Federal authorities have launched a new regional Homeland Security Task Force in South Texas aimed at combating cartels, foreign terrorist organizations and transnational gangs, officials announced Monday.
The rollout came immediately after the task force’s first major operation: the arrest of more than 140 people during a Sunday raid in San Antonio targeting the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The FBI and Homeland Security Investigations said the task force, established under a January executive order, will coordinate dozens of federal, state and local agencies to pursue organizations involved in violent crime, human trafficking, extortion, drug smuggling and money laundering, according to an FBI statement…