the hands of members of his own party after he championed the proposal in the hope of claiming it as a major domestic policy achievement in the last months of his administration.
The collapse of the measure came as Mr. Bush was in Europe for an international economic summit, and it was not immediately clear how hard he would fight to resurrect the bill upon his return next week.
Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said the White House still held hope that a bill could be passed.
“We are encouraged that the leadership of both parties in the United States Senate indicated that they would bring this legislation back up for consideration,” Mr. Stanzel said. “And we will continue to work with members of the United States Senate to make sure this process moves forward.”
The defeat was also crushing for a bipartisan group of about a dozen senators who met privately for three months to broker a compromise that tried to balance a call for stricter border enforcement with a way for many of the 12 million people who are illegally in the country to qualify for citizenship eventually.
“The vote was obviously a big disappointment, but it makes no sense to fold our tent, and I certainly don’t intend to,” said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and a chief author of the bill. “Doing nothing is totally unacceptable”
Other proponents said they still saw life in the legislation despite the blow in the Senate.
“This matter is on life support, but it is not dead,” said Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania and another central architect of the plan.
Senate conservatives fought the legislation from the start, saying it rewarded those who broke the law by entering the country illegally. After winning a few important changes in the measure, Republican critics demanded more time and drew support for their calls for more opportunity to fight it out on the Senate floor.
“I simply do not understand why some of my colleagues want to jam this legislation through the Congress without a serious and thorough examination of its consequences,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican who was another leading opponent, said he believed lawmakers responded to constituent complaints about the flaws in the measure. “I was not going to support a piece of legislation that will not work,” Mr. Sessions said.
Mr. Reid said the critics were simply stalling and would never be satisfied. Noting the Senate had considered more than 40 amendments and held 28 roll call votes, he attributed the failure of the bill to Republican recalcitrance.
In the end, 38 Republicans, 11 Democrats and one independent voted not to shut off debate; 37 Democrats, 7 Republicans and one independent voted to bring the issue to a head.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said he believed Republicans would have eventually relented had they been given more time to work out an agreement on what amendments would be considered. “I think we are giving up on this bill too soon,” Mr. McConnell said.
The vote was the second attempt of the day to cut off a debate that had gone on for nearly two weeks, interrupted by the Memorial Day recess. On the initial showdown in the morning, the Senate fell 27 votes short of the 60 required; every Republican and 15 Democrats opposed the move.
The morning vote sent Senate leaders and backers of the legislation scrambling, trying to reach an agreement to salvage the measure with the help of administration officials. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was also consulted by phone.
Times Topics: Immigration and Refugees After a day of tension and fruitless maneuvering, senators rejected a Democratic call to move toward a final vote on the compromise legislation after Republicans complained that they had not been given enough opportunity to reshape the sprawling bill. Supporters of cutting off debate got only 45 of the 60 votes they needed; 50 senators opposed the cutoff.
“We are finished with this for the time being,” said Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada and the majority leader, as he turned the Senate to work on energy legislation.
Mr. Reid did, however, leave the door open to revisiting the immigration issue later this year and said he would continue to explore ways to advance a plan. “We all have to work, the president included, to find a way to get this bill passed,” he said.
The outcome, which followed an outpouring of criticism of the measure from core Republican voters and from liberal Democrats as well, was a significant setback for the president. It came mainly at the hands of members of his own party after he championed the proposal in the hope of claiming it as a major domestic policy achievement in the last months of his administration.
The collapse of the measure came as Mr. Bush was in Europe for an international economic summit, and it was not immediately clear how hard he would fight to resurrect the bill upon his return next week.
Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said the White House still held hope that a bill could be passed.
“We are encouraged that the leadership of both parties in the United States Senate indicated that they would bring this legislation back up for consideration,” Mr. Stanzel said. “And we will continue to work with members of the United States Senate to make sure this process moves forward.”
The defeat was also crushing for a bipartisan group of about a dozen senators who met privately for three months to broker a compromise that tried to balance a call for stricter border enforcement with a way for many of the 12 million people who are illegally in the country to qualify for citizenship eventually.
“The vote was obviously a big disappointment, but it makes no sense to fold our tent, and I certainly don’t intend to,” said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and a chief author of the bill. “Doing nothing is totally unacceptable”
Other proponents said they still saw life in the legislation despite the blow in the Senate.
“This matter is on life support, but it is not dead,” said Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania and another central architect of the plan.
Senate conservatives fought the legislation from the start, saying it rewarded those who broke the law by entering the country illegally. After winning a few important changes in the measure, Republican critics demanded more time and drew support for their calls for more opportunity to fight it out on the Senate floor.
“I simply do not understand why some of my colleagues want to jam this legislation through the Congress without a serious and thorough examination of its consequences,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican who was another leading opponent, said he believed lawmakers responded to constituent complaints about the flaws in the measure. “I was not going to support a piece of legislation that will not work,” Mr. Sessions said.
Mr. Reid said the critics were simply stalling and would never be satisfied. Noting the Senate had considered more than 40 amendments and held 28 roll call votes, he attributed the failure of the bill to Republican recalcitrance.
In the end, 38 Republicans, 11 Democrats and one independent voted not to shut off debate; 37 Democrats, 7 Republicans and one independent voted to bring the issue to a head.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said he believed Republicans would have eventually relented had they been given more time to work out an agreement on what amendments would be considered. “I think we are giving up on this bill too soon,” Mr. McConnell said.
The vote was the second attempt of the day to cut off a debate that had gone on for nearly two weeks, interrupted by the Memorial Day recess. On the initial showdown in the morning, the Senate fell 27 votes short of the 60 required; every Republican and 15 Democrats opposed the move.
The morning vote sent Senate leaders and backers of the legislation scrambling, trying to reach an agreement to salvage the measure with the help of administration officials. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was also consulted by phone.
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Mexico purges federal police chiefs....
Mexico purges federal police chiefs
The housecleaning comes as the nation seeks traction in a foundering drug war.
By Sam Enriquez, Times Staff Writer
June 26, 2007
MEXICO CITY — Mexico replaced the federal police chiefs from each of the country's 31 states and the Federal District on Monday, pending polygraph and drug tests to determine whether they are on the right side of the law in the nation's foundering drug war.
The surprise purge of top leaders of the federal police and an elite federal investigations agency comes as Mexican President Felipe Calderon seeks traction in a 6-month-old campaign against drug traffickers that has neither stemmed killings nor slowed shipments.
Corruption among local, state and federal law enforcement has for years given cover to drug smuggling gangs, now at war over access routes to the United States, and over Mexico's growing domestic markets.
"Every federal cop is obliged to carry out his post with legality, honesty and efficiency," Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said at a news conference Monday announcing the housecleaning. "In the fight against crime, we have strategies. One axis of our strategy is to professionalize and purge our police corps."
The police chiefs were replaced Monday by federal officers who have passed a rigorous screening, Garcia Luna said.
Shortly after taking office in December, Calderon sent the army to work alongside federal police in nine states. But there are growing suspicions that millionaire kingpins continue to buy protection as easily as ever, despite Calderon's efforts. Half a dozen federal police officers were arrested this month when their army counterparts discovered they'd allowed a cocaine shipment to pass through the Mexicali airport.
About a third of Mexico's 20,000-member federal police force, which investigates all drug crimes and homicides, is assigned to work alongside the 12,000 soldiers employed in Calderon's anti-trafficking campaign. That pairing has raised speculation about information being leaked to smugglers and growers.
Street prices in the United States remain stable, suggesting that suppliers continue to smuggle narcotics over the U.S.-Mexico border relatively undisturbed, drug experts say.
With more than 2,000 people killed last year, curbing drug violence emerged as Calderon's first priority when he took office. The army, with its reputation of being more trustworthy than Mexico's police agencies, emerged as Calderon's tool of choice.
But critics worry that Mexico's army will be the next institution to be tainted by drug profits. American drug users are estimated to spend as much as $65 billion a year, mostly on cocaine, marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine, commodities largely controlled by Mexican trafficking organizations and their Colombian affiliates.
"Drug trafficking results in a lot of money, and money buys power," said a senior U.S. counter-drug official. "When you have someone who has a base of operations significant enough to earn millions of dollars a year, it's not uncommon for them to wield the kind of power to develop circles of protection. Mexico is no exception to that. That's no secret here. The government of Mexico is well aware."
Calderon has asked the U.S. to shoulder a larger share of the drug enforcement burden. U.S. officials acknowledge that the war in Iraq has shifted attention and military resources away from drug interdiction in the air and sea shipping zones of Mexico and Central America.
Although Calderon has won credit for facing down drug cartels, uncertainty lingers in Washington over how much help to give Mexico's law enforcement agencies, particularly in the gathering and sharing of intelligence.
Garcia Luna would not say whether any of the replaced federal officers were being investigated for alleged corruption, or what prompted the government's decision.
"Any evidence we have will be processed by the attorney general's office, and, of course, any reference we find will be analyzed and sent to prosecutors," he said.
Mexican lawmakers on Monday demanded that Calderon's government present any evidence it has of federal police corruption.
The removed state heads of the federal police, known as the Federal Preventive Police, or PFP, as well as the Federal Investigative Agency, or AFI, will undergo additional training and be subjected to close scrutiny, Garcia Luna said. They will be given polygraph and drug tests, he added, and their financial assets will be examined to see whether they are in line with a public servant's salary.
Garcia Luna said the new state police chiefs were among 284 federal police officers who began work Monday as replacements. Calderon in March called for new standards in police ethics and discipline, triggering the recall.
"It's obvious that there are mafias that don't want things to change," Garcia Luna said. "In the fight against corruption, we won't give in to pressures."
Calderon's campaign began with a flurry of successes in his home state of Michoacan; TV news broadcasts showed destroyed marijuana and opium poppy fields. But cocaine seizures by the army this year are less than half the amount taken during the same period in 2006. Drug killings continue at last year's pace.
The PFP was created in 1998, unifying various federal agencies that had specialized jurisdiction over airports, customs, roads and civil unrest. The 5,000-member AFI was created by then-President Vicente Fox in 2001 to replace a corrupt federal police force.
More than 100 AFI agents work under the supervision of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents based in Mexico, according to the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General.
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sam.enriquez@latimes.com
Carlos Martínez and Cecilia Sánchez of The Times' Mexico City Bureau contributed to this report.
The housecleaning comes as the nation seeks traction in a foundering drug war.
By Sam Enriquez, Times Staff Writer
June 26, 2007
MEXICO CITY — Mexico replaced the federal police chiefs from each of the country's 31 states and the Federal District on Monday, pending polygraph and drug tests to determine whether they are on the right side of the law in the nation's foundering drug war.
The surprise purge of top leaders of the federal police and an elite federal investigations agency comes as Mexican President Felipe Calderon seeks traction in a 6-month-old campaign against drug traffickers that has neither stemmed killings nor slowed shipments.
Corruption among local, state and federal law enforcement has for years given cover to drug smuggling gangs, now at war over access routes to the United States, and over Mexico's growing domestic markets.
"Every federal cop is obliged to carry out his post with legality, honesty and efficiency," Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said at a news conference Monday announcing the housecleaning. "In the fight against crime, we have strategies. One axis of our strategy is to professionalize and purge our police corps."
The police chiefs were replaced Monday by federal officers who have passed a rigorous screening, Garcia Luna said.
Shortly after taking office in December, Calderon sent the army to work alongside federal police in nine states. But there are growing suspicions that millionaire kingpins continue to buy protection as easily as ever, despite Calderon's efforts. Half a dozen federal police officers were arrested this month when their army counterparts discovered they'd allowed a cocaine shipment to pass through the Mexicali airport.
About a third of Mexico's 20,000-member federal police force, which investigates all drug crimes and homicides, is assigned to work alongside the 12,000 soldiers employed in Calderon's anti-trafficking campaign. That pairing has raised speculation about information being leaked to smugglers and growers.
Street prices in the United States remain stable, suggesting that suppliers continue to smuggle narcotics over the U.S.-Mexico border relatively undisturbed, drug experts say.
With more than 2,000 people killed last year, curbing drug violence emerged as Calderon's first priority when he took office. The army, with its reputation of being more trustworthy than Mexico's police agencies, emerged as Calderon's tool of choice.
But critics worry that Mexico's army will be the next institution to be tainted by drug profits. American drug users are estimated to spend as much as $65 billion a year, mostly on cocaine, marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine, commodities largely controlled by Mexican trafficking organizations and their Colombian affiliates.
"Drug trafficking results in a lot of money, and money buys power," said a senior U.S. counter-drug official. "When you have someone who has a base of operations significant enough to earn millions of dollars a year, it's not uncommon for them to wield the kind of power to develop circles of protection. Mexico is no exception to that. That's no secret here. The government of Mexico is well aware."
Calderon has asked the U.S. to shoulder a larger share of the drug enforcement burden. U.S. officials acknowledge that the war in Iraq has shifted attention and military resources away from drug interdiction in the air and sea shipping zones of Mexico and Central America.
Although Calderon has won credit for facing down drug cartels, uncertainty lingers in Washington over how much help to give Mexico's law enforcement agencies, particularly in the gathering and sharing of intelligence.
Garcia Luna would not say whether any of the replaced federal officers were being investigated for alleged corruption, or what prompted the government's decision.
"Any evidence we have will be processed by the attorney general's office, and, of course, any reference we find will be analyzed and sent to prosecutors," he said.
Mexican lawmakers on Monday demanded that Calderon's government present any evidence it has of federal police corruption.
The removed state heads of the federal police, known as the Federal Preventive Police, or PFP, as well as the Federal Investigative Agency, or AFI, will undergo additional training and be subjected to close scrutiny, Garcia Luna said. They will be given polygraph and drug tests, he added, and their financial assets will be examined to see whether they are in line with a public servant's salary.
Garcia Luna said the new state police chiefs were among 284 federal police officers who began work Monday as replacements. Calderon in March called for new standards in police ethics and discipline, triggering the recall.
"It's obvious that there are mafias that don't want things to change," Garcia Luna said. "In the fight against corruption, we won't give in to pressures."
Calderon's campaign began with a flurry of successes in his home state of Michoacan; TV news broadcasts showed destroyed marijuana and opium poppy fields. But cocaine seizures by the army this year are less than half the amount taken during the same period in 2006. Drug killings continue at last year's pace.
The PFP was created in 1998, unifying various federal agencies that had specialized jurisdiction over airports, customs, roads and civil unrest. The 5,000-member AFI was created by then-President Vicente Fox in 2001 to replace a corrupt federal police force.
More than 100 AFI agents work under the supervision of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents based in Mexico, according to the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General.
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sam.enriquez@latimes.com
Carlos Martínez and Cecilia Sánchez of The Times' Mexico City Bureau contributed to this report.
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