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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What is your point?
When are the fakers going to learn?
Trump doesn’t make these kind of statements unless his researches have got the evidence documented. The information will be dribbled out over the next few weeks. It’s his current method of operation.
“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.”
Nothing like refusing to see what happened in the last 8 years.
He just wanted to get a selfie of his work.
I witnessed first hand the violence of this gang in South Texas on illegal women coming across the border in '05. It was my first view of a "rape tree" with the illegal woman still hanging in it. MS 13 smugglers would rape the women in the group, hang them by their wrists naked with their feet touching the ground and their under wear hanging also in the trees. Well, this one died during the night and they left her hanging for the coyotes and varmints to eat at from the feet up. The coroner that responded to our call said that she had been dead for 3-4 days. I had "buzzard tracked" to find her in a mesquite tree not far from Falfurrias.
Some were wandering central New Hampshire, and that was ten years ago!
To be sure, if it was sick, twisted, perverted, or just plain un-American 0bama loved it and more than like had a hand in it
To be sure, if it was sick, twisted, perverted, or just plain un-American 0bama loved it and more than like had a hand in it
You are correct. Back then, the gang was mostly laughed at as a bunch of betatted latino midgets concentrated in Northern Virginia. There was sympathy because many believed they came up to El Norte to escape persecution in Salvador. Now we know that any persecution was indeed justified. There should be carte blanc shoot-on-sight for LE’s.
Gotta love Trump's rope-a-dope strategy
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