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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.
Operation Devil Horns originated in 2004 with investigations by HSI into the presence and activities of an MS-13 clique known as “20th Street,” based in the Mission District of San Francisco, an area with a large population of Central American and Mexican immigrants. At the time, violent crime in the neighborhood was a major problem.
A known MS-13 gang member wanted for years for murder and terrorism in El Salvador has been busted living illegally in New Jersey. The arrest Friday of Johnathan Stanley Garcia-Vasquez in West New ...
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 ...
NEW YORK - The woman convicted of luring five young men into a Long Island park where they were attacked by MS-13 gang members, who killed four of them, was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday ...
The Mara Salvatrucha, or the MS-13 gang are located in the United States, Canada, Mexico and El Salvador. [2] The Mara Salvatrucha gang was founded in the 1980s in Los Angeles, California. [3] The original members of the Mara Salvatrucha were refugees from El Salvador that came to the United States. [2]
Even in the violent world of the MS-13 street gang, the killings in northern Virginia in the summer of 2019 stood out. In that year, “the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area became an MS-13 ...