Donald Trump is going to take office in January with a mess to clean up.
The border crisis will be a top task on the agenda.
And police sounded the alarm on one bad problem that had Trump’s “Border Czar” itching for a fight.
Venezuelan prison gang takes root in Tennessee
President Joe Biden’s decision to open the border has allowed anyone to walk into the country.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro cleared out his prisons and asylums to deport his country’s criminals.
The ultraviolent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua made its way north to the southern border.
Venezuela doesn’t share information on its citizens with the United States government so there was no way to tell who was who from the country at the border.
Tren de Aragua gang members slipped in with the millions of illegal aliens crossing into the country.
President-elect Donald Trump called out the gang this summer after members took over several apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado and began to extort residents.
Tren de Aragua has spread throughout the country to places that normally don’t have problems with illegal alien gangs.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) Director David Rausch told U.S. Senator Martha Blackburn (R-TN) that the Venezuela prison gang had a presence in their state on her Unmuted with Marsha podcast.
“We’ve seen, in the past few months, a resurgence of intelligence information that tells us they are operating in our state,” Rausch said. “They are operating in the human trafficking space.”
Tren de Aragua which means Aragua Train got its start in the Venezuelan state of Aragua at the Tocoron prison.
Since then, the gang has expanded throughout South America and into the United States during the Biden-Harris border crisis.
Tren de Aragua sets up a human trafficking operation in Tennessee
Rausch revealed that law enforcement in Tennessee first encountered Tren de Aragua in 2022 and started making arrests in 2023.
The gang smuggles women from Venezuela into the state to exploit them.
“What they’re doing is, they bring in these females, Venezuelan females, and they’re bringing them into the country,” Rausch explained. “They’re smuggling them in, bringing them into the country. Some of them, they’re bringing in, exploiting our system, where they’ll come in and claim that they are fleeing the dictatorship and the challenges that exist in Venezuela.”
The TBI announced that the gang was operating in every major city in Tennessee.
“Most recently, when we were expressing that we knew they were in Tennessee, and they’re operating in our major cities, that caused a lot of challenge, a lot of people got upset about that,” Rausch stated. “They immediately went to thinking, ‘This is TDA that is taking over apartment complexes, as we’ve seen in other cities.’ We’re not there yet, but we don’t want to get there.”
Tren de Aragua starts with human trafficking and branches out to other crimes like drug trafficking and retail theft.
“We certainly don’t want to see it anywhere in the country, but my responsibility primarily is here in Tennessee, and so we don’t want that happening,” Rausch said. “And so I raised the alarm that we know they’re here operating human trafficking. We want to stop them at this point, where we can right now.”
Joe Biden is leaving behind a growing illegal alien gang problem for Trump and his “Border Czar” Tom Homan to clean up.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
