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    the lines between “illegal migrant,” drug trafficker, and potential terrorist are blurred. Securitization of migration along the southern U.S. border is not only a reaction to things like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), other policies such as the exclusion,…

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    The act of illegally trafficking drugs has been a substantial and recurring issue prevalent in history since the early 19th century, involving the first illegal drug trade of the moving and distributing of opium by the Chinese [Ellen N. La Motte, July 2015]. Drug trafficking is the dealing and exchange of illicit drugs that are then transported for payment [UNODC, July 2015]. The “illegal drug trade” defines the global black market of the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs…

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    but money is always an issue. Many students coming out of universities owe thousands of dollars. Terry had a risky life because of his gang relations. The new generation feels like people take little ricks and that life was too precious to throw it away. Schooling was not of an issue for Terry because of how adaptive he was earning money through means of his past gang. It seems like living in that past was quite outgoing in means of choosing what path to earn a living. On the other hand, I feel…

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    Gang violence in America has been a problem for over eight decades. Since as early as the 1900s people of the African American race organized small gangs in the streets to protect their neighborhoods when segregation in America was still a big social and ethical problem. Originally gangs where not organized to be violent and to commit crimes. These smalls crews where founded and established to provide peace and protection to the African American community during the civil rights movement. Even…

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    Poverty In Boyz N The Hood

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    participate in drug and alcohol use, and involved in gang activity. With this being the issue, it can be said that the individuals Tre and his friends come in contact with are involved in these activities because it is their idea of…

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    Ms 13 Symbolism

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    The MS 13 gang has many rituals and symbols that are used as a communication device. As described in the film, hand signs, gestures, area codes, body language, and tattoos are all used to communicate between members. There is a complex vocabulary devised specifically to plan attacks, warn, threaten, and talk amongst the MS 13. Investigators had a huge help from Brenda Pas, a young female who was once apart of the gang, in breaking down the language. Describing the signs as complex and important…

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    connection to gangs problems? Salvadorans had lack of education and they were not legal residents in the USA, so they choose the easy life involving themselves in gangs as self-protection. Salvadorans began to commit crimes and the USA did not accept their behaviors, so during the 90s the USA deported a lot of salvadorans back to El Salvador and it was how gangs took root in El Salvador. El Salvador has been facing gangs problems since 1990, but what are the factors that contribute to gang…

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    to a group of fifteen year old Latino gang associated boys who enter a store by the name of Sam’s Liquor Store in a group of four. Although the boys are aware of the store’s strict policy of only two boys allowed in at one time, all four teenagers enter the store and try to make purchases. The reader is introduced to one of the gang members whose name is Flaco, and another one named Mike. As the store clerk yells and threatens to call the police on the gang of boys for disobeying the store’s…

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    With his criminal father incarcerated and his mother deceased, George Appo was left to raise himself at a very young age. George Appo, ten years old at the time, made a honest buck by shining shoes, selling news papers, and sweeping sidewalks. Living in New York City’s worst slum called “The Five Points” George learned the tricks of the trade which allowed him to make a living off of street crime. Appo started running with a group of thugs that people referred to as “street urchins”, with this…

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    some people tend to lack knowledge on important topics. One topic is granting citizenship. There are both pros and cons when dealing with such topic. A person must realize that research is needed to make a clear and concise determination of which side outweighs the other. Is there more negativity or positive with granting citizenship? What benefits occur? In this paper, the reader will be able to decide how they view granting citizenship as a whole. According to the fourteenth amendment of the…

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