Barr: Cooperation Helping Keep MS-13 Gang Members out of US
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Friday, 17 May 2019 12:35 PM
Much of the humanitarian crisis on the border is being driven by families fleeing violence in Central America, but the United States is working closely with authorities in El Salvador and in the "northern triangle" countries to try to keep gang members from the notorious MS-13 gang from showing up on U.S. soil, Attorney General William Barr said in an interview airing Friday.
"The Justice Department has a very robust program down here to help the government attack this drug problem," Barr told Fox News' Bill Hemmer, who traveled to the Central American country to interview him. "We're working very closely with them."
As a result of the cooperative efforts, the murder rate has dropped by half in El Salvador in the past three years, said Barr.
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