News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

More border cities see signs of Mara Salvatrucha

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Photo - NPR.org
Article Launched: 12/13/2007 01:06:53 AM MST


The recent arrest of a man tied to Mara Salvatrucha doesn't mean the ruthless Central American street gang is on the verge of gaining a foothold in El Paso, law enforcement authorities say.

However, it may portend a growing trend of incursions into other U.S. cities by the gang, which has a reputation for extreme violence, including hacking victims with machetes, controlling prisons and threatening the stability of some Central American countries.

The gang member arrested in El Paso was among a dozen Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, members stopped in September and October during heightened law enforcement operations along the Texas-Mexico border, the Texas governor's office said recently. Gang members, which have cliques in Houston and Dallas, also were captured in Maverick, Webb and Hidalgo counties.

The Mara Salvatrucha was founded by Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles.

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