JACUMBA, Calif. - Eight men have been charged in an unusual sting that investigators say highlights a new tactic in which immigrant smugglers never cross the border from Mexico - and instead use cellphones from nearby mountaintops to bark out real-time instructions to their customers as they navigate each step of the desert trek into the U.S. The defendants were part of one of the first immigrant smuggling rings dismantled on the U.S.-Mexico border that exclusively uses cellphones, employing none of the foot guides commonly employed to lead groups across the border, said Derek Benner, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's special agent in charge of investigations in San Diego. The arrests took place Tuesday and Wednesday in the Los Angeles area.
...A Special Agent of the U.S. Customs Service, now the Bureau of Immigration and Customss Enforcement (ICE), in San Diego, California, initiated a separ...
SAN DIEGO - A sophisticated cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail system, ventilation and fluorescent lighting has been shut down by U.S. and Mexican officials - the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month, authorities said Friday. The tunnel found Thursday is 2,200 feet long - more than seven football fields - and runs from the kitchen of a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to two warehouses in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial district, said Mike Unzueta, head of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego.
Derek Benner was born in Hartford, grew up in Norway and graduated from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in 1989. A long way -- in many respects -- from Southern California. But that's a hot spot for the Customs Service, so that's where Derek is. Since 1991, Benner has risen to become the top law enforcement official at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations office in San Diego. His division investigates drug smuggling, human smuggling, illicit tunneling, financial crime, cyber crimes, document and immigration benefit fraud and other crimes. On the way up, one of his positions was customs inspector at the San Ysidro border crossing in California, the world's busiest land crossing. He saw it all.
SAN DIEGO - A sophisticated cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail system, ventilation and fluorescent lighting has been shut down by U.S. and Mexican officials - the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month, authorities said Friday. The tunnel found Thursday is 2,200 feet long - more than seven football fields - and runs from the kitchen of a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to two warehouses in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial district, said Mike Unzueta, head of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. In Mexico, the tunnel's cinderblock-lined entry dropped 80 to 90 feet to a wood- lined floor, Unzueta said. From the U.S. side, there was a stairway leading to a room about 50 feet underground that was full of marijuana.
What's driving the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids is an attempt to please the conservative side of the Republican Party, where you have the right wing screaming for blood," said [Vicente Rodriguez] who calls himself 'an old time activist.' "And you know the immigrants are being sacrificed. "I think their not prepared for what they're doing," said Patricia Andrews-Callori, a clergy member and chair of San Diego's Interfaith Committee for Workers Justice, a group who advocates for low wage workers' rights. "They're saying they're police and they're not. So, they go apartment to apartment and our [opinion] is that it's paralyzing to the community. Innocent people are being caught up in the raids and their children are being left behind." "What's troubling and upsetting t...
...While detained by immigration authorities, Francisco Castenada persistently soug...S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the San Diego Correctional Fa...
The ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids in Hispanic communities; the recent Justice Department report that Hispanics are subjected to excessive force by the police; the constant anti-Hispanic drum beat from the rightwing media; the Minutemen; loss of Constitutional and Human Rights; biased laws being drafted by municipalities; and finally the Gestapo-like attack by the Los Angeles police against a peaceful group of May 1 marchers and media at MacArthur Park; the Hispanic community is under attack. It is under these circumstances that, next week, the U.S. Senate will begin the debate on a comprehensive immigration reform. The Senate Judicial Committee will take up the discussion on immigration Wednesday, May 16, when they will discuss the latest immigration bill called the ST...
BRAWLEY, Calif. - A Mexican citizen accused of driving more than 20 illegal immigrants in a vehicle that plunged into a canal, killing six of them, has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling, federal authorities said. The crash happened Friday night shortly after the driver fled police in Westmorland, about 125 miles east of San Diego, said Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
SAN DIEGO - A sophisticated cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail system, ventilation and fluorescent lighting has been shut down by U.S. and Mexican officials - the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month. The tunnel found Thursday is 2,200 feet long - more than seven football fields - and runs from the kitchen of a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to two warehouses in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial district, said Mike Unzueta, head of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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