NYPD says Venezuelan gang members are recruiting kids as young as 11

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We only have to live in Grandpa Joe’s America for eight more weeks, but unfortunately, we still have to live with the consequences:

Yes, we’ve got Venezuelan gang members recruiting children at migrant shelters now.

We even have a new gang in New York City called Little Devils of 42nd Street. Yes, this is a gang of younger recruits – kids as young as eleven.

Police say Tren de Aragua is the Venezuelan gang that is living in the shelter system and recruiting children.

‘We have 39 members of TDA that have been identified and we have an additional four members that have been identified of a subgroup called Little Devils of 42nd Street. Those are much younger kids,’ [NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph] Kenny said.

Kids as young as eleven are carrying out retail robberies, snatching peoples phones or jewelry while riding scooters, and even holding people up at gunpoint or knifepoint.

They’re hard to track, too – you know, since they’re illegal immigrants and all.

‘We have no fingerprints on file for them. We have no photographs on file for them. We have no prior criminal history on them,’ Kenny said. ‘They swap out their IDs. We have no way of tracking or knowing who they are when they enter the country.’

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‘When we do make arrests and we’re able to charge them on four, five, six incidents, when they go before a judge in New York City, and their arrest record is run, they show no prior criminal history,’ Kenny said. ‘They’re released on their own recognizance. They’re not offered bail and they’re released back into the public.’