MS-13: From El Salvador to Your Neighborhood

Members of the MS-13 and 18 gangs remain inside their cells during a visit by the Director of the General Directorate of Penal Centers, Osiris Luna (out of frame), at the maximum security prison in Izalco, Sonsonate, El Salvador, on Sept. 4, 2020. Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images

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MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes—beheading their targets with machetes, hacking off their hands, burning them to death, dismembering them.