Families in volatile state fear letting children play outside after Venezuelan migrant attacks mother and child: MP

A member of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua The gang was arrested and released earlier this year in Minneapolis after allegedly sexually assaulting a mother and abusing her daughter in a small Wisconsin town.

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden, whose grandchildren live less than a mile from the Prairie du Chien home where the mother and daughter were held against their will and repeatedly victimized, told Fox News Digital that it was only a matter of time before tragedy struck the community amid protests by the White House. open border policies and sanctuary city initiatives.

Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate, 26, attacked the woman and the child “under particularly brutal circumstances” and assaulted his victims “over a period of time.” Chien meadow Police Chief Kyle Teynor said the following at a press conference following the arrest of Colonel Zarate on September 9.

Coronel Zarate was charged Wednesday in Crawford County Court with sexual assault, battery, strangulation, asphyxiation, false imprisonment, child abuse and disturbing the public order. WXOW reportedHe remains in the Crawford County Jail on $10,000 cash bail.

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The mother later told police that Coronel Zarate attacked her on Sept. 4, according to a criminal complaint. She told police that during that incident, Coronel Zarate told her, “I’ll get away with this. I’m a criminal.”

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Teynor said Colonel Zarate had tattoos that identified him Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, A criminal organization that originated in the country’s prisons and has since spread to many parts of the United States.

Members are accused of a number of high-profile crimes across the US, including the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and the shooting of two NYPD officers during an arrest in June.

“I don’t care what your political affiliation is. This is not a Democrat issue. This is not an Independent or a Libertarian issue. This is a human rights issue,” Van Orden said at a press conference on September 9. “American citizens’ human rights are being violated. They are being kidnapped, raped and murdered by criminal illegal immigrants, and it has to stop.”

Van Orden told Fox News Digital that he stands by his previous statements despite the backlash he has received.

“They’re calling us racists for bringing up the fact that a man with organized crime tattoos was brought into the country by a Harris border guard; this man is Venezuelan,” Van Orden said.

Van Orden said he was not against it. legal immigrants, or immigrants who come to the country on temporary farm worker visas, indicating that Wisconsin’s agriculture industry is dependent on immigrants.

“If we don’t have migrant workers, our dairies, our farms, will go bankrupt. If we don’t have migrant workers, our dairies will close. If they want to come here and work and send money, I absolutely 100% welcome migrant workers,” he said. “But it’s not right to allow someone who has tattoos associated with known migrant gangs to come into the country. We don’t welcome criminals. illegal immigrants “Come here.”

Prairie du Chien police confirmed that Zarate was near where he entered the country in September 2023. El Paso, Texas is the entry point.

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“I’ve been to the border three times. They let a guy with gang tattoos into the country and you go through a medical screening before you cross the border. They give them medical exams because they don’t want people with TB coming in,” Van Orden said, bewildered.

The former Navy SEAL said the attack shook his small community, but it was only a matter of time before immigrant crimes started to appear there as well.

“Why would a town of 5,500 people be afraid to let their kids play in their front yard?” Van Orden said. “It wasn’t like this three years ago.”

It wasn’t the first time a gang member was arrested in Prairie du Chien clash with police. He was detained in November 2023 for allegedly receiving stolen property but was later released.

“Zarat arrested for property crimes Minneapolis and Minnesota “Those controlled by (Governor) Tim Walz,” Van Orden said. “They released him because of his sanctuary city policies.”

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An arrest warrant was issued for him Dane County, Wisconsin on Dec. 1 for strangulation/suffocation, false imprisonment, battery and disorderly conduct. In addition to federal policies, Van Orden blamed Democratic Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett for the incident earlier this month.

“Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett personally carries a tremendous amount of responsibility, and that’s just a fact,” Van Orden told Fox News Digital. “What (he) can’t deny is that they issued a warrant for Mr. Zarate for strangulation, false imprisonment, battery and disorderly conduct. That warrant came out of his office — if he had spent more time fighting crime instead of complaining about a Republican on his Facebook page, he would have been arrested and a mother and daughter wouldn’t have spent several days being sexually assaulted.”

Van Orden and Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany wrote a letter to Barrett earlier this month demanding answers about the arrest warrant against Judge Zarate.

“Given that Dane County was classified as ‘uncooperative’ with federal immigration authorities by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in June of this year, Representatives Tiffany and Van Orden wrote to request additional information regarding Dane County law enforcement’s interaction with Mr. Coronel Zarate,” the two members of Congress wrote in a statement.

Barrett told Fox News Digital that the Republicans’ accusations were “a baseless and tasteless attempt to drum up votes in a contested state for the upcoming local elections.” “presidential election” and that the statement about non-cooperation was false.

“As Sheriff, I will not tolerate another disrespectful attack on our law enforcement profession by actors seeking to politically woo voters. This investigation is an insult to the brave men and women of our Sheriff’s Office who bravely put their lives on the line to serve their communities,” Barrett wrote in an email.

“To the authors of this investigation, please turn your political theater in a different direction as you attempt to escape the comprehensive, factual, and strategic dismantling of your presidential candidate. Vice President Kamala Harris, “To save any follow-up investigation, we have not received any reports of people eating cats or dogs,” Barrett said.

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