Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan-born gang that has garnered national attention over the past months, could be brought down through President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director said.
Ronald Vitiello, who held the position between June 2018 and April 2019, told Newsweek on Monday that the organization could be "dismantled quickly" through the efforts. "In the case of Tren de Aragua, they can be dismantled quickly and definitively because their presence in the United States, although dangerous, has just begun," he said. "They are particularly vulnerable to removal and deportation, and so the United States could end their lawlessness as quickly as it began."
