The following is from The Border Report.
As members of violent gangs such as Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua continue to slip scrutiny at the border, a West Texas congressman is pushing for more local involvement in tracking foreign criminals.
“Border Patrol is the first layer of defense, but it’s clear they have been (overwhelmed),” U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, said. “Right now, local law enforcement relies on the federal component to provide additional information. What if it’s vice versa; what if the person on the ground that knows their community was providing information upstream?
“Why not arm local law enforcement with more information and not just blindly walking through because in many cases, they’re the ones having to deal with these actors on a daily basis?”
Gonzales’ comments come in response to a NewsNation report alleging 1,000 members of Tren de Aragua are in the United States and have received a “green light” from their leaders to fire on police officers.
The report is based on a Border Patrol internal bulletin.
Gonzales, whose congressional district runs from El Paso to the other side of Eagle Pass, Texas, did not say if he’s seen the bulletin but agrees bad actors are getting through the U.S.-Mexico border. He said the threat is “credible” and should be taken seriously.
“This (Tren de Aragua) threat is growing. These Venezuelan gangs are not just passing through, they’re staying in our communities,” Gonzales said Tuesday during a Zoom call with Border Report and KTSM. “In San Antonio, just two days ago, a police officer was shot by a Venezuelan national – I don’t know if he’s TDA, but he shot a police officer. What worries me is these organizations are brazen; they’re not afraid to engage. If they’re going to shoot a police officer, what are they going to do to you and I?”
The federal lawmaker said he met with the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently and was told that more than 10,000 unauthorized migrants have committed serious crimes either after arriving in the United States or back in their country of origin.
He added he’s been to processing centers where he’s seen men with face and hand tattoos. “Was he Venezuelan? We have no idea. That’s what worries me,” Gonzales said. “We have to know who is coming into our country. Just giving them (immigration) parole and hoping for the best is not the best course of action. We have to protect our communities.”
Border Report reached out to ICE in El Paso for comment regarding the congressman’s statements and was told to contact the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. Border Report is waiting for a reply. (Continued…)
Link to article here.
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I’d add another zero to that.
If 10,000 have “slipped through the border” how many have been purposely let in, or flown in, by this administration? The left wants crime, chaos, and division. They want to destroy the USA in order to rebuild it, for the global government.
It’s as if the Biden regime allowed the border catastrophe on purpose. Because they did.
Now with these aliens in the country anything goes including allowing them to vote.
10,000 that were caught. Who knows how many others slipped by undetected.
Carol B,
Just consider how MORONIC
it is—that one has to find out
why Third Worlders rush to
get into ONCE-White Western
nation-states ( the anthropo-
logical definition of “NATION”
is :
“A people of Common Ancestry” ).
What you (( and most of Libertine
Leftists’ Re-Made America : MADE
multi-racial, via their Marxian
Diversity-Perversity programs ))
may not know :
https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/07/poll-most-say-illegals-should-be-subject-to-mass-deportation/#comment-184990
-Rick
Quite literally NONE of the invaders have even the slightest idea that what they’re helping to create will be WORSE than what they left their homes to get away from. It’s going from the frying pan into the fire.
PROVE THEY WERE “CRIMINAL”
Does anyone know if the House passed the bi-partisan border bill, instead of listening to Trump’s hateful stand against America, this would have been prevented or not? Does any “Chump” supporter really care.