On Monday, Texas authorities referred to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as ‘foreign terrorist organisation’ which has endorsed Donald Trump’s view that many of the migrants who come into the US have been released from jails in Latin America.
The Tren de Aragua is an international criminal group that operates in several countries of Latin America and specializes in extortion, murder, drug trafficking and human smuggling, authorities say.
Because of a political and economic situation in Venezuela, a lot of people from this country are permitted to go to the US and seek asylum there.
But Mike Banks, the top border official in Texas’s government, said that Venezuela “has exported prisoners on one condition: you never return to Venezuela.”
He said that the administration under President Joe Biden and vice president Kamala harris, is enticing such people into the United States with what Banks described as an open border policy.
Immigration advocates meanwhile say that the So called Biden administration has come hard on the borders preventing people from crossing and marginalized those who wish to cross over and seek asylum.
Alongside Banks in that same press conference, Gov. Greg Abbott, in his capacity as such, officially christened the Tren de Aragua, ‘foreign terrorist organization.’
It enables the government to prosecute the crime syndicate under an enhanced terrorism statute and also permits the setup of a special unit dedicated to combat the cartel.
The decision was taken a week following the presidential debate in which Trump without evidence blamed Harris that she had released millions of illegal immigrants from prisons or asylums in Mexico who came to the United States.
