Broken border gives gang a free hand

Re “Gang Uses Deportation to Its Advantage to Flourish in U.S.,” Oct. 30

The MS-13 gang never would have morphed from a few thousand to 50,000 members if our border were properly secured. The diligent efforts of law enforcement to capture and deport lawbreaking thugs are ruined by the easy return of gang members through our broken and porous borders. Perhaps the threat to our fellow citizens by MS-13 and others like it across the country will generate the resolve and resources to truly secure our borders.

JERRY MCBREARTY SR.

Pacific Palisades

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It truly frightens me that no one on either end of the political spectrum seems to see what his or her inaction is giving rise to. I do not blame the MS-13 gang for doing horrible things, any more than I blame a duck for quacking.

No, our “leaders” right and left are to blame. If they continue to demand inaction and remain committed to allowing these predators to run as they please, how long before Joe Citizen says “enough”? How long before we find the return of vigilance committees? I, for one, see nothing wrong with neighbors getting fed up and taking matters into their own hands. What will our nation be like when average townsfolk decide they are no longer served by the law of the land?

KEITH H. MCGRATH

Pueblo, Colo.

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By placing the article on the front page in Sunday’s Times, you are glorifying the gang’s activities and will only embolden the gang to commit more crimes in Los Angeles and across the nation. What good will it do our communities by publishing such articles about gang activities when our communities are already saturated with gang violence?

CLEMENTE S. SORIANO

Downey