Former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Ronald Vitiello says President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportations will dismantle the Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua, which has flourished in the United States under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s border policies.
“In the case of Tren de Aragua, they can be dismantled quickly and definitively because their presence in the United States, although dangerous, has just begun,” Vitiello, who served in the first Trump administration, told Newsweek.
Vitiello said Tren de Aragua gang members “are particularly vulnerable to removal and deportation, and so the United States could end their lawlessness as quickly as it began.”
Thanks to Biden and Harris’s policies at the U.S.-Mexico border, Tren de Aragua has flourished across American communities in the last few years — particularly in Denver, Colorado, due to its sanctuary policies.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data obtained by NBC News revealed in October that at least 600 Tren de Aragua gang members, all from Venezuela, are now living in at least 15 states and possibly 8 more.
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