U.S. intelligence agencies contradict Trump’s Tren de Aragua claims | A declassified memo says Venezuela’s government isn’t orchestrating the gang’s operations in the U.S., undercutting Trump’s rationale for deporting immigrants to El Salvador

Lest there was any doubt that the Trump Administration is just telling the courts whatever they think they need to tell them in order to deport as many people as possible as quickly as possible…

Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act:

> “TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela,” Trump wrote in his proclamation invoking the act.

April National Intelligence Council memo:

> “While Venezuela’s permissive environment enables TDA to operate, the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States,” according to the April 7 memo.

!ping IMMIGRATION&LAW