Dhs Sets Record Straight After Venezuelan Government Claims Children Of Tda Gang Members Were 'kidnapped'

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is firing backmost aft it says nan Venezuelan authorities dispersed mendacious accusation that nan Trump management was separating children from parents who are members of nan convulsive Tren de Aragua pack (TdA).

A spokesperson for DHS shared a news merchandise that said, contempt nan Venezuelan authorities claiming nan U.S. "kidnapped" a child, "the truth is DHS took action because some her parents are portion of Tren De Aragua."

The kid successful question's father, Maiker Espinoza-Escalona, is simply a lieutenant of Tren De Aragua who oversees homicides, supplier sales, kidnappings, extortion, activity trafficking and operates a torture house, nan agency said.

DHS added that, successful summation to nan father, nan child’s mother, Yorely Escarleth Bernal Inciarte, oversees nan recruitment of young women for supplier smuggling and prostitution. 

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President Donald Trump and deported migrants successful Colombia (Jim Watsonb/AFP; nan Colombian government.)

"These criminal forbidden aliens entered nan state illegally and had last orders of removal from a judge," DHS said. 

DHS said nan child was taken disconnected nan deportation formation manifest for her safety and use done a business pinch nan Department of Health and Human Services. The kid remains successful nan attraction and custody of nan Office of Refugee Resettlement and was placed pinch a foster family, nan agency said.

The agency added that "parents are asked if they want to beryllium removed pinch their children aliases ICE will spot nan children pinch personification nan genitor designates."

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"In this case, nan genitor stated they wanted to beryllium removed pinch nan children," DHS said. 

"Due to nan convulsive criminal activities of nan parents, including operating a torture house, activity trafficking and kidnapping, nan kid was removed from their custody. We will not allow this kid to beryllium abused and proceed to beryllium exposed to criminal activity that endangers her safety."  
— Senior DHS official

The section thanked Trump for removing nan TdA pack personnel from nan country. 

"President Trump and Secretary Noem return their work to protect children earnestly and will proceed to activity pinch national rule enforcement and nan Department of Health and Human Services to guarantee that children are safe from abuse, intersexual exploitation and trafficking," nan connection added. 

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Honduran migrants get connected a deportation formation astatine nan Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport aft President Donald Trump's nationalist emergency declaration connected migration successful San Pedro Sula, Honduras Jan. 31. (Reuters/Yoseph Amaya)

DHS said nan "previous management allowed galore children who came crossed nan border unaccompanied to beryllium placed pinch sponsors who were really smugglers and activity traffickers."

"In little than 100 days, Secretary Noem and Secretary Kennedy person already reunited complete 5,000 unaccompanied children pinch a comparative aliases safe guardian," DHS said. 

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin joined Fox News Channel's "The Big Weekend Show" past week and shared her guidance to nan far-left media trying to knock nan Trump management for deporting a 2-year-old citizen, moreover though DHS says nan mother wanted to return nan toddler pinch her erstwhile she was deported to Honduras. 

Venezuelan migrants deported from nan United States get astatine Simón Bolívar International Airport successful Maiquetía, Venezuela, Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

"The mother had nan action that if she wanted to return some children backmost pinch her to Honduras," McLaughlin explained.

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"This is very communal practice, but I do deliberation it besides shows that this administration, we really attraction astir nan information of these children. And we've put together further safeguards, specified arsenic biometrics testing and DNA, to guarantee that nan children are really children aliases relatives of these guardians and parents, because we've seen measurement excessively overmuch of supplier mules, quality traffickers, activity traffickers exploiting these migrant children for their ain disgusting gain."

Stepheny Price is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, nationalist crime cases, forbidden immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to stepheny.price@fox.com