BORDERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Donald Trump was ‘very clearly’ speaking about MS-13 gang members who enter the US illegally when he called criminals who cross the US-Mexico border illegally ‘animals’ during an event at the White House on Wednesday [5-16-17]…Trump a day earlier lamented the illegal entry of MS-13 gang members into the US during a White House roundtable on immigration issues. ‘We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in. … You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals,’ Trump said on Wednesday. His comment came after Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims talked about her struggles in navigating state and federal laws to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ‘find the bad guys’ in their jails and specifically said ‘there could be an MS-13 member,’ before Trump interjected with his ‘animals’ comment.”
-Jeremy Diamond, “Sanders: Trump’s ‘animals’ comment referred to MS-13,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 17, 2018 2:33 pm