Mexico Can Now Feel The Pain We Do, Here In America.

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Commission says Central American Mara gangs taking root in Mexico
10:33 PM
By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Central America's brutal Mara gangs have taken root in Mexico because law enforcement is too busy fighting drug smuggling to go after them, a government commission charged Wednesday.

Some 5,000 members now are active in about 200 cells in Mexico, the governmental National Human Rights Commission reported, calling the gangs' rise a problem of national security.

"This is negligence on the part of the government," Commission head Jose Luis Soberanes said as he presented the scathing three-year study.

The Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs are known throughout Central America and in some U.S. cities for their brazen tactics, which often include beheading their enemies. Many Mara members moved into Mexico after Central American nations began implementing tough anti-gang laws in recent years. Some travel through Mexico to reach the United States.

In the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala, 63 percent of the Mara members detained by authorities are Mexican citizens, indicating the gangs have truly taken root here, the commission said.

"They have become Mexicanized," said Raul Plascencia, a commission inspector.

Soberanes said police in Mexico are ill-prepared to deal with the problem, and in many cases don't even spot the gang affiliation of detained Mara members.

Some researchers say the gangs first formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s, attracting Salvadorans who fled to the United States to escape civil war. A decade later, after many of the members were deported for crimes committed in the United States, the gangs established themselves in Central America.

The Maras are believed to number about 100,000 in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaraga.

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This is the ONE line that is truly ironic. "Some 5,000 members now are active in about 200 cells in Mexico, the governmental National Human Rights Commission reported, calling the gangs' rise a problem of national security."

It serves them right!!!! 

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Ohhhh, booo hooo for them, I would waste a Kleenex for the tears I am shedding...but since they are from laughter, maybe I won't !!

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Has anyone tried to count the numbers that are active in the U.S.?  Just wondering...

There are some stats in this article, and it's probably at least double by now...this is from 2004:

The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Winter 2004

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Thanks for the article Patsy.  It's pretty scary to think that they may have doubled of even tripled since this article was written.  I heard they were trying to set up shop in Lincoln, Nebraska... Talk about the heartland areas?  They need to stop this before it spreads into other small cities.