Tiny Raskal Gang
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Cambodians Arrive
The Tiny Rascal Gang was formed in Long Beach, California in the mid 1980s when the first wave of Cambodian immigrants were still coming from their homeland to the United States of America, due to Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that occurred during that time period. For these South East Asians, living in America turned out to be as hard as arriving there. Because of the way they spoke and looked, young Cambodian kids faced discrimination from Mexican students at school.
One punch, from a Mexican student to a Cambodian refugee started a bitter race war that still exist today. One of the first known incident, happend when TRG member pulled up on a car full of members of the Eastside Longo gang, the rivaling Hispanic gang of the TRG. The TRG members had an argument, then which the TRG opened fire on the Eastside Longo members. TRG is the one of the oldest Asian gangs and are the largest Asian gang today in the United States of America. Many are also recruited in Cambodia. TRG member mainly consist of Cambodian, Laos, Vitnamese, Chinese, and Filipinos , now opened its doors to non-asian, but retained the entrance requirement of being of mixed-Cambodian or Asian ethnicity. Vietnamese TRG members are mainly in Southern Texas. The color gray was chosen to identify membership. The gang had spread across the nation, reaching cities from Long Beach, California to Fresno in mid-california, to Lowell, Massachusetts, Houston, Texas and North Carolina. LRG, The (Lady Rascal Gang) is another set for the females that are in the gang.
The derogatory term for TRG are "roach" or "roaches". They represent the number '7126'; 7=T, 12=R, 6=G. To derogatorize other gangs, they are known as "EBK", as in "Everybody Killer".
Some of the founders of TRG are now in Cambodia having been deported after the Cambodian Government signed an agreement with the US Government following the events of 9/11. They were residents of the US but had failed to apply for citizenship and therefore, if they have committed a felony, are eligible for deportation although they have all served their required prison sentences.
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