‘Who the hell wants to take care of them?’ Trump says deporting MS-13 gang members is cheaper than housing them in jails and says visa lottery system has to end
President says he doesn’t want to spend money to incarcerate violent gang members and would rather send them back to El Salvador
‘You know, the jail stuff is wonderful but we have to pay for it, right?’ he told graduates of a program at the FBI Academy in Virginia
Trump said that in 2017 the Justice Department has collaborated with authorities in Central America to arrest and charge about 4,000 MS-13 members
MS-13’s motto is ‘Kill, Rape, Control’; its primary weapons are baseball bats and machetes
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
15 December 2017
Donald Trump said Friday at the FBI Academy in Virginia that he’d rather deport ‘savages’ in violent gangs than pay to house them in American prisons.
Speaking to graduates of a program that trains state and local law enforcement officers in FBI tactics, the president blasted the Salvadoran MS-13 gang as an example of an immigration system run amok and pledged to rid the country of them.
‘To any member of MS-13 listening, I have a message for you: We will find you, we will arrest you, we will jail you, we will throw you the hell out of the country,’ he said.
‘And somehow I like it better than jail. Jail, we have to take care of them. Who the hell wants to take care of them? You know, the jail stuff is wonderful but we have to pay for it, right?’ he ad-libbed to applause.
Trump said that in 2017 the Department of Justice has collaborated with authorities in Central America to arrest and charge about 4,000 MS-13 members.
The Department of Homeland Security has arrested nearly 800 more, he added, an 83 per cent increase from 2016
‘We’ll get rid of them completely very soon, right?’ he asked.
‘These are killers,’ Trump said. ‘These are people that are sadists in many cases. … We don’t want them. They’re getting out of here.
The president also renewed his call for a ‘merit-based’ immigration system, citing violent terrorists who gained entrance to the U.S. through visa lotteries and relationships with family members already in the country.
‘They have a lottery. You pick people. You think the country is giving us their best people? No, what kind of a system is that?’ he asked.
‘We’re calling for Congress to end chain migration and to end the visa lottery system, and replace it with a merit-based system of immigration, Trump said.
MS-13, short for Mara Salvatrucha, consists chiefly of immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Central America.
The gang is notorious for its links to cartels and organized crime, and for its ability to access high-powered weapons.
Because of civil wars and guerrilla insurgencies in Central America, many of the gang’s founding members had paramilitary experience, making them more deadly than other criminal groups.
Its primary weapons, however, are baseball bats and machetes.
The Department of Justice classifies MS-13 as a ‘transnational criminal organization’ engaged in drug trafficking, kidnapping, human smuggling, prostitution, murder and extortion.
Trump has referred to MS-13 as ‘bad hombres.’
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