García Cabeza de Vaca points out political persecution for migratory alert against him

Néstor Jiménez, Roberto Garduño, César Arellano and the editorial team

Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, October 6, 2022, p. 9

The National Migration Institute (INM) reported that, as a measure after the arrest warrant against Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, former governor of Tamaulipas, issued by a district judge for his probable involvement in criminal acts of organized crimeissued a migration alert at the request of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).

In a statement, he said that the action is directed against Francis Xavier N. and detailed that with it he seeks verify, register and inform the respective authorities about the entry-exit movements of the aforementioned person through the international transit points.

A couple of hours later, the former governor emanating from the National Action Party (PAN) published a tweet in which he became aware of the actions: I found out through a statement from the Government of an alleged arrest warrant and immigration alert against me. I am not surprised by this new broadside in political persecution. The government needs distractors. My defense will provide the pertinent information. Stop chasing opponents.

Presumption of innocence

The Ruiz Durán law firm, in charge of the legal defense of the PAN member, argued that the alert issued by the INM presents unduly the situation of his client, since it violates the principle of presumption of innocence that the Constitution grants to the accused in order to guarantee that a fair trial is carried out against him.

These rights are of no use when the State itself publicly exposes someone as being responsible for a crime, when there is clear and sufficient evidence that demonstrates their innocence.noted the office.

Meanwhile, the PAN group in the Senate supported the former governor in what he considered a vile attack and political persecution against him by this authoritarian government.

In a statement, the senators of the blue and white assured that there is “use of the institutions to fulfill vendettas instead of seeking justice” and demanded to stop the judicialization of politics.

After in 2021, at the request of the FGR, the Congress of the Union endorsed a process of impeachment of the then acting governor, the Tamaulipas presented appeals that took the case to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

Last August, the Court invalidated the arrest warrant issued for the alleged crimes of operations with resources of illicit origin and organized crime, since it considered that the local Congress did not approve the removal of his immunity.

The lawyers of the Tamaulipas detailed that the FGR requested the cancellation of the arrest warrant on September 28, without all the corresponding judicial instances having been notified until this dateand in case you have requested a new order, it should have been requested based on facts and biased and incomplete test data, in an unfair and partial manner.

They considered that they will demonstrate the TRUE of the facts and the full innocence of his client will be declared.