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Center for Immigration Studies By CIS March 2015Immigrant and transnational gangs represent a unique public safety threat to American communities, due to their unusually violent nature and their involvement in cross-border crimes such as drug and weapons trafficking, human smuggling, extortion and kidnapping. Immigration enforcement has played a key role in disrupting and dismantling certain gangs that have non-citizen, and especially illegal alien, members. ICE arrest data shows that such gangs are not confined to traditional immigrant gateway communities, but have sprouted all over the country, in urban, suburban and rural areas. Since 2005, ICE and its local law enforcement partners have arrested more than 30,000 gang members, leaders and associates. Violent gang members arrive from all over the globe, but ICE arrest data reflect that the most prolifically violent gangs that are the highest priority for enforcement have significant numbers of members from Central America and Mexico.Source: Center for Immigration Studies, http://cis.org/Immigration-Policy-Fact-Sheets/Gang-ArrestsPlease check out my blogs at:http://viewpointsofasagittarian.com/http://pumabydesign001.com/http://grumpyelder.com/
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Source: ICE. Research Assistance by Hannah E. Nochera, Graphics by Cody Donald. Contact: Jessica Vaughan, [email protected].
Center for Immigration Studies | CIS.org | March 2015
ICE Gang Arrests: 2013
6 to 24 Arrests
1 to 5 Arrests
25 to 50 Arrests
101 to 150 Arrests
51 to 100 Arrests
Over 150 Arrests
Arrest Hot Spots
Most CommonGang Affiliations
MS-13Surenos 1318th StreetChirizosLatin KingsBloodsErnesto Ramos Antonini
Public Housing ProjectBarrio AztecaMexican MafiaGangster DisicplesLinda Vista CripsRaza UnidaM18CripsTrinitariosTango BlastTiny RascalSantiago Iglesia Public
Housing ProjectsLatin CountsNortenoTexas Syndicate (TS)
358159104886560
5749493831313029262524
23222222
Mexico, 45%
Honduras, 21%
El Salvador, 17%
Guatemala, 4%
Belize, 2%
Jamaica, 2%
Other, 9%
Homelands of Gang Members
1,428
2,260 2,318
3,864
3,738
4,366 4,556
4,619
3,390
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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Fiscal Year
Operation Community Shield Arrests
Operation Community Shield
