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MS-13

Prisoners flash the MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang hand sign from inside a jail cell at a police station in San Salvador.

The ‘alien threat’ street gang MS-13 was actually made in the USA

Conflict

Alex Sanchez, a former MS-13 member, says “people don’t see that we’re human and that we could change.”

Man in baseball cap, close up, sitting at table with microphone and other panelists.

The US government is targeting MS-13, but a former gang member says arrests alone won’t solve the problem

Justice
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