Bondi touts 2,700-plus arrests of Tren de Aragua members

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday celebrated the arrests of more than 2,700 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and highlighted that the Supreme Court's decision to rein in universal injunctions would allow for their swift deportations.

The Trump administration has attempted to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport members of the violent Venezuelan gang, though that effort has faced intense legal scrutiny, including judicial injunctions.

"Today marked the 2,711th arrest in our country of TDA. Members just TDA. Everyone in this room agrees they are one of the most violent criminal organizations in the world, and the Biden administration let them walk into our country," Bondi said at a White House press briefing.

"Walk into our country. For the last four years, 2711 of them today have been arrested in our country. That is the priority of Donald Trump. That is the priority of this country, of Homeland Security, of all of our lawyers, of FBI," she went on. "That's the priority that will be discussed in October, when the Supreme Court hopefully rules in our favor, and we're very confident of that."

"But you should all feel safer now that President Trump can deport all of these all of these gangs, and not one district court judge can think they're an emperor over this administration and his executive powers, and why the people of the United States elected him," she concluded.