Former ICE official warns Toren de Aragua is growing faster in the US than violent rival gang: 'Take him out now'

A former ICE field director warns that violent gangs in Venezuela are more organized than the notorious MS-13, supporting former President Donald Trump's plan to eradicate gangs in Colorado and across the United States. I'm warning you that there is.

John Fabricatore, former ICE field director and current Republican congressional candidate in Colorado, told Fox News Digital that he doesn't want to call Torren de Aragua a gang. The organization has popped up across the United States and has been linked to many crimes during the crisis at the southern border.

“TdA is a real organization. They're not a gang. They have a better organization than MS-13 ever had. So I think that's the difference, and when you look at TdA, you can see that TdA The only difference is how long they've been around.'' If you look at it, they've grown faster than MS-13, and they've gotten better at getting into certain aspects of crime, and you realize that MS-13 has been around for 25 years. Must be. ” he said.

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Torren de Aragua is believed to have originated in the Tocolon prison in the Venezuelan state of Aragua, and has since spread to Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. A link with TdA has been noted in states such as Georgia, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, and New York.

This week, apartment management companies in Colorado sounded the alarm about the problems they are facing after a group took over multiple apartment blocks in Aurora.

Fabricatore said the U.S. should look to other countries where TdA has a presence.

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These images are from a CBP intelligence bulletin and show Torren de Aragua's tattoos and identifiers. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to the identification and arrest of known or suspected TdA members. (ice)

“TdA gained a foothold in other South American countries in just a few years after leaving Venezuela, building a structure and foundation. And when you look at that and see what they're already doing in the United States, That’s how they do it. Worry,” he says.

“And I don't think enough news outlets have investigated how fast TDA has grown in such a short period of time. That's why we have to do what we have to do. Now. We have to report. We have to do what we have to do so that they don't grow to get a strong foothold,” he warned.

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Suspected members of the Venezuela-based transnational gang Torren de Aragua were seen in surveillance footage shared by the El Paso County Attorney's Office at the Gateway Hotel. (KFOX14/El Paso County Prosecutor's Office)

Former President Donald Trump announced last week that he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle “all illegal immigrant criminal networks operating on American soil.”

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If elected, President Trump said the federal government would “deploy an elite force of ICE, Border Patrol, and federal law enforcement officers to hunt down every last illegal alien gang member until there is not one left in this country.” , arrest them and deport them from the country.”

Fabricatore, who received encouragement from President Trump at the rally, said he thinks opponents of the plan are misinformed.

“I think President Trump's fundamental desire is to protect America and protect the American people from crimes by foreign-born criminal organizations. And this is what he feels he can't help but do because no one is doing anything about it. “If it’s something that needs to be done, it needs to be tried,” he said.

FOX News' Brooke Singman and Emma Woodhead contributed to this report.