(End of the American Dream)—The chaos that we are witnessing in the streets is the direct result of the decisions that our politicians have made. As I discussed yesterday, allowing millions upon millions of migrants that are not being properly screened to come pouring over our wide open borders is not a good idea. There are certainly many migrants that are coming here because they want to work hard and create a better life for themselves. But of course there are others that are coming here for other reasons.
Throwing the back door wide open for vast numbers of criminals that intend to cause all sorts of mayhem once they arrive in our major cities is extremely foolish. We are literally committing national suicide, and many of our leaders don’t seem to care.
According to NBC News, authorities are currently investigating more than 100 serious crimes that have been committed by an ultra-violent gang of migrants from Venezuela known as Tren de Aragua…
U.S. law enforcement and immigration officials have launched more than 100 investigations of crimes tied to suspected members of a violent Venezuelan gang, including sex trafficking in Louisiana and the point-blank shooting of two New York City police officers, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials.
The cases involving the Tren de Aragua gang show how hard it is for U.S. border agents to vet the criminal backgrounds of migrants from countries like Venezuela that won’t give the U.S. any help.
More than 330,000 Venezuelans crossed the U.S. border last year, according to Customs and Border Protection data, and Venezuela, like Cuba, China and a handful of other countries, doesn’t provide any criminal history information to U.S. officials.
Gang members are coming over the southern border in extremely large numbers, and once they are allowed in they can literally go anywhere in the country that they want. Sadly, violence seems to erupt wherever members of this particular gang show up.
For example, two members of Tren de Aragua are facing the death penalty for murdering a former police officer in south Florida…
Two alleged members of the dangerous Venezuelan ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang face the death penalty for the 2023 kidnapping and murder of a man in the city of Doral, in Miami-Dade County, whose apartment was ransacked by armed men.
Julio César Hernández Montero, 27 years old; and Yurwin Salazar Maita, 23, appeared by court order in county court Tuesday, where prosecutors charged them with first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing 43-year-old José Luis Sánchez Valera.
In addition to these charges, Assistant State Attorney Gabriela Alfaro told Judge Laura Cruz that the state will prosecute the co-defendants for robbery, home invasion, vehicle theft, kidnapping and burglary.
This would never have happened if the Biden administration had not let them in.
In the Big Apple, a member of the gang that entered this country illegally recently shot two police officers…
In New York, police say Bernardo Raul Castro-Mata, a 19-year-old from Venezuela, shot two police officers last week. Castro-Mata entered the country illegally last July, a member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN. The Venezuelan has tattoos associated with Tren de Aragua – which court documents for a suspected gang member in Georgia describe as five-pointed crowns, five-pointed stars and teardrops – the New York Police Department told CNN.
Venezuela is more than happy to send their criminals to us, and the Biden administration is more than happy to take them in. Now crime in Venezuela is going down, and crime in our country is going up.
In Denver, members of Tren de Aragua have reportedly been given a “green light” to attack law enforcement officials…
At the same time, the gang has reportedly established a significant presence in parts of Colorado, Fox News reported. They were reportedly given a “green light” to fire on or attack law enforcement in Denver.
There have also been reports of the gang taking over at least two apartment buildings in Aurora.
Gang members were not just living in the apartment buildings that they took over in Aurora.
It is being reported that the gang was actually using some of the apartments for child prostitution…
A bombshell report details the complete control the criminal organization had on the Whispering Pine Apartments in the Denver suburb,
Vacant units had reportedly been used to host ‘parties’ where the gang provided ‘drug and child prostitution,’ according to the apartments’ manager, who added that the gangster said ‘minors are a good source of money.’
Sex trafficking is one of the major ways that Tren de Aragua brings in money. In Louisiana, women that were trafficked by the gang claim that they were forced “to have sex with four men a day”…
In a federal affidavit, two of the women described how they were trafficked by three alleged gang members who had entered the U.S. within the past year. All three suspects had been intercepted by Border Patrol after they entered Texas illegally but had then been released into the U.S.
The women say the alleged gang members arranged for them to fly from El Paso, Texas, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Once they were in Baton Rouge, the women were taken to a Ross retail clothing store to buy clothes. They were then taken to an apartment building, where they were allegedly forced to have sex with four men a day.
And apparently the gang has also been operating “stash houses” in several other states as well…
Officials arrested two suspects – both Venezuelan nationals – at the location, Allbert Herrera Machado, 23, and Osleidy Vanesa Chourio-Diaz, 26. Agents later arrested another Venezuelan, Josmar Jesus Zambrano-Chirinos, 23, identified in the complaint as a leader of the sex trafficking operation being conducted by the Tren de Aragua in the US. Zambrano was “operating ‘stash houses’ used for human trafficking in Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, New Jersey, and Florida,” according to the criminal complaint reviewed by CNN.
This is absolutely horrifying.
Our leaders know that this is happening, and nothing is being done to stop it.
Thankfully, there are a few politicians that are speaking out. U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales has been consistently warning about the threat that Tren de Aragua poses, and he claims that “this gang has been known to rape children”…
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district runs along nearly half of the southern border, said he has warned about the gang and is seriously concerned about the hold it already has in the U.S. given its record as an “agent of chaos and terror through Central and South America.”
“For months, I have sounded the alarm about Tren de Aragua and the threat this gang poses to Americans,” Gonzales said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “It’s graphic, but this gang has been known to rape children, murder, and commit nearly every other crime under the sun. We know that Tren de Aragua has expanded operations in Mexico, and some gang members have made their way into the United States.”
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris really cared about our women and our children, they would seal the border immediately.
But they will never do that.
Instead, they just made an agreement with the government of Mexico to use buses to transport migrants directly to the U.S. border from two cities in southern Mexico…
The latest development between the Biden/Harris administration and the government of Mexico on the immigration front will see migrants provided bussing from two southern Mexico cities to the United States border. The plan will provide the migrants headed to the United States with meals and security during travel from the two cities to the U.S. destination where the migrant’s asylum appointments are scheduled under the CBP-One application.
The government of Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) announced the new program in a Spanish-language notice issued on Saturday, referring to the initiative as the “Secure Emerging Mobility Corridor.” The two departure cities in southern Mexico will be Villahermosa, Tabasco, and Tapachula, Chiapas.
Are you kidding me?
So now gang members that want to come to the United States will get free bus rides to the border.
What the politicians in Washington are doing to us is literally insane, and it is an enormous threat to our national security.
As social order breaks down in this country, migrant gangs are going to have an absolute field day.
We must shut the border, and we must shut it now.
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We have a problem …. what are we doing about it?