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A 15-year-old high school football player in Atlanta was killed at a party this week when he jumped on top of some girls to shield them from gunfire that erupted, police say.

A town in Mississippi is launching a new campaign to urge citizens to “pull up your pants” in an effort to put a dent in the gangbanger attitude that’s popular among too many young males.

Halloween weekend was a deadly one in Chicago, which registered shootings that left 15 people wounded. The city has a high crime rate and dozens of gangs that most assume are responsible for the high levels of urban violence. However, many residents feel that it’s the very presence of dangerous drug dealers who keep them safe.

School officials forced a Northern California middle school student to turn his patriotic American flag T-shirt inside out because it was “gang related,” a violation of the dress code, and a possible safety risk.

The death toll was decidedly low in Chicago this weekend with only one citizen killed from the city’s continuing gang warfare, but another 18 were wounded in incidents throughout the city. One man was even shot nine times and lived to tell about it.

Members of the notoriously violent MS-13 gang are “so feared” in El Salvador that they are allowed to run their own detention facility, with the prison guards and the Salvadoran army ensuring that they remain incarcerated from the outside, reports Daily Mail.

As Sunday drew to a close in Chicago, the Labor Day weekend so far has seen a high toll of dead and wounded with six killed and 27 wounded between Friday and Sunday. The murders came fast on Friday with

Craig Lally, the head of the L.A. police union, angered a public meeting Tuesday evening by referring to Ezell Ford, who was shot by police last year, as a “known gang member.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott held a ceremony to sign the toughest and most comprehensive border security plan of any state in the United States of America. The legislative package provides historic levels of funding to secure the border, establishes a Child Sex Trafficking Prevention Unit, strengthens penalties for human traffickers, increases funding for the border protection unit, and seeks reimbursement from the federal government for Texas funds spent on border issues.

The horrific torture and murder of a six year-old Mexican boy by five other children, that prosecutors say is evidence of “social decomposition” and an “absence of values,” is now believed to be linked to a satanic cult.

While all 37 alleged gang members have been indicted on racketeering conspiracy charges, 22 of them are charged with additional crimes including those violent felonies Rose indicated.

Just two months before the deadly gang war broke out in Waco on Sunday, another Texas “breastaurant” was forced to apologize after being shamed on social media for kicking out a patron that they thought was gang-affiliated because of his tattooed face.

Immigrants with gang ties should be absolutely barred from receiving executive amnesty, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-NC), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC) argue.

Since Fiscal Year 2013, at least 282 recipients of Deferred Status for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have been kicked out of the program due to criminal or gang affiliations, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) highlighted Tuesday.

The Department of Homeland Security has identified other cases like the Charlotte, NC murder suspect granted executive amnesty despite his known a gang affiliations, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson told a Senate panel Tuesday.

After Baltimore police reported a “credible threat” that some of the notorious gangs around the nation—including the Black Guerrilla Family, the Bloods, and the Crips—have ordered their members to target officers, various police departments are taking steps to protect their officers.

Baltimore Police now say gangs are working together in order to “take out” law enforcement officers.

Arrests of violent gang members reached a high in 2012 but then plummeted by more than 25 percent the following year. That raises concerns about just how much of a priority for immigration enforcement international gangs are under the Obama administration’s policies.

Chicago had its first warm weather of the year over the March 6 weekend, but as that warm weather returned, so did the violence, shootings, and death. Chicago police reported that 2 stabbings and 15 shootings occurred in their warming city; three died as a result.

Gang violence in Chicago has gotten so bad that jails are now treating prisoners for a civilian form of post-traumatic stress disorder.

AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended eight previously convicted criminal illegal aliens who had secretly crossed the porous U.S.-Mexico border in recent days. The aliens all had previous convictions for serious crimes, including sexual offenses and violent crimes, or had