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    Feds Arrest More than 500 Gang Members

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    Feds Make More Than 500 Gang Arrests

    By LARA JAKES JORDAN
    The Associated Press
    Monday, August 1, 2005; 11:05 AM



    WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities arrested 528 alleged gang members over a two-week period, officials said Monday, targeting more than 54 violent groups they say have spawned street crimes across the country.

    Investigators picked up most of the offenders between July 16 and July 28 on immigration violations for being in the United States illegally. Seventy-six face criminal charges, ranging from illegal possession of a firearm to holding fraudulent documents.

    "Street gangs in America have grown and expanded their influence to an alarming level, marked by increased violence and criminal activity," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in prepared remarks announcing the arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. "These gangs pose a severe threat to public safety and this growth must not go unchallenged."

    ICE is an arm of the Homeland Security Department.

    Investigators targeted members in 27 states of what they considered to be the most violent street gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; Surenos; the 18th Street Gang; Latin Kings; the Mexican Mafia; Border Brothers; Brown Pride and numerous others.

    The crackdown is part of ICE's ongoing "Operation Community Shield" campaign, targeting gang activity with other federal and state authorities. So far, ICE has made 1,057 arrests as part of the sting.

    In March, the operation netted 103 members of MS-13, a street gang rooted in Central America where members have been known to behead enemies and attack with grenades and machetes. Federal officials estimate between 8,000 and 10,000 MS-13 members live in 31 states _ the majority of them in the country illegally.

    "We're just getting started," said ICE investigations chief Marcy Forman.

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    What this article leaves out (from Reuters 8/1/05):

    In April, Victor Ceara of the Department of Homeland Security testified that in fiscal year 2004, his division removed 84,000 criminal aliens from the United States. However, he said an estimated 400,000 were still at large.

    Congress has been trying to give law enforcement new weapons to use against gangs. Republicans in the House of Representatives recently proposed new legislation that would give the Department of Homeland Security the power to deport immigrants suspected of belonging to a street gang, even if there was no proof they had committed a crime

    The House in May also passed the so-called "gangbusters bill," which imposed minimum prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life on individuals convicted of gang-related crimes, expanded the death penalty to include gang murders and allowed 16 and 17-year-old gang members to be tried as adults.

    The Senate judiciary committee was supposed to take up a similar measure last week but adjourned without doing so.
    It's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.

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    CountFloyd,

    Did you really expect them to finish up a really important issue.

    Oh yeah they did, they argued over, letting the boy scouts, use military grounds.
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