Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Saturday, March 22nd, 2025. This is the excerpt.

Today taking a look at the Trump administration's claims over recent deportees and their alleged gang ties,

plus how angry constituents flooded some recent

town hall meetings, and we remember George Foreman.

There's little evidence to support the Trump administration's contention that large numbers

of recent Venezuelan deportees are members of the violent prison gang trained Aaragua.

Instead, family members and advocates say officials are rounding up members of an entire

nationality without regard for their rights.

I spoke with USA Today, national correspondent Trevor Hughes, to learn more.

Trevor, thank you so much for hopping back on.

Good to be here.

So just starting with this, Trevor, I think, you know, this has been in the

news a lot in recent weeks, but folks are, I think, still not fully aware of what this gang is.

So what is the trained Aragua gang? Can you just give us an explainer? It's not surprising.

A lot of folks haven't heard about it because, you know, we've been working on this, and we really didn't hear about this before a year and a half,

two years ago, maybe. It traces its beginnings to Venezuelan prisons. And Trump administration

officials say that as the Biden administration essentially permitted thousands and thousands

of Venezuelans to cross the border and seek asylum, many of those people are affiliated with or are members of

this prison gang, TDA, and that they've moved into drug trafficking, maybe even moving people.

And President Trump repeatedly singled out a apartment complex here near where I live in Colorado

that he said had been essentially taken over by the TDA.

And there were sort of these very frightening videos of people with rifles going, you know,

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