The Department of Justice last week declared it had stepped into the middle of a violent war between migrant gangs battling each other in Houston, and arrested more than a dozen people on one side of the conflict using a coordinated sting.
But despite the department’s public pronouncement that it had arrested members and associates of Anti-Tren — a violent splinter group made up of former members of Tren de Aragua — DOJ prosecutors presented little evidence of their gang ties and acts of violence while arguing the men should be held in custody indefinitely.
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