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'Heinous and violent': MS-13's appeal to girls grows as gang becomes 'Americanized
mysa ^ | May 7, 2018 | Michael E. Miller

Posted on 05/08/2018 8:00:09 AM PDT by bgill

Even amid a nationwide surge in MS-13 slayings, the 2017 killing stood out. Female victims are nothing new for MS-13, which is infamous in Central America for making young women choose between rape and execution. But in a gang as chauvinistic as it is fearsome, female killers are almost unheard of... Unlike their counterparts in Central America, some MS-13 cliques in the United States now allow female members, said Michael Prado, assistant special agent in charge of the Washington office of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "In that regard they are somewhat progressive," he said. "The [cliques] here are a little bit more, for lack of a better term, Americanized." In response, ICE has begun instructing its agents to scrutinize girls and young women as closely as males for MS-13 involvement, Prado said.

(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aliens; gangs; latinos; ms13
Oh, well, since they're progressive.
1 posted on 05/08/2018 8:00:09 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill
'Undocumented' Boy Scouts
2 posted on 05/08/2018 8:02:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: bgill

Well just Damn!

America is where we have girls in gangs accepted but girls in Scouts are considered badly


3 posted on 05/08/2018 8:02:16 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: bgill

Remove ALL illegal aliens.


4 posted on 05/08/2018 8:02:25 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BenLurkin

Scouting Wire

THOUSANDS OF GIRLS ARE JOINING CUB SCOUTS
April 24, 2018
Tatum and Ian W., 10-year-old twins who are both participating in Webelos, are looking to be among the first brother/sister duos to eventually earn the rank of Eagle Scout. It’s all possible thanks to Tatum’s recent participation in Pack 154, which is part of Daniel Webster Council in Durham, New Hampshire.

The pack began welcoming girls to Cub Scouts in January of this year as one of our early adopter units. Full Cub Scout registration options for girls will be available to all councils starting June 11, 2018, while a program for older youth has a scheduled February 2019 launch.

Tatum W., center, and her brother Ian, left, are shown at a recent Cub Scout meeting where they built wooden tool boxes. All photos: The Associated Press

In joining Cub Scouts, Tatum — who was recently featured with her brother in an article by The Associated Press highlighting the growing availability of Cub Scouts for girls — became one of thousands of girls who have already joined a pack.

The Associated Press article, which was syndicated broadly, shared further details on the early adopter packs.

With more than 3,000 girls already signed up and roughly two-thirds of BSA councils participating, the program has been a way to address the requests that had been pouring in from families.

BSA Director of Communications Effie Delimarkos shared with the Associated Press that the requests started back in October of 2017, immediately following the decision to open up the program.

“We heard from our families, ‘OK, you’ve made the decision, can you please give us a way to do this right now because we’ve got families and daughters that are just really excited about it,” Delimarkos told the AP.

Tatum’s family was just one example. Like many girls, Tatum had been participating alongside her brother at some of his Cub Scout activities for years, but she hadn’t been able to earn official recognition.

“I thought it would be pretty cool because I thought it would be a good opportunity to do with my brother,” she said. “There’s a lot of cool activities.”

From Ian’s perspective, the addition of his sister has only improved his Scouting experience. “I was a little skeptical because it was me and my dad’s thing,” he said. “But when Tatum got in it was even more fun.”

That sentiment is echoed by Tuck Pescosolido, a den leader in Durham, New Hampshire. He told the AP that the boys have welcomed the girls with enthusiasm. He said that some of the newest female Cub Scouts in his community are friends of the boys in the pack, and the boys had recommended Scouting to them.

To read more about the thousands of girls that are already joining Cub Scouts, be sure to read the Associated Press article. And to learn more about Tatum and Ian’s adventures in Scouting, check out a story on the duo on Scouting Newsroom.

To learn more about some of the details on welcoming girls into the Cub Scout program, check out the Bryan on Scouting article on that topic, as well as the Family Scouting page on scouting.org.


5 posted on 05/08/2018 8:07:57 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: bgill

More of the “Gorgeous Mosaic.”


6 posted on 05/08/2018 8:08:05 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: BenLurkin

Equal opportunity gangs and murderers and terrorists.

Just the type that liberals love.


7 posted on 05/08/2018 8:10:51 AM PDT by adorno
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To: bgill

Thank you Obama.


8 posted on 05/08/2018 8:15:28 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: bgill
"The [cliques] here are a little bit more, for lack of a better term, Americanized."

Has everyone in the press and government forgotten that MS-13 was and is of American origin?

From Wiki:

"MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha; also known as simply MS or Mara) is an international
criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, US in the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-13


9 posted on 05/08/2018 8:16:25 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals V<blockquote><oted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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The gang isn’t becoming Americanized... it is American. MS-13 was born here among the Salvadorean population, and has spread back to Central America.


10 posted on 05/08/2018 8:42:45 AM PDT by Katya
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To: bgill

The GOP establishment’s immigration enthusiasts like John McCain and the Bushes keep telling us about how the “conservative family values” of Central American invaders will redeem the US. This must be what they have in mind.


11 posted on 05/08/2018 9:42:00 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: bgill

Their future is grim then. They will end up either dead or in prison. Frankly I prefer dead so they don’t cost the taxpayers more money. It’s not like they can ever be reformed.


12 posted on 05/08/2018 9:50:58 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is a Malignant Moral Cancer on Society!)
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To: ek_hornbeck

OOH! BIG girls with tattoos! It’s warm in the winter, there’s shade in the summer and MOVING PICTURES all year around!..the late Lee Rodgers.


13 posted on 05/08/2018 9:51:23 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: bgill

Chauvinistic? Just plain “Evil” maybe a better term. Instead they give some PC flag term. Nonsense


14 posted on 05/08/2018 11:02:15 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: headstamp 2
Thank you Obama.

Don't forget to thank that globalist POS George W Bush too.

15 posted on 05/08/2018 11:21:43 AM PDT by jpsb
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