WASHINGTON (TND) — There is widespread evidence the vast majority of migrants coming to the United States do so for the same reason as one Ecuadorian man we met in New York City, who told us he was fleeing a dangerous situation at home and the hope of work and security here.
And while data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows the numbers of those arriving at our Southern border have dropped dramatically, there are growing concerns about those coming as part of the Biden Administration’s parole program.
It allows those from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to fill out a form online and once approved, be brought to the United States by plane.
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So far, about 530,000 have taken part, including 117,000 from Venezuela, a country with which the United States has no diplomatic relationship, which means background information or their prior criminal history is hard to come by.
Over the last few months, concerns have increased about members of a violent Venezuelan gang taking advantage of the program and also sneaking into the country.
They are known as Tren de Aragua and one video allegedly shows them seeming to take over an apartment complex for several hours in Aurora, Colorado.
In El Paso, Texas a hotel being used as a migrant shelter reportedly was also housing many members of the gang, which Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, just designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
In an interview with Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures,” Abbott said this:
“The policy of the Biden Administration allows any event Venezuelan, who wants to come into our country to enter here. And because the Biden Administration does not have diplomatic relationship with Venezuela, there’s no background checks or background information coming from Venezuela to the United States. Hence it makes it so easy for this TDA Venezuelan gang that is so treacherous to come into the United States and set up bases. There are bases in New York and other states across the country now including the state of Texas.”
The New York Times reports that members of Tren de Aragua are living in and recruiting new members inside the city’s migrant shelters.
In Chicago, local media is reporting on gang turf wars , a phenomenon predicted by Victor Manjarrez, a former border patrol chief.
What happens when they start going to head to gangs like MS13 that are just as powerful, then what you have is a big mess. You have gangs fighting gangs,” he told KFOX.
Tyrone Muhammad, founder of the group, Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, recently told the New York Post,“When the Black gangs here get fed up with the illegalities and criminal activities of these migrants or non-citizens, the city of Chicago is going to go up in flames and there will be nothing the National Guard or the government can do about it.”
The City of Chicago has spent more than $400 million on migrants over the last few years, according to a new report from NBC 5 Chicago.
Local residents there and elsewhere have started to be more vocal at City Council meetings, arguing that money would be better spent on low-income residents who are citizens of the United States.
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