Homan insists all of the migrants deported to apocalyptic El Salvador prisons were gang members

Border czar Tom Homan on Sunday said the Trump administration is confident that all of the migrants it deported to El Salvador’s apocalyptic prisons are Venezuelan gangbangers.President Trump invoked the 18th century Alien Enemies Act to fly the alleged members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang to prisons in El Salvador.Those efforts have since been paused by the courts over concerns about due process.

Many of the migrants on those flights did not have a documented criminal history in the US, according to court filings from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official.“A lot of gang members don’t have criminal histories,” Homan said on ABC News’ “This Week.”“Just like a lot of terrorists in this world, they’re not in any terrorist database, right?” he said.“But the bottom line is, that plane was full of people designated as terrorists, number one,” Homan said, referring to the fact that the group was of reputed members of a gang designated by the US as a “foreign terrorist organization.” “Number two, every Venezuelan migrant on that flight was a TdA member based on numerous criminal investigation[s] [or] intelligence reports and a lot of work by ICE officers,” Homan said.Host Jonathan Karl pointed to the viral allegations from Jerce Reyes Barrios’ lawyer that he was erroneously deported because of his Real Madrid soccer team’s logo tattoo, something the Department of Homeland Security disputes.Homan countered that all of those concerns will be litigated.The border czar also underscored that US government officials “who’ve done this for decades looked at the intelligence information” and “are confident that they’re all members of the TdA.Homan, asked about the migrants’ ability to challenge the accusations against them, fired back, “Due process? “Where was Laken Riley’s due process?” he said, referring to the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student killed by an illegal Venezuelan migrant last year.So far, th...