A brutal Venezuelan sex-trafficking gang is now in America’s biggest cities.
Chinese organized crime syndicates are running drug farms with slave labor in half a dozen US states.
Mexican drug cartels are operating vile human smuggling operations over the southern border with near impunity.
And on Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended eight alleged ISIS operatives in Los Angeles, New York City and Philadelphia.
The thread tying all of these imminent public safety and national security threats together is a runway illegal immigration crisis exposing America to an invasion of ‘ghost’ criminals, paramilitary foot soldiers and potential terrorists.
Tren de Aragua has emerged as the latest transitional criminal organization to threaten the US homeland
This new foreign menace has infiltrated the country hiding among millions of desperate migrants.
Now, more than three and a half years after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, DailyMail.com is revealing the full devastating – and perhaps, irreversible – impact of his administration’s systemic dismantling of U.S. national security and the groups that have thrived off the lawless border.
PRISON GANG MAKES AMERICA HOME
On June 3, two New York City police officers investigating a spate of robberies attempted to stop a young hispanic man speeding the wrong way down a Queens street on a motorized scooter.
A struggle ensued and the suspect, Bernardo Raul Castro-Mata, 19, pulled a gun and fired – striking one cop in his bullet-resistant vest and the other in the leg.
National security expert Joseph Humire
The officers were treated at the hospital and released. Mata was arrested and revealed to be living in the country illegally – having crossed into the US in July through a busy migrant route at Eagle Pass, Texas.
What’s more, Mata is a suspected member of a brutal Venezuelan prison gang once virtually unknown to U.S. law enforcement. Now, authorities in New York City, Chicago, Miami and beyond know the name Tren de Aragua.
The transnational criminal gang has humble origins in a Venezuela prison in the late 2000s. But its members have since exported their savage brand to America, hiding among millions of Venezuelan migrants who have fled the crumbling socialist dictatorship.
The NYPD has come to call many of these thugs ‘ghost criminals,’ because they have no way to identify them – except for their tattoos.
Members of the gang cover their bodies in distinctive drawings of AK-47s and skulls clad in gas masks.
There is no illicit activity that Tren is not involved in, but they specialize in some of the most repulsive and detestable crimes imaginable – sex trafficking and human smuggling.
Indeed, NBC News reported that three Tren gangsters in the US illegally forced two Venezuelan women into a Baton Rouge, Louisiana prostitution where they were forced to have sex with up to four men a day.
Members of the Barrio 18 gang are frequently caught by border guards as they cross from Mexico into the US One of the bodies piled up after a deadly shootout between members of Mexico’s cartel paramilitaries
Joseph M. Humire, a national security expert who specializes in transnational organized crime told DailyMail.com that Tren’s arrival in the US is the direct result of lawlessness at the southern border.
‘The open border is the magnet for these groups,’ said Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society. ‘They realize there’s money to be made from human smuggling. It’s become even more profitable than drugs.’
There are now reportedly more than 100 Homeland Security investigations involving suspected members of Tren and the gang is suspected in criminal probes in at least five states; New York, Illinois, Indiana, Texas, and Louisiana.
Tren may be making headlines now – but many other criminal groups are also exploiting the porous border.
CARTELS ‘GOVERN’ THE BORDER
Approximately 10 million illegal migrants have settled in the U.S. since Biden took office in January 2021 – nearly doubling the undocumented population.
Even these startling numbers understate the scale of the challenge for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers.
Chief of the US Border Patrol Jason Owens has acknowledged that ‘hardened criminals often hide in smuggled migrant groups’ making identifying and stopping dangerous individuals nearly impossible.
Late last year, 250,000 migrants arrived at the border in a single month. An estimated two million migrants are known to have slipped into the country without any vetting whatsoever.
Perhaps the biggest beneficiaries of this chaos are Mexico’s ultra-violent and sophisticated drug cartels.
Humira said the cartels are now the ‘governing structure’ along the Mexican side of the border – and they grow stronger every month bolstered by the billions of dollars they heap every month from the burgeoning human smuggling business.
Border Patrol Chief Owens revealed this week that members of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation cartel have been busted running organized crime rackets in Florida — nearly a thousand miles away from the border.
The cartels already had entrenched supply networks inside the US, but the lack of security at the border made it even easier for them to move narcotics, weapons, and foot soldiers over the frontier.
Drug trafficking remains that cartel’s number one industry.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced last month in its annual assessment on illegal drug trafficking that cartels operate in all 50 states — with their illicit activity concentrated in Texas, Arizona, California, and Florida.
The dominant organizations – the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels — ‘have caused the worst drug crisis in US history,’ the report says.
Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence officials are terrified by a major national security risk.
Members of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs, pictured her in prison in El Salvador, have brought havoc to the streets of the US ISIS-K members were recently arrested in three US cities – splinters of the Islamic group that once occupied swathes f Iraq and Syria
IMMINENT TERROR THREAT
Eight individuals from Tajikistani – a war-ravaged country in Central Asia northwest of Afghanistan – were arrested in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia on Tuesday by federal authorities.
They were all charged with crimes related to illegal entry into the US – and all of them have reported ties to ISIS-K.
ISIS-K or Islamic State Khorasan Province is a branch of the terror army that recently claimed responsibility for a March 22 attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed 145 people and injured more than 550 others.
The eight men illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the last several months and they were vetted by law enforcement before being released, according to an official who spoke to CBS News.
Only later did the FBI alert Immigration and Customs Enforcement of alleged their terror ties.
Earlier this month, FBI Director Chris Wray warned that he was increasingly concerned over the ‘potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, not unlike the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russian concert hall.’
And in January, ten retired FBI directors and experts in counterintelligence wrote a letter warning Congressional leaders that an unsecured southern border represents that ‘greater security risk’ to the U.S. in a lifetime.
A Chinese laborer at a illegal cannabis farm in New Mexico that was shut down in 2020. Former workers at the plant filed a lawsuit last year against its kingpins alleging mistreatment State police seized 970 marijuana plants at a Chinese farm in the town of China, Maine in January
CHINESE SLAVE LABOR DRUG FARMS
For months, law-enforcement officials across several US states have sounded the alarm about the rising number of Chinese gang-run cannabis growing operations.
Oklahoma has shuttered some 1,000 marijuana farms since late 2020 — nearly all of them linked to Chinese organized crime rings, officials say.
These groups are often known as ‘Triads,’ a loose term to describe notorious criminal syndicates with deep roots in East Asia. Some are believed to cooperate with Chinese Communist Party officials in Beijing.
Hundreds of properties in Maine have been investigated as Chinese migrant gang-run pot farms. And these operations have also sprung up across the country in California, New Mexico and Washington state.
These farms depend on trafficked and forced labor from Chinese migrants who have flowed up through Central America into Mexico and the US in recent years.
At least 37,000 Chinese people have reportedly entered the US through Texas in 2023 alone – that number is 10 times higher than the past 10 years combined.
Workers interviewed by US journalists have described being tricked into working for criminal enterprises – as a condition of their illicit passage into the US.
Others are reportedly trafficked into the US for the express purpose of laboring at these farms for no pay under inhumane conditions and unable to leave.
A director of a social services non-profit in New Mexico said Chinese migrants in one New Mexico farm were found with ‘visible burns on their hands and arms.’
‘They were very scared, very freaked out,’ said Lynn Sanchez of The Life Link. ‘They looked very malnourished.’
These are the consequences of nearly four years of President Biden’s open border polices.
And there’s no telling how long it will take for these deleterious effects to be reversed – if ever.
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