Posted on 08/18/2014 6:32:09 AM PDT by xzins
MS-13 Known for their identifying tattoos and violent mottos like “Mata, roba, viola, controla” (“Kill, steal, rape, control”), members of MS-13 are known for executing their victims with machetes and blunt objects like baseball bats.
(CNSNews.com) - Reports show thousands of unaccompanied illegal alien minors, some of them identified as obvious gang members by U.S. Border Patrol agents, have been transferred to several of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, including Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York City, Houston and the Washington, D.C. area – cities that all rank among the top strongholds of the Latin American gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
A 2008 report by the Congressional Research Service lists several major U.S. cities as having some of the heaviest MS-13 presence in the nation. These cities include Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area in Northern Virginia, Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, Baltimore and Nashville.
Since October of last year, more than 57,000 unaccompanied minors have flooded across the Southwest U.S. border illegally, with most of them having come from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, all countries with strong ties to MS-13 and various other Latin American gangs and drug operations.
While they wait to have their cases heard by an immigration judge, most of these children are sent by the Department of Health and Human Services to be housed at temporary shelters, which are primarily run by non-profit groups and religious organizations.
U.S. Border Patrol officers repeatedly have said that many of these illegal alien minors are members of gangs like MS-13, coming into the United States with easily-identified gang tattoos, but they are treated as innocent minors because of regulations in federal law.
Shawn Moran, the vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, told Fox News that members of MS-13 have crossed the Southwest U.S. border as part of the most recent surge, and are now using Red Cross phones at federal detention facilities to coordinate gang activity.
“At the Nogales processing center in Nogales, Arizona, the Red Cross has set up a bank of phones so that unaccompanied juveniles can call family members back home or even in the U.S., and these phones are being utilized by gang members to recruit, to enlist, to pressure people and other juveniles into joining the MS-13 gang,” Moran said. “And the problem is we are unable to isolate these people because they are juveniles. Our hands are tied.”
Albert Spratte, a border patrol agent and union representative representing the Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, said some of them may not even be minors, but Border Patrol has to process them as minors if they claim to be under 18.
“We’ve had older adults posing as teens,” Spratte told CNSNews.com during a trip to the border in June.
“I’ll be standing there like, ‘I know you’re not 17, you look older than that,’” he explained. “But without documentation, I can’t prove that. I have to treat that person as a minor.”
Because of the sheer number of illegal aliens crossing the border daily, many unaccompanied minors are being transferred to shelters in other parts of the country before being placed with sponsors at their final destination. A map published by NumbersUSA.com. identifies the cities where shelters have been set up, which include at least half of the top MS-13 strongholds in the nation.
These cities include parts of Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., where a 2008 assessment by the Virginia Department of Police classified MS-13 as “the major gang threat to Northern Virginia and a major concern for the Commonwealth as a whole.”
In July, the federal government placed a group of unaccompanied minors in Prince William County in Northern Virginia amid local government and citizen protests, CNSNews.com reported.
That same month, the federal government also transferred a group of minors to Chicago, which is also home to members of MS-13. At the time of the transfer, the city’s Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel, praised Chicago as a “city of big hearts” that will “do [its] part to ensure that these children are given access to services and treated fairly and humanely.”
The Baltimore Sun reported religious organizations in Baltimore and other areas in Maryland have been encouraged by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) to open their doors to groups of illegal alien children until they can be placed with sponsors, which is usually a family member already in the United States.
Unaccompanied children have also been sent to Houston, Los Angeles and New York City to be housed and have their cases heard by immigration judges.
While the federal government insists these unaccompanied minors housed in shelters will not be released into the local community, a report by the Office of Refugee Resettlement shows the states where most of the children are being placed with sponsors for the long term. These states include Virginia, Maryland, New York, California and Texas - the same states with the highest MS-13 activity.
Between January 1 and July 7 of this year, Health and Human Services reports it has placed 3,347 children with sponsors in New York and 3,150 children with sponsors in California. Another 2,205 were transferred to Maryland, while 4,280 have been resettled in Texas and 2,234 have landed in Virginia.
Altogether, the 15,216 children placed in these five states represent about half of the roughly 30,000 unaccompanied minors that HHS has placed so far this year.
MS-13 is one of the more recognized and wide-spread Latin American gangs with a reported membership of about 30,000 worldwide. Known for their identifying tattoos and violent mottos like “Mata, roba, viola, controla” (“Kill, steal, rape, control”), members of MS-13 are known for executing their victims with machetes and blunt objects like baseball bats.
A threat assessment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2008 estimated that at the time MS-13 had as many as 10,000 members in the United States. While the report placed the gang’s overall threat to the United States at “medium,” the level was elevated to “high” in areas where MS-13 had a strong foothold.
The FBI also classified most MS-13 crimes as “exceedingly violent,” and included everything from “drug distribution, murder, rape, prostitution, robbery, home invasions, immigration offenses, kidnapping, carjackings/auto thefts, and vandalism.”
“While most of the violence is directed toward other MS-13 members or rival street gangs, innocent citizens often get caught in the crossfire,” the report stated.
A youngster needs to be among friends, don’t you know...
Well, duh.
The human traffickers are using the U.S. Gov’t to facilitate their trade in sex slaves. They push a kid up north of the border, the kid goes through Border Patrol processing, and a “family member” with no ID and no proof of relation is waiting to take that kid to where he/she will be used as a sex slave.
And everyone knows it is happening. Our government is facilitating the transportation of hundreds if not thousands of sex slaves. Even the South American media is reporting on it, although the media north of the border are much more interested in covering the BS indictment of Governor Perry.
And everybody, including conservatives, is focused on a local issue cop/perp shooting in a St Louis neighborhood.
I'm glad they're helping Obama energize his base. It's always refreshing to watch conservatives carry water for Barack Hussein Obama.
Well who here did not know that was going to happen? I am just glad I am up in close to the middle of no where.
Yep. The neighbors I’ve been hoping for.
/sarc
I’m in Midwestern rural nowhere, but if I were younger I’d think hard about moving to your part of nowhere.
REFUGEE UNACCOMPANIED "MINORS" HERE FOR A BETTER LIFE?
OR CENTRAL AMERICA CHILD CRIMINALS HERE TO WREAK HAVOC?
Adolescents, teens and pre-teens are prevalent in Third
Worlds as armed members of violent gangs and drug cartels.
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Warning--graphic descriptions--read only to get informed: GATEWAYPUNDIT.COM---a sadistic 12-year-old boy nicknamed El Ponchis is said to have been working as a paid executioner and gunman for drug cartels. And a second child hitman is now being hunted by police according to the attorney general of central Morelos state, Mexico.
It was reported that the 12-year old "El Ponchis" – The Cloak – tortured and murdered dozens of enemies of his cocaine cartel.
His trademark involves cutting victims’ throats so violently that their heads are left hanging by a thread....and cutting off their genitals. He is said to work with his sisters, who help with body disposal.
Grisly internet videos show the 12-year old boasting that his gang is paid £1,900 per murder by drug barons whose gangland wars kill 50 people a DAY. According to the cartel members the 12-year-old boy was the ‘bloodiest hitman’ in the group.....and worked with his sisters.
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REFERENCE Violent transnational gangs 'recruiting unaccompanied minors at Border Security facilities'
Daily Mail UK ^ | July 27, 2014 | Daily Mail / FR Posted by COUNTrecount
Members of some of the United States' most notorious street gangs have infiltrated shelters housing illegal immigrant minors from Central America and are recruiting them, say Homeland Security sources. An estimated 57,000 minors from Central America have flooded across the border from Mexico to the U.S. in recent months, and gang leaders are reportedly filling their ranks from among them.
Transnational gangs such as the Mara Salvatruca, also known as MS-13, and the 18th Street gang are using established juvenile members from Central America to cross the border and recruit other children to the cartels, say sources. Recruiting drive:
There are reports that gangs are trying to recruit young immigrants from Border Protection facilities where they're being held According to Fox News, Border Control agents have witnessed gang members using a Red Cross phone bank at the facility at Nogales, Arizona, to 'recruit, enlist and pressure' other minors into crossing the border. Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Control Patrol Council, a union which represents border agents, says agents have witnessed the recruiting process.
The Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said earlier this week that they have no knowledge or evidence that gangs are recruiting immigrant minors. (Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Eye-opening exchanges on this topic at the recent House Judiciary hearing on immigration.
<><> Patriot Cong Randy Forbes said Americans need to know if violent gang members are walking their streets. Forbes asked UCIS--a DHS agency--headed by Obama appointee Leon Rodrigues---whether the agency asked applicants about gang membership---and when they invariably reply no, how does the agency know whether it's true or not?
The calculated Rodriguez would not reveal information---Forbes insisted on knowing "do you even ask them if they're gang members."
<><> Even more interesting was watching brilliant Cong Louie Gohmert (Rep-Tx) set the trap for the oily Rodriguez.
Former judge Gohmert's brilliant circumlocution was awesome. He nailed the mealy-mouth Rodrigues to the wall.
CONG GOHMERT: WRT drug cartels paid $6000 to "guide" the hordes over the border---"Would you, as a former prosecutor, call them criminals?," he nonchalantly asked Gonzales.
The smirking Rodrigues stepped headlong into the trap as Cong Gohmert casually hoisted him on his own petard.....making the point that if the hordes were coming here to escape drug cartels, why is it they consort w/ the criminals, and pay the violent breed to get over the border?
Had a friend sing in church yesterday who had just come back from a work stint in your neck of the woods. Said he was switching to Texas until winter was over. (Construction worker/carpenter) Even us Midwesterners don’t want the real cold, so you know that Hondurans and Mexicans aren’t gonna love it too much. LOL.
Well color me shocked, and golly gee. This couldn’t have been orchestrated better if there had been ‘special Obama ambassadors’ in San Salvador, Managua, Tegucigalpa, and Guatamala City, looking for youth covered in MS-13 tats, telling them about the free train ride through Mexico, and all the goodies awaiting them in the U.S.A., and then handing them a wad of cash for the trip.
Lets import more feral animals.
Giving guns to the gangs in Mexico to blame the U.S. plan went FUBAR, so why not bring the gangs and all the associated violence here? Plan B, IMO.
Evidently Apple Country in NC has gotten a bus load or some influx of illegals, although we are chock full anyway most of the time in that county.... most have relatives and families here who live 10-25 to a house during apple picking season, or used to.....our crime rate is up there with NYC in places, and concentrated in that area.
The area where this happened is 20-25 miles south of where I live. The Walmart parking lots in that area at night give a picture of what is going on down there.
Anyway, after the doctors office this AM, I had to stop at a fast food place for coffee...the sign on the door as I started in had a sign, and it is also a convenience store/gas. The sign said:
“WE WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT MONEY KEPT IN YOUR BRA, SOCKS, OR UNDERGARMENTS!”
I started laughing because we know the border found lice and all kinds of issues when they entered country from Mexico....and I can just imagine what transpired at the counter to make that sign appear on the door.
Just building Obama’s civilian army.
“Child” abuse...plain and simple. International child trafficing. Someone call DFS. Call the UN Human Rights Committee!!!!!!!!
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