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1/ @hannahdreier has reported on MS-13 for a year. Here’s what the Trump administration got wrong about the street gang.

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2/ Attorney General Jeff Sessions called MS-13 the most brutal of the gangs driving the drug trade. But…

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3/ Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen says: “The kids are being used as pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers. Those are traffickers, those are smugglers and that is MS-13.” But…

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4/ Trump tweeted: “The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S.” But…

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5/ A White House memo stated: “The violent animals of MS-13 have committed heinous, violent attacks in communities across America.” But…

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6/ The Trump administration is fixated on MS-13. And its crafting policy to address the gang. But for any policy to work, it needs to be rooted in reality.

Read the full story here: propub.li/2KqEgJx
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