The United States is winning the war on violent immigrant street gang MS-13 on Long Island, according Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who credited President Donald Trump for "turning the situation around."
"The turning point came in March or April 2017 when four young boys were taken to a wooded area – but a wooden area right off the main street right off the soccer field where kids would play – and they were butchered to death with machetes," Rep. King to told host John Catsimatidison Sunday's "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y. "That really caused a tremendous response from the community."
The murders at the hands of violent criminal aliens, amid calls for a border wall and government funding for immigration reform and national security, brought action locally and nationally, King, the chairman of the House Counterterrorism & Intelligence Subcommittee, told host John Catsimatidis.
"These killings put a human face on what these families are going through and how the immigrant community was being butchered and being terrorized by this gang," King said. "Since then the crime rate has gone down dramatically from MS-13. There have been hundreds of arrests and deportations. . . .
"We have turned a corner there."
King pointed to the use of young immigrants by the violent street gang – which helps explain the Trump administration's attention to those illegal immigrants entering the country unlawful with minors.
"They got a drastic infusion of these young people who came across the border," King said, referring to two communities in his Long Island district. "They were placed and asked for by families in those two communities. So, we got a large number of these unaccompanied minors – which sounds very humanitarian; they were taking care of these young kids – the reality is a number of them were sent to cross the border by MS-13, or they were given asylum by families in these communities who support MS-13, or have relatives in El Salvador who are being threatened if these families don't cooperate with MS-13.
"These young people would then go into the schools. They would recruit. They would join gangs. And they would carry out the most brutal atrocities. We had 25 murders. The most brutal murders. This is just killing someone for the sake of killing. They butchered them to death until they died. Dying is the last part of a long horrible process. It's absolutely brutal and hideous to even think of it."
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