OPEN OFFICE MEXICO ORG

http://i3.democracynow.org/2009/8/11/obama_reverses_campaign_pledge_to_renegotiate

President Obama has wrapped up a two-day visit to Mexico for talks with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The three leaders met in Guadalajara to discuss issues including immigration reform, trade, Mexico’s drug war, the crisis in Honduras, and the swine flu outbreak. It was Obama’s first official summit under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

On the campaign trail, Obama had promised to open up NAFTA to renegotiations. But he’s backed off that pledge since taking office, blaming the global economic meltdown. Speaking to reporters on Friday, Obama said, quote, “At a time when the economy has been shrinking drastically and trade has been shrinking around the world…we probably want to make the economy more stabilized in the coming months before we have a long discussion around further trade negotiations,” he said.

Obama’s reversal on NAFTA has come under criticism from labor and human rights groups. In Mexico, NAFTA has been blamed for squeezing out small Mexican farmers, depressing wages, and spurring waves of immigration to the United States. Before the summit, a group of protesters gathered at the US embassy in Mexico and called on Obama to uphold his campaign pledge. This is Dolores Rojas of Oxfam.

This barely suprises me. The man’s never even run a lemonade stand, much less voted while he was a senator. Luckily good looks and racial diversity are enough to qualify for president these days.

You should know by now that no one who voted for him did so by his policies. They voted for him because a) he was black b) YES WE CAN YES WE CAN YES WE CAN or c) they were trolling the ballot boxes.

Anyone still supporting him is an arm-chair political observer doing so because it’s the hip and counter-culture thing this week, while thos of us legitimately interested in these sorts of things are left to wonder when MTV will air Spring Break: DC Edition

A Mexican national living in Whittier was arrested Tuesday at the U.S.-Mexico border in an ongoing federal crackdown on passport application fraud, which has netted 11 other arrests over the past three weeks.
Alma Huerta, 40, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Oct. 21 on charges of using a false identity to obtain a passport in 2000 and using that document in an attempt to open a bank account, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A total of 20 defendants have been charged with making false statements in relation to passport applications. Authorities are searching for eight fugitives, prosecutors said.

The sweep stems from findings by the Diplomatic Security Service’s Los Angeles office that saw a 30 percent increase from 2007 to 2008 in passport fraud cases, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Among those arrested:

– Sergio Samonet, 48, a Cuban citizen who resides in South Gate, who allegedly stole the identity of his ex-wife’s mentally handicapped son and used that identity to obtain a U.S. Passport. Samonet was convicted in 2005 on state charges related to his use of the same stolen identity, and he was subsequently ordered deported from the U.S. by an immigration court;

– Piyamas Jeerapaet, 41, of Burbank, who allegedly using her position as a U.S. Postal Service employee to help her brother, a Thai citizen, obtain a passport in a false identity. Jeerapaet pleaded not guilty last week in Los Angeles federal court and is scheduled to go to trial on Dec. 29;
– Francisco Martinez, 67, a Mexican national who was living in Oxnard, was arrested for allegedly assuming the identity of a deceased individual to obtain a U.S. passport in 2001 and to apply for a U.S. Passport Card in 2008.

The investigation allegedly found that Martinez had a criminal history related to the sale of narcotics and had previously been deported from the United States.

Martinez, who is also charged with illegal re-entry after deportation, pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles last week and is scheduled to go to trial on Dec. 22;

– Jose Tejada, 39, a citizen of El Salvador who was residing in Los Angeles, was arrested for allegedly attempting to renew a passport he had already obtained under a false identity in 1995. Tejeda pleaded not guilty last week and is scheduled to go to trial on Dec. 8; and

– Jose Yezid Rodriguez-Rojas, who also used the name Angel Luis Pena, is currently in a California state prison. The Colombian national is charged with attempting to obtain a U.S. passport in at least two false identities.

Other defendants in custody after being charged in the sweep are: Diego Martinez-Diaz, 26, of Pacoima, who is currently in state prison; Leonardo Aguago Aldape, 39, of Los Angeles; Christian Mauricio Sanchez Merlin, 30, of Whittier; Ricardo Torres, 35, a native of Peru who was living in Van Nuys; Ibrahim Olanrewaju Adekeye, 27; and Odonga Kenya Rush, 38, both of Chula Vista.

Those convicted of passport and visa fraud face a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The fugitives currently sought are: Son Parsons, 48, of Alpharetta, Ga.; Suarez Gonzalez, 46, of Los Angeles; Carlos Edward Veliz, 32, of Los Angeles; David Prado Flores, 37, of Downey; Daza Jair Labrador Lopez, 36, of Van Nuys; Hector Acosta-Espinosa, who is believed to be in Mexico; Karen Fuentes, 25, of Long Beach, who is believed to have fled to Nicaragua; and an unidentified man who used the names Juan Molina Sandoval and Edward Valenzuela.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13757322?nclick_check=1

Awwwww those poor illegal aliens just trying to have their cake and eat it to! They’re just trying to have a better life, and feed their starving families. They didn’t know that the person was real and they might be harming them in some way, after all the person was dead.
Excuses, they are all full of excuses. Watch the border invasion videos and see how underprivileged these people crossing into the US really are (NOT).
http://www.borderinvasionpics.com/

Do gooders are convincing them they pay taxes, don’t abuse welfare and other services, and contribute $1T to our economy. I’d like to know how that is possible when they wire (MX statics) $25B a year into MX, and supposedly only make $4 @ hr. And they want us to believe they pay rent or mortgage, food, utilities, cell phones, auto costs and all related COL expenses and not use welfare. How Is That Possible!!!

I have been in America for two years now..I have a 3.6 GPA, (horrible).but my SAT is worst 1520…

I took advanced classes in my freshman year in Mexico like trigonometry, physics,chemistry, etc,,
and when I moved here…the school placed me in geometry when I already had that class in my 7th grade…I also took biology in my junior year and I also took that class in my 7th grade…=(

I received 2 Diplomas there in Mexico one in Spanish (advanced) and in English (intermediate)…I played varsity sports there in Mexico: soccer (captain), volleyball, and basketball..I haven’t play in any varsity sport here for personal probs..and i dont have enough time…but I play in out-of-school teams Mexico FC (captain and champion last year) Fresno united…
I have more than 1000 hrs of work experience..in photography and as office clerk in a legal court in Mexico…
I have near to 400 hrs of community service.. Chuch (youth group, member of the music group, only minor in the staff of the Guadalupana Society) and the Migrant program… I also teach guitar to high school students and I tutor spanish and history to some others…I have played the guitar for 5 years and have played in more than 20 concerts some of them were international…(all of them were in Mexico though)..
Because I was an ELD student (English learner) I couldn’t take any APs in neither my sophomore year nor my junior year…they even put ‘buts’ when they placed me in my classes this year (1 month after school had begun)..I am currently taking 5 AP classes Lit & Comp…Gov…Span Lit…Stats…and Macro..but I am taking 7 AP tests..extras are Span Lang…and Comparative Gov…and maybe Italian or Portuguese if the schedule is ok…I speak fluently Spanish, some hard time with English, and I know some French…Italian and Portuguese and Im trying to learn Chinese but its too difficult for me ..so many tones..=)

Well this is what I can think of right now…jk
The impossibles are UCB, UCLA, Northwestern, Georgetown and Harvard..but I know they are what I said..imposs….
oh..I want a college either in Massachusetts, Philadelphia (just that city for Pennsylvania), NY, Connecticut … CA…or DC…or IL..or FL…

I want to major in a law or business related subject… I’m thinking about political science, business, Spanish and Iberian studies, International studies… I’m open to suggestions… =)

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

How about targeting the top SAT optional colleges like Middlebury, Holy Cross, Bowdoin, Wake Forest?

Illinios can jail these prior criminals for 20 years, but does something else really need to be done about repeat offenders?

Are we stuck because if we just return them again, they are not being punished for their crimes, but if we punish them then the taxpayers are still footing the bill?
What is your solution to repeat offending illegal aliens?
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Illegal re-entry cases on the rise in local court
Dustin Lemmon | Posted: Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:00 pm

In the past two months, four new federal cases for illegal re-entry of deported immigrants have been filed in U.S. District Court, Rock Island, more than in any single year previously.

The charges are the result of investigations by a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, office that opened in Rock Island last year. They focus on cases in which an illegal immigrant has committed a crime and gone through deportation only to be arrested again after re-entering the country.

While similar cases have been filed in local federal court in the past, they haven’t been this frequent.

Gail Montenegro, a spokeswoman with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chicago, said the re-entry cases are an area of increased focus for the department. ICE hopes the emphasis will serve as a deterrent to others who are deported. She said the crime is punishable by a maximum of 20 years in federal prison.

"We’re targeting the offenders who have no respect for our country or its borders," she said. "Some of these individuals have crossed our borders multiple times."

Montenegro said the ICE office in Rock Island, which opened last September, has already added to its staff because of additional funding. She said it’s an ICE policy not to release how many agents work there.

The Rock Island office is limited to the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, Montenegro said. They will not investigate cases in Iowa, which is covered by an ICE office based in St. Paul, Minn.

"We only have jurisdiction over Illinois," she said.

Scott Harris, deputy chief for the Rock Island Police Department, said on one of the recent arrests ICE officers saw a Rock Island officer out on a traffic stop. They stopped to assist, and one of the ICE officers recognized the driver as a man he saw deported years earlier.

"When they first got here, they came to our roll calls and identified themselves and asked what we needed," Harris said of ICE. "That’s one of those things that’s been needed for a long time, and it’s a good thing for the Quad-Cities."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Lang noted that much of ICE’s work does not lead to criminal charges in federal court, but he said his office takes seriously the threat posed by criminal aliens who were convicted of previous crimes, deported and then re-entered the United States.

"As always, we consider cases of criminals who have previously been convicted and are illegally in the United States a priority, to make sure they don’t commit future crimes," Lang said. ICE’s "presence is in pursuit of that goal, and we will continue to work with them closely."

One of the recent cases ended last week without a prison sentence. Juan Antonio Briones-Espinosa, who pleaded guilty, was given time served and turned over to ICE for deportation.

Briones-Espinosa, 39, was arrested in May by the Rock Island Police Department Narcotics Unit after he was observed at a house in Rock Island and investigators learned he had been removed to Mexico in 2000, court records state.

Other cases pending in federal court include:

Jose Ayala-Avila, 30, was charged in May. He was also arrested by the Rock Island Police Department Narcotics Unit after it searched a house May 1 and found numerous counterfeit Lawful Permanent Resident cards and counterfeit Social Security cards in a single stack. The documents were in a room with a photo of Ayala-Avila, court records state.
According to court documents, Ayala-Avila was deported twice before. He had faced traffic citations and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of possession of a canceled or revoked ID card in Rock Island County prior to his latest arrest but after his earlier deportations.

Salvador Luis Ramos-Tapia, 39, was stopped by Moline police in May and was found to be an unlicensed driver. Police checked with ICE and found he was previously deported in 2003 and was convicted of felony cannabis possession in Chicago in 2001.
Jose Troche-Guzman, 33, was picked up by Rock Island police June 21 after a Rock Island police officer stopped a pickup with nine people inside. He had an outstanding warrant for driving with a suspended license.

ICE conducted a records check and found Troche-Guzman was previously deported in 2006. He was also convicted of criminal sexual assault in Rock Island County in 2004 and received probation. His deportation didn’t come until later.
dee - mexicans have spanish heritage. they are not considered Americans, because Americans are considered from the U.S.
Who did the Irish enslave? what about the sapnish who enslaved my ancestors, what about the mexicans who enslved the western American Indians, learn your history, your lack of education is showing.
sorry about my typos, sprained hand. spanish, enslaved!!!
I said punished, i never said jail time. did you even read the questions again. I said the American people are stuck, we end up paying for these crijminals either way, That was the question what else can we do. Nice to see you are avoiding the issue again.

50 years hard labor— growing tortillas and sombreros

Mexican laws state

2 years for first offense and 10 years for second offense—- sounds good to me– put them on a labor farm growing food !!!

How Mexico treats its illegal immigrants

– If outsiders do not enhance the country’s "economic or national interests" or are "not found to be physically or mentally healthy," they are not welcome. Neither are those who show "contempt against national sovereignty or security." They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care.

– Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years’ imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country (see, for example, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt — a fugitive from deportation for eight years who is awaiting a second decision on her previously rejected asylum claim).

– Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations. Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens’ arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities.

– Ready to show your papers? Mexico’s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.

All of these provisions are enshrined in Mexico’s Ley General de Poblaci

Consider: Open-borders protesters marched freely at the Capitol building in Arizona, comparing GOP Gov. Jan Brewer to Hitler, waving Mexican flags, advocating that demonstrators "Smash the State," and holding signs that proclaimed "No human is illegal" and "We have rights."

But under the Mexican constitution, such political speech by foreigners is banned. Noncitizens cannot "in any way participate in the political affairs of the country." In fact, a plethora of Mexican statutes enacted by its congress limit the participation of foreign nationals and companies in everything from investment, education, mining and civil aviation to electric energy and firearms. Foreigners have severely limited private property and employment rights (if any).

As for abuse, the Mexican government is notorious for its abuse of Central American illegal aliens who attempt to violate Mexico’s southern border. The Red Cross has protested rampant Mexican police corruption, intimidation and bribery schemes targeting illegal aliens there for years. Mexico didn’t respond by granting mass amnesty to illegal aliens, as it is demanding that we do. It clamped down on its borders even further. In late 2008, the Mexican government launched an aggressive deportation plan to curtain illegal Cuban immigration and human trafficking through Cancun.

Meanwhile, Mexican consular offices in the United States have coordinated with left-wing social justice groups and the Catholic Church leadership to demand a moratorium on all deportations and a freeze on all employment raids across America.

Mexico is doing the job Arizona is now doing — a job the U.S. government has failed miserably to do: putting its people first. Here’s the proper rejoinder to all the hysterical demagogues in Mexico (and their sympathizers here on American soil) now calling for boycotts and invoking Jim Crow laws, apartheid and the Holocaust because Arizona has taken its sovereignty into its own hands.

An article from "The Washington Examiner"

Moreover, Article 67 of Mexico’s Population Law says, "Authorities, whether federal, state or municipal … are required to demand that foreigners prove their legal presence in the country, before attending to any issues."

Sound familiar?

I am trying to enlist in the AF in a small town in New Mexico. The recruiting office is located in the mall. They are never open, it only says "call for an appointment." I call the number multiple times a day; there is no answering machine, only what sounds like a busy signal. I’ve been calling for almost a month now. How am I supposed to reach anyone and enlist? They must not be wanting to recruit people too badly….
Where do I go from here? I just want to get the ball rolling; this is ridiculous.
well, jeeper, i thought you had to be enlisted out of whatever town you’re in-I used to live in a big city so they had 2 or 3 recruiters for every branch there. I finally called someone out of Lubbock;he said the people in that office are actually in albuquerque. wtf? I mean if they don’t recruit here they should just say that, and tell you to go to Albuquerque. How hard is it to tell people that? I’m closer to Lubbock, so I guess i’ll be working with this recruiter.

call the 1800 for your branch of choice and explain to them the situation. They should then have a recruiter call you within a few days…otherwise, you’d probably need to go the nearest large town, which is only 2 towns in NM…but both those towns have many recruiting stations and you WILL have to go over there eventually to sign all your paperwork and physicals and etc at MEPS.

WEST VALLEY, Utah ( ABC 4 News)- It was a happy conclusion to an Amber Alert that was issued in West Valley after police say a man kidnapped his 2-year-old daughter.

West Valley Police say on Saturday morning 24-year-old Cesar Vasquez-Barron took Natalia
Velazquez from her mother’s home at 3554 west Ridgeland Circle. Rosa Loya said,” I was asleep and he went in there got me up and informed me that he was going to take my daughters. And after he ran out with them he took just one of them.”

West Valley police issued an Amber Alert for Natalia’s non-custodial father. 18-year-old Loya says she started getting text messages and phone calls from Vasquez-Barron who told her he was headed to Mexico with their daughter. However, Vasquez-Barron would be on his way to jail two hours after the amber alert was issued.

Police found him near 1060 s 220 west in Salt Lake City. West Valley Police Lt. Bill Merritt said,” What we attribute it to was a very alert Salt Lake officer who had heard the locate come out and saw the car. He recognized the plate and got it taken care of.”

Paul Murphy of the Utah Attorney General’s Office is the Utah Amber Alert Coordinator. He says this type of success on Amber Alerts is a deterrent to potential abductors. Murphy said,” And we think it’s because people realize an Amber Alert will be issued and everybody’s going to be looking for the suspect and that child.”

Loya says she’s thankful the system worked. Loya said,” I was so happy, I was go glad she was here with me. When I saw her I wanted to hug her.”

Paul Murphy says Utah only had three Amber Alerts last year. He says the US and Mexico are working closely together and recovering hundreds of abducted US children in that country.

West Valley police say Vasquez-Barron is an illegal immigrant who was deported and came back into this country within the last few weeks. Police say he has several aliases including Gabriel Velazquez, Luis Fernandez, and Christian DeJesus.
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/slc/story/West-Valley-girl-found-after-Amber-Alert/K3rZCKtvO0eRdNRyvdNg3A.cspx

These children are used as pawns and are victims from the start. Like it or not, if the mother was not involved with someone like this, it would not have happened. If the mother was found out to be an illegal, she should have been deported on the spot with her daughters. They use their children as pawns to try and get citizenship, to remain here and what about the abuse they put their children in to come here, look who’s hands they place their beloved children into. If your involved with one of these lawbreakers, you reap what you sow!!

It’s kind of ironic that now that Obama is allowing off shore drilling, and then month later there is an oil spill near one of the regions, The Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/earth/31energy.html

I even used the liberal NY Times as my reference because some of you only believe sources that have the liberal bias

Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.

more then likely the liberal news media would be hounding president bush for answers,not with obama with kids gloves

about a year ago, a friend of mine was stoped in an american airport for a random security check, they took his laptop and a guy went through every file until he found limewire, told him "you are in big trouble, you have illegal files" and they took his visa away (he is from mexico) and he cant go to the USA anymore.

I will be traveling to several USA airports one after the others (LAX, JFK amoung others) and I just completly formated my computer just in case but my question is.. how the hell can they prove that what I have in my computer is pirate?? I mean I could have very well burned my own cd’s and there’s no way for them to tell if it’s illlegal or burned by me. So can anyone in detail explain to me how this works? I do NOT want some angry customs agent taking my visa away from me in my honeymoon just because he is having a bad day and saw a .mp3 file in my computer.

I will be taking ONLY the files I have purchased via itunes but that worries me as well, what if the officer is just some ignorant guy that doesn’t know you can actualy purchase download music? What worries me is that even if I only sort out the music I have bought, I feel I may make a mistake and accidentaly take a few cd’s that I burned myself so that is pretty much piracy in their book.

I also stripped my computer for anything that can be considered pirate, even if it isnt. I am taking only freeware and licesned software. I removed Microsoft Office and installed Open Office, I switched from outlook to thunderbird, etc.

I am still worried though.. I mean how deep are these scans? I know the chance of me geting one is very low but what if I do? do they use file recovery software to bring back files I could have deleted back home? to see if I used to have any piracy?

This sucks so much, a lot of the movies I have are honest DVD rips that I ripped myself in my home, I have absolutely NO way of proving that I own this movies unless I take the movies themselves and show them the disks in customs.. which pretty much defeats the whole purpose.

Any ideas? OR if there are any customs agents reading this, please be a nice guy and tell me what to do! I don’t want to get my visa taken away from me, THANKS!

Never take your laptop to the airport (you have no idea how many laptops get confiscated in "random security checks", an many never get returned even if there is nothing illegal).

Use the mail to get your laptop and DVDs.

Also you can send some files to your own emails; or use some of those virtual drives (websites that let you storage your personal files on their servers; some are temporal, and there might be a file size limit so read all their rules; some charge some small fees to give you extra storage space; still back up your files just in case they get deleted).

Also keep copies of the receipts of the movies and iTune files you bought.

Also if you rip the movies to other format like DivX you’ll get a smaller file size (about 700 Mb) with still pretty good quality (not all DVD players play DivX but some newer models do, and for laptop you need to download the DivX player).

MEXICO CITY — The use of cocaine doubled in Mexico over the last six years, partly because the drug became more available in the country, a government report said Friday.

The overall use of illegal drugs, however, increased only slightly, according to the Health Department’s 2008 national addictions survey.

The report said 2.4 percent of Mexicans aged 12 to 65 used cocaine in 2008, compared to 1.2 percent in 2002. The consumption of all illegal drugs rose to 5.7 percent of the population from 5 percent.

Carlos Rodriguez, president of the National Addictions Council, said the jump in cocaine use was in part due to the drug becoming more abundant in Mexico after stepped-up security in the U.S. made it harder for traffickers to smuggle shipments north.

The report said Mexico’s states of Quintana Roo, where the Gulf resort of Cancun is located, and Tamaulipas, across from Texas, have the highest use of illegal drugs — just over 11 percent of their populations.

President Felipe Calderon has opened dozens of drug rehabilitation centers while pursuing an offensive against drug traffickers.

Calderon deployed 45,000 soldiers and federal agents shortly after taking office in December 2006 to drug hotspots throughout Mexico. The gangs responded with unprecedented violence, including beheadings and shootouts, that has killed more than 13,500 people.

A really good question!

Cocaine is a very powerful ‘feel good’ drug. One way you move the garbage and pay the drug runners, and the people who sell it on the street is to … give them some of the product. Mexicans were picking up backpack filled with Coke, walking into the Untied States, stealing a car and going home where they sold the car. They would be paid.. AND… given some of the product.

Given some of the product. And many, many people in this country, (frequently youth in the Mexican American community) worked a little bit for the dopers, were given some of the product, and they were hooked. Meth was used when Cocaine was not available. There is not any doubt at all that Mexico has a raging Cocaine addition problem and those folks won’t be coming back rather frequently.

Keep this in mind: the people doing the transporting, did not care about the United States or the kids. It is sad.. the Mexican People are getting burned hard with addition as this mess continues. I still believe we need to do more to put U.S. coke/meth users in a real tight bind. We would need the Real I.D. with teeth to do that though.