Closely following the recent arrests of eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State terrorist group, the FBI and Homeland Security have arrested Cesar Humberto Lopez-Larios, a top leader of the El Salvadorian crime gang known as MS-13, after he had been on the run for three years.
Federal prosecutors reportedly took him in on Sunday when he got to the George Bush Airport in Houston, and Lopez-Larios is facing a number of terrorism-related charges.
"Just like terrorists are getting into the country, we also have gang members," says Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). "These are vicious gangs that are now coming across the border. They are setting up shop here in the United States."
"These people are as much terrorist as the ISIS terrorists are," Mehlman continues. "They are here to wreak havoc on the American public. We've seen countless examples of American citizens being harmed and murdered at the hands of gang members."
Laken Riley, for example, a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia, was murdered earlier this year.
"Her alleged murderer was a member of a Venezuelan gang," the FAIR spokesman recalls. "The Department of Homeland Security is putting the American public's safety at risk in order to pursue a political objective of this administration to have open borders."
When President Donald Trump used MS-13 as an example to warn people about the threats from unfiltered immigration, Democrats accused him of having racist motivations and said he was exaggerating things to smear immigrants and spark xenophobic hatred.
Mehlman, however, believes the American public knows the truth.
"People are losing their lives; they're being harmed every single day in the pursuit of the Biden administration's open borders political policies," he laments.
