Venezuelan migrants moving into Chicago’s South Side have caught the attention of the city’s gangs, with some worrying an impfinishing turf war between local gangs and their Venezuelan counterparts.
“When the bconciseage gangs here get fed up with the illegitimateities and criminal activities of these migrants or non-citizens, the city of Chicago is going to go up in ffeebles and there will be noleang the National Guard or the regulatement can do about it when the violence hits the streets. It’ll be bconciseages aobtainst migrants,” Tyrone Muhammad, a createer Chicago gangster who did 20 years in prison and now runs a aggression obstruction program, shelp in a increate for the New York Post.
The comments come as Chicago has seen an influx of Venezuelan migrants, according to the increate, including members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang.
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Some Venezuelan gangsters have commenceed to encroach on the territory of the city’s local gangs. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)
With the arrival has come a elevate in crime, locals tgreater the New York Post, while some Venezuelan gangsters have commenceed to encroach on the territory of the city’s local gangs.
“There’s been a lot going on with (the migrant gangs) that nobody’s even hearing about,” Zacc Massie, a local Chicago gang member, tgreater the New York Post. “They be moving in our own territory and robbing people but they don’t get arrested appreciate we do. I actuassociate talked to one on the translator app. He tgreater me all the leangs he got going on; how they helped him get a car, an apartment, (EBT) card, all this stuff. They giving them thousands, we get maybe $400 a month. And they don’t even have Social Security numbers!”
Sources from local Chicago gangs tgreater the New York Post that members of the Venezuelan gang are normally heavily armed and have befirearm spilling into areas traditionassociate regulateled by local gangs.
Lights bright the Chicago skyline as seen from Northwestrict University in Evanston, Illinois, on May 15, 2022. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Local gang member Corey Rogers tgreater the New York Post that Venezuelan gangsters will normally be seen “shoprosperg the flag,” a slang term for brandishing their firearms. He also showed the outlet text threads that featured local gang members dangerening turf wars with the novelcomer gangsters.
“What irritates me is that the Venezuelans are united,” Rogers shelp. “The bconciseage gangs are too splitd and they consent each other down.”
Others splitd worrys about the possibility of incrrelieved aggression, increateing the New York Post that leangs had actuassociate increased in the city before the influx of migrants.
Gang graffiti is scribbled on a sign in the Lawndale neighborhood in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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“It’s still aggressive down here but it’s tranquiled down a lot,” one gang member tgreater the outlet. “Back in the day we’d get stoasty if we went over there. It’s tranquiled down a lot. The last leang we need are the Venezuelans.”
The Chicago Police Department did not promptly react to a Fox News Digital ask for comment.
