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US Turns Blind Eye on Real National Security Threats
Andrei Aklov | 21.04.2017 | WORLD

With all the hue and cry raised about the threats to US national security coming from the Islamic State, Syria, Iran, North Korea, China, the «assertive Russia» and many others, the real threats are largely kept out of public discourse. At least, they are not on the priority list where they should be.

One of them had been kept out of spotlight until coming to prominence on April 18 – the day President Trump singled out MS-13 – a street gang with Central American roots – as «one of the gravest threats to American safety». The president signed an executive order calling for the Department of Justice to convene a task force to go after transnational criminal organizations like MS-13.

Formally known as Mara Salvatrucha (the gang of Salvadoran guys), the criminal group is made up of immigrants, mostly young teenagers from Salvador. According to the FBI estimates, the group’s strength is 6,000 in the US and 30,000 internationally. At least 46 states and Washington, D.C., have reported the infiltration of their «cliques» — typically linked to drug trafficking, low-level extortion, rape and even murder. Trump blamed open border policies implemented by former President Barack Obama for the spread of the gang in the US.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed that the Justice Department will crack down on violent crime. According to him, MS-13 and other gangs «represent one of the gravest threats to American safety». «The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across US We are removing them fast!», President Trump tweeted.

The president sounds too optimistic. The mission won’t be a cakewalk. The US Treasury Department declared the group a transnational criminal organization in 2012, linking it to drug trafficking, kidnapping, human smuggling, sex trafficking, murder, assassinations, racketeering, blackmail, extortion and immigration offenses. The gang has flourished in the US and internationally. Membership is now widespread. Gang members are reported in Canada, Central America, Mexico and elsewhere.

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