Border Brothers: Prison Gang Profile
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Border Brothers are a Mexican nationalist group so-named
because they were born "south of the border." Membership
in Arizona correctional facilities numbered approximately
150 members in 1999, according to prison officials. According
to sources quoted in an MSNBC interview conducted at San Quentin,
Border Brothers members are usually those that "get taken
advantage of, because they`re not organized at all. They are
generally considered "less powerful" than other
prison gangs because of their status as illegal immigrants
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- East Oakland, California, according to user sources.
- Phoenix, Arizona. Arizona correctional institutions held
150 as of 1999, according to correctional authorities.
- Pitchess Detention Center, California
- San Quentin State Prison, California, where
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