Parents in a small rural Wisconsin town are wary of recent crimes allegedly linked to the dangerous Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, with some telling delegates they are afraid to let their children play outdoors because gang members have been arrested on sex crimes charges.
Fear spread through the small town of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, after 26-year-old immigrant Alejandro José Coronel Zarate was arrested on September 9 and charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman and her daughter.
Prairie du Chien Police Chief Kyle Tainer said At a press conference after Zarate's arrest, Fox News reported that the migrant had held the woman and her daughter captive in his home and sexually assaulted them “under particularly brutal circumstances.” Reported.
The chief added that Zarate had repeatedly assaulted the women “over a period of time”, showing that in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' America, even the smallest and most rural towns far north of the border are plagued by “border town” problems.
Police also reported that Zarate was facing criminal charges in Minneapolis before fleeing Minnesota for Wisconsin.
Chief Tainer added that Zarate has tattoos that indicate ties to Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang.
Zarate is Charged He was charged in Crawford County Court with sexual assault, assault, strangulation, suffocation, false imprisonment, child abuse and disorderly conduct and is being held on $10,000 bail, according to La Crosse station WXOW-TV.
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden said he has heard from residents in rural towns along the Mississippi River who say parents will be afraid to let their children play outside if members of the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang are allowed to roam free.
Van Alden's own grandchildren live in river towns, and he's similarly concerned about their safety.
“It doesn't matter what your political stance is. This is not a Democrat issue. It's not an independent or a libertarian issue. This is a human rights issue,” Van Alden said. “The human rights of American citizens are being violated. They are being kidnapped, raped and murdered by illegal immigrants who are criminals. This must stop.”
Still, Van Alden maintains that the blame lies squarely with the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration.
“Why should a town of 5,500 people be afraid to let their kids play in their front yard? This wasn't the case three years ago.”
“They're calling us racists for publicizing the fact that a man with organized crime tattoos was allowed into the country by a Harris border agent, and that man happens to be Venezuelan,” Van Alden added.
Van Alden also slammed Kamala Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, for his role in the tragedy.
“Zarate has been arrested on property crimes in Minneapolis and Minnesota. [Governor] “Tim Waltz,” Van Orden said indignantly, “and they released him because of the sanctuary city policy.”
Unfortunately, Zarate had been under the radar of Wisconsin law enforcement since last December when Dane County Sheriff Calvin Barrett's office, a Democrat, issued a warrant for the immigrant's arrest for an alleged assault in the Madison area. But Barrett did not arrest Zarate, instead allowing him to assault a mother and daughter a few months later in Prairie du Chien, about two hours west of Madison.
Democratic-run Dane County has come under fire for its left-wing sanctuary policies and its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
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