Feds Fail Another Long Island Town with Violent El Salvadoran Immigrant Gangs
By Joseph J. Kolb, March 3, 2017
The relentless gang violence on Long Island, N.Y., fueled by the surge of youths and families from El Salvador is reaching a fever pitch that officials are confronting head-on, despite being left in the dark by federal agencies who fail to communicate new arrival trends and details on resettlement activities to local officials.
On December 22, 2016, 13 members of the gang Salvadorans With Pride (SWP) were arrested and charged by the Nassau County District Attorney's Office with a plethora of offenses that included assault, attempted murder, conspiracy, robbery, and weapons charges. The suspects' ages ran from 15 to 23. This come on the heels of a major sweep in adjacent Suffolk County that netted 35 members of MS-13 following the murder of two teenage girls and the discovery of the remains of two teenage boys.
Since 2014, the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement has placed 2,730 "unaccompanied" illegal alien youths (UACs) from Central America in Nassau County alone. The Village of Hempstead, with a population that is 44 percent Hispanic, is the epicenter of gang violence and the home of SWP and MS-13.
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