MS13 started in Los Angeles. The people involved in that were either sent to prison or deported back to El Salvador. These ones that were deported are the ones that fucked everything up. The government didn’t know what to do so they did what they thought was correct. You also have to remember that this is AFTER AN EXTREMELY RECENT CIVIL WAR so the government didn’t want to intervene a ton. This was how MS started making their own checkpoints, their own safe cities and police had to pay THEM to travel around the cities. I don’t think any small government could be equipped to handle what MS did.