Transnational Gang Recruited Members in Massachusetts Schools, Prosecutor Says

Plus, how many Gazans would choose to leave?

The green logo, featuring crossed machetes and the phrase “until death,” that prosecutors say is used by a violent transnational gang recruiting new members in Massachusetts public high schools.

Back in December, when the New York Times ran a top-of-the-front page Sunday story by a technology reporter headlined “Phones Fueling Violent Scenes at U.S. Schools,” I wrote, “If the Times editors sent an immigration reporter, or a gangs-drugs-guns-and-crime reporter, the editors might have wound up with a different story.”

I wrote, “the idea that the fights at Revere High are mainly a story about cellphones rather than about drugs or adolescent hormones or criminal immigrant gangs or, for that matter, my own go-to explanation for social ills, declining religious-service attendance, seems like a Times reporter and editors’ fantasy rather than a thesis that is well supported by evidence.”

That item now deserves an update.