US immigration Trump's focus on MS-13 risks bolstering gang's fearsome image, study says The president has made the gang a focus of immigration reform, and new research shows this may hand the group political capital Donald Trump hosts a law enforcement roundtable on MS-13 at the White House in Washington DC on 6 February 2018. Researchers met MS-13 members at prisons and in the neighbourhoods they operate in. “MS-13 members migrate for the same reasons that other migrants do, and they go to the same places. Trump visited the area in 2017 and branded MS-13 members “animals” who have “transformed peaceful parks and beautiful quiet neighborhoods into blood-stained killing fields”. During the same speech Trump also encouraged law enforcement to resort to violence in dealing with gang members.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2018 16:18 UTC