From 2016 to 2020, nearly 750 members of MS-13—a notoriously vicious and violent gang from El Salvador—were charged with federal crimes. Between 74 percent and 90 percent of those gang members were here illegally.[16] That means up to 675 members from a single gang committed crimes that never should have occurred. Americans living in the border towns of California, Texas, and Arizona, many of them immigrants themselves, have been forced to sacrifice the safety of their families and security of their property to accommodate the presence of human smugglers (also known as coyotes) and immigrants
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