 All throughout the 1980s, you had hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans and Central American asylum seekers, refugees, immigrants arriving in the United States. And a lot of them arrived in inner cities across the country. And in Los Angeles at the time, the Salvadoran population that arrived was immediately brutalized by a vicious racial hierarchy, black gangs, Mexican gangs. And a lot of young Salvadorans started to form their own groups and gangs as just a form of self-defense.