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This is the dangerous Venezuelan gang infiltrating the US that you probably know nothing about but should
CNN ^ | June 10, 2024 | Rafael Romo, Belisa Morillo and Laura Weffer

Posted on 06/10/2024 4:39:37 PM PDT by lowbridge

An alleged multistate human trafficking ring forcing immigrant women into prostitution. The mysterious killing of a former police officer in South Florida. Attacks against police officers in New York. The arrest of a drug dealer in Chicago.

Local and federal officials say these apparently unrelated crimes have a common denominator: Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang that originated in a Venezuela prison and has slowly made its way south and north in recent years. They say it’s now operating in the United States. The scale of its operations is unknown, but crimes attributed to alleged members of the gang have worried elected officials and some Republican members of Congress have asked the Biden administration “to formally designate the vicious Tren de Aragua as a Transnational Criminal Organization.”

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Now, US Customs and Border Protection and the FBI say the gang is established in the US.

“They have followed the migration paths across South America to other countries and have set up criminal groups throughout South America as they follow those paths, and that they appear to follow the migration north to the United States,” Britton Boyd, an FBI special agent in El Paso, Texas, told CNN said.

US Border Patrol chief Jason Owens, who has confirmed multiple arrests at the southern border of alleged Tren de Aragua members over the last year, issued a warning in early April. “Watch out for this gang. It is the most powerful in Venezuela, known for murder, drug trafficking, sex crimes, extortion, & other violent acts,” Owens said on X.

There are more than 70 cases in which Tren de Aragua is mentioned in law enforcement documents or prosecutors’ complaints. From that total, the Customs and Border Patrol in Texas has identified 58 as gang members between the fiscal year 2023 and

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; araguantrain; bidenalieninvasion; crime; dreamers; extortion; gang; humantrafficking; illegalimmigration; illegals; illegalsinvasion; immigration; murder; oldnews; organized; refugeecrisis; sextrafficking; trendearagua; venezuela; venezuelans
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To: lowbridge

21 posted on 06/10/2024 5:42:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: lowbridge

22 posted on 06/10/2024 5:48:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s why we allow lots of muzzies in to counteract the Papist threat in the US. Some day, America will have to choose between Rome and Mecca.
Will be an easy choice — US is already flying the Palestinian rag.


23 posted on 06/10/2024 5:59:22 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: lowbridge

Other countries are dumping their criminals on our border and all the DemocRats can see are permanent Rat votes to keep them in power in perpetuity.


24 posted on 06/10/2024 6:08:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: lowbridge

Take my advice, if you come upon a belligerent, but fairly fluent OTM (Other Than Mexican) with a TA tattoo on their neck, they’ve got a knife and they know how to use it. Just create distance between you and them.
Dementia Joe would want you to.


25 posted on 06/10/2024 6:18:50 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: All

If only Corn Pop had won those life or death struggles, and not Joe. And if only Barry Soetero had been the greatest ping pong player Indonesia ever produced. And if only Nan Pelosi had been, well, whatever ... a person with a conscience?


26 posted on 06/10/2024 6:24:43 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: lowbridge

Published March 8, 2024 by Bill Melugin:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloodthirsty-venezuelan-gang-tren-de-aragua-sets-up-shop-in-us-as-border-authorities-sound-alarm

and now, more than 3 months later, CNN finally figured it out?


27 posted on 06/10/2024 6:45:49 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: End Times Sentinel
Six feet of distance should do it.


28 posted on 06/10/2024 8:22:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: lowbridge

Aren’t you so glad we have a wide open border.


29 posted on 06/10/2024 8:56:41 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: BipolarBob

“A pox on you Biden for this blight of misery upon the nation.”
^
Especially NYC, where their killers are set free.


30 posted on 06/11/2024 12:57:50 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: lowbridge

...”A confidential 2013 regional intelligence report obtained by CNN says 173 individuals from the Middle East obtained Venezuelan passports and documents from 2008 to 2012. Among them, people linked to the terrorist group Hezbollah.

According to the report, the man who ordered the issuance of the passports is Tareck El Aissami, a Venezuelan politician who was named vice president of the republic in January of this year.

El Aissami also served as Minister of the Interior and Justice in charge of the country’s immigration system, as well as as governor....”


31 posted on 06/11/2024 1:12:06 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Brown Deer

No, CMN has been on it for quite a while...at least since 2017.


32 posted on 06/11/2024 1:15:06 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: End Times Sentinel

Just get a couple friends to place a cheap thin door in front of the scum and shoot a shotgun through it. Biden says it’s OK.


33 posted on 06/11/2024 1:17:58 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: lowbridge

unleashed by the rat FBI CIA and the rats themselves against the American family


34 posted on 06/11/2024 4:15:56 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: lowbridge

Where’s the photo with the idiot college-aged girls holding the sign that says welcome immigrants?


35 posted on 06/11/2024 5:00:39 AM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: lowbridge

I’m blown away that CNN is reporting on this.


36 posted on 06/11/2024 7:05:29 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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