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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

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: illegalinvasion; illegals; illegalscrimes; migrantcrimes; trendearagua

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1 posted on 11/18/2024 3:59:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
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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.)
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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)
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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.)
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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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To: light-bulb

“if they put a bounty on any member of the gang, DOL, $500k, probably get lots of help,”

That’s true. “DOL” in this case is important. If they’re wanted, anyhow, can’t a citizen become a self-appointed bounty hunter and mete out justice?


6 posted on 11/18/2024 4:12:26 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (🎶 They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. 🎶)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump needs to get a declaration of war against the cartels and let the army kill every one of these sumbiches as an invading enemy. Shoot them dead in the street.


7 posted on 11/18/2024 4:18:07 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GF)
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I’d Vote YES on that plan.


8 posted on 11/18/2024 4:31:14 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Shoot the f@ckers. If they show up in my neighborhood the pigs will eat good!


9 posted on 11/18/2024 4:35:22 AM PST by spincaster (i)
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To: MtnClimber

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10 posted on 11/18/2024 4:45:37 AM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

The Establishment media would have us believe this gang is no big deal, since they’ve taken over “just a handful” of apartment complexes in the country.


11 posted on 11/18/2024 4:54:52 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: MtnClimber

Not for long.


12 posted on 11/18/2024 4:59:02 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: MtnClimber

Declare them a terrorist organization, or whatever is needed to hunt them down and eliminate them. These aren’t nice people. They need not exist in our country.


13 posted on 11/18/2024 5:27:12 AM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: MtnClimber

Deal with them under ‘Rule .308’


14 posted on 11/18/2024 5:30:47 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MtnClimber

Not something that happen by accident or due to incompetence. It was the plan all along and the government employees that implemented it are the enemies within.


15 posted on 11/18/2024 5:36:02 AM PST by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't. )
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


16 posted on 11/18/2024 5:55:39 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


17 posted on 11/18/2024 6:11:27 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

Homan says “our gang is bigger than their gang”!


18 posted on 11/18/2024 6:15:42 AM PST by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber

This is the gang that our lying Reyes saw take over apartment complexes in Colorado right?


19 posted on 11/18/2024 6:22:24 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

REYES = EYES


20 posted on 11/18/2024 6:23:11 AM PST by DouglasKC
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