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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMS-13 is a product of the US prison system. It's an export of the US.
I'm so sick of hearing this used as an excuse to deny asylum to Salvadorans.
MS-13 is a US gang, that was exported to Central America because of our short-sighted deportation policy (and, before anyone asks: yes, I will absolutely include the Obama administration in that charge).
People telling Salvadorans to "clean up their own country" are ignore the fact that we're the ones who broke their country.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,495 posts)societies setting up the conditions for growth.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Because to me that is the other side of the Monroe doctrine: we broke it, we bought it.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,495 posts)of MS-13 can be directly traced to Reagan's former death squad goons who needed something to do after the war. But yeah in the broader sense goes back even further.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Remember these Guy's,Negroponti,Poindexter,and Olie North. Remember the death squads with South African Mercenaries hired by the CIA,another Neo-Con Democracy movement..
Mike Rows His Boat
(389 posts)Anti liberal, anti union, anti journalist, anti democratic death squads are a daily routine now.
I dare not mention which admin's Dept of State it was all up in that.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Nor have I forgotten who the U.S. players were.