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Tren de Aragua gangbangers at ICE facility barricade themselves, threaten to take hostages after spelling out SOS in prison yard

2025-05-14

[NY Post] Nearly two dozen Tren de Aragua gangbangers in an ICE detention center in Texas have barricaded themselves and threatened to take hostages in a major uprising — days after migrants spelled out “SOS” in the prison yard.

Members of the Venezuelan gang threatened to hold ICE officers captive and injure them on April 26 as they barricaded the doors of their unit with their cots, covered surveillance cameras, blocked windows, and flooded the unit by clogging the toilets, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The takeover attempt lasted “several hours,” with the detainees ignoring the orders of ICE agents.

Alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers were seen begging to be sent home by flashing a banner reading “Help, we want to be deported. We are not terrorists. SOS” to a drone overhead this week at the same facility.

And just weeks before, another group of migrants were seen by a Reuters drone forming the letters “SOS” at the Texas detention center.

That photo is something else. Someone is thinking — and organizing — out of the box.

In response to the uprising, DHS is asking the Supreme Court to allow deportations to resume under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, which was blocked after the Trump administration deported dozens of alleged gangbangers to El Salvador without giving them a hearing.

“Keeping these foreign terrorists in ICE facilities poses a serious threat to ICE officers, staff, and other detainees,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a statement.

“The media repeated these TdA gang members’ false sob stories, but the truth is these are members of a foreign terrorist organization that rape, maim, and murder for sport,” she added.

The group was set to be deported to El Salvador’s hellhole CECOT prison, but the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to use the Alien Enemies Act to kick them out of the country.

In the earlier drone footage, alleged Tren de Aragua members Diover Millan, 24, and Jeferson Daniel Escalona Hernandez, 19, were seen in the detention facility yard.

Escalona Hernandez was nabbed in January after he was arrested in Texas for evading arrest in a vehicle and ended up at Guantanamo Bay, where the Trump administration opened a migrant detention center, before being moved to the facility in the Lone Star State.

Escalona Hernandez had “self admitted” to being a Tren de Aragua member, according to DHS.

He denied having any gang affiliation and said he volunteered to get deported home, but was denied permission to do so, in a phone interview with Reuters from the detention center.

The alleged gangbanger said he believed the feds linked him to the gang after viewing photos on his phone of him making hand signals that are popular in Venezuela.

“They’re making false accusations about me,” he said. “I don’t belong to any gang.”

“I fear for my life here,” he said. “I want to go to Venezuela.”

The feds also tagged Millan as a member of Tren de Aragua after he was let go by the Biden administration at the border and later collared by ICE, according to DHS.

Posted by:Frank G

#13 If you understood Wokeism, you wouldn’t have to ask why the loony Left supports these criminals. I’ll explain. The Woke Left has reduced everything to two categories. The oppressed and the oppressor. If you are white you’re automatically placed in the oppressor category. That includes white males, Christians, Jews and so on. Everyone else falls into the oppressed category and there is a definite hierarchy. I hope this helps.

Posted by: Gerthudion Bucket9415 2025-05-14 21:24

#12 “Unit insignia and rank, too” Also service record.

Posted by: Glolutch Tingle1702 2025-05-14 19:02

#11 ^Don't forget the competition among individuals - accusing competitors of deviationism from party line, is a good way to compete.

Oh, poor poor Hogg Mild, really thought his party was one of diversity and change and not what it is a strict orthodoxy, that his ouster was a conspiracy of action waiting for a covering reason.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-05-14 15:58

#10 I seem to recall the Attica inmate experience as a possible solution to this!

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2025-05-14 15:21

#9 SOS > Shoot Our Sorryasses

Posted by: BrerRabbit 2025-05-14 14:41

#8 Trump DOJ moves funds used for transgender projects, DEI to support law enforcement

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-05-14 14:40

#7 ^Don't forget the competition among individuals - accusing competitors of deviationism from party line, is a good way to compete.

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 14:34

#6 Don't forget, medals as well.

And they are uniforms; get a tear drop tat without earning it and see what happens. Getting a gang tat without being in the gang is a death sentence for the owner and the tattooist.

There seems to be some wonderment about why the dems are doing this, why make your platform the release of foreign paramilitary grapist and murderers into the public?

It pairs with their theory of absolute insanity. If you can make a dull, ugly, overweight dude in a dress Director of Health, then anything goes. Same as this, if they can then everyone can stay.

I present as evidence the meme going around, with a Tren de Aragua soldier on one side and the other side has 'Lia' Thompson with the caption Trans de Agua, and everyone is like yup.

So we get this, instead of seeing a drone and expected contraband as usual, they cheese is up for the camera, do some little 1st grade choreography dance, and even remember to use a soccer ball without somebody's scalped face sewn onto it.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-05-14 14:12

#5 ...unless you consider the tatoos a uniform.

Not just a uniform, but unit insignia and rank, too.

Posted by: SteveS 2025-05-14 12:59

#4 ...unless you consider the tatoos a uniform.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-05-14 11:47

#3 Enemy combatants without uniforms...

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-05-14 11:47

#2 Coordinated stunt.

Why would they do any of that if they didn't know who was on the other side of the drone, and it looked like they were getting feedback on how to arrange themselves for letters.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-05-14 11:45

#1 The solution is to tell them "We gave a Marine a flamethrower, he's on his way now"

Posted by: Silentbrick 2025-05-14 11:28

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