Mexican Gang Members Using Arizona as Corridor

KOLD 13 News Tucson (CBS) ^ | May 9, 2005

[Travis McGee]

PHOENIX, Ariz. Federal authorities say members of a violent Mexican gang are using the Arizona border as a corridor to the country.

In the past year, Border Patrol agents have arrested about ten members of Mara Salvatrucha -- a notorious international street gang in Mexico.

Yet according to federal and local law enforcement officials, the gang members don't appear to stay in the state.

The gang is commonly known as M-S-13 and has been linked to murders from Honduras to Los Angeles to Virginia.

Original Mara Salvatrucha members were guerrilla fighters who fled the Salvadoran civil war in the 1980s.

Police gang unit supervisor Paul Ferrero says Phoenix is not a fertile ground for M-S-13 members because of other active Mexican-American gangs and the relatively small population of Central Americans here.

[Travis McGee]

[Mulder]

They are just coming here to do the jobs that Americans won't do.

[ConservativeLawyer]

BTTT

[Travis McGee]

"Guest criminals," killing the Americans other Americans won't kill.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Original Mara Salvatrucha members were guerrilla fighters who fled the Salvadoran civil war in the 1980s.

AKA commies. The leftist political element of the Mara Salvatrucha's history gets conveniently forgotten by the press.

[Travis McGee]

Our commie symp MSM presstitutes will never mention that part.

[in the Arena]

BTTT

[Pelham]

bump

[Migraine]

Where is Paul Kersey (C. Bronson) when you need him? Oh, for a long range sniper shot at some of these bastards.

[umgud]

If we had no illegal immigrant problem, 9-11 events would still demand we secure our borders, but we do. The hundreds of thousands of illegal entrants is simply proof we've not take security threats seriously.

[Travis McGee]

That many cross every month or two. Millions cross a year. Millions.

[Walkenfree]

Travis, I love your wit. Thank you for sharing; Always look forward to what you might post, to brighten our darkened world. Thank You!

[Travis McGee]

If we didn't laugh, we'd have to cry. Actually, I do weep for the ruined legacy we are handing to our children.

[Adrastus]

All I have to say is, "Helluva job there, Al. No wonder you're a lawyer."

AAARRGHH!!!

Sorry I just puked on my keyboard.

[gubamyster]

ping

[conshack]

If we had no illegal immigrant problem, 9-11 events would still demand we secure our borders, but we do. The hundreds of thousands of illegal entrants is simply proof we've not take security threats seriously.

Our open border is fine, but don't you dare bring your Bic or Cricket disposable lighter to the airport with you. That will endanger our security. What a joke.

[Luke]

This is just dandy!!! I'm driving my family to Phoenix next July. I'll be sure to put my Detonics CombatMaster next to my King James Version.

[Dan from Michigan]

I didn't know MS-13 was now in Mexico too.

And what doesn't get mentioned is Hezbollah terrorists crossing the border. One of them got convicted in March up in Dearborn. He came in through Nogales.

[rdcorso]

The president doesn't worry about these people crossing our border because he knows they're only coming here to work hard.There's plenty of work in America for an experienced machete wielder who has a face covered with tattoos.

[Stormcrow]

"I'll be sure to put my Detonics CombatMaster next to my King James Version."

Add a good quality belt knife, a spare magazine or two and you're good to go.

[HiTech RedNeck]

To murder the people that Americans won't.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The surveillance state will continue along as the National ID--er, Real ID act is passed into law. We'll now have a National ID card (Federally-standardized Drivers License), but the terrorists will keep a-comin' across the border.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The president doesn't worry about these people crossing our border because he knows they're only coming here to work hard.There's plenty of work in America for an experienced machete wielder who has a face covered with tattoos.

He can do population control at the L.A. County Jail.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

It sickens me to think I will leave America a cess pool for my grand children.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Petition to secure our borders:

http://www.reformus.org

[csvset]

President Bush and the Congress Critters are busy fiddling while the country burns.

[usa1776]

"Today, criminal aliens account for over 29 percent of prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities and a higher share of all federal prison inmates." from an article here Also saw in the paper today that the fed govt is giving $47 million to Texas to compensate hospitals for care for illegal aliens. There also that 911 issue. Crime, bankrupt health care system, terrorist threats. Is it really worth the costs and risks just to import a few diseases? It appears that the Wash DC (Dems and GOP) crowd is doing more than just fiddling, they are pouring gas on the flames.

[dennisw]

Far as I know, that tattooed POS is not Mexican. He is a Guatemalan gang member. M-13. "Mara Salvatrucha"

[Route101]

Headline should read..."Mexican Gang Members coming here to distribute drugs".....

[tame]

Alberto Gonzales: ...we are doing the best we can.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I could smell MS-13 from the headline.

[Americanexpat]

Hezbollah - in Michigan?

That's the first I heard of that, you would think that would be all over the papers and TV. Then again I am not all that surprised.

[backhoe]

Crosslinking:

For "Thunder on the Border," click this picture:

[azhenfud]

Actually my views aren't liberal. They are more to being sanity to an immigration system that has been out of whack for 40 years.

No, they're "undocumented pharmaceutical distributors".

[azhenfud]

Please disregard that misquote - I have no idea how that happened.

[JarheadFromFlorida]

(liberal whiney voice) But, but, but, they are just coming here to join the gangs that nobody else wants to join.

[JarheadFromFlorida]

[[No, they're "undocumented pharmaceutical distributors".]]

Hey, I like that one :)

[junta]

At another site that we are not allowed to post from they have a picture of a guy called the "raft man" who paddles aliens across the Rio Grande, so I guess we are being invaded by the Mexican equivalent of the SEALS as well.

[shellshocked]

MS-13 is here in Colorado. The rapes/prostitution of mentally disabled girls is a problem.

[Luke]

Thanks, Stormcrow. I'm sure that I've one or two packed away in all my Y2K supplies.

[Travis McGee]

Amen.

[Travis McGee]

Well, they are only expendable middle class American peons who are being raped and murdered by Presidente Arbusto's guest criminals. What's important is dirt cheap illegal alien slave labor for his pals' businesses.

[KC_Conspirator]

Um, MS-13 is a Salvadoran gang.

This just makes the rest of the article look like freshman grade work.

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Be Ever Vigilant!

Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!

[janetgreen]

Where is Paul Kersey (C. Bronson) when you need him?

I was thinking the same thing.

[monkeywrench]

Originally, yes. But a google search turned up this,

"'MS-13 is the only U.S. gang with a broad international reach. They recruit kids in middle school and we are seeing not only people from Central America joining their ranks. We are also seeing Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans and even white kids getting involved,' said Jared Lewis, director of 'Know Gangs,' who runs courses for police departments on how to recognize and combat gang activity."

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Our commie symp MSM presstitutes will never mention that part.

You're right about that, but fortunately, the MSM has less and less power to set the agenda.

I am strongly against all illegal immigration, but IMHO the Mara Salvatrucha is an issue apart here. We need to begin treating them as a terrorist organization, because the fact is, they are.

[KC_Conspirator]

I live in DC. They are everywhere. All you have to do is just go to the mall. Every single one of them should be deported.

[shellshocked]

"MS-13 is a Salvadoran gang. "

Not any more.