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As every state became a border state so too did every town become a victim of violent international gangs when a Wisconsin city with a population of just over 5,000 contacted ICE following a sexual assault arrest.

Despite the best efforts from Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats to deflect and distance themselves from the problems wrought by the open border, the pervasiveness of the problem appeared to only be intensifying. This week, as leftist lawmakers downplayed the influence of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua in larger cities, a suspected member was arrested in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin drew attention to the story when he shared a statement from the Prairie du Chien Police Department on Saturday with the caption, “Police in Prairie du Chien, a small city in rural Wisconsin [with] a population of just 5,400, announce the arrest of a suspected Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang member who allegedly violently and sexually assaulted a woman & injured a juvenile in the process. ICE now involved.”

According to law enforcement in the city across the border from Iowa where the Wisconsin River and Mississippi River meet, 26-year-old Venezuelan national Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate had been arrested Thursday on charges of “Domestic Disorderly Conduct, two counts of Domestic Battery, Strangulation/Suffocation, Physical Abuse to a Child, Disorderly Conduct and two counts of 2nd Degree Sexual Assault.”

“Coronel Zarate also had warrants through Dane County, WI for Strangulation/Suffocation, False Imprisonment, Battery, and Disorderly Conduct,” explained the release of the warrants issued in Dec. 2023.

The police went on to detail the suspected affiliation with Tren de Aragua and explained a detainer had been filed to request Coronel Zarate be held up to 48 hours for the federal agents to assume custody.

Often the case, detainers filed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) have gone ignored by local jurisdictions beholden to the whims of the leftist bureaucrats who’ve advanced sanctuary city policies that place virtue signaling above the safety of the citizenry.

As previously reported, in Aurora, Colorado, where Tren de Aragua gang members were suspected of having taken over an apartment complex, two suspected members of the Venezuelan gang were released on $1,000 bond following their alleged involvement in an attempted murder attributed to a member of the gang.

Meanwhile, as New York City shouldered a $5 billion burden of providing housing, food and other giveaways to the tens of thousands of illegal aliens who’ve converged on the Big Apple, it had been detailed that the NYPD found as much as 75% of the arrests in Midtown Manhattan only in recent months had been of foreign nationals alleged to have committed assaults, robberies and more.

“In this open-borders era,” said Badger Institute Director of Policy Patrick McIlheran, “every town is a border town — including Prairie du Chien.”

Kevin Haggerty
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