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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump delivered a fiery law-and-order speech in Long Island on Friday, calling gang members "animals" and praising law enforcement for being "rough."
Trump traveled to the New York suburb to discuss efforts to combat the violent MS-13 gang, which he pledged to dismantle and deport.
"Together we're going to restore safety to our streets and peace to our communities and we're going to destroy the vile, criminal cartel MS-13 and many other gangs," Trump said.
Long Island has been particularly affected by the brutal street gang, with recent high-profile murders gripping the community there.
"We've gotten a lot of them out of here," Trump said, at times looking at his director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "But the rest are coming. They'll be out of here quickly, right? Quickly."
The speech was laced with violent imagery, with Trump saying MS-13 has rendered the suburb into "blood-stained killing fields."
"They kidnap. They extort. They rape and they rob," Trump said. "They stomp on their victims. They beat them with clubs, they slash them with machetes, and they stab them with knives. They have transformed peaceful parks and beautiful quiet neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields. They're animals."
Trump repeatedly pledged in his speech, delivered in front of law enforcement officers at Suffolk County Community College, to have the backs of police and law enforcement.
"We're going to enforce our laws, protect our borders and support our police like our police have never been supported before," Trump said.
He praised the "rough" officers of ICE and suggested that police shouldn't protect the heads of suspects when they're arrested.
"When you see these thugs thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You see them thrown in, rough. I said, 'Please don't be too nice,' " Trump said, mentioning observing the prisoner's heads being shielded. "I said, 'You can take the hand away.' "
The President also noted his longstanding campaign pledge to build a wall along the US border with Mexico.
"We're going to secure our border against illegal entry and we will build the wall, that I can tell you," Trump said, noting that the House on Thursday advanced $1.6 billion for the first wave of construction, though that still has to pass the Senate. "The wall is vital, and vital as a tool for ending the humanitarian disaster brought, and really brought on by drug smugglers and new words we haven't heard too much of, human traffickers."
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