The Fifth Part of the People

12 07 2006

My TV landed on some show last night, and the topic matter was El Salvadorian gangs.

The two main ones are MS-13 and a gang simply known as “18.”  From the looks of it, gangs in El Salvador (and probably most of Latin America, also) make the Mafia and black American gangs look like toy plastic soldiers.

Any person with a brain who watched this show and does not realize the immediate need for a fence along our southern border with 100,000 volts running through its metallic veins needs to be sent to a rubber room.

However, it might be a little too late for that — this show interviewed a former American ambassador to El Salvador, and she informed us that 20 percent of El Salvador’s population lives in the United States.

The show also informed us that the El Salvadorian gangs actually started among El Salvadorians in the United States (mostly southern California) and then spread back to El Salvador when some of them were deported.  Eventually, as the cycle of illegal entry, deportation and illegal re-entry continued, the gangs grew to prominence in both El Salvador and in southern California.

To add to this show, Latin Americans other than El Salvadorians are picking up the MS-13 gang moniker, and as Latino immigration spreads to such exoticly southwestern places like Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, MS-13 is becoming a big gang problem in those states.


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