{"id":396666,"date":"2025-11-22T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396666\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:58:14","slug":"rep-castro-disputes-federal-role-in-north-san-antonio-food-truck-raid-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396666\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Castro disputes federal role in north San Antonio food truck raid arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Congressman Joaquin Castro is sharing what he knows about Sunday&#8217;s raid at a food truck area on the North Side.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to his Facebook page, Castro says the operation, which resulted in at least 140 arrests, was not led by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/maassive-federal-immigration-raid-at-nghtclub-leads-to-27-arrests-drug-and-cash-seizure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Photos released of alleged Tren de Aragua members arrested in North Side immigration raid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Castro says of the at least 140 people arrested, two of them are teens and one is a baby.<\/p>\n<p>He says the way the government is painting it, every person arrested is a violent member of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua.<\/p>\n<p>Castro says authorities used a confidential informant who staked out the food truck area several times and even bought drugs there once as a way to conduct an immigration raid.<\/p>\n<p>He says of the 140 people arrested, only two have been charged with illegal re-entry.<\/p>\n<p>Castro has sent a letter to the Trump administration, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations demanding answers related to Sunday&#8217;s raid. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>In a statement we received from San Antonio&#8217;s FBI office, it says the Homeland Security Taskforce was created as a powerful tool in the fight against transnational organized crime and includes dozens of federal, state, and local agencies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Congressman Joaquin Castro is sharing what he knows about Sunday&#8217;s raid at a food truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-396666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115592764123776390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}