BORDER/CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday [2-23-18] to push for his proposal to build a wall along the southern U.S. border and criticize Democrats on immigration, missives that come as the Trump administration continues to grapple with fallout from the Florida high school shooting.
‘MS-13 gang members are being removed by our Great ICE and Border Patrol Agents by the thousands, but these killers come back in from El Salvador, and through Mexico, like water,’ the president tweeted. ‘El Salvador just takes our money, and Mexico must help MORE with this problem. We need The Wall!’
The president’s tweet Friday on MS-13 came less than half-an-hour after ‘Fox & Friends,’ Trump’s morning news show of choice, aired a segment on incidents of violence by the gang…
The Trump administration has made its crackdown on gang violence, along with the border wall proposal, a focus of its immigration agenda. Since taking office, Trump has repeatedly railed against MS-13, a gang with close ties to Central America.
Trump complimented Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his handling of gang violence during a meeting to discuss school safety with state and local officials at the White House on Thursday.”
-Christiano Lima, “Amid gun debate, Trump pushes for border wall and hits Dems on DACA,” Politico, Feb. 23, 2018 08:25am