'Ghost criminals': How Venezuelan gang members are slipping …
WEBCases linked to Tren de Aragua, including sex trafficking and a shooting, show how hard it is for border agents to vet migrants from nations that won't provide criminal background info.
How an empty apartment complex in Colorado became a national ...
WEBSep 11, 2024 · In Bogota, Colombia, Tren de Aragua has a track record of taking over low-income buildings and turning them into bases of operation, they say.
The Construction of the Tren de Aragua's Transnational Empire
WEBJul 15, 2024 · Between 2020 and 2022, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, migration rates began to slow, although demand for human smuggling services rose as borders slammed shut. Tren de Aragua cells that had already been established along migration routes moved from exploration into the penetration phase.
Tren de Aragua: The Venezuelan gang infiltrating the US | CNN
WEBJun 9, 2024 · Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang that originated in a Venezuela prison, has slowly made its way south and north in recent years. Federal officials say it’s now operating in the...
Venezuelan street gang terrorizing U.S. migrant communities
WEB5 days ago · As Tren de Aragua has grown, though, Venezuela’s economy has disintegrated, fueling unrest and, in return, government repression. According to the Migration Policy Institute, since 2015 more than 7 million Venezuelans have fled their homeland—roughly 25 percent of the entire Venezuelan population. Members of Tren de Aragua migrated too ...
Hundreds of suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers were part …
WEBHOUSTON, Texas — More than 100 suspected members of Tren de Aragua (TdA) were a part of the group that violently stormed the border at El Paso, Texas in March — as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ...
Venezuela's Tren de Aragua Loses its Home - InSight Crime
WEBJul 15, 2024 · Tren de Aragua, Venezuela’s most powerful home-grown criminal syndicate has just lost its home base, while its leadership is in the wind. A new, and potentially more dangerous, chapter has begun in its criminal evolution.
WEBTren de Aragua members organizing in prisons in Colombia, while concerns about this possibility have led to prisoner transfers to high-security jails in Peru and Chile.
Latin America’s most powerful new gang built a human-trafficking …
WEBNov 16, 2023 · By 2018 Tren de Aragua had taken control of illegal crossings at the border with Colombia. With thousands of Venezuelans leaving their country every day, the gang had found a new business. At...
Venezuelan gang ‘Tren de Aragua' active along Texas-Mexico …
WEB2 days ago · Concerns were raised over the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua or TdA coming into the United States. “El Paso is the hot spot, the hottest spot right now, for the reasons we talked about,” Texas ...
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