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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/07/quickie-trump-is-actually-helping-ms-13.htmlThe Rude Pundit
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7/03/2018
Quickie: Trump Is Actually Helping MS-13
1. There is no MS-13 crisis. I know, I know, you want there to be one because scary Latinos are scary, but there isn't one. No matter how many times Donald Trump says it, it's a lie. And, yes, people have been harmed by the gang, like they are harmed by all gangs, from Calle 18 to the Bloods. And, yes, crime is horrible. But that doesn't make it a "crisis" or an "infestation." Because it isn't either of those.
2. One of the main reasons that children and families with children are showing up and seeking asylum at the southern border of the United States is because gangs like MS-13 have made threats like "You join us or die." And under those conditions, with law enforcement all but non-existent, what parent wouldn't try to save their child? So when Attorney General Jeff "Small Men Can Be Giant Assholes" Sessions said that fleeing gang violence will no longer qualify migrants for consideration for asylum, he was pretty much signing a bunch of death warrants and a bunch of gang membership forms. Then, if those gang members do cross the border, well, instead of being part of a family granted asylum to start a new life, they'll be fucking gang members. This is not to mention the perpetuation of the violence in Central America that is making people seek asylum.
3. Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement have said that Trump's monstrous, idiotic zero-tolerance policy on undocumented migrants has led to a reduction in "their ability to pursue national security threats, child pornography and transnational crime." You got that? They're not concentrating on the violent criminals and heinous crimes because they're too busy rounding up undocumented parents of American children or going to meatpacking plants and dragging away everyone.
There are only so many resources. If you divert money from investigating violent criminals to hanging out at schools to arrest fathers when they drop their kids off, then violent criminals will get away with shit. It ain't that big a leap to say that Donald Trump's immigration policy, along with his bizarre, continuous advertising for them, will ultimately help MS-13 and other gangs. But, hey, who gives a shit as long as he can teach those Guatemalan mothers that he can take away their babies. Their tears nourish him and his mad minions.
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Trump Is Actually Helping MS-13 (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2018
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Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)1. And, fun fact, his employee Joe Weichselbaum was a convicted drug Trafficker.
In with the cartels.
T rump kept him employed, wrote leniency requests, despite the fact that doing so should have imperiled his NJ casino licenses.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)2. And every Democrat who speaks to the media or on the floor of Congress should make those points.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)3. As Bush/Cheney aided al-Qaeda recruitment
Cicada
(4,533 posts)4. MS13 is us, we provide funding by buying their drugs
MS13 has one branch with tattoos in El Salvador and a finance branch in the US when a banker buys their cocaine, or I buy their marijuana. Sad but true. So when the American/ElSalvador gang forces innocents to run for their lives Americans should take responsibility and give them shelter. The innocents on the run are not at fault, the American/Salvador partnership is at fault.