Anchorage officer charged with passport fraud

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by ilbegone

About 5 or six years ago I was working with a whole scad of Mexicans in the Coachella Valley (significant number illegal), one of them told me a story about working in Alaska several times in the seafood industry while being illegal, and he wasn't the only illegal in his story by any means.

Just prior to that, I was in Southern Washington for a month or so, it seemed to me that it was about equal thirds of loggers, hippies, and "crossed the southern border last night" looking people who weren't fluent with King Georges' English.

However, the subject was a police officer. He had to communicate exceptionally well in English, write reports, he had to fit in. He wasn't some chuntaro with three generations living in his house with the garage converted into an apartment for the primos. No goats, chickens, and he probably didn't wear a Tejano and cowboy boots. And, if he did listen to Ranchera music, for sure he didn't blare it around town at 9000 decibels in a beat up car worth less than an impound fee.

He was probably brought to the US real young.

Washington state,...yes, no surprise there. The fishing fleet...again, no surprise there. Working off shore is somewhat different. Your ship can be registered in many countries, and admiralty law plays a big part in labor aboard.
But mainland Alaska...not many mecksicans yet. I don't think they like the cold, nor do they stand up to cabin fever well. Mexicans are too social to be couped up alone for long.

[ilbegone]

Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola

Washington state,...yes, no surprise there. The fishing fleet...again, no surprise there. Working off shore is somewhat different. Your ship can be registered in many countries, and admiralty law plays a big part in labor aboard.
But mainland Alaska...not many mecksicans yet. I don't think they like the cold, nor do they stand up to cabin fever well. Mexicans are too social to be couped up alone for long.

Part of the story had to do with maybe just such cabin fever and necessary sociability.

While in Alaska, the Mexican I worked with in the CV and an illegal buddy had the pressing compulsion to visit a whorehouse. After they left, he expressed buyers' remorse due to the fact that he had squandered $600.00. The other illegal told him not to feel so bad about $600.00, he himself had been suckered for something like $10,000.00

Wow. That man must have really needed some "quality time".

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by ilbegone

Part of the story had to do with maybe just such cabin fever and necessary sociability.

While in Alaska, the Mexican I worked with in the CV and an illegal buddy had the pressing compulsion to visit a whorehouse. After they left, he expressed buyers' remorse due to the fact that he had squandered $600.00. The other illegal told him not to feel so bad about $600.00, he himself had been suckered for something like $10,000.00

Wow. That man must have really needed some "quality time".

In other words, he got rolled while he was drunk and lost every cent he was fool enough to enter a jezebels den with on his person.

[ilbegone]

Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola

In other words, he got rolled while he was drunk and lost every cent he was fool enough to enter a jezebels den with on his person.

Liquor probably had quite a bit to do with much of that days' adventure.

I don't know how widespread it is anymore, but quite a few illegals used to carry all their money in a shirt pocket when they moved around and didn't have all the financial service resources they do now. It might have been risky, but no sense burying money in a mayonnaise jar if you might not be back for a year if ever. And, I certainly wouldn't leave anything anywhere in a motel or flop house I really wanted to keep.

[Twoller]

The rats are working their way into law enforcement. We have to know exactly what this cockroach's activities in law enforcement were. What arrests did he make? What tickets did he issue?

[Ayatollahgondola]

This guy is probably being sacrificed as a propaganda ploy for the open borders/amnesty lobby. The're going to hold him up as an example of a good, cop, good family man, taxpayer, who nobody in town has a complaint with. And look at who will be coming to his defense....townfolk in a far away land that has no inkling of the real problems caused by illegals in places like LA, Santa Ana, San Diego, etc.
There's gonna be sobbing, anger, and screams for "reforms"

And who loses here? one person who doesn't have status...yet anyway. He's a sacrifice that the OBL will not miss, or even think about in a few months

[Twoller]

Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola

This guy is probably being sacrificed as a propaganda ploy for the open borders/amnesty lobby. The're going to hold him up as an example of a good, cop, good family man, taxpayer, who nobody in town has a complaint with. ...

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You are still assuming that the guy was a good cop. What was his record? What arrests did he make? What tickets did he issue?

He was a criminal who had no business in law enforcement. He was not even a citizen. We should have additional laws against illegals who find employment in government positions, especially law enforcement. The guy needs to go to jail for a long time. Think of all the cops who do wind up in jail, does this rat deserve any less?

[ilbegone]

Originally Posted by Twoller

The rats are working their way into law enforcement. We have to know exactly what this cockroach's activities in law enforcement were. What arrests did he make? What tickets did he issue?

This guy is probably being sacrificed as a propaganda ploy for the open borders/amnesty lobby. The're going to hold him up as an example of a good, cop, good family man, taxpayer, who nobody in town has a complaint with. And look at who will be coming to his defense....townfolk in a far away land that has no inkling of the real problems caused by illegals in places like LA, Santa Ana, San Diego, etc.
There's gonna be sobbing, anger, and screams for "reforms"

And who loses here? one person who doesn't have status...yet anyway. He's a sacrifice that the OBL will not miss, or even think about in a few months

This is all the information i have for this guy, everything else I found is the same:

The passport fraud case is similar to one involving a Mexican national who took the identity of a dead cousin who was a U.S. citizen in order to become a Milwaukee police officer. Oscar Ayala-Cornejo was deported to Mexico in 2007. http://hosted2.ap.org/txdam/54828a5e...5ad01da1d82e10

Mora-Lopez had been employed as an Anchorage police officer since 2005 under the name Rafael Espinoza. He was arrested Thursday, April 21, 2011, after federal and state authorities searched his home and found documents confirming his true identity. http://federalnewsradio.com/index.ph...10&sid=2356419

"At this time, we have no reason to believe, from what we know so far, that this gentleman or this officer's good work for APD has in any way been compromised or questioned," Skidmore said.

U.S. Magistrate John D. Roberts set bond at $50,000, and ordered Mora-Lopez to home-confinement and electronic monitoring. His defense attorney told the magistrate that Mora-Lopez has a wife and child in Alaska and has close ties to Anchorage, where he has lived since the late 1980s.
"He's not going anywhere," Dayan said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_852852.html

There seems to be no word about his childhood, how old he was when he entered the US, the rest of his background. He might not even speak Spanish.

This again points to who the real culprits are - American politicians who refuse to fund and enforce immigration law, and American employers who create the draw for illegal aliens to come here. Yet twoller calls someone he has no knowledge of or even much information about a "cockroach", with the assumption that the man is a crooked cop, and Ayatolla is right that in this person the real problem of mass migration will be diverted to a question of "social justice" rather than enforcing immigration law.

This guy is shoved in our face by the media rather than the hundreds of cockroach members of congress and presidents who, since the 1986 amnesty, have been derelict in enforcing immigration law.

The double tragedy is that if he was brought to the US as a child, he really doesn't belong to either country. Give him citizenship, and it subverts the system beyond illegal entry and identity theft; deport him, it may be to a country which he doesn't know and in which he will be rejected because he is Americanized.