MASS EXODUS: Tren de Aragua gang started in Venezuela’s prisons and now spreads fear in the US

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The Associated Press, a liberal media outlet, has just admitted that allowing thousands of Venezuelans into the United States is now creating major problems.

From AP News: MIAMI (AP) — Former federal agent Was Tabor says his phone has been lighting up with calls from police departments around the U.S. for advice on how to combat the growing threat from the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Tabor was in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s office in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas in 2012 when the gang was still new and when Tabor had barely heard of it.

Venezuela had long been a major transit zone for cocaine smuggled by Colombian guerrillas, with a leftist government that had close ties to some of America’s top adversaries, from Iran to Russia. So the homegrown street gang, although a concern to U.S. Embassy personnel in their daily movements around Venezuela’s dangerous capital, was not considered a major security risk to the United States.

Now, more than a decade later, the gang has become a menace even on American soil and has exploded into the U.S. presidential campaign amid a spree of kidnappings, extortion and other crimes throughout the western hemisphere tied to a mass exodus of Venezuelan migrants.

“What sets this group apart is the level of violence,” said Tabor, now retired from the DEA. “They’re aggressive, they’re hungry and they don’t know any boundaries because they’ve been allowed to spread their wings without any confrontation from law enforcement until now.”

So far, over 872,000 Venezuelans have illegally entered the United States during the Biden-Harris administration.

Prior to Joe Biden taking office, during the last few months of the Trump administration, CBP data shows only 265 – 450 illegal alien Venezuelans per month entering the US.  As soon as Biden took office, that number started skyrocketing, and reached as high as 72,000 in one month last year.

This data does not include the unknown number of “gotaways.” It also does not include the thousands allowed to entered through the CBP One App, a program touted as a “safe, orderly, and humane tool for border management.”

In addition, the illegal alien apprehension numbers do not include those who arrived in the U.S. through the Biden administration’s “CHNV parole” process, which allows certain nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV), along with their qualifying immediate family members, the opportunity to request advance authorization to travel to an airport in the United States to seek a discretionary grant of parole.

It is unknown how many Tren de Aragua gang members have been among the massive influx of Venezuelans into the US.

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