Dave Lapan, the Department of
Homeland Security’s press secretary, offered the below statement:
WASHINGTON - Acting Secretary of Homeland
Security Elaine Duke applauds the U.S. House of Representatives on its passage
of the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act. This bill promotes public safety
by denying criminal alien gang members admission into the United States and
allowing law enforcement officers to quickly remove them from the United States
when they are encountered here.
This legislation will greatly
help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts to target and
dismantle transnational gangs, like MS-13, who pose a direct threat to public
safety.
MS-13 gang members are
notorious for exploiting the communities in which they live and operate –
victimizing community members through violence and intimidation, extorting
local business owners, recruiting young children into the gang lifestyle, and
creating a magnet for violence from rival gangs. Their members are involved in myriad criminal
activities, including murder, extortion, narcotics and weapons trafficking,
human smuggling and human trafficking, and other crimes with a nexus to the
border.
This legislation will help
DHS in its continued efforts to identify, arrest, imprison and/or remove
transnational gang members and to suppress violence and prosecute criminal
enterprises.
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