All posts tagged "Tren De Aragua"

Trump's announcement of killing the leader of a Venezuelan gang carries a "chilling" detail, according to a legal expert.

According to Trump, the U.S. military launched a "swift and lethal" strike against the leader of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that was a hot topic during the 2024 presidential election. Ryan Goodman, a chaired professor at NYU and editor-in-chief of Just Security, called out the details in Trump's Truth Social post announcing the strike.

Goodman was alarmed in particular by a line of Trump's post calling the gang a "foreign army."...

The U.S. launched a military strike against the leader of a Venezuelan prison gang, Trump announced in a Truth Social post.

"At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren de Aragua," Trump wrote.

Tren de Aragua was at the center of unfounded claims that Venezuelan gangs took over a Colorado city amid the 2024 presidential race. ...

An immigration expert was taken aback by a CNN report that the Trump administration is looking beyond El Salvador for a "safe third country" to ship undocumented migrants.

CNN correspondent Priscilla Alvarez posted to X on Wednesday afternoon, "Trump admin has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records to those two countries, sources tell me + @kylieatwood. Trump officials are also hoping to enter negotiations with Libya to strike a safe third country agreement."

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an immigration lawyer and senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, responded, "Whoa. Using Libya and Rwanda as a deportation spot for people from the Western Hemisphere would be unprecedented, and declaring LIBYA a 'safe third country' to deport asylum seekers to would be the height of absurdity."...

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....