Earlier this month, the accomplice media breathlessly reported on the plight of illegal immigrants suspected of being members of a transnational criminal organization held at ICE’s Bluebonnet Detention Center and facing deportation.
Some of the detainees positioned themselves in the detention facility’s yard to spell out SOS for the lusty accomplice media cameras to suck up.
“The Bluebonnet Detention Center houses detainees, including migrants accused of being gang members and facing deportations under the 1798 Enemies Alien Enemies Act before the Supreme Court issued a temporary block in April,” a CNN reporter narrated over the strains of a lachrymose score. “In a statement, the Trump administration criticized reporting around the footage and doubled down on their aggressive immigration policies.”
It was more of the same, a full-throated defense of the poor, violent illegal immigrants whose “due process rights” are being trampled under foot by “dictator” Donald Trump.
Now the Department of Homeland Security is sending out an SOS to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for relief to move out the Tren de Aragua-affiliated gang members wreaking havoc on the Bluebonnet Detention Center.
“Rape, Maim, and Murder for Sport.”
DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said 23 members of the Venezuelan gang of terrorists recently “barricaded themselves in the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, threatened to take hostages, and endangered officers.”
“Keeping these foreign terrorists in ICE facilities poses a serious threat to ICE officers, staff, and other detainees,” McLaughlin said in a statement to The Federalist. “The media repeated these TdA gang members’ false sob stories, but the truth is these are members of a foreign terrorist organization that rape, maim, and murder for sport.”
In a supplemental memorandum, Solicitor General John Sauer asks the high court to end its temporary injunction of deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. Why? Because the United States has been invaded by gang members and terrorists coming from some of America’s most deadly enemies.
On April 19, the Supreme Court issued an order barring the Trump administration from “‘remov[ing] any member’ of a putative class of aliens detained pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) ‘until further order of this Court.’” The order was in reference to all “noncitizens in custody in the Northern District of Texas who were, are, or will be subject to the [Proclamation] and/or its implementation.”
There have been a few alarming developments since then.
‘Serious Risks’
Curiously enough, violent gang members facing detention aren’t keen on being deported. Federal officials say the prolonged detention of the TdA inmates at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities “poses serious risks for ICE officers, facility staff, and other detainees …”
The solicitor general asserts transferring these prisoners to other U.S. prison facilities would create grave ongoing risks. Gang members have conducted kidnappings, extorted businesses, bribed public officials, put hits out on U.S. law enforcement and assassinated a Venezuelan opposition candidate, Sauer reminded the court. The secretary of state has deemed Trans de Aragua a threat to national security.
Examples of TdA violence are myriad. In his March 14 proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act to address the “invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua,” President Trump proclaimed, “TdA has engaged in and continues to engage in mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming United States citizens, undermining public safety, and supporting the [Venezuela President Nicolás] Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing … the United States.”
While multiple federal judges have moved to block the deportations, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines of Pennsylvania this week ruled the president has the authority to use the 1798 act to deport illegal immigrants accused of being members of the violent gang. Haines, a Trump nominee, narrowly tailored the ruling to a Venezuelan national arrested in central Pennsylvania and transferred to the Texas detention facility. But the opinion stands out from those of liberal judges that have blocked Trump’s deportation efforts as unconstitutional, asserting the illegals deserve broader due process considerations than the president’s illegal immigrant exit plan provides. The differing rulings only hasten the need for the Supreme Court to weigh in.
Inflection Point’
Leftist activists have protested the deportations and the Trump administration’s designation of Tren de Aragua as a terrorist organization. Last month, 27 suspected gang members associated with TdA were charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracy, robbery, and firearms offenses.
“TdA is not a street gang – it is a highly structured terrorist organization that put down roots in our country during the prior administration,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a press release following charges filed against Jose Enrique Martinez Flores. Flores, also known as “Chuqui,” was charged in the Southern District of Texas “with conspiring to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization as well as conspiracy and distribution of cocaine in Colombia intended for distribution in the United States.”
“Today’s charges represent an inflection point in how this Department of Justice will prosecute and ultimately dismantle this evil organization, which has destroyed American families and poisoned our communities,” Bondi said.
Such charges, supporters say, also build the case for rapid deportations of illegal aliens suspected of engaging in criminal enterprises.
Urgent Matter
On April 26, 23 TdA members at Bluebonnet barricaded the doors of their housing unit with bed cots, according to ICE Dallas Acting Field Office director Joshua Johnson. He said the detainees also covered surveillance cameras and blocked the housing unit windows.
They “threatened to take hostages and injure facility staff and ICE officers in addition to attempting to flood the housing unit by clogging toilets. When they were ordered to take down the barricades, the TdA detainees did not comply with orders and remained barricaded for several hours,” a press release from the Department of Homeland Security states.
“The prolonged detention of TdA members in ICE facilities poses serious risks for ICE officers, facility staff, and other detainees, and DHS requests that the SCOTUS moves quickly to allow ICE to remove these terrorist gang members from our country,” the DHS release urges.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
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