{"id":12541,"date":"2016-04-08T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12541"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:33:38","slug":"importing-el-salvadors-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/04\/08\/importing-el-salvadors-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Importing El Salvador\u2019s Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Security is heavy at an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom where seven El Salvador-based MS-13 gang members are on trial for a series of grisly murders in suburban Virginia. In one case, gang enforcers beheaded a member who had run afoul of the group and buried his body. The incident took place in a public park next to a middle school that is located five miles from the White House.<\/p>\n
More than 242,000 Unaccompanied Alien Minors (UAMs) have waltzed across the border since 2009, some of whom are helping to fuel the rise in Central American gang activity. The well-intentioned Wilberforce anti-trafficking law makes it difficult to repatriate UAMs to countries other than Mexico.or Canada. UAMs from countries that do not border the United States are handed a Notice to Appear before a judge, however, these notices are dismissed as \u201cpermisos\u201d by the immigrants, who consider them to be permission slips allowing them to remain in the country, which further erodes respect for our laws. After the Border Patrol passes the UAMs to the Department of Health and Human Services, the vast majority of UAMs skip their hearing and the government has no idea where they are.<\/p>\n
Around 98 percent of UAMs are from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.<\/p>\n
Knowing that parts of Central America are under siege by gangs, federal officials abet illegal activity by letting migrants cross the border in the first place and then failing to ensure that they appear before the courts.<\/p>\n
So far, most of the perpetrators and victims of MS-13 killings hail from El Salvador. Allowing this situation to deteriorate ruins the lives of young children who have no family members in this country and continue to fall prey to the gangs they are trying to escape. And any other American can fall victim to an act of violence as some UAMs have been released to gang members or other criminals by the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n