Posted on 04/18/2017 8:12:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber
President Donald Trump on Tuesday blamed -- without proof -- his predecessor Barack Obama for allowing the MS-13 criminal gang to take root in US cities.
The MS-13, also known as the Mara Salvatrucha, is one of the criminal groups behind a wave of violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
The gang was formed in Los Angeles by Salvadoran immigrants fleeing civil war in the 1980s. The gang, however, remains active in the United States.
US officials deported several gang members in the early 2000s to their countries of origin -- contributing to the explosive spread of crime in the region.
Domestic crime blamed on MS-13 include the murder of four Hispanic youths last week in New York state, as well as 11 people killed in Suffolk County, New York last year, including two teens murdered with machetes and baseball bats.
The FBI formed a special task force in 2004 -- before Obama took office -- focused on investigating and prosecuting MS-13 members.
"The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
In an interview that aired Tuesday on Fox, Trump said his administration has kicked out dangerous immigrants, though he didn't specify that they were gang members.
"I'm talking about illegal immigrants that were here that caused tremendous crime that have murdered people, raped people; horrible things have happened. They are getting the hell out, or they are going to prison," Trump told Fox.
Trump claimed that "we never did anything about it, and now we're doing."
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Fake headline.
A chrisis to achieve what? Slavery of citizens to solve the chris the leftists created. I think the solution is to get rid of the leftists.
Selfies and vacations and golf.
Anything else to speak of...nope.
The man gets it. Personally, it's my hope they hunt them down military style with vengeance. Make it a top priority, do what should have been done many years ago.
If they were involved in murder, execute them before deporting them.
Here's what that sentence would look like with the roles reversed.
Donald Trump allowed the MS-13 criminal gang to take root in US cities, according to President Barack Obama.
Obama was mainly running an open border and did little to curb the criminal element coming across the border. It Trump did say this he is right.
MS-13 got a foothold during the GWB administration, it cemented itself during the Obama administration.
Should hunt the murdering terrorists down using the military as in hunting terrorists.
Obama bears most of the blame but there is more than enough attributable to GWB as well.
Refugees from a civil war in a 3rd-world country. Sounds familiar.
Deporting criminals instead of putting them in jail is like a government employee getting paid administrative leave.
wonderful. the MSM is going to bog down low information types with meaningless logical sidetrips over the meaning of the word “created”; we saw this endlessly over whether BHO “created” ISIS, or if two dude and a goat preceded the obamite bug-out in Iraq.
I blame Spain.
Bammy went to Baltimore to talk to his sons?
“...without proof...”
And “proof” would be what? A memo from Obama ordering the creation of drug gangs?
Without proof? I call 8 years of trying to destroy the middle class in this country as all the proof anybody needs.
True
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