How a Venezuelan prison gang became the face of Trump’s immigration crackdown

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  The US Navy is deploying the world's largest warship to the Caribbean.

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  The USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier has been dispatched as part of a military buildup.

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  This comes after the United States began blowing up boats in the region.

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  The Trump administration justifies these attacks

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  because it says the US is at war with drug cartels and with countries that harbor them.

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  But if it's a war, it's not only being waged abroad.

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  There's also evidence it's been conducted on American soil.

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  Because before President Trump was blowing up boats off the coast of Venezuela,

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  his administration invoked a rarely used measure to round up migrants.

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  Now, Trump won the election with a promise to crack down on illegal immigration.

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  And since he's re-entered the White House, there's been a big decrease in unlawful border crossings.

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  But today's story is about people who had already been living in the United States.

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  Venezuelans, who the Trump administration has accused of being enemy aliens,

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  or even narco-terrorists.

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  Trump is particularly focused on this one criminal gang from Venezuela.

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  It's a gang he talks about a lot.

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  Tren de Aragua.

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  Tren de Aragua.

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  Tren de Aragua.

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  Tren de Aragua.

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