Also they are not “raised” American gang. This is what happened to MS13, when criminals started being deported in the 80s from LA back to El Salvador they were basically thrown into the Salvadoran civil war between US backed extremely corrupt democratic government against the FMNL who were communist. Most of these criminals moved to back to rural areas where mass executions were being done by the Salvadoran government. Watching these atrocities happen, turned the deportes criminals into psychotic murderers who in turn would mentor & pass it on to the next generation, so on and so forth. This led to illegal immigration back to the US by these new generation gang members and pick up the scraps from the older ones. MS13 is mostly Salvadoran, but there are Hondurans, Guatemalans in the gang too and most of them were born in Central America.