By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 12:07:11 | Updated at 2024-11-18 14:51:32
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Tren De Aragua Gang Terrorizes American Cities
American Thinker ^ | 18 Nov, 2024 | Wendi Strauch Mahoney
Posted on 11/18/2024 3:59:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
Joe Biden’s border policies are disastrous for communities nationwide, including cities that are nowhere near United States borders. There have been at least 10.8 million encounters with illegal aliens nationwide since the start of Fiscal Year 2021 (FY2021), according to Rep. Mark Green’s September “Startling Stats” report on the border crisis. The same report indicates that 2 million more aliens have entered as “known gotaways.” According to former chief of Border Patrol Raul Ortiz, the total number of gotaways “could be underreported by as much as 20 percent.”
The devastating numbers fail to tell the whole story, however. Embedded in those historic numbers are criminal gangs like Tren de Aragua, whose members have taken root in communities nationwide. Tren de Aragua is terrorizing communities, forcing the Biden administration’s U.S. Treasury to label the gang as a U.S.-designated transnational criminal organization (TCO).
The Treasury’s announcement states that the gang has “opportunistically infiltrated local criminal economies.”
From its origins as a prison gang in Aragua, Venezuela, Tren de Aragua has quickly expanded throughout the Western Hemisphere in recent years. With a particular focus on human smuggling and other illicit acts that target desperate migrants, the organization has developed additional revenue sources through a range of criminal activities, such as illegal mining, kidnapping, human trafficking, extortion, and the trafficking of illicit drugs such as cocaine and MDMA.
Tren de Aragua poses a deadly criminal threat across the region. For example, Tren de Aragua leverages its transnational networks to traffic people, especially migrant women and girls, across borders for sex trafficking and debt bondage. When victims seek to escape this exploitation, Tren de Aragua members often kill them and publicize their deaths as a threat to others.
Tren de Aragua “engages in particularly vicious activity in victimizing populations and maintaining sources of income
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: illegalinvasion
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1 posted on 11/18/2024 3:59:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
To the marxists it is “the worse the better”.
2 posted on 11/18/2024 4:00:07 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: MtnClimber
You know… if they put a bounty on any member of the gang, DOL, $500k, probably get lots of help, and it would be much cheaper than fed gov doing it…
3 posted on 11/18/2024 4:02:54 AM PST by light-bulb (Plures efficimur quotiens metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis Christianorum)
To: MtnClimber
This is what the “Do-Gooder” Democrats who voted for Kamala support. Democrats love slavery. It’s their foundational principle.
4 posted on 11/18/2024 4:04:33 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
To: MtnClimber
Americans want the judges, lawyers, and politicians
that did this to take responsibility.
5 posted on 11/18/2024 4:05:05 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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