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[quote=Anonymous]MAGA heads are going to explode on this forum with the suggestion that the Venezuelan government is not directing an invasion of the US by Tren de Aragua as claimed by Donald J. Trump. I doubt they will see this information anywhere else.

I hope one of the cases that are winding their way through courts require the federal government to provide actual evidence about the nature of this and other gangs and whether their activities constitute an “invasion.”  If you’re going to declare an “alien invasion“ based on an act the dates to the 1700s, designate anyone from that group a “terrorist,” abduct and ship people you claim belong to this terrorist group to a jail in a foreign country without giving them the opportunity to defend themselves, then you better bring receipts.

I’ve gifted the article. 
https://wapo.st/4ipRoOd

Some key points:
—The National Intelligence Council, drawing on the acumen of the United States’ 18 intelligence agencies, determined in a secret assessment early this month that the Venezuelan government is not directing an invasion of the United States by the prison gang Tren de Aragua, a judgment that contradicts President Donald Trump’s public statements, according to people familiar with the matter.

— Trump invoked the Enemy Aliens Act act in mid-March, proclaiming without evidence that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating an “invasion” of the United States “at the direction” of the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

— from an expert: this 
“The idea that Maduro is directing Tren de Aragua members and sending criminals to infiltrate the United States is ludicrous. Tren de Aragua has become more like a brand that any group of carjackers from Miami down to Argentina can invoke to further their criminal activity, but there’s really no clear sense of hierarchy,” he said. “And the reality is that Tren de Aragua has not always gotten along with the Maduro government: We saw just a few years ago, the military in 2023, stormed a prison that Tren de Aragua controlled and allegedly carried out extrajudicial executions.”

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