President Donald Trump pointed to his predecessor’s immigration policies Tuesday as being responsible for a growing presence of the violent Central American street gang MS-13 across America.
The president named the Obama administration in a tweet Tuesday morning.
“The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!” Trump said.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/854268119774367745
In an interview that aired Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” while Trump did not name MS-13, he did say his administration is taking action against criminal illegal aliens.
“We’ve gotten tremendous criminals out of this country,” he said. “I’m talking about illegal immigrants that were here that caused tremendous crime. That have murdered people, raped people – horrible things have happened. They are getting the hell out or they’re going to prison.”
.@POTUS weighs in on immigration enforcement pic.twitter.com/X0l0f0zX3O
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) April 18, 2017
MS-13 has been in the news following a gruesome quadruple homicide in New York, prompting Fox News host Tucker Carlson to say the gang “is a far greater threat” to the lives of Americans than ISIS.
At the same time, colleague Jeanine Pirro echoed Trump’s sentiment, saying MS-13 “came into this country in 2014 under the Obama administration policy of allowing those in from Central America — El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.”
Her comment being in reference to the Obama administration’s policy of welcoming unaccompanied minors from Central America illegally crossing the southern border.
Tucker Carlson: MS-13 is ‘greater threat’ to Americans than ISIS … and it’s Obama’s fault https://t.co/AXTWpctt0U pic.twitter.com/egADqe9HyP
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) April 16, 2017
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Here’s a sampling of responses to Trump’s remarks from Twitter:
@foxandfriends @POTUS ????Finally a POTUS who cares about Americans ??
— rjgafiniNJ (@townusa1) April 18, 2017
@foxandfriends @POTUS Protecting the American People A Promise made and yet again another Promise Kept I so Love “OUR” #POTUS
— LoneEagle (@LoneEagal21) April 18, 2017
@foxandfriends @JudgeMoroz @POTUS mr. President please make all governors closed down the Sanctuary cities in their state
— Jennifer (@jennifer43056) April 18, 2017
@foxandfriends @POTUS The laws of the country apply to everyone. No exceptions!!! Americans First!!! ??
— Ramona (@Ramonasmith90) April 18, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Thank you President Trump. The citizens of the USA are excited to bring our country back from the brink of disaster. God bless you. Amen. pic.twitter.com/cMepB9ieYR
— John New (@JohnNew2015) April 18, 2017
@realDonaldTrump We witness your fulfillment of promises, one by one & quite rapidly, Americans are impressed with your integrity. God has blessed you & us. pic.twitter.com/q9XXbbqeNu
— John New (@JohnNew2015) April 18, 2017
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