Current Events > Crackdown on MS-13 gang nets more than 200 arrests

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Underscoring its promise earlier this year to crack down on a brutal gang, the Trump adminstration on Thursday announced the arrests of dozens of members of MS-13.

Operation Raging Bull, conducted Oct. 8-Nov. 11 across the United States, resulted in 214 arrests, officials said.

The operation was led by the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in conjunction with local and federal officials.

It was the second phase of a two-part operation. Authorities made 53 arrests in Venezuela in September after an 18-month investigation.
We will not rest until every member, associate and leader of MS-13 has been held accountable for their crimes," said Thomas Horman, director of ICE.

More than 1,200 gang members have been convicted so far this year, and about 4,000 have been arrested and charged, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.

Sessions promised an all-out assault on the violent gang last month, designating it a "priority" for the Department of Justice's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.

They leave misery, devastation and death in their wake. They threaten entire governments. They must be and will be stopped," the attorney general said in Philadelphia last month.

In the most recent roundup, charges included murder, aggravated robbery, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, firearms offenses and assault, with roughly 60 arrests being illegal border crossings by unaccompanied children, officials said.

The gang originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s, then entrenched itself in Central America when its leaders were deported.

MS-13s motto is mata, viola, controla which means "kill, rape, control," according to Robert Hur, a Justice Department official.
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I wonder how many sanctuary cities protected these assholes
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fire810 posted...

I wonder how many sanctuary cities protected these assholes

if they were actually violent gangmembers then the answer would be none, since they are still charged with regular ass crimes.
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Honestly it's good to see Trump supporting ICE and letting them do their job.
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Good. Put these animals down.
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fire810 posted...

I wonder how many sanctuary cities protected these assholes

does someone wanna tell him or should i
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@lilORANG
@Doom_Art
@ThyCorndog

What do you know about MS-13?
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Doom_Art posted...

fire810 posted...

I wonder how many sanctuary cities protected these assholes

does someone wanna tell him or should i

just let him be an idiot. we need them around so the rest of us can look smarter than we really are
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Why is trump claiming responsibility when clearly hillary clinton is responsible for these arrests?
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Awesome job police! :D
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Why didn't TC include link? Is it a source that would lead this OP getting dismissed like Fox News?
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FifthBeethoven posted...

Why didn't TC include link? Is it a source that would lead this OP getting dismissed like Fox News?

Multiple sources. I did use Fox for the content but left it out because CE is mainly liberal site and Fox is typically dismissed.

http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-war-crime-us-government-arrests-200-ms-13-gang-members-central-america-716019

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/ms-13-crackdown-nets-more-005619832.html
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lilORANG posted...

fire810 posted...

I wonder how many sanctuary cities protected these assholes

if they were actually violent gangmembers then the answer would be none, since they are still charged with regular ass crimes.

Literally wouldn't be here to commit those crimes if not for sanctuary cities protecting criminals.
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darkjedilink posted...

lilORANG posted...

fire810 posted...

I wonder how many sanctuary cities protected these assholes

if they were actually violent gangmembers then the answer would be none, since they are still charged with regular ass crimes.

Literally wouldn't be here to commit those crimes if not for sanctuary cities protecting criminals.

how would they not?
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But...we need to give them all sanctuary.
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i've known some ms-13 and they were cool people

Awesome and great news if true.

Considering the current administration though, I wonder if they simply drove down some hispanic neighborhood and rounded up guys randomly. I mean, how do people prove that suspects are gang members? It's not as if they file a membership application, get a gang ID and pay annual fees.

GoSteelers posted...

i've known some ms-13 and they were cool people

Same. Some are charitable and help their neighborhood with their earnings, much like Pablo Escobar. This is fake news.
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ChainedRedone posted...

GoSteelers posted...

i've known some ms-13 and they were cool people

Same. Some are charitable and help their neighborhood with their earnings, much like Pablo Escobar. This is fake news.

no no no no. Being nice to some people doesn't make them less of the monsters they are.

with roughly 60 arrests being illegal border crossings by unaccompanied children, officials said.

60 out of 241

Kind of odd they felt the need to pad their stats by including unrelated children from border crossings.
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ChainedRedone posted...

GoSteelers posted...

i've known some ms-13 and they were cool people

Same. Some are charitable and help their neighborhood with their earnings, much like Pablo Escobar. This is fake news.

Sure they are.
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fucking awesome. fuck those cocksuckers. they just arrested one in my state. although it was apparently coincidental timing and not related to raging bull
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gmanthebest posted...

Sure they are.

Well that's actually kind of correct, lots of gangs do charity drives around Christmas time.
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