Venezuelan Gang Members Let In By Biden Charged In Chilling Murder Cases

Eight alleged members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua have been charged in connection with heinous murders in the United States after crossing the border under the Biden administration, the Justice Department announced Wednesday during a press conference.

In one of the cases, five alleged TdA members, including a “high-ranking” one, kidnapped a man, his 13-year-old daughter, and 12-year-old nephew in the middle of the night on August 24, 2024, outside of Dallas, Ryan Raybould, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said. Prosecutors say the accused gang members zip-tied the victims’ hands and demanded money from the man.

When the kidnappers realized the man couldn’t pay, they pulled the car over and took him to a nearby bridge, demanding that he jump off it, according to authorities.

The man refused to jump and tried to run before one of the alleged TdA members shot him “execution-style” in front of the children, Raybould said. The Farmers Branch Police Department found the man’s body on the side of the road with a gunshot wound between his eyes.

Three of the suspects are already in custody for other crimes, and one is being held in Colombia.

In a separate case in Chicago, three alleged gang members grabbed a man as he was walking near a park before shoving him into a car and taking him to a nearby apartment, Andrew S. Boutros, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said.

The accused TdA members then tied the victim’s wrists behind his back, holding him against his will for three hours, Boutros said.

According to prosecutors, they later took the victim to an abandoned building, where they shot him multiple times in the head and body. The alleged killers then abandoned the victim’s lifeless body, leaving it face down in the bathtub of an abandoned unit.

The victim’s mother called police the next evening, asking for a wellness check at the abandoned building, Boutros said. She told officers that co-conspirators had informed her of his possible presence in the building.

When Chicago police entered the building, they found the man’s body with multiple gunshot wounds and his hands still bound behind his back.

One of the accused TdA members was out on bail in Chicago, authorities said.

The eight accused TdA members at the center of Wednesday’s announcement crossed the border between December 2021 and April 2024, when record numbers of illegal migrants were entering the United States, according to the Justice Department. During that time, TdA members exploited the chaos of the migrant influx and began embedding themselves among the large groups crossing the southern border illegally.

At the time, the Biden administration was instructing Border Patrol agents to process and then release illegal migrants quickly. As a result, the agents were unable to run thorough background checks on suspected TdA members.

The Venezuelan regime also refused to provide information on its citizens who crossed into the United States.

All the while, TdA gained a foothold in the United States, committing killings, including the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, orchestrating apartment takeovers in cities like Aurora, Colorado, and operating sex trafficking rings in New York City.

During Wednesday’s press conference, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche railed against the Biden administration, saying it was to blame for the killings.

“These violent crimes and murders happened because, under the Biden administration open border policies left our borders wide open, and hundreds of suspected and now convicted TdA terrorists poured through those borders and into our country,” Blanche said.

“Now, President Trump stopped this madness on January 20 of last year. That same day, President Trump designated TdA as a foreign terrorist organization. In the 18 months since January 20 … nearly 350 members and associates of TdA have been charged and/or convicted of horrific violent crime,” Blanche added.