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Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua gives ‘green light’ to members to shoot US cops, Homeland Security memo warns
nypost.com ^ | July 30, 2024 | Jennie Taer

Posted on 08/02/2024 10:32:08 AM PDT by lowbridge

Members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have been given the “green light” to attack and open fire on cops in Denver, a federal memo obtained by The Post reveals.

The gang is already tied to hundreds of crimes, including the shootings of two NYPD cops who were trying to arrest one of its members in June.

“Credible human sources from Colorado provided information on TdA [Tren de Aragua] giving a ‘green light’ to fire on or attack law enforcement,” said the memo, from the Homeland Security Investigations office in Chicago

“As you may know, we have a TdA presence here in Chicago, so please be vigilant as you encounter TdA members or affiliates during your investigative and operational activities.”

The memo added that “Credible human sources from Colorado provided” the intelligence via the Albuquerque Police Department.

The warning comes as Denver has gotten 42,000 migrants — more per capita than any other US city — and many of them are from Venezuela.

The prison gang, whose name means “The Aragua Train” — a reference to the Aragua region in Venezuela — has infiltrated the US by sending members posing as asylum seekers across the southern border.

From there, its members have flocked to major US cities including New York, Chicago, Miami and Denver, where they engage in money laundering, gun smuggling, theft and human trafficking, according to reports.

The US Border Patrol only began tracking the group last year and has recorded catching 70 of its members, according to federal data.

However, many are getting past law enforcement at the border and its vetting processes because younger members are careful not to get gang tattoos or other identifiers in order to stay under the radar, sources have told The Post.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Florida; US: Illinois; US: New Mexico; US: New York; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: albuquerque; aliens; aragua; araguatrain; chicago; colorado; cops; crime; denver; gang; gangs; illegalimmigration; immigration; miami; newyork; police; tda; trendearagua; venezuela; venezuelangang

1 posted on 08/02/2024 10:32:08 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

😡If only there was a way we could have stopped these pukes from entering the country illegally. 🙄😡😡


2 posted on 08/02/2024 10:34:17 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: lowbridge
Just think of it as "a jobs program."

A steady supply of criminals enlarges all of the attendant public employee unions.

3 posted on 08/02/2024 10:36:24 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: lowbridge

The Venezuelans have turned out to be Cameltoe’s illegally imported cop killer gang. The Harris/Joe Pedo administration has turned out to be the largest importer of the third world asylumnista gangbangers and Fuzzy Muzzy Terrorists.


4 posted on 08/02/2024 10:43:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (My Pronouns are : He Be, She Be, We Be, and HeBeJeebees.)
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To: Carry_Okie

....yup....as that moron former occupant of the White House noted some years ago, “They’re jus’ doin’ jobs Ahuricans won’t do....”


5 posted on 08/02/2024 10:47:39 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: lowbridge

“Members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have been given the “green light” to attack and open fire on cops in Denver..”

But of course...that’s why Biden let them in. Any democrat cops out there?


6 posted on 08/02/2024 10:52:29 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: lowbridge

there is a war on

Police better figure it out


7 posted on 08/02/2024 11:09:34 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: TokarevM57

which moron is that?


8 posted on 08/02/2024 11:10:03 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

In my previous life I understood that gang members were very willing to shoot me.

I took appropriate cautions.

A lot of police do the same.


9 posted on 08/02/2024 11:18:25 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: lowbridge

Gee whiz....wonder how they got here.


10 posted on 08/02/2024 11:23:18 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: lowbridge; george76

“Credible human sources from Colorado provided information on TdA [Tren de Aragua] giving a ‘green light’ to fire on or attack law enforcement,” said the memo, from the Homeland Security Investigations office in Chicago”

Stay out of Denver. Head on a swivel. Situational awareness. Armed.


11 posted on 08/02/2024 11:37:22 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: lowbridge

Weren’t they saying a few days ago that they were going to go after the Maduro regime in defense of the Venezuelan people?

Is that still on the table, or did they kiss and makeup with the Chavistas?


12 posted on 08/02/2024 11:42:16 AM PDT by Claud
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To: dynachrome; MileHi; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; bluejean; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


13 posted on 08/02/2024 12:01:44 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: lowbridge

Homeland Security WARNS????

Isn’t this group under MyOrk@ss, like the SS?

Pathetic.

What say #WheresKamala the Defund the Police VP?


14 posted on 08/02/2024 12:09:16 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: lowbridge

Debbie Wasserman Schultz just t said Trump is like Maduro... Rats just throw crap out and are never called on it.


15 posted on 08/02/2024 12:54:09 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: lowbridge

The headline is slightly misleading. Let me fix it:

Homeland Security gives Green Light for Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to kill US cops.


16 posted on 08/02/2024 3:20:28 PM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Claud

They have always been in bed with the regime


17 posted on 08/07/2024 9:34:46 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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