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‘People here live in fear’: MS-13 menaces a community seven miles from the White House
Washington Post ^ | December 20, 2017 | Michael E. Miller and Dan Morse

Posted on 12/20/2017 12:20:09 PM PST by C19fan

It took Abigail Bautista less than a month of living in Langley Park to learn that her new neighborhood in Maryland had its own set of laws, written not in statutes but in gang graffiti and blood.

The Guatemalan mother of five was pushing a cart of merchandise along University Boulevard one winter morning in late 2012 when three young men approached.

“Do you know who we are?” one asked her in Spanish.

Bautista shook her head.

“We are La Mara Salvatrucha,” he said. “And here, there are rules.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: gangs; ice; illegals; immigrants; immigration; ms13; wod
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To: C19fan

Ah, yes. Langley Park.

Not only a sanctuary city, but also a nuclear free zone.

Merry Christmas!


21 posted on 12/20/2017 1:04:54 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Seize their assets. Then, kick them OUT in perpetuity. I really don’t care if they have 12 children. They are illegal. Merry Christmas!


22 posted on 12/20/2017 1:05:57 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Eagles6

23 posted on 12/20/2017 1:14:37 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Exactly.


24 posted on 12/20/2017 1:16:59 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: Ouderkirk
Helping MS-13 reap profits, as the drug ban does, is beyond foolishness.
25 posted on 12/20/2017 1:22:47 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: radiohead

Langley Park used to be a heavily black area, with some who would have shot these MS 13 monsters. Did the blacks move out?


Many of the beltway blacks have headed back to The South and outer DC burbs.


26 posted on 12/20/2017 1:23:15 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

I am 62 now, but I was a kid in the Takoma Park area. It wasn’t the greatest THEN, but this makes me truly sad for my old stomping grounds. My mom wasn’t afraid to let me go there on my bike alone (we lived on Flower Avenue and Piney Branch Road, for those who know the area). We left in 1969, but I have fond childhood memories.


27 posted on 12/20/2017 1:35:25 PM PST by freepertoo
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To: C19fan

Decades ago many people like me in the southwest warned others in distant states what was coming their way. Few listened or paid any attention.


28 posted on 12/20/2017 1:41:07 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C19fan

At least they are easily identifiable with those face tattoos, if in some dystopian future open fighting breaks out to restore America.


29 posted on 12/20/2017 2:00:42 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: jimbug

Amen, brother!


30 posted on 12/20/2017 2:01:37 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: C19fan
her new neighborhood in Maryland

Ah, the joys of living in the Glorious Peoples' Gun-controlled Democratic Republic of Maryland.

I'd like to know the immigration status of all parties involved.

31 posted on 12/20/2017 2:03:13 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: dragnet2
Decades ago many people like me in the southwest warned others in distant states what was coming their way. Few listened or paid any attention.

I'm in California. I remember warning Freepers in other states, only to be told, "Serves you fruits and nuts in California right. Won't happen here in my state. We have guns here." (What, they were planning to shoot illegals on the streets?) Or, "That's your problem; what do you want us to do about it?" Nobody cared when it was just California. But as California goes, so goes the nation, as millions are now finding out.

32 posted on 12/20/2017 2:04:26 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: DesertRhino
At least they are easily identifiable with those face tattoos, if in some dystopian future open fighting breaks out to restore America.

Easily visible to at least 100 yards without optics....

33 posted on 12/20/2017 2:10:01 PM PST by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: Nea Wood

I recall all that well. Many thought it was somehow cute or funny it was mostly isolated to the southwest back then. Then the same thing was showing up in their own backyards from coast to coast. Then after about 15 years, through and after the Bush years, all that laughter went silent...


34 posted on 12/20/2017 2:10:18 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Lurker
"“We are La Mara Salvatrucha,” he said. “And here, there are rules.” I’d have shot them dead on the spot." And then there were 2. I'd throw down then and there and cop to being in fear for my life. That's how mafia street tax got ended.


35 posted on 12/20/2017 2:19:04 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: jimbug

“Frankly, I don’t think these savages qualify for our justice system. They are simply a Spanish speaking version of ISIS, and need to be exterminated, as quickly and efficiently as possible.”

Cops are too busy knocking over little girls lemonade stands, sitting radar, raiding wrong houses for marijuana plants,and hassling everbody else.


36 posted on 12/20/2017 2:53:40 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Professional

“I suspect that a process is under way to make life very miserable for these organized crime groups in our country. Trump is about to unleash hell on them, I’m sure of it.”

He should bring back the conquistadors.


37 posted on 12/20/2017 2:56:30 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Dagnabitt

No, it’s the start of Civil War Two.


38 posted on 12/20/2017 3:13:20 PM PST by WatchungEagle
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To: C19fan
If I recall correctly, Sessions announced he was going after MS-13 in the US early into his position as AG.

And this MS-13 infestation is only 7 miles from the WH?

How can these people in DC think they can run the country when they can't even cleanup their own backyards?

39 posted on 12/20/2017 3:31:41 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: C19fan

Spot the tats; shoot on sight.


40 posted on 12/20/2017 4:58:45 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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