Trump issued an executive order to use the Alien Enemies Act to target Venezuelan migrants with ties to the Tren de Aragua gang.

The Trump administration says the group should be treated as an invading force. Critics say it’s a pretext for the administration’s anti-immigrant narrative.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. is being invaded by a Venezuelan gang, and he points to that as the reason he can invoke an 18th century law to deport alleged gang members without due process. Legal experts say illegal immigration,

Venezuelan asylum-seeker Franco Caraballo is believed among the alleged gang members controversially deported to El Salvador last weekend by the Trump administration. WLRN has reviewed papers that show he has no criminal record in the U.

Family members and advocates have said American officials have relied on tattoos to deport Venezuelan migrants with little evidence.

Nearly a week after the Trump administration flew more than 200 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, the mass deportation is continuing to draw intense scrutiny, with a federal judge admonishing Administration officials for "evading its obligations,

In February, at a routine ICE check-in in Texas, Franco José Caraballo Tiapa was unexpectedly detained, and on Saturday, his wife lost contact with him.