This MS-13 nonsense has precisely the same structure as the racist drug war rhetoric of the crack years. Politicians would use wildly racist language to describe drug dealers, but if called on it would say “oh so you’re defending drug dealers?”
What if I told you that bad behavior, even bad behavior that causes great harm to others, is not the result of uncontrollable bestial urges, but is instead a rational response to personal history and immediate incentives? In other words, bad people are people too?