{"id":14481,"date":"2025-03-21T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/in-deportations-trump-tied-gang-to-venezuelas-government-intelligence-contradicts-him\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:00:52","slug":"in-deportations-trump-tied-gang-to-venezuelas-government-intelligence-contradicts-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/in-deportations-trump-tied-gang-to-venezuelas-government-intelligence-contradicts-him\/","title":{"rendered":"In Deportations, Trump Tied Gang to Venezuela\u2019s Government. Intelligence Contradicts Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump\u2019s assertion that a gang is committing crimes in the United States at the direction of Venezuela\u2019s government was critical to his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">invocation of a wartime law last week<\/a> to summarily deport people whom officials suspected of belonging to that group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But American intelligence agencies circulated findings last month that stand starkly at odds with Mr. Trump\u2019s claims, according to officials familiar with the matter. The document, dated Feb. 26, summarized the shared judgment of the nation\u2019s spy agencies that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The disclosure calls into question the credibility of Mr. Trump\u2019s basis for invoking a rarely used wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to transfer <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1901245427216978290\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a group of Venezuelans to a high-security prison in El Salvador<\/a> last weekend, with no due process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The intelligence community assessment concluded that the gang, Tren de Aragua, was not directed by Venezuela\u2019s government or committing crimes in the United States on its orders, according to the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Analysts put that conclusion at a \u201cmoderate\u201d confidence level, the officials said, because of a limited volume of available reporting about the gang. Most of the intelligence community, including the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency, agreed with that assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Only one agency, the F.B.I., partly dissented. It maintained the gang has a connection to the administration of Venezuela\u2019s authoritarian president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, based on information the other agencies did not find credible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMultiple intelligence assessments are prepared on issues for a variety of reasons,\u201d the White House said in a statement. \u201cThe president was well within his legal and constitutional authority to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to expel illegal foreign terrorists from our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s extraordinary use of wartime powers to advance his immigration crackdown has edged the administration closer to a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-deportations-constitutional-crisis-impeachment.html\" title=\"\">constitutional clash<\/a> with the judiciary. A judge in Washington is considering <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/trump-venezuelans-deportations-el-salvador.html\" title=\"\">whether the administration violated his order<\/a> blocking, for now, the expulsion of migrants under the law. The Justice Department denounced the order as infringing on Mr. Trump\u2019s national security powers and asked an appeals court to overturn it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Alien Enemies Act empowers the executive branch to summarily remove foreign citizens whose government is in a declared war with the United States or is otherwise invading or engaged in a \u201cpredatory incursion\u201d into American territory. The government last used the law in the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/18\/nx-s1-5331857\/alien-enemies-act-trump-deportations\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">internment and repatriation of Japanese, Italian and German citizens<\/a> during and after World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On its face, the law appears to require not just an invasion or incursion, but a link to the actions of a foreign government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his proclamation, Mr. Trump effectively summoned such a link into legal existence by saying that he had determined that Tren de Aragua was a proxy for the Venezuelan government and committing crimes in the United States at its direction because Mr. Maduro sought to destabilize the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI make these findings using the full extent of my authority to conduct the nation\u2019s foreign affairs under the Constitution,\u201d Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump\u2019s key factual assertions contradicted the earlier intelligence assessment, the officials said. It concluded that the gang was not acting at the direction of the Maduro administration and that the two are instead hostile to each other, citing incidents in which Venezuelan security forces exchanged gunfire with gang members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because available information in the world of intelligence is often imperfect or incomplete, analysts assign levels of confidence to factual assertions and conclusions. Such caveats indicate that even if most or all the currently available evidence points in one direction, it remains possible that something else might turn up that would change their minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The overall conclusion was put at \u201cmoderate\u201d confidence, and some supporting points put at \u201clow\u201d confidence, the officials said, because there was not as much reporting as analysts typically want to have \u201chigh\u201d confidence. The United States has long scrutinized the government of Venezuela, but only recently has it begun to focus on Tren de Aragua, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The assessment, according to one official, also portrayed the gang as lacking the resources and being too disorganized \u2014 with little in the way of any centralized command-and-control \u2014 to be able to carry out any government orders. And, the official said, the assessment says that while a handful of corrupt Venezuelan officials have ties to gang members, that does not amount to the gang\u2019s being under the sway of the government as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The assessment, this official also said, asserts that when the State Department <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/02\/20\/2025-02873\/foreign-terrorist-organization-designations-of-tren-de-aragua-mara-salvatrucha-cartel-de-sinaloa\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">designated<\/a> the gang as a foreign terrorist organization last month <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/designating-cartels-and-other-organizations-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">at Mr. Trump\u2019s direction<\/a>, a minister in the Maduro administration publicly praised the action. (The administration\u2019s move <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-deportation-flights.html\" title=\"\">broke with the practice<\/a> of limiting \u201cterrorism\u201d designations to organizations that are clearly ideologically motivated.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Federal courts typically defer to the executive branch\u2019s factual declarations about what is happening and why, rather than probing for what may actually be going on. That is particularly the case in matters of national security and foreign policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But such deference is premised on the idea that officials are making determinations in good faith and drawing on executive branch resources like intelligence agencies to evaluate fast-moving and sometimes dangerous situations. Mr. Trump\u2019s pattern of distorting the truth is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-deportation-flights.html\" title=\"\">testing that practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The administration\u2019s insistence that all the men it sent to El Salvador are members of Tren de Aragua has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-deportation-venezuela-tren-de-aragua.html\" title=\"\">also been challenged<\/a>. In one court filing, an official <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.26.1_5.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">acknowledged<\/a> that many have no criminal records but said the dearth of details only underscored that \u201cthey are terrorists with regard to whom we lack a complete profile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lawyers for some of the migrants have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.44.0_4.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">collected statements from family members and others denying involvement in the gang<\/a>. A lawyer for one detainee, for example, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.44.5_3.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">identified her client as a soccer player<\/a> who had been tortured for participating in anti-Maduro protests and so fled to the United States to request asylum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The lawyer said U.S. officials accused him of being a Tren de Aragua member based on a tattoo and on a hand gesture he made in a picture on social media. But, she said, the tattoo was a version of a soccer team logo, and the hand gesture was a common \u201crock \u2019n\u2019 roll\u201d symbol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s proclamation cited scant evidence for his core finding that Tren de Aragua as an organization has been committing crimes to destabilize the United States \u201cat the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Its most concrete detail was that the gang had expanded from 2012 to 2017, when Tareck El Aissami served as governor of the region of Aragua, and in 2017 Mr. Maduro appointed him as vice president. But the proclamation omitted that Mr. Aissami is no longer part of the Maduro administration, which is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venezuela-corruption-arrests-maduro-elaissami-eea92e199050fc414c3625e07bae6184\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prosecuting him on corruption charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, as planeloads of Venezuelan migrants were being flown to El Salvador, Judge James E. Boasberg, the chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, temporarily barred the administration from summarily removing people based on the Alien Enemies Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A former prosecutor, he was first appointed to the bench by a Republican president and elevated to his current role by a Democratic one. His decision to block the Trump administration\u2019s deportations under the law has outraged the president and his allies, prompting Mr. Trump to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-venezuela-deportations-doj-court-order.html\" title=\"\">call for his impeachment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The administration has appealed to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The case is now before Judges Karen Henderson and Justin Walker, both Republican appointees, and Patricia Millett, a Democratic appointee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Appeals courts typically reject challenges to temporary restraining orders. But the panel has ordered expedited briefings and scheduled arguments, suggesting it is considering deciding on the legal merits of Mr. Trump\u2019s invocation of Alien Enemies Act powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Any ruling could turn in part on whether the judges accept Mr. Trump\u2019s assertions about Tren de Aragua and its supposed ties to the Venezuelan government, as the administration has insisted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Justice Department wrote that \u201cthe determination of whether there has been an \u2018invasion\u2019 or \u2018predatory incursion,\u2019 whether an organization is sufficiently linked to a foreign nation or government, or whether national security interests have otherwise been engaged so as to implicate the A.E.A., is fundamentally a political question to be answered by the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/intelligence-trump-venezuelan-gang-alien-enemies.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s assertion that a gang is committing crimes in the United States at the direction of Venezuela\u2019s government was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4418,4292,3673,163,114,4602,1373,4293,117,4604,4603,2170,113,111,1141,4601],"class_list":["post-14481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-alien-enemies-act-1798","tag-boasberg","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-deportation","tag-donald-j","tag-el-aissami","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-james-e","tag-justice-department","tag-national-security-agency","tag-tareck","tag-tren-de-aragua-gang","tag-trump","tag-united-states-politics-and-government","tag-venezuela","tag-war-and-emergency-powers-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Deportations, Trump Tied Gang to Venezuela\u2019s Government. 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