So it doesn't surprise me that they're very effective in that setting. They're also very dangerous to keep in our country. When you keep prison gangs in your country, they grow, they metastasize. MS.13 was actually a group that was started by Salvadorian either Salvador refugees and. Or actually people born in the U.S. el Salvadoran descent in prisons. Ms. 13 did not originate in El Salvador. They originated in U.S. prisons, spread down and back to El Salvador. (05:44–05:57)
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