And they're doing this specifically to destabilize the US.
Miranda Devine reports:
A newly released intelligence assessment has found that some Venezuelan government officials "facilitated" the illegal migration of members of the brutal Venezuelan criminal gang Tren De Aragua into the United States "to advance what they see as the Maduro regime's goal of destabilizing governments and undermining public safety."
However, while Venezuela's "permissive environment enables TDA to operate... the Maduro regime probably is not systematically directing Venezuelan outflows, such as to sow chaos in receiving countries," says the April memo from the National Intelligence Council, released Monday by the ODNI.
The memo waters down an earlier FBI assessment that the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is specifically directing TdA activities in the U.S.
But an ODNI source says that the bureau's intelligence is the most "robust and accurate given their focus on domestic security and crimes, versus limited intelligence assessments from other intelligence elements who by law focus solely on foreign intelligence collection, and who until President Trump took office, had very limited resources focused on TdA."
The Department of Homeland Security has identified more than 600 Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. with likely ties to TdA who crossed the border illegally during Joe Biden's presidency.
"From 2021 to 2024 there was a spike in Venezuelan encounters at the US-Mexico border, in which some TDA members could have been present as they have generally moved with Venezuelan migrant communities and profit from human trafficking and migrant smuggling," says the IC assessment.
The Venezuelan government gives sanctuary to TdA, "aiding and abetting their crimes and terrorist activities against the United States by enabling them to thrive."
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The IC assessment cites US law enforcement reports that members of the Maduro regime, including Diosdado Cabello, Minister of the Interior, and former Venezuelan Minister of Penitentiaries Iris Varela, "have cooperated with TDA by providing financial or materiel support, but we cannot verify the sources' access."
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"Maduro regime leadership probably sometimes tolerates TDA's presence in Venezuela, and some government officials may cooperate with TDA for financial gain.
The report notes that Maduro's hold on his country is tenuous, so the Marxist regime routinely makes deals with criminal gangs.
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Links between TdA and the Maduro regime were central to the Trump administration's decision to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected TdA gang members.
"Whether TdA exclusively murders, smuggles drugs, and traffics illegal immigrants over our borders on the orders of Venezuelan leaders, or freelances for self-enrichment is beside the point," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week. "It has killed on behalf of a hostile foreign government, that government has fostered its growth, and that government has encouraged it to invade the United States to advance its interests."
In New York City, the Tren de Aragua youth street gang the "Diabolos" just attacked cops in broad daylight.
A rowdy mob of Tren de Aragua-linked gangbangers turned on a pair of NYPD cops in Times Square in a shocking caught-on-video assault -- the second migrant attack on New York's Finest in the tourist hot spot in less than two years.
The cowardly attack came after the Friday night boxing match between Ryan Garcia and Rolly Romero in the Crossroads of the World, with the two cops jumped while trying to stop the thugs from robbing a pair of youngsters, law enforcement sources said.
At least three of the brutes were rounded up by Sunday afternoon -- including a 12-year-old reputed ring leader -- with police saying the mob is linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua through its baby-faced offshoot crew known as Diablos de la 42, or Devils of 42nd Street, the sources said.