MILNET Brief:
Prisons and Hispanic Gangs - The Process, 06/01/2008


A few years ago, MILNET was amazed by the relationship between prisons and street gangs.  We dug a little deeper and found a frighteningly correlation between prisons and drug smuggling operations across the border.  The linkage?  Hispanic Gangs.  Primarily boasting of membership of young Mexicans in gangs created as far south of the border as El Salvador.  MS-13 for instance is well known and already a major plague in most cities, even as far as way from the border as Hartford, Connecticut or New York City. 

The prison connection is almost too hard to believe, but it is now well documented as part of "the process".  Here's how it works.

Gang members in half  or more of the U.S. organizations are recruited in prison.  That's right. In prison.  Lefty's response is arrogant and stupid, empty the prisons.  Oh sure.  The recruiting is not ad hoc by no means.  Illegals from the drug smugglers routinely wind up in prison on drug violations. These "members" then prey on hispanics, blacks, and whites who they feel will make violent contributors to the street gangs in Los Angeles, or Houston.  Numbers?  Congressional testimony by every law enforcement agency along the border plus national organizations like the FBI and Homeland Security all, sadly, point to the same conclusion. 

Think on it.  Where will you find a lot of the violent people you want to recruit to run drugs, threaten competitors, punish squealers, and fight the cops almost on a daily basis?  That's right, in prisons.  And as we point out, this is not serendipity.  The organization works in a well oiled machinery...here's a diagram for you visually oriented readers:




The step-by-step demonstrates how frighteningly simple this process is:
  1. Drug smugglers link up with MS-13 or other radicalized violent criminal organizations
  2. Drug smugglers make use of these "members" in ferrying drugs and/or their side business, smuggling people into the U.S. across the border
  3. Most waltz in scott-free and meet up with their cohorts in a southern border cities, some of which have sanctuary laws that prohibit police to even ask about their immigration status (a clear federal law violation, but the cities don't give a damn).  Some migrate as far away as Connecticut.
  4. Some are captured on the way in, and reside in jails waiting for overcrowded court system to work the wheels of immigration machinery.  Some have girlfriends who came over with them and have a baby, a new U.S. citizen, while they are waiting for trial.  Some impregnate girls already living here and they too have new citizens.  Some of the girls aren't given much choice in the matter, some are out-and-out raped producing more new citizens.
  5. Many participate in day-to-day street crimes including usually, something to do with drugs, extortion or just plain violence while "playing" in the streets of America.
  6. A regular path leads into the prison system for many, some without ever having their illegal status discovered until well after they have been incarcerated.  That is part of the plan, they depend on the slow wheels of immigration justice to ensure their recruiting plan still works.
  7. While in jail or prison, they prey on "subceptibles" and recruit them into their organizations. 
  8. When the new recruits get out of prison (it's called "graduation" or hispanic slang which means essentially the same), they immediately find that their new friends tipped off  their new "family" on their release and these new colleagues are ready to welcome them into their new careers.  Not as if many of the recruits have any choice in the matter.
  9. New recruits swell the ranks, replacing any original south-of-the-border members who eventually got deported in "the process".
  10. Those deported, wait a while, take a  break in the battle, and then start all over again by crossing into the U.S.  If they go to prison, well, more time off with food and a place to sleep til they try next time. Some have done this three and four times. No big deal.  And not surprisingly, they find a wealth of protection and benefits in prison...they are popular and different enough from the main population... they have some advantages in prison over your average violent convict.   Long term convicts don't mess with the likes of MS-13 for instance...if they do, they might not survive their wait for release or parole.  It's called easy time, by the way, not too much different then enlisting in the Army for a few years.
Sound too fantastic to believe?  Sorry, not fiction.  This is a working system that has been well documented AND IN OPERATION FOR OVER  A DECADE IF NOT TWO.

Feeding this system is the flood of illegals coming across the border that camouflage the secret assault on our country.  We place this in terms of national security for a good reason.  If you don't buy into the dangers of illegal immigration...don't believe there are costs to our society from socialist raised, disaffected citizens of Mexico strolling in to make a buck and take advantage of our liberalized health and other services, fine.  We pray for you especially if you live in a city near the border.

However, you can't ignore this other danger that stems from the same flood.  Numbers?  2 % to 3% of those detected illegally crossing are destined to or are already involved with the Hispanic gangs.  Whoa!  That's huge when you are talking 1, 2 or even 3 million illegals a year.   That's a lot of potential prison inmates, and a lot of violent criminals.  And notice Homeland Security always prefaces their testimony with the key word "detected".   Homeland Security readily admitted recently that they are truly only guessing at the MINIMUM numbers of illegals crossing in a year.  Talk to one of those focused on the border and you find they believe it is a lot higher than the numbers cited before Congress. 

In any case, the system can be summarized as Join, Cross, Deal some drugs, extort or even Kill a few of your enemies, then eventually to to Prison and take a break.  Recruit, go home.  Start over, loop until killed.  And surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be any end to this process, nor any lack of "volunteers". As we said before.  Amazing.

For the facts and links to Congressional testimony on the entire Hispanic Gang process, see the MILNET Briefing, Hispanic Gangs



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