{"id":23806,"date":"2020-10-27T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23806"},"modified":"2020-10-27T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:30:09","slug":"lax-enforcement-gives-air-to-ms-13-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/10\/27\/lax-enforcement-gives-air-to-ms-13-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"MS-13 Gang Outruns, Outguns Immigration Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are fewer border apprehensions of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members<\/a> a good thing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arrests of the notorious alien gangsters by U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a> dropped from 464 in 2019 to just 72 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. Officials attributed the decline to fewer crossings from Mexico and points south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, perhaps, it was because a\nsmaller percentage of transiting gang members were caught. Given MS-13\u2019s\nruthless tactics and determination, this cannot be discounted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced indictments<\/a> of 22 MS-13 members in July, FAIR<\/a> reported that the crime syndicate \u201cremains an ever-present and expanding threat to communities nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOJ<\/a> estimates that some 10,000 MS-13 thugs currently ply their demonic trade in this country. Dealing in weapons, drugs, extortion, human trafficking<\/a>, murder and mayhem, the brutal gang was listed as a \u201cTransnational Crime Organization\u201d by the Treasury Department in 2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS-13 was founded in Los Angeles in the 1970s, ostensibly to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other street gangs.\u00a0As it branched out, cities where MS-13 operates have seen their homicide rates rival those of El Salvador, which, until recently<\/a>, had the world\u2019s highest murder rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor decades, MS-13 has\nexploited weaknesses in U.S. immigration enforcement policies to move its\nmembers in and out of the United States and to recruit new members who have\narrived in the United States illegally,\u201d the Justice Department states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of MS-13 members prosecuted\nby DOJ in the past five years, 74 percent were illegal aliens, 3 percent were\nlegal residents, and 8 percent were U.S. citizens. The remaining 15 percent was\nclassified as “unknown” for reasons that are unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)<\/a> says it has \u201ccommitted significant resources\u201d to combat MS-13. But, here too, the numbers have slipped. Though HSI arrested more than 400 MS-13 gang members in fiscal 2019 (the latest year for which figures were available), it was less than half of 2018\u2019s total of 959. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a positive move, DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security this month issued a rule<\/a> barring gang members, along with convicted felons and domestic abusers, from securing asylum to remain in the United States. That\u2019s the bare minimum Americans should expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With some 10,000 MS-13 gangsters in this country, three-quarters of them illegal aliens, heightened vigilance is required at the border and in the U.S. interior. As Andrew Arthur<\/a>, a former immigration judge now with the Center for Immigration Studies, put it: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLax enforcement of U.S. immigration law has\nallowed MS-13 to flourish, to the detriment of not only communities across this\ncountry, but also to the citizens of and civil society in countries across the\nregion.\u201d\n\n\n\n\n\n\u001a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are fewer border apprehensions of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members a good thing? Arrests of the notorious alien gangsters by U.S. Customs and Border Protection dropped from 464 in 2019 to just 72 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. Officials attributed the decline to fewer crossings from Mexico and points south. Or, perhaps, it was because<\/p>\n

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