Donald Trump will designate a Venezuelan criminal gang as "global terrorists," an incoming administration official told reporters Monday, as part of the US president-elect's fight against illegal immigration into the United States.

The administration has already ramped up deportations, using military flights to send migrants to Latin American countries

A series of immigration executive actions signed by President Donald Trump on the first day of his second term included a call for the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang as a global terrorist organization.

A Trump executive order declares a national emergency and targets international gangs, but critics warn it could lead to racial profiling and misuse of outdated laws, threatening immigrant rights.

The arrangement, known as a "Safe Third Country" agreement, would empower U.S. immigration officials to deport non-Salvadoran migrants to El Salvador.

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"Some of them we don't trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back," Trump said when making the announcement

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Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without mattresses: this is life in Latin America's biggest prison.

With this series of weekly updates, WOLA seeks to cover the most important developments at the U.S.-Mexico border. See