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One could, I suppose, regard this as one of those unforeseen incremental consequences that happens in the darkest shadows of society. But that doesn't extend to Newark's official status as an illegal-immigrant "sanctuary city." Like Los Angeles, New York and untold others, Newark has formally erased the distinction between U.S. citizens and the armies of the undocumented. This is the active collusion by multiple cities and states in the subversion of U.S. sovereignty. In Newark, N.J., it means an illegal-immigrant child rapist is free to murder on a Saturday night. In Somerville, Mass., it means two deaf girls are raped...

CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN STATE DEPARTMENT AND ICE LEADS TO NEW JERSEY GANG ARREST Salvadorian Gang Member Now Behind Bars NEWARK, N.J. -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New Jersey have arrested a 19-year-old member of the notorious Salvadorian 18th Street Gang. Dennis Amilcar Terezon-Zepeda was captured this week in Newark. The arrest of Terezon-Zepeda highlights the close cooperation between the United States Department of State and ICE. Last summer in El Salvador Terezon-Zepeda applied for an immigrant visa to enter the United States, but was denied by the State Department due to his gang affiliation. The State...

America's Most Dangerous Gang Spreading from El Salvador to L.A. and across the United States, Mara Salvatrucha 13 is increasingly well organized and deadly. Within one hour, two people were found murdered miles apart in suburban Nassau County, N.Y. After an intensive investigation, police officials learned the murders were the work of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha 13. It also soon became apparent the gang was sending a bold message to its members and associates. That message: “If you are not loyal, you are dead.” But there was another message in the brutal slayings for the people of Long...

ICE National Gang Enforcement Report October 11 - October 24 The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is pleased to announce a major milestone with the arrest of more than 1,500 gang members since Operation Community Shield was launched in February, 2005. We mark this milestone with the latest five arrests taking place in Denver, CO; Charleston, SC; Kansas City, MO; and Wichita, KS. OVERVIEW ICE launched Operation Community Shield in February 2005 to confront the national problem of violent street gangs. The goals of the initiative are to disrupt, dismantle, and prosecute violent street gangs...

TUCSON - A Mexican national with an extensive criminal history in the United States, who said he is a member of a Mexican gang, was taken into custody Sunday by agents from the U.S. Border Patrol's Naco Station. Arrested was Eulogio Soriano-Vasquez, 30, who was apprehended after crawling under the border fence west of Naco. He was taken into custody with a small group of illegal immigrants who tried to enter the United States around 6 a.m. During his processing, it was discovered Soriano had been arrested for the possession and sale of cocaine in Palm Beach, Fla., in March...

America's Most Dangerous Gangby Shelly Feuer Domash Spreading from El Salvador to L.A. and across the United States, Mara Salvatrucha 13 is increasingly well organized and deadly. Within one hour, two people were found murdered miles apart in suburban Nassau County, N.Y. After an intensive investigation, police officials learned the murders were the work of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha 13. It also soon became apparent the gang was sending a bold message to its members and associates. That message: “If you are not loyal, you are dead.” But there was another message in the brutal slayings for the...