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Deportations pointless with an open border

This week, while conducting surveillance operations prior to an immigration sweep, Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies reportedly arrested an illegal alien who has been deported a staggering 17 times.

While it may be shocking that 17 deportations were not enough to keep a criminal alien off of our streets, the aforementioned example is hardly an isolated case.

-On August 24, 2010, Moises Ortiz-Castaneda, 28, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of domestic battery stemming from two arrests earlier in the year in Columbus, Ohio. It was only the latest offense the illegal alien has racked up in this country.

Upon completion of his prison sentence, Ortiz-Castaneda will be deported for the eighth time.

According to court documents, the Mexican national was deported on May 16, 2002; June 18, 2002; July 18, 2002; Feb. 28, 2003; April 5, 2004; April 19, 2004; and April 1, 2005.

-On December 23, 2010, convicted drug dealer, Rogelio Rabadan-Antunez, 40, was sentenced in a federal court to seven years in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after deportations.

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The Mexican national has been deported five times since 1997, after receiving a drug trafficking conviction in 1996.

-On August 17, 2010, Mexican national Victor Manuel Gonzalez Martinez, 28, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for criminally violating federal immigration law.

He will be deported after his prison sentence, that is, if he receives one. Although for re-entering the U.S. illegally, the law provides for a maximum total sentence of two years in prison, that penalty is rarely imposed.

Deportations are rather meaningless to Martinez, as he had already been deported eight times between 2004 and 2006, only to re-enter each time. The illegal alien was actually deported three times over a six-day period in May 2004.

Martinez’ latest arrest came on June 29, 2010.

-On the evening of May 16, 2010, a police officer in Edmonds, Washington responded to a woman’s cries for help, and caught Mexican national Jose Lopez Madrigal, 46, on top of the woman, raping her.

Madrigal had forced the woman into the bushes behind a Safeway.

According to the arrest affidavit, Madrigal approached the woman, offering her $35 for sex. When she said no, the illegal alien dragged her behind the store and attacked her.

The 28-year-old rape victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Madrigal reportedly told police: “Sometimes we have control in our brains, but we make mistakes.”

Because the illegal alien has a total of 35 different aliases, police had to rely on fingerprint records to identify him.

Madrigal has a lengthy criminal record in this country, dating back to 1989, when he was convicted of theft with a firearm in California. After that, he was deported twice, before his next arrest on this side of the border.

In 1999, he was arrested for drug distribution in San Diego and San Francisco. He was deported three times that year alone, between April and August.

In 2000, Madrigal was arrested again for drug distribution in Stockton, Ca.

In 2002, he pleaded guilty to a sexual assault in Denver and deported again.

In 2003, he was deported three more times.

-In October 2009, federal agents took Jose Aranda-Mora, a drug smuggler to Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, to retrieve 92 heroin-filled balloons he swallowed before a traffic stop in Richland County.

The Mexican national had been deported only three months earlier, marking his fourth deportation since 2000.

-On January 11, 2008, police arrested Mexican national Santana Batiz Aceves, 39, in Arizona and based on DNA evidence, charged him with 47 counts of rape. Aceves, dubbed the “Chandler rapist,” is responsible for a string of child rapes which began in 2006.

Prior to his arrest, the illegal alien had already been deported twice for drug charges in California. Aceves was eventually convicted and will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Aceves was working as a heavy equipment operator and lived very close to two junior high schools.

According to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, the number of those prosecuted for illegal re-entry has increased by 175 percent since 2005.

These cases are a clear demonstration of just how meaningless deportations are with an unprotected border.

Read about more outrageous cases: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/thrice-deported-illegal-alien-declares-united-states-is-stupid

, Immigration Reform Examiner

Dave Gibson, a former legislative aide to a state senator, has been working as a freelance writer for many years. His work has been published in many newspapers and magazines including the Washington Times. He believes that the issue of illegal immigration is the most pressing issue of our time...

Comments

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    If deportation doesn't work, jail time doesn't work, shoot them next time. Let them die of lead poisoning.

  • Paul Kersey 1 year ago

    Don't we have some claymores left over some place?

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    BSNECU 1 year ago

    I'm sure someone will devise a new law that says once you've been deported 9 times and have come back 10, that will be the magic number that allows you to stay. Someone will say that he has shown every intent to become American by coming back every time. Any bets?

  • ted409 1 year ago

    well hes in az now,
    he ll probably be doing some time . the problem is the liberal judges that let him go the other 16 times just what obama wants
    make america a 5th world country

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    The tragedy of illegal immigration is amost beyond speech. When the first illegal was allowed to stay, we ceased to be a nation of laws. Our own government closes its eyes to the crime, the finacial burden and the drain on our social and natural resources. Rather than demanding illegals leave, we cut programs for Americans and spend billions on the upkeep of those who laugh at our laws. It's sad that we have so many willing to sell out our country for votes and/or cheap labor.

  • Paul Kersey 1 year ago

    My personal plan to slow illegal immigration ...

    Any business that hires illegal immgrants shall be fined $100,000 per head.

    All illegal immigrants should be fingerprinted and deported with prejudice. i.e. any illegal caught within our borders after a certain date, will automatically forfeit any and all future requests for residency, work visas, or other legal entry into the US.

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    I am truly worried about our country. In this and many other instances. I cannot comprehend how a sovereign nation can allow it's borders to remain open for anyone (!) to enter....and Even allowing 100s of miles to become open territory for mainly, drug/human smugglers and border bandits! You wonder just who (!) is running the country. It becomes stranger still when you look at the killing of Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry. He was ordered to use a 'non-lethal' firearm to protect himself when patroling very dangerous territory. Because of that order, he was shot by at least one of a number of Mexican bandits trespassing into the US. He then had to wait, eventually bleeding to death, while one of the suspects, with a lesser wound, was flown out first for medical attention! The suspects are now charged with 'felony immigration' charges. NOT murder. The newest information coming out, is 2 of the guns used by those 'suspects' may have been sold in purchases sanctioned by federal firearms agents. Isn't this sounding a bit strange to you??

  • Profile picture of MaryHolloway Love
    MaryHolloway Love 1 year ago

    Hi!  Just subscribed to you and added you to my favorites, as illegal immigration is one of my hot topics, too.  It is not at the top of my list 'cause I can count on ya'll to keep this on the forefront.  I write National for Precious Metals (Gold/Silver) and Personal Finance Examiner for Monroe, also starting to write Government Examiner for Monroe.  I have read many of your articles and everyone needs an "Atta Boy!" especially when we seem to be losing the war.  MaryHolloway

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