{"id":2218848,"date":"2024-04-11T19:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T23:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wray-fbi-tracking-venezuelan-migrant-gang-following-laken-riley-murder\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T23:38:59","slug":"wray-fbi-tracking-venezuelan-migrant-gang-following-laken-riley-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wray-fbi-tracking-venezuelan-migrant-gang-following-laken-riley-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Wray: FBI monitors Venezuelan migrant gang after Laken Riley&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwray-fbi-tracking-venezuelan-migrant-gang-following-laken-riley-murder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2218848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The FBI is actively tracking the Venezuelan gang Tren\u2063 de \u2063Aragua, thought to be more violent than MS-13 and linked to the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. FBI Director Christopher Wray\u2064 provided this \u200cinformation\u200b to House lawmakers during a recent hearing, emphasizing the need for collaborative efforts to combat such criminal organizations effectively. The gang&#8217;s activities\u200b extend \u200bbeyond US borders, posing a significant \u200cchallenge to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-governor-encourages-people-to-call-police-on-neighbors-violating-covid-orders\/\" title=\"Oregon Governor Encourages People To Call Police On Neighbors Violating COVID Orders\">law enforcement agencies<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"FBI\">FBI<\/a> is aware of and has begun tracking the Venezuelan-based gang Tren de Aragua, a criminal cross-border organization that is said to be more violent than MS-13 and whose member is suspected in the murder of Georgia nursing student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2902002\/laken-rileys-death-house-gop-bidens-state-of-the-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Laken Riley.\">Laken Riley.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FBI Director<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/christopher-wray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" Christopher Wray\"> Christopher Wray<\/a> revealed the information to House lawmakers Thursday during a congressional hearing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re certainly tracking that particular gang, TDA, as we refer to it.\u00a0We have Safe Streets violent gang task forces in all 56 of our field offices, which are focused specifically on gangs and other similar violent criminal enterprises,\u201d Wray said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the vehicle through which we are looking at TDA, whether it\u2019s leaders, members, associates,\u201d Wray said. \u201cWe have ongoing engagement with intelligence community partners, state [and] local law enforcement in some cases, foreign partners, in looking at whether it\u2019s their drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, you know, different kinds of violent crime, different kinds of trafficking and smuggling, even things like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-of-looters-storm-a-california-nordstrom-employees-pepper-sprayed-physically-assaulted\/\" title=\"Dozens Of Looters Storm A California Nordstrom; Employees Pepper-Sprayed, Physically Assaulted\">organized retail theft<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district includes 800 miles of the 2,000-mile southern border, pushed Wray to dive deeper into TDA.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales warned that the border crisis had entered a new phase, now in its fourth year since it commenced early on in 2021 when President Joe Biden took office and rescinded Trump administration immigration protocols. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live the border. We\u2019re in year four of this. Year four is much different than year one. The people that are coming over are different people,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d ask that you take a hard look at this because no one\u2019s talking \u2014 very few people are talking about TDA right now,\u201d Gonzales said. \u201cIn three years, we\u2019re going to be talking about TDA no different than we\u2019re talking about MS-13. And it\u2019s going to be the communities that get ahead of it, that create these task forces, that utilize these task forces at the local, state, and federal level to combat these Venezuelan gangs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> learned while on the border in El Paso, Texas, last May that Venezuelan gang members had made it into the United States and were holding up outside a church in downtown El Paso. Many Venezuelan immigrants have chosen to travel from the border to Chicago.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>TIP: Several federal law enforcement officials monitoring the 2500 migrants outside Sacred Heart in El Paso told me some people living on streets are confirmed members of Tren de Aragua, a gang that emerged from a Venezuelan prison in Tocoron.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201cMS-13 has nothing on them\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Anna_Giaritelli\/status\/1655964370080509958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lawmakers, including Gonzales, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/2923040\/republicans-biden-target-venezuelan-gang-tren-de-aragua\/\" title>pushed<\/a> Biden in March to take sweeping action against TDA after one of its reported members was arrested in the kidnapping and murder of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/laken-riley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Riley<\/a>, the Georgia nursing student.<\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0(R-FL), Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), and Gonzales led seven senators and 16 House lawmakers who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/2923040\/republicans-biden-target-venezuelan-gang-tren-de-aragua\/\" title>sent<\/a> the White House a letter that demanded the Biden administration immediately declare the South American gang a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-perry-designate-ccp-a-transnational-criminal-organization\/\" title=\"Rep. Perry: Designate CCP a Transnational Criminal Organization\">transnational criminal organization<\/a>, or TCO.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeinous crimes committed by the Tren de Aragua, like the rapes of multiple children and the murders of retired police officer Jose Luis Sanchez Valera and nursing student Laken Riley, must stop,\u201d the 23 lawmakers wrote in the letter. \u201cBy designating the Tren de Aragua as a TCO, we will send a clear message that its reign of terror will not be tolerated, and that we will stand united in our resolve to protect our communities from the scourge of transnational organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers described TDA as an \u201cinvading criminal army from a prison in Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI tracking violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, potentially linked to Laken Riley murder. FBI Director Wray disclosed details to House lawmakers on Thursday. The gang, known for its brutality, is under surveillance for cross-border criminal activities and suspected involvement in the tragic case of the Georgia nursing student&#8217;s murder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2218849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24071805113148.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24071805113148.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}