Ending US protections for more than 300,000 Central Americans would strengthen and grow MS-13. That's what the State Dept. warned--but the Trump administration didn't listen. Citizens of El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua saw their Temporary Protected Status terminated. MS-13 is a violent, cross-border narco gang. Under then Sec'y of State Rex Tillerson, the State Dept. warned ending TPS could drive up illegal immigration.