MS-13 member admits he killed a teen in East Boston to get a gang promotion; faces life in prison

I've said it before, it's like this "gang" (or whatever you want to call it) doesn't even care about making money. They just care about public intimidation & publically recognized murders. Some career path...

Asks the FBI how many more members of MS-13 are still living in East Boston and elsewhere in Greater Boston and if there is still an active joint task force (with Boston Police) working to make criminal cases against members committing crimes. The drug trade is what sustains them. Are we still creating new addicts through prescription and illicit drugs? Do they push or keep their heads down and supply the addicts?

In the 1980's the US supported the Salvadoran military in a civil war against the peasants of this Central American country. The war lasted 12 years and 75,000 lost their lives. We sent arms, trained their death squads at the notorious School of the Americas and empowered the murderous war criminal Roberto D'Aubuisson. It wasn't until four American church women were kidnapped, raped and murdered; six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 16 year old daughter slaughtered; and Monsignor Oscar Romero was murdered at the altar as he celebrated Mass that the US pulled back.

As a side effect, or collateral damage, Salvadorans fled their homeland and sought asylum in the US. Some settled in Boston, many more in L.A. Many of the young men among these refugees, traumatized by what they had experienced, impoverished and often here without immediate family, could not successfully integrate into US society. They did not complete their schooling due to language barriers, and took to the streets, selling drugs. They were incarcerated and banded together inside prison, forming the gang known as MS-13. When their sentences were completed, they were deported to El Salvador. The same cycle of social alienation was again enacted, and rejected as being "Americanized", lacking any family ties or employable skills and hardened by prison life, they took up their old trade - gangs, violence and drugs.

Now MS-13 is perhaps an import from El Salvador, but it was born here in our prison system, because we intervened in someone else's country under Ronald Reagan to stop the spread of godless communism in our backyard.