ICE announces first Tren de Aragua gang member detained under recently invoked Alien Enemies Act

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) connected Friday announced the apprehension of an alleged Tren de Aragua (TdA) pack subordinate from Venezuela. 

Franklin Jose Jimenez-Bracho is the archetypal idiosyncratic detained nether the Alien Enemies Act, which President Donald Trump invoked past week, officials said. 

"Tren de Aragua is simply a unsafe overseas violent enactment that has invaded our soil," ICE Director Todd Lyons said portion flanked by members of the FHP astatine the Friday day quality conference. "TdA has infiltrated the U.S., its bluish border, the confederate borderline and successful our waterways.

"Many of these members are cold-blooded killers, rapists, thieves, cause traffickers, weapons traffickers and quality traffickers. They're accused of the astir heinous crimes committed wrong our neighborhoods and communities. They person been moving escaped successful the United States." 

THE ALIEN ENEMIES ACT IS SETTLED LAW, STEPHEN MILLER SAYS

Franklin Jose Jimenez-Bracho is the archetypal idiosyncratic to beryllium detained nether the Alien Enemies Act, which President Trump invoked Saturday, officials said.  (Florida Department of Law Enforcement; ICE)

Lyons noted that Trump has committed to rooting retired convulsive TdA pack members arsenic a apical priority.

"I'm arrogant to say, successful the past 48 hours, ICE, on with our section partners and our different chap national agencies, person arrested much than 68 pack members, terrorists successful the United States," Lyons said. "To date, we've arrested 394 of these terrorists. Our extremity is to eradicate TdA from U.S. soil. We volition not tolerate their amerciable beingness oregon the menace they airs to the American public."

ICE Director Todd Lyons speaks during a quality league with members of Florida instrumentality enforcement aft the authorities made the archetypal apprehension successful the federation via the Alien Enemies Act. (WOFL/Pool)

TRUMP TO INVOKE WARTIME ALIEN ENEMIES ACT OF 1798 TO FAST-TRACK DEPORTATIONS

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which allows deportation of natives and citizens of an force federation without a hearing, has been invoked 3 times, during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II.

Jimenez-Brach is simply a known quality trafficker and smuggler and is portion of an ongoing investigation, officials said. 

"During the operation, FDLE Special Agents steered Bracho close into a radical of FHP Troopers and different Task Force members who enactment the cuffs connected him," the Florida Department of Law Enforcement wrote connected X astir Jimenez-Bracho’s arrest.

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"Once again, Florida leads the way," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote connected X.