The Trump administration is hitting back after viral news drone footage showed federal immigration detainees spelling out “SOS” from a prison yard in Texas this week. The 31 detainees, clad in red and orange jumpsuits, were first seen waving to a Reuters drone while socializing and playing soccer in an outside recreational area surrounded by razor wire fencing before getting into a formation to spell out “SOS” — a Morse code word for “help.” But the “real story” behind the footage is “that the Biden administration was releasing gang members into American communities,” the Department of Homeland Security asserted on X Thursday. The footage, which was taken above the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, Texas, came just ten days after dozens of Venezuelan nationals detained at the facility were formally accused of being members of the violent prison gang Tren de Aragua and will likely face deportation, according to Reuters. The alleged gangbangers were swiftly loaded onto a bus to the Abilene Regional Airport, but they were quickly turned around to head back to the detention center after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to deport them without a hearing using the 18th century Alien Enemies Act. In their drone footage, Reuters captured images of Venezuelan migrants Diover Millan, 24, and Jeferson Daniel Escalona Hernandez, 19, both of whom the feds said are Tren de Aragua members. Immigration agents nabbed Escalona Hernandez in January after he was arrested by cops in Texas for evading arrest in a vehicle, according to Reuters. He was sent to Bluebonnet after he was moved from Guantanamo Bay, where the Trump administration has set up a migrant detention center, in February. DHS said Thursday that Escalona Hernandez is “a self-admitted Tren de Aragua gang member,” who entered the country illegally on March 27, 2024 and was later “arrested for felony evading arrest with a vehicle.” In a phone interview from detention with Reuters, Escalona Hernandez denied that he’s tied to any gang, including Tren de Aragua, and said he was a police officer back home in Venezuela. Escalona Hernandez said he suspected the feds saw photos of him making hand signals that are often seen in Venezuela when they took his phone. “They’re making false accusations about me,” he said. “I don’t belong to any gang.” He also said that he volunteered to return to Venezuela, but wasn’t allowed to do so. “I fear for my life here,” he said. “I want to go to Venezuela.” The agency also described Millan as a Tren de Aragua member who sneaked into the US as a “gotaway.” He was later arrested by border agents on May 3, 2023 and was released by the Biden administration before being collared by ICE. The Trump administration already deported more than 260 reputed gang members to El Salvador’s hell-hole megaprison using the wartime power. President Trump justified its use after designating Tren de Aragua as an invading force for terrorizing American communities with violent crime. A Trump-appointed judge ruled Thursday, however, that the president “unlawfully” used the act to carry out his mass deportation plan.