Source: Common Dreams
“Amid repeated assertions by administration figures that President Donald Trump’s deadly anti-immigrant blitz is ‘targeting the worst of the worst’ among ‘criminal illegal [sic] aliens,’ critics of the crackdown this week pointed to official data belying those claims. Take last month’s invasion by federal forces of a Chicago apartment complex, during which witnesses said agents broke down doors, terrorized residents including children, smashed furniture and belongings, and dragged away dozens of zip-tied people including US citizens and minors. US citizen children were separated from their undocumented parents after the raid. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a statement calling the raid a ‘targeted enforcement operation’ in an area ‘frequented’ by Tren de Aragua (TDA), a transnational criminal organization from Venezuela that Trump has designated a terrorist group and targeted in a series of extrajudicial high-seas assassinations of people critics contend did not belong to the gang.” (10/15/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-lies-about-gang-members