President Donald Trump said the ‘stupidity’ of the nation’s immigration laws is allowing violent gangs like MS-13 to flourish in the US.
The comment was made at an event at the White House on Tuesday aimed at combating the MS-13 gang.
The president said: ‘Not another country in the world has the stupidity of laws that we do.
‘And if we don’t get them changed, this isn’t politics, this isn’t Republican and Democrat, this is common sense. So, it has to be taken care of.’
President Donald Trump (pictured, Tuesday) said the ‘stupidity’ of the nation’s immigration laws is allowing violent gangs like MS-13 to flourish in the US at an event at the White House on Tuesday aimed at combating the MS-13 gang
Trump has said that despite thousands of gang members being arrested and deported, many make their way back to the states so stricter laws are needed (Pictured, Snoopy, 20 years, shows off his gang tattoos in January 2006 in Durham, North Carolina)
Trump has said that despite thousands of gang members being arrested and deported, many make their way back to the states.
He says this one of the reasons for the need to build a wall along the US-Mexico border and reform the immigration system.
‘We need these immigration laws changed. We are just not going to be able to continue to do this. They just come in so far, so easy,’ Trump said.
‘And then you have catch and release. You catch people, you have to release them right away.’
He says this one of the reasons for the need to build a wall along the US-Mexico border and reform the immigration system.
The El Salvadorian criminal enterprise MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, is believed to have a presence in 46 states, according to an independent study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania.
The El Salvadorian criminal enterprise MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, is believed to have a presence in 46 states (Pictured, four unidentified members of MS-13 show their tattoos in the unit where they are kept imprisoned in Tamara, Honduras)
MS-13 is the first and only criminal organization in the US to be named as ‘transnational’ by the FBI and operates on the motto of ‘Kill, Rape, Control’ (Pictured, weapons on display at the US Attorney’s office following the arrests of gang members in Boston, January 2016)
Trump slammed the gang during his first State of the Union address last week (pictured), saying it has ’caused the loss of many innocent lives’ and ‘took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors’
MS-13 is the first and only criminal organization in the US to be named as ‘transnational’ by the FBI and operates on the motto of ‘Kill, Rape, Control’, former Massachusetts US Attorney Carmen Ortiz said.
The group was started nearly 20 years ago in Los Angeles after millions of immigrants from El Salvador came to the US after a violent civil war left more than 100,000 dead.
The gang has since spread all over the country, and are known widely as the best killers – due to their exceedingly brutal weapon of choice: a machete.
MS -13 has more than 30,000 members worldwide including 10,000 in the US alone.
Trump slammed the gang during his first State of the Union address last week, saying it has ’caused the loss of many innocent lives’ and ‘took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors’.