Many of the non -citizens who were deported in accordance with the Alien Enemies Law in the enemies on Saturday had no criminal record, said an immigration and customs compliance official in a sworn presentation overnight.
In an affidavit, the director of Operations of the Field Office of ICE, Robert Cerna, argued that “the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they represent” and “demonstrates that they are terrorists with respect to those who lack a full profile.”
The statement was included in the recent motion of the Trump administration to vacate the restriction order of Judge James Boasberg that blocks deportations in accordance with the AEA.
“While it is true that many of the [Tren de Aragua gang] The members eliminated under the AEA have no criminal record in the United States, it is because they have only been in the United States for a short period of time. The lack of criminal record does not indicate that they represent a limited threat, “said Cerna.
The admission that many of the men lacked criminal records, and were deported on the assumption that they could be terrorists, occurs when the high officials of the Trump administration insist that men were violent criminals, and President Donald Trump labeled them as “monsters.”
Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan Gang Train of Aragua recently deported by the United States government to be imprisoned in the prison of the Terrorism Confinement Center, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, obtained on March 16, 2025.
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Cerna wrote that some of the men have been convicted or arrested for crimes in the United States, even for murder, assault, harassment and drug crimes, writing that ICE personnel “carefully examined each individual alien to ensure that they were actually members of ADD.”
To determine if a non -citizen was a “ADD member,” said the police allegedly used testimony of victims, financial transactions, computer controls and other “research techniques.”
“Ice was not simply based on publications on social networks, the photographs of the alien that exhibit hand gestures related to gangs or tattoos only,” said Cerna.
The lawyers of the Department of Justice said that the judge’s temporary restriction orders “are an affront to the broad constitutional and legal authority of the president to protect the United States of dangerous foreigners that represent serious threats to the American people.”
Boasberg ordered the Department of Justice to present, for Tuesday, an affidavit about how many non -citizens were deported under the AEA and when they were withdrawn from the country.
