Jeff Sessions warns gang members: ‘We will hunt you down’
BOSTON — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned gang members on Thursday that they will be hunted down and brought to justice so they can no longer terrorize communities.
Sessions told law enforcement officials in Boston that they cannot allow violent street gangs such as MS-13 to turn cities into war zones.
“We are coming for you,” Sessions said during a speech at the federal courthouse. “We will hunt you down, we will find you and we will bring you to justice.”
MS-13, or La Mara Salvatrucha, is believed to have been founded in Los Angeles in the 1980s by immigrants fleeing El Salvador’s bloody civil war and has grown into one of the largest street gangs in the country, with more than 10,000 members, federal officials say.