All posts tagged "Gang Members"

A prominent immigration attorney was shocked over a report that could reveal if Immigration and Customs Enforcement was "telling the truth" about the last of three flights to El Salvador carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, wrote on X, "Whoa. @404mediaco reports that hackers have shared flight manifests for the 3 GlobalX flights to El Salvador on March 15. This could confirm whether ICE is telling the truth that the third plane, which took off after Boasberg's order had only people with final orders of removal."

The federal government had argued in court that it had no information to share about the flights, which were ordered to return to the United States, but proceeded to El Salvador because the government claimed they had already departed. ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele was skeptical that the deportees being flown from the U.S. to his notoriously rough Cecot prison were actually members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, according to new reporting in The New York Times.

And a demand he issued in exchange for taking the men triggered panic in the U.S. as it threatened to blow up a claim made by the Department of Justice, the report added.

Bukele flew to Washington, D.C. last month for an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, during which both men claimed that they had no power to return a mistakenly deported Maryland man, whom Trump asserted was a criminal but who received no Constitutional due process before being shipped out....

Sarah Longwell, publisher of the conservative outlet The Bulwark, claimed Monday on CNN's Inside Politics that the Trump administration's apparent refusal to comply with a federal judge's order was taking U.S. democracy down a dangerous path.

On Saturday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return planes heading to Central America with deportees, but the order went unheeded. The judge planned a hearing for Monday afternoon to determine whether the administration outright ignored the order.

Longwell told host Dana Bash, "I think for a lot of us who were really concerned and alarmed by a Trump second term, one of the things that we thought may very well happen is that Trump was going to set himself up to deny court orders or just ignore them." ...

More than 600 gang members and associates in 179 U.S. cities were arrested in a month-long crackdown on a fast-growing Latino gang that also netted firearms and drugs, officials said Thursday.

A well-known urban evangelist spanked and sodomized boys in his ministry, according to five of his alleged victims.