Gangs Bolstering Ranks by Exploiting Unaccompanied Minor Program, Says Sessions

Two known MS-13 gang members, formerly of El Salvador, Miguel Alvarez-Flores (L) and Diego Hernandez-Rivera appear in court in Houston on March 2, 2017. Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday that he is looking to close loopholes in the unaccompanied minor program that has allowed transnational gangs such as MS-13 to proliferate by using it as a recruiting pipeline.

Speaking to law enforcement officers in Boston, Sessions said he is working with the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Resources to stop “gang members who come to this country as wolves in sheep clothing.”