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Federal and local law enforcement dismantled a major Philadelphia drug operation this week.

The FBI announced that it, alongside the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), raided a Mexican Mafia-linked gang in Southern California.

A U.S. immigration judge in Baltimore has rejected an asylum bid from Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national whose case has become a flashpoint in the nation’s ongoing immigration fight.

A federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump illegally invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan illegal immigrants believed to be involved in the Tren de Aragua gang.

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) met with several illegal immigrants connected to the gangs MS-13 and 18th Street, the Department of Homeland Security announced.

The Treasury Department has hit the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua with sanctions.

Federal law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are intensifying efforts to dismantle the MS-13 gang following President Donald Trump’s January executive order designating transnational criminal gangs as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). MS-13, an ultra-violent international gang, was one of eight groups officially labeled an FTO in February.

A multi-agency task force arrested 16 members of the Venezuelan “Anti-Tren” gang in Houston, Texas, marking the largest FBI takedown yet of the offshoot criminal faction. The suspects, linked to the notorious Tren de Aragua terrorist group, face federal charges for drug trafficking, weapons offenses, and violent crimes, including a mass shooting.

The United States announced sanctions on Tren de Aragua leader Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano for his involvement in drug trafficking.

A U.S. jury has found a Haitian gang leader guilty of kidnapping 16 American missionaries in 2021.