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 News from Around the Americas | January 2008 
U.S. Marshals Have Great Success Capturing Fugitives on Foreign Soil
 Chief James Schield - U.S. Marshals Service
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Thanks to the U.S. Marshals’ extensive training, patience and solid relationships with Mexican law enforcement agencies, fugitives who run for the border are living on borrowed time. Some fugitives may think running to Mexico is equivalent to a “get out of jail free card,” but they learn otherwise when they find the Marshals are there waiting, watching and prepared to bring them back face their crimes.
The Marshals have a foreign field office in Mexico with the sole mission of hunting U.S. fugitives who choose to find safe haven in Mexico and Mexican fugitives who try to hide in the United States. The U.S. Marshals Mexico Field Office along with U.S. Marshals Mexico Investigative Liaison Program on the United States/Mexico Southwest border has proven to be a great success in capturing fugitives. In Fiscal Year 2007, the U.S. Marshals accomplished the following:
• 108 fugitives returned to the United States from Mexico
• 48 U.S. fugitives returned from Mexico to the United States via formal extradition
• 60 U.S. fugitives deported from Mexico to the United States
• 86 fugitives were returned to Mexico from the United States
• 15 Mexican fugitives returned from the United States to Mexico via formal extradition
• 71 Mexican fugitives deported from the United States to Mexico
• More than 70 U.S. fugitives in custody awaiting formal extradition from Mexico to the United States
In Fiscal Year 2008 (October through December), the U.S. Marshals accomplished the following:
• 44 U.S. fugitives deported from Mexico to the United States
• 12 U.S. fugitives returned from Mexico to the United States via formal extradition
• 8 Mexican fugitives deported from the United States to Mexico
• 2 Mexican fugitives returned from the United States to Mexico via formal extradition
• Fugitive captures are performed under the authority of the U.S Constitution and Mexican Constitution and both countries’ laws.
U.S. Marshals are the nation’s primary fugitive hunting organization. For more information, go to www.usmarshals.gov. |
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