I was listening to Trump talking about how MS13 like to cut people so they die more slowly and painfully. So, people are terrified of this gang and their cruel (ISIS) like methods of killing people slowly so they suffer more.
However, his stance on Sanctuary cities only strengthens this gangs stance 10 times or more because the way he is going after Sanctuary cities. "Illegal aliens" have NO MOTIVATION whatsoever to report MS13 activities or else they could be deported away from their families here in the U.S.
So, Trump is a fool not to realize that he is doing his country a terrible disservice by being against Sanctuary cities. You cannot do both and get rid of MS 13. So, he is making the gang 10 times or more stronger through his present stance and making more and more people die horribly and terribly by knives throughout the U.S., Mexico and Central America. So, just expect to see this gang grow now in leaps and bounds until he changes his stance. This is a danger to all Americans! And to everyone in north, south and central America!
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MS-13 members:
Trump makes the
gang stronger
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/28/us/ms-13-gang-long-island-trump/index.html
MS-13 members: Trump makes the gang stronger
On Long Island, some fear crackdown on immigrants is emboldening violent street gang
Updated 7:34 AM ET, Fri July 28, 2017
Long Island, New York (CNN)The
first time members of the MS-13 street gang attacked Margarita's
teenage son in suburban New York, they beat him with a baseball bat.
The
young man had immigrated from El Salvador three months earlier to join
his mother in Nassau County, Long Island. The gang had harassed him in
El Salvador because he refused to join them. Now, in his new home, they
were upping the stakes.
The
second time, they attacked the 19-year-old as he was on his way to
work. They slashed him in the stomach with a machete, the gang's weapon
of choice. He survived and has been in hiding for the last few weeks,
but his mother is terrified.
"I
think it's worse (in the US) because over there they hadn't tried to
kill him. But here they have," said the woman, who is undocumented and
asked to be called only "Margarita" for her safety. She witnessed the
first attack on her son, on the street outside their home, and says
she's too afraid to go to the police for fear of deportation.
The
violent gang known as Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, originated decades
ago among Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles and has since built a
criminal network that extends across the US, with thriving pockets in
the Washington, D.C. suburbs and here on Long Island, just an hour or so
east of New York City. It's estimated to have 10,000 members
nationwide.
President
Trump has vowed to wipe them out and will visit Long Island Friday to
discuss his plans. But the FBI says the gang is growing.
Investigators
comb woods where the mutilated bodies of four young men were discovered
in late April in Central Islip. Authorities believe MS-13 was behind
the killings.
And
several people familiar with MS-13, including two gang members
themselves, told CNN they think Trump's crackdown on immigrants is
actually making MS-13 stronger because witnesses are more reluctant to
come forward for fear of being deported.
"It's
not like before, where ... they (the gang) were more hidden," said
Margarita, adding that a decade after fleeing violence in El Salvador
she has never felt more afraid. "People can get deported, so they don't
call the police. So they (MS-13) feel more free."
"I
think it's emboldening them, because this gives them the opportunity to
tell immigrants, 'What are you gonna do? Are you going to report us?
They're deporting other innocent people ... (so) they're going to
associate you with us by you coming forward,'" said Walter Barrientos,
Long Island coordinator with Make the Road, an immigrant advocacy group.
"'So what are you going to do? Who's going to protect you?' And that's what really strikes many of us."
But a senior Trump administration official disputed that thinking.
"The
reality is that we are removing MS-13 and other criminal gang members
in very large numbers, and they are hurting," the official said.
"As
far as reporting crime is concerned, the biggest impediment as I said
earlier, is sanctuary cities, where ... illegal immigrant gang members
are released from a prison or jail and then we have to go searching for
them at great costs ... and at great personal risk to the officers.
"If
you want to be looking at strategies that need to change and change
right away, sanctuary cities would be at the top of that list."
'We're targeting you'
While
MS-13 has had a presence in the U.S. for decades, the level of violence
and activity has risen considerably in the last two years, according to
the FBI. And in recent months here, authorities say the gang has been
on a killing spree.
In the last two
years, the FBI says MS-13 has committed more than 20 slayings on Long
Island, drawing national attention to the gang's growing presence.
Last
September, two teenage girls from Brentwood were beaten to death in a
case that put Nassau and Suffolk counties on the map as an epicenter of
MS-13 activity.
In
April, the bodies of four young men, ages 16 to 20, were discovered in a
park in Central Islip. They were beaten with wooden clubs and their bodies were butchered with machetes. Video of the mutilated bodies was sent to a girlfriend of one of the victims.
Soon
after Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited Central Islip and vowed
publicly to combat MS-13. "We are targeting you, we are coming after
you," he said.
Law enforcement efforts appear to be bearing fruit. Thirteen suspected members of MS-13 were indicted in March
on murder charges related to seven killings on Long Island over the
past three years -- including those of the Brentwood teens. And last
week, federal prosecutors brought a new 59-count indictment that includes charges against four suspects in the brutal April slayings.
"MS-13
is our number-one priority on Long Island because much of what they do
and how they behave boils down to violence for violence sake," said
William F. Sweeney, Jr., head of the FBI's New York field office, last
week.
"The drugs they're accused
of selling (are) almost an excuse to retaliate and attack rivals, or
others who cross them," Sweeney added. "The idea that human life means
nothing to these gang members should shock the conscience, and we cannot
allow this type of thinking to take hold in our youth."
The
gang mostly targets Central American immigrants, many who came to the
US seeking refuge from gang violence back home in El Salvador, Guatemala
and Honduras only to find themselves in danger again.
"We're
seeing that they're targeting some of the most recently arrived youths
who are coming into families who are in transition with their
immigration status. Young people who don't know a lot of people in the
community, and who are easily targeted and scared," said Barrientos of
Make the Road.
Evelyn
Rodriguez, mother of Kayla Cuevas, 16, who was brutally slain last year
-- allegedly by members of MS-13 -- weeps outside a courthouse in
Central Islip in March.
Since 2014, thousands of unaccompanied minors have arrived on Long Island, many of them fleeing gang violence in Central America.
"They
come here, largely without conventional family, whoever their sponsor
may be, maybe a family member, maybe someone they don't even know," said
Det. Sergeant Michael Morino, commanding officer of the Nassau County
Police Department's gang investigation squad.
"They
go to a school district not speaking the language and they're in a new
country so they are very vulnerable and these gangs preach protection,"
Morino said. "And that's a powerful recruitment tool."
'I felt safe with them'
David and Alex are just 16 and 17, but they have already been MS-13 gang members for three years.
The
two, who don't want their real names used out of fear for their safety,
live in Hempstead, New York, where they recently agreed to meet late at
night for an interview.
David, who
was born in the US to parents from El Salvador and Mexico, said he had
no choice but to join MS-13 when he was 13. By age 9, he'd already seen
someone get shot.
"I started
growing up in that type of neighborhood. I didn't really get love from
my family. Where I grew up, they (MS-13) were there, almost all of
them," he said. "They seemed like really nice people. They were there
for me through tough times."
"I had
friends that were in gangs so I started talking with them and they
started telling me how it would be if I joined, how they would have my
back and everything. I felt safe with them," agreed Alex, who was born
in Honduras and joined the gang at 14. "If you're not MS-13, you're the
target. You know, if you can't beat them, join them. That's what they
want."
A
memorial candle lies in the grass near where the bodies of four young
men were discovered on April 28 in Central Islip. They were beaten with
wooden clubs and slashed with machetes.
During their initiation into the gang, the teens each were beaten by three gang members for 13 seconds.
"It's
kind of a lesson when you join the gang to see if you're man enough to
take the beating," David said. "You want to show them you're not afraid
of anything. They're trying to see if you're really man enough to join,
man enough to take the beating."
The two teens don't have scars or gang tattoos yet.
"You
have to earn them," David said. "They're called battle scars, for the
work you put in for the gang, and the beatings, stabbings, and shootings
you're taking for them ... those are like trophies when it comes to
gangs."
Both say they see the futility of gang life and would like to leave the lifestyle behind. But it's not easy.
"At
one point I felt like, damn, why am I in this? Is that what I'm going
for? Taking somebody's loved one and hurting them? What if they took
somebody from me?" Alex said. "You're not a real man if you're risking
your life and risking your family to impress the streets. That's what I
want everybody to know," he added. "Impressing the streets isn't going
to get you nowhere, honestly."
As for young people who might be thinking about joining MS-13, Alex has a message: Don't.
"You're
going to try to leave, you're not going to be able to," he said. "Don't
join ... because I know you're going to regret it.
"They're everywhere. You could move anywhere you want. They'll find you."
The Trump effect
It's
not clear what Trump will say when he speaks in Suffolk County on
Friday. But the President has already been talking about the gang for
months, reiterating his promise to arrest and deport them.
"Vicious
and disgusting and horrible MS-13 gang members ... we're getting them
out," he said in June. "They've gotten rid of 6,000 so far. We're about
50 percent there. And we're actually liberating towns, like on Long
Island, where I grew up."
But others, citing ICE deportation figures, have disputed Trump's estimates.
As
of late June, ICE data showed 2,798 suspected gang members had been
deported so far this fiscal year, which began in October. That figure
includes all gangs, not just MS-13.
Trump
has adopted a more aggressive stance towards undocumented immigrants.
Between late January and late April, his administration arrested an
average of 108 undocumented immigrants a day with no criminal record, an increase of about 150% from the same period a year ago.
But
Barrientos of Make the Road believes that such increasing immigration
enforcement action makes undocumented immigrants more fearful of arrest
and deportation, which only helps MS-13.
US
Attorney Robert Capers, left, flanked by members of the FBI and Nassau
and Suffolk County Police, speaks at a news conference in March. They
announced the indictment of suspects in seven gang-related slayings.
"This
situation is actually putting people who are very vulnerable in a more
precarious situation because then they remain at the mercy of gangs," he
said.
Police in Nassau County
say immigrants and victims of MS-13, such as Margarita and her son,
should still feel safe coming forward.
"I
can say without any doubt ... we never, never ask any (immigration)
status and we don't care, on victims and witnesses," said Detective Sgt.
Michael Morino of Nassau County Police's gang investigation squad.
But the Nassau County District Attorney's office said calls to their Immigrant Affairs Tips Hotline are way down in 2017.
"Because
immigrants are scared to call law enforcement, crimes are going
unreported, victims are not getting justice, criminals are going
unpunished and we are all less safe," says Silvia Finkelstein, the
office's director of immigrant affairs.
David and Alex don't disagree.
"They
[MS-13] feel like they can do whatever they want, 'cause Trump himself
has made everybody fear," Alex said. "He's helping them."
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