Leave it to CNN to humanize MS-13 gang members, while finding a way to bash President Trump.

According to CNN, “MS-13 members say Trump’s policy and rhetoric serves as a recruitment tool. Activists say Trump is emboldening the gang, making immigrants vulnerable.”

Very fake news CNN “reports”:

The first time members of the MS-13 street gang attacked Margarita’s teenage son in suburban New York, they beat him with a baseball bat. TRENDING: Unhinged Quebec Woman Pascale Ferrier Identified as Suspect in Case of Ricin Letter Sent to Trump White House The young man had immigrated from El Salvador three months earlier to join his mother in Nassau County, Long Island. The gang had harassed him in El Salvador because he refused to join them. Now, in his new home, they were upping the stakes. The second time, they attacked the 19-year-old as he was on his way to work. They slashed him in the stomach with a machete, the gang’s weapon of choice. He survived and has been in hiding for the last few weeks, but his mother is terrified. “I think it’s worse (in the US) because over there they hadn’t tried to kill him. But here they have,” said the woman, who is undocumented and asked to be called only “Margarita” for her safety. She witnessed the first attack on her son, on the street outside their home, and says she’s too afraid to go to the police for fear of deportation. The violent gang known as Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, originated decades ago among Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles and has since built a criminal network that extends across the US, with thriving pockets in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and here on Long Island, just an hour or so east of New York City. It’s estimated to have 10,000 members nationwide.

During his speech in Long Island, NY, President Trump will reportedly call for an additional 10,000 ICE agents to raid illegal immigrants and round up MS-13 gang members.

The Blaze reports:

As part of his administration’s effort to crack down on illegal immigration, President Donald Trump is asking Congress for an additional 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as well as more immigration judges to rule on deportation cases. The Hill reported that Trump is set to give a law enforcement and immigration policy speech on Friday in Long Island, N.Y., that will focus on defeating the violent El Salvadoran MS-13 gang, notorious for drug and human trafficking. According to an unnamed top U.S. official, The Hill said, Trump’s speech will focus on affirming the administration’s support for law enforcement agencies both big and small. The speech will also tackle illegal immigration, which the Trump administration believes is the primary source of MS-13 recruitment. “Migration is the principal factor that is responsible for MS-13,” the official said, adding that Trump wanted to “demonstrate humanitarian consequences of failing to enforce immigration laws.”

MS-13 thrived under the Obama administration. The vicious gang was growing right under the nose of the previous administration and little to nothing was done about it. According to whistleblowers, Obama officials purposely did little to combat MS-13 or to keep them out of the United States.

Washington Times reports: