Posted on 06/21/2009 4:51:11 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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FRANCISCO arrived in Hempstead, a decaying inner-ring suburb in Nassau County, nine years after his mother. She had come ahead in the early 1990s, as the Salvadoran civil war was ending, leaving Francisco in the care of an aunt until she could save $5,000 to pay a smuggler to ferry him across the border to join her. Francisco was 12 when he crossed from Tijuana to San Diego in 2001, stuffed in the trunk of a Honda next to several strangers. The trip was terrifying, but later he would say it had toughened him for life on Long Island.
Many of the new classmates he met that year at Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School came the same way. They left behind grandmothers and aunts who served as surrogate parents and reunited with mothers and fathers they remembered only from photographs. Their parents believed that the American suburbs offered a better chance at education and jobs than the violent countries they had left behind. In 2002, the Immigration and Naturalization Service picked up more than 5,000 unaccompanied children trying to enter the United States illegally, more than 80 percent of them from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador; in later years, the number increased to 7,000.
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The two rival gangs had appeared on Long Island around the same time in the mid-1990s, after the last of the white residents who built Hempstead into a bustling retail hub half a century earlier moved away and Hispanics filled the void. Mara Salvatrucha was formed by a group of older men, some of them veterans of the Salvadoran civil war, who were often victims of the village’s African-American gangs. They adopted the name from a gang gaining a reputation for ruthlessness in Los Angeles and Central America.
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It seems that over time, the number of decent places to live in the U.S. is shrinking. Many whites went to Long Island to escape the "diversity" of NYC. Then parts of Long Island go downhill.
Whenever someone is arrested for a serious crime, whether as a juvenile or adult, his/her immigration status should be verified, and criminal trash should be deported.
There’re areas of LI that are now third world s-—holes; they were not this way 25 years ago.
But in Los Angeles our s—t holes sre deeper than yours.
True!
Countrie are not violent. People are. Countries are rocks, dirt and trees. They did not leave the violence behind, they brought it with them.
Not hard to see where Francisco's criminal inclinations come from.
Not hard to see where Francisco's criminal inclinations come from.
Your comment made me stop and think about what else she might have done with the money. On those global micro-finance sites, there are hundreds or more of micro-entrepreneurs grateful for the opportunity to be lent one-tenth or even one-hundredth that amount, so that they can (a) invest it in an enterprise that will benefit their family and community and (b) repay the loan plus interest ASAP. Considering the small businesses that can be started or sustained awhile in many parts of the world for as little as $1K (or even less), why someone would prefer instead to pay $5K to a smuggler (and, yes, break the law and receive a boatload of evidently unforeseen trouble down the road) is beyond me.
Why expect the dregs of a failed culture to somehow thrive in an alien culture they are unequipped either to inhabit or understand...it defies all reason, and so must be conceded to be a scheme of hostile intent.
The trend seems so familiar.
BTW - Howard Stern grew up there and if you watch his movie Private Parts you will see the background of the change there.
The disgust I have with how illegal immigrants that incorporate gang life into their communities is growing daily. The older generation that came here illegally at least understood they should be grateful and keep their noses clean.
Somewhere along the line, we have gone from that to those that just want to be living here as they did at home, as opposed to assimilating.
It would be nice to see the authorities start to use hate crime laws to go after gangs, it would seem to be tailored made for them. Make it a deportable offense for someone who is here either illegally or within five years of becoming a citizen to commit a crime within a gang environment.
By this I mean that you are basically on a 5 year probationary period even after you become a citizen after immigrating. A conviction results in losing your citizenship and immediate deportation back to your country of origin.
So, instead of suffering the insults of racism and bigotry they decided to leave and not fight the change. That kind of thing has been happening all around the U.S. There are areas that used to be nice, middle class neighborhoods that were changed in this way. Too many people were duped into believing that diversity worked both ways. It doesn't. Ever.
There are two ends to forced diversity: The stronger takes over and weaker are either supplanted or become serfs.
It always confounds me how easily some people are taken in by the claims of diversity; and the fear of being called a bigot.
I agree, $5,000 may not be a huge amount in the USA, but it would go a long way to starting some kind of small business in rural Mexico.
As a former resident, I can attest to that. :-)
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