Two Long Island congressman were invited to the White House Tuesday to talk about the war on dangerous gangs like MS-13.

Republican Reps. Peter King and Lee Zeldin attended the meeting where President Donald Trump linked tighter border controls to cracking down gang violence.

"We have people getting into the country, you can't get them out and it's ridiculous," said the president. "We have to strengthen our borders, not by a little bit, but by a lot."

Mr. Trump told the gathering that immigration laws need to be changed to respond to gang violence and that loopholes in the law allowed MS-13 to break into the country. 

The president is calling on Congress to adopt his immigration reform plan, which calls for $25 billion in federal funding for a border wall and restrictions on immigration.

The plan would also offer a path to citizenship for so-called "Dreamers" – the young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as minors. 

Rep. King told the president another way to stem the tide of MS-13 is to "do more" to "follow-up" on unaccompanied immigrant minors, who are placed with local relatives as they sort out their immigration status.

"I'm calling for much more vetting of the families, much closer inspection, advise local police that these young people are coming to the community and also to have fingerprinting of the families to make sure there are no MS-13 links," Rep. King said to News 12. 

In line with his call for tighter immigration screenings, President Trump signed an order to set up a "National Vetting Center." It would be aimed at improving the nation's screening of immigrants and travelers to the United States.