2 Tren de Aragua gangbangers busted by NYPD have been deported to El Salvador’s hellhole prison

Two alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers who were busted by the NYPD have been deported to El Salvador’s notorious hellhole prison — despite New York City’s sanctuary laws.

Carlos Chivico Medina, 24, was nabbed in a massive drug ring bust in November, and Miguel Vaamondes Barrios, 42, was picked up in last April as part of a raid on squatters at Bronx home.

Both were on a leaked list of deportees flown to El Salvador’s terrorism confinement center (CECOT) earlier this month under the Alien Enemies Act — which President Trump invoked to make it easier to kick out members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang.

It’s not clear how Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents took custody of them, since New York City’s sanctuary laws strictly limit what information the NYPD and the city’s Department of Correction can share the feds.

The Department of Homeland Security didn’t respond to a request for comment on Monday.

The Trump administration transported 260 illegal migrants to CECOT earlier this month, where they were seen in dramatic video showing the deportees in shackles with their heads down.

Barrios, 42, was busted last spring along with eight other suspects, who were found squatting in a trashed Bronx apartment they filled with guns — including one so-called “ghost gun” — as well as three extended magazines, a box of ammunition, a bag of ketamine and a bag of ketamine mixed with cocaine, according to cops.

Barrios was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a controlled substance and acting in a manner injurious to a child for his alleged role in the migrant squatter gang, police said.

At the time he was also wanted for retail theft and shoplifting charges in both Pennsylvania and New York.

ICE lodged a detainer request to take custody of him, but sanctuary laws prohibit NYC officials from handing over all but the most violent suspects.

ICE later raided the Bronx house following The Post’s reporting and picked up three of Barrios’ pals. Barrios, however, was still cooling his heels in Rikers pending a bail hearing at the time.

The other suspected gang member arrested NYC, Medina, was busted in a major NYPD takedown of a drug and gun ring in the Bronx in November.

Medina, who was previously arrested in 2023 on shoplifting charges, was one of 15 members of the gang picked up in a join raid by New York’s finest and federal Homeland Security Investigations agents, according to cops.

Alleged gang members on the El Salvador flight manifest made headlines for crimes in other cities as well, according to the list, which was obtained by CBS News.

Among the 238 suspected Tren de Aragua members flown to CECOT was Wilker Guiterrez Sierra, who was arrested in February for allegedly carrying out a violent knifepoint attack on a 49-year-old man riding a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train.

There were also two migrant men, Idenis Alexander Sanchez-Paredes, 22, and Wilfredo Jose Mata-Fornerino, 37, who were arrested for allegedly running a sex trafficking brothel in Tennessee on the flights.

That flight, authorized by the Trump administration under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, has kicked off a massive legal fight.

But US District Judge James Boasberg ordered the administration to turn the planes around and to immediately halt the use of the law to deport migrants. It was last invoked during World War II to justify the internment of Japanese nationals and others who were deemed to be a security risk.

The flights followed Trump’s designation of Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization to allow the feds to more easily arrest and deport members of the Venezuelan prison gang.

Also said to be on the flights was baby-faced alleged Tren de Aragua gangbanger Nixon Azuaje-Perez, 19, who allegedly trying to hide the evidence of an attempted murder in Aurora, Colorado, over the summer,

His fellow Tren de Aragua ganbanger Henry Javier Vargas, 32, who was arrested at an apartment complex taken over by the brutal gang in Aurora, Colorado, in January and charged with extortion, was also named on the leaked list.