A Mother Jones investigation reports that approximately 60 Venezuelan detainees at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Texas were nearly removed to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act on April 18, 2025, based on accusations of gang membership. The men, including barber Stiven Prieto Viera and delivery driver Omar Cárdenas Martínez, were given one-page removal notices in English only with no opportunity to contest allegations that they were members of Tren de Aragua. The ACLU filed legal intervention and a Supreme Court order blocked the removals, preventing the detainees from being sent to El Salvador's CECOT prison. The Trump administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan and Salvadoran immigrants to El Salvador on March 15, 2025, using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act and designating them as members of the gang Tren de Aragua, a foreign terrorist organization. The State Department declared Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization on February 20, 2025. Family members and lawyers claim some deported individuals were not gang members and some were living in the U.S. legally, with the administration using flawed criteria like tattoos to determine gang affiliation.