A small town in Wisconsin, Prairie du Chien, is reeling after the arrest of a man with ties to a Venezuelan street gang accused of sexually and physically assaulting a woman and her daughter. The suspect, a known gang member with visible tattoos, was apprehended in Prairie du Chien, a community of about 5,000 people, raising concerns about how such a criminal element ended up in a rural area.
Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden highlighted the failures in the immigration system that allowed the suspect to enter the country despite having known gang affiliations. The suspect had been arrested previously in Minneapolis and Madison for similar crimes but was not deported due to sanctuary city policies.
