[LucianOfSamasota]

Experts, however, say those gangs are actually a byproduct of U.S. policies in the 1990s that sent many immigrants back to Central America after they had been indoctrinated into gang culture in this country.

Wow! Experts! I guess that settles it! No other answer is possible!

[oh8eleven]

Experts, however, say those gangs are actually a byproduct of U.S. policies in the 1990s ...
Clinton's fault!

[rdcbn]

Actually, the opposite is true.

The violent Central American thugs who participated in the various Central American insurgencies and revolutions coming up to America after the fall of the USSR and Cuba illegally started gangs in the US based on their violent communist .

The gang members were vets of the civil wars and had ties to Cuba and the drug cartels and revolutionary terror groups who help train and organize them.