Thread: B.P. seeing increase in gang arrests, including MS-13

Border Patrol seeing increase in gang arrests, including MS-13

Posted: March 23, 2009 06:37 PM CDT

Updated: March 23, 2009 06:37 PM CDT






By Som Lisaius,

"We're talking about major things. Homicides, sex offenders, big robberies, armed robberies--things to that degree."

United States Border Patrol agent Mike Scioli on a disturbing, yet growing trend along the US-Mexico border: more dangerous criminals trying to enter the United States.

This past weekend, a group of 34 illegals were apprehended by agents near Ajo. Two of them were members of a notorious and ruthless gang known as MS-13. How did agents find out? Finger prints and tattoos were a dead-giveaway.

"These two individuals, not only did their criminal record prove they were gang members, but also their tattoo affiliations," Agent Scioli says. "They're all under 13 as the 13th letter in the English alphabet which links them to the Mexican Mafia, the largest gang running in the US right now."

At least 850 thousand members strong, authorities say, and even that's a conservative estimate. Many of these gang members have ties to human and drug smuggling, which is why they come to the United States.

In response to this, local, state and federal officials have beefed up security significantly. Just last week, we got a look at what's essentially an X-ray machine on wheels, which can detect virtually anything that anybody's trying to hide or bring in illegally.

But these people aren't coming in through checkpoints and other ports of entry. Many of them are military trained, organized crime members. Last fiscal year, the Border Patrol apprehended at least 60 hardened gangsters in the Tucson Sector. So far this year, they've already arrested 25 and the number is only growing.

Says Agent Scioli, "It just proves again that these aren't people coming over for jobs, these aren't people trying to take care of their families back in Mexico, they're coming over to cause havoc."

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ITS CHAPS MY ASS THAT THE DO GOODERS HARANG SHERIFF JOE FOR DOING HIS JOB.


I PRAY EVERY NIGHT THAT THESE DO GOODERS WILL BE THE VICTIMS OF THIS THIS MENTALITY.

A NEW RESPECT FOR THE A-HOLES LIKE JOE WILL EMERGE.


YES, JOE IS AN A-HOLE, I'D VOTE FOR HIM IN A HEART BEAT AND SLEEP EASIER!!!!

THIS IS WHY I GIVE HIM MY FULL SUPPORT. HE'S DOING HIS JOB.

It is awful that some people will have to learn the hard way.