It has been revealed that many of the illegal immigrants suspected of carrying out dozens of robberies across New York City are tied to a Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua.
The South American criminal enterprise is believed to have taken advantage of the special privileges given to Venezuelan migrants by the Biden administration to slip across the southern border and carry out their business in the Big Apple. Between October 2022 and September 2023 alone, 41 members were arrested by Customs and Border Protection.
According to the New York Post, law enforcement sources said that the robberies, most of which involved men on mopeds targeting women, displayed characteristics of crimes committed in the past by Tren de Aragua.
Members of the gang, sources noted, were among the tens of thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers who have entered the United States in recent months. While many Republicans have expressed a desire to see the flow slow to prevent organized crime from infiltrating American soil, Democrats have proposed raising the number of newcomers from the South American country. READ MORE