PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF ALL AMERICANS
President Trump’s Department of Justice has supported students whose
free speech rights have been under attack on university campuses.
The Department of Justice secured a guilty plea for the first case
prosecuted under the Hate Crimes Prevention Act involving a victim
targeted because of gender identity.
CONFRONTING ORGANIZED CRIME
President Trump signed three Executive Orders – 13773, 13774,
and 13776 – aimed at cracking down on international criminal
organizations, including drug cartels and gangs, and preventing
violence against law enforcement officers.
The Department of Justice designated MS-13 as a priority for the
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, to allow federal law
enforcement to utilize an expanded toolkit in its efforts to dismantle the
organization.
• The United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have
charged more than 4,000 MS-13 and 18th Street gang members
in the United States and Central America, including the alleged
leader of MS-13’s “East Coast Program.”
• In August 2018, more than 20 individuals associated with MS-
13 were arrested in California on federal and state charges in
connection with gang activities.
The Department of Justice convicted eight members of an international
criminal organization, known as the Rendon-Reyes Trafficking
Organization, on federal charges arising from their scheme to
force young women and girls from Mexico and Latin America into
prostitution.
RESHAPING THE AMERICAN COURTS
• President Trump appointed conservative Justices Neil
Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
• President Trump has appointed more than 50 circuit or
appeals court judges.
• President Trump has appointed more than 80 district
court judges.
ADDRESSING SCHOOL VIOLENCE
• President Trump signed the STOP School Violence Act and
the “Fix NICS Act.”
• The Trump Administration has allocated $2 billion for
school safety.
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
President Trump has tightened rules for federal employees both
past and present to ensure his administration works for the
American people.
• The president signed an executive order that placed a fiveyear
ban on lobbying and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign
countries for federal employees.
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