McCAUGHEY: MS-13: From El Salvador to your neighborhood
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Members of the MS-13 gang commit gruesome crimes – beheading their victims with machetes, chopping off their hands, burning them and dismembering them.
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Demonic Deeds. If you think these crimes won’t happen where you live, read on.
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The gang’s rule is “kill, rape, control”. Members are committed to killing. MS-13 brings terror to neighborhoods and even schoolyards. In the New York City area, MS-13 has been linked to more than 65 homicides since 2009.
President Joe Biden could care less.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is cracking down, jailing tens of thousands of suspected gang members and prompting others to flee the country. But not Biden.
He pushes migrants into the country and releases them as quickly as possible without checking them for gang membership or criminal records.
The deadly consequences became clear on May 23 when the House Judiciary Committee learned of Kayla Hamilton’s assassination. Hamilton, 20, was raped, stabbed and beaten to death in July 2022. Local Maryland police arrested a 16-year-old member of the MS-13 gang. He had only entered the United States three months earlier and was taken into custody as an unaccompanied minor.
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Had border police checked him, they would have learned he was arrested in El Salvador for “illegal association” with MS-13. Aberdeen, Maryland police found this out by calling Salvadoran authorities.
When he was arrested, the teenager had tattoos that linked him to MS-13. The House investigation concluded that federal agencies “failed to implement basic screening and screening measures” and showed “callous disregard for the safety of Americans.”
Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who served under former President Donald Trump and then Biden until August 2021, testified that the Biden administration is “very focused on expediting the processing and flow of migrants into the US” and “Refused to accept significant vulnerability.” This creates.”
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All migrants under the age of 18 or who pretend to be are treated with kid gloves by the Biden administration. No wonder the number of unaccompanied minors has increased by more than 400% under Biden.
Approximately 30% of the MS-13 gang members arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in recent years entered the United States as unaccompanied minors. Over 70% of actual unaccompanied minors are teenagers aged 15-17.
Verification is minimal. Federal authorities have deported just 409 out of 345,000 unaccompanied minors in the past three years, a tiny 12th of 1%.
Unaccompanied minors are turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services for temporary housing, with school and recreational activities costing the taxpayer $18,000 per minor. Then they will be placed with a guardian somewhere in the US
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The five most popular travel destinations are Texas, California, Florida, New York and New Jersey.
New Yorkers need to know more about the so-called unaccompanied minors who get off buses at the Port Authority and are placed in local public schools.
Biden’s see-no-evil approach is the polar opposite of his predecessor’s. Trump labeled MS-13 Public Enemy #1.
He referred to MS-13 as “animals” and held as many suspected gang members as possible until they reached the age of 18 and could be turned over to ICE for possible deportation.
The liberal press has criticized Trump’s actions, calling it “disproportionate to its impact” and denying that MS-13 is a “major criminal presence.”
A week ago in Suffolk County, an MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty to luring an 18-year-old man to a baseball field, where he and gang members beat the boy to death and hacked him to pieces with a machete.
Had enough?
Tell Biden to stop sending these MS-13 brothers to our communities.
As for Mayor Eric Adams’ new proposal that New Yorkers open their homes to undocumented migrants, who would be so reckless?
Betsy McCaughey is a former Lieutenant Governor of New York
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https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/mccaughey-ms-13-from-el-salvador-to-your-neighbourhood McCAUGHEY: MS-13: From El Salvador to your neighborhood
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