Tren de Aragua, the vicious Venezuelan gang that was allowed to enter the country through the Biden-Harris wide open border, has reportedly taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas.

The same criminal gang as been wrecking havoc in cities all across America—including Aurora, Denver, Miami, and New York City—and has authorized its members to kill police officers, according to police bulletins.

Tren De Aragua is a transnational criminal organization that formed in a state prison in Aragua, Venezuela about ten years ago.  The group’s criminal activities include human trafficking, drug trafficking, kidnapping, child prostitution and extortion. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has described the gang as a “foreign terroristic organization.”

Recently, Tren De Aragua has been in the news for commandeering three apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado and terrorizing New Yorkers and tourists in Time’s Square.

On October 5, according to the Daily Mail, “a small army of police officers raided an apartment complex in San Antonio and arrested 19 individuals – including four gang members.”

Law enforcement sources confirmed TdA had been operating at the Palatia Apartments for five to six months – squatting in empty units they either rented out to other migrants, used as a base to deal cocaine or, most horrifically, as prostitution dens to pimp out women and children.

But now DailyMail.com can reveal that this apartment invasion is just the tip of the iceberg in the major southern Texas city, with at least three other rental properties also occupied by the criminal organization.

DailyMail.com is not naming the three other apartment complexes to avoid jeopardizing ongoing police investigations.

However, the locations were confirmed by law enforcement sources, and we spent days visiting the sites where we spoke to terrified residents.

The pre-dawn raid at the sprawling Palatia Apartments reportedly involved hundreds of law enforcement officers and came after a weeks-long investigation into reports that Tren de Aragua had gained control of the area.

Residents told the Daily Mail that “they awoke to the sound of helicopters, drones, and doors being kicked in at around 5 a.m.”

“Every department was here. They were wearing helmets and body armor,” said one female resident who asked to remain anonymous.

“My husband came outside in his boxers and had a rifle held to him. They said, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘I live here.’ They asked, ‘Where are you from?’ He said ‘Pennsylvania’ and that was the end of that,” the woman said.

“We assure our community and members of the public that we are committed to their safety, and we are on top of this TdA issue,” said San Antonio police chief William McManus after the  raid.

McManus said that authorities would be making additional arrests at other locations where the criminals are still operating.

“We know who you are, and we’re coming for you,” the chief warned. “This is just the first place that we’re hitting. We’ve got other places that we’re going to hit.”

In addition to the Palatia Apartments, TdA has allegedly been operating at three other properties San Antonio, occupying units while they engage in various criminal schemes.

Residents and workers at these properties told the Daily Mail that Venezuelan men have been “flooding the buildings in recent months,” and going “out of their way to intimidate anyone they come across.”

“They act like they own the place,” said one resident, who asked to remain anonymous because she feared for her safety.

“There’s one Venezuelan here – they call him “the boss” and his face is covered in tattoos. I’m honestly afraid of him,” she added.

She described how nearly every single unit in the back row of her complex is now occupied by Venezuelan men who do not go to work but are still seemingly able to make rent.

They also appear to be cramming people into one-bedroom apartments, she added.

At a different property, a maintenance worker said they believe TdA members are living there because he has seen Venezuelans walking around shamelessly showing off well-known Tren de Aragua tattoos.

‘They don’t care to be discreet about who they are,’ the worker added. ‘I think in their country, being a part of that group is a big deal, so maybe they feel it’s a big deal here, too.’

The worker said they have also seen men walking around with rifles and Michael Jordan branding on their skin, which are similarly well-known TdA markings.

While the Daily Mail was investigating a fourth property suspected of being TdA-run, no one reportedly “dared speak about the gang and its presence in San Antonio – and simply closed the door or ignored questions.”

But the British paper noted that its reporters were apparently spotted by a look-out, who “was seen darting in and out of several buildings as he seemingly passed along information via cell phone.” Another individual allegedly “approached the DailyMail.com team as we waiting in a car, taking pictures of our license plates.”

The Daily Mail reported in September that TdA moved its headquarters to the US-Mexico border in Juarez, Mexico, “where it is kidnapping asylum-seeking migrants who are attempting to enter America.”

In South Texas, TdA set up shop in an area of just north of San Antonio’s Migrant Resource Center, a shelter run by Catholic Charities that has welcomed over 120,000 migrants since the organization starting tracking numbers in 2023.

An undercover officer operating in the migrant shelter was able to gather intelligence that led to the operation at Palatia Apartments, Fox San Antonio reported.

Former Colorado ICE director John Fabbricatore said prostitution and drug trafficking have proven to be the most lucrative enterprises for the gangsters.

“Prostitution is a big money-maker, and the thing with prostitution is that it brings guys in that they can then sell dope to,” he told the Daily Mail

“These guys come in, they meet these Johns and shake them down. See if they want to buy drugs. They’ve started with moving these girls through, and if you go in these apartments, you’ll see these young girls. It’s bad,” Fabbricatore added.

The Daily Mail reported that most San Antonio residents appear to believe that local law enforcement have been on top of the TdA infestation in their city, but the local firefighters union chief said the Democrat-run city has not taken the problem seriously.

“I think that they [city hall] are completely under-representing the presence here in San Antonio, based on our own members and what we’re seeing with governmental agencies,” said Joe Jones, president of the San Antonio fire fighter’s association.

Jones told the Daily Mail crew that he went to the city manager about two weeks ago to discuss TdA situation after fire fighters began expressing concern for their safety when responding to emergencies in their strongholds. He noted that fire fighters, who are unarmed, wear similar uniforms to police officers, who have been specifically targeted by the gang.

Jones said City Hall told him “there’s no credible threat to public safety.”

“The response from city management was exceptionally underwhelming, especially when the safety of fire fighters and paramedics is involved,” Jones said.

The police raid at Palatia reportedly came just days after city hall downplayed TdA’s threat in San Antonio.

The latest reports of TdA’s criminal activities in American cities come after ABC News operative Martha Raddatz attempted to downplay the gangs’ presence in the U.S. as just a “handful” of apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado during a contentious interview with Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance.

Although Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris has repeatedly boasted on the campaign trail that she is the only candidate who has “prosecuted transnational criminal organizations,” Tren De Aragua’s reign of terror in American cities was only made possible through her tenure as Joe Biden’s “Border Czar.”

Through the Biden-Harris regime’s secretive “One traffic” parole program, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew 81,000 Venezuelans into more than 40 different airports across the United States in 2023.  Another 400,000-plus Venezuelans have crossed the US border illegally under the current regime.

Dr. Lee Vliet, a respected preventive and climacteric medical specialist and author, said in February that a patient who has a sister in Venezuela told her that Biden officials had been going door to door in the country to recruit Venezuelans to come to the U.S. to live with their rent and food paid for, along with a bank card “filled up” on a monthly basis.

Venezuela’s violent death rate has reportedly “dropped to its lowest level in more than two decades” since the Biden-Harris regime began facilitating mass migration to the U.S.

Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently adjusted its 2022 crime data to reflect an increase in violent crimes in the U.S., rather than the alleged decrease Democrats, the Harris campaign, and their allies in the media have touted ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

The FBI claimed in an October 2023 press release that “national violent crime decreased an estimated 1.7 percent in 2022 compared to 2021 estimates,” RealClearInvestigations reported.

The newly revised figures show that the rate of violent crime actually jumped by about 4.5 percent over the same period.