42 h. ago Joe Rogan breaks with Trump, calling Venezuelan deportations ‘horrific’

Influential podcast host and prominent Trump supporter criticizes administration for removal of gay makeup artistJoe Rogan, the influential podcast host and prominent supporter of Donald Trump, has criticized the president’s administration over the deportation of a professional makeup artist and hairdresser to a prison in El Salvador, calling it “horrific”.Andry José Hernández Romero, who is gay, had sought asylum in the US, telling officials he faced persecution because of his sexual orientation and political views. But US immigration officers argued the crown tattoos on his wrists were proof he was part of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang, despite Hernández Romero telling them he was not. Last month, he was flown from Texas to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, a facility that his lawyer said was “one of the worst places in the world”. His removal comes as the administration undertakes what Trump has pledged would be a mass deportation campaign. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump administration says it deported 17 more ‘violent criminals’ to El Salvador

The Trump administration says it has deported 17 more “violent criminals” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs to El Salvador, as it doubles down on a policy of removing people from the U.S. to third countries despite criticism over lack of transparency and human rights protections

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3 d. ago From a lavish prison, Tren de Aragua ran a transnational gang. Now, it's a favorite Trump target

Tocorón once had it all

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9 d. ago Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U_S_ Noem’s Wednesday trip to the prison where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”

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1 week ago ‘Nazis got better treatment’: Appeals court judges skeptical of Trump arguments to deport Venezuelans

Judges question whether government can deport alleged Tren de Aragua members without chance to challenge removal

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2 w. ago ‘Deported because of his tattoos’: has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art?

US claims tattoos prove membership of Tren de Aragua gang but relatives describe tributes to God, family and Real MadridLike many Venezuelans of his generation, Franco José Caraballo Tiapa is a man of many tattoos.There is one of a rose, one of a lion, and another – on the left side of the 26-year-old’s neck – of a razor blade that represents his work as a barber. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mother stunned after spotting barber son in notorious El Salvador prison after Trump's mass deportation

Myrelis Casique López was shocked to find that her barber son was one of more than 100 gangsters the Trump administration deported to a notorious El Salvadoran prison this week.

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2 w. ago ICE officers take dramatic action after 'Tren de Aragua gangsters' refuse to come out of car

The suspected gangsters were arrested in Spokane, Washington, on March 10.

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2 w. ago The Trump administration accused him of being a gang member and deported him. His family says it’s all made up

Venezuelan barber Francisco Javier Garcia Casique sent to El Salvador mega-prison but has no ties to notorious Tren de Aragua criminal organization, his mother and brother insist

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2 w. ago It started in a Venezuelan prison. Now US politics focus on the Tren de Aragua gang

It’s a local threat to some and a full-on invasion to President Donald Trump

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2 w. ago Trump's favorite insults to put down his greatest enemies behind closed doors

President Donald Trump predictably savages his enemies behind the scenes, author and White House reporter Alex Isenstadt reveals in his new book.

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2 w. ago Pictured: Deported Venezuelan 'gang members' detained in El Salvador despite US court order

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said 238 members of the Tren de Aragua gang had arrived in the country

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2 w. ago Trump administration deports alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador despite court order

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said 238 members of the Tren de Aragua gang had arrived in the country

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2 w. ago Trump declares pardons issued by Biden ‘void’ and issues new threat to Jan 6 investigators: Live

President claims predecessor’s clemency orders invalid because he allegedly used an autopen to complete them, paving way for revenge investigation into Capitol riot panel

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2 w. ago Trump twists the knife after 'monsters' deported from the US arrive at notorious El Salvador prison

President Donald Trump celebrated as a plane carrying suspected members of a notorious Venezuelan gang touched down at a prison in El Salvador on Sunday.

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2 w. ago Musk floats drastic action against judge who blocked Trump's deportation of Venezuelan gang

Elon Musk has voiced his support to take drastic action against US Judge James Boasberg, after he blocked President Donald Trump's deportation of Venezuelan gang members.

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2 w. ago White House defends Venezuelan gang deportations despite judge’s order blocking use of wartime authority: Live updates

Department of Homeland Security arrested almost 300 members of Tren de Aragua this weekend, White House press secretary says

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2 w. ago Trump ignores court order pausing use of wartime act, carries out deportations of Venezuelan gang members: Live

Department of Homeland Security arrested almost 300 members of Tren de Aragua this weekend, White House press secretary says

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2 w. ago Trump ignores court order banning use of Alien Enemies Act and carries out deportations of Venezuelan gang members: Live updates

Department of Homeland Security arrested almost 300 members of Tren de Aragua this weekend, White House press secretary says

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2 w. ago US deports 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling to halt flights

Trump invoked 1798 law previously used to detain Japanese Americans in second world war to justify deportationsThe US deported more than 250 mainly Venezuelan alleged gang members to El Salvador despite a US judge’s ruling to halt the flights on Saturday after Donald Trump controversially invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law meant only to be used in wartime.El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and 23 members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13 had arrived and were in custody as part of a deal under which the US will pay the Central American country to hold them in its 40,000-person capacity “terrorism confinement centre”. Continue reading...

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