Posted on 02/12/2024 5:52:06 AM PST by MtnClimber
Have you heard of the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal gang? Maybe not, but this is “the little engine that could” that may bring your quiet American neighborhood some dangerous young men with little to contribute and even less to lose. Joseph Humire, an expert on Latin American security, calls the Tren “the fastest-growing transnational criminal organization in the world.”
Last year, the Tren de Aragua didn’t even make the Border Patrol’s “Nationwide Apprehensions by Gang Affiliation,” an alphabetical list of 50 Central and South American gangs invading the United States—from the Angelino Heights Sureno 13 to the Zetas. But with 47,000 Venezuelans caught entering the U.S. at the southern border last December alone—27,000 of them single adults—the Tren is on track to make the list soon.
With President Joe Biden’s opening of our national borders, gang foot soldiers can enter from Mexico or Canada with ease. Or they can apply for Biden’s bogus parole schemes, which let in another 50,000 or so illegal aliens a month.
The Tren is reportedly active everywhere from Atlanta to Chicago to Washington, D.C. When police raided a prison reportedly controlled by inmates from the Tren in Tocorón, Venezuela, last year, they found “a zoo, nightclub, swimming pools, and a children’s playground.” It’s not so fancy in New York City, but at least illegal alien gang members there get free housing in luxury hotels, free meals, free laundry, and now, prepaid debit cards, thanks to taxpayers.
According to the FBI, “The gang capitalizes on its Venezuelan community” in El Paso, Texas, primarily engaging in human smuggling and sex trafficking. Foreign gangs, from the Italian Mafia on down, always start with victimizing their own people, making money from extortion, prostitution, and drugs. But then they spread out.
Recently, a group of young, male illegal immigrants attacked two New York City police officers who had tried to stop them from stealing from a local store. They were part of a “wolfpack of violent shoplifters” who steal in the city and then leave for Florida and other states to enjoy the proceeds, according to the New York Post. The perpetrators are believed to be Venezuelans who crossed the southern border illegally, and there are indications they are members of the Tren de Aragua.
This being prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime New York City, the few perpetrators police managed to arrest were soon released on cashless bail. Four others conned a local migrant charity into giving them tickets out west. Just as they gave fake names to score the bus tickets, they likely gave fake names to the border authorities who originally “processed” and quickly released them into the country.
Reports that they were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Phoenix proved premature—those were just other illegal aliens traveling freely around the U.S. With so many millions out there, who can keep track?
The Tren is following in the footsteps of other foreign gangs already here. The violent MS-13, based in El Salvador, is all over the U.S. This brutal outfit challenges its members to murder innocents to climb in status. In 2016, five MS-13 members stabbed a 14- and a 17-year-old to death in a suburban park in Alexandria, Virginia. Six more MS-13 gang members were just convicted of a string of random murders in 2019, also in Northern Virginia.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas likes to tell us that illegal migrants are carefully vetted before being released into our communities, but that’s just not true. When a young man presents himself at the border to be “processed” and then sent—with your tax money—to the city of his choice, our law enforcement doesn’t know who he is unless he already has some U.S. record. No matter how bad he is, if he’s never been here before, he won’t.
There was a time when gang members were dumb enough to tattoo themselves in ways that U.S. authorities could identify them, but the wiseguys wised up. Border Patrol can only write down the names and identity information given to them by the aliens or available in documents they have on their person.
If illegal aliens suspected to be gang members have no documents and give fake names, U.S. agents have no way to verify the information other than calling Venezuelan officials. The sheer numbers being caught and released preclude doing that each time, and besides, the U.S. and Venezuela have frosty relations. The Nicolas Maduro regime has no incentive to tell us anything that’s not in its own self-interest.
Biden’s open-border policies have let in as many as 8 million illegal immigrants since he took office. They tend to be younger, and more often male. In general, men are much more likely to be violent than women, and young people commit more crime than older people.
One study of recidivism showed that within 10 years, around 80% of criminals reoffended, and those who did averaged 5.4 arrests each during that time.
Even assuming average prevailing rates of criminality among illegal aliens released at the border, let alone greater rates due to criminals knowingly coming here for opportunity or to flee justice, we’re in for a sustained wave of crime. U.S. cities and towns will experience additional cases, from shoplifting to murder, that could have been prevented if our borders had been secure.
In the New York City precinct where the Venezuelans attacked those two police officers, grand larceny was up over 83% last year over 2022. Perhaps not unconnected, another group of violent thieves, led by another Venezuelan illegal immigrant, “predominantly live in the migrant shelter system,” according to New York police, and ventured out to commit up to 150 thefts in the vicinity.
Though many illegal immigrants sensibly keep their noses clean, the Department of Justice reported in 2018—before Biden’s current mass releases at the border—that 64% of federal arrests involved “noncitizens, despite them comprising only 7% of the population at that time.”
If anyone wonders why the House of Representatives is intent on impeaching Mayorkas, this is one good reason. He swore an oath to protect the nation against foreign threats, but instead, he’s willfully exposed us to them.
Simon Hankinson, a former foreign service officer with the State Department, is a senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center.
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Simon Hankinson
Now we have Diversity and Inclusion in gangs operating in our country too.
I’m really surprised that the MFL didn’t divide America into THREE separate nations by having Mayorkass sing the Illegal Alien “National Anthem” at their Super Bowl.
Mayorkass sing the Illegal Alien “National Anthem” at their Super Bowl.
I like to be in America!
OK by me in America!
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America!
Each alien might be given a cell phone, required to wave it at law enforcement officers, show it to them upon request, and to not leave home without it being charged to at least 80%.
If a phone is charged to less than 50%, there might be a $10 fine for each percent less than 50%. If the outstanding fines go above $1000, the alien should be deemed to have abandoned his asylum claim.
You didn’t wave your phone, Jose.
¡Aqui!
With income tax, if you don’t report your income, file a return, etc., you can be imprisoned.
Does MS13 have an anthem?
“Building a wall is a red herring”
“The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof, which means all of Earth can come to America.”
Elon Musk
WIKI
In English criminal law, a disorderly house is a house in which the conduct of its inhabitants is such as to become a public nuisance, or outrages public decency, or tends to corrupt or deprave, or injures the public interest; or a house where persons congregate to the probable disturbance of the public peace or other commission of crime. To persistently or habitually keep a disorderly house is an offence against the common law, punishable by fine or imprisonment.
Brothel-keeping can, however, also be charged as “Keeping a Disorderly House” (contrary to the common law rather than any written statute), and is then punishable by an unlimited fine, and unlimited imprisonment.
The “operator” of a crack house or opium den can also be charged with keeping a disorderly house, as can the owner/operator of an illegal gambling establishment, as well as the owner of a speakeasy, “blind tiger”, or “boozecan” (illegal bar or pub). Modern vice laws, regulating such things as drinking, gambling, dancing, and drugs, have resulted in calls for the offence of keeping a disorderly house to be abolished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorderly_house
“at suits at common law...no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.”
Amendment VII
“Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas likes to tell us that illegal migrants are carefully vetted before being released into our communities, but that’s just not true.”
Why don’t our invaders build gated communities back home and use such vetting to keep out the bad people?
Illegals can be asked where they went to school and who their teachers and school friends were.
They can be asked to say if Google Streetview and other images (or names of things) are of their schools, their area or not.
They can be asked to pick out their national flag, their national anthem, national leaders, cities in their country, etc.
They can be asked to give the names and physical & e-mail addresses of their relatives and friends.
They can be asked for their social media account info.
Character references might be asked for.
Work histories might be requested.
47,000 Venezuelans caught entering the U.S
Sound like Obama’s army has arrived.
Excellent.
Sound like Obama’s army has arrived.
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today
Not a bad idea things need to change for the better fast.
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