This is an article from December 2018... Still relevant, still good. Keep up the good work ICE... Don't let the Libs get you down.

Lynda
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In April, a CNS News report stated that a United States Immigrant and Customs Enforcement study was conducted which found that 99 MS-13 gang members had received the “unaccompanied minor” status. This included almost 2/3 that had been granted “Special Immigrant Juvenile” status.

Western Journal reported:

The immigrants arrested were targeted as part of ICE’s Operation Matador, described by the agency as a “unified effort to combat the proliferation of MS-13 and other transnational criminal gang activity in Long Island, the New York City metropolitan area and the Hudson Valley.”

As of the most recent updates available, the operation has netted 475 arrests for federal immigration authorities.

The ICE statement explained, “Ninety-nine individuals arrested during this operation crossed the border as unaccompanied minors, all of which were confirmed as MS-13 gang members.”

ICE also stated that “64 individuals arrested during this operation obtained Special Immigrant Juvenile Status after entering the country, all of which were confirmed as MS-13 gang members.”

ICE reported that the further designation “provides certain children who have been subject to state juvenile court proceedings related to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis under state law the ability to seek lawful permanent residence in the United States.”

The operation was started in May of 2018, and since then authorities from Hempstead, Piermont, Suffolk County, Nassau County, Rockland County, Sullivan County and Ulster County have also helped DHS with arrests.

ICE reported that the majority of the almost 500 who had already been arrested were “confirmed as gang members and affiliates.”

Western Journal reports, “Two of the MS-13 members arrested have reportedly confessed to homicides committed in their home country. One such individual was described by ICE as gang member ‘from El Salvador who admitted to killing rival gang members at the age of 12 in his home country and assimilated to the gang on Long Island.'”

274 of those arrested were a part of MS-13. The second “most prominent” gang was “the 18th Street gang with 15 arrests.”

Western Journal writes:

Not only were many of those arrested connected to known street gangs, ICE noted that “80 had additional criminal histories, including prior convictions for assault and weapons charges.”

At least five of those individuals “are facing serious criminal charges,” the agency added.

President Donald Trump has condemned the MS-13 gang time and time again, referring to members of the gang as “animals.”

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