MS-13

The House Judiciary Committee revealed that even after the suspect was charged with murder and his gang tattoos and past criminal record were revealed, he was placed in a foster home with other children, endangering them.

El Salvador President Bukele's crackdown on MS-13 gang members has led to a dramatic 44% reduction in the number of Salvadorans illegally crossing into the US. El Salvador once had the world's highest murder rate, but now has the world's highest incarceration rate, 68,000 prisoners, about 1% of their population.

When the trial date was postponed, no one extended the date of the protective order so, Rodriguez was exposed well in advance of the trial. Law enforcement has placed the blame for Rodriguez’s murder squarely at the feet of Democratic lawmakers who passed the new law.

Charges include murder, murder conspiracy, drug trafficking, weapons possession and gang violence. The goal was to damage the leadership of the gang that is trying to increase its presence. MS-13 had 8,000-10,000 members in the US and Europe and 50,000 members in Central America.

One of the suspects had been arrested for theft of a motor vehicle, but King County Jail ignored an ICE request for retainer, and he was released. He was arrested and released two more times before the high school boy's murder.

Those who were arrested are suspected in 200 more crimes in several states over the past nine years. Of the 22 defendants, 19 had entered the country illegally in the past three or four years.

Maryland: A 14-year old girl who participated in the kidnapping and robbery of man in April, was herself murdered with a machete by her cohorts, according to police. St. George's County had two of them in custody in a separate murder case last year, but authorities released the suspects back into the public.

Can anyone deny that for Putin, the Russian investment in the election of Trump, is the gift that keeps on giving? In his NY Times column yesterday, Republican pundit David Brooks observed that "The Trump era has been all about dissolving moral norms and waging vicious attacks. This has been an era of culture war, class warfare and identity politics.

Ramiro Gutierrez, believed to be a member of MS-13, was arrested on suspicion of killing a member of a rival gang. Gutierrez and eleven others were charged in December with conspiracy and attempted murder, as well as drug and weapons charges, but he was released from prison on $2,500 to await trial.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and a Clinton-era court settlement, called the Flores agreement, requires that children traveling without parents must be quickly released to social workers who administer benefits.