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MS-13 in Your Backyard(George Putnam Opines)
NewsMax.com ^ | Friday, Aug. 19, 2005 | George Putnam
Posted on 08/19/2005 4:17:19 PM PDT by kellynla
It is this reporter's opinion that while the nation focuses on terrorism, we have all but overlooked the issue of gang violence. Over the past fifty years in Los Angeles we have covered many of the homegrown gangs: the White Fence gang, Boyle Heights gang, the Bloods and the Crips, and others.
These were child's play compared with America's most dangerous gang: the Mara Salvatrucha 13 street gang (MS-13).
The gang was organized in Los Angeles in the late '80s and was named for La Mara, a street in San Salvador. Its primary purpose was to defend Salvadoran immigrants from being preyed upon by other L.A. street gangs. Gang members sometimes wear blue and white – colors taken from the flag of El Salvador. They also sport numerous body and facial tattoos.
MS-13 has expanded from California to Alaska, Oregon, Utah, Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma ... from New York to Los Angeles and Alaska to Florida. MS-13 has also been exported back to Central America. It is estimated there are 36,000 MS-13 members in Honduras alone.
They are vicious, they are violent, they murder, rob, rape and behead their victims.
MS-13 appears to be in control of much of the Mexican border. To sustain themselves financially, they smuggle people, drugs and guns across borders. They collect money from illegals. Where MS-13 goes, violence goes. They stop at nothing.
MS-13 is becoming everyone's problem. It is a plague that has come to Long Island from El Salvador by way of the streets of Los Angeles.
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-Thunder on the Border-- (Minuteman Project)--
have links for terrorism in general, and gangs in particular.
Besides MS-13, note SUR-13.