An MS-13 gang member known as “Anticristo” has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for orchestrating and participating in the 2017 slayings of four young men in a New York park. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced Wednesday that Omar Antonio Villalta pleaded guilty to his role in the premeditated killings carried out by more than a dozen MS-13 members and associates.
A suspected MS-13 gang member deported under President Trump is under federal investigation after links to a major human smuggling ring surfaced. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, previously removed from the U.S. as part of an immigration enforcement deal with El Salvador, is now being scrutinized by the Department of Justice following statements made by a convicted smuggler.
Four House Democrats traveled to El Salvador last week to advocate for a deported illegal migrant linked to MS-13 — all while staying in a luxury hotel with panoramic views and upscale amenities, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed.
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo clashed with Democratic strategist James Carville on Wednesday over the Democratic Party’s efforts to bring deported alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into the United States. The heated exchange aired on CUOMO, with Cuomo warning that the optics of siding with a suspected gang member will damage Democrats politically. Carville, however, refused to back down.
The Trump administration sharply rebuked Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) this week for prioritizing a deported MS-13 gang member over the safety of American citizens like Rachel Morin, a Maryland woman murdered by an illegal Salvadoran national in 2023. Van Hollen has traveled to El Salvador in an attempt to return 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States, despite his gang affiliations.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has pledged to travel to El Salvador in an attempt to secure the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member who was deported under the Trump administration and is currently imprisoned in the Central American country. Van Hollen claims the man, a resident of Maryland and father of three, was “illegally abducted” from the United States.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met with President Donald Trump on Monday, where he declared he will not "smuggle a terrorist into the United States."
The Trump administration filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court, asking it to halt a judge's order demanding the return of an illegal immigrant believed to be a member of MS-13.
Federal authorities have captured three MS-13 gang members with ties to multiple unsolved murders in the U.S., U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday.
The White House defended the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a convicted MS-13 gang member, after The Atlantic published a sympathetic profile labeling him a "Maryland dad" and attributing his removal to a mere “administrative error.” The Trump administration, however, maintains that Garcia was a verified gang member and posed a danger to public safety.
