Despite New York City's Sanctuary Law, two Tren de Aragua Gangbangers arrested by the NYPD have been deported to the infamous hellish prison in El Salvador.
Carlos Chivico Medina, 24, was troubled by a massive drug ring bust in November, and Miguel Vaamondes Barrios, 42, was picked up last April as part of a squatter attack at the Bronx Home.
Both were above List of leaked deportees Flying to El Salvador's Terrorist Confinement Centre (CECOT) earlier this month, President Trump called for members of violent Venezuelan prison gangs under alien enemy law.
It is not clear how immigrants and customs enforcement agents took custody of them as New York City's Sanctuary Act strictly limits the information the NYPD and the city's Department of Corrections can share the Fed.
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment Monday.
The Trump administration carried 260 illegal immigrants to CECOT earlier this month. There, they are seen in dramatic videos, showing their necks restrained.
Barrios, 42, was arrested last spring along with eight other suspects. They were found crouching down in a trash can apartment filled with guns containing one so-called “ghost gun.”
Barrios was charged with criminal possession of arms, criminal possession of controlled substances and acting in a manner harmful to a child on suspicion of his role in an immigrant squatter gang, police said.
At the time, he was also being sought retail theft and shoplifting fees in both Pennsylvania and New York.
Ice has filed a detainee's request to obtain custody of him, but the sanctuary law prohibits NYC officials from handing over everything but the most violent suspects.
Ice later raided a Bronx house following a post report, picking up three Barrios companions. But Barrios had cooled his heels with Leica during the then bail hearing.
Medina, whose other suspected gang members arrested NYC, was arrested in November for a major NYPD takedown of the Bronx drug and gun circle.
Medina, who was previously arrested for shoplifting in 2023, was one of 15 members of the gang picked up in a participating raid by New York's top federal homeland security investigators, police said.
According to a list obtained by CBS News, gang members of El Salvador Flight Manifest have also made crime headlines in other cities.
Among the 238 suspected members of Tren de Aragua who flew to Cecot was Wilker Guiterrez Sierra. Violent knife point attack A 49-year-old man on a Chicago Transit Agency (CTA) train.
There were also two immigrant men, 22-year-old Idenis Alexander Sanchez-Paredes and 37-year-old Wilfredo Jose Mata-Fornerino. Sex Trafficking Boiler Flights in Tennessee.
The flight, approved by the Trump administration under the alien enemy laws of the 18th century, launched a massive legal battle.
However, US District Judge James Boasberg ordered the administration to turn the plane around and immediately cease use of the law to deport immigrants. It was last called during World War II to justify the detention of Japanese citizens and others, who were considered a security risk.
The flight has made Trump designated Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization, allowing members of Venezuela prison gangs to be more easily arrested and deported.
It is also said that he is on a flight.
His fellow Tren de Aragua Gunbanger Henry Javier Vargas, 32, Someone who was arrested in an apartment charged with fear tor, who was taken over by a brutal gang in Aurora, Colorado in January, was also named on the leaked list.
