The feds used mob-fighting racketeering laws to arrest 27 alleged members of a dangerous street gang known as Tren de Aragua. They've been indicted on charges ranging from racketeering, sex trafficking, narcotics, robbery, carjacking and firearms possession, authorities said Tuesday. The indictments were a result of cooperation between the NYPD and Homeland Security Investigations personnel, officials said. The indictment was used by White House "border czar" Tom Homan and New York City Mayor Eric Adams to cement their partnership in ridding the city of migrants who commit crimes. They also used it as an occasion to insist that opening an ICE office on Rikers Island is the right thing to do.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday announced the Justice Department has charged over two dozen alleged current and former members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) under the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Bondi and Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said charges have been filed against 27 people the department believes are former or current gang members. The charges include racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracy, robbery, and firearms offenses.

Federal authorities announced charges Monday against more than two dozen people they say were associated with Tren de Aragua in a list of mayhem ranging from robbery and sex trafficking to murder of women who tried to escape. Prosecutors charged two different groups — one involving six people alleged to be current TdA members and another against 21 people authorities said are with Anti-Tren, a group that split off from TdA. The charges, handed up in two indictments in New York, challenge the claims of some immigration rights advocates that the government is overselling the threat from TdA.