FRONTLINES: Laken Riley's murderer linked with 'bloodthirsty' Venezuelan gang reportedly operating in the US

by: Frontlines Staff 03/16/2024

The illegal immigrant charged with Laken Riley’s murder was linked to the “bloodthirsty”Venezuelan gang, “Tren De Aragua,” and one immigration lawyer is warning Americans that the gang is now operating within the U.S.

“Some very dangerous people are coming through the border,” Rolando Vasquez, a Miami-based immigration lawyer told Frontlines. “They’re set up, they’re already open for business is what the United States needs to know.”

Julio Rosas, reporting from Miami, Florida on behalf of TPUSA Frontlines, interviewed several individuals who had been victimized by the brutal gang, all of whom kept their identities hidden while on camera for their safety.

One victim of the violent gang was a former police officer who told Rosas that in Miami currently,several families are living in constant fear that the gang will kill their family membersstill living in South Americaif they do not send “Tren De Aragua” money.

“Here in Miami, there are families who have to send “Tren De Aragua” money to them from the United States, because if they don’t, they’ll kill their family back home,” he explained. “Many colleagues of mine— they were brutally murdered.”

“These people are armed. They don’t have any morals or any basic concept of respect for human life,” he added.

Another victim who spoke to Rosas and Vasquez said that the gang attempted to extort $40,000 from him under the threat that they would kidnap his wife and child.

“They started threatening us, my parents, they started to threaten that they would mess with my girls, that they were going to kill my girls and my wife,” another victim of the gang said. “I started receiving texts that they were going to kill me,” he continued, “as soon as they would get an opportunity. Until the day I could pay.”

“These are people who are really coming to threaten the national security of this country,” the victim added.

Vasquez explained that people with a background of gang violence in South America are not going to be “reformed” after entering the U.S., and he fears that the violence will only continue the longer the U.S.-Mexico border remains open and hospitable to these “life-long criminals.”

The supposedfirst murder of this brutal gang on U.S. soil occurred just last month in Miami and left a 43-year-old retired Venezuelan police officer dead. However, the man charged with murdering 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was also linked to “Tren De Aragua,” which was only discovered after he was arrested in New York for child endangerment.

Though Florida is thousands of miles from the southern border, illegal immigrants have managed to not only infiltrate the state but also operate and facilitate criminal activity. Vasquez is committed to continually sounding the alarm in hopes that the U.S. government will act to protect Americans.

https://humanevents.com/2024/03/16/frontlines-laken-rileys-murderer-linked-with-bloodthirsty-venezuelan-gang-reportedly-operating-in-the-us

CHECK THE DATE – Republican Mike Gallagher Quits Congress, Dropping GOP Majority to One Seat

March 22, 2024 | Sundance |

Following Ken Buck (U-CO), Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher (U-WI) announces he is leaving congress.

This exit drops the GOP majority in the House to one seat, following a path that seemingly continues to put the Democrats in control prior to the 2024 election.This should be the GOPe insurance policy against President Trump’s successful election outcome. There are trillions at stake.

Gallagher’s exit date is as subtle as a brick through a window:

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I said last year to watch out for April 19th, Patriot’s Day. {SEE HERE}

December 2023 – (Via Politico) – […] during a flight from Canada to D.C. on Tuesday morning: former Speaker PAUL RYAN attempting to persuade Rep. MIKE GALLAGHER (R-Wis.) via text message to endorse Haley’s presidential bid. (more)

This is what we are up against.

Everyone has a leverage point.

Be open with your secrets, or you position yourself to be compromised.

I digress….

…If conspiracies were theories, Suspicious Cat wouldn’t exist.

(https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/22/check-the-date-republican-mike-gallagher-quits-congress-dropping-gop-majority-to-one-seat/

A Nefarious Intent – FISA 702 Authorization Will Be Extended Through April 19th Inside Bipartisan NDAA Agreement

December 7, 2023 |

FISA-702 surveillance was the legal mechanism by which the 2016 campaign of Donald Trump was placed under surveillance.

If the FISA-702 authorities are extended, this surveillance is what has been authorized to continue through April 19, 2024. House Judiciary Ranking Member, Democrat Jerry Nadler, organized the date for extension.

I believe we have struck the right balance here and perhaps the only balance that can pass the House at this time,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said about the bill.

Why April 2024?

Quite simply, and brutally honestly if we apply prior precedent to the extension timing, what you realize is the primary election of 2024 takes place between January and April of 2024. If things go as predicted by most, Donald Trump will have likely secured enough delegates for the nomination by the end of April. The extension will give the surveillance apparatus the ability to conduct searches of information throughout this period.

On/around April 19, 2024, the GOP nominee will likely have locked down the nomination. The nominee is likely to be Donald Trump.

Beyond the extension motive, the previous counterintelligence investigation by the FBI never stopped.

The same investigative units from the FBI then transferred into the Jack Smith special counsel. There is no reason to believe a counterintelligence investigation does not underpin the legal authorities by which the current DOJ is keeping candidate Donald Trump under surveillance today.

Using the wording within the criminal indictment, the DOJ-NSD could -likely is- considering Donald Trump a national security threat. All indications from the Jack Smith prosecution point in this direction. There is no countervailing data that would suggest the DOJ is not considering Donald Trump a national security threat. As a result, it is very likely candidate Trump is once again under a FISA authorized Title-1 surveillance warrant….. and everyone within two hops of him would be under the same.

On/around April 19, 2024, if Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee, the FISA court might look at any renewal authorities differently. It’s one thing to have American citizen Donald Trump under title-1 surveillance, it is another thing entirely to have the opposing candidate to the current administration under legally authorized surveillance by the DOJ-NSD.

The end date of April 19, 2024, would align with a need to have more than reasonable suspicion to retain the surveillance. At least, that’s the way the FISC would likely look at it.

If Occam’s razor is applied to the current datapoints, the most likely scenario for the DOJ-NSD, FBI and Jack Smith special counsel investigative units, is that Donald Trump is currently under FISC authorized title-1 surveillance.

Retaining the 702 status quo through April allows the surveillance to fall upon anyone in his campaign orbit.

The DOJ’s position in 2024 would then simply be a repeat of the DOJ’s position in 2016.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/07/a-nefarious-intent-fisa-702-authorization-will-be-extended-through-april-19th-inside-bipartisan-ndaa-agreement/