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The presence of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in the U.S. has made recent headlines and been given as a reason for deportations by the Trump administration. The gang, known as "TdA" for short ...

By Eve Sampson President Trump’s executive order on Saturday invoking the Alien Enemies Act targeted Venezuelan citizens 14 years and older with ties to the transnational gang Tren de Aragua, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — The Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that President Trump is targeting in his latest wave of deportations, formed in a Venezuelan prison but has branched out to become a ...

As international attention turns to US President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, InSight Crime’s deputy director of ...

More than two dozen people who federal prosecutors say are current or past members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been charged in connection with racketeering, sex trafficking and drug ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the intelligence community is incorrect in its assessment that Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is not a proxy force of Nicolás Maduro's government — an ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Debates over President Trump’s hard-line migration policies are focused on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, to some a ruthless transnational criminal organization and ...

To justify the deportations, the federal government has relied heavily on clothing and tattoos to identify people as Tren de Aragua, for purposes of summary deportation — which eliminates the ...

President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Friday was tailored to the Venezuela-based gang Tren de Aragua. Trump’s proclamation, which remained unseen by the ...

Languages: English. President Donald Trump's deportation of alleged foreign gang members, including the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, has made headlines, with his administration facing ...

Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful homegrown criminal actor and the only Venezuelan gang that has successfully projected its power abroad. It has grown from its origins as a prison gang into ...