Blue State Colorado is ‘Command and Control’ Center for Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua Gang

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Prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on Sunday, March 16. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Colorado is “ground zero for some of the most violent criminals in America,” including Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua’s leadership said DEA Acting Administrator Derek Maltz.

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Maltz spoke to local outlet Denver 7, stating “Now, we are learning that the command and control for TdA in the entire United States of America is right here in Colorado.”

Maltz unambiguously credited the laws of Democratic-run Colorado to having allowed TdA and other criminals to “take advantage of vulnerabilities and weaknesses” to perpetuate their crimes.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive orderdirecting the State Department to designate TdA a “foreign terrorist organization.” The violent Venezuelan criminal group “has been linked to some of the most egregious crimes in America in recent years, including the murder of nursing student Laken Riley and the capturing of an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado” writes Fox News. 

“Anybody that thinks it’s a good idea to open up the border to adversaries around the world and then not even know who they are coming into our communities, it makes no sense,” Maltz said, adding, “People in this state have allowed illegal violent criminals in here at record levels.”

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Maltz added that this information was based on new intelligence from the “men and women on the front lines and what we’re seeing.”

“I’ve got a warning for the TdA members,” he added, “start running now.”

“The team of the DEA, working with their partners from FBI, ATF, HSI, ICE ERO and our state and local counterparts, it’s a team that takes public safety and national security serious and they’ve already proven what they can do,” he said. “So they better go and find another state because they are not welcome here in Colorado.”

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