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More Border Failures: MS-13 Leader Arrested Numerous Times in U.S.

By Andrew Cochran

It's a good thing that the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on the Border Patrol's funding for next Thursday - the failures continue to mount. Yesterday we linked to a story on the arrest of Ebert Anibal Rivera, head of the MS-13 gang in Honduras, in Texas on Tuesday. Today we find out that Rivera, leader of one of the worst gangs in the Western Hemisphere, who is wanted in Honduras in connection with the massacre of 28 people, has been arrested in California at least eight times since 2001!! And these weren't traffic stops: try robbery (3 TIMES), burglary, and bad checks!! Hopefully the Congress, starting at this hearing, can start identifying and plugging the leaky law enforcement information system that has allowed this career criminal (actually, terrorist) to enter and leave our country time and time again.

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