enforcement to stifle their activity very successfully by the late 2000s. the obama administration d prioritized immigration enforcement and ice officers could not arrest gang members because they were here illegally. at the same time, miners and families from central america, catch and release policies take place, ms 13 took advantage of that and they have rebounded in communities like long island, east boston, washington dc metro area, los angeles and texas and they are more violent than ever before. day are brazen, fearless. immigration enforcement is a tool that will have to be deployed by the federal government. if we send these criminals back to their home country rather than having to put up with them
ambulances. and there appears to be a dog, a k-9 unit on the scene and maybe a bomb squad, a truck with a cover. what we know now there is one confirmed suspicious package and a second they are looking into. the first package, they do not know how much fizzled compared to yesterday. shepard: have authorities saiding in about what they have done in and around there? v street is shut down. reporter: come bloatly shut completely shut down a football field away from where the location of the packages would be. and they are pushing traffic away from that area and they are pushing back media. we have been pushed back, as well. shepard: the who will area was on kind of a heightened alert especially dealing with packages, right? reporter: i believe that all of the washington, dc area, the
and no such action as far as we are aware was taken in the washington, dc metro area. and now we understand that this package that has ignited in some manner, according to washington, dc police, was in a government mailroom, a government distribution center. so, obviously, as we pointed out yesterday, the officials across maryland, across the washington, dc area, will be very, very concerned about more of the packages. we don t know, obviously, at this stage, if it is linked but as soon as we hear from officials on the scene we will know. obviously they will be looking to see if it is the same kind of packages. that paperback book sized package, the same package and same return address, and stamps which was a washington, dc, parking garage, they will be looking for all of those kind of lynches in the links. shepard: they tied the ones yesterday to a guy that did not
this is the kind of facility that deals with that kind of meal to government agencies like the federal reserve board. it s exactly the kind of facility in the sense of being a government facility, that the two packages were sent to yesterday in maryland. that s why there is so much concern and why clearly now authorities will look closely at every government mailroom through the washington, dc area. shepard: we have a very busy afternoon ahead, thank you very much. have a good weekend. back for the fox report at 7:00 eastern, and 6:00 in oxford, and throughout the afternoon, we will be working with authorities in washington, dc, to try to figure out what has happened. here is what it looks like, a couple of things in the mail that damaged people s hand and something else in the mail today. copycat? something that seems similar? the news will come together over the next couple of hours and fox news will bring it to you. have a great afternoon. neil cavuto right after this commercial br
minutes exactly what it is that has happened there. it is my hope someone in our washington, dc, bureau, can come to the cameras and talk to us. jonathan, it is my understanding there is no chaos, they are just acting on best of precautions. jonathan: imagine they are shutting down that particular mailroom at that government mail distribution center. and we may well see, of course, similar actions at other government mail centers right across washington right now. if they believe there is a possible that there are more of these sort of packages, there is a very good poll they would act to shut down mailrooms everywhere. imagine how man mailrooms that could involve in terms of government offices all across the washington, dc area. shepard: if you familiar with the area and we have talked about it a little bit, v street is confirmed to be shut down. our producers say v street is