[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 20261-20262]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    ROUNDING UP MEXICO'S MOST WANTED

                                 ______
                                 

                              HON. TED POE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 26, 2006

  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, it's a big day in the U.S. when we catch 
someone on our Most Wanted List. Shouldn't it be an even bigger day 
when we catch someone on Mexico's Most Wanted List?
  In Ohio, that's right Ohio. It's a long way from our southern border 
with Mexico.
  Julio Ernesto Cobian-Ariaza is just 27 and this Mexican citizen is 
already a career criminal alien. This illegal is wanted back home in 
Mexico for his connection to two murders and two more attempted 
murders.
  But his list of offenses here in the U.S. is much longer. He's been 
convicted of attempted murders, assault with a firearm and street 
terrorism, in plain english--gang activity.
  We've caught him twice before and sent him home. First in 1999 when 
he was just 20. And again in September of 2001. This time as an 
aggravated felon at the tender age of 22.
  Just sneaking back into the country from Mexico once is a felony 
punishable by 20 years in prison. So his laundry list of crimes in the 
U.S. alone should have him locked up in the penitentiary for decades.
  But an even more disturbing part of this story is Ariaza isn't alone. 
His arrest is just one of more than 3 thousand gang members in just a 
few years.
  A crackdown on gangs with foreign born and illegal members.
  He's among many alien gang members representing almost 400 different 
gangs across the United States.
  People mock our country and say we are the world's police. But the 
truth is our open borders make us just that.
  We can't clear our own top ten most wanted list but we're making a 
dent in some others.
  These international outlaws are targeting Americans on our own 
streets and we'll keep rounding up these murderous illegals until we 
shut down our borders.
  If we could do that we would have a good shot at clearing at least 
one name of our own most wanted list.
  Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco is number 2 on the infamous FBI lineup. 
Born in Mexico he's just 30 and he's already accused of brutally 
murdering his girlfriend and her 2 young sons. Friends suspect she 
found out he was already married with his own children and tried to 
break it off. The family went missing for days. Until a few fishing 
buddies riding ATVs stumbled on their burned out car and what looked 
like a charred body. The police ruled it was actually three bodies. 
Orozco's girlfriend and

[[Page 20262]]

her two young sons ages 2 and 4 were all gunned down. Shot in the head 
or chest and their bodies set ablaze.
  Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco is still out there and thanks to our 
virtually open borders he could be living on any American street as we 
speak.
  And that American street may have been made much more dangerous by 
Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez from Colombia also topping our 10 Most 
Wanted. He's one of the leaders of the most powerful and violent drug 
cartels in Colombia and he's accused of pumping tons of cocaine into 
the U.S.--tons of cocaine that could be sold to the same foreign-born 
gang that Mexico's Most Wanted Julio Ernesto Cobian-Ariaza was running 
in when he got caught in Ohio.
  The moral of this story is maybe we should stop accepting the world's 
most dangerous criminals so we can get back to ours.
  Seal the borders protect Americans and let the rest of the world deal 
with their own criminals on their own soil. That's just the way it is.

                          ____________________