News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Fugitive operations teams seek illegal immigrants

The Associated Press

Published: 08.21.2006

MESA - When officials arrested Monserat Avila-Ortiz in 2000 after she illegally crossed into the United States from Mexico, an immigration judge released her from custody with the understanding that she'd voluntarily leave the country within 60 days.

But six years later, Avila-Ortiz was still in the country, living in a home in Mesa, where agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement found the 39-year-old Chihuahua woman hiding in the shower of a darkened bathroom.

The agents are with the state's fugitive operations team, an investigative unit reporting to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

They target illegal immigrants like Avila-Ortiz, who are put on a fugitive operations' wanted list after they are ordered to leave the country, fail to report for deportation, and warrants are issued for their arrest.

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