Transcript for Trump holds MS-13 roundtable discussion with local officials in New York

Emotional afternoon on Long Island for the parents of two of the teenage girls who were killed by gang members in Suffolk County the parents of Neeson Mickens and Kayla qua that's. Met with president trump and other lawmakers this afternoon for a roundtable on the gang violence plaguing that area investigators say Mickens and Cuevas. Were killed by members of the MS thirteen gang last year the president. Seas again violence on Long Island as part of a broader immigration issue but he was met with protesters today notices are part of Kristen dornin is live in Bethpage. But much moral on those protesters and on the round table Chris Dunn. What would the second time president truck had visited Long Island to discuss this issue because Long Island has really become. The poster child for what is going on wit and that thirteen. 25 murders across the island. Our related to and the thirteenth only a 2008. He's really today here with the round able to do that got. Policy. He wants to close the loopholes that are allowing MS thirteen gang members get. Back into our community time and time again after being arrested and all improving and thick but how can better control. Being mass influx of unaccompanied minors into this area. Sitting between congressman Peter king and Evelyn Rodriguez whose daughter was killed by and that's thirteen president truck renewed his pledge to take out that violent street gangs. I call them animals. The other day. And I was met with rebuke. They said there people. Can help people. These are animals. And we have to be very. Very. Trump held a roundtable at the Morelli Homeland Security center in Bethpage this afternoon meeting with federal law enforcement and local elected officials and police commissioners to find out. What the government could be doing better to combat and that's thirteen. We need to get a little bit better on our intelligence sharing and information and that starts at the border with an information in fall up to the states that we know who'll. Why went out. And again that gives us a better way to approach is so we don't burn the bridges in the relationships with those communities that we spent so much time building. Truck slammed what he called catch and release loopholes which he says is allowing MS thirteen gang members to infiltrate our local communities that's you catch them. I write up a little piece of paper that's meaningless. And then you release. And they go all throughout the country. It is supposed to come back the trials. They never come back. Very rarely. Outside the Morelli center immigrant rights activists staged a small protest they think EMS thirteen problem can't be solved by simply arresting people. And we know that it is not just line aren't meant that there not be part. And that it is not probe by the way that we continue to beat up and the like Martin you're on the island. Protesters say that a big issue is did dwindling a community resource and programs for young people that could be helping them. Stay away from the game they also got. Housing segregation on Long Island which they say is directly leading. CB. Proliferation. Of VMS thirteen gang. Coming up on Eyewitness News that it you won't hear from me and they get McCalebb what parents they were here at the roundtable and they did have a chance to speak with hear from them. At an hour live in that paid him as the door channel seven Eyewitness News.

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