Trump tweeted today that his administration just concluded a historic operation leading to the arrest and indictment of dozens of MS-13 members and leaders from across the country.
He tweets: "In New York and Nevada, 21 MS-13 members and leaders have been indicted on charges including murder, kidnapping, and drug trafficking."
[Attorney General Bill Barr is seeking the death penalty for a leader of MS-13 from East New York.]
"In the last three years,
@ICEgov has deported over 16,000 gang members and arrested over 2,000 members of MS-13."
[end quoted tweets]
According to Wikipedia:
"Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1970s and 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Angeles area. Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization."
Trump also made an interesting announcement (that I'll get to in a bit) -- and one I've been waiting to hear for quite some time now, as I watch the unimaginable criminality of Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo in orchestrating an enormous -- almost overnight -- rise in violent crime, in conjunction with a malicious weakening and demoralizing of the NYPD to achieve their obvious goal of chaos and destruction in the wake of the coming election.
Here's an apt excerpt from "Town Hall":
"Like many major cities across the country, New York seems to be under siege as a vicious uptick in violent crime has set in following weeks of protests, riots, and looting by Black Lives Matter and other far-left groups. More than 60 people were shot just over Fourth of July weekend, raising alarms for NYPD, currently facing a $1 billion budget cut that was approved by the great majority of elected leaders."
townhall.com
This rise in violence affects all New Yorkers, but the most at risk are in poor black neighborhoods. New York's elected officials know this, and in that they are the true racists among us.
Trump has repeatedly offered to deploy the National Guard, but local leaders repeatedly reject such offers.
Now Trump is stating [in a tweet today] that next week he will be announcing his plan for dealing with this escalation in violent crime without the consent of local leaders.
As Trump stated back in early June:
“If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.” [UNTV]
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I would add that there's this crazy-making "disconnect" exhibited by Mayor de Blasio when dealing with these dire matters. As the numbers of murders in the city skyrocket in the aftermath of his disbanding his plainclothes police force (responsible for tracking and seizing illegal weapons), and his reducing the NYPD budget by a billion dollars, along with doing away with bail requirements, and so sending violent criminals back out onto the streets (to name but a few of de Blasio's recent initiatives), New Yorkers, increasingly terrified by the violence, and targeted financially by the dramatic lowering of property values, have to nonetheless listen to the sublime indifference of their Mayor, Bill de Blasio, obnoxiously and benignly stating that he's been working with "community policing" efforts for the past seven years, and that he is continuing to do so. As to all this violence and destruction that's ravaging the city he's supposed to be governing? As is obvious by his inane indifference, this doesn't rattle him in the least. Not a problem, apparently.
This crazy making behavior -- clearly some kind of perverse strategy in which Democratic leaders have all decided to "pretend" that what is obviously going on is NOT going on -- is so outrageous, so contemptible, I really have to limit my exposure to it or else my blood really does begin to boil. If Bill de Blasio doesn't go down as the worst, most incompetent and malevolent/dangerous mayor New York has ever seen, then I really don't know what to say. Yes, there should be protesting -- against HIM!!!
But, no. We must focus instead on how racist the average white person is. [?????????????]
My God.