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As part of his administrations effort to crack down on illegal immigration, President Donald Trump is asking Congress foran additional 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcementofficers as well as more immigration judges to rule on deportation cases.

The Hill reported thatTrump is set to give alaw enforcement and immigration policy speech on Friday in Long Island, N.Y., that will focus on defeating the violent El SalvadoranMS-13 gang, notorious for drug and human trafficking.

According to an unnamed top U.S. official, The Hill said, Trumps speech will focus on affirming the administrationssupport for law enforcement agencies both big and small. The speech will also tackle illegal immigration, which the Trump administration believes is the primary source of MS-13 recruitment.

Migration is the principal factor that is responsible for MS-13, the official said, adding that Trump wanted todemonstrate humanitarian consequences of failing to enforce immigration laws.

According to The Hill, Trump will back up his rhetoricby requesting 10,000 more ICE agents and a substantial amount of immigration judges from Congress. On the legislative side, Trump will request the passage of Kates Law, which will increase penalties to illegal immigrants who return to the U.S. after having been deported previously.

The official told The Hill thatTrump will also ask for a bill against sanctuary cities, as well as further funding for his promised border wall.

The official noted that ICE has already undergone big changes since Trumps takeover from the Obama administration, pointing to the fact that suspected gang members have already been quickly removed from the country, whether they have a past criminal record or not.

If you are a gang member, you are a priority for removal. Full stop, the official said, addingthat the policies are politically incorrect, but law enforcement-wise, very correct.

National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said in an interview on C-SPAN earlier this month that under Trump,the drop in illegal immigration has been miraculous. Judd toldC-SPANs Washington Journal hostPedro Echevarria that border enforcement agents have noted a 53 percent drop in illegal immigrants attempting to make it across the border from last year.

The Trump administration set its sights on MS-13 in April when Trump blamed former President Barack Obama for fostering its growth with his immigration policies.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to El Salvador to learn how to better combat MS-13from the El Salvador government, as well as former MS-13 members. Reportedly, Sessions and Trump learned that the gang heavily relies on illegal immigrants to fill their ranks.

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Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, introduced legislation this week that would give the U.S. Capitol Police authority to enforce federal immigration laws and said they need that authority to counteract illegal immigrants who hold protests in Congress.

"The Capitol Police, a federal law enforcement agency, do not have explicit statutory authority to enforce our immigration laws," King said.

"Without clear authority, they are not investigating the immigration status of protesters openly claiming they are here illegally while disrupting committee proceedings and shutting down congressional offices."

He added that it makes no sense for Congress to demand the end of sanctuary cities while Capitol Hill offices "serve as sanctuaries for lawlessness."

King's two-page bill, the Ending the Sanctuary Capitol Policy Act, would let Capitol Police crack down on "any violation of the immigration laws, if the officer is in the performance of official duties when the authority is exercised."

King is among the more vocal supporters of a crackdown on illegal immigration and has supported President Trump's effort to deny federal funds to sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal officials on immigration policies.

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July 27, 2017 WashingtonWith his future as the nation's top prosecutor in doubt after a week of blistering public scorn from the president, Attorney General Jeff Sessions flew to El SalvadorThursdayseeking ways to stamp out the brutal street gang MS-13.

As the Trump administration tries to build support for its crackdown on illegal immigration, it has increasingly tried to make the gang with Central American ties the face of the problem. Recent killings tied to its members have stoked the national debate on immigration. President Trump praised Mr. Sessions when he announced his mission to eradicate the gang in April.

But the attorney general has since fallen out of favor with his onetime political ally.

In day after day of public humiliation, Mr. Trump said he rued his decision to choose Sessions for his Cabinet and left the former Alabama senator's prospects dangling. Trump's intensifying criticism has fueled speculation that the attorney general may step down even if the president stops short of firing him. But Sessions is showing no outward signs that he is planning to quit, andon Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that Trump "wants him to lead the department."

"Look, you can be disappointed in someone and still want them to continue to do their job," she said.

Sessions boarded a planeThursdaymorning with several aides and leaders of the Justice Department's criminal division but did not take questions from the news media traveling with him.

Forging ahead with the tough-on-crime agenda that once endeared him to Trump, Sessions plans to meet his Salvadoran counterpart, Attorney General Douglas Melendez, before convening with other law enforcement officials on what his program calls a transnational anti-gang task force. He will tour a detention center and meet former members of MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, which Sessions has called a top threat to public safety in the United States.

The gang is an international criminal enterprise, with tens of thousands of members in several Central American countries and many US states. The gang originated in immigrant communities in Los Angeles in the 1980s then entrenched itself in Central America when its leaders were deported.

MS-13 is known for hacking and stabbing victims with machetes, drug dealing, prostitution, and other rackets. Its recruits are middle- and high-school students predominantly in immigrant communities. Those who try to leave the gang risk violent retribution, law enforcement officials have said.

Its members have been accused in a spate of bloodshed that included the massacre of four young men in a Long Island, N.Y., park and the killing of a suspected gang rival inside a deli.

The violence has drawn attention from members of Congress and Trump, who has boasted about efforts to arrest and deport MS-13 members across the country.

Law enforcement officials believe some of the recent violence has been directed by members of the gang imprisoned in El Salvador.

Officials in El Salvador, as well as Guatemala and Honduras, have expressed concern about increased deportations of the gangsters back to their countries. Transnational gangs like MS-13 already are blamed for staggering violence in those so-called Northern Triangle countries.

Both Trump and Sessions have blamed Obama-era border policies for allowing the gang's ranks to flourish in the US, though the Obama administration took unprecedented steps to target the gang's finances. Federal prosecutors have gone after MS-13 before but say they've recently seen a resurgence.

Thursday'strip was planned before Trump's broadsides against his attorney general, and it remains to be seen whether his work in El Salvador will help mend their fractured relationship.

Their shared view, rare among the political class, that illegal immigration was the nation's most vexing problem was what united Sessions and Trump.

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President Trump will come down hard on illegal immigration during his visit to Long Island, asking for more resources. Ray Villeda reports. (Published 3 hours ago)

President Donald Trump will come down hard on illegal immigration during his visit to Long Island Friday, the White House Administration said Thursday night.

Trump is expected to ask for more resources to combat illegal immigration as well as push for his campaign promise for a border wall.

Against the backdrop of Suffolk County, Trump is set to talk about taking down the notorious MS-13 gang and push forward his immigration agenda. The gang is blamed for 17 murders in the county over the last year and a half.

A senior administration official tells News 4 the president will address the law enforcement community, and call on congress to deliver, specifically asking for 10,000 more ICE officers. There are currently only 5,000 officers serving the entire country.

Trump wants more immigration judges to deal with the backlog of cases, the senior administration official said. He also wants the border wall, which the administration says will help stop the flow of illegal immigrants, which the administration says is behind the rising violent gang problem.

Immigrant advocates on Long Island have accused the president of politicizing the MS-13 gang problem to justify a crackdown on all undocumented immigrants. On Thursday afternoon, protesters gathered outside Suffolk Community College in Brentwood to condemn his visit.

The presence of Donald Trump is only to create confusion and fear, immigrant advocate Joselo Lucero said.

Although Trumps visit to the island was not met with complete support, law enforcement officials say they're looking forward to it and are "extending a warm welcome" to the president.

Its certainly good to see national leaders and policy makers are paying attention to this issue, said Suffollk County Police Commissioner Tim Sini. Suffolk County police will keep doing what its doing.

Trump chose Long Island to push forward his agenda because the senior administration official said the president believes Suffolk County is the epicenter of the MS-13 threat.

Trump has compared MS-13's "meanness" to that of al-Qaida and has promised he would rid the country of it.

Police officials say that since Jan. 1, 2016, there have been 17 murders by MS-13 members in Suffolk County, many of which have been in just two neighboring suburbs, Brentwood and Central Islip. Some victims were high school students whose remains turned up months after they vanished, hidden in wooded areas or found on the grounds of an old psychiatric hospital.

The deaths began to get attention after best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, both students at Brentwood High School, were beaten and hacked to death in September by a carload of gang members who spotted them walking down the street. Investigators said Cuevas had been feuding verbally with gang members.

One of their friends said he hopes Trump stays true to his word.

For me I hope he does what he says and takes the bad ones and not the good ones, Josh Cordero, a Brentwood High School, said. Cordero has felt the gangs impact after losing his two classmates.

In April, three teenagers and a 20-year-old man were massacred in a park in Central Islip. Prosecutors said they were lured to the park and then ambushed by at least a dozen MS-13 members wielding machetes and other weapons. One person escaped. Prosecutors said they were marked for death because some were suspected of being rival gang members - something their families denied.

Twenty people have been charged publicly in eight homicides in recent months. They include five people accused in the deaths of Mickens and Cuevas and 10 people in the Central Islip massacre.

All but a few of those charged in the deaths were citizens of El Salvador or Honduras who entered the U.S. illegally, according to law enforcement officials.

Published 37 minutes ago | Updated 36 minutes ago

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Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan answered questions prior to the White House press briefing, telling reporters "we've got to enforce the laws."

A reporter asked Homan about Trump's assertion that illegal alien gang members are "animals" and whether that rhetoric is helpful.

"Criminal aliens are a threat not only to the public safety but to national security," Homan responded.

"We've got to enforce the laws," he said.

Homan said that sanctuary cities are essentially advertisements for illegal immigrant smugglers to concentrate delivery of their human cargo.

He said that by allowing sanctuary cities to exist, and to fail to properly enforce the border crossing laws, "we are bankrolling these criminal organizations."

Homan also said the same passages and crossings used to smuggle people into the country are used to traffic drugs and weapons.

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