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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 01:54 PM Apr 2017

On Long Island, Sessions Vows to Eradicate MS-13 Gang

Source: New York Times

On Long Island, Sessions Vows to Eradicate MS-13 Gang

By LIZ ROBBINS APRIL 28, 2017

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — The attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessions, came on Friday to this Long Island area besieged by the transnational gang known as MS-13, and in a 20-minute speech to local police commissioners and sheriffs vowed to eradicate the gang by cracking down on illegal immigration.

Mr. Sessions said the gang, which is linked to El Salvador, carries a threat similar to the Colombian cartels and the mafia. He said it smuggled gang members across the United States border and recruited young immigrants.

His message was familiar, and it bore the wishes of President Trump, who Mr. Sessions said was “particularly alert to” the violence affecting Suffolk County, where the bodies of four young men who had been brutally killed were found near a park on April 13.

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Mr. Sessions did not, however, offer assurances to the sizable immigrant community that its members could report crime to the police without worrying about their immigration status.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/nyregion/jeff-sessions-ms-13-gang-long-island.html?_r=0
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On Long Island, Sessions Vows to Eradicate MS-13 Gang (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2017 OP
did he vow to eradicate the KKK? nt msongs Apr 2017 #1
So am I supposed to be outraged because MS-13 is being targeted by Sessions? Jake Stern Apr 2017 #2
No. But if you buy Sessions' simplistic assertion Eugene Apr 2017 #3
No doubt it is simplistic and is meant to play to the audience Jake Stern Apr 2017 #4

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
2. So am I supposed to be outraged because MS-13 is being targeted by Sessions?
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 04:22 PM
Apr 2017

They are an extremely violent gang and I have zero objection to hitting them hard with RICO and deporting members and people who work for the gang such as couriers and lookouts etc.

There is NO excuse to join such a gang.


Eugene

(61,595 posts)
3. No. But if you buy Sessions' simplistic assertion
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 06:06 PM
Apr 2017

that keeping out the "illegals" is the key to stopping MS-13, I have a bridge I can sell youl

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
4. No doubt it is simplistic and is meant to play to the audience
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 06:12 PM
Apr 2017

but that aside, any effort to shut down these violent thugs be it through prison or deportation is welcomed.

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