President Donald Trump has announced secondary foreign tariffs to buy oil and gas from Venezuela. The tariffs are responding to Venezuela's “intentionally and deceived” sending members of illegal alien gangs, including people including Tren de Aragua, to the United States through the southern border, Trump said.
Customs announcement By Trump on Monday through a true society, countries purchasing oil or gas from Venezuela will be “forced to pay the US a 25% tariff on trade with our country.”
“All documents will be signed and registered, and tariffs will be made on April 2, 2025, on the day of America's Liberation,” Trump wrote.
Trump said tariffs were the result of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's administration.
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“Among the gang they sent to the US is Tren de Aragua, who was given the designation of a “foreign terrorist organization,” Trump wrote. “We're in the process of bringing them back to Venezuela. That's a big challenge! Plus, Venezuela was very hostile to the US and the freedom we support.”
This week, Maduro said he had reached an agreement with Trump. accept Deportation flights for citizens from US Trump used alien enemy laws to deport hundreds of Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador just before a federal judge ordered them to halt deportation.
Later last week, Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 68 trending lagua gang members within a week, and nearly 400 trending lagua gang members were arrested within the first 100 days of the administration.
As Breitbart News reported in 2024, Trenderagua flourished in the United States under former President Joe Biden's LAX border policy, which poured immigrants into the American community.
At least 600 Tren de Aragua gang members, all from Venezuela, lived in 15 states and perhaps eight more states as of 2024. However, experts say the estimates are very low and the actual sum is much larger.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him to jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
