{"id":1518151,"date":"2022-06-16T07:37:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518151"},"modified":"2022-06-16T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:37:57","slug":"bidens-open-borders-lay-out-welcome-mat-for-ms-13-gang-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-open-borders-lay-out-welcome-mat-for-ms-13-gang-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Open Borders Lay Out Welcome Mat For MS-13 Gang Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-open-borders-lay-out-welcome-mat-for-ms-13-gang-members%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pill-e1655344678489.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Kevin Granados-Coreas, a.k.a. \u201cLonely,\u201d was sentenced Friday to 23 years to life in prison for his role in the 2017 murder of a Long Island man by MS-13 gang members.<\/p>\n<p>His case highlights how the Biden administration\u2019s immigration policy continues to allow an unknown number of gang members and violent criminals into our country, fueling crime and worsening the opioid epidemic. Gang members are often undocumented \u2014 that is, not vetted or legally present in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has been nothing short of \u201copen borders,\u201d with almost <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Arthur\/CBP-Encounters-Southwest-Border-Rose-February\">2.2 million migrants apprehended<\/a> in President Joe Biden\u2019s first year and nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Arthur\/Under-Biden-DHS-Has-Released-More-756000-Southwest-Border-Migrants\">756,000 <\/a>released into the United States since he took office.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Granados-Coreas had pleaded guilty in April to second-degree murder and second-degree conspiracy. District Attorney Anne Donnelly said, \u201cThe defendant told fellow MS-13 members that the victim was their \u2018enemy.\u2019 He helped to lure the young man into the preserve, and once inside, he wielded a machete and hacked [Julio Cesar] Espantzay-Gonzales to death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The indictment states Carlos Portillo, also known as \u201cPikachu,\u201d and Roberto Abrego-Reyes, or \u201cSplinter,\u201d ordered the hit because they believed Espantzay-Gonzales was associated with a rival gang. The victim was lured in with promises of sex and marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>In the same year, a similar incident occurred in Central Islip, where a group of young men was tricked into thinking they would smoke marijuana but were ultimately butchered by dozens of MS-13 gang members. The woman who ensnared the three young men was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/25\/long-island-ms-13-homicide-trial-highlights-consequences-of-bidens-border-crisis\/\">found guilty of various charges last April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Areas of Long Island have become no-go zones in light of the gang presence and violence. These murders prompted former President Trump and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to visit the affected Long Island cities in 2018, magnifying the harm of unfettered immigration.<\/p>\n<h2>Lax Immigration Law Encourages Gangs<\/h2>\n<p>Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney, with a lengthy record of MS-13 prosecutions, told me,\u201cI think the lax immigration laws obviously entice gang members to come to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have an undefended southern border, you have a whole bunch of individuals, including a large number of gang members, coming through because there are established MS-13 gangs here,\u201d said Tierney, whose district includes some of Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>Of illegal immigrants, he added, \u201cthere really can\u2019t be any vetting because these individuals are just that \u2014 undocumented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes families struggle to pay coyotes that get them across the border, so children are used as collateral for the debts, held by gangs or coyotes until payment is fulfilled. Other times women sell themselves to pay the debt. MS-13 gangs work as satellites or \u201ccliques\u201d in communication with their leadership in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happening is now the drug cartels hold sway at the border,\u201d said Tierney. That has greatly contributed to violence and the opioid crisis on Long Island and elsewhere, he said. Migrants tend to be placed in underserved communities, resulting in even further straining of resources.<\/p>\n<h2>Limited Resources<\/h2>\n<p>School class sizes have ballooned to accommodate migrants, he said. \u201cThe system can\u2019t handle it, and it\u2019s not fair to these communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\u2019 answer is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2021\/09\/30\/secretary-mayorkas-announces-new-immigration-enforcement-priorities\">speed up immigration proceedings<\/a>. A massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-passed-cr-6-3-billion-afghan-refugee-resettlement-path\">$6.3 billion<\/a> has already been allocated for Afghan refugee resettlement. All the while, flights and shuttles continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/05\/secret-uptick-in-new-york-migrant-flights\/\">deliver foreign migrants to upstate New York<\/a> and eastern Long Island.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Brian J. Pfail is a freelance reporter and a contributor to the New York Sun. He covers a wide variety of topics primarily focused on crime and local politics. He is a Long Island native residing in Ronkonkoma, NY. Follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_pfail\">@brian_pfail<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Granados-Coreas, a.k.a. \u201cLonely,\u201d was sentenced Friday to 23 years to life in prison for his role in the 2017 murder of a Long Island man by MS-13 gang members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}