{"id":2225593,"date":"2024-04-19T19:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-from-texas-warns-that-venezuelan-gang-is-consolidating-power-in-america-amid-open-border\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T19:12:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T23:12:57","slug":"congressman-from-texas-warns-that-venezuelan-gang-is-consolidating-power-in-america-amid-open-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-from-texas-warns-that-venezuelan-gang-is-consolidating-power-in-america-amid-open-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Congressman Raises Concerns About Venezuelan Gang Gaining Influence Through Open Border Policy"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fcongressman-from-texas-warns-that-venezuelan-gang-is-consolidating-power-in-america-amid-open-border%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=2225593&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>A Texas Congressman\u2062 sounded the alarm on a violent Venezuelan gang \u200bexploiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lindsey-graham-says-us-is-living-on-borrowed-time-regarding-broken-border\/\" title=\"Lindsey Graham warns US on 'borrowed time' with 'broken' border.\">open \u2062southern border<\/a> to \u2063strengthen its foothold in the U.S. Named Tren \u2062de Aragua, the gang could become a\u2064 leading \u2063criminal organization nationwide. Known \u2062for heinous crimes \u2063like kidnapping and murder, the gang&#8217;s activities have already\u200b claimed victims across\u2062 the country. Rep. Gonzalez advocates empowering\u2063 ICE to \u2062tackle this crisis\u200d effectively.  <\/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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A United States Congressman from Texas warned that a violent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/venezuela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venezuelan<\/a> gang is exploiting America\u2019s open southern border to build its presence and consolidate its power within the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX) warned that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua will become the most powerful criminal gang in the country after years of taking advantage of America\u2019s border crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis gang in several years is going to be the dominant transnational criminal organization throughout the United States. There\u2019s no doubt in my mind,\u201d Rep. Gonzales <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/border-state-lawmaker-sounds-alarm-bloodthirsty-venezuelan-gang-entering-us\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">explained<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in an interview with Fox News. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey\u2019re very vicious. They have no rules. They gobble up territory almost like a cancer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The gang, which engages in kidnapping, sex trafficking, murder, and extortion, may have counted the killer of Laken Riley among its members. Jose Ibarra, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-on-biden-immigration-agenda-axing-operation-targeting-sex-offenders-point-is-to-punish-you\/\" title=\"Tucker On Biden Immigration Agenda, Axing Operation Targeting Sex Offenders: \u2018Point Is To Punish You\u2019\">illegal alien charged<\/a> with the murder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/migrant-crime-is-taking-over-america-trump-slams-biden-over-the-border-ahead-of-texas-visit\/\" title=\"Trump criticizes Biden over border situation ahead of Texas visit, claims migrant crime is increasing in America\">young nursing student<\/a> in Georgia, has a number of tattoos <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/illegal-immigrant-charged-with-laken-rileys-murder-is-active-gang-member-report\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">associated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  with the Venezuelan gang, including a five-pointed crown on his neck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The gang is also tied to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/crime\/venezuelan-gang-florida-retired-cops-killing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">strangling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of a retired police officer in Florida\u2019s Miami-Dade County, as well as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/15\/us-news\/migrants-busted-in-brutal-beating-of-nypd-cops-in-times-square-are-members-of-bloodthirsty-tren-de-aragua-gang-feds\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">beating<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of a New York City Police Officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gonzalez explained that the only way to solve the crisis is to empower Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hunt down and deport criminal illegal immigrants. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou have to have ICE have the ability to go around and actively hunt these criminal aliens that have committed crimes, hunt them down and deport them,\u201d Gonzales explained. \u201cThat has to happen, and when it does happen, it can\u2019t happen in a vacuum. People have to know what\u2019s happening. And it can\u2019t just happen in one part of the country. It has to happen throughout the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reported growth of Tren de Aragua within the United States comes as the country has faced an unprecedented border crisis under the Biden administration. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2455010\/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  people have crossed the border since President Joe Biden took office, with an estimated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Arthur\/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-kennedy-grills-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-on-electoral-impact-of-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"Senator Kennedy questions Secretary Mayorkas on how illegal immigration affects elections in the United States\">7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded<\/a><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  since Biden took office in 2021. There were 415,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-nationals-are-flooding-across-southern-border-at-record-pace\/\" title=\"Record numbers of Chinese nationals are pouring across the southern border\">000 total reported gotaways<\/a> for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration. There have also been over one million illegal immigrant <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/over-one-million-illegal-migrants-encountered-at-southern-border-in-first-six-months-of-fiscal-year-2024\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">encounters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on the southern border in just the first six months of fiscal year 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas Congressman alerts the public that a violent Venezuelan gang is leveraging the open southern border to expand its influence within the U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX) cautions that the gang Tren de Aragua aims to emerge as the nation&#8217;s most dominant criminal group following years of growth unchecked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":2225594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-65-e1713557923657.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-65-e1713557923657.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225593","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\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}