A federal immigration operation on the Hawaiian island of Kauai last weekend resulted in 44 arrests, with two individuals suspected of having ties to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The operation involved executing six federal search warrants at residences and a business on the island.
🚨BREAKING: 44 illegal aliens arrested in an ICE raid on the Hawaiian island of Kauai including members of the Venezuelan gang and foreign terrorist organization, Tren de Aragua.
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Those arrested in the raid were transported to a federal detention facility on nearby Oahu, Hawaii News Now reported.
Kauai County Council member Fern Holland witnessed the raid at one of the residences
“I could kind of hear them, like they were transcribing everything in Spanish and English. They came in really loud, basically saying like, you know, we have a federal warrant, come out with your hands up,” Holland told Hawaii News Now. “And then that was really loud for a while before the first blast happened and they kind of brought people out in chunks.”
Some of those arrested reportedly work for a local cleaning service business.
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According to a post on the county’s Facebook page, Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI, U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency, U.S. Marshals Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Law Enforcement, ICE-Enforcement and Removal Operations, and the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigative Division were involved in the operation.
The Trump administration has targeted TdA and other gangs now designated as foreign terrorist organizations in its nationwide crackdown on violent illegal immigrant offenders.
