Ted Hessen

I spoke with Becky Ringstrom, who is a housekeeper and a mother living in suburban Minneapolis, who said she was following ICE officers.

She said agents streamed out of their cars and surrounded her, including one that she said was hitting her windshield as if he was going to break it with a tool.

After this, she was detained by the officers there, and she was charged with a federal crime, which is related to either assaulting or what's called impeding federal operations.

There have been other tactics that we've seen where people who are opposed to ICE say that they're following what they believe to be ICE vehicles, and then they realize that the vehicle leads them back to their own houses, showing that the officer knows where they live and who they are.

And another way was that people would say they would just see officers or unmarked vehicles that appeared to be federal officers parked outside of their homes or outside of where they work.

The Trump administration generally says that its officers are under siege and said that these were people who they believe either assaulted officers or were impeding and interfering with the operations that were at hand.

Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan gang, a prison gang, and the name translates to train from Aragua, which is a state in Venezuela. And within Venezuela and within the region, they have a reputation, a notorious reputation for extortion and kidnappings and even contract killings. We've seen them increasingly talked about in the U.S., particularly in the political context.

Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan gang, a prison gang, and the name translates to train from Aragua, which is a state in Venezuela. And within Venezuela and within the region, they have a reputation, a notorious reputation for extortion and kidnappings and even contract killings. We've seen them increasingly talked about in the U.S., particularly in the political context.

Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan gang, a prison gang, and the name translates to train from Aragua, which is a state in Venezuela. And within Venezuela and within the region, they have a reputation, a notorious reputation for extortion and kidnappings and even contract killings. We've seen them increasingly talked about in the U.S., particularly in the political context.

And this goes back to the presidential election last year.

And this goes back to the presidential election last year.

And this goes back to the presidential election last year.

What we saw under former President Joe Biden was an increase in immigration generally and illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. and also hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who entered both by crossing the border illegally and through legal entry programs that Biden himself had launched.

What we saw under former President Joe Biden was an increase in immigration generally and illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. and also hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who entered both by crossing the border illegally and through legal entry programs that Biden himself had launched.

What we saw under former President Joe Biden was an increase in immigration generally and illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. and also hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who entered both by crossing the border illegally and through legal entry programs that Biden himself had launched.

And then during the election, we noticed that as President Trump made illegal immigration a major theme and even legal immigration a major theme of his reelection campaign, he was focusing also on the Venezuelans who had come into the country and particularly portraying many of them as immigrants affiliated with this gang, Tren de Aragua, or with gangs in general or criminality.

And then during the election, we noticed that as President Trump made illegal immigration a major theme and even legal immigration a major theme of his reelection campaign, he was focusing also on the Venezuelans who had come into the country and particularly portraying many of them as immigrants affiliated with this gang, Tren de Aragua, or with gangs in general or criminality.

And then during the election, we noticed that as President Trump made illegal immigration a major theme and even legal immigration a major theme of his reelection campaign, he was focusing also on the Venezuelans who had come into the country and particularly portraying many of them as immigrants affiliated with this gang, Tren de Aragua, or with gangs in general or criminality.

Now, that said, even though this gang does have a fearsome reputation within Venezuela and within the region, there are not yet signs that they're operational on a large scale in the U.S. There have been individual cases of alleged members of the gang arrested and charged with crimes, including very serious crimes.

Now, that said, even though this gang does have a fearsome reputation within Venezuela and within the region, there are not yet signs that they're operational on a large scale in the U.S. There have been individual cases of alleged members of the gang arrested and charged with crimes, including very serious crimes.