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   MS-13 members are infiltrating a federal facility for Central   
   American youths illegally entering the United States -- trying   
   to cross the border with criminal pasts and recruiting others to   
   join the notoriously violent, California-based gang, sources   
   tell Fox News.   
      
   Shawn Moran, of the National Border Patrol Council, said the   
   gang leaders are recruiting pre-teens, as they typically do, and   
   following the lead of drug cartels also trying to fill their   
   ranks from among the estimated 57,000 unaccompanied youths and   
   others who have come to the U.S. from Central America in roughly   
   the past nine months.   
      
   He said agents have witnessed the recruiting at the Border   
   Patrol’s facility in Nogales, Ariz., and that gang members are   
   using a Red Cross phone bank there to “recruit, enlist and   
   pressure” others illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.   
      
   “It makes sense that MS-13 would do the same,” said Moran, vice   
   president for the union, which represents border patrol agents.   
      
   He and local union officials also say agents are saying they   
   cannot isolate admitted criminals and gang members, suspected   
   gang members and those engaging in criminal behavior because   
   they are minors.   
      
   The Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs   
   Enforcement each told FoxNews.com earlier this week that they   
   have no knowledge of the MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, activities   
   detailed by Moran and others. However, they pointed out that   
   young unaccompanied aliens are held in ICE facilities for only   
   the first 48 hours.   
      
   “We know it’s happening because agents are telling us,” Moran   
   told Fox News. “The Border Patrol is trying to downplay it.”   
      
   He said agents have overhead the phone bank conversations and   
   that potential recruits are given a phone number to call and say   
   they are “willing to join” the gang.   
      
   MS-13 also has a large presence in El Salvador, which has in   
   part led to many Central American youths fleeing that country.   
   So at least some gang members would more than likely be among   
   the tens of thousands of young illegal Central Americans who   
   have recently arrived at the border, sources say.   
      
   Texas state GOP Sen. Dan Patrick said earlier this week that   
   roughly 100,000 illegally immigrants living in his state are   
   gang members.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/27/border-agents-say-   
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