2012 159 were uacs unaccompanied alien children trump acknowledged the parents of two teenage girls nisa mickens and kayla cuevas who were brutally killed in september 2016 by ms13 and while ms13 currently has its roots in central america the gang actually began in los angeles in the 1980s the parents evelyn rodriguez and freddy cuevas and elizabeth alvarado and robert mickens were also the guests of first lady melania trump at trumps state of the union address trump often conflates the gruesome and heinous crimes of ms13 with border control and immigration policies claiming lax immigration laws allow gang members to cross into the united states animals kill for survival and ms13 kills for sport homan said despite all of the reports i hear i dont believe theyre helping us one bit thomas homan acting ice director defended trumps comment and said was being kind by calling ms13 members animals