Not only is any official's characterizing the gangs as simply "Hispanic" (which is an attempt to NOT elevate a gang, but to denigrate a racial/ethnic group) troubling, so is any instinct that Hispanic must mean that they are undocumented as way as is the suggestion that a person can be a weed. The City of Seattle offers that there are as many as 74,000 individuals in King County that are "eligible for naturalization" and I am certain that we would not use anyone's careless characterization as a reason to displace those families and quash the overwhelmingly positive economic/cultural impact these folks have on our community.