Under the newly enacted Laken Riley Act, 14 illegal immigrants, including suspected members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, were taken off the streets by federal law enforcement in Florida last week. 

Video shared by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami, which works in tandem with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), shows criminal aliens being arrested at their homes during a three-day operation. Those arrested have been accused of crimes including sexual assaults on a minor and gang activity with Tren de Aragua, HSI Miami said in a post on X.

“As part of its routine operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests aliens who commit crimes and other individuals who have violated our nation’s immigration laws,” an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement Wednesday. “All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States, regardless of nationality.” 

The arrests of the criminal aliens were a product of the Laken Riley Act, the first bill by the 119th Congress that President Donald Trump signed into law in late January. The law was named after Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was killed by an illegal immigrant on Feb. 22, 2024.

Meanwhile, Tren de Aragua has recently wreaked havoc across the U.S.

Though it has been on the radar of federal law enforcement in recent years, the group exploded into notoriety last year when a surveillance video showing several members kicking down the door of an apartment in Aurora, Colorado, went viral. Gang members were accused of terrorizing residents and taking over the apartment complex. 

Tren de Aragua began as a prison gang in Venezuela about a decade ago, but has risen to an international criminal enterprise that deals in murder and human and drug trafficking, eliciting comparisons to MS-13, formerly the most dominant Central American gang.