It was reported early Thursday morning that hundreds of illegal aliens have been arrested
because of a federal crackdown on the violent Latino gang known as "MS-13."
Sixteen of the 214 arrests in the United States were are of U.S. citizens.
Five were legal immigrants.
The update comes several months after President Donald Trump gave a speech in Long Island
which meant to detail the administration's plan to crack down on MS-13, also known as
Mara Salvatrucha.
Speaking in a town where MS-13 has launched attacks, Trump, rightly so, linked the gang
violence to soft immigration enforcement of the past presidential administrations.
The "MS" in MS-13 stands for Mara Salvatrucha.
The now-international criminal gang which of course originated in Los Angeles, California
in the 1980s because of the weak immigration policies of that liberal state and it's
citizens who as a whole support open borders with no limit or control whatsoever.
The group later spread to other countries, including Canada, Mexico, and Central America.
They later turned to gun running, drug-smuggling, and human trafficking, MS-13 activities have
contributed to making Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras some of the most violent places
in the world that are not going through a war.
U.S. factions often recruit new members from these countries, making their gangs even more
dangerous.
And because of our open borders policies of the last 20 years, there has been nothing
standing in their way stopping them from growing their numbers.
Breitbart Reports:
Almost one-third of 214 U.S.-based MS-13 gang members arrested in an international sweep
were invited into the United States by President Barack Obama's "Unaccompanied Alien Children"
policy.
The successful "Raging Bull' sweep was announced by Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) Deputy Director Tom Homan in a joint press conference at ICE headquarters in Washington,
D.C. on Thursday.
The operation is a "significant step towards dismantling and eradicating MS-13 in the United
States and in El Salvador," said Deputy Assistant Attorney General David Rybicki,
the second-ranking official at DOJ's Criminal Division.
El Salvador police also arrested 53 gang members in El Salvador.
Sixteen of the 214 arrestees in the United States are U.S. citizens.
Five were legal immigrants.
Ninety-three of 214 arrestees are charged with federal or state criminal offenses and
will face prison time in the United States, said Derek Benner, the deputy executive associate
director of the Homeland Security Investigations division.
The group of 214 include 193 illegal aliens, including 121 arrestees who will be deported
but will not face criminal charges.
Sixty-four of the 193 illegals – nearly one in three – are would-be "dreamers"
because they illegally crossed the border while claiming to be minors.
Their unscreened claims to be children — not adults — won them the legal status of "Unaccompanied
Alien Children," which allowed them to claim federal aid and be released into the United
States.
The status was provided by Obama's administration, which was seeking ways to welcome migrants
from Central America into the United States.
That invite spiraled out of control, resulting in a huge wave of migrants in 2014, which
helped Donald Trump get elected.
"Definitely some UACs end up being bad people and enter the country to do bad things,"
said Homan, who is serving as acting ICE director and was nominated on Tuesday by Trump to head
the agency.
"That's why we asked for several policy changes in [the requests] we sent to the Hill."
Criminal charges against the 214 gang-members include racketeering and conspiracy to commit
murder in the furtherance of racketeering.
According to Rybicki, an entire eight-man MS-13 "clique" (a local division of a
gang) was arrested in the operation.
This "Sailors Clique" operated in suburban Maryland, a hotspot of MS-13 activity, and
has been linked to at least three murders.
U.S. Border Patrol Deputy Chief Scott Luck explained that the operation worked with El
Salvadoran intelligence agencies to identify people with links to MS-13.
The gang was created in Los Angeles during the 1980s because the U..S government failed
to enforce immigration laws, which allowed El Salvador youths to sneak into the United
States.
Without economic skills in California's diverse society, they formed their own national
gang — and then recreated that gang in their own homeland once the illegal immigrants were
repatriated home.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Francis Cissna explained
that his agency's work to identify illegal aliens with gang affiliations was vital to
Raging Bull's success.
USCIS had one of its Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS)agents at the Raging
Bull command center full time to work to that effect.
"That individual reviewed asylum claims for MS-13 members targeted by the operation
and assisted in assembling target packages for the immigration and/or criminal court
proceedings of these gang members arrested during the operation," Cissna said.
As Attorney General Jeff Sessions bemoaned in October, gang members and other unworthy
illegal aliens often use the United States's generous asylum policies to tie up their cases
in administrative proceedings, often needing only a "credible claim" of persecution
in their home country to avoid deportation for years.
"FDNS also notified ICE HSI regarding asylum applicants with strong ties to MS-13 or other
significant gang indicators," Cissna continued.
"Our headquarters FDNS officers search USCIS systems for information regarding 195 targeted
MS-13 members and associates identified by the operation for additional vetting."
Operation Raging Bull carries on a series of nationwide and international efforts against
the brutal gang.
In July, Attorney General Sessions went to El Salvador to announce nearly 600 arrests
in that country.
Earlier in the summer, ICE's "Operation Matador" netted dozens of arrests in the
United States.
El Salvador police also arrested 53 gang members in el Salvador.
President Donald Trump has warned of the dangers surrounding MS-13 from day one.
He has justly gone as far as to say MS-13 doesn't just shoot people because it's
too fast and painless, they cut them up into little pieces because they enjoy watching
them suffer.
In a way, this makes them worse than Al Queda.
The fact that should bother all us American Citizens the most is that our politicians,
on both sides of the political aisle, want this for our nation.
It's come to a point where either you are with the American people, or you're with
the gang members.
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