The leaders of the gangs MS-13 are going to send from El Salvador to the United States is «younger, more violent offenders», who will take on the role of thugs.
Thursday, January 18, during a meeting of the house Committee on national security discussed the arrest and imprisonment of members of the Mara Salvatrucha (better known as MS-13) over the last year.
«They are very interested in the younger, more ferocious criminals through their channels in this country so that they become thugs in their gangs», – said during the meeting Steven Richardson, assistant Director of the criminal investigation division of the FBI.
Committee Chairman Peter king stated that, according to the staff, who visited in El Salvador, gang leaders «are disappointed that members of MS-13 in the USA not cruel enough».
According to the Department of justice, the gang has 40 thousand members worldwide, with about 10 thousand people of them are in the USA and extortion, arms trafficking, drug trafficking, violent murders, etc.
Since March last year, more than 3,800 members of the gang MS-13 and 18th street have been indicted. And in December, the U.S. Department of justice has convicted more than a thousand representatives of the group. Supposedly MS-13 stands for 25 murders on long island that have occurred over the past two years.
