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Haitian gang leader ‘massacred more than 100 people claiming witchcraft killed his son’

A Haitian gang leader is accused of ordering the massacre of more than 100 people, including elderly religious leaders, to avenge the death of his son.

The killings reportedly took place between Friday and Saturday in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.

According to the National Human Rights Defense Network, Micanor Altès, also known as Monel Felix and Wa Mikanò, sought the advice of a Vodou priest after his son fell ill.

The human rights organization said that following the boy’s death, Altès began to accuse older people in the community of ‘of practicing witchcraft and harming the child.’

The Cooperative for Peace and Development learned that gunmen swept up community leaders in the Cité Soleil neighborhood and took them to Altès’ stronghold, where they were murdered along with motorcycle drivers who attempted to intervene.

‘He decided to cruelly punish all elderly people and (Vodou) practitioners who, in his imagination, would be capable of casting a bad spell on his son,’ the group said.

The Cooperative for Peace and Development found that that there’s a ban on people leaving the community ‘in order to continue to identify (Vodou) practitioners and the elderly with the aim of carrying out the silent killing.’

Haiti’s government in a statement Monday acknowledged the massacre and said that more than 100 people were killed.

While reports of the number of dead in Port-au-Prince tend to vary in a country where such killings often occur in gang-controlled, largely inaccessible areas, the government vowed to seek justice for the ‘unspeakable carnage.’

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Mass Shootings Including Police Officer Shot in Cicero, Illinois After Venezuelan Transnational Gang Member Had Been Arrested by I.C.E.

Over the weekend in Cicero, Illinois—a southwest suburb of Chicago—there were five total people shot, including one police officer and one person killed.

This comes just a week after eight people were shot, with three killed just south of Cicero in the Gage Park neighborhood.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the Gage Park incident, which has now been confirmed to be Venezuelan and likely illegals.

Recent reporting from WBBM Chicago indicates the shooter of the police officer has been identified as a known “street gang member.” Police have arrested 19-year-old Giovanni Saldivar.

At this time, it is undetermined whether or not the man is directly connected to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan Transnational gang. However, Tren de Aragua-connected gang members have been known to be in the area.

This marks a considerable uptick in Cicero’s murder rate. According to Crimegrade.org, Cicero has a murder rate of 0.0432 murders in 1,000. In the last year, they have seen a spike in violence.

It’s relevant to note there have been considerable changes as Illinois’ sanctuary state status has funneled an influx of illegal immigrants to the City of Chicago. This has had a spillover effect in the suburbs.

In February of this year, The Gateway Pundit reported that there were buses of illegals landing in train stations all over the suburbs. Terry Newsome of Behind Enemy Lines filmed illegals flashing gang signs and tattoos seemingly affiliated with the transnational criminal gang from Venezuela known as Tren de Aragua.

Tren de Aragua has embedded itself all over the country, famously taking over apartment complexes in Colorado. In March of this year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported removing a Venezuelan non-citizen with ties to Tren de Aragua from Cicero, Illinois.

In addition to the evidence of Tren de Aragua presence in the suburb of Cicero, there is the involvement of Catholic Charities in placing illegals all over the City and State. In June of this year, The Gateway Pundit reported on FOIA findings that Catholic Charities had been colluding with the City of Chicago to place 13,000 illegals between December 2022 and February 2024.

Another article pointed out that Catholic Charities, along with an Obama Foundation-affiliated NGO, placed over 8,900 illegals in fully furnished apartments. Interestingly enough, there is a Catholic Charities Food Distribution Center located in Cicero, Illinois.

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NYC is now home to over 58K ‘criminal’ migrants — including more than 1,000 gang members: ICE

There are over 58,000 illegal migrants who are convicted felons or facing criminal charges roaming NYC — and close to 670,000 across the country, startling new data obtained by The Post shows.

Of the 759,218 illegal-border crossers living in the Big Apple the feds were aware of as of Nov. 17, a jaw-dropping 58,626 – 7.7% — were either previously convicted of crimes or had criminal charges pending, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency data.

And of the 58,626 migrants with rap sheets, 1,053, nearly 2%, are “suspected or known gang members,” according to the agency.

“These numbers make it clear what everyone but our elected officials already know: sanctuary city laws are endangering New Yorkers by shielding criminals instead of protecting law-abiding citizens,” said Councilman Robert Holden, a moderate Queens Democrat.

Nationwide, the numbers are just as galling.

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The Lethal Legacy of Alejandro Mayorkas

In a recent news, we learned that the murderous Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) is now in 16 states in the U.S., committing crimes openly and brazenly.  These gang members’ many horrific acts include robbery and murder, gang rape, assaults, shakedowns, burying people alive, and even beheadings and public executions.  They are reputed to be more violent than the notorious Salvadoran gang MS-13.

TdA first gained notoriety on August 18, when a video showed gang members wandering through an Aurora, Colorado apartment building, brandishing guns, knocking on doors, even breaking off locks and entering apartments unbidden.  In this instance, it appears they were shaking down residents for their rent money with threats of violence and the lethal weapons to make good on them.

It turns out this apartment building in Aurora was one of three that TdA had taken over.  While residents and people in neighboring communities voiced fear for their safety and the safety of their families, apologists pooh-poohed and minimized the incidents.  Many in the mainstream media soft-pedaled the gang’s presence, claiming they’re not “terrorists” but just petty criminals.  The mayor of Aurora and a City Council member downplayed the threat in their official newsletter.  The position several in the left media took was that the furor over TdA was overblown.  They weren’t taking over cities; they were just terrorizing them.  So that made it all right.

I remember having a discussion on Facebook with a friend who had a similar rationalization: “It was just one apartment building.  It wasn’t the whole town.”  No big deal.  This is a bright, conservative man.  I was dumbfounded.  I wanted to echo Chris Pratt in the movie Jurassic World, after Vincent D’Onofrio’s character goes on an insane rant: “Do you hear yourself when you talk?” 

Shortly after the criminal exploits of Tren de Aragua came to light, it was learned that they were a more pervasive presence than originally known, and experts postulated that it would take ten years to root them out and fully remove them from the country.  Now they’re in 16 states, most recently in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Wyoming, Montana, and in every major city in Tennessee.  With this expansion, we can only imagine how much more difficult it will be now to rid our country of this human plague.

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Venezuelan Prison Gang Seizes Multiple Apartment Buildings In Texas

A new shocking report has found that Venezuelan transnational gang Tren de Aragua has taken over at least four apartment building complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as thousands of its illegal alien gangsters run amok nationwide, sparking crime and chaos from Colorado to Texas to New York City. Many of the members of the armed migrant prison gang invaded the nation through Biden-Harris’ open southern borders.  

DailyMail revealed: 

A dangerous Venezuelan gang has taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its reach in yet another America city, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The report confirmed that Palatia Apartments was one apartment complex where TdA members were operating out. This complex was the scene of a recent raid… 

Just last week a small army of police officers raided an apartment complex in San Antonio and arrested 19 individuals – including four gang members.

Law enforcement sources confirmed TdA had been operating at the Palatia Apartments for five to six months – squatting in empty units they either rented out to other migrants, used as a base to deal cocaine or, most horrifically, as prostitution dens to pimp out women and children.

But now DailyMail.com can reveal that this apartment invasion is just the tip of the iceberg in the major southern Texas city, with at least three other rental properties also occupied by the criminal organization. 

While Palatia Apartments was one complex full of TdA members, the other three buildings were not named in the report because of ongoing police investigations. 

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Aurora woman speaks out after being forced out of her home by Tren de Aragua gang members

A woman who was terrorized out of her Aurora, CO apartment by the vicious Tren de Aragua gang has told ABC News to get a reality check after one of its hosts minimized the damage done in an interview with Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).

“I feel like it’s a slap in the face,” Cindy Romero told Fox News Digital. “How many gangs is OK to have in Aurora? How many properties is OK to take over? How many people, who are citizens paying their bills, is it OK to displace?”

She and her husband Edward left their apartment after filming a shootout between members of the violent Venezuelan gang. Cindy Romero’s comments came after Vance and ABC News host Martha Raddatz strongly disagreed during a Sunday interview about the serious impact of Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, the Daily Mail noted.

Raddatz interrupted Vance over what she said were a “handful of problems” in Aurora and that gangs had not “taken over” apartment complexes and “invaded and conquered” the community. “I’m going to stop you because I know exactly what happened,” Raddatz told Vance. “I’m going to stop you. ‘The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes’ and the mayor said, ‘Our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns.’ A handful of problems.”

Vance responded, “Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’ open border?”

Romero appeared on stage with former President Donald Trump who was in Aurora on Friday for a rally. He eviscerated the Biden-Harris administration’s lax border policies and proposed using various federal agencies to “hunt down, arrest and deport every last illegal alien gang member until there is not a single one left in this country.”

In her brief speech to the crowd, Romero recounted how she and her husband had recorded a group of armed men shoving their way into a nearby house, after which a shootout occurred. She said police largely ignore her 911 calls.

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Vance Scolds ABC News Host For Saying “Only A Handful Of Apartment Complexes” Were Taken Over By Migrant Gangs

Appearing on ABC News’ This Week Sunday, Trump’s VP pick JD Vance schooled host Martha Raddatz when she attempted to argue that Trump is “exaggerating” accounts of how violent Venezuelan migrant gangs have taken over entire apartment complexes in Aurora Colorado.

“Do you support Donald Trump making those claims that the Republican mayor says were grossly exaggerated and have hurt the city’s identity and sense of safety?” Raddatz asked, referring to the situation.

She added, “The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns — a handful of problems.”

“Do you hear yourself?” Vance replied. “Only ‘a handful’ of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem? Not Kamala Harris’s open border?”

Vance further urged, “I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs.”

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Aurora apartment worker beaten to a pulp by Tren de Aragua — as owners say migrant gang took over and tried to extort them

The proof of Tren de Aragua’s violence in Aurora, Colo., is written in blood.

A fed-up landlord in the Denver suburb has shared a bloody photo of one of its workers after the man was allegedly beaten to a pulp by members of the brutal Venezuelan prison gang for refusing to let them stay in a vacant apartment they had taken over.

The Brooklyn-based company claimed that the gang effectively stole entire apartment complexes out from under it by threatening employees and tried to extort it for a cut of the rent in exchange for being allowed to keep operating the properties.

Local cops and the FBI were asked to help stop the extortion but refused to step in, CBZ Management said.

“Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado,” the company wrote in a thread on X last week.

“In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false information about our situation.”

The company, which owns and had managed the properties, posted multiple surveillance videos from its apartment complexes — including the footage of the beating of the employee late last year — that it said prove the gang has a foothold in Aurora.

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Venezuelan Gang Is Reportedly Terrorizing North Dallas

A video went viral earlier this week depicting the Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua allegedly assaulting a man in a North Dallas neighborhood.

Several multiple local outlets have covered the video, connecting  it to assertions that a Venezuelan gang is taking over a neighborhood in North Dallas.

It should be noted that this video is a year old according to Dallas police sources that were in contact with WFAA. Law enforcement sources also claimed that this was an isolated incident and not related to organized gang activity 

However, in a separate instance, law enforcement officials announced that the Dallas police department is investigating gang activity in the North Dallas area connected to Tren de Aragua.

“Our department is collaborating with other agencies to address possible crimes linked to this and other gangs in our city,” Dallas police announced in a statement. 

The aforementioned video was recorded in October 2023 and the case is apparently close. The video footage shows a group of Spanish-speaking males brutally pummeling a man. Gang unit officers launched an investigation of the incident and swept through the apartments in the Haverwood Lane area of North Dallas. Law enforcement initially believed that the assault was not connected to gang activity. 

Libs of TikTok reposted this video on X on September 3. This same account also disseminated information about the Tren de Aragua gang moving into several apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado. This incident has sparked uproar as allegations of the Venezuelan gang taking over these complexes have begun to proliferate across the web.  These claims gained steam after the release of a video showing armed individuals inside one of the apartment buildings. 

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Bombshell report reveals Venezuelan gang has had Aurora complex in a ‘stranglehold’ for over a year

A Venezuelan gang took over an apartment Complex in Colorado more than a year ago, according to a Denver law firm’s report.

The Tren de Aragua, a criminal group from Venezuela, has had a ‘stranglehold’ on the Whispering Pines Apartments in Aurora since late 2023, the law firm Perkins Coie claimed in a letter to Aurora officials.

The firm found that the gang has engaged in assaults, threats of murder, extortion and even child prostitution, as reported by CBS News Colorado.

The law firm was hired by the lender for Whispering Pines Apartments, 1357 Helena Street, to investigate the reported takeover and claims the gang has been extorting ‘rents’ from people they moved into vacant units.

The vacant units have reportedly been used to host ‘parties’ where the gang provides ‘drug and child prostitution,’ according to the apartments’ manager, who added that ‘minors are a good source of money.’

The Aurora Police Department has denied claims that the complex has been overrun by gangsters. 

However, the report, issued in August, says that ‘Tren de Aragua has threatened to kill (and, in certain instances, has apparently actively attempted to kill) members of Whispering Pines management.’ 

In November, 2023, a consultant for the complex’s management company was so allegedly severely beaten and stomped by gang members that he had to go to the hospital.

The gang’s activities reported escalated this year, with a housekeeper claiming in April 2024 that a two individuals ‘went into an apartment, came out with large firearms, and were coming to kill [the property manager].’

The property manager said the two individuals were gang members and arrested as they were coming to kill him.’

The manager also claimed ‘gang members allegedly stabbed a Whispering Pines resident for refusing to pay “rent” to the gang.’

He told the law firm that in June the gangsters offered to help him if he paid them 50 percent of the funds collected in rents. 

A housekeeper reported that a gang member told her: ‘This is our business plan… If he [property manager] doesn’t like it, we’ll fill him with bullets.’

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