A “ruthless” Venezuelan prison gang is now operating within the United States, CNN reported Monday.
BIDEN’S OPEN BORDER CRISIS: CNN reports a “ruthless” Venezuelan prison gang is operating within the United States. pic.twitter.com/o8L04QDz0Y
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) June 10, 2024
From CNN:
An alleged multistate human trafficking ring forcing immigrant women into prostitution. The mysterious killing of a former police officer in South Florida. Attacks against police officers in New York. The arrest of a drug dealer in Chicago. Local and federal officials say these apparently unrelated crimes have a common denominator: Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang that originated in a Venezuela prison and has slowly made its way south and north in recent years.
They say it’s now operating in the United States. The scale of its operations is unknown, but crimes attributed to alleged members of the gang have worried elected officials and some Republican members of Congress have asked the Biden administration ‘to formally designate the vicious Tren de Aragua as a Transnational Criminal Organization.’
Tren de Aragua is “the most disruptive criminal organization operating nowadays in Latin America, a true challenge for the region,” said retired general Óscar Naranjo, a former vice president of Colombia and chief of the Colombian National Police.
Another former Venezuelan law enforcement official said “They were already in their prime” by 2015, victimizing thousands through extortion, drug and human trafficking, kidnapping and murder.
“They have followed the migration paths across South America to other countries and have set up criminal groups throughout South America as they follow those paths, and that they appear to follow the migration north to the United States,” FBI special agent Britton Boyd said.
And now the Tren de Aragua gang is “established” in the U.S. thanks to Joe Biden’s disastrous open-border policies.
4/3: USBP agents in Ysleta, TX arrested a Venezuelan w/ no prior criminal history but w/ tattoos associated to the Tren de Aragua Gang.
Watch out for this gang. It is the most powerful in Venezuela, known for murder, drug trafficking, sex crimes, extortion, & other violent acts. pic.twitter.com/x1Mg3FpoOq
— Chief Jason Owens (@USBPChief) April 6, 2024
There are more than 70 cases in which Tren de Aragua is mentioned in law enforcement documents or prosecutors’ complaints. From that total, the Customs and Border Patrol in Texas has identified 58 as gang members between the fiscal year 2023 and last May. The rest appear in complaints made by victims or arrest reports that point to the possible involvement of the suspects with this organized crime group.
“Biden is now importing entire criminal syndicates into the U.S.,” former Trump adviser Stephen Miller wrote on X in response to the report.
Biden is now importing entire criminal syndicates into the U.S. https://t.co/L6DcodBI5T
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) June 10, 2024
Two of the six attackers who brutally attacked NYPD officers in Times Square in January, Wilson Juarez and Kelvin Servita Arocha, were members of Tren de Aragua.
Incidentally, Juarez and Servita Arocha, both illegal aliens, were initially released without bail by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who has been supported by George Soros.
Breaking News: Shocking Update on Times Square Attack
In a stunning turn of events, we have learned that two of the six individuals involved in the brutal attack on NYPD officers in Times Square are actually members of the notorious Venezuelan gang known as “Tren de Aragua.”… pic.twitter.com/p7OoLoZeJY
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Additionally, the brother of the illegal alien Venezuelan national charged with brutally murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in February bore tattoos associated with Tren de Aragua: five-pointed crowns, five-pointed stars and teardrops.
Republican members of Congress led by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ana María Salazar (Fla.) sent a letter to Biden urging him to designate the gang as a “transnational criminal organization.”
“If left unchecked, they will unleash an unprecedented reign of terror, mirroring the devastation it has already inflicted in communities throughout Central and South America, most prominently in Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru,” they wrote.