A New York man willing to testify against MS-13 members who attacked him in 2018 was found dead earlier this week after his identity was disclosed to defendants’ attorneys in pre-trial proceedings, police say.

The bludgeoned body of 36-year-old Wilmer Maldonado Rodriguez was found Sunday outside an abandoned home in New Cassel, the Nassau County Police Department announced Wednesday. Investigators said Rodriguez in October 2018 came to the defense of two boys who were being threatened by the gang — only to be beaten with a bat and stabbed, according to Newsday. . .

Singas says prosecutors tried to keep Rodriguez’s identity secret by obtaining a protective order in December 2018.

But last December, ahead of looming changes to New York’s criminal justice system, including reforming the pre-trial discovery phase – during which prosecutors reveal evidence to the defense for preparation – the judge in the case issued a new order.

It allowed “for the disclosure of the protected information to defense counsel,” Newsday reports. The judge’s order, it added, required attorneys for two defendants not to reveal Rodriguez’ s name to their clients until the trial’s start date of Jan. 6. (Read more from “After Court Revealed His Identity, a Man Set to Testify Against MS-13 Has Been Found Dead” HERE)

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When James Madison said the jobs of the federal government were “few and defined,” applied “principally on external objects,” he was referring to exactly what has been brought into California from Central America. Yesterday, in what should be the biggest new story of the day, California and federal law enforcement wrapped up an MS-13 task force investigation, completing the indictment of 22 MS-13 members from a particularly brutal cell responsible for numerous gruesome murders. The operation began last year with the arrest of 18 members of MS-13’s “Fulton clique,” culminating with the arrest of the final four in recent days, according to the 78-page indictment.

Some of the 22 were charged with killing four people in the Angeles National Forest, one in the Malibu hills, and a homeless man in North Hollywood over the past two years. The victims were beaten to death in the worst way imaginable by a gang culture we have now imported with illegal immigration. According to the U.S. attorney’s office, 19 of the 22 members came here illegally over the past few years from El Salvador and Honduras.

Thus, when you see “children” at the border being resettled into this country, just remember that a large number of them are gang members or vulnerable to joining violent gangs. As U.S. attorney Nick Hanna is quoted in the Los Angeles Times, “We’re seeing an influx of younger gang members coming into the area associating themselves with the Fulton clique who are extremely violent, who have to commit murders to join the clique.”

Claude Arnold, who once ran the Los Angeles field office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was quoted as saying, “These are newer entrants, so they’re making their bones with the gang, it’s just how it is. They want to make a name for themselves, and those are the people who are generally the most violent members of street gangs.”

According to the indictment, these people were “required to kill an MS-13 rival or someone perceived to be adverse to MS-13 to be initiated into MS-13.”

Remember when now-acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan said that when he looked at many of these Central American teens when touring detention facilities as Border Patrol Chief, he saw future gang members? He made those comments to CR first in March and then in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in April. The media went crazy over them, calling him a racist. But he’s correct. Indeed, as Thomas Homan said, “a gang operation in NY last year entitled Operation Matador, which targeted MS-13 gang members, showed that approximately 40 percent of those arrested illegally entered the U.S. as part of a family unit or as a UAC. Many that entered the U.S. were already gang members or soon became gang members after arriving in the U.S.”

Paul Delacourt, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, described the murders as “medieval-style.” One victim was “dismembered, and his body parts were thrown into a canyon after one of the defendants allegedly cut the heart out of the victim’s body,” according to DOJ. This is the price the American people have to pay when our government ignores our laws mandating the denial of entry to people like this.

The 22 defendants are: German Hernandez, Angel Guzman, Ever Morales, Fernando Parada, Jose Baquiax Alvarez, Kevin Gomez, Kevin Arteaga, Edgar Velasquez, Walter Chavez Larin, Yefri Revelo, Wilfredo Vides, Gerardo Alvarado, Roberto Carlos Mendez Cruz, Bryan Alberto Ordones, Roberto Alejandro Corado Ortiz, Edwin Issac Mendez, Josue Balmore Flores Castro, Luis Arturo Gonzalez, Edwin Martinez, Steven Emmanuel Linares, Marco Antonio Ramos, and Erick Eduardo Rosales Arias.

While most of the victims were rival gang members who were here illegally, the homeless man was killed for merely being in a park “controlled” by the gang. Others murdered were “perceived to be cooperating with law enforcement,” according to the Justice Department.

One other point is in order: There is a bipartisan movement suggesting that too many people sit in federal prison for too long on bogus or low-level charges. What I have proven many times throughout the debate on the “First Step Act,” which offers early release to many federal prisoners, is that the type of people federal prosecutors pursue on drug or racketeering charges are often the worst transnational gang or cartel murderers. It’s just that it’s so hard to land a conviction that they often arrange a plea deal.

These individuals in this case are all charged with racketeering in the process of drug trafficking. Some were charged with murder, but not all. There are two under-seal cases pending against juvenile defendants, where the charges are still not public.

In five years from now, expect agitation groups and even “conservative” senators to use some of these “youngsters” as poster children for people being sentenced too long for low-level crimes. That is what they are doing now, but this is a glimpse into the front end of how many wind up with long sentences on charges of racketeering or drugs. Usually, that is not why the feds pursued them to begin with, but we only hear about the technical conviction and not the story behind it.

Congress and many in the executive branch have no interest in fighting for the American people and shutting off the flow of illegal immigrants from Central America. The only legislation they have successfully passed is a bill to cut the sentences of brutal criminals like these MS-13 animals. (For more from the author of “19 of 22 Indicted for Ultra-Violent MS-13 Murders Are Illegal Aliens from Central America” please click HERE)

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Amid the rash of school shootings in this country, we are engaged in a national discussion over combatting violence among our youth. Is there really a reason to import hundreds of thousands of young males from the most dangerous countries with the strongest gang culture when we already have our own problems? Is this what the American people voted for? Well, that is exactly what is happening, as we continue to resettle self-trafficked illegal alien teens from Central America, many of whom join gangs.

Last week, I reported that three MS-13 members who were arrested in Maryland for stabbing a rival gangster and burning the body were resettled as refugees under the false pretenses of being brought to this country as “unaccompanied minors.” This week, six MS-13 gangsters were indicted on charges of conspiring to commit two murders in Long Island. In the first case, Kevin Zuniga, Jose J. Portillo, and Kevin Mejia Sandoval allegedly planned to murder a fellow gang member who was actually cooperating with law enforcement. In the second case, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini, these individuals conspired to work with Gerver A. Chinchilla Perez, Emerson Hernandez Escobar, and Rafael Hernandez Elias to murder a rival gang member “by shooting him with a firearm they planned on purchasing, butchering him with a machete, or by burning him to death.”

According to an ICE official, two of the individuals were settled in the country as UACs, but the source declined to tell me which ones, out of fear of violating a privacy policy.

Three of the suspects were identified by law enforcement as “homeboys,” which means they are designated leaders in the U.S. taking orders from gang leaders in El Salvador. That is what has happened to our country. We have now opened our gates to transnational gangs to operate freely in our country, often treating them as refugees!

Long Island and Maryland became hot spots for MS-13 activity during the surge of Central American teens in 2014. The current surge is making that one look like child’s play, with record numbers of teens coming in, both individually and with families. Aside from the numerous teens being given de facto amnesty who will likely join gangs when they are settled in our country, as we saw from the 2014 wave, there are numerous known gang members coming in while Border Patrol is tied up with what is essentially social work. According to Border Patrol, 800 gang members were apprehended so far this year, a 50 percent increase from last year. And it’s very likely, given that most resources are now diverted to processing the invasion rather than deterring it, most gang members who strategically enter far from points of entry are never apprehended. Consider the fact that Border Patrol has had to shut down all its secondary checkpoints in New Mexico to deal with the processing of amnesty for Central Americans.

It’s truly frightening to consider the harm to Americans and our public safety that will result in the months and years to come from this wave that has not yet crested. Anyone who is settled as a UAC is treated as a refugee and cannot be deported until they actually commit a crime. We have needlessly brought in countless tens of thousands of ticking time bombs in our schools and communities.

Mark Morgan, who was chief of Border Patrol during the end of the Obama administration, explained the concern as follows: “As a police officer working in South Central Los Angeles, and years later, as an FBI supervisor of a MS-13 Gang Task Force, I saw firsthand the transition of countless young kids into the world of gang membership. The reasons why are varied but have remained consistent: status, recognition, protection, intimidation, brotherhood, and profit through criminal activity. The young immigrant population is increasingly susceptible and vulnerable to all the pull factors and drivers. They are often uneducated, unskilled, and lack a sense of belonging and purpose. This makes them a perfect target for gang recruitment.”

Yet to this day, the Senate has refused to clarify that refugee status doesn’t apply to those who are self-trafficked by illegal alien families already here. Nor has the administration even asserted that this is the proper interpretation of the statute. The American people, through Congress, have never voted to let these people in. The statute was designed to protect victims of gangs who are kidnapped across our border, not those who are part of the gangs gaming out our system with the help of other illegal relatives, who themselves should be deported.

In 2013, Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas accused Obama’s DHS of “successfully complet[ing]” the “goal of the conspiracy” of drug smugglers to smuggle people over the border on behalf of parents “at significant expense” to taxpayers. What the Trump administration continues to do because one district judge said so, Hanen actually said is illegal. A private citizen would be prosecuted for delivering teens smuggled in to illegal alien family members:

Hanen went on to say that the Flores agreement expired after five years, and even under Flores, it is inconceivable that government would be forced to complete a criminal conspiracy and deliver teens to illegal aliens who paid for the trafficking.

Now, after months of listening to a California judge who says the opposite, potentially tens of thousands of volatile and troubled youth from Central America will be flooding our schools in the coming months. It’s a recipe for disaster, for more gangs and drug trafficking. Thomas Homan, who was director of ICE during the original 2014 UAC crisis, says, “Many of the gang members ICE has arrested the past few years entered the US at the southern border as part of a family unit or as an unaccompanied alien child UAC. As a matter of fact, a gang operation in NY last year entitled Operation Matador, which targeted MS-13 gang members, showed that approximately 40 percent of those arrested illegally entered the U.S. as part of a family unit or as a UAC. Many that entered the U.S. were already gang members or soon became gang members after arriving in the U.S.”

Mark Morgan, who after years of serving in communities with existing MS-13 populations later became chief of Border Patrol several years into the UAC crisis, saw this ticking time bomb at the front end, before they were released:

“As chief of the Border Patrol, I would tour the detention facilities filled to capacity with unaccompanied minors, 17 years of age or younger, who had illegally entered the country. Alone and without any parents or guardians. As I looked as these groups, I saw both hardened young men as well as vulnerable and lost youth. With every encounter, I walked away wondering how many would be lured into joining a gang. The odds were not in their favor, as they were released into a city somewhere in the U.S., never to be heard from again.” (For more from the author of “More ‘Refugee’ Teens Caught in MS-13 Sting” please click HERE)

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By The Blaze. Federal prosecutors said MS-13 gang members murdered a man in Long Island simply because he was wearing a Peyton Manning football jersey, according to the New York Post.

The revelation is related to the January 2017 murder of Esteban Alvarado-Bonilla at a deli. MS-13 member Mario Aguilar-Lopez pleaded guilty to the murder in November 2018.

U.S. Assistant Attorney Raymond Tierney discussed the details of the motivation behind the murder during court proceedings Tuesday for Jose Suarez, who is accused of being the getaway driver in the murder in order to earn respect of the gang. . .

Alvarado-Bonilla was suspected of being a member of the rival 18th Street gang. Manning’s jersey number was 18. As a result, Alvarado-Bonilla was “marked for death,” prosecutors said.

Aguilar-Lopez fired five shots at Alvarado-Bonilla’s head at point-blank range, and one bullet also struck a nearby employee, who survived. (Read more from “A Man’s Shirt Choice Caused a MS-13 Member to Murder Him” HERE)

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U.S. Southern Border ‘Invasion’ by the Numbers

By Boston Herald. President Trump declared a national emergency Friday to circumvent Congress and secure $8 billion for barriers on the southern border.

Through presidential addresses and press conferences, Trump has given a host of reasons for his crackdown on the border, often centering on controlling the flow of illegal immigrants, drugs and gang members.

“We have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people, and it’s unacceptable,” Trump said from the Rose Garden on Friday. . .

There were 377 MS-13 gang members apprehended nationwide in fiscal 2018, as of Aug. 31. That was up from 228 the year prior, but down from 437 in fiscal 2014. Recent FBI estimates put MS-13 gang membership in the U.S. at about 10,000, but it’s not clear how many of them are citizens versus immigrants. (Read more from “U.S. Southern Border ‘Invasion’ by the Numbers” HERE)

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When you bring in hundreds of thousands of young males from the most violent countries through a lawless border, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the results. It’s called the Long Island effect. The latest victim of our “unaccompanied alien child” policy and judicial amnesty is a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed almost to death by three “Dreamers” who were members of MS-13, according to local police. They were all released by a federal judge.

WABC in New York reported yesterday that on Wednesday, a group of illegal aliens believed to be tied to MS-13 attacked a 16-year-old boy and stabbed him in the back outside a Burger King.

According to police, three suspects were arrested and charged with assault. Here are their profiles:

Ramon Arevalo Lopez, 19, entered illegally in December 8, 2016, and was apprehended by DHS in October 2017. He should have been thrown out of the country, but he was released by a federal judge.

Nobeli Montes Zuniga, 20, and Oscar Canales Molina, 17, “entered the country illegally as unaccompanied minors.” Molina was apprehended by the feds in July 2017 but was also released by a federal district judge in November 2017.

We have a lot of our own inherent violence in this country, but now we have “animals,” as Trump rightfully calls them, being released into our country and committing completely avoidable violence.

This is the big lie the media is not telling you about the border flow. When you see pictures of 16- and 17-year-old “children” coming here and wrongly being treated as refugees, being released by judges, and placed in our communities, many of them are your 19- to 20-year-old MS-13 members committing the most gruesome crimes just a year or two later. Not all of them, but way too many.

Geraldine Hart, police commissioner of Suffolk County, New York, indicated last May at the president’s roundtable on MS-13 violence in Long Island that the entirety of the MS-13 crisis over the past few years is because of the UACs and that Long Island has it bad because it was the largest recipient of UACs in the nation. “MS-13 sustains itself by constantly recruiting new members, and particularly minors,” said Hart last May 23 with Trump in attendance. “MS-13 members recruit children placed in communities in Suffolk County through the UAC program.” She noted that since 2014, “4,965 UACs have been placed in Suffolk County, making it the largest recipient of UACs in the nation. While the vast majority of these children live law-abiding lives, many of them are susceptible to gang recruitment.”

This reflects the deep problem of criminal aliens coming across our border. It is true that there are a lot of known bad people who come through, but there are also a lot of troubled youth who might not have a paper trail flagged in our international databases, but are very much at risk, particularly when they come in such large numbers and settle in gang-saturated areas. Of all people, Rod Rosenstein explained this dynamic well at that same Long Island roundtable:

“We’re letting people in who are gang members. We’re also letting people in who are vulnerable. Many of these alien children, who have no parents, no family structure — we’re releasing them into communities where they’re vulnerable to recruitment by MS-13. And so some of these kids who come in without any gang ties develop gang ties as a result of the pressure that they face from people that they confront in the communities.”

None of these people are victims of a “severe form of trafficking,” and almost none of them are in the country without any adult relative, the two conditions for eligibility to be treated as a UAC. They are, in fact, self-trafficking themselves in order to reunite with other illegal aliens in this country! They are taking advantage of us, empowering the drug cartels, and serving as the fresh blood of the transnational gangs working for the cartels. They should be repatriated back to their home countries, but instead, we now have judges implementing a greater degree of amnesty than all of the legislative amnesties we’ve successfully defeated.

Thanks to the courts rewriting statutes to include the very evil the UAC statute was designed to combat, 98.2 percent of all Central American teens who came in fiscal year 2017 still remain in our communities.

Think about all of the avoidable crimes that are committed because we refuse to deny entry to or to deport these people. Now the legal system is illegally treating these people like American citizens in all aspects of criminal law. Many of them are released if local judges and sanctuary jurisdiction law enforcement believe the crime wasn’t severe enough. Newsday is reporting that the three stabbers already have swanky lawyers representing them who are claiming their clients are not MS-13 members and are peaceful and innocent.

While everyone is certainly entitled to due process for criminal convictions, there is a broader question to be answered here. We won’t know all the facts about this attack until there is a trial, but we do know they are here illegally. Why then were they not deported when the Suffolk County database had them flagged for being MS-13? Look at how clogged our criminal justice system gets because we refuse to deport the people we can before they commit crimes.

This is a growing trend. A month ago, six MS-13 members were indicted in Lynn, Massachusetts, for killing a boy they suspected was cooperating with law enforcement. They used such force, like “chopping wood,” that the knife was bent, according to prosecutors. According to prosecutors, “At least two of the six defendants have felony records. At least two of the six defendants were previously in immigration custody but were released and went on to commit … murder.” Why weren’t they deported, and why would a judge let them go? The Boston Herald reports that, in the case of at least one, according to the feds, the lawyer “succeeded in convincing an immigration court that he was not in a gang, was not violent, did not pose a threat to the public.”

Sound familiar?

Every illegal alien crime, by definition, is avoidable because we should be enforcing our laws and getting rid of the immigration magnets. But we now have a ubiquitous crisis of known criminal aliens who are let go and are allowed to continue ratcheting up the severity of their crimes. It’s bad enough that we are too weak on sentencing for Americans and so many bad people are on the streets. But when it comes to illegal alien crime, shouldn’t we all agree they should be immediately deported after committing their first crime?

This is why the border issue is not really about the border. It’s about all our communities. Most of the recent invaders are not staying near the border; they are passing through to other states, particularly in the East Coast. At this point, perhaps the only thing that will stop this travesty is when it arrives next door to where the political elites live. (For more from the author of “Pack of Ms-13 Illegal Aliens Released by Judge Stab 16-Year-Old” please click HERE)

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