Thread: Declare war on MS-13

Declare war on MS-13

by Joseph Farah
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Posted: March 20, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern



One of the major cop-outs in the illegal immigration debate is this: There are millions and millions of foreigners already here. It would be an overwhelming task to find and deport them all.

Let me suggest a good starting point – an all-out declaration of war on the organized criminal street gang MS-13, comprised mostly of illegal aliens and now threatening the lives and quality of life of nearly all Americans nationwide.

Just last week, for instance, the Washington Post reported three leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha participated in or planned four murders in the area during a span of two years, according to a federal prosecutor in a racketeering trial involving the terrorist gang.

Attorney James Trusty told the court MS-13 gang members abide by the ethos "rape, kill and control." He said they use guns, knives and machetes.

"This gang works together locally, nationally, even internationally," said Trusty.

MS-13 was a little-known band of miscreants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala five years ago – hardly known to the general public. But a reign of murderous terror waged across the country has made it infamous.

You want a place to start the battle against illegal aliens? MS-13 is a priority. These are not farmworkers. These are not gardeners. These are not cheap construction workers or meatpackers. These are murderers and rapists.

Instead of targeting Border Patrol officers, the U.S. Justice Department should use its resources to eradicate MS-13. Instead of meddling in the conduct of the war in Iraq, the U.S. Congress should resolve to wipe out this internal threat to our peace and security by the end of this year. Instead of pushing for "comprehensive immigration reform," President Bush should call for an all-out war on this band of thugs.

If the illegal alien problem is too big to tackle all at once, set priorities. MS-13 should be the starting point.

These monsters make it easy to identify them. They tattoo themselves with their gang insignia. The Mafia never made it so simple.

It would seem to me this would be a national mission around which we can build consensus. Oh, sure, the American Civil Liberties Union will oppose a war on MS-13. The ACLU always defends America's enemies, criminals, Nazis, Communists and other assorted terrorists. But will any responsible American not be able to get behind the cause of destroying this plague on humanity?

Personally, I'm getting sick and tired of seeing MS-13 graffiti in the nation's capital and on urban and suburban streets across the country. This scum is marking its turf. They are showing us where they are. They are brazenly identifying themselves for our hapless authorities.

It's time to hunt them down.

As WND first reported in 2005, MS-13 is believed to have met with representatives of al-Qaida and smuggled operatives across the Mexican border into the U.S.

So this is not just a matter of murder and mayhem. It is a matter of grave national security. The people who would most like to detonate a nuclear bomb or other weapon of mass destruction inside the U.S. will almost certainly rely on the expertise of the gang specializing in human smuggling operations.

That's my prescription for where to start the roundups and deportations. That's my idea about who to target first among the millions of illegal aliens already in this country. And let me go a step further.

This operation needs to be designed with military precision. These people need to be taken dead or alive. If they are deported, they will return. So the choice is really between incarceration or death. Lethal force will be necessary to subdue this menace – to cure this cancer.

Does America have the national will for such a mission?

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Declare war on MS-13

Americans will and have.

Our Governments job is to fight the war at home WITH US, and that’s something they have never been able to do

For years local communities and the Feds never went after illegals because they always said there were not that many illegals to be a problem. Now they say we can't do anything about the problem because there are too many.