WASHINGTON—Immigration and justice department officials announced the arrest of 214 MS-13 gang members in an operation carried out from Oct. 8 to Nov. 11. Another 53 were arrested in El Salvador in an earlier operation.
MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, has been a renewed target under the new administration, mainly because its members carry out particularly vicious crimes and most members are in the United States illegally.
