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Ten gang members arrested in immigration sweep
By Franco Ordoñez
fordonez@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Thursday, Apr. 02, 2009



Ten foreign-born gang members were arrested in Concord on Wednesday during a multi-agency operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said.


Seven men and three women with ties to MS-13 and Brown Pride gangs were arrested at their homes in a morning sweep involving 25 officers from five agencies.


All the gang members face immigration violations. Two also face state charges of narcotics violations and obstruction of justice.


Nine are nationals of Mexico and one from El Salvador. ICE will begin removal proceedings on all of them. The federal agency did not release the names of those arrested.


“ICE works closely with other federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to keep our communities safe, which in this case is the removal of criminal gang members and others who threaten the safety of Brockton neighborhoods.â€

This is good but it's not enough. They need to find a way to get 40 or 50 at a clip and not just 10. It's a numbers game in a sense and it's like going after employers. You can't just go after one or two per year...you need to go after hundreds if not thousands of them. Then the true deterrence begins.

Ostrich