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THE GEOGRAPHY OF – MS 13
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MS 13 • MARA SALVATRUCHA 13• ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT, DANGEROUS
GANGS IN U.S • ONE OF THE MOST ORGANIZED - HAS
CLIQUES, OR FACTIONS, LOCATED THROUGHOUT U.S
• IS UNIQUE RETAINS IS TIES TO ITS EL SALVADOR COUNTERPARTS
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MS 13 • MS-13 WAS NAMED AFTER "LA MARA", A
STREET IN EL SALVADOR • SALVATRUCHA – GUERRILLAS WHO FOUGHT
IN THE SALVADORAN CIVAL WAR• "13TH STREET" IN LOS ANGELES (ALSO 13TH
LETTER OF THE ALPHABET IS M)•
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MS 13 • ORIGINAL MEMBERS WERE REFUGEES FROM
THE CIVIL WAR IN EL SALVADOR DURING THE 1980S; MANY WERE FORMER SOLDIERS AND GUERRILLAS, WELL TRAINED IN WEAPONS AND WARFARE TACTICS – MOVED TO US AS REFUGEES
• YOUNG REFUGEES IN AREA WHERE THERE WERE ALREADY MANY GANGS (18TH STREET GANG – MEXICANS)
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• SALVADORANS FORMED THEIR OWN GANG IN RESPONSE TO NEED FOR PROTECTIONS OF ALREADY EXISTING GANGS (SEOUL INTERNATIONAL PARK)
• ACCORDING TO FOUNDING MEMBER (ERNESTO “SMOKEY” MIRANDA TRAUMAS SUFFERED DURING THE WAR HELPED MAKE THE GANG SO VIOLENT
• AFTER RODNEY KING VERDICT –RIOTS – CALIFORNIA STARTING PASSING NEW ANTI-GANG LAWS THAT LEAD TO LONGER PRISON SENTENCES FOR GANG MEMBERS
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• 1996 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PASSED THE “ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM AND IMMIGRATION RESPONSIBILITY ACT” MADE DEPORTATION GOVERNMENTS MOST IMPORTANT STRATEGY FOR DEALING WITH GANGS
• PEOPLE WERE CITIZENS BUT NOT PERMANENT RESIDENTS (IF SENTENCED TO MORE THAN A YEAR IN PRISON) BE DEPORTED
• LIST OF CRIMES FOR DEPORTATION WAS ALSO EXPANDED TO DRUNK DRIVING AND PETTY THEFT
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• IN 1996 ~ 38,000 IMMIGRANTS WERE DEPORTS AFTER COMMITTING A CRIME
• 2003 # TO ~ 80,000• MANY DEPORTEES HAD LIVED IN US ALMOST
THEIR WHO LIVE (SOME SPOKE NO SPANISH)• JOINED TOGETHER WITH “HOMEBOYS” WHO
HAD BEEN DEPORTED WITH THEM AND RECREATED LA’S GANGS IN CENTRAL AMERICA
• OR ATTEMPTED TO RETURN TO US ILLEGALLY
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• GANG PROBLEM SNOWBALLED • EL SALVADOR WAS RIPE FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF GANGS• AFTER CIVIL WAR – ARMY WAS REMOVED
FROM INTERNAL SECURITY DUTIES & CIVILIAN POLICE FORCE WAS CREATED (NEEDED TIME TO BE TRAINED AND BECOME EFFECTIVE) CRIME GREW
• FAMILIES • MANY ORPHANS AND STREET CHILDREN
DUE TO WAR
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• YOUNG POPULATION (1/2 POPULATION IN 1998 UNDER 18 AND ¾ OF CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY)
• FEW OPPORTUNITIES – WAR AND INTERNATIONAL FREE MARKET BROUGHT A COLLAPSE OF THE COFFEE ECONOMY
• URBANIZATION RAPID BUT NO JOBS (6.5% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE)
• AVAILABILITY OF WEAPONS (AFTER WAR THEY ARE EVERYWHERE)
• ~450,000 FIREARMS IN EL SALVADOR (NOT EVEN HALF ARE LEGAL)
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• WEAPONS ALLOWED MS13 TO BE INFLUENTIAL (NOW MAJOR MARKET FOR THE GANG)
• SAVATRUCHAS DID NOT STAY IN EL SALVADOR BUT IMMIGRATED BACK TO US (LEGALLY AND ILLEGALLY) FOR BETTER OPPORTUNITY AND BETTER LIVES
• 90% OF DEPORTED GANG MEMBERS RETURN TO THE US AS FAST AS THEY CAN
• BY 2005 MS13 STARTING TO SPREAD THROUGHOUT US (WASHINGTON D.C., LONG ISLAND, NORTHERN VIRGINIA, SUBURBAN MIDWEST
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• GANG IS RETURNING MORE ORGANIZED AND SOPHISTICATED, WITH BETTER WEAPONS, COORDINATION, COMMUNICATION AMONG CLIQUES
• IN CENTRAL AMERICAN NATIONS THE RESPONSE TO GANGS IS TO THROW MEMBERS IN JAIL
• JAIL OVERCROWDED (EL SALVADOR DOUBLED IN 5 YEARS)
• SERVE TO REINFORCE GANG CULTURE (FINISHING SCHOOL) HELP TO ORGANIZE THE HIERARCHY OF THE CLIQUES AND GANG
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MS 13 • MS 13 INTERNATIONAL GANG WITH
MEMBERS IN WASHINGTON DC, OREGON, ALASKA, ARKANSAS, TEXAS, NEVADA, UTAH, OKLAHOMA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, NEW YORK, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, GEORGIA, FLORIDA, CANADA, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, MEXICO, AND SEVERAL OTHER SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES
• BECOMING THE FIRST GANG TO BE CATEGORIZED AS AN "ORGANIZED CRIME" ENTITY.
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MS-13 presence – darkness indicates strength
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MS 13 • MEMBERS SPORT NUMEROUS TATTOOS ON
THEIR BODIES AND FACES• WEAR BLUE AND WHITE COLORS TAKEN
FROM THE EL SALVADORAN FLAG•
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• MS 13 TATTOO'S ARE GOTHIC WHICH MEANS THEY ARE VERY DARK SPIRITED
• MANY MEMBERS HAVE 666 TATTED ON THEM
• TEARDROPS UNDER THEIR LEFT EYE REPRESENT A SHOT OR A WOUNDED GANG MEMBER & THOSE UNDER RIGHT EYE REPRESENT THEIR COMBAT WITH THE RIVAL GANGS
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• THE FIST OF ONE OF THE CONVICT SHOWS TATTOOS OF A CLUB AND A SPADE SYMBOL OVER THE ‘M’ AND ‘S’ TO HIDE HIS ASSOCIATION SINCE DEPARTING FROM MS 13
THE WHOLE THING EARLIER READ ‘GMSP’ ACROSS FOUR FINGERS WHERE ‘G’ AND ‘P’ STOOD FOR HIS TERRITORY GREENSPOINT. MS 13 GANG TATTOOS REVEAL SPECIALTIES OF GANG MEMBERS
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STACKING• HOW THEY SPELL WHO IS IN THEIR GANG
WITH THEIR HANDS• HOW THEY TELL OTHER GANG MEMBERS
WHAT GANG THEIR FROM AND WHO IS IN THEIR CLIQUE
• ALWAYS CHANGING AND DIFFERENT GANG SIGNS CONTINUALLY EMERGE
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STACKING• HOW THEY SPELL WHO IS IN THEIR GANG
WITH THEIR HANDS• HOW THEY TELL OTHER GANG MEMBERS
WHAT GANG THEIR FROM AND WHO IS IN THEIR CLIQUE
• ALWAYS CHANGING AND DIFFERENT GANG SIGNS CONTINUALLY EMERGE
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MS 13 • MEMBERSHIP IS ESTIMATED TO TOTAL OVER
100,000 WORLDWIDE • MEMBERS RANGE IN AGE FROM 11 TO 40
YEARS OLD • INCREASE IN VIOLENT ACTIVITIES AND
CARELESS DISREGARD FOR THE LAW (THREATS AND ATTACKS AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ARE COMMON) MADE THEM THE MOST FEARED GANG IN THE UNITED STATES
• US
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MS 13 • MS-13 CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDE DRUG
SMUGGLING, GUN RUNNING, PEOPLE SMUGGLING, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, HITS FOR HIRE, THEFT, DRUG SALES, ARSON, AND OF COURSE, STRONG ARMING THE LOCALS
• MEMBERS OFTEN ARRIVE IN U.S. WITH FIGHTING SKILLS GAINED FROM MILITARY TRAINING, AND ARE PARTICULARLY ADEPT WITH MACHETES
•
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MS 13 • CALLING CARD MS-13 OFTEN LEAVES
BEHIND DISMEMBERED CORPSES, COMPLETE WITH THE DECAPITATED HEAD, AT THE SCENE OF THEIR MURDERS. OFTEN A GRIM NOTE IS ATTACHED TO THE BODY
• EX. TEXAS A MS-13 GANG MEMBER LED THE GANG RAPE OF A 24 YEAR-OLD WOMAN AND THEN KICKED HER IN THE NECK WITH SUCH FORCE THAT IT KILLED HER
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• ASKING SOMEONE “WHERE ARE YOU FROM” – MEANS TROUBLE ASKING WHAT GANG ARE YOU FROM AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT
• REASON FOR MOVEMENT JOBS (CONSTRUCTION MAINLY)
• MOVING TO PLACES WITH SOME TYPE OF GROWTH
• AS LA POLICE CRACKED DOWN – MOVED TO AREAS THAT WERE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE GANG
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• SOME CORRECTIONS OFFICIALS’ VIEW MS-13 MARKETS THE GANG AS A WAY TO EMBRACE LATIN AMERICAN HERITAGE
• ENCOURAGE YOUTH TO SHOW PRIDE TOWARDS THEIR CULTURE WHEN IT IS REALLY JUST A MASK OVER THE GANG'S REAL CRIMINAL OBJECTIVES
• GANG MEMBERS PAY GUARDS TO SMUGGLE IN CELLPHONES, WHICH MEMBERS USE TO CONSULT AND COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER MEMBERS IN GUATEMALA, HONDURAS AND THE US
•
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MS 13 IN ARIZONA• ACCORDING TO POLICE GANG
MEMBERS COME TO ARIZONA BECAUSE ITS POSITION ON THE BORDER MAKES IT A HOT SPOT FOR DRUGS AND HUMAN SMUGGLING
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MS 13 IN NEBRASKA• THE LAST OF 24 MS-13 MEMBERS
SWEPT UP ON FEDERAL FIREARMS CHARGES AND CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE WERE SENTENCED LAST YEAR IN THE LARGEST BUST SINCE THE GROUP EMERGED THERE IN 2004
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MS 13 IN NEBRASKA• MS 13 GANG GRAFFITI HAS BEEN
SHOWING UP MORE FREQUENTLY OMAHA NEIGHBORHOODS
• MS13
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MS 13 IN MARYLAND
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MS 13 IN MARYLAND• PRESENT THROUGHOUT MONTGOMERY
AND PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTIES, BALTIMORE CITY AND BALTIMORE, CARROLL COUNTY, FREDERICK, HARFORD, AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES
• NUMEROUS ASSAULTS, MURDERS, RAPES, AS WELL AS EXTORTION, PROSTITUTION RINGS AND THEFTS FROM AUTOS.
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MS 13 IN TEXAS• 10-15 GROUPS OPERATING IN TEXAS –
MOSTLY IN DALLAS• TEXAS
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MS 13 IN N. VIRGINIA• ACTIVE IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA SINCE
EARLY 1990S (~12 CLIQUES)• CONCERN ABOUT GANGS ESCALATED
AMONG THE PUBLIC AND POLITICIANS AFTER A SERIES OF VIOLENT ATTACKS IN 2004, INCLUDING THE SLAYING OF A HERNDON TEENAGER BY TWO MS-13 MEMBERS AND A MACHETE ATTACK ON A MEMBER OF ANOTHER GANG BY THREE MS-13 MEMBERS IN THE ALEXANDRIA AREA
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MS 13 IN MEXICO• EXISTS IN AT LEAST SEVEN MEXICAN
STATES, FROM THE SOUTHERN END OF MEXICO TO THE U.S. BORDER
• LARGELY ALONG EXISTING CARTEL DRUG-SMUGGLING ROUTES
• THE GANG IS FOUND ALONG TRADITIONAL MIGRATION ROUTES AS WELL, AND IMMIGRANTS TRAVELING BOTH LEGALLY AND ILLEGALLY ALONG THESE ROUTES ARE REGULARLY ATTACKED AND ROBBED BY MS-13 GANG MEMBERS.
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MS 13 IN CANADA• VANCOUVER, MONTREAL, TORONTO,
AND TO A LESSER EXTENT, EDMONTON AND CALGARY .
• FIRST MS-13 MEMBER WAS ARRESTED IN VANCOUVER IN 1997, BUT OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS, THE NUMBER OF MS-13 GANG MEMBERS IDENTIFIED BY VANCOUVER POLICE HAS INCREASED AND THE NUMBER OF DRUG HOUSES RAIDED HAS RISEN.
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MS 13 IN CANADA• THE TORONTO CHAPTER OF MS-13 HAS
A PRESENCE IN THE WEST SIDE OF THE CITY'S DOWNTOWN REGION
• REMAINED TRUE TO ITS ROOTS AND IS COMPRISED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY OF YOUNG MEN OF LATIN AMERICAN ORIGIN
• CANADA CANADA
LONG ISLAND
•