[VIDEO] Woman Wanted for Dismembering Bodies in Mexico Crossed into US Illegally

While the left persists in  arguing that not every migrant crossing the border is a criminal, the reality keeps slapping us in the face with some  rather unsavory characters are still slipping through the cracks.

Case in point: Michelle Angelica Pineda, a woman wanted for murder in Mexico, recently  got nabbed by an FBI and U.S. Border Patrol task force. But Pineda wasn't just tangled in your average murder case. She was involved in brutal crimes tied to an ultra-violent  gang known for heinous acts like cutting hearts from victims and dismembering bodies.



From El Paso Times:

The 22-year-old woman is accused of taking part in five homicides in Mexico and is suspected in several others as part of a bloodthirsty cell of the Artistas Asesinos street gang in Juárez, the FBI said.

"Pineda was known for her extreme brutality such as dismembering bodies, removing hearts, and placing the hearts in front of 'Santa Muerte' altars and statutes," the FBI said in a news statement.

Santa Muerte is a Mexican folk saint, depicted as a cloaked skeletal grim reaper, who has exploded in popularity among the marginalized and within narco culture even while condemned by the Catholic church.

Catholic church leaders have rebuked worship of Santa Muerte (meaning "Saint Death or "Holy Death") as "spiritually dangerous" superstition, paganism and demonic heresy.

Pineda was allegedly part of a gang crew suspected in more than 20 dismemberment killings in Juárez. The tortured and mutilated bodies were often dumped in public spaces, the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office said.

One Juárez newspaper described Pineda's gang as "narcosatánicos," claiming the removed hearts were offerings to the devil.

In the merciless Juárez criminal underworld, it is common for drug cartels and gangs to behead and dismember victims, leaving body parts in gruesome displays for rivals, police and residents. Juárez had more than 1,100 homicides last year.