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The Drug War and Asylum on the US - Mexico Border

We are witnessing an exodus of persecuted confidential sources of information (CSI), police officers, journalists, prosecutors, and businessmen from Mexico, showing-up at the U.S. – Mexico international borders asking for asylum application to enter the United States.

It doesn’t matter that the U.S. government already approved and authorized to assist our neighbors south of the border with millions of dollars (1.6-billion-dollar, three-year package of anti-drug assistance to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean) to fight their war on drugs and violent crimes under the Merida Initiative. Unfortunately, no matter how many billions of dollars the United States gives to not only Mexico but to other foreign countries to assist them in their fight against government corruption, drug eradication, basic and advance specialized criminal investigative training through the U.S. Agency Development Agency (USAID), and our respective major federal law enforcement agencies with offices overseas, the killings will continue. Unfortunately, for Mexico this is a way of life…survival.

On June 10, 2008, Reuters reported that “Mexican police botched the murder investigation of a journalist working near the U.S. border in 2004 by torturing suspects and mishandling evidence, the country's human's rights commission said.”…“Twenty-one journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, seven of them in direct reprisal for their work, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.”….“More than 1,400 people have been killed in drug violence across Mexico this year as the army goes after drug gangs and rival drugs lords battle for control of smuggling routes.”…“Journalists who investigate the drugs trade can become targets, and many have been threatened.”

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:SksXDdsI6EoJ:www.newsdaily.com/stories/n10385852-mexico-drugs-murder/+2008+and+journalists+killed+in+mexico&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=14&gl=us

On July 11, 2008, AFP reported that “In northern Chihuahua state, a state police chief was dragged out of his house and shot execution style by gunmen, the local attorney general's office said, adding that the murdered officer had escaped another attempt on his life two weeks ago.”…“Some 450 police officers have been killed in Mexico since the launch of a massive federal anti-drugs operation in December 2006.”

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20080711-76080.html

I want to convey a message to our neighbors in Mexico or any other country infested with narco-trafficking violence, whom by their nature of their job have been involved, or are currently involved with a respective “drug cartel.”

On January 11, 2007 the Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National Intelligence by John D. Negroponte -

Director of National Intelligence was issued and published. To be candid, the report was hardly an “intelligence” report at all. Director Negroponte had the following information to report, which was not even considered information worth it even to publish by even the smallest newspaper in Tombstone, Arizona:

“In Mexico, President Felipe Calderon of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) was inaugurated

on 1 December after a razor-thin margin of victory over his closest opponent, leftist populist

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). The July 10

election illustrated the country’s polarization along socioeconomic lines. The new government

has initiated steps to address problems in northern Mexico that affect both Mexican and US

security concerns, including drug smuggling, human trafficking, and associated violence.”

http://intelligence.senate.gov/070111/negroponte.pdf

This is going to be like taking a basic course on “U.S. Asylum Basic Law 101” – an honor for me to be able to save at least one life.

You see, I am not your typical professional journalist. I am a retired federal criminal investigator who spent 26.5 years working for the Legacy U.S. Customs Service (Customs), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) and working with various federal task forces. I developed and handled my own investigative case work along with the management of confidential sources of information (CSI). I was not a “follower” who used a particular “mother-load” case who got prosecuted with multiple defendants. I did not like to “piggy-back” and get credit for only assisting in order to be promoted to a higher grade, or to be a supervisor. Another easy way for an ICE agent to be promoted to even a supervisor position is to be assigned to a drug or terrorist task force, spearheaded by the FBI or DEA and "tag-along" by assisting the lead FBI or DEA case agent until the case is adjudicated.  Then the ICE agent (s) use the same criminal case in support of their application for a promotion.  I am proud to say that I was not one of those agents.

I worked mainly on the U.S. – Mexico and U.S. – Canadian International Borders and was detailed to work in South America. Thus, I hope that with knowing a little bit about my background would give you an incentive to pay attention to what I am going to tell you.

If you are in Mexico or in any other country and you believe that your life and the life of your immediate family is in danger (life threatening), I highly recommend that you go to your nearest U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate. The United States government has FBI, and DEA offices, assigned to almost every U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate. ICE and ATF are also staffing their overseas offices but are not the same as the FBI and DEA. Other immigration office assigned to U.S. Embassies and consulates is the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS), and the U.S. Department of the State’s Diplomatic Security Service, which I strongly recommend that you do not contact.

I strongly suggest that you deal with the FBI if your knowledge and information deals with terrorism, drug trafficking and smuggling international organizations (Drug Cartels), human smuggling, weapons of mass destruction, and government corruption involving United States and Mexico government corruption There is also another federal agency, the CIA also known as Political Affairs Section. If you have information about intelligence involving spying and other national security issues, try contacting a CIA case officer.

When you approach the Embassy or Consulate, do not tell the gate guard that you want to apply for asylum. You are probably dealing with a native and citizen of your own country working as a “security officer” – What you want to do is to meet and speak with an FBI agent (known as Legal Attaché Officers) or with a DEA agent. Regrettably I cannot recommend you to contact an ICE agent or a Customs & Border Protection (CBP) officer.

I am a former Resident Agent in Charge of an Office of Internal Affairs (OIA) with the U.S. Customs Service. I know how Customs operate and how some of their agents manage and handle cases like yours. To give you an example, a subordinate of mine (prior to me taking over the OIA office), had a CSI working for him in Mexico. During one particular weekend, the CSI called his controlling Customs OIA agent and told him that the bad guys (drug traffickers and smugglers) knew that he was working for Customs and, that they wanted to kill him. The CSI asked the agent to do something in order to protect him. The Customs agent told him to relax and wait until Monday. That weekend the CSI got murdered in the border town of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, a city controlled by the Arellano-Felix Drug Cartel Organization. The CSI was gathering information on a suspected corrupt Customs employee.

For more on how ICE is known to handle confidential sources of information, you can review the 70 plus news reports published by my fellow co-publisher Bill Conroy of Narco News under the name of the HOUSE OF DEATH.

Don’t worry, eventually you will probably meet an ICE agent, but he or she will not be your controlling agent. Guess this is the time you need to know why I highly recommend that you go first to the U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate. The best way to start your “asylum application” is by earning it. Believe me, I have known former anti-drug police officers from other countries who assisted the FBI or DEA overseas and they are now living in the United States as Alien Lawful Permanent Residents (ALPR), along with their families. I realize that this may not be something you want to do, but if you believe that you have a bona fide (legitimate) asylum case, the fear of becoming the victim of a violent crime due to your exposure of a criminal element in a foreign country would not qualify you to obtain your asylum. I know that numerous asylum applicants have ventured and approached our U.S. International Ports of Entries asking for asylum and risking to spent months or may be years in jail pending for your asylum application review. I also know that you rather be protected (incarcerated) in our U.S. jails or prison than to live the way you were living in Mexico or elsewhere.

To give you an idea of the crimes that the FBI investigates, I am listing the following, hoping that you can assist the FBI with any information you may have in the following areas:

1. Counterterrorism

• International Terrorism

• Domestic Terrorism

• Weapons of Mass Destruction

2. Counterintelligence

• Counterespionage

• Counterproliferation

• Economic Espionage

3. Cyber Crime

• Computer Intrusions

• Online Predators

• Piracy/Intellectual Property Theft

• Internet Fraud

4. Public Corruption

• Government Fraud

• Election Fraud

• Foreign Corrupt Practices

5. Civil Rights

• Hate Crime

• Human Trafficking

• Color of Law

• Freedom of Access to Clinics

6. White-Collar Crime

• Antitrust

• Bankruptcy Fraud

• Corporate/Securities Fraud

• Health Care Fraud

• Identity Theft

• Insurance Fraud

• Money Laundering

• Mortgage Fraud

• Telemarketing Fraud

• More White-Collar Frauds

7. Organized Crime

• Italian Mafia/LCN

• Eurasian

• Balkan

• Middle Eastern

• Asian

• African

• Sports Bribery

8. Major Thefts/Violent Crime

• Art Theft

• Bank Robberies

• Cargo Theft

• Crimes Against Children

• Cruise Ship Crime

• Indian Country Crime

• Jewelry and Gems Theft

• Murder for Hire

• Retail Theft

• Vehicle Theft

• Violent Gangs

Now, remember that I mentioned also contacting DEA. If I were you, I will try to just focus on trying to meet with an FBI agent and to establish a rapport with him or her. If the FBI cannot help you because the only information you possess is about drugs and they don’t want to get involved with your particular case, then try DEA.

Regardless, as soon as you meet with anyone (FBI or DEA agent) at the U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate, make sure you document their names and title. If possible, get copies of whatever you sign for. It is possible you may not be able to get copies of all of the forms you sign. You don’t need them anyway in Mexico or elsewhere. One more thing, make sure you only deal and talk to only one agent, and that is your controlling agent. You don’t need to be talking to different agents, especially from different agencies.  Your loyalty is to your controlling agent and his/her agency.  You must develop a trust.  Also, you need to understand that he/she is not your friend.  You both need to treat each other with respect and professionalism.  One more thing: never lie to your controlling agent.  Lying will only get you in trouble and get you out of the project you are working on.

If the FBI or DEA (or the CIA) agrees to work with you in return for you and your family to obtain certain immigration benefits, to include witness protection in the USA, make sure you know for how long you must work for them as confidential sources of information or “assets” before you can finish your “job” with them. You see, based on my experience and what I have seen, I have seen CSIs lives ruined, destroyed and “burned” by the federal law enforcement agencies that were supposed to protect them. The one I am most familiar with and the one I will never recommend you to work for is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – I cannot go in detail but let’s suffice that ICE is an agency I cannot trust.

Also, if you work for the FBI and/or DEA, try to avoid any dealings with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, or ICE, El Paso, Texas.  This area has a very bad reputation with CSIs.

If your assistance to the FBI or DEA is approved and they document you as a CSI, make sure you and your controlling FBI or DEA agent enter into a contractual agreement in writing (you must keep a copy of any written contract) of what is expected of you and what the U.S. government is offering you in return for your assistance. Remember, this document is the only thing you will have to prove that you worked for the U.S. government. This document may have to be reviewed by an immigration judge once you are in the USA and your controlling agent decide to abandon you (hope not).

Once again, I strongly discourage you from approaching any CBP inspector at our U.S. International Ports of Entries asking to work for the U.S. government as a CSI. However, if you have a compelling case and you must run to the border to ask for political asylum in order to stay alive, by all means don’t wait and run for the border! However, if you still have the time and can plan your immigration to the USA, especially if you have sensitive information that can help our FBI, DEA or CIA, please take that first step and try making an appointment with their “duty agent.” 

You must be carefully with who you meet and talk to including any FBI, DEA, ICE, ATF agent. To illustrate and emphasize this point, in the late 1980s we were part of a Drug Enforcement Task Force based in Calexico, CA and spearheaded by DEA. I was one of a few Customs special agents assigned to this task force. One of our Customs agents assigned to the task force wrote a DEA 6 Report of investigation whereby he implicated the then first commander of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police (MFJP) Miguel Angel Carrola Gutierrez and his assistant and brother, Jesus Ignacio Carrola Gutierrez. Our DEA’s Calexico boss received a transfer to another office and the Carrola’s brothers decided to give our DEA’s boss, a going away party in the Mexican side, near Mexicali, B.C., Mexico. Since we had excellent rapport and working relationship with the Carrola’s brothers and their Mexicali’s MFJP regional office, our DEA task force workforce, along with our Customs bosses went across.

After several hours of hard drinking of the best and expensive liquor and American beer, eating and listening to different groups of Mexican musicians, Commandant Miguel Angel Carrola Gutierrez, who appeared already intoxicated, pulled from his wallet, a copy of the DEA 6 Report of Investigation, which my Customs agent co-worker had written and submitted to the DEA’s Attaché in Mexico City. Carrola confronted the Customs agent and before things were out of hand, the Customs agent left the party. It is unknown if DEA, Calexico, CA ever reported the incident to the DEA’s Office of Professional Responsibility, since it is unknown how Miguel Angel Carrola got a copy of such a sensitive DEA report. To give you a short synopsis of the Carrola brothers and their last days alive, please read on:

“1997        Dec 10, Jesus Carrola, the new judicial police chief of Mexico City, stepped down amid allegations of links to torture and drug traffickers.”

http://timelines.ws/countries/MEXICO_B.HTML

http://timelines.ws/countries/MEXICO_C.HTML

“Ex-Police Official Slain in Mexico

May 30, 2001

The former director of Mexico City’s judicial police and his two brothers were found slain gangland-style Tuesday morning in a working-class neighborhood here.

Police acting on a tip found the bodies of Jesus Ignacio Carrola Gutierrez and his brothers, Miguel Angel and Marcos, in the back of a stolen van in the Tacubaya neighborhood. Each was bound, gagged and shot in the head, authorities said.

“It appears they were executed inside the same vehicle,” Mexico City Atty. Gen. Bernardo Batiz said at a news conference. There were no immediate suspects, but Batiz said the killings had the hallmarks of organized crime.

Police declined to speculate whether there was any link between the slayings and the execution-style killing Saturday of Guillermo Murrieta Lopez, who was director of criminal investigations at the attorney general’s office in the Mexico City federal district.

Witnesses saw two men fire eight shots at Murrieta’s car Saturday.

There have been no arrests. Murrieta had been on leave since December because of injuries he suffered in a traffic accident.

Carrola resigned as director of Mexico City’s judicial police in 1997 after just one week at the job, under fire for alleged links to drug traffickers and human rights abuses.

Critics had accused Carrola of involvement in the 1989 beating death of a prisoner by police under his command when he headed anti-narcotics teams on the Baja California peninsula.

Some media reports said he had run a police extortion ring as a federal agent in northern Mexico. He had denied the allegations.

Carrola was named to head the city’s investigative police force under the administration of opposition leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the first mayor of the capital to be popularly elected in seven decades. Before then, Mexico City mayors had been named by the Mexican president.”

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/30/news/mn-4253

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1359365.stm

To complicate matters even further into the world of conspiracies, may I suggest you take some time to read the following information contained in this link: http://www.madcowprod.com/10292007.html

It is my hope that after reading this report, you will have a better idea of how to work with the complicated system of ours. Remember one thing, even for us who worked for our U.S. government as full-fledged full-time permanent employees as criminal investigators, we always must watch our backs because we unfortunately work for agencies of deceit and corruption. It is why I advise you to stay away from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ICE, CBP, and USCIS. ATF is such a small agency that they will not be able to offer you what the FBI, DEA or the CIA can.

For any specific questions, please don’t hesitate to write me…..I can also connect you with an agent of the FBI, DEA or CIA from the USA via Email or at least to make an introduction.

Finally: WISH YOU GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS YOU!