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MEAN STREETS MEDIA

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

WASHINGTON ( White House: “Most” Undocumented Child Migrants in U.S. to Be Deported )



WASHINGTON – The White House toughened its stance on the situation created by the massive arrival of unaccompanied and undocumented Central American children along the U.S. southern border, saying that “most” of them do not meet the requirements to be allowed to remain in the country for humanitarian reasons and will be deported.

“Based on what we know about these cases, it is unlikely that most of these kids will qualify for humanitarian relief... and what that means is, it means that they will not have a legal basis for remaining in this country and will be returned,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told a press conference.

To date, the Barack Obama administration had only said that undocumented minors who reach this country will be submitted to a deportation process, but the immigration court makes each decision case by case and considers the risks each might run upon returning to their country of origin.

The U.S. government on Tuesday will send Congress its definitive plan for speeding up deportation of undocumented Central American children who come to this country, most of them from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Various media estimate the supplementary emergency budget that Obama will ask Congress to approve in order to deal with the border situation will come to about $2 billion.

In addition, Obama will ask that more authority be granted to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to accelerate the process of deporting the minors, who are currently being housed in federal shelters or with relatives while they await the processing of their cases.

According to government data, some 90 unaccompanied children and teenagers cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day, and some 52,000 have been detained in the last nine months, a figure that could climb to 100,000 by the end of the year.

RIO DE JANEIRO ( Brazilian Police Arrest 4 Colombians for Stealing Cell Phones )



RIO DE JANEIRO – Four Colombians were arrested early Monday at a concert hall in the city of Rio de Janeiro on charges of stealing cell phones from people attending a show there, Brazilian police said.

The four foreigners, who recently entered Brazil as tourists, were found in possession of seven cell phones which were later picked up at the police station by their owners, who admitted they had not noticed when they had lost them.

The suspects, Diana Garzon, Paola Ceron, Jonathan Rodriguez and Edgar Garzon, were formally charged with theft and taken to the Bangu prison, where a judge will decide whether to bring them to trial in Brazil or deport them.

The Colombians were arrested at Circo Voador, a well-known cultural venue in downtown Rio, after several people attending the show there approached security personnel to report the loss of their cell phones.

The four were identified after a would-be victim reacted to an attempt to steal his cell phone and became involved in a fistfight with the alleged thieves that had to be broken up by security guards and by the police.

The thieves evidently were experienced at this type of theft operation, given that the other victims did not notice when the cell phones were removed from their pockets and did not suspect anything, police spokesmen said

LA PAZ ( Three Alleged Cattle Rustlers Lynched in Bolivia )



LA PAZ – Three alleged cattle thieves were lynched by villagers in the Bolivian province of La Paz, local media reported Monday.

The incident took place on Friday in the town of Topoco after six men were surprised by local residents as they were stealing cattle. After a pursuit, three of the men were apprehended and lynched by their captors, Radio Erbol reported.

Once they were dead, the three men’s bodies were burned, according to the radio report, which added that Bolivia’s Special Crime Fighting Force (FELCC) had been informed of the incident.

Lynchings of alleged criminals occur relatively frequently in Bolivia and, as magistrates have warned, their occurrence shows that the death penalty is regularly imposed by angry crowds around the country.

The mobs regularly argue that they are applying so-called indigenous community justice, something that is recognized in the 2009 constitution but which does not allow the death penalty or physical punishment to be imposed.

Both Bolivian authorities and international organizations, including the UN, have expressed their concern over these acts, which the police are often unable to stop, given that many of them are carried out in rural areas where there are few law enforcement officers that might be able – or willing – to confront the furious lynch mobs.

According to human rights defense organizations, there are between 10 and 20 lynchings in Bolivia each year and a larger number of attempted lynchings.

Monday, July 7, 2014

BAGHDAD ( Jihadists Flaunt Their Power with Leader’s Appearance in Mosul )




BAGHDAD – The jihadist Islamic State flaunted its power Saturday by airing a video of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, even as the Iraqi army attempted to recover lost ground in the Sunni provinces near Baghdad.

Up to now only a few photos have been released of al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph, so that pictures of his public appearance Friday at prayers in the Great Mosque of the Iraqi city of Mosul acquired an undeniable significance.

Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has been under Islamic State control since last June 10, a serious setback for Iraqi authorities who in just a few days saw the jihadists at the gates of Baghdad.

During his sermon, al-Baghdadi urged his followers to obey him if he obeys God, and to persist with the jihad (holy war) because it is “the path of pride.”

“If you have faith in God and do your work well you will govern the earth as God promised true believers,” said the heavily bearded Islamic State leader in his robe and black turban.

The Islamic State is working to establish a local administrative system in coordination with all the other rebel Sunni groups, a local activist told Efe.

With regard to sectarian tension, he said the jihadists destroyed several Shi’ite mosques they suspected of being used for meetings of extremist militias of that Islamic group.

In fact, most of the Shi’ite inhabitants have fled or have been expelled from Mosul, though some have preferred to remain in the city, as has the Christian minority.

While Sunni insurgents and the Islamic State strengthen their bastion in Nineveh, whose capital is Mosul, Iraqi troops launched new operations Saturday to win back territory in provinces with a Sunni majority – Anbar, Saladin and Diyala.

Security officials told Efe that Iraqi forces in Anbar are backed by the Sunni pro-governmental militia called Salvation Councils.

The Iraqi conflict took on a new dimension last Sunday with the Islamic State’s proclamation of a caliphate from the Syrian province of Aleppo to the Iraqi governorate of Diyala.

On July 1, al-Baghdadi said it was “obligatory” for all Muslims to emigrate to the caliphate because this “belongs to all Muslims,” not just to the two countries of what was formerly called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

VERACRUZ, Mexico ( Police Kill 3 Gunmen in Shootout in Eastern Mexico )




VERACRUZ, Mexico – Police killed three suspected gunmen in a shootout in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz, state officials said.

The shootout occurred on Saturday in Orizaba, a city about 270 kilometers (167 miles) east of Mexico City.

The officers, who were participating in an anti-crime operation, spotted several people in an SUV that had been reported stolen.

Officers stopped the vehicle at an intersection, setting off the shootout.

The three gunmen were pronounced dead at the scene and officers seized three rifles, two handguns and ammunition in the vehicle.

Army troops and Veracruz Attorney General’s Office investigators responded to the shootout.

Thousands of migrants headed for the United States pass through Veracruz each year, and drug traffickers use smuggling routes in the state to move narcotics into Mexico’s northern neighbor.

The federal government expanded its presence in neighboring Tamaulipas state in May to fight the Los Zetas and Gulf drug cartels, which have unleashed a wave of violence in the region.

Veracruz’s government has stepped up patrols along the border to prevent the cartels from moving into its territory.

The state government has been working with the army and marines to hunt down the members of criminal organizations, especially those involved in kidnappings, this year.

Veracruz, Mexico’s third most populous state, has been plagued by a turf war between rival drug cartels that has sent the murder rate skyrocketing in the past few years.

The Gulf, Los Zetas and Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartels, as well as breakaway members of the once-powerful Familia Michoacana organization, are fueling the violence in the state.

The port city of Veracruz will be the site of the 24th Ibero-American Summit of heads of state and government and will host the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games later this year.

Mexico ( Authorities Arrest 12 Kidnappers in Mexico )




MEXICO CITY – Authorities arrested 12 suspected kidnappers and rescued two captives in separate operations in Mexico, officials said.

Federal Police officers arrested three suspected kidnappers, including a minor, in central Mexico and rescued a 14-year-old who had been abducted last month, the National Security Commission said.

The operation was conducted in the city of Huixquilucan, thanks to a tip from the public.

Huixquilucan is in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.

Luis Eduardo GaviƱo Chavez, 32, who handled negotiations and collected ransom payments, Ignacio Leyva Maldonado, 40, and an unidentified minor were arrested, officials said.

State authorities, meanwhile, arrested nine suspected kidnappers, including seven Nigerians, and rescued a teenage girl abducted on June 20 in Mexico state.

Relatives of the 16-year-old victim, who was kidnapped outside her family’s house in the city of Nextlalpan, contacted authorities, the Mexico state Attorney General’s Office said.

The victim was taken to a house in the city of Zumpango and the kidnappers contacted her family to demand a ransom payment, the AG’s office said.

Police arrested two suspects, one of whom is a minor, when they tried to collect the ransom and were led to the house where the victim was being held, the AG’s office said.

Officers arrested the other seven suspects, all Nigerians, the AG’s office said.

The Nigerians went to Mexico “some time ago (to work) for a computer repair company that no longer exists,” the AG’s office said in a statement.