Tren de Aragua gang graffiti on a lampost at Lexington Avenue and East 38th Street in Murray Hill. Helayne Seidman. Trump has continued to crack down on illegal migrants coming across the southern ...

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 ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has emphasized the gravity of the situation regarding the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, ...

Tren de Aragua, often abbreviated by U.S. officials as TdA, ... The team has a library of thousands of symbols and pictures of tattoos and graffiti that can help identify gang-related crimes, ...

Tren de Aragua, which was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. in February 2025, has been repeatedly mentioned by Trump as part of his hardened immigration crackdown.

The operation has been a priority for the Trump administration, with recent arrests linked to a violent incident earlier this ...

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.

Tren de Aragua in Texas, New Mexico. Omar Arellano, Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) El Paso Division, told the El Paso Times in March 2025 that the agency would target organizations ...

It assigns a point system based on a person’s court record, but also subjective measures such as phone calls with Tren de Aragua members, observations of hand signs, use of graffiti and clothing.