"Why Trump’s Focus on MS-13 might be making them stronger" PBS NewsHour 2/6/2018

NOTE:  Jonathan Blitzer mentions that MS-13 started in the U.S.

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  President Trump calls members of MS-13 “monsters” and “animals,” a common talking point for his administration’s crackdown on immigration.  What do we know about the brutally violent gang, its origins and ties to the politics of immigration?  PBS’s Frontline shares a clip from their upcoming film, “The Gang Crackdown,” and William Brangham talks with Jonathan Blitzer of The New Yorker.