The Biden Administration’s open-border policy over the past four years has been dangerous to our country in several different ways. Of course, one of the most obvious is that Biden’s policy encouraged hardened criminals, including murderers, rapists and child traffickers, to stream into the country and prey on American citizens.
It should come as no surprise to TTAG readers that when members of the vicious Venezuela gang Tren de Aragua crossed the border, they didn’t come here just for the free phones, taxpayer-funded lodging and to pursue the American dream. Most will remember that gang members took over some apartment buildings in Colorado. In fact, they came to ply their trade of violence and terror in a more criminal-friendly environment.
According to a recent ABCnews.com report, in late January, 10 members of associates of the Venezuelan gang were indicted on charges of running a nationwide gun-trafficking scheme in New York City.
An announcement by Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz stated that of those arrested in the plot, two were taken into custody in Texas and Florida. Four others were taken into custody in New York in an operation in which a city police officer was injured during the arrest.
“As a result of our investigation, 34 dangerous weapons are now off the streets, and we are dismantling this gang as it attempts to establish itself locally,” Katz said. According to Katz, the organization had intentions of taking the gun-trafficking scheme internationally, which, of course, is also illegal.
According to the ABCnews.com report, the group used the telephone app WhatsApp to communicate about the gun sales, and some of those sales were made in broad daylight in parking lots or by hiding guns in trash bags.
Of course, President Donald Trump’s views on the border are vastly different than Bidens, and his actions since inauguration day have proven him to be serious about getting violent criminals out of the country as quickly as possible.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) have arrested at least 30 Tren de Aragua members since the president’s crackdown on illegal immigrants in the country, and also MS-13 members in the country illegally and members of a Haitian gang.
Trump’s efforts at stopping criminals from entering the country have been no less successful. The success of that endeavor is easily demonstrated by a single week in late January.
On January 29, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks posted on X: “In the past seven days, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 4,577 individuals attempting to enter the country illegally, a significant 55% decrease from the previous week’s 10,281 apprehensions. This trend indicates that our enhanced border security measures produce results …”
