At one time, violent crimes attributed to Mexican and Central American gangs were largely confined to Los Angeles. However, just as illegal aliens have spread across this country, so too has a veritable crime wave. We are now experiencing the early stages of the most violent gang epidemic we have ever seen.
While L.A. may be ground zero for Latino gangs such as MS-13, other cities are being victimized as well, and not only by MS-13 and not only in large cities.
In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.
The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade, that is where a lot of these immigrants go."
MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.
During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.
In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.
One of the most disturbing examples of organized gang activity took place on January 3, 2008, in Fort Worth, Texas. Police arrested several members of the Latino gang known as Varrio Central for forcing young girls into prostitution. Some of the girls being victimized were as young as 12 years old.
Diego Rodriguez, 19, and Martin Reyes, 17, were charged with aggravated kidnapping, trafficking of a person, and engaging in organized criminal activity. The names of three minors arrested were not released.
Varrio Central members would typically befriend the girls, get them high, and then take them to their regular customers. They would also drive them through apartment complexes, approaching men with the offer of sex with a teen-aged or pre-teen girl for a fee of $50.
According to Fort Worth Police, if a girl refused to comply, gang members would beat and sexually assault her and threaten her family with violence.
Fort Worth Police Lt. Ken Dean told the Associated Press: “The age of the victims and suspects is the surprising part of it. To have such young individuals in a somewhat organized business, a forced prostitution ring, is somewhat alarming and such a horrendous crime against the 12 to 16 year old girls.”
As I stated earlier, Latin American gang activity is no longer isolated to large cities. A look at one relatively small city reveals the severity of the problem.
According to 2007 U.S. Census Bureau statistics, the city of Porterville located in central California has a population of 51,467. While reporting a rather modest population, Porterville police report the existence of no less than 23 active gangs in the city.
The known gangs in Porterville, CA are as follows:
-Brown Pride Surenos
-Barrio Sur Trece
-Court Street Locos
-Mexican Gang Bangers
-North Side Varrio Boys
-Tierras-Terra Bella
-Tiny Maltido Surenos
-Varrio Central Poros
-Wicked Ass Surenos
-Young Mexican Gang Bangers
-Barrio “H” street
-Big Time Locos
-North Side Varrio Youngsters
-Sultra 14
-Varrio Campo Linnel
-West Side Poros
-Catela Norte
-East Side Poros
-East Side Varrio
-Sureno Life Style
-Richgrove Varrio Trece
The U.S. Justice Department now believes that many gangs never before associated with traditional Mexican gangs are now distributing drugs on behalf of Mexican drug cartels. These gangs include the Bloods, Crips, and even many Asian and white supremacist gangs.
The National Drug Intelligence Center recently reported that Mexican gangs now have drug distribution operations in North Carolina as well as Georgia to support drug sales along the East Coast.
In addition to the sale of illegal drugs, prostitution, assault, rape, and robbery, Latin American gangs are now apparently acting as paid assassins, with the target being U.S. law enforcement.
In 2007, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reported that they had obtained a confidential Department of Homeland Security memo. The function of the document was to issue an Officer Safety alert to U.S. Border Patrol agents that human smugglers were bringing MS-13 gang members into the country for the sole purpose of murdering the agents.
The alert reads: “Unidentified Mexican alien smugglers are angry about the increased security along the U.S./Mexican border and have agreed that the best way to deal with U.S. Border Patrol agents is to hire a group of contract killers.”
A Border Patrol agent speaking on the condition of anonymity said: “It’s not just people coming over here to pick lettuce. These gang members, criminals, are endangering American lives.” He went on: “Our vests won’t stop a rifle bullet, and many of us feel like sitting ducks.”
A few facts concerning the impact of illegal immigration on crime in this country:
-In 1995, a California Department of Justice study concluded that the 18th Street Gang works directly with the Mexican Mafia, and commits a robbery or an assault every day in Los Angeles alone.
-Two-thirds of fugitive felony warrants issued in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
-95 percent of warrants issued for murder in L.A. are for illegal aliens.
-83 percent of warrants issued for murder in Phoenix, AZ are for illegal aliens.
-86 percent of warrants issued for murder in Albuquerque, NM are for illegal aliens.
-53 percent of burglaries in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Texas are committed by illegal aliens.
-According to police, there are at least 53,000 Latino gang members in Los Angeles (that is the equivalent of three Airborne divisions).
-Mexican drug cartels produce 80 percent of the methamphetamine sold on U.S. streets.
-In 2007 alone, U.S. Customs agents confiscated over 2,000 lbs of methamphetamine at the six official border crossing stations in California.
Latin American gangs are just another reason to vigorously defend our all-too porous border. If our government does not soon become serious about border enforcement, we can expect our nation's streets to run red with blood, like those of Juarez.
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don't ya just love all that diversity that our govt keeps shoving down our throats? they keep telling us how great it is to bend over backwards and accept all them other cultures but the reality is you do so at the expense of your own!
I have been looking for the United States of America for the last 20 years and so far I am not able to locate it. Can anyone assist me locating the mythical land of the free and home of the brave? I hear these folks would never have allowed a treasonous congress to give their land away. I understand also they would have destroyed these gangs in short order. Does anyone know how to get there?
Go to www.numbersusa.com and join the millions of Americans who are fighting against illegal immigration. We are demanding a moratorium. At this website you will be able to view and send petitions via fax for free to your elected officials.
Back in the good old days we had what was called a welcome wagon. A family moves in the territory and the welcome wagon took them baskets of food and etc to welcome them to that area. Here is the problem, people now do not take the time to even consider who is moving in their area, much less fix up a little basket and go welcome them to the area. Find out who is moving in!! Your neighborhood watch is very vital now. The days we are living in are dangerous. These gangs are violent and they are out to destroy any good left this nation. Stay alert!
These outlaws need to be cleaned up permenantly and with such precision that they never return again. Lawmen, just open fire on sight. After all, that's what they've been ordered to do to you.
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the solution is easy. concerned citizens who are anti-gang pick up Juan for being in a gang, instead of taking Juan to jail or to the police Juan gets taken to a field where he is terminated. a few days later all the gang bangers are asking where Juan is. The next day, Juan's gang banging buddy Paco is picked up by the concerned citizens, he is taken to the same spot where he views the body of Juan. He looks up and is terminated. So the list goes until there is a pile of bodies and only a few gang bangers left. after a few dozen or so, the concerned citizens take a gang banger to the field and let him go with the warning made clear. IF they stay they die. Funny how it works. The cops aren't going to do anything because they are around to generate money for the locality by passing out tickets. IF the cops really mattered or cared they would be arresting the gang members for ANY reason they could think of, but then all you have is a jail full of gang members who get out and kill
Just another sign of the worthless state of the U.S. There is absolutely no reason we shouldn't be taking these gangsters off the street with any means necessary!
Why aren't these human excrement treated as *TERRORIST* and either killed outright or sent to Guantanamo...
They terrorize and murder American citizens, so whats the problem...we are having bigger problems with these scum than we are taliban in our neighborhoods..
Wolfgang
As having been in America before with not much legal status, i have to say that Salvadorean gangs, that are the first ones operating inside america, got finance by extorsion, preying on mexican workers who couldn´t call the police because they were illegal and had to carry all their money in their pockets because they couldn´t open a banking account. As can be seen, solving the illegal problem is a way to deal with gangs, not necessarily an amnesty, but a way they can work legally since american employers know of their status and hire them anyways (i was there and saw it clearly).
I think your reporting of this information is careless, reckless and wrong. If you do have readers that are somehow associated with some of these "gang members" - whether your information is accurate or not - you are only encouraging more violence and emboldening them to take on more violence because of the reporting you're doing here - nothing more. Not to mention you are also potenially scaring other people into reckless self defense in the presence of a latino AND enciting race crimes and profiling. you should really use better judgement in your reporting.
Nothing will change until we realize and deal with the fact that the criminals in the Federal Government run things. They are the ones who enact 'laws' which protect the criminals, tie the hands of decent peace officers and they encourage crime to proceed. In Canada we are not permitted to defend ourselves from criminals who break into our homes. How did that happen? Corrupt government enacted a brilliant new 'firearms act' that favor the criminal. However, patriotic Canadians follow the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and it DOES permit a persons right to defend themselves via the right to keep and bear arms. So criminals reading this, beware.
Maybe this is one of the reasons citizens should join a militia.
Politicians should get their passports in order. They're going to need them -- soon.
being the feds and law enforcement either cannot or will not do their job,when will the law biding pick up the slack ?
instead of worrying about toyota's bs,the senate should be conducting hearings on EXACTLY WHY ALL EXISTING LAWS on immigration ARE NO LONGER ENFORCED. these laws OBVIOUSLY WORKED.
wake up America.
How sad that nobody studies history anymore. This country was built by European immigrants. Especially Irish, German and Italian decent. Have any of you read about their vicious gangs back in the day? They make the MS-13 gang look like boy scouts!History repeats itself. It just a new face and a new ethnicity. Life will go on in the US. Just a new face and different culture.
You wish to eliminate criminal gangs, you must first elect politicos who are noble men and women who will never stand for immoral or amoral conduct. Otherwise, gang crime will continue because the politicos are weak and egregiously self-serving; for example, legislators are peremitting illegal human infestation to inundate the U.S. bringing their mongrel way of life with them. As for me, I am well-armed and if I determine that my family or friends are in dange, I will not hesitate to use my weapons or contact those who are in the business of protection to "solve" the problem the corupt politicos and their stooooodge policia are too cowardly to do any thing about.
The sad fact is that democrates want all illegals as voters. Dems want all illegals to be legal. Legal gangbangers that is!
Simple answer:gang member?illegal alien?immediate execution!!
Problemo solved !!No corrupt lawyers or judges needed.
Interesting to see the media spend thousands of hours talking about a handful of "terrorists" when our streets are being overrun by gangs.
Some responses to various posts:
HYPOCRITES -- Exaggeration is as dangerous as ignorance. AK47's, machetes, granades, and other automatic weaponry, as well as the immensely high numbers of members, -- not to mention the widespread violence and criminal / drug related activities are FAR HIGHER in proportion and degree of social impact than ANYTHING the Mafia, (or other ethnic groupings in the 19th & 20th Centuries), effected.
31337 -- While "vigilantism" is tempting, AND somewhat effective, one need only review it's effect in San Salvador, as well as Cambodia & Somalia to properly asses it's ACTUAL results...horrors beyond imagination & (BTW), it was justsucha plan that origninallyn spawned the MS13.
"Attackthecause..." -- Corporate & business greed, coupled with Political corruption ARE THE CAUSE, and yes! They SHOULD be the focus of the attack...but, at the same time, establishing stringent immigration RULES and APPLYING them is the balance needed.
Bobbie Jo -- GOOD WORK!
Now, as to that "Mythical Land of Shagra La", nestled idylically within the glorious ranges of Bravery and the fields of freedom, let me simply encourage YOU FM Skinner to BE a CITIZEN of that wonderous Land, and soon more will gather around your dream & passion, and will assist you greatly in expanding your vision.
In truth, my friends, the time is rapidly approaching in which you will be forced, by events, or people, to TAKE YOUR STAND and rid this Nation of the vermin destroying it! So, begin today, by LEARNING all you can of what you'll NEED to know, in order to rebuild and rekindle our "GREAT EXPERIMENT".
Beyond a shadow of doubt, what we are experiencing today is the REASON for the inclusion of the 2nd Amendment into the Constitution -- the "FOUNDERS" KNEW that, one day, we would NEED to protect ourselves FROM our own Govt.
Put aside your "creature comfort" cultural training and begin to rebuild the Land of the FREE, by deeds of the BRAVE!
One more thought: DAVE & KIM -- GOOD POINTS!
But, Kim, be SURE to "vet" ANY Militia you might be interested in. Hate, prejudice, immaturity, lack of discipline, and enjoyment of violence, are NOT PROFESSIONAL, whereas the "Militias" referred to in the 2nd Amendment WERE PROFESSIONALS.
While not FULL TIME soldiers, the EFFECTIVE Militias WERE HIGHLY trained, and WHOLEY focused, and GREATLY disciplined.
Also, keep in mind these two truths:
#1] Blood, sweat & tears ON the PRACTICE FIELD, avoids blood, death & tears on the BATTLEFIELD"! And,
#2] Ignorance IS the mother of stupidity, and pride, it's father".
Find a TEAM that is led by a knowledgeable & experienced Warrior, or forgo the experience, as lack of TACTICAL EXPERIENCE is guaranteed to fail! And, WHEN your Militia goes into action, you will DIE...if you fail!
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Deportation is a good tool to use in the war against gangs. The more that are deported to latin america, the caribbean, and asia, the better. It takes them off the street. In the old days, criminals were afraid of cops and were afraid to cross the line. Then the 90's came along and the media, liberals, and lawyers became obsessed with the treatment of criminals and made the cops afraid of every little move they made and getting sued or having an idiotic reporter harrass him for being tough with a criminal. The cops became the ones afraid of criminals and not the other way around.
And the only reason vietnamese and asian gangs aren't being targeted more is the media doesn't cover them like they do black and hispanic gangs. Once more attention is paid to them, they'll run away and self-deport.
The only way to get rid of crime is the old fashioned way - but a moden means. Use to - criminals were hanged by the neck - today - a simple shot to the head should do the trick.
Illegal Mexicans are nothing more than a welfare Hog - such as a Cock-Roach, which has invaded your home. As a matter of personal opinion: I honestly feel the only way to create a free American once again is to hunt down every Mexican in the United States - regardless if they were born here or not - and then proceed to line them up against the wall and cut them down where they stand: ELIMINATE THE MEXICAN COCK-ROACH INVADER - BE DONE WITH THIS CHAPTER once and for all....
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