Michael Cutler on The MS-13 Threat (Updated)

By Andrew Cochran

Michael Cutler is on travel and asked me to post the following for him, referring to an article in yesterday's Washington Times titled, "ICE Lists Gangster on 'Most Wanted":

I have often made the point that when someone is killed it doesn't matter to the victim if he or she was killed by a common criminal or a terrorist, nor does it matter to the victim's friends or family; dead is dead. MS-13 is a major threat to our safety and the individual being sought by ICE is a major player in the MS-13 gang, now thought to number some 20,000 in our country. ("David Rivera, also known as Gerber Alfaro Bonilla and Herbert Alfaro, is being sought by ICE agents on charges of re-entering the United States after deportation. The violation carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. He also is wanted for questioning in several Los Angeles murders.")

The member of MS-13 who has been posted on ICE's most wanted list of fugitives utilizes numerous identities (I wonder how many driver's licenses he has in different names) and is an alien who has been previously deported as an aggravated felon and is also a murder suspect. The ability to have immigration law enforcement work in conjunction with local and other federal law enforcement agencies to achieve common goals has a synergistic effect where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. This is an example of why we desperately need many new special agents to enforce the immigration laws from within the interior of the United States.

As the article points out, there is growing concern that MS-13 will continue to grow within our borders, victimizing more decent people living in the United States. There is also a growing concern that MS-13 may help to smuggle terrorists into the United States. My only question is, what will it take for the administration and members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to finally "get it?" (UPDATE: Today's "Washington Times" reports that "U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers." Michael Cutler will appear on Fox News on May 15 at 12:15 pm to discuss this article.)

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