Like it or hate it, when Fox News is on, Americans are watching.
During the week of the recent presidential election, it was the number one weekday primetime network in all of television. It drew 5.4 million viewers compared to 4.9 million for ABC, 4.1 million for CBS and NBC, and had almost three times as many viewers as the next highest rated cable network, MSNBC, and more than three and a half times as many as CNN.
We offer those numbers because the director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) said in a Fox News interview last week that a violent Venezuelan gang was “actively working in Tennessee” and is “in our four major cities.”
Tren de Aragua (which translates to “train of Aragua,” one of the 23 states in Venezuela) is allegedly behind a spree of kidnappings, extortion and other violent crimes tied to migrants that has spread across Latin America and the United States.
In Tennessee, TBI Director David Rausch said on Fox, the gang has been involved in human trafficking operations and now has moved into the drug trade.