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Over 2,700 members of the Tren de Aragua gang have been arrested in the US this year.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Friday that 2,711 members of the violent Venezuelan criminal gang have been taken into custody.
“They are one of the most violent criminal organizations in the world,” Bondi said during a press conference at the White House.
“You should all feel safer now that President Trump can deport all of these gangs.”
Bondi was speaking to the press after the US Supreme Court ruled that US District Courts cannot issue nationwide stays and injunctions that universally prohibit a certain policy. Instead, District Courts can only issue actions that are valid within their judicial districts.
“Not one district court judge can think they’re an emperor over this administration, his executive powers, and why the people of the United States elected him,” Bondi said.
President Trump designated Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization in March. In an Executive Order, he said the President said the group is “perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.”
The President then invoked the Alien Enemies Act to allow the “immediate apprehension, detention, and removal” of members of Tren de Aragua who are Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older and who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States.
On 15 March, the Trump administration used the Alien Enemies Act to deport nearly 150 Venezuelans to El Salvador, to be incarcerated in the Center for Terrorist Confinement (CECOT).
In a decision on 7 April, the Supreme Court granted President Trump’s request to pause a district judge’s stay order preventing the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected members of Tren de Aragua, but ruled that detainees must be given the opportunity to challenge their removal from the US.
