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A number of Republican politicians, including President Trump, have falsely accused Democrats of supporting MS-13 [124] [116] [125] [126] [127] [109] or shielding MS-13 gang members from deportation. [128] [129] In the United States, there were an estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in 2018, showing stable membership numbers for more than a decade.
The gang's primary symbol, which is often used in tattoos by members, is the national symbol of Mexico (eagle and a snake) atop a flaming circle over crossed knives. Street gangs that are aligned with the Mexican Mafia often use the number 13 as a gang identifier, as the letter "M" is the 13th letter of the modern Latin-derived alphabet.
An MS-13 gang member arrested by federal immigration authorities in Massachusetts last week was facing state gun charges and had previously been ordered to be deported before he was released by a ...
Escobar was only 17 when she convinced other members of the MS-13 gang to kill Miguel Lopez, 20, Justin Llivicura, 16, and Jefferson Villalobos and Jose Tigre, both 18, by showing them social ...
Federal authorities in Los Angeles charged 23 suspected members and associates of the MS-13 gang, alleging that one of the group's leaders in California is a powerful Mexican Mafia figure who ...
It was made by young Latinos, mostly Mexican, who were alienated, marginalized, excluded, and even targeted by the established Mexican-American population and local gangs. The creation of MS-13 was sparked by the civil war in El Salvador which killed more than 70,000 people and lasted from 1980 to 1992 and produced an environment filled with ...
A senior leader of the MS-13 street gang who was one of the FBI's most wanted gang fugitives was quietly arrested earlier this month at the California-Mexico border on narco-terrorism charges ...
Many of these deported Salvadorans were members of street gangs, most notably Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18). Gang violence between MS-13 and Barrio 18 resulted in El Salvador having one of the highest intentional homicide rates in the world. Other crimes committed by Salvadoran street gangs included kidnapping, extortion ...