The Trump administration is using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to justify deporting more than 100 of the 238 Venezuelan and Salvadoran male immigrants it sent to a prison in El Salvador on March 15. The administration says that these immigrants are members of gangs such as Tren de Aragua and are foreign enemies, so they can be sent away with just an order from the White House. The administration uses a checklist of items, including physical markers like tattoos, to determine these individuals' association with Tren de Aragua. Although in reality, the Tren de Aragua gang members do not use any specific tattoos. One important reason is that Tren de Aragua is primarily a profit-driven group, not an ideological one ' placing the organization more firmly in the transnational organized crime category rather than a political terrorist group. Over the past 25 years, Tren de Aragua has expanded rapidly across South and Central America, and evolved into a transnational criminal organization...
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