Obama’s DACA program tied to growth of deadly MS-13 gang which has spread to 22 states: End it NOW
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, February 22, 2018
The one reason Americans should support President Donald J. Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program initiated by his predecessor is that President Obama’s executive order creating it was unconstitutional.
Of course, that’s too much to ask in today’s hyper-politicized environment; Americans who supported Obama’s DACA program never cared whether it was constitutional or legal.
But okay, I get the politics. How about supporting the recision of the program because it improves community safety and national security? Are those still ‘bipartisan’ objectives?
As reported by the Washington Examiner, DACA recipients are part of a group of 300,000 or so illegal immigrants who are feeding the recruitment efforts of MS-13, one of the deadliest, most dangerous gangs in the U.S. And now its members have spread to nearly half of all states — 22 to be exact.
The gang, which was “stifled under President George W. Bush,” the news site noted, has committed crimes — many of them horrific — in at least that many states:
Since 2012, 207 murders have been tied to the gang called “Mara Salvatrucha,” and there are over 500 cases nationwide of MS-13 members being charged in major crimes, according to the report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
What’s making the situation worse is that it is difficult to deport these predators because there are so many sanctuary cities around the country whose leaders have passed ordinances forbidding local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities — acts of defiance that have only grown stiffer in the age of Trump, who has pledged along with Attorney General Jeff Sessions to crack down on these jurisdictions.
The author of the center’s study, Jessica M. Vaughan, said the crackdown and deportation effort cannot happen quickly enough.
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