The ongoing flow of illegal immigration from Central America has swelled the ranks of the brutal MS-13 gang—and some law enforcement agencies want more federal assistance to target gang members, police officials told a Senate panel on Wednesday.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said that a whistleblower turned over documents that showed more than a dozen apprehended illegal alien teenagers–who admitted to being MS-13 members–were released by the Obama Administration to homes throughout the United States.
Federal and local law enforcement officers conducted 50 simultaneous raids in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday, taking down almost two dozen “high-ranking” suspected leaders of MS-13 in what is being described as the “largest gang raid in Los Angeles history.”
Honduran soldiers transported members of two hyperviolent gangs to a high-security prison following a recent breakout where nearly two dozen members eluded military personnel guarding the complex.
Federal prosecutors in Boston charged the national head of the MS-13 Molinos clique with authorizing the murders of six individuals. At least two of those killed resided in the sanctuary Boston area.
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors to pursue the most severe penalties for defendants with the most serious and provable crimes.
Federal immigration officials arrested nearly 1,400 gang members in a nationwide 6-week operation, including illegal immigrants gang members who had protected status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concluded a targeted nationwide gang operation which was the largest ever conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
A Salvadoran National was arrested and charged for allegedly murdering his sister-in-law over her role in getting her husband jailed.
Despite widespread issues with a growing MS-13 gang population, the federal government is continuing to mass migrate unaccompanied refugee children to vulnerable regions in the U.S.
An illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member has been deported to El Salvador following multiple assault convictions and a murder charge.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has warned would-be illegal migrants from Central America not to waste their money on paying for a human trafficker to enter the United States because they “will be turned around within our laws relatively quickly and returned.”
Three MS-13 gang members living in the Long Island town of Westbury have been charged with attempted murder following their alleged involvement with two machete attacks.
The MS-13 gang is gripping a Long Island, New York, neighborhood after enduring years of unaccompanied minor illegal immigrant children placed in the region.
An illegal immigrant MS-13 member with a previous felony conviction in the U.S. was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is expected to be deported.
HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested a Salvadoran national who is a member of the violent MS-13 gang. The man is wanted for aggravated homicide in his home country of El Salvador. He is one of that nation’s “Top 100” most wanted criminals.
An illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty in federal court for a plan to traffic cocaine in the U.S. and racketeering conspiracy.
Speaking at a rally in Harrisburg, PA, President Donald Trump assured American citizens that the Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 would be quickly removed from the country.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to eradicate the hyperviolent MS-13 transnational criminal gang during a speech he gave while in New York.
After several acts of violence by the El Salvadorian trans-national gang, the New York State Police have decided to create a special unit to counter MS-13.
An MS-13 gang member living in the U.S. was deported a third time to El Salvador by federal immigration officials, now to face murder charges.
There are more than 200 members of the violent, El Salvadorian MS-13 gang in the Long Island, New York area, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A poll published Monday by Rasmussen Reports finds that 47 percent of likely voters support a proposal designating the imported, Central-American gang Ms-13 as a terrorist organization.
Immigration officers in San Antonio, Texas, removed a twice-deported MS-13 gang member wanted in his home country for killing three people in El Salvador. The man has a criminal history in the U.S. as well.
Four members of the violent, foreign MS-13 gang were convicted on federal racketeering charges, some of which involved murder.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions continued his campaign against the vicious MS-13 gang on Fox News’s Tucker Tuesday evening, telling host Tucker Carlson that the group may qualify as a terrorist organization.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has largely blamed Latin American drug cartels for the unprecedented 52,000-plus drug overdose deaths in America during 2015 alone, the latest year for which data is available.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated, “March was the lowest entrance of illegal immigrants in 17 years in this country, and that’s Donald Trump’s leadership.” And that while 40 states
Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with leaders from across federal law enforcement Tuesday to address transnational organized crime.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is echoing President Donald Trump’s sentiments toward the violent El Salvadorian MS-13 gang, blaming “years of lax immigration enforcement” for their growing presence across the U.S.
Authorities arrested an alleged member of the notoriously violent MS-13 street gang after receiving a tip from the public.
President Donald Trump sent a message to criminal illegal immigrants, Tuesday morning, particularly members of gangs like MS-13.
The shocking massacre of four Hispanic young men in Long Island has been tied to the notorious illegal alien street gang, MS-13, authorities say. The four brutally murdered young men were found lying on the street in Central Islip, New York.
Authorities in New York City identified all four of the teens murdered in the brutal homicide allegedly perpetrated by members of the MS-13 gang. Investigators identified the victims on Friday as Michael Lopez Banegas, 20, Jefferson Villalobos, 18, Jorge Tigre,
The FBI added an illegal immigrant affiliated with the hyper-violent MS-13 criminal gang to its top ‘10 Most Wanted Fugitives’ list.
HOUSTON, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott announced the expansion of the Texas Anti-Gang Task Force (TAG) and the creation of a technical operations center in response to a sharp increase in rape and murder in the Houston area by violent gangs.
Three foreign nationals, two of which are illegal immigrants, have been arrested by Arkansas law enforcement following a nightclub shooting.
Jihadist groups like the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) are engaged in efforts to “radicalize and recruit” people in Latin American regions home to violent street gangs that maintain links with U.S. counterparts, namely MS-13, according to the top American commander in the area.
Federal immigration agents have arrested 82 criminal illegal immigrants in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C., including two MS-13 gang members.
Three illegal alien MS-13 gang members are in a Virginia jail, charged with the murder of a teenager in Virginia.