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Several members of a violent Venezuelan gang that recently made headlines for a takeover of Denver-area apartment complexes have been arrested in Texas.

In a Saturday news conference, the San Antonio Police Department announced that the foreign thugs who belong to the notorious Tren de Aragua (TDA) which thanks to the open borders policy of the Biden-Harris regime, are now operating in the United States.

As in Aurora, Colorado, the TDA members had taken over a local apartment complex with law enforcement receiving complaints about gang activity including narcotics, human trafficking and threatening personnel at the Palatia Apartment complex at 10362 Sahara Dr.

After an investigation, the SAPD found that the area was under the control of the vicious gang which so extreme that it has been described as an “MS-13 on steroids.”

On Saturday morning, a multi-agency task force comprised of the San Antonio Police, the FBI, Homeland Security, and other agencies began their operation at the complex, clearing nearly 300 vacant apartment units.

“I’m asleep, and they’re just banging and banging – and I mean loud,” complex resident Andy Martinez who was in bed at the time told KSAT.

“We had information that members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua were in control of the area and committing various crimes,” San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus told reporters.

According to police, 20 people were detained with four being confirmed as Tren de Aragua, one of whom is a “confirmed enforcer” for the foreign gang.

“The four members have been taken into custody by Homeland Security and emergency removal operations,” KENS reported. “Currently there are 19 people arrested with 15 detainers placed from HSI.”

The department said that the investigation is ongoing and that there are other places that will be hit as well.

“Even though we are finished here at the complex, we are not done,” McManus said. “We are on to you, and we are coming for you. We know where you are and we’re coming for you.”

Police said the gang, which likes to dress in red, has been operating locally for several months.

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When asked about the gang’s presence last week, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar acknowledged that TDA “is here in Bexar County.” The sheriff said it’s “certainly not strange to run into TDA folks on the streets.”

“That’s one of the main reasons why, several years back, we created the Organized Crime group, knowing these sorts of things were occurring,” Salazar said, according to KENS. “Fairly recently we actually split off a team from that organized crime group to concentrate solely on transnational criminal organizations, because of organizations like Tren de Aragua.”

Criminal illegal alien gangs are the new normal in Democrat-controlled America and it’s only going to get worse if “border czar” Kamala Harris is sitting in the Oval Office.

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