Update (1:47 p.m.): Commenter Duke writes:
“LaShawn, it’s much more insidious than you know. In all ‘Hispanic’ areas, where the stores, street vendors, and various other Hispanic entrepreneurs ply their trade they are required to ‘pay a tax’ to the gangs or get beaten, shot, etc. This tax acts to keep a class of people who would normally earn their way out of poverty mired in a lower class forever. MS-13 is actually an international terror group and Hispanics have been terrorized by this gang for four years. But if they sing they swing, as the saying goes.
“The race hustlers, almost always credit card liberals or professional agitators, have put up walls to protect the gangs. The now notorious Special Order 40, which is now used in every metro area, makes the police criminals if they demand proof of citizenship—asking for a valid driver license can be asking for proof of citizenship—or even look like they suspect anyone of being illegal. No searches of cars or trucks is possible so guns are trafficked back and forth across cities and states.”
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International Gang Initiative
Los Angeles’s gang issues are now an international priority. LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said that “many gangs across North and Central America†originated in LA, so American taxpayers will be funding “transnational†anti-gang units in Central American countries.
Law enforcement officials met (are meeting?) to discuss what to do about hispanic gangs. Although several stories mention Asian, black, and white gangs (don’t laugh), we all know who’s causing the real trouble. I’m sure a fair number of hispanic gang members are illegal aliens, so kicking them out of the country should be a top priority. Since the federal government isn’t interested in enforcing immigration law, however, state and local governments have to take up the slack and deal with it.
From where I’m sitting, it’s vital that we get rid of thugs who aren’t even authorized to be here in the first place, but understandably, foreign law enforcement officials don’t want them, either. From the BBC:
The heads of the national police forces of several countries where gangs are prevalent, including El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico are meeting officials from US drug enforcement agencies and the FBI…Some Central American officials have expressed concern about US methods of deporting gang members to countries where local authorities are unable to arrest them because they have committed no crime in their country of origin…Of the 120 people arrested in a recent anti-gang raid in El Salvador, 40 had been deported from the US at least once, the country’s police chief Rodrigo Avila-Aviles said.
I’m always suspicious of “international†efforts to do anything where the U.S. is involved. Inevitably, we end up paying the most money and bearing the heaviest burden. It sounds to me like Central American countries, where most illegal aliens hail from these days, don’t want the U.S. to enforce its own laws and kick illegal thugs out. If the criminals we deport have committed no crime in those countries, officials can’t hold them. Yes, that’s a problem, but those countries need to find a mechanism or loophole in the law to throw them in prison anyway. Problem solved!
What to do about the gangs? Villaraigosa parrots the same old line about the relationship between poverty and gangs. There is a correlation, but I think they need to drill down deeper and address other issues like fatherlessness and poor family formation , rather that focus on poverty per se. Plenty of people classified as poor according to federal guidelines don’t shoot people in the face and cut them up. (Not to say that all fatherless people commit crimes, but…you know what I mean. It’s something within the subculture itself.)
Then again, what do I know? I’m just a blogger. 
“Hate” and Unintended Consequences
One thing I find sort of funny about so-called hate crime laws is that in LA, the classes of people the laws were created to protect are committing the “hate†crimes.
I’m thoroughly convinced that hate crime laws were the product of a bunch of liberals sitting around scheming up a legal way to muzzle white people (or if that didn’t work, add more time to their sentences). Suddenly, “minorities†and homosexuals were “protected” against hurt feeings, and if white people committed crimes against these classes and thought nasty things about them because of their race or homosexuality, the crime was somehow worse.
In California, with blacks and hispanics killing each other, prosecutors are now faced with trying and jurors faced with judging members of two protected groups, with no white boogeyman in sight.
Charging a black person who attacks a white person or an hispanic person who attacks a black person with a “hate†crime is not what liberals intended when they wrote hate crime laws, but perhaps the unintended consequences will cause legislators to rethink these irrational thought crime measures and wipe them from the books.
Prediction: As liberals continue to watch their collective multicultural wet dream fade into an unsatisfying whimper, expect a push to repeal hate crime laws or re-write them to exempt “minorities” from prosecution under those laws.
Black Entrepreneur Hires Illegal Aliens
It’s good to know, perversely speaking, that white folks aren’t the only ones hiring illegal aliens. Green Forever Landscaping in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, owned by a black man named Nikita Floyd, hires illegal aliens. (Source) Another entry for WeHireAliens.com!
Floyd implies that his illegal alien employees are better workers than his black employees. I’ve heard other people say that, too. Regardless, what Floyd and countless others are doing is illegal, and I’m going to do my tiny part in the illegal “immigration” fight and submit his business to WeHireAliens. I heard the feds are monitering the site. Too bad “civilians” have to do the government’s job.
Sources:
- Targeting cross-border gangs
- Los Angeles police start most-wanted gangs list
- Study downplays link between area gangs, Central America
- Injunction unit is a good tool against gangs
(Photo sources: AP and Washington Post)
