Borderland Beat
During Sandra Avila Beltran's fleeting stay in El Paso's immigration processing center, reports show "the Queen of the Pacific" is not a woman content with just anything. As laid back as she has appeared in early videos since her arrest, she seemed to act more entitled than others in the El Paso facility. Among her requests, Avila Beltran demanded guards bring her better clothes, "something more comfortable to wear" and make up.
Even after the repatriation program had already provided her customary clothes, "the Queen of the Pacific" was able to mobilize FBI agents to go to the closest Walmart and bring her a pair of tight skinny jeans, a white sweatshirt, a make up case with eyeliner and eyebrow accentuating pencils
Sandra was in El Paso prison "limbo" because she had served her formal sentence, and was waiting to be returned to her country. When extradited prisoners are deported, they pass through an ICE processing centre before stepping back on Mexican soil. She was waiting to board the plane that would send her to a Mexican prison, where her attire would be a brown uniform.
During her stay at the immigration Center, U.S. and Mexican authorities exchanged a series of emails regarding how to meet the personal requirements of Sandra Ávila Beltrán, La Reina del Pacifico. UNIVERSAL had access to that correspondence.
Sandra Avila arrived at the ICE protection center on August 14. After spending more than five years in Mexican prisons. A year earlier she had been extradited to the United States,.
She pleaded guilty to financially helping her boyfriend, Colombian Diego Espinoza Ramírez, El Tigre, one of the big drug traffickers who was arrested in 2009.
Her tour of US prisons began in July 2012, when she was transferred to a processing center in Louisiana, then to another in Miami, and, finally, to El Paso, Texas, her last, where she stayed for six days.
Sandra Ávila Beltrán, as any other inmate, was given facility appropriate clothes, from PRIM (procedure of repatriation to center)...but she demanded something else all together. She wanted skinny, tight jeans, a sweatshirt and a make-up kit.
So the emails began, Thomas Homan, Reginald Buck and Arturo Fierro, the three heads of the ICE sent the request to the FBI. Consulted emails read by UNIVERSAL show that agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation went to a Walmart and bought the Queen's requirements.
The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) in a correspondence to their San Antonio office writes that Sandra Avila Beltran hates to be left alone, and perhaps, is terrified at finding herself in that situation. An email that came out of the correspondence from PGR with the San Antonio Office, said she had beaten her head intentionally in order to be moved from an isolation cell to another cell in "General population", and one night, she asked for sleeping pills to sleep. Doctors evaluated her and decided that they would give them to her. They brought her two capsules purchased from a Walgreens pharmacy so she could finally relax. The next day she asked to speak to her lawyer. ICE authorities once again evaluated her request. They agreed that the staff would place calls under the condition that they would be recorded, with the exception of the calls to her lawyer.
During Sandra Avila Beltran's fleeting stay in El Paso's immigration processing center, reports show "the Queen of the Pacific" is not a woman content with just anything. As laid back as she has appeared in early videos since her arrest, she seemed to act more entitled than others in the El Paso facility. Among her requests, Avila Beltran demanded guards bring her better clothes, "something more comfortable to wear" and make up. Even after the repatriation program had already provided her customary clothes, "the Queen of the Pacific" was able to mobilize FBI agents to go to the closest Walmart and bring her a pair of tight skinny jeans, a white sweatshirt, a make up case with eyeliner and eyebrow accentuating pencils
Sandra was in El Paso prison "limbo" because she had served her formal sentence, and was waiting to be returned to her country. When extradited prisoners are deported, they pass through an ICE processing centre before stepping back on Mexican soil. She was waiting to board the plane that would send her to a Mexican prison, where her attire would be a brown uniform.
During her stay at the immigration Center, U.S. and Mexican authorities exchanged a series of emails regarding how to meet the personal requirements of Sandra Ávila Beltrán, La Reina del Pacifico. UNIVERSAL had access to that correspondence.
Sandra Avila arrived at the ICE protection center on August 14. After spending more than five years in Mexican prisons. A year earlier she had been extradited to the United States,.
She pleaded guilty to financially helping her boyfriend, Colombian Diego Espinoza Ramírez, El Tigre, one of the big drug traffickers who was arrested in 2009.
The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) in a correspondence to their San Antonio office writes that Sandra Avila Beltran hates to be left alone, and perhaps, is terrified at finding herself in that situation. An email that came out of the correspondence from PGR with the San Antonio Office, said she had beaten her head intentionally in order to be moved from an isolation cell to another cell in "General population", and one night, she asked for sleeping pills to sleep. Doctors evaluated her and decided that they would give them to her. They brought her two capsules purchased from a Walgreens pharmacy so she could finally relax. The next day she asked to speak to her lawyer. ICE authorities once again evaluated her request. They agreed that the staff would place calls under the condition that they would be recorded, with the exception of the calls to her lawyer.
