On his first day in office, Trump took steps to designate the Tren de Aragua gang a “foreign terrorist organization” alongside several Mexican drug cartels.

Tren de Aragua, a gang born out of a Venezuelan prison, is a loose network that doesn’t operate like groups typically considered terrorist organizations.

The Trump administration has invoked a 227-year-old law, the Alien Enemies Act, to target Tren de Aragua, a gang with its roots in the prisons of Venezuela. Who are they and how wide is their reach?

The Trump administration is paying roughly $6 million for El Salvador to jail the 238 Venezuelan gang suspects deported Sunday, according to the White House. “It was approximately $6 million to El Salvador for the detention of these foreign terrorists,

President Donald Trump’s administration deported 238 Venezuelans over the weekend, accusing them of membership of the Tren de Aragua gang. The deportees face incarceration in El Salvador’s so-called Terrorism Confinement Center under a deal reached between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Nayib Bukele.