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FBI fears Venezuela migrant gang members teaming up with MS-13 killers
The infamous and bloodthirsty MS-13 gang may be exploring an alliance with a gang of Venezuelan migrants blamed for a crime wave in New York City and trying to plant roots in other parts of the United States, according to the FBI.
MS-13 is known to pragmatically form and break alliances with other criminal groups, according to an FBI threat assessment, ranging from "tenuous alliances" and "vicious rivalries" depending on its needs.
The NYPD last week announced a crackdown on a Venezuelan gang after linking it to more than 62 robberies in four of the city's five boroughs. That gang is now believed to be Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan organization with international ambitions.
One attack, caught on video, shows a pair of muggers dragging a woman by her purse from the back of a scooter before they tore it loose and she slid into a metal pole. The gang used social media to recruit thieves to snatch specific model phones, according to the NYPD, and then used hackers to break into them and drain bank accounts and payment apps.
Once the money runs out, the phones are then shipped to Colombia to be reprogrammed and resold, police said.
The New York Post on Monday identified Tren de Aragua as the gang behind New York City's soaring robberies, adding the gang was taking advantage of the Big Apple's sanctuary policies to plant members in the U.S. and generate profits for its "sprawling criminal empire."
"While these gangs wouldn’t normally mix, it’s always going to be a concern as the gang [Tren de Aragua] expands in strength and establishes a foothold," El Paso FBI Special Agent in Charge John Morales told the Post. "Right now we are working with our local law enforcement partners and sharing intelligence in order to stop the growth of Tren de Aragua."
The gang began in a Venezuelan prison, according to Paul Mauro, a former NYPD inspector, and has expanded recruitment efforts and its footprint in other countries, including the U.S.
The gang's presence on American soil is new, he told Fox News Digital, as it has cropped up on the radars of law enforcement in New York, Texas and Miami.
" don't ever recall dealing with them as an organized entity," when he was on the job just a few years ago, Mauro said.
Tren de Aragua began its international expansion with a turf war across the Colombia border in 2018, according to InSight Crime, a nonprofit group that studies criminal organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Facing tough competition in the drug trafficking business, the gang took up human trafficking and smuggling instead....
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They are not sending their best. Donald Trump is right again. The gang bangers are being let in by Joe Biden. Biden does not care about the security of Americans. The FBI knows these are bad guys that should not be allowed in the US . We are going to have increased crime for decades because of Biden's border policy.
The infamous and bloodthirsty MS-13 gang may be exploring an alliance with a gang of Venezuelan migrants blamed for a crime wave in New York City and trying to plant roots in other parts of the United States, according to the FBI.
MS-13 is known to pragmatically form and break alliances with other criminal groups, according to an FBI threat assessment, ranging from "tenuous alliances" and "vicious rivalries" depending on its needs.
The NYPD last week announced a crackdown on a Venezuelan gang after linking it to more than 62 robberies in four of the city's five boroughs. That gang is now believed to be Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan organization with international ambitions.
One attack, caught on video, shows a pair of muggers dragging a woman by her purse from the back of a scooter before they tore it loose and she slid into a metal pole. The gang used social media to recruit thieves to snatch specific model phones, according to the NYPD, and then used hackers to break into them and drain bank accounts and payment apps.
Once the money runs out, the phones are then shipped to Colombia to be reprogrammed and resold, police said.
The New York Post on Monday identified Tren de Aragua as the gang behind New York City's soaring robberies, adding the gang was taking advantage of the Big Apple's sanctuary policies to plant members in the U.S. and generate profits for its "sprawling criminal empire."
"While these gangs wouldn’t normally mix, it’s always going to be a concern as the gang [Tren de Aragua] expands in strength and establishes a foothold," El Paso FBI Special Agent in Charge John Morales told the Post. "Right now we are working with our local law enforcement partners and sharing intelligence in order to stop the growth of Tren de Aragua."
The gang began in a Venezuelan prison, according to Paul Mauro, a former NYPD inspector, and has expanded recruitment efforts and its footprint in other countries, including the U.S.
The gang's presence on American soil is new, he told Fox News Digital, as it has cropped up on the radars of law enforcement in New York, Texas and Miami.
" don't ever recall dealing with them as an organized entity," when he was on the job just a few years ago, Mauro said.
Tren de Aragua began its international expansion with a turf war across the Colombia border in 2018, according to InSight Crime, a nonprofit group that studies criminal organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Facing tough competition in the drug trafficking business, the gang took up human trafficking and smuggling instead....
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They are not sending their best. Donald Trump is right again. The gang bangers are being let in by Joe Biden. Biden does not care about the security of Americans. The FBI knows these are bad guys that should not be allowed in the US . We are going to have increased crime for decades because of Biden's border policy.
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They can't vet anyone from Venezuela because Venezuela does not cooperate. Venezuela likes getting rid of its criminals to the US. Stop being a lying little reptile who speaks with a forked tongue. 
