CBS’s Migrant Advocacy Burns Down a Field of Tren de Aragua Straw Men #Political
The CBS Evening News continues to perform immigration advocacy disguised as journalism, with reporting on the illegal aliens deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison that is best described as victim porn, and is normally seen on Univision and Telemundo. This advocacy is undergirded by some major omissions
As part of her reporting, CBS’s Lilia Luciano went to Washington, DC and interviewed Border Czar Tom Homan. Here is how that went (click “expand” to view transcript):
LILIA LUCIANO: The Trump administration says the men deported were all members of a criminal gang called Tren de Aragua, known as TdA. But we reported last week on a similar case where a Venezuelan migrant with no known criminal record also landed in the CECOT prison. We came to The White House to talk to the border czar Tom Homan to better understand why the government says that these men are all terrorists.
TOM HOMAN: I’ve been told by the highest levels of ICE, the men and women of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who built that manifest, who went into these files, spent hundreds and hundreds of hours investigating each and each and every one of these people, that they are in fact -everyone of them- a member of TdA.
LUCIANO: How do you know they are all members? Have you seen that evidence?
HOMAN: I have not delved on every file. Again, I’m trusting the men and women who do this for a living.
LUCIANO: Is it possible that the administration made a mistake by sending 238 men, saying that they are TdA members? Ensuring they are all TdA members without seeing what the evidence is?
HOMAN: I'm not worried- I’m not worried about mistakes at all. But I can tell you this. Not every gang member has a criminal record…
Criticism of the CECOT program is underpinned on the idea of a lack of a criminal record for the defendant aliens, and on whether or not they belong to vicious transnational gang El Tren de Aragua (TdA). And this is what Luciano focuses on when she’s in front of Homan.
Likewise, Luciano establishes these straw men when she interviews the partner of one of the deportees. The criteria being narrowed down to criminal records in the U.S. or membership specifically in TdA. But that is not what DHS is going by when making deportation decisions.
A recent Miami Herald article contains some of the background omitted by Luciano in order to craft the victim porn shown to American viewers for the purpose of shaming them into accepting a broken border:
A small team of Venezuelans and former U.S. officials with deep connections to police and intelligence in the South American country has been providing information to the Trump administration about the number and identities of members of Tren de Aragua and other Venezuelan gangs headed to or already in the United States.
The group, which has been meeting with high-ranking members of the administration, made a presentation to President Donald Trump’s team before he was inaugurated on Jan. 20, detailing links between the feared Tren de Aragua gang and the Nicolás Maduro regime, and provided official documents obtained from Venezuelan police agencies identifying 1,800 gang members believed to have been sent into the United States, three sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald.
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The administration has also obtained data from law enforcement agencies from Latin American nations where Tren de Aragua members set up criminal operations before attempting to extend their reach into the United States. The gang’s presence has been blamed for a spike of violent crimes in those countries. In the presentation to the Trump administration, the group claimed that Venezuelan intelligence services had provided logistics and money to hundreds of members of Tren de Aragua to enter the U.S.
The article details that the individuals illegally in the United States could be TdA or part of an affiliate gang. Furthermore, that intelligence personnel didn’t just look at Venezuelan criminal records, but those of countries where TdA has a footprint: Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru among others. So when a journalist says “but they don’t have a record in the US or in Venezuela”, you now know it is spin.
Be sure to read the non-paywalled article, which goes on to explain that TdA were sent over by dictator Nicolás Maduro in order to run sabotage operations in the United States, among other heinous acts. Acts which could very well be covered under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for purposes of deportations.
This is not at all what you see on the Acela Media. Here’s hoping they can curtail their impulse to produce victim porn, and emerge renewed with a focus on reporting every aspect of a story, no matter how uncomfortable the truth may be.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the CBC Evening News on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025:
MAURICE DuBOIS: We have an update now on a story we've been following closely, the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador without due process.
JOHN DICKERSON: The Trump administration insists they are criminals and gang members but as we have reported, there is reason to believe some are not.
DuBOIS: Lilia Luciano talked to another wife who insists her husband is no criminal, and no gang member, and then Lilia spoke to the president's border czar.
LILIA LUCIANO: By now you've seen the videos from El Salvador. More than 200 Venezuelan men deported from the U.S. and dropped into one of the world's most dangerous prisons, known as CECOT.
LUCIANO, IN SPANISH: You recognized him.
NAISA, IN SPANISH: Yes.
LUCIANO: You recognized him.
One of the faces in the crowd is Naisa’s partner, she says.
LUCIANO: How did you feel when you saw the prison?
NAISA, IN SPANISH: A lot of fear, dread.
LUCIANO: It was terrifying to see the videos.
LUCIANO: She’s nine months pregnant, past her due date.
NAISA, IN SPANISH: He won’t be present…
LUCIANO: He’s not going to be there when his child is born.
LUCIANO: Her partner is Henry Albornoz. The 29-year-old crossed the southern border more than a year ago. He’s been working as a mechanic in Texas and was detained in January during a routine check-in with federal agents. According to his attorney, Albornoz has no criminal record here or in Venezuela.
He has never been a gang member?
NAISA, IN SPANISH: No. He’s never had any involvement in that…
LUCIANO: He was never involved in any criminal activity. [
NAISA, IN SPANISH: He’s a very hardworking person, very family oriented, responsible, family first above all else…
LUCIANO: He was a good man, responsible. He was family first above all things, hardworking.
LUCIANO: The Trump administration says the men deported were all members of a criminal gang called Tren de Aragua, known as TdA. But we reported last week on a similar case where a Venezuelan migrant with no known criminal record also landed in the CECOT prison. We came to The White House to talk to the border czar Tom Homan to better understand why the government says that these men are all terrorists.
TOM HOMAN: I’ve been told by the highest levels of ICE, the men and women of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who built that manifest, who went into these files, spent hundreds and hundreds of hours investigating each and each and every one of these people, that they are in fact -everyone of them- a member of TdA.
LUCIANO: How do you know they are all members? Have you seen that evidence?
HOMAN: I have not delved on every file. Again, I’m trusting the men and women who do this for a living.
LUCIANO: Is it possible that the administration made a mistake by sending 238 men, saying that they are TdA members? Ensuring they are all TdA members without seeing what the evidence is?
HOMAN: I'm not worried- I’m not worried about mistakes at all. But I can tell you this. Not every gang member has a criminal record…
DuBOIS: And Lilia Luciano joins us now from Washington. Lilia, we have been wondering from the very beginning here: for those with no criminal record, what’s the recourse? How do they get out of this situation?
LUCIANO: Maurice, that is a great question. I've asked the government of El Salvador and they said you have to ask the U.S. government. That is why I wanted to sit with Tom Homan. He referred me to the courts, said that’s going to be figured out in courts. I asked, can they be brought back to get that due process? He said it's up to the DoJ, but the Department of Justice is refusing to answer any questions about the deportees to the very courts.
DICKERSON: Lilia Luciano for us in Washington. Lilia, thank you.
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