The dumbest bill I’ve ever seen proposed, even by a Republican. Gang members are currently not allowed into the country when caught illegally crossing the border. They are denied asylum after review and are deported if found elsewhere without documents. This bill is proposed SOLELY for Righty propaganda, to frighten the gullible by suggesting there is no such law NOW.

Listen up people.Even though it is a no brainer and I would say “Yea,” my facts stand. MS-13 is a California based teenage gang. They’re mostly naturalized/US-born Salvidoreños. It costs $12.5k to deport someone according to ICE and Homeland Security (facts shared in 2018). It costs $4.5k to bring them back if we accidentally deport them. I don’t want $17k of taxpayer dollars to rhetoric like this. Shame that no one reads these papers by our OWN government. Trump has just been spreading deceiving facts about this gang, this US based gang watched by the FBI for 23 years.

I would like to support this, because we certainly do not want the likes of MS-13 in our country. However, this bill would give the legal right to ban just about anyone that Conservatives want to refer to as “Gang”” members”. Look at what Conservatives did to Japanese students during the era of WWII and McCarthyism. They banned and imprisoned student protesters of war and labeled them communists, not allowing them to see their families and their families and children had no idea where they disappeared to and they their husband and father were locked in a federal prison for months and years with now contact. This is exactly Republican’s/ Conservative’s vision. Unethical. Immoral. In-humane. This bill gives Republicans the ability to call you and your family a gang and not allow you back in this country.

This bill is deceptive, duplicitous, and duplicative. It repeats laws that already exist, tars swaths of unrelated people with the same brush, and fundamentally mischaracterizes actual risks. MS-13 is from the USA. From LA, specifically, and from the 80’s. They exist because of the actions of the USA interventions and responses to the Salvadoran Civil War. In 2018, the gang accounted for less than 1% of total gang members in the United States (1.4 million), and a similar share of gang murders. There were an estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in 2018 most of whom are Americans. This figure had been stable for more than a decade. There is no evidence that weak immigration enforcement or sanctuary city policies contribute to MS-13 activity. The Republicans messages don’t hold up to a reality check. They aren’t even the worst gang. The FBI rankings has them at 7th of 12. Surenos, Barrio Azteca and Tango Blast are the top three.

The way this bill is written there is too much opportunity for abuse. Someone just decides 5 people are now a criminal gang? No. The principle driving this effort is worth pursuing - but not the way this bill is written. Nope. Go back to the drawing board and do a better bill to address the issue. Get bi partisan involvement in improving this.

If they are so dangerous, why are the agencies that protect us from them going unpaid and unfunded? Obviously they aren’t as big a problem as Trump pretends.

There is no need for this bill. Gangs etc are NOT ALLOWED IN THE US. NOW. This is just an attempt to create fear & phobia among those who don’t know the facts. This bill SHOULD BE CHANGED TO INCLUDE ANY PERSON OR GROUPS THAT ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION OR HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY KIND OF FEDERAL CRIME. This includes the Russian mob with whom Trump associates.

This is a bill for racial profiling!

READ THE BILL. The bitch is in the fine print. This is not about MS13, it’s about groups of 5 or more companions or ‘gang members’ that may be suspected of criminal activity. They don’t need to have gang tattoos or be known gang members. Just be in a group of 5+ and be ‘suspected’ of a crime. That’s some shit. NOTHING fair or balanced ever came out of a Republican from Florida. This Bill Is Perfect For The Fear Mongering Crowd and those who wait breathlessly to be told who to fear.

We have existing laws to cover this, this bill is an overreach as well as a scare tactic. Open the government!