Dozens of desperate alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers begged to be sent home, flashing a banner reading “Help, we want to be deported. We are not terrorists. SOS” to a drone flying over a prison yard in Texas this week.
The jumpsuit-clad migrants were seen standing in a formation spelling out “SOS” while holding a sign in the colors of the Venezuelan flag at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, Texas.
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Prior to the request for help, they were seen waving, socializing and playing soccer.
The Trump administration said all the men involved are suspected Tren de Aragua members.
They were previously due to be deported to El Salvador’s hellhole CECOT prison, but that was halted when the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to use the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to kick them out of the country without a hearing.
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ICE agents nabbed Escalona Hernandez in January after he was arrested in Texas for evading arrest in a vehicle, according to Reuters. He ended up at the Bluebonnet facility after he was moved from Guantanamo Bay, where the Trump administration opened a detention center for migrants.
Escalona Hernandez had “self admitted” to being a Tren de Aragua member, according to DHS.
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He said it was likely the feds linked him to the gang because of photos showing him making hand signals commonly seen in Venezuela that they likely saw after searching his phone.
“They’re making false accusations about me,” he said. “I don’t belong to any gang.”
“I fear for my life here,” he said. “I want to go to Venezuela.”
Millan was also tagged as a Tren de Aragua member, after he was released into the US by the Biden administration and later collared by ICE, according to DHS.
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