Criminals posing as asylum seekers are turning American cities into war zones.
The Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, feared for how it tortures its victims, is setting up shop in New York City , police sources revealed to The Post.
Gang members recruit migrants from shelters and as they come off buses from Texas, putting them to work in retail-theft rings or on mopeds grabbing phones and handbags and roughing up pedestrians.
“This is organized crime. It’s just like the Mafia,” says Paul DiGiacomo, president of the city’s Detectives’ Endowment Association.
NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban warns of a “wave of migrant crime.”
Democratic pols deny it.
Gov. Hochul says migrants “are looking for a better life.”
True for many, not all.
City Comptroller Brad Lander accuses Caban of “fearmongering” and using a “Republican talking point.”
Believe the cops, not the pols.
Migrants in moped gangs and retail-theft rings, some carrying guns, are terrorizing the Big Apple, Yonkers and New Jersey.