Tren de Aragua members of violent Venezuelan migrant gang arrested in Texas: HSI

Homeland Security agents successful Texas successfully apprehended 2 Venezuelan nationals who were members of the bloodthirsty gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), which has established operations passim the U.S.

In a merchandise Friday, the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Antonio announced that peculiar agents arrested the 2 Venezuelan nationals successful San Antonio during an enforcement cognition targeting the convulsive pack connected Sept. 19.

The bureau said that they received accusation that these individuals were allegedly progressive successful a conspiracy to illegally transport firearms.

Following their apprehension, some individuals were transferred into ICE custody based connected their migration violations, HSI said. The San Antonio Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) were besides progressive successful the arrests.

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These images from a CBP quality bulletin, amusement tattoos and identifiers for Tren De Aragua (TdA). Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a $5,000 reward for accusation starring to the recognition and apprehension of known oregon suspected TdA members.  (ICE)

The TdA is simply a convulsive thoroughfare pack believed to person originated successful Venezuelan prisons and moved northbound implicit the past decade. 

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However, its estimation wrong the U.S. has grown this year, successful part, owed to a fig of high-profile crimes linked to the gang, with galore believed to person arrived by coming crossed the confederate borderline arsenic portion of the crisp summation successful migration successful caller years.

The suspected Tren de Aragua pack members engaged successful amerciable enactment including amerciable dumping and cause use, according to the El Paso County Attorney's Office successful Texas. (KFOX14 / El Paso County Attorney's Office)

The pack made headlines precocious successful Aurora, Colorado, wherever determination person been a fig of arrests and reports that the pack has taken implicit full flat buildings — thing section authorities person pushed backmost against. 

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The apprehension of the 2 pack members successful San Antonio came aft Gov. Greg Abbot declared the pack a "foreign violent organization" past week portion announcing that the authorities was taking a much assertive attack to targeting its members. 

"Tren de Aragua has spread terror and carnage successful each state they've been in, and Texas volition not let them to summation a foothold successful our state," Abbott said successful a statement. "Texas volition not fto these thugs usage our authorities arsenic a basal of operations to terrorize our citizens."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott makes an announcement connected the aboriginal of the abstraction manufacture successful the state. (Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images)

Abbott has directed DPS to elevate the pack to a Tier 1 pack and to make a TdA Strike Team that volition place and apprehension its members. 

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Tipsters tin supply accusation to authorities via the Texas Department of Public Safety's website by calling 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).

Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.