Mexikanemi

[5][6] The group engages in a wide range of illegal activities including drug trafficking, loan sharking, and money laundering.

These posts are democratic in that they are filled and can be vacated, according to the constitution, by a simple majority vote of the group that is or will be led by that person.

These posts are meritocratic in that they may also be vacated by decree made by any person who holds the rank of captain or higher.

The Mexikanemi utilize a distributed recruitment system based on democratic vote and the approval authority of lieutenants.

According to their constitution, any member in good standing may recommend someone as a prospect so long as they are ethnically Mexican.

we shall deal in drugs, contract killing, large scale robbery, gambling, weapons and in everything imaginable.A considerable amount of funding comes into the organization through the means or extortion through a method referred to as "The Dime".

This rule is strictly enforced, for example, in 1999 Mexikanemi member Manuel Vasquez strangled a local cannabis dealer, Juanita Ybarra, to death with a phone cord for refusing to pay "The Dime."

[11] The indictment alleged that Mares conspired with the group to provide them with "hand guns, assault rifles, hand restraints and even internal police information",[12] and that the group as a whole was working to "traffic drugs and carry out other illegal gang business, including selling numerous assault rifles, and detonation cord".