In April, Jesús Escalona Mújicas, a 48-year-old construction worker near Bryan, Texas, was grabbed, detained, and ultimately deported in shackles to Venezuela under false charges that he was a member of the Tren de Aragua gang.
His story was detailed last week by the Texas Observer. He’d worked for the same employer, a Venezuelan Pepsi affiliate, for nearly two decades, and had no criminal history or record of gang activity. The arresting officers claimed his Air Jordans — a brand 24 percent of sneaker wearers in the U.S. reportedly own — were a symbol of gang membership.
Federal agents in President Donald Trump’s high-profile military occupation of Washington, D.C. are zeroing in on food delivery drivers, many of them on mopeds, making them easy targets for abduction, the Washington Post reports. ...
