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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY

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From: Tadsamillionaire8/10/2007 6:39:46 PM
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Suspect rescued from pipe known to police, immigration

Denton: He's escaped formal deportation due to low level of offenses
DENTON – Pablo Martinez Hernandez had a lot of experience at evading the law before hiding in a drainpipe under Locust Street for nine hours, leaving police and firefighters above wondering if they were dealing with a criminal or a corpse.

Mr. Hernandez, who is thought to be 24, though he's given several birth dates, has been charged by Denton police with evading arrest or lying about his name or age six times in the past two years.

After city workers dug up the street to get him out of the pipe July 17, the 5-foot-4, 115-pound man said he wasn't stuck but was just waiting for everyone to leave so he could continue his escape.

Still behind bars in the Denton County Jail and facing a charge of evading arrest, Mr. Hernandez declined to comment for this story.

Mr. Hernandez has been in city jail 12 times since June 2005 and was transferred to the Denton County Jail seven times.

He's been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement three times. He's shown no proof that he is a legal U.S. resident, and Denton County law enforcement officials think he's an illegal immigrant.

Yet each time he was detained, he was soon returned to Denton streets.

ICE records show that Mr. Hernandez was "voluntarily returned" to Mexico on March 31, June 7 and Nov. 29 of last year, spokesman Carl Rusnok said.

The agency has no record of a request for a detainer on May 29, he said.
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