After a man who was scheduled to testify against alleged members of the violent MS-13 gang was found bludgeoned to death in New York, Nassau County officials, including the police commissioner and the district attorney, questioned whether new bail reform laws that permitted his name to be revealed by defense attorneys to defendants had led to his death.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/nyregion/ms-13-long-island.html">The New York Times</a> wrote of the victim, Wilmer Maldonado Rodriguez, 36, &#8220;On Sunday, Mr. Rodriguez was found beaten to death outside a home in New Cassel, N.Y., and on Wednesday, his killing became a new flash point in the debate over criminal justice changes enacted by the New York State Legislature in 2019 at the urging of progressive lawmakers.&#8221;
As <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/05/man-who-was-supposed-to-testify-against-ms-13-gang-members-found-dead/">The New York Post</a> reported, Rodriguez was “allegedly attacked by nine MS-13 members in October 2018 after intervening when the group threatened two boys. The suspects allegedly beat all three victims, stabbing Maldonado several times and knocking him in the head with a bat, officials said.”
Last December, prosecutors revealed who Rodriguez was to an arrested suspect’s defense team; prior to that his identity was concealed by protective order, as Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas stated. She added, “This case underscores the importance of safeguarding the identities of witnesses and victims of crime and our hearts are with Mr. Maldonado’s family and friends as we grieve his loss.”
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran added, “These new discovery requirements pose a threat to both the victims and witnesses of crimes … I am calling on Albany to take corrective action to fix criminal justice reform immediately. These new discovery requirements pose a threat to both the victims and witnesses of crimes.”
As <a href="https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/news/ms-13-witness-killed-nassau-s-top-cop-blames-bail-law">WCBS</a> reported, Singas stated, &#8220;This courageous man was prepared to testify against his alleged assailants at an upcoming trial, but he was brutally beaten to death before he could.”
Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder noted that the new bail reform law forces prosecutors to hand over all evidence against a defendant within 15 days of arraignment. He stated, “The system failed. The system failed, this man is dead … Justice reform is not taking care of our victims.” <a href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/witness-murder-reform-new-cassel-1.41460454">Newsday</a> noted, “Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said even before Rodriguez was killed, he was assaulted and another victim was shot at &#8212; acts of intimidation that Ryder said began after the previously sealed evidence in the case was disclosed to defense attorneys.”
Ryder later stated there was no direct correlation between the law and Rodriguez&#8217;s death.
In late December, acting state Supreme Court Justice Helene Gugerty, the trial judge, issued an order that provided “for the disclosure of the protected information to defense counsel” but said that the defendants couldn’t see it until Jan. 6 “as that was the trial date,” according to court officials.
Singas added that prosecutors &#8220;protected this victim’s identity by obtaining a protective order in December of 2018, but his identity was disclosed pursuant to a judge’s order in December 2019.” A spokesman for Singas asserted, ‘We continued to request that the identities of the witnesses be protected until we could be ready for trial.&#8221;
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Witness Scheduled To Testify Against Alleged MS-13 Members Found Murdered. NY Officials Question Whether New Bail Reforms Laws Were Involved.

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A member of the violent MS-13 gang who had been previously deported from the U.S. five times was found yet again in Toledo, Ohio.
Juan Carlos Alvarez-Robles, a wanted Mexican national, was found by U.S. Border Patrol agents after executing a federal arrest warrant, WTOL <a href="https://www.wtol.com/article/news/crime/us-border-patrol-arrests-ms-13-gang-member-in-toledo/512-a458d7cb-f946-423d-94bf-567ad9c767ec">reported</a>.
“Alvarez is suspected of numerous criminal activities in the Great Lakes region and has been removed from the United States five times previously,” the outlet reported. “He also has an extensive criminal history according to officials, including: possession of a controlled substance, transporting/selling of narcotics and grand theft auto as well as multiple accounts of theft and burglary.”
He was apprehended by agents with the Sandusky Bay Station, the Detroit Sector Special Operations Detachment, and the Toledo Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force and is currently being held by the U.S. Marshal Service, WTOL reported.
Brian McNeal, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration Detroit Field Division, told WTOL: “MS-13 is one of the world’s largest gangs. Department of Justice estimates their membership to exceed 50,000 members with affiliates in several urban centers in the country including Northwest Ohio. Through law enforcement collaborations, MS-13 members continue to be arrested in order to keep our communities safe from drugs and the violence that is associated with drug trafficking.&#8221;
Throughout 2019, numerous members of MS-13 were arrested or convicted for murder across the U.S. In September, for example, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ms-13-gang-members-arrested-murder-maryland-ashe-schow">reported</a> that six of the seven people arrested in Towson, Maryland, for murder that month were members of the violent gang – all in the country illegally. The seven arrested had targeted a man named Daniel Cueller because he allegedly flashed the hand sign of the rival 18th Street gang. The MS-13 members stalked Cueller to a laundromat, then followed him back to his apartment building and stabbed him to death, allegedly using a “machete-style knife.” Surveillance footage from the laundromat helped lead to the arrests of his killers.
More from The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>Maryland has been struggling with gang violence for some time. In July, four teenagers were arrested for beating 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz to death. Two of the four were members of MS-13, who feared Funes-Diaz would tell police about a gang-related kidnapping two months earlier in Washington, D.C., WBAL reported.
At the end of August, an MS-13 gang member from Maryland was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and stabbing a rival gang member to death four years earlier, the Sun reported.
In April 2018, another MS-13 gang member from Gaithersburg, MD, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the stabbing of a rival gang member three years earlier.</blockquote>
New York has also had trouble with MS-13. In September of last year, three members of the gang were arrested for the 2017 killing of a 16-year-old suspected of working with law enforcement. The murdered 16-year-old had been tasked with killing another low-level gang member who was suspected of warning a third low-level gang member that the leader wanted him dead. The murder victim apparently failed to kill his target and was then murdered by the leader of the gang.

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A man who claims to be a member of the dangerous MS-13 gang was released from prison thanks to New York’s bail reform law, only to be arrested the same day for committing the same crime that landed him in jail in the first place.
Eusebio Jax-Mejia, 21, was jailed on January 1 after stealing a vehicle from Dutchess County and then giving Walton police a fake name. At the time, he was imprisoned on charges of “criminal possession of stolen property in the 3rd degree, a class D felony and false impersonation, a class B misdemeanor,” WBNG <a href="https://wbng.com/2020/01/15/sheriff-suspect-released-sent-back-to-jail-same-day-in-delaware-county/">reported</a>.
Jax-Mejia was released Tuesday thanks to New York’s bail reform law, which has allowed numerous criminals to go free after their arrest rather than sit in jail for their crimes. The law was intended to ensure that the jail system wasn’t allowing wealthy individuals more freedom than low-income criminals who couldn’t “buy” their way out of prison. But large bail amounts would be set to prohibit dangerous people from returning to the streets, but now some of those people are being let loose to commit the same crimes that landed them in prison in the first place.
Just hours after Jax-Mejia was released, he was arrested again for stealing a vehicle – this time a vehicle from outside the Delaware County Public Safety building, WBNG reported. This time Jax-Mejia was charged with “grand larceny in the 3rd degree, a class D felony,” the outlet reported.
In <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DelawareCountySheriff/photos/a.612392405599642/1392267927612082/?type=3&amp;theater">a statement</a> posted on Facebook, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office addressed Jax-Mejia’s arrest and took a shot at the bail reform law.
“This is just one of many examples of the failed so-called bail reform legislation that was enacted on January 1st. Dangerous criminals throughout New York State are being released after committing violent, felony-level acts only to re-offend and continue to commit dangerous felony-level acts, creating victims and wreaking havoc in their wake,” said Sheriff Craig DuMond. “Does Governor Cuomo and our State Legislature really believe that dangerous criminals who are immediately released will not re-offend and instead show up for court? Real victims are being created by the hour and real lives are being lost. When will they come to their senses and fix the problems they created? The people of New York State are crying out and their voices are falling on deaf ears. The first duty of any public official is to provide for the safety of the people they represent and, currently, they are failing miserably. I call upon the Governor and State Legislature to put politics aside and immediately address the dangerous pieces of bail and discovery reform.”
The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrats-bail-reform-has-already-cost-a-life-seething-family-speaks-out">reported</a> previously that one person has already died due to the bail reform law. Jonathan Armand Flores-Maldonado, 27, was killed after Jordan Randolph – a man with a lengthy criminal history that includes numerous drunk driving offenses – was released from prison. Randolph had been arrested for failing to obtain the court-ordered ignition interlock device for his car. He was released on January 1 and 11 days later was involved in a crash that killed Flores-Maldonado. Randolph was charged with a DWI in connection with the crash.

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Another Bail Reform Fail: Gang Member Released From Prison, Sent Back Same Day For Committing Same Crime

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A member of the violent MS-13 gang was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for taking part in a brutal attack involving a machete outside of Dallas, Texas, two years ago.
Manuel Amaya-Alvarez, a 22-year-old El Salvadorian national who was in the U.S. illegally, was sentenced to 20 years on November 14, according to a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Amaya-Alvarez was one of several MS-13 gang members involved in the attack, which resulted in serious physical injuries to two men and the death of a female.
Amaya-Alvarez admitted in September 2017 that he and his fellow gang members planned to “take out” four individuals at the Running Bear Park just outside of Dallas, in Irving, Texas. Members of the gang lured a man they believed was part of a rival gang to the park, claiming they wanted to purchase his tattoo machine. When the man arrived at the park with two other men and a woman, Amaya-Alvarez and another gang member greeted the group.
The group of four was taken into a wooded area, where other gang members armed with a shotgun as well as machetes and clubs revealed themselves. The four victims were surrounded and forced to their knees. The MS-13 gang members robbed the four individuals and then began attacking them.
The three men were able to escape, but two of them suffered blunt force trauma and cuts from the gang’s weapons. The woman, according to the DOJ, “was savagely maimed and left for dead.”
The DOJ provided no update to the cases of the other gang members involved in the attack.
This wasn’t even the only machete attack carried out by the MS-13 gang. In September of this year, six MS-13 gang members were arrested for murdering Daniel Cueller on July 31 in Maryland. The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ms-13-gang-members-arrested-murder-maryland-ashe-schow">reported</a> that Cueller had allegedly flashed the hand sign of a rival street gang, leading to the attack by MS-13.
Cueller,21, was then stalked and stabbed to death outside his apartment building. One of the murders allegedly used a knife similar to a machete in the attack.
A total of seven people were arrested for the murder after surveillance video showed them stalking Cueller. Six of the individuals arrested were members of MS-13 and in the country illegally – five from El Salvador and one from Mexico.
As The Daily Wire reported at the time, Maryland has been struggling with MS-13 violence for years, including the beating death of 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz in July. In August, a member of MS-13 was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and stabbing a rival gang member to death four years earlier, and in April 2018, another MS-13 member was sentenced to 35 years in prison for stabbing a member of a rival gang three years earlier.

MS-13 Gang Member Sentenced To 20 Years For Role In Machete Attack

An upcoming trial involving a whopping 10 defendants &#8212; all with ties to the violent MS-13 gang &#8212; will require courtroom remodeling in order to accommodate all involved.
Santa Barbara media outlet Noozhawk <a href="https://www.noozhawk.com/article/courthouse_modifications_santa_maria_gang_murder_trial_10_defendants">reported</a> that the defendants are facing trial in connection with 10 murders and 14 attempted murders. Superior Court executive officer Darrel Parker has been tasked with finding a courtroom that can accommodate all the accused &#8212; and their attorneys. Parker told the outlet that he tried to look for off-site rooms for the trial, but costs prohibited that as an option.
“We looked at commercial space in the community to see if that would have more viability, but it&#8217;s prohibitively expensive,” Parker told Noozhawk.
Parker said that using a commercial building as the courtroom for the trial would cost an estimated $2 million to $20 million &#8212; nearly his entire annual budget for the county.
“I couldn’t do it. It was a fiscal impossibility,” he told the outlet.
He found that the biggest courtroom in Santa Maria &#8212; Department 8 &#8212; would be the best room for the trial.
“It’s the biggest courtroom we have, and we used it for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Michael_Jackson">Michael Jackson trial,</a>” Parker told the outlet.
That doesn’t mean the courtroom was sitting there perfectly all along, it will still require renovations to accommodate the large number of defendants. From Noozhawk:
<blockquote>While court staff has not yet finalized plans, Parker said the project proposes removing most of the audience seating from Department 8.
That will allow moving the rail back to fit all 10 defendants, 10 defense attorneys, at least three prosecuting attorneys, and court staff in the newly created larger well, or area for non-audience members.
The jury box also will be made bigger to accommodate seating for the 12 jurors and likely equal number of alternates.
This work reportedly will cost about $140,000, money not included in the 2019-20 budget. He has asked the<a href="https://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-jc.htm"> California Judicial Council</a> for funding.</blockquote>
Parker also said the court would look to the holiday period to make the necessary renovations, since that is typically a slow time for the court system.
In 2015, the county faced another large trial, involving six defendants accused of murder. The trial was held at the Santa Maria Juvenile Court with additional jury seating.
Parker previously had used some creativity to figure out how to accommodate alternate jurors in the Michael Jackson case. The original estimate for the additional chairs was $10,000, but Parker looked to eBay and ended up spending no “more than $45 a chair,” he told Noozhawk.
MS-13 is a violent gang operating in numerous states across the country. The gang is responsible for hundreds of murders throughout the United States. Many of its members are illegal immigrants.

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A Trial Involving 10 MS-13 Gang Members Will Require Courtroom Changes To Accommodate All Defendants

As of right now, most national head-to-head polls for the 2020 presidential general election show President Donald Trump losing to his Democratic Party presidential primary rivals. This trend generally holds, regardless of whether the nominee is any of the leading top three Democratic candidates: Former Vice President <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html">Joe Biden</a>, Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_warren-6251.html">Elizabeth Warren</a> (D-MA), or Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-6250.html">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT).
While the Trump campaign might be tempted to rest on its laurels and sneer at the polls based upon a look back at the perceived polling debacle that was the 2016 presidential election, such a move would be just as haughty as it is myopic. As Harry Enten&#8217;s <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-polling-error-behind-clinton/">article</a> from November 4, 2016 — that would be four days before the general election — presciently pointed out, in retrospect, polling from the 2016 election cycle was not actually irreconcilable with a Trump victory. Trump obviously trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls, but his victory was actually not outside the realm of polling feasibility — or even outside the realm of polling reasonableness.
As such, the 2020 Trump re-election campaign would be wise to focus on what it can do to win over a larger share of independent, moderate, and suburban voters. In doing so, the Trump campaign would be wise to look back to a much-ballyhooed part of Karl Rove&#8217;s 2004 blueprint for George W. Bush&#8217;s re-election: Specifically, that campaign&#8217;s ingenious focus on the &#8220;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/security-moms-bushs-secret-election-weapon-gl6jc8cxr7j">security mom</a>.&#8221; The mythical &#8220;security mom,&#8221; at the time, was symbolized by the proverbial suburban mother who was worried about revanchist Islamist terrorism and sought to protect her home and family against those who would seek to kill us.
Although some of the specific animating issues have changed over the past 15 years, there is tremendous potential this election cycle for Trump to deploy similar messaging and reach out to a similar sect of voters.
Violent crime in America, despite overall dramatically declining since the 1990s, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-in-defense-of-prosecutors">unfortunately spiked</a> over the past few years. Why isn&#8217;t Trump formally renouncing the <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20191004/he-was-released-early-from-prison-in-february-now-hes-wanted-for-murder-on-federal-hill">harrowing</a> First Step Act jailbreak law, the passage of which he apparently already <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-reportedly-regrets-passage-jailbreak-first-step-act-gullible-conservatives-supported/">regrets</a>, and doubling down on &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221;-style anti-crime messaging?
Left-wing Democrats are campaigning harder than ever on anti-Second Amendment, gun-grabbing policy proposals. Why isn&#8217;t Trump leading Republicans on a 2020 platform of cracking down on the gun felons that <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/decriminalization-delusion-14037.html">light-on-crime</a> jurisdictions like California seem <a href="https://calmatters.org/gun-violence/2019/10/felons-firearms-california-federal-charges-gun-control-newsom/">hellbent on unleashing</a> upon the general public?
The global jihad — as embodied both by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-josh-hammer">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, the mother&#8217;s milk of Sunni jihad, as well as more public-facing Islamist outfits like al-Qaeda and Islamic State — continues, 18 years after 9/11, to pose a threat to the U.S. homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump running on a platform of discussing not just the wall and border security, but also the arguably even more indispensable issue of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">interior visa enforcement</a>? What about the need to radically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-never-forget-911-we-need-rethink-how-we-josh-hammer">restructure our immigration policy</a> away from letting in largely unvetted populations of Middle Easterners?
Across the nation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-who-will-stand-for-the-forgotten-american">neo-Confederate</a> &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; jurisdictions employ anti-<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Supremacy Clause</a> erroneous legal &#8220;reasoning&#8221; to defy <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiHsv7v4LXjAhWTHM0KHZKMB7gQFjAAegQIAxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fuscode%2Ftext%2F8%2F1324&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EunpYa249SvA-oBwwFrS2">federal immigration law</a>, ignore ICE detainers on <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/another-illegal-alien-arrested-brutal-rape-notorious-sanctuary-montgomery-county/">violent criminal aliens</a>, and aid and abet the work of the transnational Mexican cartels that traffick drugs and criminals alike into the homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump proposing more aggressive policies to strip federal funding away from sanctuary jurisdictions and effectively message to suburban voters that the government will act to help prevent MS-13 thugs from terrorizing their neighborhoods?
There are a myriad other examples, to be sure. But to maximize its 2020 re-election chances, the Trump campaign ought to focus more intensively on appealing to moderates and suburban swing voters. In order to do so, there is no better platform than a safety and security agenda tailored to the very &#8220;security moms&#8221; that President Bush so effectively courted in 2004.

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HAMMER: Trump Needs To Focus On A Safety And Security Agenda For 2020

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Another person has been murdered in the Seattle area due to gang violence committed by illegal immigrants, yet the city still refuses to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Carlos Orlando Iraheta-Vega, a member of the MS-13 gang, was arrested and accused of the brutal slaying of his teenage friend, Juan Carlos Con Guzman. Iraheta-Vega, who entered the country illegally, is accused of bashing Guzman to death with a baseball bat, and then working with another gang member to chop the body into pieces using a machete. One of Guzman’s arms and legs had been severed. Marks on his neck suggested the perpetrators attempted to cut his head off.
The Washington Times <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/14/king-county-washington-officials-shun-ice-despite-/">reported</a> that Iraheta-Vega, 20, “admitted to the killing, saying he’d arranged to fight Juan Carlos but somewhere along the way he and a fellow MS-13 confederate, nicknamed ‘Inferno,’ decided to kill him instead.”
The Times also reported that Iraheta-Vega would have been deported about a year ago had Seattle cooperated with ICE at the time.
“But King County refused to notify ICE that Mr. Iraheta-Vega was being released from jail, and instead freed him into the community. He would have more run-ins with the law, each time escaping ICE’s clutches, until his arrest last week on suspicion of murder,” the outlet reported.
Iraheta-Vega’s arrest on suspicion of murder came just one week after Carlos Daniel Carillo-Lopez was arrested on charges of participating in the murder of a teen boy with fellow gang members. The boy was targeted because his girlfriend had posted a photo of herself online making the hand sign of a rival gang. Carillo-Lopez was a member of the Surenos gang and was prepared to fight a boy who was previously his friend. But after the boy’s girlfriend posted photos of herself making the hand sign of the 18th Street gang, Carillo-Lopez joined others in killing him, the Times reported.
Both Iraheta-Vega and Carillo-Lopez had previous criminal records when they were arrested for murder. Iraheta-Vega had previously stolen a car and had an ICE detainer request placed on him, which city officials in Seattle ignored due to sanctuary city policies.
Sanctuary cities have prevented ICE from deporting dangerous illegal immigrants before they can commit additional crimes.
“This scenario, where sanctuary policies shield criminal aliens who prey on people in the community from immigration enforcement, is becoming all too common,” ICE spokeswoman Tanya Roman told the Times. “As Iraheta-Vega’s crimes increased in severity, local officials chose to release him, time and time again, without notification to ICE, a simple process that could have potentially prevented this crime.”
At the end of September, ICE offices across the country arrested <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-offices-across-the-country-arrested-hundreds-of-criminal-illegal-immigrants-last-week">more than 400 illegal immigrants</a> – most of whom had previous criminal histories. The previous crimes committed including drug offenses, sexual assault (including sexual assault of minors), domestic violence, assault, and more. Many of the arrests took place in sanctuary cities, whose officials refuse to turn illegal immigrants over to ICE.
The recent arrests in Seattle have apparently not deterred the cities sanctuary policies.

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Another Brutal Gang Slaying In Sanctuary City Seattle, Yet Police Still Won’t Work With ICE

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Some Leftists blew a gasket last year after President Donald Trump referred to MS-13 gang members as “animals.”
What, you say men who torture, rape and kill with abandon deserve a sub-human label? Have you no decently, Mr. President?
Even the Speaker of the House <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/17/ms-13-donald-trump-gang-violence-animals-immigrants-media-column/621537002/">got into the act</a>.
“Does he not believe in the <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/05/17/pelosi-responds-to-trumps-animals-remarks-n2481783">spark of divinity</a>, the dignity and worth of every person?” Rep. Nancy Pelosi said at the time.
Could that same thinking be lurking within a powerhouse crowdfunding site?
Mike S. Miller, a right-leaning comic book artist with 27 years experience, designed a crowdfunding campaign for his hero, Lonestar. He describes the character as a “super patriot” who battles evil alongside fellow warriors.
The character isn’t partisan on paper, although he says superheroes who are unabashedly heroic and believe in self-sacrifice are suddenly viewed from an ideological prism. A future “Lonestar” comic will take on an Antifa-style group, says Miller, who contributed to the Injustice Series for DC Comics, among other gigs.
He initially wanted to use IndieGoGo.com for “Lonestar’s” crowdfunding launch, knowing the site has an apolitical reputation. Miller decided to give Kickstarter.com a chance first. The latter site boasts a broad cultural footprint, even though some conservatives fear it tips the scales in favor of the Left.
Miller noticed the site’s “things we love” category routinely highlights campaigns with “left-wing” agendas.
“They push those projects hard and often,” he says.
Miller’s worries had a little history on his side, too.
Phelim McAleer famously sparred with Kickstarter in 2014 when he tried to spark his “Gosnell” film project at the site. The film, which eventually hit theaters last year, focused on the monstrous crimes committed by Philadelphia abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell.
Team Kickstarter threw a red flag on the Gosnell campaign at the time, noting <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/filmmaker-accuses-kickstarter-censoring-gosnell-700566">its indelicate language</a>.
<blockquote>Phelim McAleer …switched to IndieGoGo at the last moment because, he says, Kickstarter was insisting on changes to the wording of his campaign and engaging in other delay tactics. In the end, Kickstarter approved the project but stipulated, as it says is customary, that McAleer agree to allow the company to yank the project from its site if anything &#8220;objectionable&#8221; was added to its web presence.</blockquote>
McAleer, who most recently <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fbi-lovebirds-undercovers--2#/">staged a reading of texts</a> from disgraced FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, later launched a billboard campaign near Kickstarter’s New York offices to denounce its “censorship.”
More importantly, McAleer revealed other, more graphic Kickstarter campaigns at the time that, apparently, sailed past the site’s censors.
Miller says Kickstarter initially approved his “Lonestar” campaign. Later, after he began uploading a few sample pages from the project, the company changed course.
“However, after a careful review, we’ve determined that your project cannot be approved for launch,” Team Kickstarter said.
Miller combed through the site’s rules of conduct, making sure his story didn’t run afoul of any existing guidelines. He even removed comic book pages featuring an MS-13 style group getting beaten up by his hero. Part of the story in question found Lonestar coming to the aid of a black woman caught in the gang’s clutches.
That tweak didn’t help. In fact, Kickstarter later rejected the campaign outright.
<blockquote>As a Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to battling inequality and creating a more equitable world, Kickstarter does not allow discrimination, subjugation, or intolerance towards marginalized groups.</blockquote>
Like … MS-13?
This decision, the note continued, is non-negotiable. Miller shared screen shots of the Kickstarter responses and the comic panels in question with The Daily Wire. This site reached out to Kickstarter.com’s press contact for a response but didn’t receive one before deadline.
Miller, who is half Japanese, thinks the only reason Kickstarter would nix his campaign is if it thought the gang criminals represented a “marginalized group.”
“It’s clear that they put their political ideology above their desire to serve artists, creators, and customers.  This is not how you should do business in America. It’s shameful,” Miller says.
The “Lonestar” project can now be found at <a href="http://lonestarcomic.com/">Indiegogo.com</a>.

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Comic Book Artist: Kickstarter Rejected Campaign for Showing Hero Beating Up MS-13 Like Thugs

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In 2017, a 16-year-old low-level member of the violent MS-13 gang was suspected of working with law enforcement. The leader of his particular faction of the gang allegedly authorized his murder.
Now, two years later, that suspected leader and two other members have been indicted for the murder: Local free newspaper the Queens Chronicle <a href="https://www.qchron.com/editions/north/three-reputedly-in-ms--charged-over-slay/article_cd0c7e07-9850-54ef-9c99-f073a0fa4932.html">reported</a> them as 28-year-old Melvi Amador-Rios (the apparent leader of the faction), 22-year-old Josue Leiva, and 24-year-old Luis Rivas. Rivas is a new defendant added on in the 18-count superseding indictment, the Chronicle reported. The “indictment was filed Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, charging three members of the vicious gang variously with racketeering, murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, robbery and related firearms charges,” the outlet reported.
The new indictment included the murder charges against the three members.
The story of the 16-year-old Julio Vasquez’s death is a little complicated. Amador-Rios allegedly suspected a low-level gang member, referred to in an indictment as John Doe 2, was associating with a rival gang. Amador-Rios authorized the murder of John Doe 2. The leader of the Centrales Locos Salvatruchas faction of MS-13 then suspected that another low-level member, referred to as John Doe 3, had warned John Doe 2 about his impending murder. Amador-Rios then tasked Vasquez with killing John Doe 3. Vasquez failed and was subsequently suspected of working with law enforcement. Amador-Rios then ordered Vasquez’s murder as well.
On May 16, 2017, Vasquez was brought to a wooded area of Alley Pond Park and was allegedly stabbed multiple times by Leiva and Rivas. Vasquez died as a result of his injuries, and his body was found five days later.
“The superseding indictment also adds a robbery charge and associated firearms offense against Amador-Rios and Rivas. On Jan. 8, 2017, they allegedly robbed a money transfer business in Jamaica at gunpoint, and pistol-whipped an employee,” the Chronicle reported. “The defendants face life in prison if convicted.”
Arrests for MS-13 gang members have appeared to pick up in recent years. In July, it was reported that a high school <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50486/ms-13-murdered-california-high-school-student-ashe-schow">declined to inform</a> parents and students that a 16-year-old student was murdered by MS-13 members. At least five of the gang members arrested for the murder were also students at Panorama High School.
Earlier this month, yet another group of MS-13 members were arrested in Maryland for murder. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51498/ms-13-gang-members-arrested-murder-maryland-ashe-schow">reported</a>, six members of MS-13 murdered Daniel Cuellar after he allegedly flashed the sign of a rival gang. MS-13 members stalked him and stabbed him to death. More from the Wire:
<blockquote>Maryland has been struggling with gang violence for some time. In July, four teenagers were arrested for beating 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz to death. Two of the four were members of MS-13, who feared Funes-Diaz would tell police about a gang-related kidnapping two months earlier in Washington, D.C., WBAL reported.</blockquote>
New York has also seen its share of MS-13 gang violence. A 16-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42105/3-allegedly-illegal-alien-ms-13-gang-members-stab-ashe-schow">was stabbed</a> after leaving a Long Island Burger King earlier this year. The murders were allegedly orchestrated my illegal alien members of MS-13.

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Three MS-13 Gang Members Charged With 2017 Murder Of A Teenager

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed this week that six of the seven people arrested in Towson, Maryland, for murder earlier this month were members of the MS-13 gang.
WBAL <a href="https://www.wbal.com/article/408535/2/ice-6-of-7-arrested-in-towson-slaying-had-detainers?fbclid=IwAR0RUHYAXODqgY5VAUA-def92wrJBHNo3yOlgW8FAcw-y98RCk3cDkHfDDs">reported</a> that the six gang members were in the U.S. illegally; five were from El Salvador and one was from Mexico. From WBAL:
<blockquote>Baltimore County police arrested Jonathan Escobar-Hernandez, Marlon Fabian-Flores, Edwin Garcia-Martir, Hugo Portillo-Chavez, Odaliz Rosas-Yanez and Leonal Velasquez-Hernandez in connection with the July 31 stabbing death of Daniel Cuellar.
Velasquez-Hernandez is 16, but is being charged as an adult in the case. He waived his rights and spoke to county police detectives at an ICE office in New Orleans, according to charging documents. He said he participated in surveillance that led to Cuellar&#8217;s murder, police said in charging documents. Police said he pointed himself out in video surveillance footage.
All remain held without bail. Police believe Cuellar was the intended target of a planned murder, but the motive remains under investigation.</blockquote>
The Balitmore Sun <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-co-cr-cuellar-murder-charges-20190904-lovdc3cpp5asri5yyoltxurkla-story.html">reported</a> that Cueller was targeted because he flashed “a hand sign of the 18th Street gang.” The 18th Street gang are the rivals of MS-13.
“The victim had been seen making a hand gesture that was believed to be indicative of an affiliation with the 18th Street,” detectives wrote in documents reviewed by the Sun.
The MS-13 members then stalked Cueller, 21, after he left a laundromat in July and stabbed him to death in front of his apartment building. The Sun reported one of the killers allegedly used a “machete-style knife.”
“Detectives traced Cuellar back to the laundromat and recovered surveillance footage that showed him being watched and followed. They said those stalking Cuellar traveled in a white 2008 Dodge Caliber. Nearly two weeks later, police stopped the car in Mississippi and arrested the occupants. Detectives wrote that they matched the occupants to those seen on the video cameras,” the Sun reported.
Initially, all seven arrested in connection to the crime were announced as members from MS-13, but thus far only six are confirmed to be actual members. It is unclear at this time what, if any, connection the seventh person had to the gang.
Maryland has been struggling with gang violence for some time. In July, four teenagers were arrested for beating 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz to death. Two of the four were members of MS-13, who feared Funes-Diaz would tell police about a gang-related kidnapping two months earlier in Washington, D.C., WBAL reported.
At the end of August, an MS-13 gang member from Maryland was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and stabbing a rival gang member to death four years earlier, the Sun reported.
In April 2018, another MS-13 gang member from Gaithersburg, MD, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the stabbing of a rival gang member three years earlier.
<a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/09/ice-confirms-6-of-7-arrested-in-maryland-slaying-belong-to-ms-13/">H/t Mary Chastain</a>

MS-13 Gang Members Arrested For Murder In Maryland

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Brayan Andino, 16, was murdered by MS-13 gang members after he was lured to Lake Balboa in Los Angeles, California, back in October 2017. Two female gang associates, who were also students, had gained Andino’s trust, which is why he went with them to the lake. The two were part of the Fulton clique, a faction within MS-13. When Andino arrived at the lake, other members of the gang beat him to death. They then dismembered his body, cut his heart out, and threw him into a canyon, where he was later found.
School administrators said nothing after Andino disappeared in October 2017. They said nothing when his body was found two months later. They said nothing about his funeral and didn’t even offer condolences.
The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-26/stabbing-at-school-preceded-murder-of-panorama-high-student">reported</a> at the end of July that Panorama High School — where Andino was a student — declined to let parents, students, and teachers know about the dangers of the gang. The school reportedly claimed that MS-13 had little presence on the campus and had never committed violence on the campus, and therefore other students weren’t in danger.
The Times, however, reported another MS-13-related incident occurred “at the edge” of the campus just one month before Andino’s murder.
“At least two MS-13 members, including two former Panorama students, are suspected of stabbing and wounding a student as he was leaving school, officials acknowledged,” the outlet reported.
In addition to the previous incident, at least five of the 10 suspects arrested in Andino’s murder were Panorama High students, the Times reported.
The arrests weren’t even announced for 17 months. Capt. William P. Hayes, commander of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division, told the Times that investigators were “concerned about the flight risk of suspects and the loss of critical information.” They also worried that if word got out around the school, students discussing the murder and the gang could wind up targets themselves.
“You’re trying to prevent people from saying stupid things that would put them at risk,” he told the Times.
A federal indictment unsealed last month revealed that the gang members approached the victim, yelled “MS” to announce their gang affiliation, suspecting the victim was a member of a rival gang. The victim claimed he was not, but was stabbed “in the back and abdomen.” The student survived after he managed to make it to the school’s office, where someone was able to call for help.
The Times described MS-13’s presence at the high school as a “beachhead,” even though the school district has apparently denied such a presence. From the Times:
<blockquote>As details of the gang’s connections have become public over the last week, some parents and teachers have questioned why officials didn’t alert the campus community earlier.</blockquote>
Only after a federal grand jury indicted 22 adults on racketeering and murder charges earlier this month did officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District acknowledge that students from Panorama High had also been arrested.
The accused, according to Prosecutors, are members of the Fulton clique that killed seven people in the span of more than two years.
Kelly Gonez, the school board representative for the San Fernando Valley area, told the Times that the school district relies on law enforcement for judgment.
“In situations like these, we rely on the best judgment of the law enforcement experts who are working to uncover the truth and bring perpetrators to justice,” she said. “The best way to ensure the safety of our students, staff and families at Panorama High School and the broader community is to ensure that these violent criminals are arrested and put in jail.”

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MS-13 Murdered A California High School Student. The School Kept It Quiet For Nearly Two Years.

The sheer scope of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45822/hammer-customs-and-border-protections-insane-march-josh-hammer">systemic</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46992/crisis-cbps-april-border-numbers-further-reveal-josh-hammer">all-encompassing</a> sovereignty <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46457/amidst-unprecedented-border-crisis-united-nations-josh-hammer">crisis</a> at our southern border is staggering.
From both a <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/48335/hammer-federal-government-has-no-more-important-josh-hammer">constitutional and a philosophical perspective</a>, the federal government has no more important responsibility to its citizenry than securing the border. Period.
From a national security perspective, it is stupefying to ponder the reality that we are releasing tens of thousands of barely vetted aliens into the interior each month due to a brutal combination of catch-and-release tomfoolery, limited bed space due to the under-funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the erroneously decreed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46601/hammer-why-did-dhs-abort-its-re-writing-infamous-josh-hammer">Flores settlement</a>. Indeed, we know from the <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Assessing-Report-about-Four-ISIS-Terrorist-Suspects-Caught-Nicaragua">intrepid reporting</a> of journalist extraordinaire Todd Bensman that the predominantly Central America-fleeing economic migrants have no shortage of dangerous Middle Easterners <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/from-panama-and-costa-rica-complete-findings-of-bensmans-terror-travel-threat-investigation/">mixed in among them</a>. Furthermore, we are letting in <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/contagion-invasion-part-1-ever-happened-principle-protecting-borders-dangerous-diseases/">no shortage</a> of migrants afflicted with <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/contagion-invasion-part-2-untold-public-health-endemic-borders-beyond/">deadly diseases</a>.
From an assimilation perspective, the huge number of Central Americans absconding into the nation&#8217;s interior due to the de facto amnesty of catch-and-release only exacerbates our increasingly stark crisis of national unity — including but hardly limited to our ability to (literally) all <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/what-assimilation-half-the-people-in-americas-largest-cities-speak-foreign-languages/">speak a common language</a>.
From a crime perspective, we know that non-citizen aliens commit a <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116">disproportionate share of federal crime</a> — 44.2% of it over the course of 2011 — in 2016, according to <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116">statistics</a> from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. And from a pure common sense perspective, it ought to make sense that vulnerable unaccompanied alien youths showing up at our border would be more susceptible to recruitment by MS-13 and other Central America-originating transnational gangs. In fact, both MS-13 and the cartels operate so fluidly throughout the U.S. due in no small part to the ongoing surfeit of prospective gangsters and drug mules who reach our border and are released into the interior. Consider this <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/19-22-indicted-ultra-violent-ms-13-murders-illegal-aliens-central-america/">harrowing story</a> out of Los Angeles:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">&#8220;Nineteen of the 22 defendants charged in the indictment had entered the country illegally in the last four years,&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/MHQ1kW4aAU">https://t.co/MHQ1kW4aAU</a>
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1151463048827346944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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But perhaps the singular least discussed aspect of the ongoing crisis at our southern border is that the illegal alien influx there has dramatically metastasized America&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db329-h.pdf">already-dire drug epidemic</a>. An eye-opening <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/drugs-pour-in-from-mexico-as-border-patrol-forced-to-focus-on-migrants">report</a> in the Washington Examiner this morning shines a spotlight on the extent to which the border crisis has frozen our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) human assets — redirecting those officials who would normally be in the business of interdicting contraband 50-100 miles inland to deal with apprehension and toddler daycare duty at the border itself. Per the Examiner:
<blockquote>Border Patrol highway checkpoints in the southern New Mexico region that normally seize seven figures worth of drugs annually have not seized a dollar in nearly four months after being shuttered in late March, allowing drugs to flood into the country. Meantime, with the added supply, prices for illicit drugs are dropping precipitously.
Those seven checkpoints have sat unattended after Border Patrol closed them to move all personnel to the border to assist with apprehending, processing, and caring for the high number of migrant families arriving. &#8230;
Officials have also noted upticks in methamphetamine and fentanyl seizures since March. Black said the cost of a pound of meth has been slashed in half since then, from $4,700 when the checkpoints first closed to $2,500 by late June. The price dropped because the market is saturated.</blockquote>
To summarize, then, Border Patrol assets who are normally tasked with interdicting contraband have been, due in no small part to the current under-funding of DHS, redeployed to the border to deal with the sundry maladies transpiring there. As a consequence, drugs trafficked in by the cartels and their terrorist allies (like Hezbollah) are not being seized. There is now a huge, unprecedented glut of deadly narcotics pouring into the nation. Recall that a sugar packet-sized dose of fentanyl can kill a whole room full of people. And now, so much meth is being trafficked into the interior that prices in Las Cruces, New Mexico have been cut by nearly half in just four months! That is simply astonishing.
America&#8217;s drug overdose epidemic, while <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/senate-about-to-pass-opioid-laws-that-are-built-on-lies/">misdiagnosed</a> as an &#8220;opioid&#8221; epidemic, is really a more general narcotics epidemic that has fentanyl, cocaine, meth, and heroin as its leading contributors. Our under-funded DHS and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48281/hammer-trump-has-unilateral-power-stop-migrant-josh-hammer">political unwillingness</a> to stanch the illegal alien influx bleeding at our border is not just resulting in <a href="http://www.conservativereview.com/news/19-22-indicted-ultra-violent-ms-13-murders-illegal-aliens-central-america/">machete-style MS-13 murders</a> in Los Angeles. It is also leading to an unprecedented crisis of drugs so potent that — in the case of fentanyl — they might be reasonably compared to cartel-driven chemical warfare against our inner cities and collective progeny.
This is a huge, huge problem. Drugs are literally destroying countless small towns across the nation. And now our political elites, by ignoring the border crisis as they have, are somehow making the drug epidemic crisis even worse than it already is. It is nothing short of a blemish upon our entire political ruling class.

HAMMER: Why Is No One Discussing The Drug Trafficking Aspect Of Our Southern Border Crisis?

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Federal law enforcement officials revealed during a press conference on Tuesday that 22 alleged members of the notoriously violent MS-13 street gang have been charged in a federal racketeering case, many of whom prosecutors believe participated in a series of grisly murders.
&#8220;A 12-count indictment unsealed Monday afternoon alleges that members and associates of the gang murdered seven people over the last two years,&#8221; the Department of Justice said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/22-los-angeles-based-members-ms-13-transnational-gang-named-federal-racketeering-case">statement</a>. &#8220;The indictment charges gang leaders who allegedly authorized and coordinated the murders. Also charged are gang members who allegedly murdered and attempted to murder rival gang members, those who were perceived to be cooperating with law enforcement.&#8221;
The DOJ noted that the indictment &#8220;focuses on a particularly violent subset of the gang known as the Fulton clique, which operates in the San Fernando Valley and has recently seen an influx of young immigrants from Central America.&#8221; The statement says that youngsters who wanted to join MS-13 were &#8220;required to kill an MS-13 rival or someone perceived to be adverse to MS-13 to be initiated into MS-13.&#8221;
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/us/ms13-los-angeles-murder-indictment/index.html">reported</a> that 19 of the 22 alleged MS-13 gangsters &#8220;are in the country illegally and entered the country within the past four years.&#8221;
&#8220;Prosecutors waited until the defendants had all been arrested before unsealing the indictment, which alleges 16 of the defendants took part in slayings,&#8221; CNN added.
The DOJ&#8217;s statement documents one particularly horrifying murder that some of the gang members are charged with where a rival gang member &#8220;was abducted, choked, and driven to a remote location in the Angeles National Forest&#8221; where he was &#8220;dismembered, and his body parts were thrown into a canyon after one of the defendants allegedly cut the heart out of the victim’s body.&#8221;
&#8220;We have now taken off the streets nearly two dozen people associated with the most violent arm of MS-13 in Los Angeles, where the gang is believed to have killed 24 people over the past two years. This investigation has been an unqualified success,&#8221; United States Attorney Nick Hanna said. &#8220;The collaborative law enforcement effort solved several murder cases and dealt a severe blow to members of the gang who engaged in acts of brutality not seen in the region for over 20 years. The prosecution of these defendants would not have been possible without the backing of local law enforcement, including District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who has supported our efforts every step of the way and has dedicated substantial resources to ensure that all of these defendants get the justice they deserve.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Statement by Assistant Director in Charge Paul D. Delacourt on 22 Los Angeles-based members of MS-13 transnational gang named in federal racketeering case that alleges string of grisly murders. Read more: <a href="https://t.co/dctKcv6UiU">https://t.co/dctKcv6UiU</a>. <a href="https://t.co/hv93h1Gazi">pic.twitter.com/hv93h1Gazi</a>
— FBI Los Angeles (@FBILosAngeles) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBILosAngeles/status/1151223749540306944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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‘Cut Heart Out Of Victim’s Body’: 19 Illegal MS-13 Gangsters Charged With Racketeering, Many Charged With Murders

An MS-13 gang member was convicted of murder on Thursday after he &#8220;marked for death&#8221; a man in a Long Island deli because he was wearing Peyton Manning&#8217;s No. 18 jersey.
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/03/12/ms-13-gangster-killed-a-man-for-wearing-peyton-manning-jersey/">New York Post</a>, which has closely tracked reports on the notoriously brutal MS-13 gang, first reported on the case in March (formatting adjusted):
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Jose Suarez, an associate of the MS-13 Sailors clique, is accused of being the getaway driver in the cold-blooded Jan. 29 killing of Esteban Alvarado-Bonilla in a Long Island deli. &#8220;The only way he could rise up the ranks &#8230; was to commit outrageous acts of violence, including murder,&#8221; US Assistant Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said during opening arguments in the Central Islip courtroom.
Prosecutors said Suarez, 24, and his associates &#8220;marked for death&#8221; the victim because he was wearing a Manning number 18 jersey and was suspected of being part of the rival 18th Street gang. Suarez was the getaway driver and was to &#8220;serve as the communications center,&#8221; by relaying information back to the leaders, Tierney said.
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On Thursday, the court found Suarez guilty of murder, racketeering and assault connected to the murder of Alvarado-Bonilla and an assault in 2016 in Brentwood, New York.
The attempts by Suarez&#8217;s attorney to portray the killing as the result of a non-gang-related &#8220;stupid fight&#8221; among &#8220;dumb&#8221; youngsters failed to convince the court.
&#8220;Suarez has been held responsible for the execution-style murder of a suspected gang rival and violent assaults, ruthless crimes that reflect the danger to our communities posed by MS-13,&#8221; said U.S. Attorney <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/meet-us-attorney">Richard Donoghue</a>, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/05/23/ms-13-gangster-convicted-of-killing-man-for-wearing-peyton-manning-jersey/">Post</a> reported Thursday. &#8220;By his actions the defendant sought status within the gang, and with today&#8217;s verdict, what he has found instead is a mandatory sentence of life in prison.&#8221;
After Suarez helped mark Alvarado-Bonilla for the hit and communicated with gang leaders, the shooter, Mario Aguilar-Lopez, entered the El Campesino Deli and shot him in the head. One of the bullets that went through the victim&#8217;s head non-fatally wounded a female deli clerk, the Post notes. Aguilar-Lopez pleaded guilty in 2018.
The MS-13 gang has been repeatedly in the news due to its embrace of violence and particularly brutal tactics, and because many of its members are illegal immigrants. On Tuesday, the gang was back in the headlines after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent out a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47571/ice-manhunt-suspected-ms-13-members-who-were-hank-berrien">press release</a> revealing that they were searching for two illegal immigrant teens suspected of being MS-13 gang members for allegedly murdering a 14-year-old girl after the teens were released by Maryland authorities.
&#8220;Following the recent arrest of two unlawfully present teens suspected in the violent murder of a young girl in Maryland, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Baltimore are again seeking to take custody of the illegal aliens through the ICE detainer process following the Prince George&#8217;s County Detention Center&#8217;s (PGCDC) failure to cooperate,&#8221; <a href="https://www.kktv.com/content/news/WANTED-ICE-is-searching-for-teen-murder-suspects-released-by--510244191.html">KTTV reported</a>.
President Trump has repeatedly drawn attention to the violence of the MS-13 &#8220;animals&#8221; as an example of how a porous border and ineffective immigration system puts Americans at risk.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38824/trump-said-migrant-caravan-includes-ms-13-gang-james-barrett">Trump Said Migrant Caravan Includes MS-13 Gang Members; Border Patrol Just Arrested One</a>

MS-13 Gang Member Convicted Of Killing Man Because Of Peyton Manning Jersey

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Democrat politicians, alleged journalists, and far-left activists spread a deceptively edited video clip from last year that they falsely claimed showed President Donald Trump calling immigrants and asylum seekers &#8220;animals,&#8221; when, in fact, he was referring to members of the notoriously hyper-violent MS-13 street gang.
A Twitter user named Mark Elliott posted the following tweet on Friday with the caption: &#8220;.@realDonaldTrump on people asking for asylum &#8216;These aren&#8217;t people. These are animals.'&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> on people asking for asylum &#8220;These aren&#8217;t people. These are animals.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/pTKY08Obm2">pic.twitter.com/pTKY08Obm2</a>
&#8212; Mark Elliott (@markmobility) <a href="https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1114287002348863488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Elliott got the video from a CSPAN tweet, which he embedded in his own tweet. The video that CSPAN deceptively edited does not give context to whom Trump is referring to when he says, &#8220;These aren&#8217;t people. These are animals.&#8221;
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President Trump during California <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SanctuaryCities?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SanctuaryCities</a> Roundtable: &#8220;These aren&#8217;t people. These are animals.&#8221;
Full video here: <a href="https://t.co/alyS47LI5V">https://t.co/alyS47LI5V</a> <a href="https://t.co/ifXicTHHP0">pic.twitter.com/ifXicTHHP0</a>
&#8212; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/996845374819192833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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CNN was one of the few news organizations that accurately reported the full context of what Trump said when he made the remarks. Here is the relevant part of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30747/media-goes-overdrive-lying-about-trumps-animal-ryan-saavedra">transcript</a>:
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Sheriff Margaret Mims: &#8220;There could be an MS-13 member I know about &#8212; if they don&#8217;t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.&#8221;
President Donald Trump: &#8220;We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in &#8212; and we&#8217;re stopping a lot of them &#8212; but we&#8217;re taking people out of the country. You wouldn&#8217;t believe how bad these people are. These aren&#8217;t people. These are animals. And we&#8217;re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that&#8217;s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It&#8217;s crazy.&#8221;
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Here is the full video clip of the exchange:
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&#8220;These aren&#8217;t people. These are animals,&#8221; Trump says in response to a question about the MS-13 gang during his roundtable on sanctuary cities. &#8220;&#8230; because of the weak laws, they come in fast&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/FfO3D5ug97">https://t.co/FfO3D5ug97</a>
&#8212; CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/996847373962838017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Here are some of the Democrat politicians, far-left activists, and people in the media who have peddled this lie since Friday:
Democrat presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand: &#8220;Racist language like this has led to violence throughout the world&#8217;s history. No human being is an animal. We have to be better than this.&#8221;
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Racist language like this has led to violence throughout the world&#8217;s history. No human being is an animal. We have to be better than this.<a href="https://t.co/TQ0MhJFGtq">https://t.co/TQ0MhJFGtq</a>
&#8212; Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/1114523135599104000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg: &#8220;You do not refer to human beings as animals. You just don&#8217;t.&#8221;
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You do not refer to human beings as animals. You just don&#8217;t.
&#8212; Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1114480551694618624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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DNC Chairman Tom Perez: &#8220;This type of dehumanizing language is dangerous, and against everything we stand for as a country.&#8221;
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This type of dehumanizing language is dangerous, and against everything we stand for as a country. <a href="https://t.co/YSj9WRMrTM">https://t.co/YSj9WRMrTM</a>
&#8212; Tom Perez (@TomPerez) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1114528092767305728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Far-left activist David Hogg: &#8220;Step two on the pyramid of committing genocide: Dehumanization.&#8221;
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Step two on the pyramid of committing genocide: Dehumanization. <a href="https://t.co/wvK7RIYwwa">https://t.co/wvK7RIYwwa</a>
&#8212; David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1114323830909145088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CNN&#8217;s Ana Navarro: &#8220;This is journalist, @TifaniRoberts comforting a small boy on the border. He was shot in the throat by Ortega&#8217;s thugs in Nicaragua. This little boy is seeking asylum in the United States. His name is William. Trump calls him &#8216;animal&#8217;.&#8221;
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This is journalist, <a href="https://twitter.com/TifaniRoberts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TifaniRoberts</a> comforting a small boy on the border. He was shot in the throat by Ortega&#8217;s thugs in Nicaragua. This little boy is seeking asylum in the United States. His name is William. Trump calls him &#8220;animal&#8221;. <a href="https://t.co/avGe5mWctH">pic.twitter.com/avGe5mWctH</a>
&#8212; Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1114532638054846464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Christine Teigen: &#8220;f***ing vile man.&#8221;
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fucking vile man. <a href="https://t.co/NgJWHHtdC4">https://t.co/NgJWHHtdC4</a>
&#8212; christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1114323623479627777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid: &#8220;Asylum seekers &#8216;aren&#8217;t people.&#8217; They are &#8216;animals.&#8217; This is particularly frightening language coming out of a person vested with the power of a presidential office.&#8221;
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Asylum seekers &#8220;aren&#8217;t people.&#8221; They are &#8220;animals.&#8221; This is particularly frightening language coming out of a person vested with the power of a presidential office. <a href="https://t.co/coxdWANTd0">https://t.co/coxdWANTd0</a>
&#8212; Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1114355209613000704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Former Obama official Ben Rhodes: &#8220;If the leader of any other country said this, we would view it as a horrifying, authoritarian assault on human dignity. Which it is.&#8221;
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If the leader of any other country said this, we would view it as a horrifying, authoritarian assault on human dignity. Which it is. <a href="https://t.co/9B8w338hSu">https://t.co/9B8w338hSu</a>
&#8212; Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) <a href="https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1114293675855622144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Mikel Jollett, frontman of the band The Airborne Toxic Effect: &#8220;The President of the United States literally saying immigrants aren&#8217;t &#8216;human.&#8217; This is the literal definition of the &#8216;dehumanization&#8217; which precedes genocide.&#8221;
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The President of the United States literally saying immigrants aren&#8217;t &#8220;human.&#8221;
This is the literal definition of the &#8220;dehumanization&#8221; which precedes genocide. <a href="https://t.co/afdi5ZLKiT">https://t.co/afdi5ZLKiT</a>
&#8212; Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1114316855496155136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: &#8220;This is so irresponsible and dangerous. We have seen this around the world.&#8221;
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This is so irresponsible and dangerous. We have seen this around the world. <a href="https://t.co/n00ok8Anae">https://t.co/n00ok8Anae</a>
&#8212; Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1114345093866119168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Democrat Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (NY): &#8220;This is appalling. This is cruel. This is dehumanizing. This is racist. This is un-American. This is Donald J. Trump.&#8221;
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This is appalling. 
This is cruel. 
This is dehumanizing. 
This is racist. 
This is un-American. 
This is Donald J. Trump. <a href="https://t.co/Z7RJj0qw6W">https://t.co/Z7RJj0qw6W</a>
&#8212; Yvette D. Clarke (@RepYvetteClarke) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepYvetteClarke/status/1114329487456522240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Democrat Rep. TJ Cox (CA): &#8220;Immigrants aren&#8217;t animals. Children aren&#8217;t animals. And they don&#8217;t deserve to be locked in cages, separated from their families.&#8221;
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Immigrants aren&#8217;t animals. Children aren&#8217;t animals. And they don&#8217;t deserve to be locked in cages, separated from their families. <a href="https://t.co/cCXEOWQL1c">https://t.co/cCXEOWQL1c</a>
&#8212; Congressman TJ Cox (@RepTjCox) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTjCox/status/1114539114504835073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Democrat Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (PA): &#8220;My father, who was welcomed by this country after surviving the Holocaust, is not an animal. The people seeking refuge and asylum in America like he did are not animals. Smart and effective border security does not involve denigrating our fellow humans. Full stop.&#8221;
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My father, who was welcomed by this country after surviving the Holocaust, is not an animal. The people seeking refuge and asylum in America like he did are not animals. Smart and effective border security does not involve denigrating our fellow humans. Full stop. <a href="https://t.co/rquvYIgyyx">https://t.co/rquvYIgyyx</a>
&#8212; Chrissy Houlahan (@RepHoulahan) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepHoulahan/status/1114504018905190400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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New York Times columnist Wajahat Ali: &#8220;Glad it&#8217;s out in the open. Dehumanization. It always begins with language. Soon they will be rats and rodents and a horde. And what do we do to those animals when they &#8216;invade&#8217; our homes?&#8230;.&#8221;
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Glad it&#8217;s out in the open. Dehumanization. It always begins with language. Soon they will be rats and rodents and a horde. And what do we do to those animals when they &#8220;invade&#8221; our homes?&#8230;. <a href="https://t.co/Yq4Lg6jSDC">https://t.co/Yq4Lg6jSDC</a>
&#8212; Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) <a href="https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1114325625173626880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Far-Left Activists, Democrats, Media Spread Deceptively Edited Clip Of Trump Calling MS-13 Gang Members ‘Animals’

A memo circulated through the New York Police Department&#8217;s 105th Precinct warned officers that members of the deadly MS-13 gang were &#8220;looking to hit&#8221; Long Island officers, especially those off-duty.
&#8220;Intel has been obtained that members of MS13 are looking to &#8216;hit&#8217; NYPD police officers, specifically in the Brentwood/Central Islip area, as well as possibly Patchogue in order to gain street credibility,&#8221; the memo said, <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/27/ms-13-members-planning-to-target-long-island-cops-nypd/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPFacebook&amp;sr_share=facebook">according to the New York Post</a>. &#8220;These members are conducting reconnaissance of [member of service] private residences.&#8221;
Authorities warned that the department had received &#8220;threats&#8221; against officers who live in the areas listed above and advised police officers to &#8220;always be cognizant&#8221; of their surroundings and to change their routine while remaining vigilant of anything unusual.
CBS New York reported that the threats have &#8220;<a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/02/27/nypd-ms-13-planning-to-target-off-duty-cops-at-their-homes/">not been substantiated</a>,&#8221; but that law enforcement is treating them seriously.
&#8220;Whenever a law enforcement officer is being threatened, especially by an organization like MS-13 which we already know is uber violent and has killed numerous people throughout the country if not throughout the world, this has to be taken serious,&#8221; former FBI agent Manny Gomez told the outlet.
&#8220;They are going above and beyond what any other gang does, and the scary part is that we already know that they legitimately carry out their threats and they are extremely violent,&#8221; Gomez added, in reference to the warning that gang members were surveilling police homes.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ms-13-members-reportedly-seeking-to-hit-nypd-police-officers-living-in-parts-of-long-island">Sgt. Jessica McRorie told Fox News</a> that the alert was sent out &#8220;out of an abundance of caution&#8221; even though the threat from MS-13 targeting New York law enforcement officers was &#8220;unverified.&#8221;
Earlier this month, a member of the violent gang, who was reportedly in the country illegally, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43061/watch-brutal-ms-13-murder-nyc-subway-ocasio-amanda-prestigiacomo">shot and killed</a> a 16-year-old member of the rival 18th Street Gang in Queens. In January, a 16-year-old was stabbed after leaving a Long Island Burger King by three classmates who were also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42105/3-allegedly-illegal-alien-ms-13-gang-members-stab-ashe-schow">reported to be illegal immigrants</a> associated with MS-13.
The Post also reported that three MS-13 gang members attacked a fellow inmate at The Tombs jail in Manhattan last October.
MS-13 started on the West Coast but is moving east, and appears to have a presence in New York, specifically on Long Island. Fox News reports the gang&#8217;s motto is &#8220;&#8217;mata, viola, controla&#8217; &#8211; which means &#8216;kill, rape, control,&#8217; according to Robert Hur, an official with the Justice Department.&#8221;

MS-13 Gang Has Put A Hit Out On Off-Duty Cops, NYPD Says

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It appears the New York Police Department tried their best to hide the illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member accused of murdering someone at a subway station.
The New York Post reports that cops tried to &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/05/nypd-tried-to-hide-ms-13-gangster-accused-of-subway-slaying/">shield</a>&#8221; alleged shooter Ramiro Gutierrez from public scrutiny ahead of President Donald Trump&#8217;s State of the Union address, in which he mentioned the attack:
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Cops bent over backward Tuesday to shield alleged killer Ramiro Gutierrez from public scrutiny after his arrest for Sunday&#8217;s broad-daylight slaying in Queens &#8212; going so far as to feed reporters bogus information about his whereabouts and claim ignorance on his illegal status hours before President Trump&#8217;s State of the Union Address renewing his request for a border wall.
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Part of the charade included police waiting until 4 a.m. Tuesday morning to announce that Gutierrez, 26, had been charged with the murder of rival Abel Mosso, 20, even though the suspect had been in police custody since Monday. Mosso was a member of MS-13&#8217;s rival gang, the 18th Street Gang.
Police also told reporters Tuesday afternoon that they would be walking Gutierrez out of the 115th Precinct station at 4 p.m., but they instead snuck him &#8220;out a back door by 2 p.m. en route to a courthouse in Queens,&#8221; the Post reported.
The murder occurred on the 7 train at the 90th Street Elmhurst Avenue subway station. Video of the event <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43061/watch-brutal-ms-13-murder-nyc-subway-ocasio-amanda-prestigiacomo">quickly went viral</a>. Gutierrez allegedly shot Mosso &#8220;multiple times in the face&#8221; during the &#8220;gang-related incident,&#8221; according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea.
Gutierrez was out on $2,500 bail after he was arrested on attempted murder and other charges in December 2018. He was indicted along with 11 other alleged MS-13 members &#8220;on various charges including attempted murder and conspiracy, in addition to drug and weapons charges,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-subway-shooter-a-suspected-ms-13-member-previously-had-been-arrested-by-ice">according to Fox News</a>.
The Post reported he was on bail for &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/05/subway-killing-suspect-was-out-on-2500-bail-for-burglary-plot/">allegedly plotting a burglary</a>.&#8221;
Gutierrez has a history with law enforcement, with nine previous arrests, &#8220;including for drug possession and possession of stolen property, sources said, adding that five of his arrests are sealed,&#8221; the Post reported.
Police told the Post that moving Gutierrez ahead of the schedule they shared with reporters was because Queens District Attorney Richard Brown&#8217;s office asked them to, after the suspect hired a lawyer. DA sources, on the other hand, told the Post they did not know about such a request.
U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officials say Gutierrez is &#8220;illegally present&#8221; in the country, but police wouldn&#8217;t say he was in the country illegally.
&#8220;He entered without inspection at an unknown date and time. A detainer was placed on him today,&#8221; an ICE official told the Post on Tuesday.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Trump mentioned the MS-13 gang and the murder in New York:
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The savage gang, MS-13, now operates in 20 different American States, and they almost all come through our southern border. Just yesterday, an MS-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting on a subway platform in New York City. We are removing these gang members by the thousands, but until we secure our border they&#8217;re going to keep streaming back in.
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Gutierrez&#8217;s lawyer, Scott Bookstein, said before the SOTU address that he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if&#8221; Trump brought up the event.
&#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely crazy. It undermines my client&#8217;s presumption of innocence,&#8221; Bookstein told the Post. &#8220;It&#8217;s a tragedy it&#8217;s being used for political purposes.&#8221;

NY Police Tried To Hide Alleged MS-13 Gang Murderer From Public Scrutiny After Subway Shooting: REPORT

A gruesome video of a gang-related murder on the New York City subway has gone viral. A suspected MS-13 gang member shot a member of a rival gang in the face numerous times in a daytime shooting on Sunday. The suspected gang member has since been arrested.
The incident occurred on the 7 train subway platform in Queens, which is in Democratic darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_14th_congressional_district#/media/File:New_York_US_Congressional_District_14_(since_2013).tif">district</a>.
Notably, Ocasio-Cortez has been an outspoken advocate for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). MS-13 is a murderous gang comprised of mainly immigrants from El Salvador, and the suspect in Sunday&#8217;s murder was previously arrested by ICE.
Ramiro Gutierrez, 26, &#8220;was reportedly free on $2,500 bail at the time after being busted on attempted murder and other charges in December,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-subway-shooter-a-suspected-ms-13-member-previously-had-been-arrested-by-ice">reported</a> Fox News.
Gutierrez was arrested by authorities on Monday and charged on Tuesday with second-degree murder, gang assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. The victim has been identified as Abel Mosso, a 20-year-old reported member of the 18th Street Gang, a rival gang of MS-13.
Gutierrez was indicted by a Queens County grand jury in December, along with 11 other alleged MS-13 gang members, &#8220;on various charges including attempted murder and conspiracy, in addition to drug and weapons charges,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-subway-shooter-a-suspected-ms-13-member-previously-had-been-arrested-by-ice">Fox News</a>. Gutierrez&#8217;s immigration status was never expressly specified.
Gutierrez, Josue &#8220;Colocho&#8221; Levia, 21, and Angel &#8220;Chamuco&#8221; Romero, 20, &#8220;were plotting to raid a home in Queens where they believed $80,000 was stashed inside,&#8221; noted Fox, and the charge of attempted murder &#8220;appeared to stem from an alleged plan to kill someone who wanted out of the gang, according to the ICE news release.&#8221;
The brutal video shows a group of men wrestling on the ground. The shooter, allegedly Gutierrez, then unloads six shots, reportedly at the victim&#8217;s face. As chaos ensue from horrified passersby, the suspect flees the scene, leaving his victim&#8217;s lifeless body.
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Full unedited video of MS-13 murder on 7 Train in NYC.
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Ocasio-Cortez has been adamant that ICE has no place in Queens or in the entire United States. In June, the Democrat <a href="https://documentedny.com/2018/06/25/ny-congressional-candidates-explain-how-to-abolish-ice/">told</a> Documented NY: &#8220;In a similar way, where we have law enforcement enforce legitimate crimes of violence, crimes of harm, mass, large fraud. I think that there is a role for enforcement there, but I do not think that it in any way is equivocal [sic] to what we are seeing with ICE right now.&#8221;
&#8220;One of these days, I hope people realize that the idea that ICE should be scrapped isn&#8217;t so crazy after all,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez doubled down in a Thursday tweet. &#8220;ICE jails children in for-profit detention centers funded by private equity [groups]. Kids are dying w/ 0 accountability. If that&#8217;s not totally broken, I don&#8217;t know what is.&#8221;
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One of these days, I hope people realize that the idea that ICE should be scrapped isn&#8217;t so crazy after all.
ICE jails children in for-profit detention centers funded by private equity grps. Kids are dying w/ 0 accountability. If that&#8217;s not totally broken, I don&#8217;t know what is. <a href="https://t.co/AlMgLiHVnu">https://t.co/AlMgLiHVnu</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1089686929086599168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As noted by Ryan Girdusky, a New York City native and Washington Examiner contributor, ICE arrested 107 illegal aliens with criminal records in Queens, NY, from January 14-18 &#8212; just weeks before Sunday&#8217;s subway murder.
Other Democrats, like State Senator Jessica Ramos, an ally of Ocasio-Cortez, have likewise demonized ICE.
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From Jan 14-18, <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> arrested 107 illegal aliens w/ criminal records in Queens, NY. State Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/jessicaramos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jessicaramos</a> insisted that ICE has no place in Queens.
Less than a month later, an MS-13 gangbanger murdered a 20-year old in her district<a href="https://t.co/HGKuJVEqdv">https://t.co/HGKuJVEqdv</a>
&#8212; Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1092550276085624837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
Other prominent Democrats who&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/29/17518176/democrats-to-abolish-ice-movement-gillibrand-de-blasio-ocasio-cortez">called</a> for the abolition of ICE include Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
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WATCH: Brutal MS-13 Murder On NYC Subway In Ocasio-Cortez’s District Goes Viral. She’s Called For The Abolition Of ICE.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Arizona released footage Wednesday showing over a hundred illegal immigrants scaling the southern border wall in the Yuma sector. The illegal actions of the &#8220;110+&#8221; migrants ended in their arrest Monday. Shortly after posting the surveillance footage, CBP Arizona announced that they had detained two MS-13 gang members a day later.
&#8220;Officials with the United States Customs and Border Protection in Arizona released a new video showing Central American migrants scaling a border wall in the Yuma sector,&#8221; <a href="http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/border-patrol-release-video-showing-110-central-american-migrants-scaling-border-wall">FOX 10</a> reports. &#8220;According to a tweet made by officials on the verified Twitter account of CBP Arizona, officials say the migrants were arrested on Monday by Border Patrol agents.&#8221;
The brief video shows the migrants, aided by what CBP Arizona describes as a &#8220;smuggler,&#8221; scaling a ladder to get over the wall. &#8220;On Monday #CBP #YumaSector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 110+ Central Americans who illegally scaled the wall with the assistance of a smuggler with a ladder,&#8221; CBP Arizona tweeted.
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On Monday <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CBP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CBP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YumaSector?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YumaSector</a> Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 110+ Central Americans who illegally scaled the wall with the assistance of a smuggler with a ladder <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalSecurity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SouthwestBorder?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SouthwestBorder</a> <a href="https://t.co/T19JzI3xeC">pic.twitter.com/T19JzI3xeC</a>
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The mass crossing comes just a few days after the detainment of the largest known group of migrants to ever cross illegally into the U.S. A total of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42383/large-group-migrants-tunnels-under-arizona-border-paul-bois">376 migrants</a> crossed into the country near San Luis, Arizona last week using smugglers&#8217; tunnels.
CBP Arizona&#8217;s next Twitter post contained an official press release announcing the arrest of two MS-13 gang members on Tuesday. &#8220;Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrest two MS-13 gang members from Honduras traveling together,&#8221; the agency tweeted, along with the full statement.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YumaSector?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YumaSector</a> Border Patrol agents arrest two MS-13 gang members from Honduras travelling together. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalSecurity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SouthwestBorder?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SouthwestBorder</a> <a href="https://t.co/wPRk80TpG1">pic.twitter.com/wPRk80TpG1</a>
&#8212; CBP Arizona (@CBPArizona) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1088191391153324032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended two MS-13 gang members from Honduras after they made an illegal entry into the United States together Tuesday evening,&#8221; the statement reads. &#8220;At approximately 6 p.m., agents patrolling along the Colorado River apprehended a 37-year-old man and 19-year-old man, both from Honduras, after they illegally entered the U.S. near County 9th Street. They were transported to the Yuma Border Patrol Station for processing.&#8221;
The older of the two gang members had already been deported before. &#8220;During processing, agents identified both men as MS-13 gang members. The 37-year-old man was also discovered to have previous criminal convictions for shoplifting and providing false information in Gwinnett County, Georgia as well as previous deportation.&#8221;
The younger gang member had no previous criminal or immigration records, the release notes. &#8220;Both subjects are being presented for prosecution and deportation,&#8221; the statement asserts.
The Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang, which has been responsible for a series of brutal crimes since it was first founded in Los Angeles in the 1970s, has become one of the focal points of the Trump administration, which is attempting to crack down on illegal immigration generally and the notorious gang specifically. President Trump&#8217;s border wall, the battle over the funding for which has prompted the government shutdown, is a key part of his plan to curb illegal immigration and stop the influx of criminal migrants.
A number of MS-13 gang members have been detained by law enforcement under Trump&#8217;s watch. In May 2017, dozens of members of the violent gang were arrested in a series of 50 raids in New York City. &#8220;The 50 pre-dawn raids, aimed at catching suspects asleep or off guard, also focused on nabbing members of MS-13&#8217;s core leadership, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/us/ms-13-raids-los-angeles/index.html">CNN </a>reported at the time.
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A 16-year-old was stabbed after he left a Long Island Burger King on January 9, allegedly by three classmates who entered the country illegally and are connected to the dangerous MS-13 gang.
The victim told police he and his friends were at the restaurant when six other classmates, including the three suspects, entered and stared at them, <a href="https://abc7ny.com/police-undocumented-ms-13-members-stab-attack-li-teen/5045829/">according to ABC 7</a>.
&#8220;Feeling uncomfortable, the victim and a friend left, and the three gang members followed them, wielding bats and knives, police said,&#8221; ABC 7 reported. &#8220;An altercation broke out in the parking lot, and that&#8217;s when 19-year-old Ramon Arevalo Lopez allegedly stabbed the victim in the back. Another 16-year-old boy suffered a minor injury in the fight.&#8221;
Another student obtained a minor injury in the attack. The stabbing victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
After the attack, the suspects fled but were caught and arrested by police, who say the three had blood on their clothing and hands. Along with Lopez, 17-year-old Oscar Canales Molina and 20-year-old Nobeli Montes Zuniga were arrested and are suspected of being members of MS-13.
Jason Bassett, Lopez&#8217;s attorney, says his client is not a member of MS-13.
&#8220;Ramon is not a member of MS-13 (or any other gang) &#8212; being &#8216;confirmed&#8217; in some ill-conceived database isn&#8217;t proof of anything,&#8221; Bassett said <a href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/white-house-tweet-huntington-station-stabbing-1.25847772">in a statement to Newsday</a>. &#8220;Accusations made during a press conference aren&#8217;t proof of anything. Certainly tweets from a White House with a tenuous relationship with the truth aren&#8217;t proof of anything. While so many of our civil liberties have come under attack recently, we still cling to the idea that one is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Ramon is innocent of the charges against him.&#8221;
Bassett referenced a tweet from the official White House Twitter account, which linked to the ABC 7 article about the attack and called the suspects &#8220;illegal gang members.&#8221;
&#8220;We welcome immigrants who come here legally, but not illegal gang members. This week a HS student was stabbed by 3 MS-13 members. According to police, the attackers had entered the U.S. illegally, were picked up by DHS, but were released by judges,&#8221; the White House tweeted.
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We welcome immigrants who come here legally, but not illegal gang members. This week a HS student was stabbed by 3 MS-13 members. According to police, the attackers had entered the U.S. illegally, were picked up by DHS, but were released by judges. <a href="https://t.co/0qx0zAud13">https://t.co/0qx0zAud13</a>
&#8212; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1083799965892313088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini is the one who first said the Huntington Station suspects had entered the country illegally. They were also listed in the Suffolk County Police Department&#8217;s &#8220;database of likely gang members,&#8221; according to Newsday.
The suspects have all plead not guilty.
President Donald Trump has not personally tweeted about the attack, but has previously mentioned Long Island as a place where MS-13 gang members carry out their illegal activities.
&#8220;Crippling loopholes in our laws have enabled MS-13 gang members and other criminals to infiltrate our communities, and Democrats in Congress refuse to close these loopholes, including the disgraceful practice known as catch and release,&#8221; Trump said at a gang forum in 2018.

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