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New York City is now battling teen gang activity connected to
Venezuela's dangerous Tren de Aragua gang.

NYPD Detective Bureau Asst. Chief Jason Savino warned law enforcement
has seen a "shocking" progression with the violence, Tuesday, on "Fox & Friends."

"We're talking 20 individuals arrested a total of 50 times… and we have
a mix-match of crimes embedded in those. We have anywhere from snatches
to what I call wolfpack robberies, where anywhere between five and 15 individuals surround tourists and take their property. We have gunpoint robberies, knifepoint robberies. And these individuals are out, and
it's concerning," he said.

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To make matters worse, Savino said the young criminals are getting away
with their crimes, progressing from thefts to more serious offenses.

"Why? Because their original criminality did not have consequences. And
when criminality doesn't have consequences, it actually encourages more criminality. And the individuals that actually engage in that
criminality become empowered."

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"They do get court dates, but they are afforded the opportunity to
participate in programs, things like that. And like I said, it empowers
them. What does that do? It certainly creates an atmosphere of
empowerment," he said.

Savino said the best they can do for now is, "build the best possible
cases" to take them down, adding that juveniles create "tremendous"
challenges.

"Their offenses aren't bail eligible because in 2018, New York enacted
a raise-the-law age, which means they cannot be held criminally
responsible when they commit a crime," New York Republican Councilwoman
Joann Ariola explained on "Fox & Friends First."

"They're burglars, drug dealers. And they're not even going to real
court anymore because of Raise the Age."

According to Ariola, once suspects are given a court date, they are
released back into the city, where the NYPD are not allowed to enter
shelters to keep tabs on them.

She placed blame directly on policies from the Biden-Harris
administration.

"Biden-Harris issued 94 orders that within the first 100 days of their administration that undid all of Trump's border protection policies,
allowing 200,000 unvetted people from other countries, illegal migrants
to enter our borders."

"It's extremely, extremely dangerous for our citizens of New York
City."

Fox News reached out to Mayor Eric Adams and the city council for
statements but did not hear back.

The suspects, some as young as 11, are being housed in the former
Roosevelt Hotel, which the city converted into a migrant shelter after
an influx of border crossings thousands of miles away, the New York
Post reported earlier this week.

The suspected gang members have been postioning pictures and videos of
their guns online, according to investigators.

Twenty members of a subset of the gang, calling itself "Los Diablos de
lat 42" in reference to New York's 42nd Street, have been arrested in connection with 50 separate crimes, according to Savino.

"It is a big deal," he said. "We have a perfect storm of sorts where we
have individuals in and around Times Square. This is our jam. This is
the best the world has to offer, you know, And they're brazen,
ruthless. And that's concerning."

Nearly 200,000 asylum-seeking migrants have arrived in the Big Apple
over the past year, according to city officials. More than half are
expected to have their claims denied, but until that happens, they are technically considered in the U.S. legally.

As migrants continue to pour across the southern border, Tren de Aragua
has expanded from its base in Venezuela into numerous U.S. cities,
including New York and Chicago. The gang has also been linked to small
town crimes, including in Aurora, Colorado, and Athens, Georgia, where
the suspect in the murder of nursing student Laken Riley has been
linked to suspected members.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/young-migrants-tied-shocking-increase- gang-led-crime-nycs-times-square-nypd

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