Coyotes, Pollos, Drugs, Violence:

Illegal Immigration Kills, Maims, and Assaults Illegals, as well as, US Citizens

Latinos, along the boarder with Mexico, hire “coyotes” to smuggle them into the United States. They each paid the human smugglers about $1,800 to guide them safely through the treacherous Arizona desert. The coyotes bring drugs and violence with their cargo. Often, the violence is targeted toward the human illegal cargo they are smuggling.

About a dozen Latinos paid the coyotes and were smuggled across the boarder. Their guides betrayed them. They delivered them to other, more vicious coyotes. The kidnappers demanded another $1,700 apiece for the 13 illegal’s, including two young boys, they were holding.

 The armed captors locked up the women. One of the guards began stripping off the women's clothes. One of the women, Maria, was there with her husband. Maria's husband argued with the kidnappers, telling them that Maria was sick, that he needed to keep an eye on her. Rather than hassle with a couple of the “pollos” (smugglers' slang for their cargo), the guards allowed them to stay together.

Along with the men, the smugglers stashed her in the master bedroom. There was no escape. In another room, the women were being brutally raped after being drugged.

 The pollos had come from poverty-stricken towns in Mexico and Guatemala in search of a better existence. Maria told New Times that she and her husband had hoped to find work. In Mexico, jobs were scarce, and the lucky few who found them earned a meager $7.80 a day.

The promise of making living wages and the perceived lax enforcement of the Obama Administration is what brings Maria and the others to walk through the desert, crawl through tunnels, and move from camp to camp, car to car, and from one band of coyotes to another within the same smuggling operation.

Money is the motivation behind kidnappers' demands that victims come up with large ransoms for their release. The captives call their families back home, or relatives in Arizona, to plead for money. Impatient guards threaten to beat their captives and dump their dead bodies in the desert if the money is not forthcoming.

While Maria and the other captives played a macabre version of house, they had no idea that a specialized team of police detectives, analysts, and U.S. immigration agents had begun a rescue mission to release them and arrest their kidnappers.

An anonymous caller had tipped off Phoenix police about the home where the illegal immigrants were held. Investigators spent three days deciphering the tipster's information before finally pinpointing the location of the house. A SWAT team raided the house and arrested four suspected kidnappers and rescued the hostages.

rizona and seventeen other states have looked for leadership from the federal government regarding federal immigration laws. As Obama and Congress have ignored the law, more than 5,000 people have died in the US related to illegal alien violence. As many of one-third of the people in jail are illegal aliens.

 States, like Kansas, violate federal law when they offer resident or free tuition to illegal’s (The Dream Act). In 1996, Congress passes the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (ILLRIRA). The bill passed 305 to 123. Clinton signed it into law the same day.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas.

The bill states, A. aliens within the Nation’s borders not depend on public resources to meet their needs; B. the availability of public benefits not constitute an incentive for immigration for the United States.

The bill states no illegal alien can receive a benefit from a state unless the citizens can receive the same benefit. California, Texas, and New York were the first states to violate this law. Arizona is being sued for not Disobeying Federal Law. The court upheld the pretence that Arizona should disobey federal and state law regarding illegal immigrants

Three issues become clear. First, the illegal’s are not immigrants. They come to the US to create crimes, similar to the incursions prior to WWI. Second, the peaceful illegal aliens work and send their money home to their families taking jobs from citizens. One company in Kansas processes $1 million in checks monthly to be sent to Mexico. Third, the illegal aliens have created a network of Drug Cartel controlled gangs throughout the United States.

The popular perception of illegal aliens crossing our southern border is that they are merely poor Mexicans trying to find a better life here. But increasingly, the border is being crossed by hardened, often violent criminals. During the past five months, more than 42,000 of the illegal aliens caught at the border were convicted criminals or people being sought in connection with crimes, according to federal officials. About 139,000 of the illegal aliens arrested last year fell into the same category.

Mexican Cartels Rule Drug Trade, Gangs across the border now top supplier to U.S.
Mexico's drug gangs have been highly successful in the past two decades, gradually replacing Colombian gangs in the United States to control the profitable distribution of cocaine from coast to coast. Colombia remains the world's largest producer, but Larry Holifield, the DEA's director for Mexico and Central America, says Mexican cartels are now the most powerful in the world. In 2003, Mexican traffickers supplied 77 percent of the cocaine that entered the US. Last year, it was 92 percent, Anthony Placido, the top DEA intelligence official, told a congressional panel in June.

Mexican gangs also dominate the growing methamphetamine trade, producing 53 percent of the drugs on the market in "super-labs" in Mexico as the U.S. tightens its laws. Much of the rest is made in clandestine labs in California, also run by Mexicans, U.S. officials say. And as has been the case for nearly 100 years, Mexico is the biggest marijuana supplier to the United States and produces nearly half the heroin consumed north of the border, behind only Colombia.