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They are not the Sinaloa Cartel,
said Jonathan Pullen, Special Agent in Charge for the Rocky Mountain Field Division of the DEA in Denver, referring to the notorious Mexican syndicate
That’s when I started hearing stories,
Rodriguez saidThey weren’t afraid that anyone would report them. They weren’t afraid of anything,
Carlos saidIt’s like taking a small city and putting it inside of a big city,
Rodriguez saidWhat Tren de Aragua represents is not only an organization but also a model for criminal activity,
said Ronna Risquez, a Venezuelan investigative journalist and expert on the gangThey took the place over,
said Carlos, a former resident of a particularly notorious apartment complex on Dallas Street, who spoke to NBC News on the condition that his last name be withheld over fear of retaliation from the gangThey told us they would be keeping an eye on us, and that they’d kill us if we reported anything,
the woman told NBC news
We don’t care, we’ll do what we want.”
At a federal court hearing in the case Monday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg summarized the administration’s position on his court order Saturday asWhen you’re surrounded by guns, when they’re doing things to you with a knife … you don’t get over that so quickly,
she saidThey told us we weren’t going to leave that apartment alive,
she saidThey told me, ‘This is why we’re getting harassed,
she saidYou don’t leave this world without paying what you owe,
she said
The executive branch has discretion to decide this as a political question,
Blackman said
This broad immigration statute, based solely on some abstract foreign policy worry, is being used to chill speech,
Leopold saidThey are just making stuff up,
said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North CarolinaThese are unilateral, factual determinations made by the executive,
Leopold said in an interview on MondayWe believe that there was no order given
orally ... Kambli said
Any plane that you put into the air in or around that time, you knew that I was having a hearing at 5,
the judge said with evident frustrationWhy are you showing up today and not having answers to why you can’t even disclose it to me?”
the judge askedMy oral orders don’t seem to carry much weight,
the judge said