REPORT: MS-13 Planning To Send Younger And More Violent Members To U.S.

The Trump administration has been cracking down on the violent MS-13 gang for months. The gang is apparently feeling the heat, and is planning a new strategy. They want to send younger and more violent members to the U.S.

Gang members who look like children will certainly have an easier time getting into America, so this is a big problem.

FOX News reports:

MS-13 wants to send ‘younger, more violent offenders’ to the US, officials say

Frustrated MS-13 gang leaders feeling the pressure from the Trump administration’s crackdown are looking to send “younger, more violent offenders” to the United States to take over the role of being enforcers, officials say.

The revelations were made Thursday during a House Committee on Homeland Security meeting on fighting international criminal organizations, where officials discussed the arrests and imprisonment of MS-13 members and leadership over the last year.

“They’re very much interested in sending younger, more violent offenders up through their channels into this country in order to be enforcers for the gang,” said Stephen Richardson, assistant director of the FBI’s criminal investigative division, according to VOA News.

Peter King, R-N.Y., the committee’s chairman, said his staff recently visited El Salvador and was told by law enforcement there that the gang — which mostly operates out of prisons in the Central American country — is “frustrated that MS-13 members in [the U.S.] are not violent enough.”

“It’s a horrifying thought,” King was quoted as saying by VOA News.

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Luckily, the Trump administration has taken a hard stance on dealing with this group. Hopefully, they will continue to do so.

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