Eight TdA Terrorists Find Out the Hard Way That Trump Wasn’t Bluffing

They can't say President Trump didn't warn them.

Just two months into his second term, the president issued a presidential action aimed squarely at eradicating one of the biggest threats to the safety of Americans: violent illegals. And, more specifically, the thugs who make up Tren de Aragua (TdA), the "designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members" with origins in Venezuela that "have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States."

He said he'd get them off the streets, and he is making good on his word.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Wednesday that eight suspected TdA gang members – who, incidentally, had crossed the border illegally during the Biden administration – had been arrested for "vicious kidnappings and murders in separate cases out of Texas and Illinois."

BREAKING: @DAGToddBlanche just announced the arrest of EIGHT suspected Tren de Aragua gang members who entered the country illegally under Biden and went on to committ “vicious” and “heinous” crimes.pic.twitter.com/YgFaTApejG
"Eight allegedly illegal alien members of Tren de Aragua…
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 1, 2026

BREAKING: @DAGToddBlanche just announced the arrest of EIGHT suspected Tren de Aragua gang members who entered the country illegally under Biden and went on to commit “vicious” and “heinous” crimes.
https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2072345590684414361/video/1
"Eight allegedly illegal alien members of Tren de Aragua foreign terrorist organization are being charged with vicious kidnappings and murders in separate cases out of Texas and Illinois. These violent murders should never have occurred in the first place because these men should have never been allowed in our country.
Instead, 8 TDA members from Venezuela came here illegally, all 8, every one of them, during the Biden administration, and went on to allegedly commit the heinous crimes described in the charges discussed today."

Blanche went on to provide details on some of the heinous crimes committed by TdA terrorists. Back in 2024, he said, four men murdered a father and then kidnapped his 13-year-old daughter and 12-year-old nephew. Five alleged TdA members have now been arrested for those crimes.

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And that's just the beginning. Over 350 TdA thugs and associates have apparently been charged during the second Trump term with a range violations, including sex trafficking, weapons charges, "drug trafficking, robbery, ATM jackpotting, and other widespread financial crimes."

. @DAGToddBlanche highlights the incredible work that has been done since Trump designated Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization on Jan. 20, 2025:

"In the 18 months since [...] nearly 350 members and associates of TdA have been charged and/or convicted of horrific… pic.twitter.com/bJQwwzoTbR
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 1, 2026

@DAGToddBlanche highlights the incredible work that has been done since Trump designated Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization on Jan. 20, 2025:
"In the 18 months since [...] nearly 350 members and associates of TdA have been charged and/or convicted of horrific violent crimes — murders, sex trafficking, kidnappings — along with weapons charges, drug trafficking, robbery, ATM jackpotting, and other widespread financial crimes."

AAG Blanche also revealed that the recent devastating earthquake in Venezuela has not slowed down or interrupted Trump administration efforts to bring TdA terrorists to justice.

Said Blanche, "It's a horrific tragedy, and I think at a time when over the past week, 10 days, a lot of the effort we have been entering into has been to save lives and to help the communities there recover, I view that as a separate track from the work we're doing here to combat TdA," Blanche said. "Whether they are here, in Colombia, or Venezuela.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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