Sureños, Sur 13, ( Spanish for "Southerners"), or Sureñas for females, are groups of loosely affiliated gangs that pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia while in U.S. state
and federal correctional facilities. Many Sureño gangs have rivalries
with one another and the only time this rivalry is set aside is when
they enter the prison system.[4][6][11]
Thus, fighting is common among different Sureño gangs even though they
share the same common identity. Sureños have emerged as a national gang
in the United States. They would ally themselves with the Crips and MS13 in certain U.S. states. Sureños have been documented in the U.S. military, found in both U.S. and overseas bases.
Mara Salvatrucha (commonly abbreviated as MS-13) is a transnational criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles and has spread to other parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America.[4]
The majority of the gang is ethnically composed of Central Americans
and active in urban and suburban areas. In the U.S., the MS-13 has an
especially heavy presence in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area
in Northern California; the Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas of
Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Prince
George's County, Maryland; Long Island, New York; the Boston,
Massachusetts area; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston, Texas. There
is also a presence of MS-13 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Members of MS distinguish themselves by tattoos covering the body and also often the face, as well as the use of their own sign language. They are notorious for their use of violence and a subcultural moral code that predominantly consists of merciless revenge and cruel retributions. This cruelty of the distinguished members of the "Maras" or "Mareros" earned them a path to be recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel battling against Los Zetas in an ongoing drug war south of the United States border. Their wide-ranging activities have drawn the attention of the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who have initiated wide-scale raids against known and suspected gang members – netting hundreds of arrests across the country.
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Members of MS distinguish themselves by tattoos covering the body and also often the face, as well as the use of their own sign language. They are notorious for their use of violence and a subcultural moral code that predominantly consists of merciless revenge and cruel retributions. This cruelty of the distinguished members of the "Maras" or "Mareros" earned them a path to be recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel battling against Los Zetas in an ongoing drug war south of the United States border. Their wide-ranging activities have drawn the attention of the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who have initiated wide-scale raids against known and suspected gang members – netting hundreds of arrests across the country.
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