America’s most violent gang: How MS-13 spread from El Salvador to more than 40 US states as 10,000 MEMBERS enforce bloody rule with GUNS and MACHETES
The MS-13 gang was started by veterans of El Salvador’s civil war who had moved to California in the 1980s
Law enforcement agents believe the gang has now spread to at least 40 states and even as far as Canada
Donald Trump has vowed to deport members of the crime gang illegally living in the United States
A recent clampdown on gangs found that two-thirds of more than 1,000 arrested were US citizens
DARREN BOYLE
DailyMail.com
12 June 2017
A notorious Central American street gang famed for its heavily tattooed members and torturing its victims has now established its self across the United States.
As well as shootings, MS-13 is known to kill its victims with baseball bats and machetes. Police and federal investigators believe they have a presence in 40 states as well as Mexico, Canada and Spain.
Such is the danger posed by MS-13, President Donald Trump has branded them a national security threat and uses their atrocities as evidence for his need to prevent ‘bad hombres’ crossing into the United States.
Recently, Trump claimed the gang has ‘literally taken over towns and cities of the United States.’
He added: ‘MS-13 is going to be gone from our streets very soon, believe me.’
According to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, 1,100 gang members or associates have been arrested. But two-thirds of those arrested were US citizens, not immigrants, and only 104 were members of MS-13.
However, in November 2016, the street gang suffered a major setback when senior gang member Joel Antonio Cortez – known as ‘Pee Wee’, was jailed for 13 years for racketeering, extortion, drug distribution and conspiracy to commit murder.
Cortez and his co-accused, Amilcar Romero, known as ‘Chi Chi’ were the top deputies to MS-13’s US leader Jose Juan Rodriguez-Juarez – who wanted all local affiliates to submit to his control.
According to court documents: ‘By autumn 2013, Rodriguez-Juarez had assigned Romero to serve as the primary point-of-contact between the leadership of Mara Salvatrucha in the United States and El Salvador, while Cortez assumed responsibility for recruiting Mara Salvatrucha cliques on the east coast of the United States to join the national program.
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