By our own law we had to take Unaccompanied Children into custody. The one major question I have is were these already members of MS-13 when crossing, if so, they would’ve been tattooed thereby should’ve been returned to their country – PB/TK
Obama admin let MS-13 gang members into US after they were captured at border, documents state – By Dave Urbanski / May 25 2017
The Obama administration allowed over a dozen MS-13 gang members to enter the United States after they were caught crossing the border as illegal immigrant teens in 2014, the Washington Times reported, citing the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) noted Customs and Border Protection documents Wednesday, which said the 16 admitted gang members were then taken to juvenile homes throughout the country, the Times said.
“CBP apprehended them, knew they were MS-13 gang members, and they processed and disbursed them into our communities,” Johnson said, according to the paper, adding that a whistleblower turned over the documents.
More from the Times:
“The gang members were part of the surge of UAC, or “unaccompanied alien children,” as the government labels them, who overwhelmed the Obama administration in 2014, leaving Homeland Security struggling to staunch the flow from Central America.
Officials at the time said the children should be treated as refugees fleeing horrific conditions back home — though security analysts said the children were prime recruiting territory for gangs already in the U.S.
Mr. Johnson said the image of UAC as little children is misleading. Out of nearly 200,000 UAC apprehended between from 2012 to 2016, 68 percent were ages 15, 16 or 17 — meaning older teens. The majority were also male, making them targets for gang recruiting.”
MS-13 is among the most notorious and feared gangs, whose members are known — among other things — for using machetes to behead and dismember those who defy them, the Times said. Two suspected MS-13 gang members in Texas — also illegal immigrants — were charged in March for the “satanic” killing of a teenage girl and a brutal kidnapping two others.
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