MS-13 is a product of the US prison system. It's an export of the US.

[Recursion]

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]

1. You forgot the part about Reagan and his Pukes decimating these

societies setting up the conditions for growth.

[Recursion]

2. Oh I forgot nothing. I have receipts back to Monroe

Because to me that is the other side of the Monroe doctrine: we broke it, we bought it.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Ok then I'll say forgot to mention in the OP. Meaning the very beginning

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]

5. That was one ugly piece in our History.

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]

3. Don't forget the US's involvement in the Honduras coup.

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]

6. I most certainly have not forgotten the US involvement in the Honduras coup.

Nor have I forgotten who the U.S. players were.