30 August 2010, 8:39 am
What do you think 2 cases are a clear demonstration of just how meaningless deportations are with an unprotect border ? On August 17, 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. Of course, deportations are rather meaningless to Martinez, as he has already been deported eight times between 2004-2006, only to quickly re-enter. The illegal alien was actually deported three times over a six-day period in May 2004. Martinez’ latest arrest came on June 29, 2010. This case is reminiscent of another one involving an illegal alien captured in Washington who had been deported nine times, with his last arrest coming a few months ago for rape. On the evening of May 16, an Edmonds police officer responding to a woman’s cries for help, caught Mexican national Jose Lopez Madrigal, 46, on top of a 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 raped 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 Madrigal. 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 sexual assault in Denver, and deported again. In 2003, he was deported three more times. http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/two-illegal-aliens-17-deportations-between-them... Read More »
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