All according to plan.
Posted on 05/13/2025 7:55:41 PM PDT by bitt
A South American gang with many illegal alien members that cropped up to rival the infamous Tren de Aragua is victimizing vulnerable rural Americans, warns crime expert Robert Charles.
“I’ve read some of the public accounts that suggest that this offshoot group is trying to distinguish itself by being more violent,” Charles, who was formerly an assistant secretary of state at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, said of Anti-Tren. With the recent charges against almost 20 accused members of the gang by the Trump Justice Department, the new threat has garnered more attention, Western Journal explained.
Anti-Tren, according to Charles, is an example of an offshoot surpassing the original’s violence. “With MS-13, they had various tests and things that they went through, and there were offshoots there that became more violent than the original group.” He elucidated for Fox News, “They are also doing violence in an environment which they’re taking advantage of people. They’re taking advantage of the homeless. They’re taking advantage of rural America.”
Unfortunately, rural communities are too often an easy target for gang criminals (though Anti-Tren is also an issue in New York City), Charles stated. That’s the case in his home state of Maine: “We don’t have the infrastructure in a very rural state to put patrols up through the northern part of the state and, frankly, to even keep drugs from coming in and the gangs from coming here.”
Anti-Tren is accused of human and sex trafficking, among other suspected crimes. These are the heinous, despicable, dangerous criminals whom leftist, activist judges are protecting.
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I live in a very rural part of ND (what part isn’t?) and would pitty the Tren dick heads if they went to work here. It would not be safe for them.
Most rural Americans are armed. It depends on how rural they are. Here where I live, we are very rural.
Rural folk are more likely to own weapons - and use them! Local popularly elected sheriffs will most often go along with the practice!
Open season
Target practice
Pig food
In the country in Oregon, there are no cops. You can call the county sheriff, but by the time they get to you, it’s too late. Criminals know this. Guns are imperative and everyone has plenty of them.
Huh.... so they are ready to come out to the rural areas now. Huh... well, if that’s the way they want it. Seems like less easy money pickings than in the city, and the 6.5 Creedmoor has kinda taken over a lotta business from the .270.
But hell, I guess they can see how it works out.
But personally, I wouldn’t think the juice is worth the squeeze.
Considering that ME, VT, and NH are Constitutional carry states and gun culture is a big part of life in those states, and there are LOTS of desolate areas in which to hide (***cough***bodies***), thugs need to think twice about pot stirring in these parts.
THE LINGERING LEGACY OF BIDEN/OBAMA
Yes, they wouldn’t have much luck in rural N Georgia. Everyone has guns. Sometimes trouble making outsiders just disappear.
About a decade ago, our town was targeted along with several surrounding ones, by an organized gang of brazen thieves who did their homework, knew where each store’s safes were, or where they kept the money boxes (I live in a small town, and business owners weren’t much for security as nothing ever happened around the town)
Long story short, they organized hits on a particular eve, in several towns, and got away with oodles of $$
They never have caught them- don’t know if it was a gang from America, or foreign nation. They got 5 businesses in our town alone- a gew of the businesses were also homes to the owners- so they hit while the people were home - not sure the total amount of businesses
Hmm...I need to read this.
I live very rural, and most people are armed, as OR still has good gun laws.
Same here in rural NW Tennessee, which is why I moved here.
And it’ll take a very long time to undo the effects if we even can at all.
“Yes, they wouldn’t have much luck in rural N Georgia. Everyone has guns. Sometimes trouble making outsiders just disappear.
I was thinking the same thing. And we don’t keep ALL our guns locked up. At least one is within easy reach. Plus, strangers in the area are quickly noticed and the word spreads if a unknown car is seen in the neighborhood.
It’s all about the concept of community and working together to support each other. A network that works as a team. A few German Shepherds helps too. They warn you when further protection is needed.
Time to start up local armed Town Watch groups.
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