Sessions on MS-13: ‘This Is an Assault on Law and Safety and We Aren’t Going to Let It Happen’

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SESSIONS: "This is an assault on law and safety and we aren’t going to let it happen. Are these gang members and cartel members we’re seeing invulnerable? Are they powerful figures that can’t be touched? No. This office here, a number of years ago made substantial progress against MS-13. We’ve seen that in other United States attorneys that I’ve talked to. They felt like they hammered these organizations. But they’ve come back. So we know we can hammer them again and we will do so. And it will require state and local officers at the forefront because they get the information first. But sometimes our federal officers who have no jurisdictional limitations on the abilities, even have international abilities that the locals don’t have, if we work together, I believe we can dismantle these organizations and that is going to be one of our very top priorities as I’ve been directed to do. The MS-13 motto is 'kill, rape and control'. That’s their motto. So that should tell us enough about the kind of group that we confront.”