Fingerprint ID system nabs 3 molesters at border

[MKSheppard]

Damn Scum!

Fingerprint ID system nabs 3 molesters at border

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published August 8, 2004

U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona arrested three convicted child molesters in separate incidents last week, using an automated fingerprint system to identify the captured illegal aliens as sexual predators who previously had been convicted and deported.

Ismael Hernandez, 49, Faustino Tierrablanca, 39, and Cipriano Pimental, 31, all Mexican nationals, were arrested by agents assigned to the Border Patrol stations in Douglas, Ariz., and Naco, Ariz.

Border Patrol spokesman Rob Daniels said Hernandez was arrested Wednesday as he tried to enter the United States illegally about a half-mile west of Douglas. His identity was verified by the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), developed by the FBI, which showed a 1984 conviction in New York for sexual abuse and acting in a manner to injure a child.

Mr. Daniels said Hernandez had been sentenced to a year in jail and later deported.

He said Border Patrol agents encountered Tierrablanca on Thursday about 7 miles east of Naco, where he also had sought to enter the United States illegally. His identity also was confirmed through IAFIS at the Naco Border Patrol station as having been arrested for sexual assault on a child in 1996 in Texas and sentenced to three years in prison.

Mr. Daniels said Tierrablanca was deported to Mexico in 1998.

Pimental also was arrested on Thursday by Border Patrol agents in a separate incident about 15 miles west of Naco, when he admitted to being in the United States illegally, Mr. Daniels said, adding that the Mexican national was taken to the Naco station, where his identity and criminal status was confirmed by IAFIS.

Mr. Daniels said Pimental was convicted in 2003 in Illinois of "sexual abuse of a minor" and removed that year to Mexico after serving several months in an Illinois jail.

The three men are currently in federal custody pending removal proceedings. Pimental and Tierrablanca are facing prosecution for re-entry of an aggravated felon, while Hernandez is facing prosecution for entry without inspection.

Since the beginning of the fiscal year in October, Mr. Daniels said the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, which includes Douglas and Naco, has arrested 9,559 illegal aliens with criminal records, 143 of which were for sexually related charges.

The Border Patrol is a part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security.

IAFIS was developed by the FBI in 1999. It allows agents to capture fingerprint images that are compared against an FBI database of stored fingerprints. It searches fingerprints to determine whether an arrest record exists, and maintains a criminal arrest record history for each person.

[MKSheppard]

You know, from now on, instead of deporting them all, lets deport them to Alaska, and have them log timber for us. Think of it as our very own Siberia

[Kazuaki Shimazaki]

You know, from now on, instead of deporting them all, lets deport them to Alaska, and have them log timber for us. Think of it as our very own Siberia

Complete with the gulag system of living?

[Patrick Ogaard]

I just ran across something very disturbing to me. That is, I decided to do a little research.

First I went to the cbp.gov (Customs and Border Patrol) site, where I saw the following quotable bit:
"To accomplish its missions, CBP has a workforce of over 40,000 dedicated employees.Included in those ranks are inspectors, canine enforcement officers, Border Patrol agents, trade specialists, and mission support staff."

Then I decided to go to the site bundesgrenzschutz.de (the site of the German Border Patrol). For a country with only around 80 million, and drastically shorter borders, the German government employs the same number of personnel, 40,000, of which 30,000 are actual border police, the remaining 10,000 being assorted other personnel. (Coincidentally, this is almost the same personnel strength as the police of the German state of Bavaria, at 36,000.)

This, for Germany, does not count the customs pesonnel (including those serivng on coast guard customs cruisers), though the zoll.de site says nothing about personnel strength, so I have no idea how many total customs personnel there are.

How much easier would it be to keep some kind of lid on the border if there were more than a hundred thousand border patrol personnel?

[Beowulf]

Discussion on mining the southern border of the US HoSed.

[Gandalf]

You know, from now on, instead of deporting them all, lets deport them to Alaska, and have them log timber for us. Think of it as our very own Siberia

Complete with the gulag system of living?

Makes sense.

Imagine the money the US could make by having a privatised gulag system?

[Alex Moon]

You know, from now on, instead of deporting them all, lets deport them to Alaska, and have them log timber for us. Think of it as our very own Siberia

I thought most wood had to be shipped to Alaska, because harvestable timber was scarce.

[Sarevok]

You know, from now on, instead of deporting them all, lets deport them to Alaska, and have them log timber for us. Think of it as our very own Siberia

Human rights groups wont like it and will start an outcry.

[Darth Wong]

You know, from now on, instead of deporting them all, lets deport them to Alaska, and have them log timber for us. Think of it as our very own Siberia

Who will do all of the menial labour no-benefit jobs that the American economy uses in order to keep commodity prices low?

[Patrick Ogaard]

You know, from now on, instead of deporting them all, lets deport them to Alaska, and have them log timber for us. Think of it as our very own Siberia

Who will do all of the menial labour no-benefit jobs that the American economy uses in order to keep commodity prices low?

Superintelligent cyborgs?

Failing that, the affected sectors of US industry, including agriculture, would have to modernize. In many sectors, US industry and agriculture are prepared to meet the challenges of 1965. It's just so much simpler to keep throwing more cheap labor at a problem than to invest in modern machinery, with the modern technicians necessary to operate and maintain them.

Of course, investing in modernization would spark the development of advanced industry, necessary to develop and produce those modern machines, along with training programs to produce the necessary engineers to develop the machines, skilled laborers to produce the machines and the machines that produce the machines, technicians to maintain and operate the machines, and sales personnel to sell those machines and the machines that produce the machines. Even with the risk of fines, in many cases it's still cheaper in the short run to hire a pickup truck full of semi-competent labor, and to repeat that process as necessary until there are enough bodies on the job.

[Patrick Ogaard]

You know, from now on, instead of deporting them all, lets deport them to Alaska, and have them log timber for us. Think of it as our very own Siberia

Complete with the gulag system of living?

Makes sense.

Imagine the money the US could make by having a privatised gulag system?

Considering how many US prisons are already run by private industry, and how much many US prisons resemble Russian gulags to an outside observer, that's a moot point. The prison industry already is a huge economic factor in many areas, supplying low-end jobs to the local population, cheap labor to businesses that need it, and votes for the politicians who need to look tough on crime.

[Darth Servo]

Who will do all of the menial labour no-benefit jobs that the American economy uses in order to keep commodity prices low?

High school students?