In the wake of Obama administration policies intended to encourage illegal immigration to the United States from Mexico and Central/South America, border agents are seeing more cases of known criminals from south of the border taking advantage of the easy access to America.
Border Patrol officials struggling to keep up with the increasing number of minors illegally crossing the Mexican border are not turning away persons with known gang affiliations. Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, explained that a Border Patrol agent he represents helped reunite a teenage gang member with his family in the United States. Cabrera notes the young member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), a transnational criminal gang, had no criminal record in the U.S., but asks, “If he’s a confirmed gang member in his own country, why are we letting him in here?”“I’ve heard people come in and say, ‘You’re going to let me go, just like you let my mother go, just like you let my sister go. You’re going to let me go as well, and the government’s going to take care of us,’” Cabrera says. “Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don’t think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it’s going to get worse.”
Source: National Review
every person get a gun and other protection to get rid of the gangs
Another Obama blunder thanks for ruining our country.
Unbe$#%&!@*inglievable!!!!
I’m already ‘locked and loaded’
Eunice Boden we already owe 21 trillion. Not 17. That was last year.
WE CANT FIX STUPID BUT WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE!
Why even bother putting up a fence?
FORCE THESE ILLEGAL ALIENS BCK ACROSS THE BORDER FENCE. ED
Bring our troops home and assign them to border patrol. Shoot first ask for visa later!
Why not let private security companies participate. It would certainly beef-up forces at the border. But, I suppose US government will not want that because they want border security to fail.