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Illegal immigration numbers: MS-13 exploding, 1,100 border arrests a day, 1M on deport list

By Paul Bedard

Published January 23, 2018 11:51pm ET

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Illegal immigration numbers: MS-13 exploding, 1,100 border arrests a day, 1M on deport list — Federal and state law officials confer around a display of Juan Elias Garcia, top center, and his alleged murder victims Vanessa Argueta and her son Diego Torres, bottom center, before a press conference at the FBI's New York field office, Wednesday March 26, 2014. Garcia has been added to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list on Wednesday, for his alleged role in the 2010 slayings of his 19-year-old girlfriend and her 2-year-old son on Long Island in New York. The FBI said that the Salvadoran is the last of four MS-13 gang members being sought in the killings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) | Bebeto Matthews

The White House is steeling for battle with Democrats and moderate Republicans over immigration reform, raising new concerns that the illegal population is out of control — and violent.

The White House released Homeland Security numbers about the troubling elements of illegal immigration created by legal loopholes that have helped to expand the killer MS-13 gang is expanding.

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