Sessions: MS-13 street gang a 'priority' for law enforcement

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Sessions: MS-13 street gang a 'priority' for law enforcement

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — Oct 23, 2017, 1:59 PM ET

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday promised an even stricter crackdown on the brutal MS-13 street gang, whose members are suspected in a series of killings in the suburbs of New York City.

The attorney general designated the Central American gang as a "priority" for the Justice Department's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. The designation directs prosecutors to pursue all legal avenues, including racketeering, gun and tax laws, to target the gang, Sessions said.

"MS-13 members brutally rape, rob, extort and murder," Sessions told hundreds of police executives at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia.

"With more than 40,000 members worldwide - including 10,000 in the United States - MS-13 threatens the lives and well-being of each and every family everywhere they infest."

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sessions-ms-13-street-gang-priority-law-enforcement-50663208

[Sneederbunk]

1. What about the Republican Gang?

[Thomas Hurt]

2. yeah, dammit, we need to return more of the black market and organized crime to domestic....

gangs, crime families, and terrorists. America First!

(snark)

[haele]

3. Then how come the DoJ is going after people who work hard and take care of their kids?

Getting rid of all possible undocumented persons of color until all they're left with are the few MS-13 gang members here who aren't already U.S. citizens?
And of course, the Russian Mob or the Chinese Triad/SE Asian gangs don't seem to be as a high priority, even though they are just as violent and liable to shoot innocent passers-by, traffic in people and drugs, and are just as dangerous to U.S. Society. But they aren't brown, and are more liberal with their bribes so I guess it's okay.

Haele

[msongs]

4. murder, rape, extort, rob - what's the dif between police executives and the ms 13 gang? nt

[JustAnotherGen]

5. White Supremacists do this too

members brutally rape, rob, extort and murder

They also sell meth, and heroin.


Can we deport them to Antartica?

[Blue_Adept]

6. I'm sure it's an issue but the only time I see this group being talked about is by Sessions

I don't see regular and detailed coverage of them anywhere.

[Frustratedlady]

9. Thank you. I was running errands and heard parts of Sessions' speech, this morning, on SIRIUS.

I try to keep up with the news, but had never heard of MS-13 or of such a horrid gang in the US. He went on and on, from one errand
to another, and I thought this must be a huge and serious problem in the US Then, he talked about giving money to police forces to hire more cops...$100M?...and things started to fall into place. We seem to have money to increase the military and police forces, but take from Medicare, Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, education, children's health insurance and other "less significant" problems in the country. He just kept repeating the rape, torture, kill (or whatever the motto is) purpose of this MS-13. I'd never heard of it. I was darned concerned by the time I finished my errands to even go home.

I have not seen one single article about this gang. How did 10,000 of them infiltrate the US without us knowing about it? Are they actual home-based citizens or immigrants/visitors? How long have they been operating in the US? They say 40K worldwide?

[Abouttime]

11. That's because they don't exist

Just because a bunch of high school kids spray paint the number 13 doesn't mean there is some worldwide conspiracy that threatens white america

[Iggo]

7. Still? Or are they just reminding us that they still hate Mexicans?

[Corgigal]

8. What did I miss?

Do they too have Russian troll farms and actively causing stress to the republic? Cause, on a causality count that's gonna be higher.

Boo, brown people. Happy Halloween...

[onethatcares]

10. he edited the speech to leave out

MS-13 members on marijuana that are the real problem. But Mr Sessions does have his priorities. Sadly, none of them involve prosecuting the real organized criminals in the financial sector of our country. He'd rather see them get golden parachutes and bonuses.