Ex-ICE official warns Tren de Aragua has grown faster inside US than murderous rival gang: ‘Put them out now’
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A former ICE field director is warning that Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang, is establishing a presence in the United States and need to be stamped out.
"TdA is a true organization. They're not a gang. They have a better structure than MS-13 ever had. So I think that's the difference and if we look at TdA, just in the amount of time that TdA have been in the United States and how fast they've grown. When you look at that, you need to realize that they've grown faster and gotten into certain aspects of crime better than MS-13 did and MS-13 has been here for 25 years," he said. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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Tren de Aragua is believed to have started in the Tocoron prison in the Venezuelan state of Aragua and has since expanded into Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and the U.S. There have been numerous crimes in the last year that have been linked to TdA, in states including Georgia, Illinois, Texas, Colorado and New York.
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