A common-sense answer please: If Honduras and Guatemala (and Mexico, for that matter) are ravaged by gangs, and we are allowing their young people to ignore our borders, ignore our immigration laws, and come into our country wholesale, won\’t members of those gangs be among them?
We both know the answer, don\’t we?
With that in mind, the following excerpt, from Katie Pavlich’s article at townhall.com, should be no surprise at all:
Aninternal Border Patrol executive summary obtained by Townhall confirms that at least 16 unaccompanied illegal minors (those under the age of 18, according to U.S. government policy), are members of the brutal El Salvadorian street gang Mara Salvatrucha—or MS-13.
Gang members left graffiti on the walls of the Nogales Border Patrol processing center, which suggested they had ties to the organization.
The FBI describes MS-13 activity as “perpetuating violence-from assaults to homicides, using firearms, machetes, or blunt objects-to intimidate rival gangs, law enforcement, and the general public. They often target middle and high school students for recruitment. And they form tenuous alliances…and sometimes vicious rivalries…with other criminal groups, depending on their needs at the time.”
Itwas reported earlier that these MS-13 gang members, some of whom have admitted to murder and torture in their home countries, are being held for placement inside the United States.
“But remember, this is a ‘humanitarian crisis.’ They are just kids,”a source working in the Nogales processing center said in frustrated and sarcastic tone. “They are MS-13 gang members. They’ve done everything from torture to murder. They act as teenage ‘enforcers.'”
It is bad enough we are re-infesting the country with scabies, lice, tuberculosis and who knows what else. But now – and, again, how could it possibly be a surprise to anyone – we are importing Central American gangs as well.
Is that why President Obama’s trip to Texas this week was planned entirely to raise money from rich Democrats (the ones we are supposed to believe do not exist because only Republicans are rich), and not to go near the border to see what his pronouncements suggesting there might be amnesty has resulted in?
Is he afraid someone from the media will ask him directly about this?
Is he afraid that, when he claims the problem is due to immigration legislation passed during the Bush administration, it will be pointed out that a) the legislation passed with wide bipartisan support including a large majority of Democrats, and b) in any event the number of Honduran and Guatemalan illegals was a tiny trickle for years afterwards, skyrocketing only after he implied there would be amnesty?
Or maybe he’s just afraid of the gangs – which I wouldn’t blame him for. But doesn’t that lead to the question of why it is OK to move illegals – gang members included – around the country, where ordinary citizens will have to suffer their consequences – probably mostly in Latino communities, which is logically where they would gravitate to?
It has been said that the southern border might turn out to be President Obama\’s “Katrina moment”. Personally, I think that moment has already come. On steroids.
