Soon afterward, President Donald Trump's administration released a slickly produced video of the operation. Officials said they had captured two "confirmed" members of Tren de Aragua, including one on a terrorist watch list. Stephen Miller, the White House homeland security adviser and architect of the nationwide immigration crackdown, declared that the building was "filled with TdA terrorists," that the raid had "saved God knows how many lives" and that it was "one of the most successful law enforcement operations that we've seen in this country."
A ProPublica investigation, however, has found little evidence to support the government's claims. ProPublica has discovered the names of 21 of the detained Venezuelan men and women and interviewed 12 of them. We also spoke with dozens of their relatives, friends and neighbors. And we reviewed U.S. public records databases and court websites, examined court documents and social media accounts, obtained audio and video recordings made that night, and attended immigration court hearings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges
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