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[ speaking foreign language] reporter not sure if you can get a sense of how small this is but its tiny. Theyre just housed on top of each other. What does it say on your forehead . 666 he says. Deoblow. Theyre only supposed to be in here for 72 hours. How long have you been here . One year. Reporter do you ever get to step outside . No. Reporter by young people who feel they have no choice but to join a gang. How strong is the bond with your other gang members . This is the war next door. In tiny el salvador, just over 1500 miles south of the u. S. Border, theres nearly one homicide an hour. Shootings and stabbings. Ms 13 has left a trail of victims throughout greater boston. Reporter living in our neighborhoods here in southern california. Reporter and now theyre exporting death directly into amair ameri amare cu. Theyre active in 46 states. Kill, rape, control. Reporter here in the el salvador en capital, theyve carved up the city into warring factions. This is our translator, raphael, who like the cops doesnt want gang members seeing his face and targeting his family. Every night this team from the local morgue heads out to collect the bodies. Its only 9 00 and the body count is already at seven. Seemingly everybody is at risk here. We find a 23yearold named carlos shot inside his own home after ordering a pizza. This is his mother. He was her baby. Reporter she insists her son wasnt even in a gang. Every night, 247. Reporter so, were heading into a neighborhood controlled by barrio 18. Were going to talk to the gang leader. We had to get advanced permission to enter, because if you dont, youre in serious danger. Reporter were here to meet the local gang leader who goes by pablo which is spanish for nail. Does that mean you have to resort to violence . If you need to get hard, you go hard. Reporter if you walked into an ms area they kill you. They maybe kill us too. Reporter so, thats how fierce loyalty is, you will kill somebody from a rival gang . As a boy, he moved to virginia from a gang and then got deported back to el salvador where his gang career continues and now he wants to escape back into america in part to escape gang life because hes tired of taking orders from leaders who are in prison. Who will they ask you to kill . I dont know. Maybe a cop. Maybe someone else. Reporter and you dont eeskeesk even know why. Just do it. Reporter thats crazy . Yeah. Reporter and if you dont, they will kill you . Maybe. The weapons that are mostly used by gang members are pick axes, machetes and guns. Reporter were with monisha kylie from canada, part of a team of archeologists who help identify victims in unmarked graves often dismembered. Do you ever lose sight of the fact that this was a human life as vivid as our own . Especially working here in el salvador, theres death all around us. Were used to this. Reporter this is a brisk, efficient Processing Center for human misery. One technician tells us they see an infinity of death. Every day families come to the morgue to search for the missing and to identify and collect the dead. We meet era, her 17yearold son was killed last night. Just two months ago, one of her other sons was murdered by the gang. At which point she says she applied for asylum in america for her family. Shes still waiting for a response. Reporter coming up, she invites isto her sons wake where we are completely unprepared for what happens next. And we will meet a teenager who escaped the gangs by fleeing to america where he is now fighting to stay. If you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, and youre talking to your doctor about your medication. This is humira. This is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. This is humira helping me go further. Humira works for many adults. 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A car stopped by here and just started shooting. Reporter you sound nervous. I am. What are we doing . Going to go check with police. They wont touch the guys. The guys already gone. This is day by day what people do here. Happens every day. Reporter and for this mother and her only remaining son, the danger is not over. They have to get through the burial in the morning. The next day we learn that the best hope for are avoiding violence at the funeral may come from a man accused of having close ties to the gang, the mayor. He denies these allegations but with our cameras rolling. He actually call as gang leader and asks the gang to stand down. [ speaking foreign language] reporter the unbroken cycle of madness in el salvador has provoked a massive flood of Illegal Immigrants cross nothing to america, inhadcluding 10s of thousands of unaccompanied minors but once here they find themselves targeted by the very same gangs. Were with undercover cops in los angeles. This is where the gangs actually started before spreading throughout the country and the continent. Right in the middle of this neighborhood is a mural with a machine gun celebrating a gang. Ms 13 and barrio 13 allegedly engaging in drug dealing and prostitution and then sending the proceeds back to their leaders in el salvador. So, all of these businesses are, odds are theyre all paying p protection money to the gang. Reporter when did you get into trouble with the gangs . When did they first start threatening you . When i was six and five years, i think. Reporter this is the young man who made the parls journey to america alone at age 13. And then they hunted down his mother, sister and little brother. They tried to kill my family my mother and my little brother and my sister. Reporter its very sad. Yeah. I miss them. Reporter his very survival may hinge on getting asylum here in america. His very life is at stake with these legal proceedings. Reporter so, the stakes couldnt be higher . No, i dont think that they could. Reporter if you dont get asylum and you have to go back, what do you think will happen . Theyre going to kill me. Me and my family. Reporter we went looking for franciscos family in el salvador and found them living in fear. We cant go to where she lives because she moves around constantly. She basically lives in hiding from the gangs. So, were picking up from a mcdonalds and taking her to a safe location to do the interview. Franciscos mother and siblings tell us how gang members burst into their apartment one night firing shots. Thats a gun shot wound . Wow. Reporter so, you put your leg up to protect her head from the gun . Did you tell the cops . No. Reporter why not . Reporter are you still scared . You miss your brother . No kid should have to live like this. The El Salvadoren government is now escalating the fight, declaring them terrorist organizations but some say the police are going way too far. Theyve been accused of forming death squads and the gangs are sending the murder rate to record levels. Are you losing the fight against the gangs . No. I dont think so. Reporter we asked one of the countrys top cops about the governments current crack down. Even after this very difficult year, so many people so scared and dead, you still believe this is the right strategy . Yeah, i think were in the right way, yeah. Reporter on one of our final days in el salvador, a top gang leader agrees to speak to us. He says the government doesnt have control. He and the gangs do. Reporter is this just going to get worse . Whats the solution . He says the government is daring us into war. And as a show of force right on camera, he announces a ceasefire between ms 13 and barrio 18. The next night, we go back to the morgue and crickets. This is really a stunning illustration of the power of the gangs. The morgue is at a stand still. No bodies. 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