The Trump administration has sparked controversy with its move Sunday to deport 261 people, some of whom it alleges are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, to an infamous maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

Tren de Aragua originated in a Venezuelan prison. The Trump administration has taken extreme measures to go after its members, using a decades-old law to remove them from the US.

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