POR EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

UNA PROCLAMACIÓN

El Tren de Aragua (TdA) es una Organización Terrorista Extranjera designada con miles de miembros, muchos de los cuales se han infiltrado ilegalmente en Estados Unidos y están llevando a cabo guerra irregular y acciones hostiles contra el país. El TdA opera en conjunto con el Cártel de los Soles, la organización narcoterrorista patrocinada por el régimen de Nicolás Maduro con sede en Venezuela, y comete crímenes brutales, incluyendo asesinatos, secuestros, extorsiones y tráfico de personas, drogas y armas. El TdA ha participado y continúa participando en la migración ilegal masiva a Estados Unidos para promover sus objetivos de perjudicar a los ciudadanos estadounidenses, socavar la seguridad pública y apoyar el objetivo del régimen de Maduro de desestabilizar las naciones democráticas de América, incluido Estados Unidos.

El TdA está estrechamente alineado con el régimen de Maduro, e incluso se ha infiltrado en él, incluyendo su aparato militar y policial. El TdA creció significativamente mientras Tareck El Aissami se desempeñó como gobernador de Aragua entre 2012 y 2017. En 2017, El Aissami fue nombrado vicepresidente de Venezuela. Poco después, el Departamento del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos lo designó Narcotraficante Especialmente Designado en virtud de la Ley de Designación de Cabecillas Extranjeros del Narcotráfico, 21 USC 1901 y siguientes. El Aissami se encuentra actualmente prófugo de la justicia estadounidense y enfrenta cargos derivados de sus violaciones de las sanciones estadounidenses impuestas por su designación del Departamento del Tesoro.

Al igual que El Aissami, Nicolás Maduro, quien se autoproclama presidente de Venezuela y ejerce control sobre las fuerzas de seguridad y otras autoridades venezolanas, también mantiene estrechos vínculos con narcoterroristas patrocinados por el régimen. Maduro lidera el Cártel de los Soles, una organización patrocinada por el régimen, que se coordina con TdA y otras organizaciones, y se apoya en ellas, para lograr su objetivo de utilizar narcóticos ilegales como arma para inundar Estados Unidos. En 2020, Maduro y otros miembros del régimen fueron acusados ​​de narcoterrorismo y otros delitos en relación con este complot contra Estados Unidos.

Over the years, Venezuelan national and local authorities have ceded ever-greater control over their territories to transnational criminal organizations, including TdA. The result is a hybrid criminal state that is perpetrating an invasion of and predatory incursion into the United States, and which poses a substantial danger to the United States. Indeed, in December 2024, INTERPOL Washington confirmed: “Tren de Aragua has emerged as a significant threat to the United States as it infiltrates migration flows from Venezuela.” Evidence irrefutably demonstrates that TdA has invaded the United States and continues to invade, attempt to invade, and threaten to invade the country; perpetrated irregular warfare within the country; and used drug trafficking as a weapon against our citizens.

Based upon a review of TdA’s activities, and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, on February 20, 2025, acting pursuant to the authority in 8 U.S.C. 1189, the Secretary of State designated TdA as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

As President of the United States and Commander in Chief, it is my solemn duty to protect the American people from the devastating effects of this invasion. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Alien Enemies Act, 50 U.S.C. 21 et seq., hereby proclaim and direct as follows:

Section 1. I find and declare that TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela. I make these findings using the full extent of my authority to conduct the Nation’s foreign affairs under the Constitution. Based on these findings, and by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 50 U.S.C. 21, I proclaim that all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies. I further find and declare that all such members of TdA are, by virtue of their membership in that organization, chargeable with actual hostility against the United States and are therefore ineligible for the benefits of 50 U.S.C. 22. I further find and declare that all such members of TdA are a danger to the public peace or safety of the United States.

Sec. 2. I direct the Attorney General, within 60 days of the date of this proclamation, to prepare and publish a letter under her signature declaring the policy described in section 1 of this proclamation as the policy of the United States and attaching this proclamation. I direct the Attorney General to transmit this letter to the Chief Justice of the United States, the chief judge of every circuit court of appeals, the chief judge of every district and territorial court of the United States, each Governor of a State and territory of the United States, and the highest-ranking judicial officer of each State and territory of the United States.

Sec. 3. I direct that all Alien Enemies described in section 1 of this proclamation are subject to immediate apprehension, detention, and removal, and further that they shall not be permitted residence in the United States.

Sec. 4. Pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable law, apprehend, restrain, secure, and remove every Alien Enemy described in section 1 of this proclamation. The Secretary of Homeland Security retains discretion to apprehend and remove any Alien Enemy under any separate authority.

Sec. 5. All executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall collaborate with law enforcement officials of the United States and with appropriate State, local, and tribal officials, to use all lawful means to apprehend, restrain, secure, and remove Alien Enemies described in section 1 of this proclamation.

Sec. 6. Pursuant to my authority under 50 U.S.C. 21 to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States toward the Alien Enemies subject to this proclamation, to direct the manner and degree of the restraint to which such Alien Enemies shall be subject and in what cases, to provide for the removal of such Alien Enemies, and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary “in the premises and for the public safety,” I hereby direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to execute all the regulations hereinafter contained regarding the Alien Enemies described in section 1 of this proclamation. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security are further directed to cause the apprehension, detention, and removal of all members of TdA who otherwise qualify as Alien Enemies under section 1 of this proclamation. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security are authorized to take all necessary actions under the Alien Enemies Act to effectuate this proclamation, consistent with applicable law. In doing so, and for such purpose, they are authorized to utilize agents, agencies, and officers of the United States Government and of the several States, territories, dependencies, and municipalities thereof and of the District of Columbia. All such agents, agencies, and officers are hereby granted full authority for all acts done by them in the execution of such regulations when acting by direction of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as the case may be.

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Alien Enemies Act, 50 U.S.C. 21 et seq., I hereby declare and establish the following regulations which I find necessary “in the premises and for the public safety”:

(a) No Alien Enemy described in section 1 of this proclamation shall enter, attempt to enter, or be found within any territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Any such Alien Enemy who enters, attempts to enter, or is found within such territory shall be immediately apprehended and detained until removed from the United States. All such Alien Enemies, wherever found within any territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are subject to summary apprehension.

(b) Alien Enemies apprehended pursuant to this proclamation shall be subject to detention until removed from the United States in such place of detention as may be directed by the officers responsible for the execution of these regulations.

(c) Alien Enemies shall be subject to removal to any such location as may be directed by the officers responsible for the execution of these regulations consistent with applicable law.

(d) Toda propiedad en posesión de, o rastreable hasta, un Enemigo Extranjero, que se use, se pretenda usar o se use comúnmente para perpetrar la actividad hostil y la guerra irregular del TdA, junto con evidencia de dicha actividad hostil y guerra irregular, estará sujeta a incautación y decomiso.

El Fiscal General también tiene la autoridad, de conformidad con la Ley de Enemigos Extranjeros y el Título 3 del Código de los Estados Unidos, artículo 301, en consulta con el Secretario de Seguridad Nacional, para emitir cualquier orientación necesaria para la pronta aprehensión, detención y expulsión de todos los Enemigos Extranjeros descritos en la sección 1 de esta proclamación. Dicha orientación entrará en vigor inmediatamente después de su emisión por el Fiscal General.

Esta proclamación y las directivas y reglamentos aquí prescritos se extenderán y aplicarán a toda la tierra y el agua, continental o insular, en cualquier forma dentro de la jurisdicción de los Estados Unidos.

EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, firmo la presente este
día catorce de marzo del año de Nuestro Señor dos mil veinticinco, y ducentésimo cuadragésimo noveno de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos de América.