BBC: Langley Park Home to 'Worlds' Most Dangerous Gang'

A new international report by the British Broadcasting Corporation on “the world’s most dangerous gang” comes from – surprise – Langley Park, Maryland.

BBC News foreign correspondent Piers Schofield writes that “the suburbs of the US are no longer the same as those immortalised in 1950s movies, with white families living in big houses and the father driving off to work in his Buick, past manicured lawns. These days, it is more likely that English will not even be the first language you hear on the streets.” Schofield is reporting from Prince George’s County.

“In Langley Park, Maryland, the kiosks sell Spanish-language newspapers; supermarket shelves are stocked with tortillas and beans. Mexican music plays in the background while the tannoy blares out announcements in Spanish. Outside, groups of men hang out on the street corners and their Spanish is accented - Nicaraguan, Honduran and, most often, Salvadoran. They wait, hoping to be picked up for a day's labouring in the houses and gardens of Washington DC's middle class. But among the day laborers lurks a darker shadow."

The BBC report goes on to describe violent crimes committed by Mara-13. According to U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, the MS-13 gang operations model is “rape, kill, control."

The BBC went to the Steny Hoyer U.S. Courthouse in Greenbelt, where a home video made by the maras in a Salvadoran prison was presented as evidence of the links between immigrants in Prince George’s County and their even more depraved and vicious ‘hermanos’ in El Salvador. In it, maras send greetings to their "homies" in Maryland. They talk of killing and controlling others and display their full-body tattoos in a show of allegiance to MS-13.

Schofield interviewed Aaron Escorza, head of  the FBI National Gang Task Force. Escorz told the BBC that the gangs move freely around the region. "They don't recognise borders," Escorza explained. "They commit crimes in El Salvador and flee to the US, and you have MS-ers who are committing crimes in the US and fleeing down to El Salvador to evade arrest."

In the capital, San Salvador, entire swathes of the city are now virtually under the control of MS-13 and its rival, Mara 18. Local police patrol warily, tending when possible to avoid those parts of the city. The region's homicide rates are among the highest in the world - 58 per 100,000 of population in El Salvador. 

This crime wave was 100% preventable. Most Salvadorans in PG County are illegal aliens, most without papers, but some on a special TPS program that allows them to stay, work and get welfare while still being classified as illegals. Jack Johnson’s sanctuary policy ties the hands of the police, while Jorge Bushs’ pro-amnesty policies have allowed bung-holes like El Salvador to export poverty and mayhem to suburban Mary land, where the taxpayers get to foot the bill and suffer the consequences.

Edited from the April 3rd BBC online report.