Illegal immigration is a concern for many Americans.
And the Trump administration has made it there mission to stamp it out as much as possible
and crackdown on criminals.
One story that recently surfaced in the conservative media is something that everyone should be
worried about.
During a sting operation to try and reign in a plethora of illegal aliens, over 475
gang members were arrested by law enforcement agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE).
65 were released by an American immigration judge while merely four were actually maintained
on arrest for criminal charges.
A recent report indicates that 99 MS-13 gang members who came to the United States illegally
were unaccompanied minors.
Sadly, over 64 of them, the majority, were granted the status of Special Immigrant Juvenile.
This special designation is a quasi-amnesty program for those who crossed the America-Mexican
border illegally.
Breitbart News reported,
"Nearly 100 recently arrested MS-13 gang members arrived in the United States by crossing
through the U.S.-Mexico border as "unaccompanied minors" and then getting resettled throughout
the country by the federal government.
About 475 gang members have been arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agency's "Operation Matador" sting, with 99 of those gang members arrested having
arrived in the U.S. as "unaccompanied minors."
Of the 99 MS-13 gang members who entered the country as unaccompanied minors, 64 of them
were granted Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJ), which acts as a quasi-amnesty program
for young illegal aliens who cross the southern border.
Of the 475 gang members arrested by ICE in this operation, 65 of them had been allowed
to be released into the U.S. by an immigration judge, while four were re-arrested on criminal
charges after they were released.
Unaccompanied minors who cross the southern border have continued to be resettled across
the U.S. despite a direct correlation of the quasi-amnesty program — known as the Unaccompanied
Minor Childrens (UAC) program — with the proliferation of the MS-13 gang in regions
of the country like Nassau County and Suffolk County in New York.
Under President Trump's administration, the UAC program has continued.
For example, in Fiscal Year 2018 thus far, nearly 200 unaccompanied minors have been
resettled in Suffolk County, along with almost 280 in Queens County, and more than 115 in
Nassau County, despite the regions' issues with the MS-13 gang.
Miami-Dade County also struggling with a massive illegal alien population, has had to take
in nearly 400 unaccompanied minors thus far in Fiscal Year 2018, as well as Palm Beach
County, which has had more than 33o unaccompanied minors resettled in the region."
This large sting operation is not the only one that has taken place that led to the arrest
of MS-13 members.
In Maryland, six members of the street gang were seen before a federal grand jury.
All of the perpetrators were aged 19 to 22 and a part of a nine-count indictment.
Their crimes ranged from murder, racketeering, to conspiracy.
The Baltimore Sun reported, "The latest indictments come roughly two
weeks after an MS-13 member from another Maryland community was convicted in a federal racketeering
conspiracy.
Raul Ernesto Landaverde Giron of Silver Spring was found guilty of murder in aid of racketeering
and faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
Following that conviction, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Maryland has "suffered
terribly" because of the "uniquely barbaric" gang's criminal activities.
In charges announced Thursday, Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez, 20, is accused of luring
a victim to a park in Annapolis, where he and other alleged MS-13 members and associates
murdered him.
Prosecutors believe the March 2016 killing was motivated by a desire to enhance or maintain
rank within the gang or gain status as a member.
In October 2016, four defendants allegedly attempted to murder two others in Annapolis,
largely by stabbing the victims repeatedly.
Last year, Sessions designated MS-13 as a "priority" for the Department of Justice's
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
That designation directs prosecutors to pursue all legal avenues to target the gang and lets
local police agencies tap into federal money to help pay for gang-related investigations."
MS-13, or the Mara Salvatrucha, is believed by federal prosecutors to have thousands of
members nationwide, primarily immigrants from Central America.
It emerged in the 1980s from a stronghold in Los Angeles.
But its true rise began after members were deported back to El Salvador in the 1990s.
President Donald Trump blames lax U.S. immigration laws for allowing deported members to return
to the U.S.
Federal authorities say the danger posed by the decades-old street gang has been increasing.
During a December stop in Baltimore, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen described
MS-13 as a "threat to our homeland security.""
Immigration remains a hot-button issue.
While conservatives argue that we need to toughen up on border security liberals have
argued we need to be more generous with children who were brought to the United States illegally
by their parents when they did not have a choice.
The rise in gang violence by gangs such as MS-13 that are run by illegal immigrants has
pushed this controversial debate to the forefront of news outlets all across the nation further
dividing people.
Share if you agree that American citizens should not have to live their lives in fear
from streets gangs like MS-13
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