Biden administration greenlit refugee applications for members of bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang: report

The Department of Homeland Security reportedly approved exile applications for members of a Venezuelan pack present causing havoc successful states crossed the U.S., and authorities person accrued efforts to way and deport members.

Kevin Grigsby, the caput of exile operations astatine U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, told officials successful an interior email that members of Tren de Aragua had been approved for exile presumption and made it to the U.S. earlier a antithetic bureau spotted tattoos indicating pack membership. They were past stopped from entering, according to The Washington Times.

"Unfortunately, we did not inquire astir the tattoos during our adjudication oregon did not place that the tattoos asked astir were accordant with pack membership," helium wrote successful a Sept. 16 email, the Times reported.

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A inactive representation from societal media video shows suspected juvenile Tren de Aragua members based astatine the Roosevelt Hotel who person allegedly been targeting adjacent Times Square successful a drawstring of robberies. (Obtained by New York Post)

"The imaginable introduction of suspected pack members into the United States represents a superior nationalist information interest that we request to marque definite we are being vigilant against."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to USCIS for comment.

The gang is believed to person started successful the Tocoron situation successful the Venezuelan authorities of Aragua and has since expanded into Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and the U.S. It has grown successful the U.S. during the historical migrant situation astatine the confederate border. States similar New York, Texas and Colorado person been dealing with crimes allegedly committed by the gang.

The revelation comes arsenic DHS confirmed this week that it is not recommending that much than 100 migrants it has identified arsenic having ties to Tren de Aragua beryllium enactment connected an FBI watchlist. The bureau flagged much than 600 migrants with imaginable ties overall, but officials judge that galore of those are relatives oregon victims oregon witnesses to crimes by the gang.

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In a statement, DHS said the identities emerged arsenic portion of an ongoing rescreening cognition to tackle the gang. 

"As a portion of our enactment to counter TdA, DHS has an ongoing cognition to ace down connected pack members done rescreening definite individuals antecedently encountered, successful summation to the rigorous screening and vetting astatine the border," a DHS spokesperson said.

The bureau said that those confirmed oregon suspected of being pack members volition beryllium either referred for prosecution oregon placed into expedited removal — a deportation process that allows for the speedy removal of amerciable immigrants.

This compilation shows suspected Tren de Aragua members and the confederate border, (Fox News/Border Patrol)

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The connection stressed that those identified successful the rescreening "include those already successful custody, imaginable victims oregon witnesses who are not themselves suspected of being TdA members, and others who whitethorn not person immoderate engagement successful TdA astatine all."

TdA has go an contented successful the statesmanlike predetermination arsenic well. Former President Trump announced precocious helium would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to people and dismantle "every amerciable migrant transgression web operating connected American soil."