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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,587 - Tren De Aragua Extorting Migrant Caravans Headed for US
Description: Mexican authorities have warned that migrant caravans heading for the U.S. are being "extorted" by the notorious Venezuelan crime syndicate Tren De Aragua (TDA).
TDA, which Texas Governor Greg Abbott has designated as a terror group, is smuggling migrants, sex trafficking, drug trafficking and carrying out murder for hire and extortion, according to Border Report, which cited officials in Mexico.
"They developed a co-dependence with organized criminal groups," Chihuahua Public Safety Secretary Gilberto Loya said, according to the report. "We detected this here when we began to have...