By Philip Marcelo
NEW YORK (AP) – President TSAR Donald Trump joined the mayor of New York on Tuesday for praising new federal charges against 27 people accused of being members and associates of the Gangs of Tren in Aragua.
The joint announcement is the latest example of the close ties between Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump administration, who recently abandoned the federal accusations of corruption against the Democrat so that he can better focus on the immigration priorities of the Republican President. Adams is now presented for a re -election as an independent.
Trump, in his repression at the national immigration scale, described Tren as a force of invasion as he invokes the law on extraterrestrial enemies, an unusual authority of 1798 which allows the president to deport any non-citizen in wartime.
“Each member of ADD should be on the run,” said Thomas Homan, Trump’s border tsar, referring to the initials of the gang, who comes from Venezuela over ten years ago and was linked to a series of kidnappings, extortion and other crimes throughout the Western hemisphere.
Adams ADAMS recently announced that it would allow federal immigration officials to operate in the city’s ISLAND RIKERS complex – and HOMAN used the press briefing to make a hit in the municipal council seeking to stop the plan.
“This is what collaboration look like,” he said. “I have never asked the city or NYPD to be immigration agents. I asked them to work with us on threats of public security importance and national security threats, and this is what we are determined to do. ”
A New York judge ordered city officials on Monday to temporarily arrest the plan, which would allow immigration and customs to apply and other federal agencies to establish offices during the massive lock, to a April 25 hearing on the trial.
Adams said Tuesday’s announcement showed that it remained “without excuse” in his desire to rid the streets of the city of violent immigrants.
“The question we have to answer is for its part?” The Democrat said. “Are you on the side of those who carry these illegal weapons, wreaking havoc, sex traffic, innocent people, whatever their documentation, or are you on the side of New Yorkers and workers? I’m clear on which side I am. “
Manhattan prosecutors say that the case is the first to wear federal racketeering charges, which were used to drop the mafia, against the Venezuelan street gang. The more than two dozen accused are also accused, including sex trafficking, drug trafficking, theft and possession of firearms.
Prosecutors said those who arrested young women smuggling in Venezuela in Peru and the United States women, whom they called “Muladas”, have reimbursed their debts by prostitution and were threatened with violence and death.
Gang members have also committed armed robbery and a smuggling of illegal drugs, including a substance called “TUI” which contains ketamine, prosecutors said.
Of the 27 accused, 21 are in detention, including five orders on Monday and Tuesday in operations in New York and elsewhere, they said. Six others are free.
The accusations are exploded in two distinct accusation acts, one for six alleged members of Tren of Aragua and the other by charging 19 alleged members of “anti-Tren”, a Splinter faction composed of former members of Tren.
Among the people appointed in the Tuesday’s indictment was Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, who was one of those arrested in January in the Bronx during some of the Trump administration’s first efforts to accelerate the application of immigration to the city.
The authorities say that the 26 -year -old was part of a group of highly armed men seen in a video now viral forcing their way in an apartment in Aurora, Colorado, raising fears that Tren de Aragua controls the dilapidated complex in the suburbs of Denver.
Zambrano-Pacheco lawyer did not immediately comment on Tuesday.
Adams has rejected the idea that many people apprehended by immigration and law enforcement officials in recent months are also respectful of the laws.
“The American dream is not an armed robbery. The American dream does not make rifles.” It is not the American dream, and we are not going to be a security port for criminals. “
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California Daily Newspapers
