I’m NOT surprised at this…
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the alleged top MS-13 gang member who was arrested early Thursday morning in Virginia had likely been in the United States for over a decade.
Bondi made the revelation in an interview on “The Ingraham Angle” after 24-year-old Henry Josue Villatoro Santos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was taken into custody by federal agents.
“We believe he was recruited in middle school — in middle school!” the former Florida attorney general said.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
When I lived in Arlington in the early 2000s, it was ‘known’ that there were hispanic gangs that lived in northern Virginia. Since I lived inside the beltway, I knew there was a section a couple of blocks from where I lived in Arlington that ‘we’ didn’t go into for safety reasons. Under Warner and Kaine as governors, nothing was done to clean them up, and local LEOs were ‘told’ to ignore the problems unless people got killed.
I was pretty sure, thanks to LEO contacts, that at least a few MS-13 types lived behind us and they hung out and ran a park off Glebe road behind the Safeway grocery store. I also knew there were robberies that took place in that area that weren’t ever investigated, and no officers patrolled that area at night.
We shot IDPA at a gun range in Woodbridge, and the owner was an instructor with the Capital Police. He was always cautioning us to make sure we were armed when we left at night, and made sure the parking lot lights were routinely ‘fixed’ when they mysteriously went out… Also, a number of the folks that shot there were LEOs, and they would usually bring their work rides when shooting, even if they were in civilian clothes, which ‘might’ have kept any incidents from happening at his place.
And yes, even in the early 2000s, MS-13 was using machetes to take out folks in northern Virginia! At least those got investigated… but seldom solved.
And yet the people on the left/Dems want to keep them here. Makes absolutely NO sense to me!
For some reason that I’m not aware of, the left seems to think Hispanics will line up and vote for them if they play nice with the latin gangs. Hispanics that I know and have worked with are typically more law abiding than the average anglo. They hate the so called Hispanic gangs, after all, the gangs prey on the Hispanic community more so than the anglo community. I think the numbers from the last election show that Hispanics no longer are a monolithic Democrat voting block.
Same..
It works that way in Chicago. The Hispanic and black gangs have become political forces, owning Aldercreatures by controlling votes for them, and by enforcing their policies in the hoods.
As the DemonRats do with the islamics and others, they consider “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, instead of recognizing that they are bargaining to be eaten last.
No, it makes perfect sense.
Dem leaders are a cult.
The cult is rooted in a portion of academia, that by way of marxist wackadoodilism, inspires people to learn to become savages and barbarians.
The academic trained cultists are savages and barbarians who think they can magically get a super society if the old one is torn down, and are also race war nutjobs about it.
The big other source, outside of academia, they have for race nutter savages, is violent criminals, and prison gangs.
The criminals don’t want a super society, they just want to hurt people.
It all makes sense in utilitarian ways, if you can understand the aspects of the mindset which are alien. They are jsut alien, and have different information than you do, because they filter it in different ways.
The criminal gangs exist and flourish because WE tolerate them. Just like the enormous waste and fraud in our government. Note the similarity, all are illegal or at least immoral. All can be stopped when and if WE finally decide to no longer allow it to continue.
It appears that, finally, something is being done about these problems, not fast enough for me but FAR better than the laisse-faire we’ve had for decades.
NRW/Boats- Agreed!
Bob- Good point!
Roger- Sadly, yes ‘we’ have, not by choice.
Wanting MS13 and TDA gangs here makes perfect sense…if you are a commie leftist seeking 100% control over normal people.
I worked Rescue in Prince William County VA up to the late 90’s and The Dale City area was notorious for housing gangs and bad people of all types. There were lots of areas a wise individual did not go, even during daylight hours.
In an 1887 speech, Theodore Roosevelt said of the bomb-throwing anarchists of his day, “There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester…”
It makes sense if you are an agent of chaos and evil. The Commies laid out the successful blueprint on how to destroy a society, with the “Long March” through all the institutions. I don’t want to sound TOO pessimistic, but I’d say they won. There’s just so much “good people” inertia, we keep limping and stumbling along.
Dan- Point!
Wayne- Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about Dale City!
Ed- Concur!
Tree- Agreed, and that needs to change.