Venezuela's Most Violent Gang Now At El Paso Border:

Bloodthirsty super gang Tren de Aragua moves its HQ to outskirts of major US city - as fearful cops warn of telltale tattoos Americans should watch out for

Maryann Martinez

Venezuela's most violent gang, which has already sparked chaos across the US, has moved its headquarters to the outskirts of a major American city, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Dubbed the 'epitome of evil', the notorious criminal organization Tren de Aragua, or TdA as it is known by federal agents, previously operated out of an infamous South American prison so completely under gang leaders' control that it had its own zoo, swimming pool and nightclub.

But after kingpin Hector Guerrero Flores escaped last year, the mafia moved its command center to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico on the US border - directly across from El Paso, Texas, local officials told DailyMail.com.

El Paso officials, who asked to remain anonymous, now fear gang violence will spill over into Texas' sixth largest city - which is currently ranked among the top ten safest in America by the FBI.

Dozens of gangsters have already been caught trying to sneak into the US, with those who have been successful unleashing a terrifying crime wave across the country from Dallas to New York.

Border Patrol agents are now on high alert and have been warned to check migrants for telltale tattoos that can help identify gang members. 

'This gang is known to rape children, spearhead murders, and cause widespread chaos.'

Law enforcement in El Paso is currently working on a confidential plan to address the growing threat, insiders told DailyMail.com 

But Mexican authorities have been willing to speak more openly about TdA's troubling arrival in Juarez.

'We're tracking them in Ciudad Juarez, that's where they specifically have their principal point of operations,' revealed the state secretary of public safety Gilberto Loya.

Since forming behind the walls of the Tocoron Prison in the Venezuelan state of Aragua, Tren de Aragua (Spanish for Train of Aragua) is now linked to widespread human and sex trafficking on the South American continent.

Law enforcement now considers the gang as dangerous as El Salvador's Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13. 

In 2018, the gang went international, moving over the border to neighboring Colombia where they began to exploit their countrymen fleeing the Venezuela's communist regime.

'While larger Colombian groups focused on drug trafficking, Tren de Aragua began to exploit Venezuelan migrants systematically, charging them extortion fees, smuggling them into and throughout Colombia, and taking control of various nodes of the human trafficking for sexual exploitation market,' the crime publication stated.

Now in Northern Mexico, TdA is once again taking advantage of desperate migrants.

Gangsters are charging huge fees to smuggle migrants to the US border and then into Texas.

The presence of the Venezuelan mob in Mexico has caused panic among migrants, many of whom are fleeing the very violence TdA created in their homeland. 

Alarmingly, many TdA members have already crossed into the US, as DailyMail.com was first to report, unleashing a wave of crime from Dallas to Miami to New York. 

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