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MS 13 is not being deported by the tens of thousands. I doubt there are that many MS 13 members. There were arrests, not deportations. DUE PROCESS does not allow immediate deportation.
From ICE:
...U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (click here) has committed significant resources to this fight. In doing so, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) combined their unique authorities to target criminal activity and administrative immigration violations of known or suspected gang members, making more than 10,000 gang arrests in fiscal year (FY) 2018 – including more than 2,000 Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members. This figure includes both criminal and administrative immigration arrests....
A gang assessment was completed in 2009 under President Obama.
According to the 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment, "The gang (MS-13) is estimated to have 30,000 to 50,000 members and associate members worldwide, 8,000 to 10,000 of whom reside in the United States.
There are not tens of thousands of MS 13 members in the USA. There is no place for any gang to exist in the USA, but, they do exist because of cultural and language barriers and lack of education and OPPORTUNITY.
The following key findings (click here) were developed by analysis of available federal, state, and local law enforcement information; 2008 National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) National Drug Threat Survey
(NDTS) data; and verified open source information:
Approximately 1 million gang members belonging to more than 20,000 gangs were criminally active
within all 50 states and the District of Columbia as of September 2008.
Local street gangs, or neighborhood-based street gangs, remain a significant threat because they continue to account for the largest number of gangs nationwide. Most engage in violence in conjunction
with a variety of crimes, including retail-level drug distribution.
According to NDTS data, 58 percent of state and local law enforcement agencies reported that criminal gangs were active in their jurisdictions in 2008 compared with 45 percent of state and local agencies in 2004.
Gang members are migrating from urban areas to suburban and rural communities, expanding the
gangs’ influence in most regions; they are doing so for a variety of reasons, including expanding drug
distribution territories, increasing illicit revenue, recruiting new members, hiding from law enforcement, and escaping other gangs. Many suburban and rural communities are experiencing increasing
gang-related crime and violence because of expanding gang influence.
Criminal gangs commit as much as 80 percent of the crime in many communities, according to law
enforcement officials throughout the nation. Typical gang-related crimes include alien smuggling,
armed robbery, assault, auto theft, drug trafficking, extortion, fraud, home invasions, identity theft,
murder, and weapons trafficking.
Gang members are the primary retail-level distributors of most illicit drugs. They also are increasingly distributing wholesale-level quantities of marijuana and cocaine in most urban and suburban communities.
Some gangs traffic illicit drugs at the regional and national levels; several are capable of competing
with U.S.-based Mexican DTOs.
U.S.-based gang members illegally cross the U.S.–Mexico border for the express purpose of smuggling
illicit drugs and illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States.
Many gangs actively use the Internet to recruit new members and to communicate with members in
other areas of the United States and in foreign countries.
Street gangs and outlaw motorcycle gangs pose a growing threat to law enforcement along the U.S.–
Canada border. They frequently associate with Canada-based gangs and criminal organizations to
facilitate various criminal activities, including drug smuggling into the United States.
