gangs operating on street. sean: tends of thousands of gang members in all 50 states. the is gel the mexican mafia is to control the entire illicit drug territory. they want to be in the background pulling all the strings and collecting all the money. the most significant threat to our state security is the rise of these routeless and powerful transnational gangs. they are very violent they operate as criminal organizations. there s more evidence today than 10 years ago of these gangs being involve in narcotics smuggling, human smuggling involved in seeking to identify and utilize routes that are going to subvert law enforcement. our investigations and intelligence has shown drug cartels are utilizing a lot of the street gangs here in the united states to facilitate the criminal enterprise through helping people get into the united states illegally. certainly for the transportation of narcotics
we are not saying that let s let everybody come here and take over illegally. we are not saying that. we are just saying how they are going about it. there has to be different ways instead of pulling them over like jobs. i m going to ask two questions by a show of hands, how many of you are more afraid today thane years ago bus of illegal immigration, raise your hands. how many of you believe the issue is illegal immigration, not legal immigration, raise your hands? there s a message there. sean, i ve done this many, many times this is one of the hardest groups to keep under control. i assure you, when we go to commercial, they are going to erupt. this issue isn t over. it has only just started. sean: frank, we are going to come back to you later in the show. by the way, i have a questions that i want to ask. tell everybody when we come back later that he i have a few questions and we ll let them have the debate go on in
[ speaking spanish ] sean staten island is a long way from the mexican border but the tattoo is evidence of a dangerous cross-border connection. the 13 represents the 13th letter of the alphabet that shows an fill to the mexican mafia or association with the mexican mav sean: the mexican mafia is a hyper violent organization run from behind prison walls. affects felt in all corners of the united states where street gang violence terrorizes communities and leaves a bloody wake. murder, robbery, assault with deadly weapons, carrying guns, selling narcotics the list goes on and on. ultimate demon behind it is the prison gang. the mexican mafia are pulling the strings to get things done. they are now able to from the prisons control a majority, upwards of 95% of the hispanic gangs operating on street. sean: tends of thousands of gang members in all 50 states. the is gel the mexican mafia is to control the entire illicit drug territory. they want to be in the backgro
law enforcement and send additional border patrol agents in. so far no casualties from any of the acts of piracy. also no arrests. the fear is, things will escalate. worst-case scenario number one, somebody is going to get hurt. they will get bolder on that side or this side and they will hurt somebody, kill somebody, kidnap somebody. sean: many people argue that the war next door is not spilling over in the united states. tell that to the more 300 people kidnapped and held for ran some every year in phoenix. we ll take you there, next.
goinged. finding handguns, knives, machetes, baseball bats with blood on them. there s a lot of atrocities happening in these houses for the profit. if we don t stop it now it is going to spread. also, let s say those people get involved in a shootout. where do those bullets go? sean: they go everywhere. look at this brazen home invasion caught on camera just outside of tucson, the suspects pounce, piling out of their car with automatic weapons. amazingly, the homeowner has time to grab his own gun and soon bullets are flying in all directions. the suspects bolt and they manage to get away. not before the driver is shot twice. police say his name is jesus mendival style still on the loose. police close in on another suspected kidnapper in a motel parking lot.