Outrage after MS-13 gang members laugh near victim’s family while in court
On Tuesday, five accused members of the MS-13 gang reportedly laughed and joked around in court even as members of one of their victim’s family called for justice.
According to the New York Post, Enrique Portillo, Alexi Saenz and Jairo Saenz were all in court for the murders of Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16. The girl were reportedly on their way home from school when the MS-13 gang members allegedly targeted the teens. The gang members allegedly bludgeoned them with a baseball bat and hacked them to pieces with machetes.
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Portillo, Saenz and Saenz may face the death penalty in their case, though Attorney General Jeff Sessions has yet to determine whether that will be the case.
Trump supports the families
The senseless and brutal murders of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas by MS-13 gang members made national headlines when President Donald Trump invited their parents to his first State of the Union speech.
Robert Mickens and Elizabeth Alvarado were invited to Donald Trump‘s State of the Union on Tuesday night, where the president spoke about their daughter, Nisa Mickens.
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President Trump shared the story of what happened Nisa in September 2016:
“Here tonight are two fathers and two mothers: Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens. Their two teenage daughters — Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens — were close friends on Long Island. But in September 2016, on the eve of Nisa’s 16th Birthday, neither of them came home. These two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown. Six members of the savage gang MS-13 have been charged with Kayla and Nisa’s murders. Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors – and wound up in Kayla and Nisa’s high school.”
“Evelyn, Elizabeth, Freddy, and Robert: Tonight, everyone in this chamber is praying for you. Everyone in America is grieving for you. And 320 million hearts are breaking for you. We cannot imagine the depth of your sorrow, but we can make sure that other families never have to endure this pain.”
Trump also spoke about others who had been affected by the violence of the dead El Salvadorian gang MS-13 and tried to tie immigration as a whole into the extreme violence of gangs like MS-13.
“For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities. They have allowed millions of low-wage workers to compete for jobs and wages against the poorest Americans. Most tragically, they have caused the loss of many innocent lives,” Trump said.
CNN’s Van Jones said that the speech linking MS-13 with immigration was particularly “poisonous” because of the current debate surrounding DACA and the Dreamers.
“He implied, and he did it deliberately, that Dreamers are gang members,” Jones said.
Aguilar-Lopez and Suarez are also accused of killing a rival gang member in an incident that left a bystander injured as well.
