Katie Pavlich:

An internal Border Patrol executive summary obtained by Townhall confirms that at least 16 unaccompanied illegal minors (those under the age of 18, according to U.S. government policy), are members of the brutal El Salvadorian street gang Mara Salvatrucha—or MS-13.

Gang members left graffiti on the walls of the Nogales Border Patrol processing center, which suggested they had ties to the organization.

“Border Patrol Agents (BPAs) and Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBPOs), assigned to The Nogales Placement Center (NPC), discovered that 16 unaccompanied alien children (13 El Salvadoran males, two Guatelmalan males and one Honduran male) currently being held at the NPC are members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). The MS-13 gang members admitted to their gang associations following a discovery of graffiti at the NPC. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) were notified,” the summary states. “Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) were notified.”

The FBI describes MS-13 activity as “perpetuating violence—from assaults to homicides, using firearms, machetes, or blunt objects—to intimidate rival gangs, law enforcement, and the general public. They often target middle and high school students for recruitment. […]

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It was reported earlier that these MS-13 gang members, some of whom have admitted to murder and torture in their home countries, are being held for placement inside the United States.

“But remember, this is a ‘humanitarian crisis.’ They are just kids,” a source working in the Nogales processing center said in frustrated and sarcastic tone. “They are MS-13 gang members. They’ve done everything from torture to murder. They act as teenage ‘enforcers.'”

Of course, notice that left out of this sneering, fearmongering, xenophobic, hate-filled, and decidedly anti-immigrant “news” report was what the graffiti actually said, which — I have it on the authority of a good source (who wished not to be identified, but whose name I can tell you rhymes with “Deb Tush”) — is that these close-knit teens came here as “an act of love,” a point proven by the graffiti’s message, which, loosely translated, is “Make love to America.”  Failure to accept the fact that these goodly creatures’ motives are pure and very American in spirit as a Rousseauean truism is proof of a rank nativism that is festering inside your blackened, racist soul.

So please:  Someone find that sarcastic hater at the Nogales processing center who leaked these filthy insinuations and hack off his head with a machete forthwith.  To send a message that we, a nation born of immigrants, will not tolerate the denigration of the noble Other who comes to our country longing for opportunity and a chance to live free!  In a place where hardened criminals here illegally are routinely set free, no matter what they do or have done — and where actual American citizens are just going to have to get over themselves.

Oh.  And don’t forget to vote for team R!