Trump Dhs Slams More ‘sob Story’ Reporting After Tren De Aragua Gang Members Send Sos Signal

The Trump Department of Homeland Security is slamming Reuters for what it is calling "sob story" reporting astir forbidden pack members aft nan outlet reported connected suspected Tren de Aragua members forming an "S-O-S" motion astatine a Texas detention center.

The DHS released a connection connected Wednesday saying that "the mainstream media’s latest effort astatine a criminal pack sob communicative includes a self-admitted personnel of Tren de Aragua" and that "the existent communicative present is that nan erstwhile management was releasing pack members into American communities."

Tren de Aragua – besides known arsenic "TdA" – is simply a sadistic world criminal group linked to Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. The group is linked to immoderate of nan astir precocious floor plan migrant crime cases successful caller years including nan sidesplitting of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and nan seizure of an full flat building successful Aurora, Colorado. The Trump State Department has declared Tren de Aragua a "foreign violent organization."

Reuters reported connected Wednesday that 31 Venezuelan illegals and suspected TdA members formed an SOS motion successful nan gait of nan Bluebonnet forbidden migrant detention halfway successful Anson, Texas.

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The Trump Department of Homeland Security is slamming Reuters for what it is calling "sob story" reporting astir forbidden pack members aft nan outlet reported connected suspected Tren de Aragua members forming an "S-O-S" motion astatine a Texas detention center. (Trump-Vance Transition Team/DHS)

According to nan outlet, nan men astatine nan installation are facing imaginable deportation and had been group to beryllium deported to nan high-security Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) successful El Salvador earlier a judge’s ruling delayed that fate. Despite this, Reuters wrote that nan "Venezuelan detainees successful Texas fearfulness nan Trump administration will nonstop them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum information prison."

The outlet identified 2 of nan migrants successful nan detention halfway arsenic Diover Millan Leon, 24, and Jeferson Escalona Hernandez, 19. Reuters interviewed Escalona Hernandez, who claimed, "I fearfulness for my life here" and "they're making mendacious accusations astir me."

Reuters besides reported Millan Leon’s woman saying, "he is desperate" and that he "sat down and looked astatine nan entity and asked God to get him retired of location soon."

DHS pushed backmost against this characterization of nan situation, identifying some men arsenic confirmed members of Tren de Aragua.

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Reuters reported connected Wednesday that 31 Venezuelan illegals and suspected TdA members formed an SOS motion successful nan gait of nan Bluebonnet forbidden migrant detention halfway successful Anson, Texas.

The connection said that Escalona Hernandez is simply a "self-admitted Tren de Aragua member" who illegally entered nan U.S. successful 2024. DHS said that nan Biden administration "released this pack personnel into our country" and that he was later arrested for felony evading apprehension pinch a conveyance and put successful a Denton County, Texas, jail.

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Meanwhile, DHS said that Millan Leon is simply a documented personnel of Tren de Aragua who illegally entered nan U.S. connected an chartless day and location. The section said that U.S. Border Patrol arrested Millan Leon connected May 3, 2023, adjacent Brownsville, Texas, but he was fixed a announcement to look and released connected his ain recognizance. Nearly 2 years later, ICE officers operating nether nan Trump management arrested Millan Leon successful Lawrenceville, Georgia, connected March 12, 2025.

Commenting connected nan story, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that "Tren De Aragua is 1 of nan astir convulsive and ruthless violent gangs connected satellite earth," adding that "they rape, maim, and execution for sport."

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17 members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua pack and members of nan MS-13 gang, who were deported to El Salvador by nan US successful San Salvador, El Salvador connected March 31, 2025.  (El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"The erstwhile management released these pack members into our communities," she went on. "President Trump and Secretary Noem person ended drawback and merchandise and will not let criminal gangs to terrorize American citizens."

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McLaughlin called Reuters’ reporting "irresponsible," asking: "Why do they proceed to peddle nan sob stories of these pack members but disregard their American victims?"

Fox News Digital reached retired to Reuters for remark but did not instantly perceive back.