This is my home town in FL. Notice they said the gang members aren't targets of ICE, but that they were targeting undocumented immigrants in crimes.
Why? I know why from memory and experience.
There's a sizeable Guatemalan population in lake Worth that are mostly day laborers. They are the people who hop into the backs of trucks to go do landscaping or something like that off the books for the day.
Because they're illegal, they have no bank accounts. They get paid in cash. And because they're illegal, they can't call the police. So they are easy pickings for a robbery.
A lot of the times it isn't even a simple armed robbery. Instead, they beat the guy unconscious without warning and then run his pockets.
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