LI TEEN MURDERS BY ‘GANG IMMIGS’
They’re coming over the border, thenth coming back after they get kickedk out. Things should change.c It shouldn’t take my daughter’s death. Elizabeth Alvarado, mom of victim Nisa Mickens
Ten illegal-immigrant members of the notorious MS-13 gang — including one who was previously deported — were indicted Thursday in a wave of Long Island violence that included the slaughter of two teenage girls.
Best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, were beaten with baseball bats and hacked with a machete during an attack that began when gang members spotted them walking together in Brentwood.
Mickens’ mom, Elizabeth Alvarado, said she was “very pissed off ” to learn the 2016 murder was allegedly committed by illegal immigrants. “They’re evil. They’re coming over the border, then coming back after they get kicked out,” she said. “Things should change. It shouldn’t take my daughter’s death.”
The federal indictment also accuses MS-13 members of killing one of their own by stabbing and slashing José Peña, 18, for violating their rules — after consulting with “gang leadership” in El Salvador, authorities said.
“The brutal murders of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, and the savage killing of José Peña, allegedly committed by these defendants, exemplify the depravity of a gang whose primary mission is murder,” Brooklyn US Attorney Robert Capers said.
Then-President-elect Trump blasted Long Island’s MS-13 scourge in an interview for his Time magazine “Person of the Year” profile last year.
“They come from Central America. They’re tougher than any people you’ve ever met,” Trump said. “They’re killing and raping everybody out there. They’re illegal. And they are finished.”
The illegal immigrants indicted Thursday are from El Salvador and Honduras and are among 13 people charged with crimes including racketeering and multiple counts of conspiracy to murder.
The defendants — who face up to life in prison or the death penalty — include Edwin Antonio “Strong” Amaya-Sanchez, 29, who the feds say is a leader of an MS-13 chapter in El Salvador.
Amaya-Sanchez was deported to El Salvador on March 22, 2010, but had sneaked back into the United States by July 14, 2014, when he allegedly murdered José Lainez-Murcia, with whom he had worked at a landscaping company in Kings Park.
Lainez-Murcia was ambushed and shot outside his home “because he was deemed to be chav
ala, or enemy of the MS-13” after bragging that he had assassinated gang members in El Salvador, the feds say.
Amaya-Sanchez was busted when the FBI’s Long Island Gang Task Force spotted him near the landscaping business the following year.
Mickens and Cuevas were attacked on the night of Sept. 13, 2016, following several disputes over social media between Cuevas and various MS-13 members and associates, court papers say.
That animosity boiled over into a fight at Brentwood HS, leading the gang to “put a ‘greenlight’ on Cuevas — that is, they authorized her to be killed,” according to the feds.