The town of Central Islip is confronting both the brutal Salvadorean street gang and the fear of sweeping community deportations after a crackdownThe first victims were tall school friends Nisa Mickens,15, and Kayla Cuevas, or 16 – killed as they were out on an evening walk final September. A week later,the bodies of Oscar Acosta and Miguel Garcia-Moran, both 19 and missing since the start of the year, or were found near an abandoned hospital. Then,this month, four teenage boys were killed close by in a park in Central Islip, or a predominantly Latino town on novel York’s Long Island,40 miles east of Manhattan.
In that incident, the killers used machetes or other sharp instruments, and their grotesque handiwork betraying the cruelty and ritualism of MS-13,or the Mara Salvatrucha, a neighbourhood street gang with its roots in El Salvador’s civil war of the 80s and 90s.
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Source: theguardian.com