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ILLEGALS IN SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER'S STATE OF NEW YORK - DESPERATE PARENTS PULL CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOLS INFESTED WITH MS-13 GANG TERRORIST


Desperate Parents Pull Children Out of School Over Fears of MS-13 Gang


May 17, 2017 11:26 am Last Updated: May 19, 2017 4:42 pm

NEW YORK—Schools have become the crucible for intimidation and recruitment into the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13gang on Long Island and around the country.
One Long Island mother, who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal from MS-13, said she and several other parents have taken their teenagers out of the local high school because they’ve become targets of the gang. Some children are being homeschooled and, in a few extreme cases, sent to stay with relatives out of the state.
“I am scared to death,” the mother said. “It’s a crapshoot. I feel like we’re rolling the dice here, and it shouldn’t be like this.”
Parents and children in Brentwood and Central Islip barely had time to comprehend the shocking murders of two teenage girls last September before four young men were found killed last month.
All six victims had been brutally murdered with baseball bats and machetes—the modus operandi of the MS-13 gang, which has proliferated in the area in recent years.
The Suffolk County Police Department confirmed that there are currently about 450 known MS-13 gang members in the county.
“These kids are on high alert,” the mother said. “I feel like I’m losing my child … to this situation. The situation has just made him hardened.”
The mother blames the schools as a major problem area. “My talks with the school administration reflected denial and lack of solutions,” she said.
Evelyn Rodriguez, whose daughter 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas was slain in September, said she knows of parents who have pulled their kids out of school.




A sign offering a reward for information regarding the murders of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, near Brentwood High School where they attended, in Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., on March 29. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
A sign offering a reward for information regarding the murders of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, near Brentwood High School in Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., on March 29, 2017. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

Rodriguez said she battled with Brentwood High School authorities for two years regarding Kayla and the MS-13 members who were targeting and bullying her.
“The school did nothing. They suspended the individual, along with my daughter, but the problem wasn’t solved,” Rodriguez said in an interview on March 28. “There’s no intervention, there’s no prevention. There’s nothing there in between. So when they come back into the school, the situation is greater.”
And now, she said, with social media in the mix, a lot gets exacerbated online.
Felix Adeyeye, director of public relations for the Brentwood Union Free School District, said it’s likely there are some gang members attending school, but the students are safe.
“Gang activity, paraphernalia, and the like are not tolerated within the building and grounds of the Brentwood school district,” Adeyeye said in an email. He said any student displaying gang paraphernalia or demonstrating gang activities on school grounds is “quickly removed, reprimanded, and subject to superintendent hearing for further review and disciplinary actions.”
Adeyeye said the issue surrounding Kayla is “nuisance and requires greater consideration.” He said when a student is suspended, intervention services are provided, but did not go into detail about the process.
Rodriguez is now dedicated to bringing programs into Brentwood High School “to help the ones being targeted, bullied, or those at risk of being recruited,” she said. “I want families, parents, to know that there’s resources out there.”
The Brentwood school district serves 20,000 students and is reaching capacity, district school safety director Carlos Sanchez said in a March interview.
“We have an average of between 10 to as many as 25 new students being registered a day,” said Sanchez. Class sizes are bursting at 30 to 35 pupils per class, he said. The schools are not given any information on the children as to their immigration status, criminal record, or special needs.
Robert Mickens, father of 15-year-old Nisa Mickens, who was slain alongside Kayla last September, just completed an unsuccessful run for a trustee position on the Brentwood school board.
“What I’m trying to bring to this community is change,” Mickens said in a promotional video. “More programs and a safer environment. And for children to enjoy themselves and to be happy again.”
Mickens and most of his family members are alumni of the school district.

Forcing Membership

Peter Fitzhugh, deputy special agent in charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York, said his agency recently launched a strike force on transnational organized crime in response to the spate of extreme violence at the hands of MS-13.
HSI’s anti-gang activities fall under its Operation Community Shield initiative, which was set up in 2005 to locate, investigate, prosecute, and deport gang members.
HSI is also working with federal, state, and local law enforcement officials to deal with MS-13.




Peter Fitzhugh, deputy special agent in charge for ICE Homeland Security Investigations in New York at his office in Manhattan, May 11, 2017. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Peter Fitzhugh, deputy special agent in charge for ICE Homeland Security Investigations in New York at his office in Manhattan, May 11, 2017. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)

Most MS-13 gang members hail from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras.
“It’s not surprising to me that parents and children are afraid. What we’re seeing is that MS, by and large, is using the schools as recruitment centers,” Fitzhugh said.
“The fear of not joining the gang is so significant that kids feel compelled—they have no other option but to join the gang,” he said. “Obviously, this is a win-win for MS, because this environment is there and a lot of these kids are vulnerable.”
He said MS-13’s propensity for ruthlessness and violence is what they use to force membership.
“The level in which they execute their gang justice, that really is eye-opening—baseball bats, machetes, knives—it’s really ruthless stuff,” he said. One of the gang’s mottos is “mata, viola, controla” (“kill, rape, control”).

Unaccompanied Minors

Fitzhugh said MS-13 membership has expanded since 2014, coinciding with thousands of unaccompanied minors flooding the southwest border.  
Approximately 155,000 unaccompanied alien children have been apprehended at the southern border in the last three years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. Nearly 80 percent of these minors are from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, and many travel by land to the southern border with the assistance of smugglers, who are paid several thousand dollars by one or both parents already in the United States.
DHS Secretary John Kelly said in a February memo that the unaccompanied minor program is being abused.
About 60 percent of minors initially determined to be “unaccompanied alien children” are not eligible for the status or the benefits it affords (including care and social services) because they are entering the country to live with one or more parents illegally residing in the United States.
In the last 3 1/2 years, more than 4,500 unaccompanied minors have been resettled in Suffolk County, with the bulk being absorbed into the Brentwood and Central Islip communities.




Brentwood High School in Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., on March 29. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
Brentwood High School in Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., on March 29, 2017. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

“While it was well-intended, I think there have been some consequences of that that have led to MS-13 membership increasing—not only in Long Island but in cities around the country that historically had an MS-13 gang problem,” Fitzhugh said.
In Central America, it is commonplace to be part of MS-13 at 11 or 12 years old, he said.
“That was their life. That was the only option or alternative they had,” he said. “These kids who are coming in … may have been forced to commit acts of violence at a very, very young age.”
When an unaccompanied minor crosses the border, immigration authorities have up to 72 hours before they must hand the minor over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is under the umbrella of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The ORR then transports the minor from a facility near the southwest border to an adult sponsor, who is often a family member.
In the 72 hours that immigration authorities have with the minor, it is sometimes impossible to even verify their age and that they are indeed a minor, Fitzhugh said.
“We really don’t have a lot of time to do the proper vetting.”
After handing a minor over to the ORR, Homeland Security loses contact with them, Fitzhugh said. “Until they find themselves in our community and come up on our radar for whatever reason—gangs, or prostitution, or other things.”
He said Homeland Security is “working through some challenges” with the Department of Health and Human Services about sharing information on unaccompanied minors.




Police investigate the site where four young men were found murdered in a park in Central Islip, Long Island, on April 13. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Police investigate the site where four young men were found murdered in a park in Central Islip, NY, on April 13, 2017. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Currently, when ORR places a child, no information about the child is shared with schools, local law enforcement, or local social services agencies.
But, Fitzhugh said, “we have an obligation to provide community officials with more information about who we might be shipping to their towns.”
Once the minor is placed, ORR conducts “safety and well-being calls with the child and their sponsor” 30 days after release, the organization confirmed via email. The phone call is meant to determine whether the child is still residing with the sponsor, is enrolled in or attending school, is aware of upcoming court dates, and is safe, ORR said.
Fitzhugh said HSI has received some reports that MS-13 is pressuring some local adults to become sponsors for unaccompanied minors coming up.

An Alternative

Carolyn Baez, director of programs for YES (Youth Enrichment Services), a nonprofit organization for youth based in Central Islip, said she knows parents who have pulled their children out of school due to MS-13 fears.
“There is still a lot of fear. It’s still very new,” she said.
Tears spring up when Baez talks about Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens, the two young girls murdered by MS-13 in September last year.
“Two of our girls that were part of YES were murdered. They were butchered,” Baez said. “Then six months later, four kids got killed. Murdered in a park that we helped build two years ago.”




Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini (L) at a news conference, where he offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the killings of four young men, in Central Islip, N.Y., on April 13. (SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES)
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini (L) at a news conference, where he offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the killings of four young men, in Central Islip, N.Y., on April 13. (SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES)

She said parents reacted by telling her, “We need you more than ever. You are our safe haven.”
Baez works with a lot of Hispanic families, many of whom are here illegally from Central America, and many unaccompanied minors.
She said local community leaders can lack cultural sensitivity toward Central Americans, which exacerbates the problem and pushes youth toward gangs.
“We don’t know how to welcome them because as educators we don’t know, we lack sensitivity,” she said. “So now they lack a sense of belonging, and they have no way out but to be in what they call ‘their tribe.'”
Baez said she has had gang members in her programs before. She recounted a success story of a young male who became a YES mentor and went into law enforcement, as well as a sad story in which a gang member was killed two years ago.
Baez said her organization is a gang deterrent and hopes for more funding to continue the vast range of programs it runs in and outside of schools.
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How MS-13 Operates on Long Island, a Summary
  • Much of the gang’s recruitment is carried out in schools
  • Members target others for wearing the wrong color or refusing to join the gang
  • Many gang members who aren’t in school have jobs at restaurants, as day laborers or landscapers, or in local stores.
  • MS-13 has cliques, or crews, that operate in the same area
  • The gang has been known to bring in members from outside their area to carry out a killing or other crime
  • MS-13 has loose communication and financial ties with leaders in El Salvador
  • Members make money mostly through extortion and prostitution
  • The extortion takes the form of threatening local families to pay a few hundred dollars, with brutal violence as the repercussion
SOURCE: ICE Homeland Security Investigations





Democrats Adopt Stealth ‘Amnesty-or-Shutdown’ Blackmail Strategy




Democratic leaders are holding the 2018 federal budget hostage to their demand for a cheap-labor amnesty — but are also obscuring their very unpopular demand behind a barrage of subsidiary demands, according to GOP politicians.

Those other demands include easily resolved disputes over money, such as spending caps, parity between domestic and national security spending, funding for the CHIP health insurance program, and disaster aid for Texas and Puerto Rico.
According to Politico:
“[R]ight now, the Democrats are holding that deal hostage for a DACA negotiation. … I think that’s going to make the Jan. 19 date pretty hard to hit,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday. “They’re just not agreeing to the spending caps … They’ve made a decision not to go forward on that until we get closer or get a DACA deal.”
Added a White House official: “I’m pessimistic that we’ll get a [budget] caps deal by the 19th… because I think the Dems are going to slow-walk this discussion until they get DACA in place, and I don’t think we will have a deal on DACA by Jan. 1″ …
[Sen Dick] Durbin said Democrats would like to have a DACA deal as part of any spending agreement, along with a whole host of items: “There are many elements that we want to have included in any final agreement. DACA is one of them, [children’s health insurance] is one of them, community health care clinics and a number of things,” the Illinois Democrat said.

Dems' budget "slow walk" kind of a brilliant strategy, if true, no? Allows press to pretend any shutdown is about lots of issues (caps, CHIP, etc.) when really it's all about DACA.
Also suggests Dems know they can't win shutdown over just DACA. https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/950612731853291521 

The Democrats are being aided by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is the leading GOP advocate for mass, cheap-labor immigration. On Monday, he described the shutdown threat to reporters but lowered the Democrats’ shutdown-or-amnesty demand to a one-year extension of the DACA amnesty. According to Roll Call, saying:
“We’re all going to win or we’re all going to lose,” Graham told reporters.
“We’re not going to shut the government down, and if we can’t reach a deal for the DACA-plus population for, you know, reasonable border security and diversity lottery changes, we’ll find some way to fund the government,” Graham said.
“We’ll probably extend the DREAM Act kids, the DACA kids, for a year,” Graham said of what could happen without a broader agreement.
RollCall also reported:
“Whether it’s done with the spending bill or done in advance of the spending bill, but it has to be done before the spending bill is taken up,” Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said. “It’s not something where we’ll deal with all the other stuff and deal with DACA later.”
Any temporary or permanent amnesty would be a huge defeat for Trump and his voters — whether it covered the 3.25 million ‘dreamer’ illegals or the 670,000 ‘DACA’ illegals. It would be a defeat because most Hill politicians would expect it to be repeated every year, making any “temporary” amnesty into a permanent political fact and proving that business groups can raise the supply of imported labor whenever Americans’ wages start to rise.
“It would be catastrophic for the nation and the Republican party,” said Bill Gheen, founder of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. Republicans “are dead political meat once the amnesties illegals start legally voting … They are not only going to vote 90 percent Democratic and many will be Democratic machine-operatives.”
Trump will also lose if the amnesty becomes law, “there are a lot of people who won’t be there for him anymore,” said Gheen. “Trump would be supporting legislation that would prevent anyone like him from getting elected again.”
But business-first Republicans can support an amnesty, he added. “The sellout Republicans know that if DACA gets through, their family can live in gated communities for years,” he said.
Democrats have to hide their demands for an amnesty because the issue is political poison.
Polls show that Trump’s American-first immigration policy is very popular, even as industry-funded “National of Immigrants” polls also show that most Americans want to be nice to immigrants, both legal and illegal.
For example, a poll of likely 2018 voters shows two-to-one support for President Donald Trump’s pro-American immigration policies, and a lopsided four-to-one opposition against the cheap-labor, mass-immigration, economic policy pushed by bipartisan establishment-backed D.C. interest-groups.
The results from the priorities poll are very different from the “Nation of Immigrants” polls pushed by business and progressive outlets. Business groups and Democrats tout the misleading, industry-funded “Nation of Immigrants” polls because they which pressure Americans to say they welcome migrants, including the roughly 670,000 ‘DACA’ illegals and the roughly 3.25 million ‘dreamer’ illegals.


The alternative “priority or fairness” polls — plus the 2016 election — show that voters in the polling booth put a much higher priority on helping their families, neighbors, and fellow nationals get decent jobs in a high-tech, high-immigrationlow-wage economy.


Similarly, other polls show that the public — and the Democratic base — strongly object to any government shutdown to help illegals.
In December, Trump used those polls to force the Democrats to back off from their public amnesty-or shutdown threats, so prompting the Democrats to embrace their new stealth amnesty-or-shutdown policy in January.
The public’s support for Trump’s low-immigration/high-wages strategy will also rise throughout 2018 — helping him win the November elections — as companies step up their competition for workers by offering higher wages. The New York Times reported:
“There are no Americans out there to take the jobs,” said Mark Drury, a vice president at Shapiro & Duncan, a Washington-area plumbing, heating and cooling firm. The company and its competitors have resorted to poaching each other’s project managers, engineers, welders and plumbers.”
Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.
But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting 1 million new legal immigrants, by providing work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.
The Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via mass-immigration floods the market with foreign laborspikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate priceswidens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.
The cheap-labor policy has also reduced investment and job creation in many interior states because the coastal cities have a surplus of imported labor. For example, almost 27 percent of zip codes in Missouri had fewer jobs or businesses in 2015 than in 2000, according to a new report by the Economic Innovation Group. In Kansas, almost 29 percent of zip codes had fewer jobs and businesses in 2015 compared to 2000, which was a two-decade period of massive cheap-labor immigration.
Because of the successful cheap-labor strategy, wages for men have remained flat since 1973, and a large percentage of the nation’s annual income has shifted to investors and away from employees.




Border Crossings under Trump Back at Obama’s Numbers



The number of illegal aliens apprehended and determined to be inadmissible along the southwest border with Mexico rose again in December. The figures exceed those under President Barrack Obama in the months leading up to the surge of unaccompanied minors and families in 2014. The number of families apprehended in December 2017 rose 15 percent over the previous month.

After falling to historically low rates in March and April 2017, the number of apprehensions began rising for seven consecutive months. In December 2017, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 30,000 between the ports of entry, according to a report published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Tuesday morning.
The number of apprehensions is lower than one year ago when migrants rushed ahead of the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Breitbart Texas reported. In December 2016, agents apprehended 43,375 who crossed the border illegally. In 2017, that number fell to 28,996.
In June 2014, Breitbart Texas’ Brandon Darby published a series of photographs from the federal government, showing massive numbers of unaccompanied minors being warehoused in shoddy detention facilities. The revelation of these images swept across the globe and arguably changed the political discussion of border security in America.
In December 2013, the number of migrants apprehended and determined to be inadmissible rose to 36,695. In the months leading up to the June 2014 report, those numbers would increase to 66,541. That number in December 2017 rose to 40,513, an increase of 3,818 over the same month in 2013.
The number of apprehensions in December 2017 fell slightly compared to the previous month. Agents apprehended 29,082 in November. The December apprehensions reflect a 0.3 percent decrease from the prior month.
However, the numbers of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) continue to rise. UAC apprehensions rose from 3,990 in November to 4,083 in December. FMUA apprehensions rose from 7,015 to 8,121 over the same period.
“The general consensus among border patrol and other experts is that the numbers have rebounded because of the court-imposed catch and release policy, whereby a rogue federal judge decided that all illegally arriving minors have to be released, even if they are with their parents,” Center for Immigration Studies Policy Director Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart Texas on Tuesday.
Vaughan added:
Basically, the smugglers have figured out that illegal crossers with kids will be detained briefly and then allowed to stay indefinitely, whether they try to claim asylum or just join the larger illegal population. It’s a great service to sell, and there’s a huge market, and so they keep getting richer off of this illicit trade, until Congress steps in or until the Trump administration figures out a way around this problem. But the cost to American communities that have to accommodate these new arrivals is getting to be astronomical – not only the cost for schools, health care and welfare services, but also the cost in public safety, because MS-13 and other gangs have figured out how to game the system too. They have boosted their numbers and gone on a crime and killing spree that is unprecedented in places where they are settling.
The Rio Grande Valley in South Texas continues to lead the eight other sectors of the southwestern border with Mexico in terms of the apprehension of UACs and FMUAs. The sector accounts for 46 and 61 percent respectively of the number of apprehensions in Fiscal Year 2018 year-to-date figures.
The UACs are reported to be coming from Guatemala (5,697), Mexico (2,433), Honduras (1,740), and El Salvador (993). Guatemala also leads the list of countries sending FMUAs to the U.S. with 10,650 in the first three months of FY2018. This is followed by Honduras (5,545), El Salvador (3,136), and Mexico (481).
The increase in family apprehensions in December came as the Trump Administration discussed the implementation of a policy to protect these children being put in danger by their family members, Breitbart Texas reported.
“It’s cruel for parents to place the lives of their children in the hands of transnational criminal organizations and smugglers who have zero respect for human life and often abuse or abandon children,” Acting DHS Press Secretary Tyler Houlton said in a written statement in December. She explained the administration is committed to exploring “all possible measures” to protect children.
Vaughan explained, “in the absence of Congressional action to supersede the court, ICE seems to think it has no choice but to start cracking down on this practice. Separating the children from their parents is not ideal, but we have to remember that this is a choice the parents have made, it’s part of a criminal enterprise, and the alternative of simply releasing the kids has been a disaster for American communities.”
“Those who find this objectionable should get behind the legislation pending from the House Judiciary Committee that would give the government more flexibility to handle the problem in a way that is more appropriate and will be more effective,” she stated.
Breitbart Texas has reported frequently on children and minors who are abandoned by their smugglers and left to die in the fields of South Texas and deserts of southern Arizona.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTXGab, and Facebook.

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