Crime MS-13: El Salvador Arrests Over 6,000 Gang Members After Deadliest Day of Violence in 30 Years

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Pobrecito Dindunuffins imo.

 

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It's amazing how Trump can get his opposition to take insane stances just so they can oppose him.

If you were to tell me 4 years ago that the media would be defending MS-13 from being called names I would have called you an idiot.

And yet here we are.

 

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Defending MS-13 ‘animals’ a losing play for Dems
Marc A. Thiessen Monday, June 04, 2018

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.​

WASHINGTON — How evil is MS-13? Last year, two gang members in Texas reportedly murdered a teenage girl as an offering to Satan. According to prosecutors, the gang leader (known as “Diabolico”) told the young girl that “the Beast” wanted “a soul” before having his partner shoot her in the head and dump her body on a street corner. As charges were read against the two, the Houston Chronicle reported, they “laughed, smiled and waved for the media cameras.”

MS-13 gang members, police have said, also stabbed a Maryland man more than 100 times before decapitating him and cutting out his heart ... lured a 34-year-old man to his already dug grave ... and stoned an 18-year-old boy to death and dumped his body under a bridge.

MS-13 is a demonic death cult. And President Trump has Nancy Pelosi defending its members’ humanity.

When Trump declared at a White House roundtable, “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals,” he was clearly referring to MS-13. But the media and Democrats took the president’s quote out of context and declared that he had referred to all illegal immigrants as animals. The Associated Press tweeted that “Trump referred to those crossing US border illegally as ‘animals.’ ” The New York Times tweeted, “Trump lashed out at undocumented immigrants during a White House meeting, calling those trying to breach the country’s borders ‘animals.’ ” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared, “When all of our great-great-grandparents came to America they weren’t ‘animals,’ and these people aren’t either.”

By the next morning, news organizations were walking back their stories. The Associated Press announced it had “deleted a tweet from late Wednesday on Trump’s ‘animals’ comment about immigrants because it wasn’t made clear that he was speaking after a comment about gang members.”

But not Pelosi, the House minority leader. Even after it was clear that Trump was referring to gang members, the California Democrat still claimed the president had called “undocumented immigrants” animals, declaring at a news conference that his remarks were “inhumane” and that “we’re all God’s children. ... Does he not believe in the spark of divinity, the dignity and worth of every person?”

Of course, we are all created in the image and likeness of God. That is true of MS-13 members. It was also true of Osama bin Laden, Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler. But can you imagine Pelosi standing up in outrage to defend their humanity? Referring to evil men as “animals” is a common colloquial expression. The Oxford Dictionary’s definition of the word “animal” includes “a person without human attributes or civilizing influences, especially someone who is very cruel, violent or repulsive.” It offers, as an example of its proper use: “those men have to be animals — what they did to that boy was savage.” Which is exactly how Trump used the word.

To this day, Pelosi has neither retracted her remarks nor admitted she was wrong. So now Trump is giving as good as he got.

“I noticed recently where Democrats, Nancy Pelosi as an example, are trying to defend MS-13 gang members,” Trump declared at a Long Island event last week. “I called them animals the other day and I was met with rebuke. They said, ‘they are people.’ They are not people. These are animals.” At a rally in Nashville this week, he announced to a cheering crowd that Pelosi “loves MS-13,” pointing out that “I said they’re animals, and she said ‘how dare you say that?’ ” He then asked the crowd, “What was the name?” The crowd responded, “animals!” Expect to hear that refrain at many Trump rallies in the months ahead.

Through their dishonesty, Democrats such as Pelosi have handed the president a winning issue. A Harvard/Harris poll finds that 56 percent of Americans agree with Trump that it is fair to call MS-13 “animals” (including 47 percent of Hispanics, and 41 percent of Democrats). Millions of Americans can’t understand why Democrats seem more hostile toward Trump than a vicious gang that carries out savage killings.

Is Trump wrong to say Pelosi “loves MS-13”? Sure. But with her deceitful attack, she gave him the pretext to make that claim. There is a lesson here for Democrats: Trump says enough outrageous things that Democrats shouldn’t have to make them up. When the president has you defending the “dignity and worth” of MS-13 members, you’re doing something wrong.

http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/06/defending_ms_13_animals_a_losing_play_for_dems

 

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Do a background check on those who are defending MS13.

 

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I’m not too surprised about the retarded Democrats defending gang member because it’s going against Trump but thier supporters are eating it up and have no real values. Tribalism is more widespread than I thought.

 

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It's like a pendulum.

One day Trump does something dumb and I don't like him anymore.

The next day his opposition starts sticking up for MS13 and I realize why we needed a guy like Trump in the white house back in 2016.

 

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Interesting that Palosi will clam ms13 has the spark of divinity, dignity and worth but won't defend the unborn or apply the same to innocent unborn children.


-declaring at a news conference that his remarks were “inhumane” and that “we’re all God’s children. ... Does he not believe in the spark of divinity, the dignity and worth of every person?”

 

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If you were to tell me 4 years ago that the media would be defending MS-13 from being called names I would have called you an idiot.

And yet here we are.

Trump could reverse pied piper this whole culture of rats, if he.... ohh, maybe he already is.

 

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Interesting that Palosi will clams ms13 has the spark of divinity, dignity and worth but won't defend the unborn or apply the same to innocent unborn children.


-declaring at a news conference that his remarks were “inhumane” and that “we’re all God’s children. ... Does he not believe in the spark of divinity, the dignity and worth of every person?”

i noticed that, too. All of a sudden God exists.

 

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i noticed that, too. All of a sudden God exists.

In the back of her mind she's thinking "well we teamed up with Russia to beat (literally) Hitler."

 

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Inside MS-13 gang's mafia-like structure
A look at local law enforcement efforts to stop crimes
By Jacob Rascon - Anchor-Reporter | July 12, 2018​

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HOUSTON - MS-13, a violent gang with more than 1,000 members in the Houston area, is responsible for the ambush of two high school students last year and the murder of a 16-year-old boy in Missouri City, according to investigators.

In April, KPRC 2's Jacob Rascon traveled to El Salvador, uncovering how the gang rules with brutal force. In May, he discovered MS-13 members concealing their true identities on the southern border.

Now, the investigation continues as Rascon reveals the gang's mafia-like structure, how they use threats and extortion to keep the cash flowing, and he's focusing on local law enforcement efforts to stop MS-13's deadly crimes.

Inside MS-13 territory in El Salvador, they make the rules, and the rules are always enforced. For the first time, Salvadoran prosecutors recently revealed how the criminal enterprise works, the full MS-13 structure meticulously organized into 249 clicas, or cliques, which are governed by 48 programas, or programs, all led by 15 "Ranfleros," one for every letter of "Mara Salvatrucha," the full name of the gang.

On the MS-13 totem pole, collaborators are at the bottom. Chequeos check for police. Homeboys are full members -- serial killers. Palabreros run the cliques. Corredores oversee the programs and collect extortion money -- more than $2 million every month. Ranfleros in and out of prison direct the vast criminal network.

And not just in El Salvador, across Central America, Mexico and in more than 40 U.S. states.

"That's one of the unique things about MS-13, the way they report crimes to leadership in El Salvador," said Mark Sabol, who leads Houston's FBI Gang Task Force, which recently quadrupled the number of agents dedicated to MS-13 cases. "When they do a homicide, they have to prove they did it. So to prove they did it, they often videotape it and transmit it via social media to either El Salvador or other program or clique leaders within the Houston area."

And not just to prove a murder.

"I went into a deep depression, and I'm trying to cope with it," said a woman who was not identified.

When MS-13 murdered a person's brother in El Salvador, gang members used Facebook Messenger to warn her, here in Houston, that she would be next.

"Whether it’s Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, it's all over the map," Sabol said.

An evolving, international crime cartel is now facing an increasingly coordinated response from U.S. law enforcement, who understand their best weapon is you.

"We don't care about your immigration status, we don't care about your socioeconomic status, whether you own a food truck or Fortune 500 company, if MS-13 is extorting you or harassing you, we want to know about it," Sabol said. "We must know about it."

One of the main "programas" in El Salvador is called the Houston Program, run by an MS-13 member deported from Houston.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/inside-ms-13-gang-s-mafia-like-structure

 

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MS-13 Gang Member Pleads Guilty in Quadruple Murder
By Liz Robbins | Aug. 20, 2018

The bodies of four young men were discovered at this spot on Long Island. ​

After Josue Portillo crossed into the United States illegally in 2015, he settled on Long Island and sought to join the same gang — MS-13 — that was terrorizing his hometown in El Salvador. On April 11, 2017, authorities say he took part in executing four young Latino men in the woods behind a suburban soccer field, a sensational crime that drew national attention and became a rallying cry in President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Mr. Portillo, now 17, pleaded guilty on Monday to federal racketeering charges and for his role in the four murders, according to prosecutors. Authorities initially charged him as a juvenile in July 2017, along with nine other gang members or associates, in the murder of the four young men: Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez Banegas, Jefferson Villalobos and Jorge Tigre.

But even though Mr. Portillo was just shy of 16 years old at the time of the killings, the judge in the case decided that he should be charged as an adult because of the severity of the crime. Mr. Portillo, Judge Joseph F. Bianco, of District Court in Central Islip, said, was charged with “four heinous, premeditated murders” and posed a danger to the community.

Mr. Portillo’s grandmother had sent him to be with his mother on Long Island to avoid the gang in El Salvador.

“The record reflects that he sought out the MS-13 gang and was an active, willing participant in its violent culture,” Judge Bianco wrote in the order released on Monday. More so, Mr. Portillo killed the young men, the court documents show, “with the understanding that he would be promoted within the gang.”

Mr. Portillo is the first of the accused to publicly plead guilty.

“By pleading guilty, he puts himself at the mercy of the court,” said his lawyer, Joseph W. Ryan Jr. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 10, 2019. “The courts recognize that sparing a trial and cost of the proceeding is an incentive to getting a more lenient sentence,” Mr. Ryan said.

The court filings added new details to the account of a gruesome night, showing that Mr. Portillo participated in planning meetings weeks before the murders when they were focusing on one victim, who in the end escaped. On April 11 Mr. Portillo set the events in motion: He texted two teenage girls, telling them where to lure the victims and relaying that information to his fellow gang members. In addition to using machetes and knives, the attackers beat their victims that night with tree limbs, the documents show.

According to court filings, the local clique of MS-13, a transnational gang formed in the 1980s in Los Angeles with refugees from El Salvador, was seeking revenge against a group of young men whom they believed to be in a rival gang. Jefferson Villalobos, a cousin of Michael Lopez Banegas, was visiting from Florida that week. The families of the slain boys have said in interviews that they were not part of any gang, and even Mr. Trump, when appearing on Long Island, recognized their parents as victims.

The quadruple homicide brought the total to 17 murders committed in Suffolk County by MS-13 from January 2016 through April 2017, and drew Mr. Trump to Long Island, twice, where he decried gang members as “animals” and urged officials to crack down on “loopholes” of the immigration system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/nyregion/ms13-gang-murder-guilty.html

 

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Over 20 MS-13 gang members were arrested in California on Friday as a result of a months long multi-agency investigation. Older indictments that also stemmed from this investigation were released as well.

The charges covered a broad range and included:

• assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering
• conspiracy to distribute
• possession with intent to distribute
• murder
• kidnapping

21 people were charged with federal crimes and six were charged with breaking state laws.

Two MS-13 members were charged with kidnapping and murder back in January. Others face charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and drug conspiracy among a long list.

Sixteen people were charged for drug trafficking. The release said, “these defendants allegedly obtained, sold, and profited from street level drug dealing, and used the proceeds to further MS-13’s criminal objectives.”

Specific jail cells belonging to suspected gang members were searched as well. Phones, drugs and weapons were confiscated.

“MS-13 is a brutal transnational criminal organization that has wreaked havoc in communities across the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski in a DOJ press release. “The gang engages in indiscriminate and senseless acts of violence, as demonstrated by the charges announced today, which allege murder, attempted murder, and drug trafficking in the State of California. Dismantling MS-13 and other violent gangs that terrorize our streets will remain a top priority of the Department of Justice.

The president has taken a hard stance against the violent El Salvadorian gang.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/31/...&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=atdailycaller