Chicago Gang Members Furious at Newly Arrived Venezuelan Migrants as Tren De Aragua Moves In:

Chicago gang members furious with newly arrived Venezuelan migrants as Tren de Aragua moves in: ‘City is going up in flames’

September 22, 2024

CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gang member Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s rough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the Tren de Aragua criminal gang.

But Muhammad, 53, who has gone straight and runs a patrol and violence prevention program called Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, says Venezuelan criminal gangs overrunning shelters and taking over apartment buildings are the last straw for the struggling African-American community. He says they are furious that government money is going to what they call “non-citizens.”

“There is no way we can let gang members and criminals come into our country through the borders and the broken walls and infiltrate our community that is already impoverished and broken,” Muhammad told The Post last week on the O Block, a stretch of South King Drive considered the most dangerous in the city.

Tyrone Muhammed, 53, a former gang member turned street activist, stands on a playground to promote violence prevention in inner-city Chicago.