Conservative: Yes, the MS-13 Threat Is Real

When President Trump cited the multinational gang MS-13 in his State of the Union speech, “critics accused him of either exaggerating or exploiting the threat in order to push his hardline immigration policies,” notes Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. But a new article in The Washington Post “suggests otherwise,” focusing on a Long Island high school where MS-13 is “taking over.” Nor is that the only such school. Unlike the rival Latin Kings and the Bloods, MS-13’s impact “comes directly from immigration policies that allowed unaccompanied minors entering illegally to be released, especially during the surge in 2013.” Which is why “any attempt to normalize DACA has to be accompanied by measures which will remove the incentives for illegal border crossings, especially by unaccompanied minors.”