Even 13 or 14 year old juveniles that the government may believe are
engaging in marijuana use, other drugs, or have association with
criminal gangs would be subject to this bill's penalty. Third, this bill have a sweeping effect given its vague definition
and overbroad targets for those who may harbor certain aliens and/or
associate with criminal gang members. This bill has a discriminatory effect in targeting the immigrant
community by criminalizing immigration, and thereby, raises due process
and racial profiling concerns. Criminal gangs are very complex and are not exclusive to the
immigrant community. The FBI reports some 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs,
and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members that are criminally
active in the U.S. and Puerto Rico today. Many are sophisticated and well organized; all use violence to
control neighborhoods and boost their illegal moneymaking activities,
which include robbery, drug and gun trafficking, prostitution and human
trafficking, and fraud. Strikingly, for this conversation, in these 33,000 street gangs, a
significantly larger percentage was non illegal immigrants, unlike the
message purported in this bill. Some of those street gangs include: 211 Crew, American Front, Aryan
Brotherhood of Texas, Aryan Circle, Aryan Nation, Aryan Republican
Army, Born to Kill, Dead Man Incorporated, European Kindred, just to
name a few here that are mainly white supremacist gang groups. We could
go on, as gangs are found everywhere, in almost every ethnic group.
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The immigrant community is unfairly targeted and criminalized.
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