within syria and we remain postured to protect our forces and those of the coalition should anything occur well us and its allies much more than one hundred missiles targeting a scientific research facility in damascus into chemical weapons storage facilities near homs syria says it shot down thirteen incoming missiles of damascus while its ally russia says syrian forces intercepted seventy one cruise missiles throughout the country the u.s. security council has been meeting to discuss overnight developments at the request of russia and it's going to give bob united states supported by power lies launched airstrikes against military and civilian targets in the syrian arab republic without a mandate from the united nations security council and in violation of the u.n. norms and principles of international law and aggression against a sovereign state was carried out. in an act of cynical to staying with a group of western countries decided to take military action without waiting for the results of the investigation russia condemns the attack against syria in the

strongest possible terms of the body and inspectors from the organization for the perhaps mission of chemical weapons of arrived in syria's capital damascus depending on security they'll now try to go to the suburb of touma where the suspected chemical weapons attack took place last saturday and attempt to establish whether chemical weapons were used but their mandate does not include. looking at who perpetrated any such attack when he's a bit later on in twenty five minutes time after fault lines which. ok ok president a little on a little as one of the has just told me go for a plea offer

a suitable victim this is one a seventeen year old teenager who migrated from el salvador in two thousand and fourteen he's undocumented and afraid to show his face he agreed to speak with us only protected his identity so we change his name. when the make a guess it won't get anything said another one of the i need to. see. where i hold a candle to hiding and. i don't know dinerral intending for one dollar. it could this year i said yeah there are lot and of what i got up on there but also a polish. one is an unaccompanied minor a term given to kids who have crossed the u.s. border along hundreds of thousands of these miners have fled central america in

recent years to escape gang violence and on the island i don't. know yet and in the end everyone if. they merely realize that they're out and canada and america and my own. kids like juan have been allowed to apply for asylum and other protections to remain in the us but in the last year their stories have been used to advance a political agenda by the president of the united states i have a simple message today for every gang member and grim little alley. that is threatening so violently our people we will find you we will arrest you we will jail you and we will deport you they would accuse teams like ron of being the very same gang members they were fleeing were no any thank you that said about the care i give them being i am on the u.s. embassy and all i know that lawyer but only in it because of what i meant i cannot

undo yet i can walk thank you look back and a friend and time can make a. fuss i'm not yet upon the. aid to let you know i'm near i use say pulling on my carriage and then merely because i compare us and you turning. faultlines travel to long island new york to examine how the trumpet ministration is using the fear of one gang to crack down on entire immigrant communities. this is a neighborhood park and sent to iceland a town largely made up of immigrants eighty kilometers east of new york city. almost a year ago this town would wake up to a tragic scene. this

is where an able to garden seventeen four latino teenagers were murdered by emma's thirteen they were reportedly lured into the woods and that's when they were attacked by the gang and killed. first set of homicides committed by m.s. thirteen in our care national and local media would raise the alarm on what was happening here. just seven months earlier girls were found dead in the nearby town of brentwood also victims of them as thirteen. the murders were brutal their bodies found disfigured creating real fear about the threat of gang violence here. and this thirteen is a gang that started in los angeles in the one nine hundred eighty s. that today has a presence in central america and several cities around the u.s.

. but it remains a relatively small presence here on the island in suffolk county it's four hundred members according to police of one point five million residents. despite that shortly after the murders donald trump came here promising to liberate long island thirteen. they have transformed peaceful parks and beautiful. neighborhoods into blood stained chilling seals their animals it was one of many speeches from the white house warning americans about and this thirteen. here tonight are two fathers and two mothers and in january two thousand and eighteen did the grieving families to be as guests for the state of the union address these two precious. were brutally murdered while walking together in their home he would use these

murders to call for stricter immigration laws linking the violence to a wave of unaccompanied minors crossing the border in recent years many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes laws to enter the country illegal unaccompanied alien minors. i mean clearly clearly the crimes that were committed in suffolk county the individuals responsible for those atrocities should be brought to justice. but you don't blanket an entire community and project this issue. every young person tying it into immigration status and the unaccompanied minors you don't talk about those things in tandem. in reality only a tiny fraction of these miners have been linked to and this thirteen. the u.s. border patrol says it's identified fifty six suspected gang members out of more

than two hundred forty thousand that arrived in the u.s. since two thousand and twelve. the trends rhetoric resonated here in suffolk county long island just seen a surge in unaccompanied minors. he tapped into a rising animosity towards immigrants paving the way for a government crackdown. there was an opening for people particularly law enforcement to begin to sway to the more conservative sentiment in the country and in the county to begin vilifying immigrants and put law enforcement as the same here. we were arrested numerous individuals suffolk county police commissioner timothy seemingly seized the moment using tough talk in the media for his fight against and mr teen if you're an m.s. thirteen gang member take a look behind me for every person the year is ten more.

and we are coming for you. local and federal authorities would begin a joint law enforcement effort to arrest and deport and this thirteen gang members this included working with immigration and customs enforcement or ice you started hearing kids report that saw is still have been picked up and these parents don't even know right like kids were just literally being disappeared over the summer there was like a three week period where we saw at least one parent walk into our office almost every day saying my son or my husband disappeared honestly what i was hearing sounded so far fetched that i thought they were his' but lo and behold it was true . young undocumented immigrants were heavily targeted in the operations.

in some cases police would make arrests for minor violations and then hand them over to ice. one last may first man traffic violation. when police asks he says he gave them his middle name the name he usually goes by yank a man and carry an off advantage think i shall. get past windows i'm just annoyed man where no may have been k. k. but i would if it got to be a mean moment and. a lot is in a nice way and present overlays. he was arrested for false impersonation a charge that was later dropped but he would spend hours being questioned about gangs internet dating right up on their take on a policy and i think i'm on the early. and us am i think i don't like am can i can't be right i will punch. records say that warren admitted to being a gang member which he denies. he'd been arrested before for carrying

a pocket knife but the charges were dropped. because you know who cares about the long level of this. undertaking i mean me us from going up on me there you must want. to know your kind of boston. police claimed he was part of an ongoing murder investigation and handed him over to ice he was taken to a high security juvenile detention center several hours away from his home. and. it does all of us have our own openness i live in and i went and. went and solace at about. one was among dozens of unaccompanied minors detained here on long island. some of them would become part of a class action lawsuit filed by the american civil liberties union.

and was one of the attorneys that worked in the lawsuit. they were disappearing into the immigration detention system and it often took parents days or weeks to even figure out where they were much less to get them released and brought back home the minors were detained for months without a court hearing and then the second thing that was very disturbing was the lack of evidence to support the allegations that the government was making many of the symbols or the items that the government claims are signs of gang affiliation are in fact religious symbols or there are signs of cultural pride the lawsuit forced the government to bring the miners in front of a judge who ruled there wasn't enough evidence to keep most of them. if they were suspected of committing a crime the police would arrest them and they would be in criminal custody the fact that they are in immigration custody means that local authorities were looking for

some other way to detain them in the absence of any evidence of wrongdoing. in late two thousand and seventeen a judge ordered ones release saying there wasn't enough evidence to tie him to and this thirteen it was almost six months after he was arrested. they have been. in a. lot of. with . felix he's undocumented and has asked his to protect his identity. he says he

fled el salvador to escape death threats from him as thirteen. i was fourteen when i decided to let us all fourteen hours for what was it like when you arrived i was happy i almost cried i was happy to be in a new contract i was happy to see. all these were right there and i was coming. for many young people like felix who arrived here the reality is. they're likely to live in poor neighborhoods where schools have limited resources and don't have the means to help undocumented kids. the first i want to school was to get somebody else and i hear from a conference like who the speech by i don't mean with. you know what i want to

thank you i want to show you where you have to go their own i don't care that or another you just come in. and it's an ease very schools where gangs have made their mark. it wasn't too felix right four years ago that he realized and this thirteen was also here. do you know anybody in a gang called course you do. and i use all them but i don't go to them i don't know anything whether i want to be part of that. felix says the gangs in el salvador brutal and often the only way to survive is to join them he says kids get pulled in the gangs here because they need the support during their own sponsoring you know how to play around you how to play an insurance car or whatever you have to play you have bills to do you worry about it. if you're powerful are in some bad tension trio because they already know how to support their family.

if we fail to provide support networks for our kids they're going to find their own support networks and unfortunately in impoverished communities gangs of the biggest support network there are cities here to get that founded a local gang prevention program he says tougher law enforcement isn't the answer. how do you declare war on these communities when you've never attempted to in that piece when you've never come in and said here's an afterschool program or here's some additional social workers or here is you know and that's the place where you can go hang out in and learn and be a kid. no kids can be labeled gang members in school giving teens like felix more reason to be fearful. things like the color blue flags from el salvador and honduras or certain country codes have been used to suggest gang affiliation.

so you will wear a blue shirt because you concerned you can get picked up by the police yeah i wouldn't worry a little sure right sure. now or not shorts but how does it make you feel then to live with that fear that even just wearing some kind of color or a some kind of shoes that you could get picked up and detained hall is just like. if there's like we are in the cell will now. like safe because i know there is nobody who is actually going to point to my head with that gun i'm not going to know what is going to kill me but i've sent that because the police i was going to call here for something for no reason do you are you afraid of ice cores. what's your fear. i was there for. one day they were. already on the

door of their going to ask for somebody else. when i have other best buy for. this mother would go through something similar last year. to do that or the be retaken or the new put out i got to see you know the news out of what i personally. put into his boat so he yeah he did it because they looked at me and you and. we met as morel the and february two thousand one thousand she's asked us to hide her identity. kept us awake with this one. is there really a one. on the telly a one. to venus over their models that is the s.k. i look at me and i bet he knew. her son who's legal aliases l b m was released by the government just days before he met her she didn't want to

speak to him out of fear for his safety. and now al v.m. had in april of two thousand and seventeen been suspended from bellport high school for extending his middle fingers at another student the school ledge that was a gang sign and they suspended him his case would eliminate an alarming pattern students being suspended for alleged gang behavior in school were being picked up by ice shortly after. bellport high school did not respond to a request for comment but attorneys believe this information is somehow getting to ice possibly through local police who often have officers in schools. this says that he had self admitted to being a gang member and also says that he had gang tattoos and that he has been identified as a gang member by the suffolk county police gang unit and he doesn't have gang tattoos and he never saw it would manage to being in

a gang he's never admitted to being in a gang and he's never had any contact with the suffolk county police department he also does not have a single tattoo anywhere on his body. the immigration judge to whom this evidence was presented rejected these allegations and concluded that he did not pose any danger and yet he remained detained. l.v.n. as part of a new class action lawsuit challenging the government's prolonged detention the immigrant youth. would wait almost eight months to be reunited with her son. ikhwan locally to have a lot of home and a good look at their homes. kids thought to be able. to let up visit callowness it was simply a. job as a mythical is similar but they live here you. don't have to say to see. you

up on the most human foot here you wrote. we made multiple efforts to speak to ice but they declined our request for an interview. in a statement the agency told us they specifically use immigration violations as a means to target m s thirteen gang members and removed them as a threat. we also reached out to several school districts whose students have been caught up in the crackdown none of them would speak to us. but timothy seanie the former police commissioner who's now a district attorney agreed to an interview he's a democrat who's been criticized for working closely with ice under the trumpet ministration. since september of two thousand and sixteen we've made over three

hundred twenty m. s. thirteen arrested over two hundred twenty individuals that are there all gang members there yes there are confirmed gang members to keep in mind whether they're gang members or not these are criminal arrests that we have to then go to court open court and prove criminal charges against in the instance where we have reliable credible intelligence that someone is thirteen gang member and they're in our country illegally we will and we're not in a position to bring a significant state charge or bring a federal report charge we'll work with the department of homeland security to detain them and for department of homeland security to commence removal proceedings against them. seanie says the cases they refer to ice are based on credible intelligence. but the cases we've seen suggests otherwise. then they will hear is you're an emmis thirteen member if you're central american or latino unless you can prove otherwise and the kid is like wait

a second i'm being treated as a gang member by the school i go through i'm not a gang member i'm being treated like a gang member by the authorities i'm being treated now because of all these questions cetera et cetera rival gang members might even be looking at me and asking and questioning whether or not i am a part of that gang and so i might as well join that game right. now if they see that you're working with the department of homeland security. can you see how that would also road their trust it's very important that folks in the community know that we are not targeting undocumented residents rather we're targeting gang members and we will provide protections to folks who have no immigration status whatsoever if they interact with law enforcement to provide information and and we're not going to not work with our federal law enforcement partners to target them as thirteen to ask us to ask us to do otherwise is reckless .

whatever the motive the crackdown in this thirteen by local and federal authorities has left little comfort in these communities. what do you envision for your future here. i'm not afraid to think about it. i might be true but i'm not i'm not what. i might be a member of my corn i might be a war to a maverick so what else i don't know i don't know a picture i made of. way. for those that were detained the experience hangs over them. in these gang allegations while not proven could still hurt their chances for immigration protection. for us on the other guy

you'll. owe all us human. there's a new demand. for one v.m. and others who've been released by the government there's no relief from the fear of being taken again. and forced back to a country they were trying to escape. if it. does have a. way of so in the. it's a bit. too sally. much time goes on and. there are people who in this land. fail and in the. look upon.

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