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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro points at a map of the Americas during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Sept 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas) ** FILE **

U.S. conducts its 10th strike on alleged drug boat, killing six

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

The United States of America at war with Venezuela illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Trump at war with Venezuela

By Jed Babbin

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about the relocation of U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says drug vessel out of Venezuela ‘shot out’

By Mallory Wilson and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, in Tocorón, Venezuela, on Sept. 20, 2023. The Tren de Aragua gang originated at the prison. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) **FILE**

U.S. has arrested more than 2,700 Tren de Aragua members

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Judge slams Supreme Court for ‘disrespect’ to Trump

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A U.S. deportation officer changes the handcuffs from back to front after an arrest during an early morning operation, Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Tren de Aragua gang members staged revolt at ICE detention

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Colorado State Capitol is seen on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Denver. The Democratic majority in Colorado's House pushed forward two bills on Friday, March 1, 2024, protecting transgender people's chosen name. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) **FILE**

Colorado Democrats deliver ‘poke in the eye’ to Trump by passing another sanctuary bill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, in Tocorón, Venezuela, on Sept. 20, 2023. The Tren de Aragua gang originated at the prison. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) **FILE**

Terrorism, RICO charges for Tren de Aragua escalate fight over Trump’s deportation powers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, in Tocorón, Venezuela, on Sept. 20, 2023. The Tren de Aragua gang originated at the prison. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) **FILE**

U.S. deports more Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Tren de Aragua gang member deportations, judges and Trump illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Tren de Aragua deportations: Constitutional crisis or presidential authority?

By Jed Babbin

Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Judge blasts Trump’s deportations: ‘Nazis got better treatment’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - The widow, son, and sister of former Venezuelan dissident military officer Ronald Ojeda, attend his burial service at the Canaan Cemetery, in Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2024, after he was kidnapped and his body was found buried on the outskirts of the capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

After judge’s blockade, Trump will try to deport Venezuelan gang suspects to Chile

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This undated photo provided by Johanny Sanchez shows Sanchez, right, and her husband Franco Caraballo, who was sent over the weekend to El Salvador accused by the Trump administration of belonging to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. (Johanny Sanchez via AP)

Immigrants disappear from U.S. detainee tracking system after deportation flights

By Joshua Goodman and Gisela Salomon - Associated Press

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Trump goes all-in on deportation fight, claims national security powers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump sent hundreds of immigrants there

By Marcos Alemán and Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Police vehicles are parked near the scene of a shooting in The Bronx, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020 in New York. A suspect in the shooting of a state trooper in Massachusetts was killed during a shootout with U.S. marshals in New York City early Friday that left two of the officers wounded. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Tren de Aragua gets homegrown rival with ‘Anti-Tren’ gang in New York City

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

This June 13, 2016, file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Feds nab nearly 50 Tren de Aragua gang members in raid outside Denver

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Police car against city street background. (File photo credit: Daniel Tadevosyan via Shutterstock)

Judge orders closure of Aurora apartment building taken over by Tren de Aragua

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

FILE - A boy rides his bicycle past apartment buildings as a rally staged by the East Colfax Community Collective is held in the courtyard to address chronic problems in the apartment buildings occupied by people displaced from their home countries in central and South America, Sept. 3, 2024, in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Denver mayor at fault for Tren de Aragua’s suburban takeover, Aurora mayor writes

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Migrants gather at a crossing into El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 20, 2022. The Biden administration on Thursday, Jan. 5, said it would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, a major expansion of an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

Tren de Aragua gang, known for trafficking people and targeting police, infiltrates D.C. region

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times