The Gangs of (Brentwood)

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The Gangs of (Brentwood)

by Mark Krikorian November 7, 2016 8:38 AM

 

The flow of illegal-alien teenagers from Central America represents a negation of immigration law of a kind similar to (albeit smaller in scale than) what Angela Merkel has wrought in Germany. Using as its rationale a law designed to protect unaccompanied minors who’ve been trafficked (forcibly brought here), the Obama administration has admitted as de facto permanent residents scores of thousands of teenagers who were neither trafficked nor unaccompanied (and not even checked to see if they’re actually minors). What’s worse, Obama has effectively acted as a subcontractor to the smuggling cartels by delivering the illegal-alien teens to their illegal-alien families in the U.S. Tens of thousands more are acting on Obama’s invitation and heading north. That would all be bad enough if the illegal-alien teens were models of lawful behavior otherwise. Unfortunately, the Obama-generated flow of “unaccompanied” “minors” from Central America has breathed new life into a weakened MS-13 transnational gang, notable for its extreme brutality. From 2005 to 2014 (when the surge in Central American teens really began), ICE arrested 4,000 MS-13 gang members and associates, 92 percent of whom were illegal. (A mark of the gang’s savagery is that MS-13 accounted for 13 percent of ICE gang arrests during that time, but 35 percent of the murderers.) As a result, “MS-13 was nearly eradicated in a lot of places,”