MS-13 surging with influx of youths crossing border

The Latin American crime network MS-13, noted for machete attacks and schoolyard slayings, is using President Obama's loose immigration policies to recruit illegal youths across the border and into towns including Washington, D.C., Boston, Miami and San Francisco, according to a new report out Friday.

Three shocking new details from the Center for Immigration Studies show the problem:

— 92 percent of MS-13 gang members arrested are in the United States illegally.

— 80 percent of the tens of thousands of Latin American youths who've crossed illegally into the United States and were seized by authorities have subsequently been placed with other illegals, some with ties to the gang.

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