MS-13 Wants to Send ‘Younger, More Violent’ Members to America, Official Says

MS-13 Wants to Send ‘Younger, More Violent’ Members to America, Official Says
Members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), held on Monday, March 4, 2013, in the Criminal Center of Ciudad Barrios in El Salvador. Marvin RECINOS/AFP/Getty Images
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Frustrated leaders of the notorious street gang MS-13 are feeling the pressure from the Trump administration and are looking to send “younger, more violent offenders” to the United States, officials say.
Stephen Richardson, assistant director of the FBI’s criminal investigative division, told the House Committee on Homeland Security in a meeting on Jan. 18 that the mass arrests and imprisonment of MS-13 members and mid-level leaders over the past year have frustrated the gang’s leaders, reported VOA News.