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But FBI officials say a group like MS-13--now their biggest target--shows why a coordinated national strategy is necessary. MS-13 was created in Los Angeles by the children of immigrants who fled the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s, to protect themselves against a rival Mexican-American gang. As MS-13 members were convicted of crimes, they were deported from the United States, taking their violent gang culture deep into El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. As those governments began cracking down, MS-13 members illegally re-entered the United States and proliferated along the U.S. coasts. MS-13 is now a major problem even in southern cities like Charlotte and Durham, N.C., where Hispanics are the fastest-growing minority. "Anytime there's an increase in a demographic," says Lt. Mark Bridgeman, president of the North Carolina Gang Investigators Association, "we have a negative portion of the population that goes with it."

El Salvador Comes to Grips With Gangs

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As those governments began cracking down, MS-13 members illegally re-entered the United States and proliferated along the U.S. coasts. MS-13 is now a major problem even in southern cities like Charlotte and Durham, N.C.

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FTAA is on the way!!! (sigh)