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"MS-13 threatens the lives and well-being of each and every family and each and every neighborhood that they infest," Sessions
said Monday before a gathering of police chiefs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "They leave misery, devastation and death in their wake. They threaten entire governments."
According to the attorney general, the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) should look into all laws in its investigative and prosecutorial efforts, including drug laws, gun laws, tax laws, RICO, and anything else that will cripple the gang. "Now they will go after MS-13 with a renewed vigor and sharpened focus," Sessions said.
Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, has become a prime target of President Donald Trump's administration and its broader crackdown on immigration. Federal prosecutors have gone after MS-13 before, but say they've recently seen a resurgence.
MS-13 is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s, and grew its membership among the prison population. The gang engages in kidnapping, small-time drug trafficking, running brothels, money-laundering and contract killings. Its recruits are middle and high school students, predominantly in immigrant communities. The gang has spread to many parts of the US, Canada, Mexico, and Central America, and is active in urban and suburban areas including New York City, Boston, Charlotte, Houston and Washington, DC. Most members are of Central American origin, mainly from El Salvador.
Comment: Somebody messed up here, majorly.
The reasons proffered in MSM (French included) are that the price of butter has increased because of a huge increase in demand from China and the Middle East coupled with a domestic increase in demand due to the return to favor of butter (over margarine) by European consumers.
That does not fly: for decades the EU has infamously managed European agricultural surplus by creating literal 'butter mountains' and 'milk lakes'. A global increase in demand for European dairy should be a boon for Europe, not a curse!
But instead they're telling us... there is no butter and people are being laid off work.
The word in France is that what's really going on here is a spat between the EU, Paris and major dairy producers over how profits are distributed between them.
These days, even when they have something good going for them, Western 'elites' mess it up. And everybody else pays. Welcome to the Soviet era.