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The Biden justice department is allowing the illegal alien leader of the brutal MS-13 gang to plead guilty to involvement in the murders of seven people in exchange for a reduced sentence. Michael Ruiz of Fox News reports<\/a> that Attorney General Merrick Garland has agreed to a plea deal for Jairo Saenz, a 28-year-old illegal from El Salvador, which sentences him to 40 to 60 years in prison, instead of the death penalty or life-without-the-possibility-of-parole (LWOP). Suffolk County police introduced evidence that Ruiz and his brother Alexi murdered two Brentwood High School girls; Kayla Cuevas, 16, and her friend Nisa Mickens, 15, in 2016 after one of the girls criticized the gang on facebook. The girls were hacked to death with machetes. “It\u2019s disgraceful. It\u2019s an insult to the families,” Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association President Lou Civello said of the plea deal Wednesday. “When you look at how barbaric these crimes were, murdering young kids with machetes, baseball bats, this is a clear case for the death penalty.”\u00a0 If Saenz serves the lower end of his sentencing range, that amounts to less than six years per murder, Civello told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

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During the initial hearing in 2018, Saenz, his brother and another gang member joked and laughed in court as the girls’ families were forced to watch from the gallery.<\/p>\n

“For far too long, MS-13 has been meting out their own version of the death penalty,” said the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Robert Capers of the Eastern District of New York, at the time of their arrests.\u00a0 Now, a death sentence has been taken off the table for the ringleader.\u00a0 This occurs two weeks after outgoing President Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 out of 40 federal murderers on death row.\u00a0 The Fox report continues:<\/p>\n

In one incident, Saenz helped organize the murder of a man whose football jersey they took as a symbol for another gang. A masked gunman snuck up behind Esteban Alvarado-Bonilla, 29, as he stood in line at a deli on Jan. 30, 2017. They shot him in the back of the head, and the bullet exited and wounded a woman at the counter.<\/p>\n

MS-13 violence got so bad on Long Island that during President Trump’s first term, he visited in person to meet with the families of Cuevas, Mickens and other victims and enlisted then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an effort to take the gang off the streets, which he said was using immigration “loopholes” to bring members into the U.S.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, he described MS-13 as “a ruthless gang that has violated our borders and transformed once peaceful neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields.”<\/p>\n

The federal crack-down at the time led to thousands of deportations of its members. Saenz and his group were held to face justice, and former Attorney General Bill Barr’s office would later announce it was seeking the death penalty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By allowing millions of illegals, including thousands of known criminals to cross the southern U.S. border with impunity, President Biden and his Attorney General enabled fentanyl trafficking which kills 70,000 Americans annually and welcomed violent criminal gangs like MS-13, and Tren de Aragua to prey upon the public in cities across the country.<\/p>\n

The blood of the victims of these gangs are on their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Biden justice department is allowing the illegal alien leader of the brutal MS-13 gang to plead guilty to involvement in the murders of seven people in exchange for a reduced sentence. Michael Ruiz of Fox News reports that Attorney General Merrick Garland has agreed to a plea deal for Jairo Saenz, a 28-year-old illegal from El Salvador, which sentences him to 40 to 60 years in prison, instead of the death penalty or life-without-the-possibility-of-parole (LWOP). Suffolk County police introduced evidence that Ruiz and his brother Alexi murdered two Brentwood High School girls; Kayla Cuevas, 16, and her friend Nisa Mickens, 15, in 2016 after one of the girls criticized the gang on facebook. The girls were hacked to death with machetes. “It\u2019s disgraceful. It\u2019s an insult to the families,” Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association President Lou Civello said of the plea deal Wednesday. “When you look at how barbaric these crimes were, murdering young kids with machetes, baseball bats, this is a clear case for the death penalty.”\u00a0 If Saenz serves the lower end of his sentencing range, that amounts to less than six years per murder, Civello told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nGarland Reduces Sentence For Gang Murderer - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11126\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Garland Reduces Sentence For Gang Murderer - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Biden justice department is allowing the illegal alien leader of the brutal MS-13 gang to plead guilty to involvement in the murders of seven people in exchange for a reduced sentence. 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