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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Heads To El Salvador To Discuss Gang Violence

Sessions is meeting with the president of El Salvador and high-ranking law enforcement officials, as well as with an FBI anti-gang task force, to talk about combating the powerful gang MS-13.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions leaves the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Sessions is traveling to El Salvador on Thursday to discuss gang violence with his counterparts there.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is traveling to El Salvador to meet with law enforcement officials and discuss efforts to combat the MS-13 gang.

As NPR's Carrie Johnson notes, "the attorney general's travel puts some distance between himself and the toxic environment in Washington." Sessions has been and criticized by President Trump over the past few days, with

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