New York City Police revealed one scary problem that left Donald Trump speechless
New York City has fallen on hard times in recent years.
The Big Apple is dealing with a crisis that no one expected to see in America.
And New York City Police revealed one scary problem that left Donald Trump speechless.
Venezuelan prison gang makes its presence felt in New York City
The border crisis created by the Biden-Harris administration has allowed more than 11 million illegal aliens – more than the population of North Carolina – to pour into the country.
A wide-open southern border has allowed gangs to set up shop in the United States.
Venezuela opened its prisons and allowed members of the notorious prison gang Tren de Aragua to enter the country through the southern border and humanitarian flights by the Biden-Harris administration under the CHNV parole program.
Tren de Aragua generated national headlines this summer when the gang took over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado to extort residents and use it as a base for criminal operations.
Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), called attention to the plight of Aurora but the gang’s reach extends far beyond Colorado.
New York City has arrested members of Tren de Aragua and its associates more than 500 times this year.
Nearly 300 of those arrests have come in Manhattan near areas that are popular with tourists according to The New York Post.
“If you go back two years — that’s about when we think they first started arriving — we’ve made 45% more arrests than we did two years ago,” a law enforcement source told the Post. “This is a gang that conspires to make money off of committing crimes.”
The New York City Police Department has identified 41 known members of Tren de Aragua who’ve been arrested a whopping 143 times.
Police have busted gang members near famed New York City locations like Radio City Music Hall, Time Square, and Rockefeller Center.
A growing army of gang members preying on New Yorkers
Police believe that there are more than 200 members of the Venezuelan prison gang operating in the city.
The gang has a youth division called Diablos de la 42 that has members as young as 11.
“When you add associates and co-defendants that aren’t in the [NYPD gang] database, there’s 80 more individuals who are candidates for the database, and possibly hundreds as arrest associates in other crimes,” a law enforcement source explained.
Members of the have been arrested for crimes like robbery, grand larceny, car theft, and assault.
“When you factor in those associates, it’s 295 out of 517 total arrests we took in Midtown and neighboring precincts,” the source said. “That’s TdA, [Diablos] and their associates. That’s 57% impacting crime in the 14th, 18th, 17th, 19th precincts. It’s not just one area.”
19-year-old Tren de Aragua member Bernardo Raul Castro Mata was arrested on attempted murder charges after he shot two New York cops.
The underaged members of the Diablos have become a problem for the police because New York law puts minors back on the street.
One Diablo was arrested 11 times in five months before he got a sentence that put him behind bars.
The Biden-Harris border crisis has allowed gangs to infiltrate the country and wreak havoc.
