MS-13 gang growing extremely dangerous, FBI says

usa today ^ | 1/6/2005 | Kevin Johnson

[Pro-Bush]

In early November, the FBI and Houston police learned that six suspected members of Mara Salvatrucha, a violent Central American gang known as MS-13, were raiding a house on Liberty Street where a rival gang had stashed drugs.

MS-13 - the focus of a nationwide crackdown by FBI and federal immigration agents - has become known in recent years for home invasion robberies, drug dealing and machete attacks on its enemies. But what happened in Houston on Nov. 2, FBI and Houston police officials say, has heightened concerns that MS-13 could be far more dangerous than thought.

[Pro-Bush]

[ChristianDefender]

We might need a "Man on Fire" approach...

[one more state]

The government does not want to tie the border drug cartels of Mexico to MS13, but it is only too obvious. The Mexican military is already operating freely with in our borders. These military operations work, and will be used in each state.

[dsc]

Are any of the people who took out Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillenger, and Pretty Boy Floyd still alive?

We should call them out of retirement and get rid of these shiny-loafered pussies that don't know how to deal with killers.

[Pro-Bush]

You must be talking about the senior Walgreens theft prevention executive.

[ChristianDefender]

The Mexican military is already operating freely with in our borders.

For what? operations against drug smuggler's?

If the Mexican military is doing something in favor of the drug smugglers, we're in a new warzone.

[Pro-Bush]

"The suspects researched Walgreens throughout the Midwest and on a routine basis averaged $45,000 to $55,000 worth of stolen merchandise per day," Hanson says.

[television is just wrong]

Yet another reason to CLOSE THE BORDER, and BUILD THAT WALL.

Get this illegal trafficking under control.

[SamAdams76]

All the criminals you mentioned committed quite a few crimes before they were eventually brought down.

[one more state]

Border Patrol fears conflict with Mexican military! Yes the Mexican military are helping the cartels, where have you been?

[FreedomPoster]

Ping. Make sure to click-through and read the whole story.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yet another reason for repealing most of our nation's gun laws...

[ChristianDefender]

:-) Iknew about that issue... but it has been denied since by the Mexican government...

We need to show them some force..

[MaDeuce]

Maybe is time (probably past time), for the Feds to deputize a few million Americans, arm them (if they are not fully armed already), and send us out on search and destroy missions into these "immigrant" areas and the boarder.

[Pro-Bush]

..I think we missed the sarcasm rag.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I'm not being sarcastic. Wouldn't YOU want easy access to a firearm if one of these sub-humans targeted you and your family?

[Pro-Bush]

Cool, I had it backwards, I have easy access and not registered either.

[lentulusgracchus]

Yet another reason to CLOSE THE BORDER, and BUILD THAT WALL.

You don't understand.

The most pressing problem facing America today is competitiveness -- we need to get our wages down to $0, to ensure that Americans can keep on working. We need more people who are willing to do whatever it takes to help keep wages low.

</sarc>

[lentulusgracchus]

Wouldn't YOU want easy access to a firearm if one of these sub-humans targeted you .....

Hey, hey -- a little respect, okay?

That immigrant works for less than you do, and his commute was a lot longer. He's a better and more productive worker than you (since his wage goes in the denominator), and so he's a better American than you are, even before he gets his feet wet.

Show a little respect for your betters, dude.

And besides, his grandson's gonna be big-rich with all that meth inheritance money, so you'd better get rid of the attitude. He'll be paying your parish priest, dig?

</sarc>

[EmilyGeiger]

There was an article in this month's Readers Digest about MS gangs. It was frightening.