Posted on 04/05/2008 9:57:57 AM PDT by fishhound
The suburbs of the US are no longer the same as those immortalised in 1950s movies, with white families living in big houses and the father driving off to work in his Buick, past manicured lawns. These days, it is more likely that English will not even be the first language you hear on the streets.
In Langley Park, Maryland, the kiosks sell Spanish-language newspapers; the supermarket shelves are stocked with tortillas and assorted black beans.
Mexican music plays in the background while the tannoy blares out announcements in Spanish.
Outside, groups of men hang out on the street corners and their Spanish is accented - Nicaraguan, Honduran and, most often, Salvadoran.
They wait, hoping to be picked up for a day's labouring in the houses and gardens of Washington DC's middle class.
But among the hard-working families lurks a darker shadow. Violent crime
Vicious street gangs, committed to violence, have spread throughout the Americas and are now a significant threat in the US.
We visited Maria Hernandez in her apartment in Langley Park.
She welcomed us through her battered front door, which had been smashed by police in a dawn raid.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Thanks to being guests of Jorge’s, they’re already our neighbors.
The reporter claims that “US deportation policy added to the problem, with the result that the gangs have become ever more organised and powerful.”
The reason for that, however, is the “revolving door” effect. Gang members are expelled, train new members in their home countries, and then come back.
In other words, the problem is not deportation, but a sievelike border that lets expelled criminals return any time they like.
Build the fence. Enforce the laws.
ping
If we were invaded and taken over by a foreign army, the transformation could not be more complete. And far too many people just don't care.
“She welcomed us through her battered front door, which had been smashed by police in a dawn raid” Are our police supposed to knock when they know something is wrong? We tie their hands and then complain.......amazing.
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Considering how scummy Langley Park used to be in 1980s...
Years ago, our nations police got rid of the Chicago Purple Gang and the Los Angeles White Fence Gang. White Fence has since returned. The police can get rid of the gangs if they want to and if we want them to........all depends on what the people want and how bad they want it.
What about the Wall Street gang like Bear Stearns which is driven into bankruptcy by corrupt executives and then receieves a 30 billion dollar transfer from the taxpayers?
The problem being how can citizens organize to start expelling the invaders? Our own government will arrest us and leave the aliens alone. I guess there is too much money at stake????
Langley Park is in Prince Georges County just east of DC. This whole area near Langley Park has been a high crime area for a while. PG County is run by incompetent, liberal Democrats who have screwed up the area for some time now.
Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe
MS13 bump. Just claiming the drug and carjacking turf that Americans can’t hold.
If you think diversity is your strength, then, you’re flat stupid.
Crime doesn't pay the city budget, law abiding citizens do.
No such thing happened. Bear Stears got brought down by bad, not corrupt management, AND, NO taxpayer money has been actually spent. Loan guarantees are not free taxpayer money. In fact, the taxpayer will earn 6% interest on the 30B from JP Morgan.
It is a Politically Correct dodge to forcing the Left’s socialist agenda on me and stifling dissent. They are an intolerant lot.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420911/posts
America’s Most Dangerous Gang
In other words, M13 in the US began around the time of the last illegal alien amnesty.
Our governments response? Lets do it again!
Why don’t they call it suburbia?
THIS is what our government has brought us. A pox on all of them.
bump for great truth tellin’!
they've been our neighbors a lot longer than they've been Jorge's guests... this did not just happen in the last decade...
They are loosers. The true most dangerous are IBM and Exxon.
Now, now you can’t have diversity without it being bolstered by really broad multi-culturalism supported by government funds...you know better than that. /S
That is a great point.
I remember when they had an operative at the DMV who would give them the confidential addresses of police officers. One attorney was fired from the AGs office for her contacts with the MM.
I recommend the 2007 book Mexican Mafia.
And law abiding citizens pay the salary of all of them.
We put food on thier tables.
In a private comapny they would be fired.
Thanks
sorry company.
my typing stinks.
It's usually further out, more than an hours drive from downtown.
There's a walled community of 30,000 residents somewhere in Brazil that has 1,200 full time armed private security guards and all non-residents are searched coming and going from the 'compound.'
“n other words, M13 in the US began around the time of the last illegal alien amnesty.
Our governments response? Lets do it again! “
Typical....sad, but typical.
My apologies in advance if you were being facetious.
Thanks.
and anyone who thinks that by just enforcing the immigration laws and eliminating the “bennies”, the illegals will “self-deport”, the last F.B.I. report I read regarding MS-13 stated that MS-13 had spread to 42 states and expanding...and MS-13 is “hiring” and it doesn’t care if you’re “legal” and they don’t speak English.
Deport all illegals including the incarcerated!
(After we build fences on BOTH borders)
America is dangerous. I’m afraid to go there.
Target rich environment.
I am soooooooooo sick of illegals and the crime and disease and destruction they bring. America is close to an explosion, and it isn’t going to be pretty.
From my perspective? The most ‘dangerous gang’ in America is the Gang of 535.......it’s time to sweep both rooms clean.
The street gangs are urban terrorists.
Al-Quaida is a terriorist group.
Deal with them the same way.
Beyond that, half the people on THIS so-called "conservative" forum will call you a racist if you speak out on the problem of illegals in this country.
Our governments response? Lets do it again!
Don't forget that Great Conservative Icon Ronald Reagan did it to us the first time. And guess what? The results DO NOT MATTER to so-called "Conservatives" who will still call upon the ghost of RR as though that justifies this situation.
a) that the effect such an amnesty would have on the nation was very much a matter of theory then - it is not now. and
b) RWR & the GOP had strict enforcement measures in the original Simpson Mazolli bill which were immediately removed or ignored after passage.
The point is there is absolutely NO excuse for passage of similar legislation today.
Here in NH, spray painted walls are becoming normal. Ten years ago this rarely happened.
My guess is that this is the result of “the growing diversity of our state’s population” (code talk for illegals).
In Sanctuary LA it’s not even a revolving door. Two weeks ago an illegal gangster got out of county jail for the fourth time, released to the street without the LASO contacting HS. The next day he shot a HS football star named Shaw, after Shaw responded to him by saying he was not in a gang. The mayor and sheriff are culpable for this murder as accomplices.
Yes, it seems as if the quickest way to get out of jail without any penalty is to have no ID papers and say you are an illegal.
That also seems to be the quickest and cheapest way to attend college or get medical treatment at a hospital.
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