Venezuela, El Salvador and CECOT
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After 125 days in silence, detained inside an El Salvador concrete fortress built to disappear people, Andry Hernández Romero is finally home in Venezuela, alleging he was tortured, sexually abused, and denied food while detained under a Trump administration deportation order that erased him from society.
Four men deported from the US to a notorious facility in El Salvador tell the BBC after their release they were mistreated.
Judge Boasberg began the hearing by bringing up former Justice Department official Erez Reuveni's whistleblower complaint, saying that Reuveni's allegations "to the extent they prove accurate have only strengthened the case for contempt" against the administration.
U.S. District Judge Boasberg weighs new allegations in the Trump administration's immigration case after blocking the administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans.
If your friend was being beaten, would you leave him alone as they beat him?” Flores asked me. Seven of the Venezuelans arrived days after the rest, deported from Guantánamo, where a hunger strike had broken out.
Thursday's demonstration in Springdale was held in front of the El Salvadoran Consulate. Demonstrators worked with Indivisible Northwest Arkansas, a nonprofit in the area, to send a message to El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele.
A little after 9 p.m. local time Friday, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco texted HuffPost a photo of her beaming next to her 25-year-old son, Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. They posed behind a sign that read in Spanish: “Welcome to your country Venezuela. You don’t know how long we’ve waited for this moment. God bless you always.”
Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, who was held in a prison in El Salvador, filed a claim Thursday against Homeland Security, accusing it of wrongful detention.
Migrants deported from the US to El Salvador and now returned to Venezuela tell EL PAÍS about four months of continuous punishment and total uncertainty about their fate