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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG.  Just read this new article on Post Website:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/people-here-live-in-fear-ms-13-menaces-a-community-seven-miles-from-the-white-house/2017/12/20/6cebf318-d956-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_ms13control-940am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.a3621e9eb460

somehow I dont think the gangs care too much about county lines.  This is a regional problem affecting schools and something needs to be done  [/quote]

I wish we could have a nuanced discussion about all of this, because I think there is a lot of consensus among regular folks. [b]The people hurt worst by gang violence are law abiding citizens[/b], as detailed in that article. But aggressive immigration enforcement makes those folks very very reluctant to engage with police. So they suffer in silence, and the gangs grow. That is a strong argument in favor of MCPD policies around not checking the immigration status of victims, which puts them afoul of federal policy.

At the same time, I'm always alarmed to find out how many of the criminals are known to ICE and are on some sort of vaguely supervised release despite ICE knowing they are undocumented. I don't understand the process by which someone is known to be undocumented and known to be a gang member but is not in custody.

I want to understand this, but discussion descend into accusations of "sanctuary state!" so quickly that no one actually understands what sanctuary means, or how it is or is not obstructing the ability to get at real criminals.

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The people hurt worst seem to be undocumented immigrants, in part because they don't come to police due to their status.[/quote]

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