There Are 1.4 MILLION Gang Members In The United States And More Pour Into The Country Every Single Day. A vast army of heavily armed criminals has embedded itself in every major city in the United States.
In fact, nearly every community in America is now affected by these thugs. Drugs, theft and brutal violence are all part of the every day lifestyle of the members of this army. They aggressively recruit our young people and floods of illegal immigrants are joining their ranks. Once civil unrest erupts in America, they will go on a crime spree that will be absolutely unprecedented and they will burn large areas of some U.S. cities to the ground.
So who am I talking about? In many areas of America today, families live behind windows that have bars on them and they won’t ever go out at night because it is just too dangerous. Mexican drug cartels hire teens, children for smuggling, and murder - International. Nation rattled by 14-year-ol contract killer, known as 'Ponchi' One of the most shocking aspects of Mexico's war on drugs is the use of drug cartels heinous use of teens and young children for smuggling, thievery - even murder.
Mexico is still reeling from the revelation a slight, 14-year-old named Edgar Jimenez Lugo, commonly known as "Ponchi" who began killing for the cartels at the age of 11. There Are 1.4 MILLION Gang Members In The United States And More Pour Into The Country Every Single Day. Mexican drug cartels find youths to be easy prey. Reporting from Jiutepec, Mexico, and Mexico City — The curly-haired suspect in the sweatshirt faced the flash of news cameras, looking impossibly small.
"When did you start to kill? " he was asked. "How much did you earn? " "How many did you execute? " He said he began killing at age 11. "How? " "I cut their throats," he replied. The detainee's name was Edgar Jimenez Lugo, but everyone knew him as Ponchi. He's 14 years old. In shin-length shorts and flip-flops, the San Diego-born boy was a cheerful fixture on the pothole-marked streets of his neighborhood on the gritty side of Jiutepec, a town near Cuernavaca that's a weekend retreat for residents of Mexico City. But whispers swirled that he'd fallen in with a dangerous crowd, that he was riding around in spiffy cars. Edgar's father, David Jimenez, said he had caught the boy smelling of alcohol at a local basketball court, but nothing worse. "He was kind of forgotten," Jimenez said. "They're dead," he said.
Mexican drug cartels find youths to be easy prey. Voices of NY » » West Indian Youth Join Gangs to Fill Void at Home. Leroy Hutchinson, who worked as a cop in Brooklyn for over 12 years trying to bring together East Flatbush residents and NYPD officers, expresses sorrow over the increasing number of young people from West Indian families who join gangs and get involved in drugs and violence.
He tells Carib News‘ Tony Best that Caribbean youth turn to gangs to fill in the void at home. Members of the Caribbean community worry about the increasing susceptibility of young people in East Flatbush to gangs. (Photo by Tom Giebel, Flickr Creative Commons License)It’s a hard fact of life that these young people, most of them first and second generation kids who were born in the United States of West Indian parents, are searching for love but unfortunately, they are finding it [in] the wrong places,” he said. St. Vincent psychologist Dr. “Many of the young people, who were either born in the United States or came to the country when they were infants, have lost their purpose,” he said. Drug addiction: Causes. Drugs Not Main Cause for Gangs, Sheriff Says : Crime: Block says it's a misconception that narcotics sales are the biggest reason for street violence. He tells of need to focus on self-worth and self-esteem.
The misconception that the drug trade is the chief motivator for gang violence has hobbled efforts to solve an expanding problem that is killing more people across Los Angeles County every year, Sheriff Sherman Block told a gathering of 600 educators in Downey on Wednesday.
The acknowledgment, echoed by numerous gang authorities at a gang symposium sponsored by the county Office of Education, represents a public departure from statements made by some law enforcement officials and politicians since Los Angeles' gang problems became a national story two years ago. "The cause for the majority of the violence is pure and simple: fascination and excitement, coupled with deep-seated hatred of one gang for another," Block said. Although drug sales often constitute the means by which street thugs finance vehicles and sophisticated weaponry, Block said, "the time has come for the newly enlightened in our community to start looking at the gang situation realistically. Luis.vasquez69. Mexican drug cartel gang members in most American cities and our military. By Michael Webster Many of American gangs have developed regular working relationships with Mexican Drug Cartels (MDC's) and other international criminal organizations in Mexico, Central America, Canada and Afghanistan.
Where they develop sources of supply for wholesale quantities of illicit drugs and to facilitate other criminal activities. According to federal law enforcement gang members provide Mexican MDC's with support, such as smuggling, transportation, and security. Mexican drug cartels strengthen ties with US gangs.
Mexican drug cartels are strengthening alliances with gangs in the United States beyond ethnic, ideological and geographic boundaries, warns a new report from the federal National Gang Intelligence Center.
The gang-cartel link is most prominently seen in El Paso between the Barrio Azteca gang and the Juárez drug cartel, but similar alliances are emerging in various parts of the country, according to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. El Paso police report a drop in gang membership and criminal gang activity, but nationally, gangs are expanding, evolving and becoming more sophisticated, the National Gang Threat Assessment reported. "Federal, state and local law enforcement officials are observing a growing nexus between the Mexican drug cartels, illegal alien smuggling rings and U.S. -based gangs," the study stated. The recently released report stated that different cartels are aligned with various gangs, including gangs that work with more than one cartel, depending on the situation. StreetGangsandDrugSalesinTwoSuburbanCitiesSep1995.