On a Thursday morning last month, immigration agents knocked on the door of Leonel Echavez' Dallas home looking for someone else. Despite an upcoming immigration hearing, the 19-year-old Venezuelan was taken into custody for questioning about his tattoos.

The government has deported hundreds of migrants over alleged gang ties, but their families claim their loved ones are innocent and lack due process.

Maiker Espinoza Escalona is being accused of being a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua by the Trump administration, an accusation his family denies.

A man whose deportation was blocked by an immigration judge in 2019 was deported last month due to an "administrative error," ICE officials said.

Suspected Venezuelan gang members and criminals were among the 17 migrants sent to El Salvador by the U.S. military.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said "shame on you" to a reporter asking about the process by which the administration decides who is a member of the "Tren de Aragua" gang, and therefore eligible for deportation to a prison camp in El Salvador: REPORTER: The validation guide the DHS is using to determine who is an enemy alien,

The deportation of an alleged member of MS-13 came despite an immigration judge's order that he could remain in the U.S.

The Trump administration said Monday it deported another 17 alleged gang members to El Salvador for incarceration in the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center prison. The 10 Salvadoran and seven Venezuelan men were flown to El Salvador on Sunday evening from Guantánamo Bay aboard a military C-17 aircraft.