{"id":1900403,"date":"2023-03-17T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-salvadors-crime-crackdown-could-push-gangs-north-toward-u-s-expert-warns\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:58:48","slug":"el-salvadors-crime-crackdown-could-push-gangs-north-toward-u-s-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-salvadors-crime-crackdown-could-push-gangs-north-toward-u-s-expert-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador\u2019s Crime Crackdown Could Push Gangs North Toward U.S., Expert Warns"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fel-salvadors-crime-crackdown-could-push-gangs-north-toward-u-s-expert-warns%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=1900403&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--><p> <span>Experts warn that El Salvador&#8217;s ongoing crackdown against violent criminals could see thousands of suspected members of gangs locked up in a mega-prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Officials transferred thousands of prisoner to El Salvador&#8217;s new maximum security prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center (Tecoluca) late last month. Another 2,000 prisoners were released Wednesday. <\/span><span>Locked<\/span><span> In the new prison, up to 40,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Intriguing video footage captured lines of shirtless, heavily-tattooed prisoners wearing shaved heads as they were being moved to the new facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfb | Nayib Bukele, con mano dura somete a miles de pandilleros y criminales que antes aterrorizaban a la poblaci\u00f3n de El Salvador. \u00bfEst\u00e1s de acuerdo con el trato que les da el Presidente Bukele a los delincuentes? pic.twitter.com\/iJQWWr5akt<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eduardo Menoni (@eduardomenoni) February 26, 2023<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,&#8221; <\/span><span>declared<\/span><span> El Salvador&#8217;s justice minister Gustavo Villatoro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Although it is good for El Salvador to have more gang members in prison, the crackdown has driven the gangs north.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some of the leaders of the MS-13 gang, which is notoriously violent, have fled to Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We know that they are in Mexico, and that from there they are giving instructions in a cowardly manner,&#8221; the El Salvador\u00a0justice minister <\/span><span><\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mexican authorities also reported an increase in El Salvador gang members over the past year. They include MS-13 and their rival the 18th Street Gang.\u00a0Salvadoran gangs have terrorized and extorted at least three Mexican public transport drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we don&#8217;t do anything we&#8217;re going to be a little (El) Salvador,&#8221; one of the Mexican drivers\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p><span>Jessica Vaughan is the director of policy studies at The Center for Immigration Studies. She warns that El Salvador&#8217;s gang leaders and members are constantly trying to enter the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;They can make more money here and enjoy themselves more here, and there are many new places for them to set up shop for the gang, and many vulnerable youth to recruit,&#8221; Vaughan said so to The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>MS-13\u00a0had more than 10,000\u00a0members in the U.S in\u00a02017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If El Salvador&#8217;s war against gangs drives gangs to the southern U.S. frontier, they will be met at the border by the Biden administration&#8217;s overpowered border forces. They likely won&#8217;t have any trouble sneaking into the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Right now it&#8217;s not difficult for them to get in,&#8221; Vaughan stated. &#8220;There is much less threat of border and interior enforcement than in prior years, especially if they have not been in the United States before.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To avoid being deported again, gang members must keep a low profile in order to avoid being charged with criminality.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It would be smarter for them to go to another country, but MS-13 members are not known for being smart,&#8221; Vaughan stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since recent years, MS-13 operatives are involved in\u00a0<span>Human smuggling was used to protect the drug cartels. Their presence in Mexico may exacerbate an already dangerous climate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;That is a tricky business, because they would have to have a relationship with a cartel, with all the risk and volatility that would bring, not to mention even more involvement in violence,&#8221; Vaughan stated. &#8220;Adding MS-13 to the organized crime mix in Mexico is likely to make the situation even more volatile, because they are usually aggressive and brazen in trying to carve out a niche to operate and audacious in competing with other crime organizations.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>El Salvador is home to nearly 2% incarcerated adults, making it one of the most crime-ridden nations in the world.\u00a0<\/span><span>The government crackdown on gangs \u2014 which Vaughan notes is a\u00a0&#8220;regular cycle&#8221; in El Salvador \u2014\u00a0<\/span><span>Begin<\/span><span> a year ago when the government declared\u00a0a state of emergency as the country battled a spike in murders. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since then, about 65,000 people have been arrested as part of the operation as the state of emergency was\u00a0repeatedly extended. <\/span><span>Human rights advocates have expressed concerns that the government&#8217;s approach veers authoritarian \u2014 about 57,000 of those arrested are still waiting to be formally charged and face a trial. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, though, citizens have celebrated\u00a0El Salvador&#8217;s streets becoming safer, and\u00a0murders have plummeted by about half.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/el-salvadors-crime-crackdown-could-push-gangs-north-toward-u-s-expert-warns\">Expert warns that El Salvador&#8217;s Crime Crackdown could cause gangs to move northwards towards the U.S.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador\u2019s ongoing crackdown on violent criminals, which has seen thousands of suspected gang members locked up in a new mega-prison, could prompt those still free to flee the embattled nation, experts warned. Late last month, officials transferred thousands of prisoners to the country\u2019s new maximum security prison in central El Salvador, the Terrorism Confinement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1900404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5804,7204,4214,16368,5213,3688,11996,7238,3633],"class_list":["post-1900403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-crackdown","tag-crime","tag-expert","tag-gangs","tag-north","tag-push","tag-salvadors","tag-u-s","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900403","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1900404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}