BREAKING: Texas' Abbott Announces Major Border Security Change To Take On 'Deadly' Venezuelan Gang

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e good morning I want to thank everybody for being with us here today for a very important announcement also want to uh thank the participants with me at the table uh to to my right uh we have the Texas borders are Mike Banks to my left is the director of the Texas Department of Public saf Steven mraw and we also have with us Chris Cabrera the vice president for the national border patrol Council we’re here today to talk about a dangerous maybe even a deadly threat facing both our state as well as our country it’s the recent entry and expansion of the vicious Venezuela gang known as Tren de aragua also known as TDA officials are are concerned about what is going on with TDA its recent expansion and entry of this gang could destabilize Public Safety in the United States as well as in the state of Texas for us in law enforcement across the state our top priority is the security and the safety of our fellow Texans this is a nonpartisan bipartisan issue that everybody agrees upon that we need a to aggressively address this threatening challenge TDA is Char characterized as MS13 on steroids TDA is the largest criminal organization in Venezuela it started as a prison gang in the state of aragua Venezuela and has now expanded to a transnational criminal organization now they are dominating the international flow of migrants from South America through Mexico into the United States I’m not seeing that one up here oh you if if you look at two maps over or two charts over from me that shows South America to the US that shows the current status of the flow and operation of TDA across South America Central America and now North America TDA is notorious for their brutal violence and murder and their kidnapping extortion bribery and trafficking of drugs weapons and even humans they’ve been linked to more than 100 law enforcement investigations across the country they were involved in the brutal attack and assault upon New York Police Department Law Enforcement Officers reports have also linked TDA to the murder of Lincoln Riley intelligence reports show TDA has been given the green light to shoot law enforcement officers in the United States in other countries infiltrated by TDA history has shown they first flood the countries with military age Venezuelan men next they begin to establish a base of operations finally TDA begins a spree of violent and blood bloody criminal activity we’ve now seen the beginnings of these operations in the state of Texas the second to last map that you see on your leftand side are locations in the state of Texas where we have identified either known or suspected TDA TDA activity in the state of Texas since 2021 more than 3,000 illegal immigrants from Venezuela have been arrested in Texas and another more than 200 are wanted there is currently no TDA database to be able to verify if these arrests are of TDA members or non-da members so what the Texas Department of Public Safety is working on as well as other law enforcement they’re working to create a database from scratch they were doing that by watching for suspected TDA activity that matches the known methods of operation of confirmed TDA activity in other countries we will build that database by looking at common traits shared by TDA you see on the chart right here some of those characteristics they include tattoos scars marks types of crime methods of operation now importantly today I’m announcing what Texas is doing to stop the spread of TDA in our state I ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to launch a Statewide operation directly targeting TDA to deter and to disrupt their criminal operations in Texas DPS is collaborating with Federal and local law enforcement through the Texas anti-gang centers when I became governor of Texas there was one anti-gang Center to crack down on gang activity in our state today there are now nine anti-gang centers AC Ross the state in Dallas Fort Worth El Paso Houston Laredo leet McAllen San Antonio Tyler and Waco you will see those locations on this map over here also I signed laws that provide more than a hundred million dollar to support these anti-gang centers over just the next two years but to more direct directly Target TDA I directed DPS to elevate TDA to a tier one gang the worst of the worst ensuring that DPS deploys the resources that are needed to Corral this growing Menace already we’re making a rest of suspected TDA members for example recently El Paso residents were concerned about criminal activity at the Gateway Hotel in El Paso in the last few months DPS special agents worked with the El Paso Police Department gang units to arrest criminal activity at and around El Paso’s Gateway Hotel more than 20 arrests were made many of whom were suspected TDA members for charges that include human smuggling prostitution possession of illegal drugs as well as other crimes and now the Gateway Hotel in El Paso has been shut down and earlier this year more than a 100 suspected TDA members were arrested after the riots at the El Paso border when immigrants assaulted the Texas National Guard also today I am officially declaring TDA a foreign terrorist organization we will bring the full weight of the government against the TDA we by declaring TDA a foreign terrorist organization Texas will use the courts to Halt their operations use civil asset forfeiture to take the property use enhanced criminal penalties to keep them in jail behind bars for longer periods of time at this time I’m going to sign that Proclamation Texas is aggressively going after these foreign terrorist organizations of TDA Texas will also use a newly passed law in our state to impose a mandatory minimum of at least 10 years behind bars against TDA gang members who smuggle people into Texas also I directed the DPS to create a new TDA Strike Team made of Highway Patrol officers DPS special agents Texas Rangers SWAT teams including aircraft helicopters and drones K9 teams and intelligence units these strike teams will collaborate with Texas anti-gang Center Law Enforcement Officers to Surge resources to areas where known or suspected TDA activity is taking place together they will seek to identify and arrest TDA gang members our goal among law enforcement in the state of Texas is to defend our state from the growing threat of TDA we are not going to allow them to use Texas as a base of operations to terrorize our citizens Texas is a Law and Order State and and I will ensure that law enforcement has every tool they need to keep our community safe at this time I will turn it over to director McCraw of the Texas Department of Public Safety Governor thank you traga TDA gangsters are like cockroaches they multiply quickly small intrusions into communities become infestations if not aggressively pursued these been as well thugs as the governor noted are highly combative they’re violent they’re certainly adaptable and they always are involved in in situations that criminal activities that first start with human smuggling then not just human smuggling but human smuggling of migrants and whether it’s in South America or Central America and certainly on the Texas border they were involved in the extortion extortion kidnappings rape you know assaults and sex trafficking of migrants once in place they expand their criminal operations we’ve seen it around the state try to get a foothold and when talk about expanding the criminal operations they’re talking about pushing out other criminal gangs operating in that area Governor Abbott has made it very clear is that we’ll not allow any of these TDA gangsters to gain a footh hole in Texas to that end Texas anti gang Center already have ongoing criminal Enterprise investigations against TDA and all of the operational areas throughout the state we’re requesting that our federal Partners provide us information on the whereabouts of these venezuel and migrants that’s very important because unfortunately you’re either a TDA member or a victim of TDA this information will be extremely helpful in identifying additional TDA members and their victims I mean some can find it harsh using the term you know infestation and cockroaches and things like that all you have to do is interview or spend some time with some victims some migrant victims that are here in this country you’ll understand that the governor has not overstated the issue in fact he’s well stated the issue and Texas is not going to allow any part of this state to be infested that type of disease thank you very much thank you Governor sure now Chris cero with the national border of Patrol Council uh thank you Governor you know I could I could sit up here and and throw statistics at you and give you numbers as far as how many people are crossing and how many are got ways but but none of that would really matter when dealing with with uh the issue that we have here with with this gang it’s it’s not uh they’re not like traditional like ms-13s where you can see them coming a mile away with the crazy tattoos they have all over their face these guys fly under the radar um as a federal agent we have no way of of vetting these people uh other than the honor System if if they tell us they’re from so and so and this is their name we can’t check against Venezuela’s database they’re not going to give us access to it so we have to let them go um unfortunately we do let them go um in the off chance we’re going to deport them Venezuela decides they’re not going to take them back so our government uh uh on the federal level is kind of weak-minded and so we just go ahead okay well you know go ahead and stay here then and it’s unfortunate what we’re seeing uh it it is an infestation it’s taking hold um not just in uh you know Colorado or New York it’s up in Michigan uh Florida Texas you name it um it’s it’s spreading and what people fail to realize is working on the border we see everything come through but it doesn’t affect us as much it is as it affects the rest of the United States especially Houston um everything that comes through our area just passes through and it ends up as your problem or a problem somewhere up north and and if people don’t wake up and see it for what it is we’re going to be in a lot of trouble in this country thank you now the Texas borders are Mike Banks good afternoon I want to be very clear that a TDA problem in Texas and the rest of the United States is a direct result of open border policies the Biden Harris Administration has sent out an all call to the world that you can cross this border without any consequences think about it for a moment there are 195 known countries in this world and in the last three plus years we’ve had 169 of those countries cross illegally into this country then you talk about Venezuela that being one of those countries where it is a known fact that the Venezuelan government has released prisoners with one condition you leave Venezuela and don’t come back well then they answer the all call from this Administration they show up here so there’s there’s no surprise that we have a criminal illegal gang problem in the United States and thankfully we’re addressing that talk about vetting you get the federal government will tell you the Biden Harris and secretary mayorcas will tell you that they’re vetting everyone they’re releasing that is an absolute lie because they cannot vet them against their criminal history in Venezuela because Venezuela refuses to share that information with us because it would defeat the very purpose of releasing them to go into another country if they were going to be held because of that criminal history so you know Governor Abbott has been at the Forefront of this open border crisis this is nothing that we haven’t been talking about since OS started back in March we knew that these are the types of things that are going to happen when you have an open border and you allow everyone of the country without proper vetting you know thankfully we’ve had a strong legislature that has given us many of the laws that the governor has talked about here today that we’re using to go after TDA um and so I want to thank the legislature and then also want to thank the governor for having the moral courage to continue fighting this fight and doing everything we can to protect Texas and the rest of the United States and we’re not going to stop until Biden Harris Administration steps up and honors their oath of office which is to protect America and Americans first thank you thank you we’ll take a few questions go ahead Governor thank you for having this briefing I was curious about the timing of addressing TVA now we it’s been in the news in Colorado obviously um and uh former president Trump mentioned it at campaign is there can you address the timing of this and why why you’re bringing it up well because o over the past year we’ve seen uh slow but increasing activity by TDA and our state uh as I pointed out several months ago uh we we began the arrests of TDA or suspected TDA members uh in the state of Texas uh W with the increased flow uh we’ve had to not only expand our efforts uh but add to the Crackdown by doing things like declaring them a foreign terrorist organization uh using enhanced tools using these anti-gang centers to prioritize their top job at the anti-gang centers is to go after uh these TDA members uh the the fact of the matter is this is something that has exploded in the aftermath of when the president said if you’re from Venezuela you’re going to be allowed in into the United States as Mike Banks was explaining as also Colonel McCraw were explaining there is no database like if if a if border patrol you know arrest or encounters uh a person from Venezuela they may think or suspect that could be a TDA member but there’s no database to be able to determine that and confirm that part of this effort now because of the increased number of military aged men from Venezuela crossing our border who seem to have all the characteristics of a TDA member we are going about the process of establishing that database so we can track them follow them uh and see what their uh modus of operation is so that hopefully they will lead to uh a documentation of verified TDA members uh that also lead to arrests and putting them behind bars govern can you describe documented and suspect TD activity in the houst area it’s marked on the board over there and then should Texans just assume that any young man who’s come over from Venezuela even that we’ve already said they’re hard to identify our members or suspected members of this criminal organization on on your first part of your question I’ll have director McCraw talk about what’s happening in Houston second there there’s there’s should be no like say immediate reason why someone should be able to classify or suspect a person as a TDA member look at this chart right here those provide some not all but but some of the characteristics of TDA members you you know that like MS-13 game members they have certain traits certain tattoos certain markers and things like that that raise suspicion they’re probable ms3 team members same thing goes with Trend aragua and that is that there there are characteristics methods of operation but maybe most significantly when you when you add these markers to one of the leading things they do uh and that is they come into a country they will smuggle people into the country uh they will then engage in human trafficking now we feel when you add all that together we’re dealing with a TDA member we want to arrest them uh and see if maybe they’ll confess or see if other things occur that will lead to a TDA member even with that said even if they don’t confess to being a TDA member because of what they have done in the United States that makes them a criminal for which they should be arrested and prosecuted but on on the first party questions about Houston I’ll have col McCraw address that yes sir it’s not just in Houston but around the state what we’ve seen is TDA members what they’ll do is they’ll infiltrate areas by following migrants that they exploited at the board they continue to exploit including the sex trafficking of children uh that’s where it starts with okay then they quickly expand and multiply at that point in time is when they engage in other criminal activities and there is no I’ve said opportunistic before there is no limit to what those criminal activities are it’s just all about profit in that regard and once they have and sell and fully established in that regard they threaten the other criminal gangs and more Vic victims and what do what do TDA members look like well they look like Americans is what they look like plain and simple so we focus on the criminal activity and if you’re a visit Venezuelan National been released come here illegally you come between the ports of Entry you’ve been apprehended by border patrol and released into the United States because there’s no proper way of vetting them at that point in time okay it depends on whether they’re a migrant okay a victim an associate or a TDA member they don’t have a lot of rival gangs in Venezuela like the US they not talking about the Aran Brotherhood Aran Circle so forth and so on they basically have monopolized okay crime in Venezuela and exported it to Chile Peru and Colombia and about 2018 is when they came transnational and the federal government has designated them as a a certainly a transnational criminal organization so they understand the threat the federal government does unfortunately we’re not getting much help if you’re going to allow into the country me but we presented map of Texas with a documented T activity exactly you see both suspect you see suspected and you see also actual through the actual doed crime uh trafficking extortion kidnapping all a variety of different crimes that they’ve been involved in uh but all always on the front end and that’s why El Pas is kind of the center of gravity right now MS13 ms18 it was Houston because of the large relocation of central Americans in this area El Paso Venezuela is really Ground Zero at that point one because they continue to support the war is related gangs involved in smuggling of people across the border and they combat with us we deal with them daily in that regard and as the governor pointed out the riot that was created by TDA members and other Associates from Venezuela that overran the guard positions that’s the type of attitude we talk about highly combative anti- law enforcement they they combat Security Forces around the world so it’s a different animal if you will and understandably why the governor is concerned and expects us to be very proactive in addressing this particular threat go ahead as you all mentioned um some of the victims of these crimes are often migrants cled to hear what is law enforcement doing to make these migrants feel comfortable coming forward especially if there’s other things happening the St like potentially it’s important that we communicate U certainly in Spanish okay how they can report certainly to the local law enforcement officials but also in terms of eyew watch any criminal activity I mean they’re here they’ve been led into the country by the US government so they’re here essentially legally now and they have rights like any people do and certainly we want to know there’s been a violation of law or if they’re a victim of it in fact we encourage any migrant that has come to Texas and has been brutalized by TDA or other Venezuelan criminals to report that to local law enforcement as quick as possible and order the Department of Public Safety and I can tell you that we’re working very closely as the governor noted in these Texas and gang centers with our local state and federal law enforcement agencies and there are uh substantial progress in some of the invest ation but there’s too much more work to be done also we often see an outcry for help uh from migrants uh who are being traffic who are being sexually assaulted who are just pleading uh for somebody to help them uh and to do something about their attackers just to follow up on that is there any concern that there’s other policies or other things going on in Texas that could affect how comfortable com forward we haven’t seen anything like that yet than um just a followup Governor um and and the rest of y’all about the um the resar reports that we’ve seen about TDA in Colorado was it a concern that you feel like these folks are coming up through Texas into other states and maybe if you could address some of what former president Trump has talked about because he’s been talking about this as a national problem are you trying to sort of cut that off in tax so obviously what happened in Colorado was very serious obviously what happened in El Paso is very serious obviously we now have either suspected suspected or documented TDA members in the state of Texas we know for what’s happening nationally as well as internationally the seriousness of TDA we know that if we don’t stop this now it could spread spre rapidly across our state endangering people across our state we want to get ahead of that process and cut this off right now and make sure TDA understands uh when they come to the state of Texas they’re going to face the heavy hand of law enforcement uh with a a robust literally hundreds if you count all the local law enforcement thousands of law enforcement officers who are focused on TDA they have a Target on their back and we’re going after them we have one goal and that is to arrest them and make them understand that Texas is a wrong state for them to be trying to do business in great thanks everyone

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BREAKING: Texas’ Abbott Announces Major Border Security Change To Take On ‘Deadly’ Venezuelan Gang

Truly Right View: Advocating for Free Speech in the Age of Political Censorship

Introduction: What is Free Speech Today?

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Social Media Influencers: Fighters for Freedom or Puppets of Censorship?

The Dangers of Socialism, Communism, and Fascism: A Threat to Free Speech

The Truly Right View: Defending Freedom in the Digital Age

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