MS-13 GANGS: IMMIGRATION’S THIRD WORLD MOMENTUM
By Frosty Wooldridge
April 14, 2005
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty49.htm
“They come to do the jobs American’s won’t do,” President Bush explains. “They come for a better life.”
According to Newsweek, March 28, 2005, over 10,000 MS-13 gang members illegally crossed our borders looking for a better life, too. Now operating in 33 states, ‘The Most Dangerous Gang in America’ illustrates how illegal aliens cross our borders looking for a better life while they make ours a living nightmare.
While playing soccer, a 12 year old kid is shot dead by MS-13 members in Reno, Nevada. In Somerville, Massachusetts, two gang members rape two teen girls in Foss Park. Both are deaf--one is in a wheelchair. In Fairfax, Virginia in May of 2004, MS-13 gang members give chase to a 16 year old and hacked him up with machetes. The victim suffered loss of four fingers. A man named Ebert Rivera is arrested February 10, 2005 in Falfurrias, Texas. His crime? Rivera led six gunmen who opened fire on a bus in Honduras--killing 28 people. In Long Island, New York, police find gang members shot in the head and stabbed to death.
Machetes on Main Street America are the theme of Mara Salvatrucha MS-13 gangs now operating in dozens of US cities. We’re not talking Disneyland. ‘Mara’ means ‘posse’ and Salvatruchas means ‘street tough Salvadorans’. The number ‘13’ is a gang number associated with Southern California. “They kill cops, distribute drugs like candy machines, extort businesses and concoct drive-by killings as standard operating procedure. “We’re not dealing with Boy Scouts or bums,” Tony Saca said. “We’re dealing with true assassins and rapists.”
Oscar Bonilla, director of the National Council for Public Security, “The gang is highly organized and disciplined…with vertical commands.”
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t President Bush supposed to protect Americans from enemies both foreign and domestic? Didn’t he swear to uphold the Constitution, specifically, Article IV, Section 4? Would 10,000 armed and deadly alien nationals constitute a domestic enemy from a foreign land?
“They come here for a better life,” Bush repeats. “They do the work Americans won’t do.”
That work includes murdering and spreading drugs from California to Maine. It means raping unsuspecting and unprotected women from coast to coast. It means 10,000 gang members put any of us at risk. It means the aforementioned reports may have our names on a future newspaper article when the gang jumps from 10,000 to 20,000 members.
With Bush’s wide open borders, when does the gang recruitment stop?
“Flush with new recruits from Central America, MS-13 members set up cliques in remote places like Boise, Idaho and Omaha, Nebraska,” Newsweek reporter Arian Campo-Flores wrote.
“Everything gets bastardized as it leaves the center,” said Wes McBride, president of California Gang Investigators Association. “While machete attacks might occur on the East Coast, they’re rare on the West Coast. While car thefts and drugs might be big in North Carolina, gang-on-gang violence predominates in Virginia.”
Because Bush aids, abets and encourages illegal alien migration--the Russian Mafia operates in NYC, 18th Street Gang with 20,000 illegal alien members in Los Angeles, Chinese Mafia in New York, Hispanic Bloods and Crips in Los Angeles, and now, we suffer a crime invasion from El Salvador.
How many imported criminals from around the world? Newsweek reported 700,000 gang members operate in America. The MS-13 gangs are considered the fastest growing and most violent. It’s called Third World Momentum.
Those gangs bring drugs, lawlessness and fear to our cities. They bring other consequences, too. Who are the victims of drugs? Our children! Who pays for the 29 percent of illegal alien criminals in our Federal and State prisons at an annual cost of $1.6 billion? What are the costs of rehab for drugs to American families? Who answers to the rape victims?
This begs questions. Is George W. Bush competent to fulfill his job as president of the United States? Does he understand the depth of the violence against the American people in this national crisis? Would he walk down the streets of Los Angeles as a private citizen? Does he understand his complicity in this gang invasion? How can he pretend to protect America when he knows 10,000 illegal aliens cross nightly? Who is responsible for National Park Ranger Kris Eggle’s death? Who is responsible for Officer David Marsh’s death? Who is responsible for the eight rapes of eight innocent women in Boulder, Colorado a year ago? Or, the New York jogger woman who was raped by illegals and killed a year ago? With over 500,000 illegal aliens in our prisons and illegals flying over our borders at three million annually, is Bush competent?
With 10,000 Mara Salvatrucha gang members operating in America on Bush’s watch, you decide.
Write for that 28-point action letter to stop this nation-destroying madness. For you West Coast night owls, every Thursday you can catch yours truly in Las Vegas, Nevada on Mark Edwards’ "Wake Up America" talk show on 50,000watt KDWN-Am-720 10:00 PM to midnight PT, or on the worldwide internet at www.wakeupamericafoundation.com On the home page, click on www.americanvoiceradio.com heard around the world. Five nights a week, Edwards engages patriots from across the nation to bring you the latest on this nation-destroying invasion. If you are affected by illegal aliens, please write 600 to 800 words for national publication. Your name will remain private.
© 2005 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved
Frosty's new book "Immigration's Unarmed Invasion"
Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents in the past 26 years.
He has written hundreds of articles (regularly) for 17 national and 2 international magazines. He has had hundreds of editorials published in top national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.
His first book, "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" by Falcon Press is available nationwide. His second book "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE" by the Brookfield Reader published in January 2002. His bicycle books include "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD."
His latest book. ‘IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION—DEADLY CONSEQUENCES.’
Frosty Wooldridge has guest lectured at Cornell University, teaching creative writing workshops, magazine writing at Michigan State University, and has presented environmental science lectures at the University of Colorado, University of Denver and Regis University. He also lectures on "Religion and Ethics" at Front Range College in Colorado.
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CLICK: America's Most Dangerous Gang
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America's Most Dangerous Gang
by Shelly Feuer Domash
Spreading from El Salvador to L.A. and across the United States, Mara Salvatrucha 13 is increasingly well organized and deadly.
Within one hour, two people were found murdered miles apart in suburban Nassau County, N.Y. After an intensive investigation, police officials learned the murders were the work of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha 13. It also soon became apparent the gang was sending a bold message to its members and associates. That message: “If you are not loyal, you are dead.”
But there was another message in the brutal slayings for the people of Long Island. And that message was that gang violence had moved into the upper middle class enclaves of the Island, into the kinds of communities where the locals assume that crime is somebody else’s problem.
Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) is unfortunately becoming everybody’s problem. This plague that came to Long Island from El Salvador by way of the streets of Los Angeles follows the same migratory patterns as the Salvadoran immigrant community that it preys upon, fanning out across the United States from ethnic enclaves in California.
Coming Together
Until recently, MS-13 wasn’t that big a player in East Coast gang culture. The reason for its weak position in the East Coast crime world was obvious: It wasn’t very well organized. MS-13 was comprised of a group of cliques that operated independently of each other.
No more. Law enforcement officials now report that gang members from across the country have come together to unite affiliated groups up and down the East Coast. The leadership for these cliques is now coming from as far away as California and even from El Salvador.
Robert Hart, senior agent in charge with the FBI, says that when individual groups of MS-13 unite, the results can be devastating. “The cliques, instead of operating independently of each other, are beginning to come together,” Hart explains. “The difference is by doing that, obviously you have a much tighter organization, much stronger structures and, instead of having various cliques doing whatever they want, wherever they want, there is one individual who is the leader and is able to control the payment of dues and the criminal acts they engage in. The result is very, very similar to what you would see in what we refer to as traditional organized criminal families.”
Finding Sanctuary
Los Angeles and New York law enforcement and even politicians are aware of the impact of MS-13 on their streets and on their crime statistics. So they’ve taken action. The results are usually not stellar, but at least these cities have recognized that MS-13 is a problem. Unfortunately, the leadership of MS-13 is not stupid. Once the heat comes down hard in L.A. and New York, they head for new turf, choosing Midwestern and Southern and suburban cities where gangs “are not an issue” and local officials and authorities are in denial.
And once MS-13 takes hold in a community, it grows fast. The gang reportedly has some 300 members in suburban Long Island. A few years back it didn’t have any.
Once MS-13 shows up on the radar, some local officials and authorities will take action. In Nassau County, for example, a joint gang task force headed by the FBI and comprised of local police departments, has arrested 16 leaders of MS-13. They were charged with two murders, assault, conspiracy, and firearms violations.
Such investigations aren’t easy because MS-13 has a pretty strident zero-tolerance policy toward anyone who informs the cops of their activities.
Court papers reveal that one of the Nassau County defendants was captured in a secretly recorded telephone conversation detailing how he killed a male victim because he had provided law enforcement officials with information and that he had “put one in his chest and three in the head.” In another recorded conversation, a second defendant said he killed a young female because, in part, she had also provided information to law enforcement.
Fighting Back
The senseless violence of MS-13 has shocked the local citizens of Nassau County, so the Nassau County Executive appointed a “gang czar” to deal with the increasing gang problem.
A seasoned, dedicated officer, the new “czar,” in reality, will find it difficult to accomplish what he has been mandated to do. His department, like many across the nation, is at its lowest staffing levels in recent history, and he has been given no additional personnel or resources to combat the problem. The public was placated by the appointment, but while politicians put Band-Aids on deep cuts, the problem continues to escalate on Long Island.
And Long Island is not alone. Nationally, police departments are dealing with the surge in violence emanating from MS-13 members.
In Charlotte, N.C., 53 gang members were arrested as part of Operation Fed Up, which targeted MS-13 members. Officials in the medium-sized Southern city say MS-13 has been involved in at least 11 murders in the Charlotte area since 2000. And with a membership estimated at 200, MS-13 is by far Charlotte’s largest gang.
Some 400 miles north of Charlotte, the northern Virginia and southern Maryland communities around Washington, D.C., have become MS-13 turf. Local authorities estimate that there are between 5,000 and 6,000 MS-13 members in the metropolitan area.
And where MS-13 goes, violence follows. In July 2003, an 18-year-old federal witness was stabbed to death; last May, a 16-year-old boy had his hands almost completely chopped off with a machete; and a week later a 17-year-old was shot and murdered. All three crimes were tied to MS-13 members.
The rapid increase in MS-13 activity along the corridor between Charlotte and D.C. is simply explained by Det. Tim Jolly, a gang specialist with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. The area has the nation’s second highest population of Salvadoran immigrants.
Gang of Chameleons
One of the more unusual aspects of MS-13 when compared to other street gangs is that it is extremely flexible in its activity. While some gangs are only into drugs, MS-13 will do any crime at any time.
Sgt. George Norris, supervisor of the gang unit in the Prince George’s County (Md.) Police Department, says MS-13 doesn’t sling drugs in his jurisdiction. “We see mostly citizen robberies, auto theft, shootings and cuttings, and homicides,” he says, adding that drug sales by MS-13 may be just a matter of time.
Violent and Vicious
When MS-13 moves into a new community it tends to announce its presence with violence. The same can be true when a new leader takes over the local cliques.
Norris says gang members from other areas had once been able to join the new gang by simply being “jumped in.” But now that new leaders have moved into Prince George’s County and consolidated the cliques, the gang’s local culture has become more violent and vicious.
“According to one of our informers, things have changed,” says Norris. “Now in order to get your letters or clique [symbols] tattooed on you, you have to also put in some violent act to show your commitment.”
Cop Killers
And MS-13 violence is not restricted to civilians, rival gang members, and clique traitors; the gang will go after cops. Threats against police officers, known to gang members as “green light” notices, have increased so much in the past few years that the Virginia Gang Association has warned officers in Virginia and states to the north and south to be wary of MS-13 members.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Jolly says he is aware of the threats against police officers in his community and in Virginia. Prince George’s County’s Norris says he’s heard them, too. “If you do something to them, their natural response is, ‘OK, I’m going to kill you,’” he says. “Or at least they talk like they will.”
Norris dismisses some of MS-13’s threats, but that doesn’t mean that officers should take all MS-13 threats lightly. The gang is extremely violent and it has attacked and will continue to attack anyone who gets in its way. That includes law enforcement officers.
Roots of Evil
Named for La Mara, a street in San Salvador, and the Salvatrucha guerillas who fought in El Salvador’s bloody civil war, Mara Salvatrucha 13 was organized in Los Angeles in the late ’80s. At first, the gang’s primary purpose was to defend Salvadoran immigrants from be
