A border state congressman has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to recognize and declare members and affiliates of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as “alien enemies” under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and the criminal organization itself as a “terrorist organization perpetrating an invasion of the United States directly and at the direction of a foreign government.”
“Tren de Aragua is a foreign terrorist organization, and their members can no longer be permitted to wreak havoc on U.S. soil,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told The Daily Signal.
“The Alien Enemies Act gives the president of the United States the authority to detain and deport aliens from foreign adversarial nations, and the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that authority yesterday,” he said.
“Members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua illegally invaded the United…