Daily Caller: ThinkProgress Editor Aaron Rupar claimed that the street gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, hasn’t killed anyone on Long Island, New York, in over a year.
Verdict: False
Long Island has experienced four deaths linked to MS-13 over the last 12 months.
Fact Check:
President Donald Trump hosted a roundtable discussion on immigration Wednesday in which he decried the violence committed by MS-13 on Long Island. The area is home to 875 members of the gang, according to local law enforcement.
“They’re horrible people, by the way,” Trump said. “A ruthless gang that has violated our borders and transformed once peaceful neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields.”
He praised local and federal efforts to arrest and deport suspected members of the gang.
“We’re not going to have this problem,” said Trump. “I essentially grew up on Long Island. And when I hear Hempstead and Mineola and all of the places that I know so well, that you can’t walk outside – this used to be where you’d leave your doors unlocked, you’d leave your windows open, always. And you have gang members now that are so rough, people are afraid to go outside.” more here
Facts is RACIST!
If Ice-T had grown up on Long Island would he have been known as Long Island Ice-T?
How about an open season on. MS -13, wanted dead or alive? Put a $10,000 bounty for each one.
I live on Long Island. MS-13 is everywhere. It’s disgusting!