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The Gang Crackdown Documentry by Maecela Gaviria Reviews

New MS-thirteen 'Frontline' report: The gang is bad. So is Trump's response to it.

Ken Tucker
  • Donald Trump
    45th President of the The states
<em>Frontline: The Gang Crackdown</em>. (Photo: PBS)
Frontline: The Gang Crackdown. (Photograph: PBS)

Given the inflammatory coverage the violent gang MS-13 receives on Play a trick on News, which in turn disproportionately influences President Trump's statements virtually clearing policy, it's smashing to have the evenhanded reporting Frontline has done for its new edition titled The Gang Crackdown, premiering Tuesday on PBS. While making terrifyingly clear the horrible violence that MS-xiii has inflicted upon innocent Americans, The Gang Crackdown also confirms what you might doubtable: that the Trump assistants policies to combat the gang'south real menace oftentimes make things more difficult for constabulary-abiding people and has fostered racial antagonism toward legal and illegal immigrants.

The hour-long documentary traces the Central American gang violence that is being exported to the U.S. in the form of MS-thirteen, a vicious group that bullies immature people into joining on the threat of decease. Producer Marcela Gaviria focuses on Long Island, N.Y., which has been a item target of gang violence and where MS-13 gang members occupy forested areas of Suffolk County. At least 25 expressionless bodies were found in that county in 2016, victims of gang violence, brutally killed with machetes and other weapons. Most of the expressionless are from local immigrant communities.

Yous'd think there'd be lots of concern for the victims and their families. Instead, right-wing media forces have seized upon the gang's activities as a justification for all sorts of wide-brush, anti-immigration advocacy, calling for the deportation of people who have zip to do with gang civilization. Once Fox News talking heads similar Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity started inflating the size and scope of MS-thirteen out of all proportion, it was simply a thing of time before avid Fox News watcher Donald Trump began invoking MS-13 as beingness substantially synonymous with illegal immigrants.

The Gang Crackdown profiles a couple of young people who were rounded upwardly in anti-gang efforts past local constabulary and regime ICE agents. These youths were held in high-security prisons for months with no due process, no admission to their lawyers, until their cases were examined. Some were ultimately freed for lack of bear witness of gang involvement. The Frontline study makes articulate that the Latino population on Long Isle is being doubly wronged: victimized by MS-13 but also made hesitant of going to the police for protection, out of a fear of being suspected of illegal clearing status. Thank you to Frontline for crediting the states with plenty intelligence to recognize the evil of MS-13 without as well obliging us to get rabid anti-immigrationists. Is it any wonder that Trump's newly released budget proposal eliminates funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?

Frontline: The Gang Crackdown airs Tuesday on PBS. Check local listings for time.

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Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ms-13-frontline-trump-pbs-fox-news-141020839.html