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US Officials: MS-13 Gang Is Sending 'Younger, More Violent' Members to America

WASHINGTON —

Leaders of the Central American street gang MS-13 have a new problem on their hands: their U.S.-based members are not violent enough.

The gang, with about 10,000 members in the United States, is notorious for its propensity for vicious violence. Initiation requires committing murder. And many gang members have been convicted of homicides, some using machetes to behead their victims.

But with the administration of President Donald Trump vowing to stamp out MS-13 and other criminal organizataions, the gang's El Salvador-based leaders have seen hundreds of members put behind bars in the United States and even larger numbers arrested and charged in El Salvador.

Read more at: https://www.voanews.com/a/us-officials-say-ms-13-gang-is-sending-younger-more-violent-members-to-america/4214796.html
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Judging by some of the crimes attributed to Dreamers lately, this may well be true.