The agenda item was put on by Vince Perez, who has advocated that the agreement to house federal prisoners is detrimental to the County and for El Paso taxpayers. On June 9, 2017, Vince Perez posted on the County’s website his agenda item along with six attachments.
Accepting that the data collected and disseminated by Vince Perez and his staff regarding the jail agreement is accurate, then the data proves my point that El Paso is unfriendly towards immigrants. Not only that, but the data also demonstrates that the federal prisoner agreement is just another source of revenue for the County. It also reinforces my belief that El Paso leaders have an unholy agreement with the drug cartels. Vince Perez argues that the agreement loses money for the county taxpayers.
In addition to the loses for the taxpayers, Vince Perez seems to have also embraced the idea that the jailing agreement is in contradiction to the County government’s stated belief that they decry the SB4 targeting of the immigrant populations. Perez, in his cover letter introducing his agenda item, wrote that the county commissioners should take action “regarding the continued incarceration of immigration-related and other detainees.” Perez points out that immigration aspect of the agreement.
Of the six attachments included by Vince Perez, three convincingly expose not only the immigrant friendly lie but also the hypocrisy of challenging SB4. The first graph; “Federal Inmate Population in Texas Public Jails from January 2017 through May 2017” exposes how the jail contract is about making money for the County.
You will note that the County jailed one-quarter of all the federal prisoners in Texas. El Paso is Texas’ sixth largest city by population and yet it jails almost a quarter of all federal prisoners. The argument can be made that since El Paso sits on the border then it would make sense that deportable immigrants would be jailed as close to the border as possible. This is hypocritical for El Paso in light of its SB4 lawsuit and claim to be immigrant friendly.
The next two graphs prove that El Paso is unfriendly to immigrants very poignantly. The first graph; “Total Bookings into El Paso County Jail from Fiscal Years 2014 to 2017 to Date” proves that the clear majority, about 71%, of federal prisoners in the El Paso County jail are “Immigration-Related”.
The last graph; “Federal Inmate Bookings by Arresting Agency From FY2014 to Date” proves this notion convincingly.
As you can clearly see, 87% of all jail bookings for federal prisoners comes from two immigration-related agencies; the United States Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
Clearly, immigrants are money making pawns for Veronica Escobar and cohorts.
But what is even more poignant is the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) metric, 4% of all federal bookings at the County jail.
Let that sink in for a moment. Not only is El Paso home to the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), the fusion center for all drug cartel intelligence in law enforcement, but El Paso is also a well-known drug corridor.
Clearly, the focus is not in jailing drug traffickers but instead in jailing immigrants, many of whom, are laborers looking to feed their families.
At this point we have no reason to believe that the data metrics published by Vince Perez are wrong. Accepting them as accurate than the conclusion is that El Paso is unfriendly towards immigrants and allows drug traffickers to operate unimpeded in the city.
There are three theses that I have been developing over the years when it comes to El Paso.
- The first is that El Paso artificially creates an economy by using tax dollars, local and federal, to stimulate the economy.
- The second is that El Paso is unfriendly towards immigrants contrary to carefully crafted narrative perpetuated by the politicos.
- And, finally, El Paso allows drugs to transit through the city under an arrangement I have dubbed The Conspiracy Sealed in Blood.
Vince Perez has embarked on exposing the failures of the federal jail agreement. In time, we will know if his metrics are accurate or not. New information will also become public as the debate intensifies. If the data holds true, then my three theses have been proven.
You didn’t mention that Vince Perez demonstrated leadership by putting this on the agenda. I wonder why?
Martin
This article is non- sense! El Paso is immigrant friendly and a sanctuary City and County. Hell Martin nearly 40 % of the people living in my community were illegally here and owned homes and at least 20% were naturalized. My good friend and neighbor who lived next to us was a naturalized transplant from Mexico and he would say you are full of poop on this one.
Martin here is the problem with this article it’s Hispanics who are being unfriendly to immigrants since they make up more than 80% of the population and the majority in local government in El Paso and El Paso County.
Martin just go look at the new homes out side of Horizon City a lot of these home were bought by Mexican nationals. Seems pretty damn friendly to many of us who lived out in that area.
Vince is just preparing to run for County Judge. He doesn’t care about the money or the Mexicans!
That’s not leadership, it’s opportunism. He’s been there, how long ? He’s just now figured out that the jail was half empty and never needed expansion. He threw his “friends” under the bus to promote himself.
Worse, Escobaiter is using Hispanics to promote herself. Yelling fire when there is only a tiny spark. And the firemen are all Hispanic !
Drama queen and bellhop for the judge put on a nice show of indignation to support his boss. Can’t lose that job of being bellhop. He wants to be judge so he can get a bell hop.
What’s going here? Is it ala Saucedo directorship or ala Comey (his explanations are school boyish in that he lied so much he no longer knows the true)
I felt sick watching it, as not once was it mentioned the same Judge hearing the SB4 lawsuits in SA had just ruled Detainers unconstitutional and not once was it mentioned. The Answer was there and so simple, make ICE/U.S. Marshalls get Judicial Warrants or they can take their business to Hudspeth County. They had a chance to do what 23 states already require, a Warrant, not a Detainer.
Carl, I don’t know the law as well as you do. But, isn’t a warrant based on probable cause ? If entering a country without permission isn’t a violation then what is it ? My point is if it is accepted as a violation then why would a warrant would be needed ?
Texas police enforce Texas Criminal Code not civil immigration law. Its all over google, same Judge that will hear SB 4.
A Detainer is not the same as a Judicial Warrant ie a New Arrest.
So also see the Dallas County case where Dallas was sued for holding inmates past their jail term for ICE.
El Paso county is waiting to be sued re this issue. Wiles was even upset the El Paso Public Defenders was pointing out the unconstitutionality.
It’s sad the crocodile tears El Paso county puts on re SB 4. Maybe Martin is right.