The Trump administration hit back Thursday at a Reuters report that showed drone footage of suspected members of the ruthless Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua forming an SOS distress signal at a detention facility in Texas, labeling it “the mainstream media’s latest attempt at a criminal gang sob story.”
On Tuesday, 31 Venezuelan detainees wearing red and orange jumpsuits at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, were photographed by a Reuters drone – Reuters reported it was denied access to the facility by Immigration and Customs Enforcement – forming an SOS in the camp yard.
Ten days earlier, Reuters reported dozens of Venezuelan detainees at the facility were notified they were subject to deportation because they were members of Tren de Aragua, which has been declared a foreign terrorist organization and an invading force by Presidential Donald Trump, whose March 15 executive order called for their deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. Under Trump’s order, the U.S. has deported more than 200 suspected Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador’s CECOT maximum-security prison.
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