Why are hispanic street gangs so numerous?

Question

But there are very few white gangs? Sure we all know about the Hells Angels and other biker gangs, but percentage wise they don't even come close to the number of hispanic gang members.

Answer 1

Gangs are a product of big cities, poverty, and there are many Latinos in the cities. Latinos have high drop out rates; it's about 50%, and their girls get pregnant at a very young age. In addition, their are millions of illegal aliens who are eager to join Latino gangs. These Latino gangs are protected by the mayor of LA, and by mayors in other sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. If they want to clean out the gangs, just ask the citizenship of Latino gang members, and arrest the illegal aliens. Simple. But the mayors of the sanctuary cities won't do it.

The KKK is a white supremacist political group; not a gang, and their were many white gangs in the 1930's, but that was a long time ago. You are correct that their are not many white men in gangs.

I don't have the source of the following, but I will try to get it.

Gang life is thriving in L.A.'s schools, and is spreading across the country with the migration of Hispanic immigrants. The
incarceration rate of Mexican-Americans is 3.45 times higher than that of whites. Sociologists Alejandro Portes of Princeton and Rubén G. Rumbaut of the University of California, Irvine, followed the children of immigrants in San Diego and Miami from 1992 to 2003.
A whopping 28% of Mexican-American males between the ages of 18 and 24 reported having been arrested since 1995, and 20%reported having been incarcerated -- a rate twice that of other immigrant groups.

Anyone who speaks to Hispanic students in immigrant-saturated schools in Southern California will invariably hear the estimate that 50% of a student's peers have ended up in gangs or other criminal activities.

These are the social facts about which open-borders conservatives never speak. If the current level of immigration flows continues, they will only get worse.

Answer 2

There are street gangs of all races and cultures.Gangs were formed as far back as the 1800's.Usually to protect a neighborhood from violence against a certain people.Immigration was at an all time high and many people tried to exploit and abuse certain immigrants.Thus gangs evolved to protect each other.Not all gangs for the intent of crime.Under such guidelines for gang activity the Minute Men are considered a gang.So you're saying in essence that the Minute Men are a gang of outlaws.

Answer 3

Having grown up in CALIFORNIA, I see it as if you want to fight the bean, you have to fight the whole burrito mentality. Not that all of them have it, but many do. They tend to stick together even when an individual could stand alone since the only thing they actually have in common with them is a mexican surname! Its a cultural thing, they are taught this attitude all along their journey and find it hard to part with as adults, even legal adults who don't have anything to fear, such as deportation. Also, have ever noticed how much smaller the hispanic dudes are compared to the other races, except the asians? They have to have support to win any fight, or at least they think so. Ever see the racism in a prison environment? Its completely segregated, you can't even talk to someone outside of your purported race for fear of your life.

I have noticed a resurgence in white supremacists lately, though mostly due to the vengeance of the other communities that have just been reunited with their ex-prison relatives who still live that racist way when the are returned to the outside. It certainly isn't the 70s anymore.... Too much tension among all races right now, but perhaps all Americans can come together on this issue of protecting our borders and stopping the mass migration that is tearing us even further apart because of the race card, when absolutely, unequivocally, it is not about the race, its about our sovereignty, rights of the legal citizens.

Answer 4

Don't listen to all of this crap...there are allot of MEXICAN gangs because when they get over hear..illegally they have now idea how to get rich so the gang together and form a gang

Answer 5

When's the last time the mob beat an 80 year old woman senseless for her Social Security check?

And the mob was brought in by immigrants as well. No more. Keep your crap cultures in your own cesspools.

Answer 6

DANGER!! DANGER!! NON POLITICALLY CORRECT ANSWER BELOW! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

Education. The more a culture values education the less likely they are to be engaged in criminal activity. Also notice the relative dearth of Asians in gangs.

Answer 7

They're the newest wave of immigrants.

Answer 8

Really? Read your history - read about Chicago in the early part of the last century. ever heard of that old timer Al Capone? Just one example out of many. No white gangs, eh?

Answer 9

to fight back African americans gangs and white supremacy gangs !!!

VIVA LA RAZA !!

Answer 10

what about the KKK?????? i know they're NUMEROUS, grrr