World · Latin America · 5 hrs ago
California has become a birthplace and refuge for cartel families
In 2011, Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, entered the United States while pregnant.
She gave birth to their twin daughters at a hospital in Lancaster, California.
The girls’ birth certificates left their father’s name blank.
Children born in the United States receive U.S. citizenship, which can make it easier for families to seek refuge if they face danger.
Former DEA official Mike Vigil says cartel figures also choose California because they know the area and its hospitals offer advanced care.
Other children of cartel leaders have also been born or lived in California, including sons of Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
The story describes this pattern but gives no next steps or policy changes.
Emma Coronel Aispuro entered the United States in 2011 while pregnant with twin daughters she planned to deliver in California.
The daughters of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán were born at a hospital in Lancaster on August 15, 2011.
The article says partners of Mexican cartel bosses choose U.S. hospitals for medical care and to secure U.S. citizenship for their children.
California has been a birthplace or home for children of leaders from the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
- Who
- Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, and their twin daughters.
- What
- Coronel entered the United States to give birth to the twins in California.
- When
- August 15, 2011. Coronel arrived at the Calexico checkpoint in July 2011.
- Where
- Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, California.
- Why
- The article says cartel partners seek advanced medical care and U.S. citizenship for their children.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Some have operated in California, they know the territory, they have contacts there and that’s why they send their wives to have the children in that state, where, furthermore, there are better doctors.
For many of them it is a badge of honor for their children to have U.S. citizenship, and they get it very easily: by being born in the United States,
Emma Coronel Aispuro married Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Coronel arrived at the Calexico checkpoint while eight months pregnant and was allowed into the United States after a secondary inspection.
Coronel’s twin daughters were born at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, one minute apart.
- Checkpoint
- Calexico, on the Mexico–California border
- Hospital
- Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster
- Birth date
- August 15, 2011
- Twin birth times
- 3:50 p.m. and 3:51 p.m.
- Children
- Emaly Guadalupe and María Joaquina Guzmán Coronel
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