Kudos to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has been forced to confront lawless violations of America’s border, thanks to a federal government that promotes lawlessness. Tren de Aragua is beyond a violent criminal gang. According to Jorge Serrano, a security expert and an advisor to Peru’s Congressional Intelligence Commission, Tren de Aragua “has Iran’s support.” The gang has “extended its influence from Venezuela to Chile, controlling the Pacific corridor and consolidating its presence in countries such as Peru, evidencing the complexity of Iran’s operations in collaboration with local groups in the region.” Serrano also indicated that Iran’s “Quds Force established operations in Latin America with Venezuela’s support during the Hugo Chávez regime.”
Jihad Watch has repeatedly discussed Iran’s tight relationship with Venezuela and the security risk that poses to America. See HERE and HERE.
The Democrats have given the U.S. a wide-open Southern border, which is tantamount to a wide-open invitation for every criminal and terrorist to invade America and do harm to its stability and its citizens.
” GOP governor takes aggressive action against bloodthirsty Venezuelan street gang: ‘Growing threat,’” by Adam Shaw, Fox News, September 16, 2024:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced new actions the Lonestar state is taking against Tren de Aragua — a violent Venezuelan gang that has been causing havoc in multiple states across the United States.
Abbott announced that he is declaring the gang a foreign terrorist organization and establishing a database to verify if arrests being made are TdA members or not.
“We will bring the full weight of the government against the TdA,” Abbott said. “By declaring TdA a foreign terrorist organization, Texas will use the courts to halt their operations, use civil asset forfeiture to take the property and use enhanced criminal penalties to keep them in jail behind bars for longer periods of time.”
The gang is believed to have originated in Venezuelan prisons and moved north over the last decade. But its reputation within the U.S. has grown this year, in part due to a number of high-profile crimes linked to the gang, with many believed to have arrived by coming across the southern border as part of the sharp increase in migration in recent years.
Border officials told Fox recently they are targeting the gang as a priority, and officials in Dallas told Fox that they have seen gang activity in the north Dallas area linked to TdA. The gang hit the headlines over reports of a takeover of apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado….
somehistory says
The article I read on this yesterday, (I believe it was yesterday) told of the various crimes the gang is committing. Extortion was listed, as well as other crimes where RICO can be applied.
There are DA’s in Texas who have tried criminals under that statute and sent the perps off to prison. Perhaps in the coming days, the ones from this crime syndicate will also see prison bars.
The fact that several of the gang members arrested for attempted murder, weapons, etc., in Colorado, were caught at the border and *paroled* by biden demonstrates the criminality of the admin of the pretend president.
OLD GUY says
Our country needs stiff penalties for migrants who enter our country ILLEGALLY. That should also include legal migrants how commit serious crimes after jail time they be deported.
somehistory says
It’s sickening when some scum enters “illegally” and rapes, murders, and commits other serious crimes. It’s even worse for these ones because they are given a way to come in *legally* via biden/harris providing an ‘app’ to apply for asylum (not through Congress nor with their approval)
Some…who knows how many….of these gang/terrorist members came in with biden/harris’s approval and welcome through the ‘app’ provided. From nations whose governments refuse to cooperate with the U.S. in vetting the ‘migrant.’
JustAdeplorabel says
Venezuelan gangs and criminals are well known in South and Central America. Just ask Panama why they passed laws making life more difficult for them. The Democratic party is either naive, or criminally responsible for promoting Venezuela to empty their prisons into our country. When is our federal government going to do the same as Texas, and recognize this threat to our nation? Never mind, the foreign saturation of our country with fentenal continues unchecked as well.