Authored by Brad Jones via The Epoch Times,
A high-ranking chief of the worldwide Mara Salvatrucha gang, higher generally known as MS-13, was arrested on narco-terrorism expenses on the U.S.-Mexican border in San Diego earlier this month.
Fredy Ivan Jandres-Parada, a pacesetter of the worldwide MS-13 gang, was arrested on the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego on March 7, 2024. (Courtesy of FBI)
Federal authorities arrested Fredy Ivan Jandres-Parada, 48, often known as “Fortunate De Park View“ on the San Ysidro Port of Entry March 7.
He has been charged for his alleged function in ordering quite a few acts of violence towards civilians, legislation enforcement, and rival gang members, in addition to transnational drug distribution and extortion schemes.
The San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Ysidro, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2024. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Occasions)
The suspect ranks among the many senior leaders of MS-13’s Ranfla Nacional management council, previously generally known as the Twelve Apostles of the Satan, which controls hundreds of MS-13 members worldwide, in keeping with the FBI.
The U.S. District Courtroom, Japanese District of New York, issued a federal warrant for his arrest in late December 2020, charging him with conspiracy to offer and conceal help and assets to terrorists, conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending nationwide boundaries, conspiracy to finance terrorism, and narco-terrorism conspiracy.
An indictment unsealed a month later reveals the U.S. Division of Justice’s (DOJ) technique to focus on the higher echelon of MS-13 management—the Ranfla Nacional—in El Salvador to dismantle its command and skill to direct cliques within the U.S.
Such cliques are identified to be in varied Los Angeles neighborhoods identified by an space or road together with Hollywood, Park View, Normandie, Francis, Fulton, and Coronado, in keeping with the 31-page indictment.
Trump’s Crackdown
A 2020 DOJ report on the division’s efforts to fight MS-13 estimated the gang had 10,000 members throughout the U.S. and tens of hundreds extra worldwide and is “liable for violent crimes in the USA, together with murders, extortion, arms and drug trafficking, assaults, rapes, human trafficking, robberies, and kidnappings.”
Lower than a month after he was sworn into workplace, then-President Donald Trump issued an govt order directing “the whole-of-government” to develop and execute a complete and decisive strategy to dismantle transnational prison organizations, together with MS-13, to “restore security for the American individuals,” the DOJ report states.
“For many years, MS-13 has exploited weaknesses in U.S. immigration enforcement insurance policies to maneuver its members out and in of the USA and to recruit new members who’ve arrived in the USA illegally,” in keeping with the report.
It has infiltrated American cities and suburbs and established cliques in California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas, in keeping with the DOJ report.
The San Ysidro border entryway close to San Diego, Calif., on Could 31, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Occasions)
MS-13 members are largely Salvadoran nationals or first-generation Salvadoran People, in addition to Hondurans, Guatemalans, Mexicans, and different Central and South American immigrants, in keeping with the FBI.
And a 2008 report from the company deemed MS-13 a high-level menace in some components of the U.S. and a medium menace nationwide, saying it typically targets center and highschool college students for recruitment.
However, in Could 2018, then-President Trump took flak from political adversaries who accused him of calling unlawful immigrants “animals,” whereas criticizing California’s sanctuary state coverage at an immigration roundtable in Washington.
“We now have individuals coming into the nation, or making an attempt to return in—and we’re stopping a variety of them,” President Trump stated. “You wouldn’t imagine how dangerous these individuals are. These aren’t individuals. These are animals.”
He made the comment in response to a query about gangs from a sheriff—and later stated he was referring to MS-13, however at a Nationwide Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., a month later, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, former Home Speaker, chastised him over the comment.
“That is the primary time in current historical past the place we’ve had a president who doesn’t respect the dignity and value of each particular person coming into our nation, the popularity that immigration is the fixed reinvigoration of America,” Ms. Pelosi stated. “America has at all times been a nation of immigrants, enriched and blessed by every wave of newcomers to our shores. We actually imagine, as individuals of religion, that we’re all God’s youngsters.”
Former President Donald Trump attends a border safety briefing to debate additional plans in securing the southern border wall in Weslaco, Texas, on June 30, 2021. (Brandon Bell/Getty Photos)
Ms. Pelosi additionally obtained public backlash for saying there’s “a spark of divinity” in each immigrant that calls for “respect for each particular person—not animals, not inhuman, however youngsters of God.”
“Immigrants maintain religion in America’s promise of alternative and we should maintain religion with them by respecting … the dignity and value of each particular person. We should reject language that calls them animals,” she stated.
In the meantime, CBS Information reported March 24, that U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens has known as the southern border a “nationwide safety menace” citing 140,000 identified “gotaways” who have been detected by cameras and sensors crossing into the U.S. illegally, however evaded apprehension within the final 5 months.
Mr. Owens informed CBS the Border Patrol is “closing in” on a million apprehensions of migrants in between ports of entry alongside the U.S.-Mexico border within the 2024 fiscal 12 months, which started in October.
President Trump, who’s once more operating for president, continues to emphasize at his rallies the hazard of MS-13 gangs, together with their brutal machete assaults and different violent techniques.
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