Prostitution, robbery, murder, assaults: They could be coming to a neighborhood near you, if they haven’t already.
The brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua moved big-time into the Big Apple and cities across America, thanks to the Harris-Biden administration’s open borders.
A Post report gave a chilling glimpse into Tren’s rapid explosion into a US criminal empire.
Operating out of taxpayer-funded city shelters, Tren blackmails migrants as young as 15 into joining its ranks, sells illegal guns and drugs (including the fentanyl-laced “pink cocaine”), runs brothels and sends out thugs on mopeds, disguised to look like Uber delivery drivers, to rob New Yorkers.
The gang has turned a stretch of Queens Roosevelt Avenue into the “Market of Sweethearts” red-light district, riddled with hookers and hawkers peddling stolen goods.
Roving bands of migrant teens rob businesses and stick up average New Yorkers, threatening them with guns or knives until they turn over their cash, phones and other valuables.
And the gangbangers have no qualms about brazenly shooting cops: Back home in Venezuela, that usually means getting away scot-free.
New York’s Finest are doing what they can — they recently busted a crew of two dozen migrant teens linked to 21 robberies — but Tren is still growing here, not shrinking.
TDA went from a nonentity to a well-organized crime machine in the city in a little more a year.
And a culture of secrecy protects the head of the snake: Suspected gang members who are arrested will spill about their crimes but are tight-lipped on Tren.
As NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny notes, “Not every migrant is here to commit crimes”; indeed, many migrants came to America to get away from gangs like Tren.
One Venezuelan migrant told The Post: “I wouldn’t want the violence I grew up with to start here . . . I brought my kids here so they wouldn’t have the experiences with criminals like how it is over there.”
But Harris-Biden’s unhinged willingness to let millions of unvetted migrants pour over the border has ensured that the streets of Gotham and other cities across the country are starting to look like Caracas and Maracaibo.
In fact, some TDA members have entered “legally” via the Biden-Harris CBP One app, which has waved in 1.3 million migrants, and other “alternate pathways” the administration has created to deflate the official count of illegal immigrants entering.
The White House is importing in crime, and President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris don’t care.
Biden has been mostly parked on a Delaware beach since dropping out of the race, and Harris wants amnesty for migrants who cross the border illegally — all while leaving average Americans to suffer the fallout.
If voters don’t put in a leader willing to lock down the border and send Tren de Aragua packing, the gang violence, murder and mayhem will only get worse.
The future of American cities hinges on November.