ARRESTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS RELEASED BACK ONTO NEW MEXICO STREETS
 Santa Fe police are discovering that illegal immigrants arrested on a variety of charges keep turning up time and time again on the streets of Sante Fe, New Mexico, despite U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placing detainers on them. Police are frustrated that they keep arresting the same criminals over and over when it’s supposed to be prevented. Lt. Louis Carlos of the Santa Fe Police Department said, “Somebody’s dropping the ball” when it comes to honoring or enforcing immigration detainers.

Jail director Annabelle Romero said they honor the detainers, follow the proper procedure, and ICE officials show up almost daily to pick up the accused illegal immigrants. Romero believes the problem lies with other jurisdictions or other parameters because sometimes Santa Fe police bring inmates with immigration detainers to other county jails to make sure ICE can take custody of them.

The Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel not only controls drug corridors on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border, it uses that control to extend its influence  beyond the southwest into “much of the United States,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Sinaloa, one of the largest drug-trafficking organizations in the world, is comprised of numerous Mexican organizations all with one goal in mind – bringing literally tons of narcotics into the U.S. and taking billions in American cash back home to Mexico.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimates the Cartel control roughly 90 percent of the drugs that cross the border into Arizona and also controls much of the illicit money and weapons trafficking along the Arizona-Mexico border. The Sinaloa Cartel’s wholesale distribution then extends to the East Coast and Midwest United States.