U. S. As the new administration launches its mass deportation push, immigration and customs enforcement ( ICE ) this week arrested three Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members in two states, according to a senior Trump administration official.
Nestor Jose Mendoza-Garcia was nabbed Thursday in San Antonio, Texas, and Elmer Aparicio-Castillo and an unnamed 36-year-old man were arrested the same day in Nashville, all after reportedly entering the country illegally last year when they were processed and arrested by the Biden administration.
“Throughout this week, the heroes of ICE have been hunting down and arresting hundreds of illegal alien criminals, and it ’s immediate expulsion, including those with charges of convictions for rape, child sexual assault, terrorism and even murder, ” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas Saturday.
Tren de Aragua, a brutal Venezuelan jail group. You know that crew? This is not a pleasant group of individuals. They formed in prison, and finally [Venezuela] dumped their prison into our land.
“They’re as poor as the savage MS-13 groups. ”