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Migrants Freed From El Salvador Reach Venezuela In US Prisoner Deal

Hundreds of Venezuelans swept up in President Donald Trump's immigration dragnet reached home Friday after their release from a maximum security Salvadoran jail as part of a prisoner swap with the United States.

International Business Times

Makeup artist is one of the US deportees sent from El Salvador to Venezuela, congressman says

Andry Hernández Romero, a makeup artist from Venezuela who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration and held in a notorious mega-prison, was among the scores of migrants sent back to Venezuela in a three-nation exchange Friday

The Independent UK

Venezuelans deported by Trump to brutal El Salvador prison are transferred to Caracas in exchange for Americans

Dozens of newly released Venezuelans could expose conditions inside notorious prison after months-long legal battles

The Independent UK

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Hacked Data Shows Dozens More Were Deported To El Salvador's Mega Prison Than Previously Acknowledged: Report

Hacked data shows dozens more people were deported to El Salvador's mega-prison than previously disclosed

Latin Times

Judge Presses Trump Admin To Return Venezuelan Deported To El Salvador After Country Says U.S. Holds Legal Custody Of Detainees

A Maryland judge is asking the Trump administration to explain why it claims it needs to hold diplomatic discussions with El Salvador about the return of a deportee if its government said the U.S. is their legal custodian

Latin Times

El Salvador officials say deported migrants in notorious jail are Trump’s problem, not theirs

Salvadoran officials claim ‘legal responsibility’ lies with the US, contradicting statements from the Trump administration

The Independent UK

Salvadoran Prison Officials Admitted to Abrego Garcia 'Your Tattoos Are Fine' Despite Trump Insisting Otherwise: Lawyers

Salvadoran prison officials allegedly said Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia's tattoos were not gang-related, contradicting President Donald Trump's claims.

Latin Times

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‘Whoever enters here doesn’t leave’: Kilmar Abrego Garcia reveals the true horror of Trump’s CECOT prison hell

The reality of Trump's torture nightmare, revealed.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ‘tortured’ in El Salvador prison, his lawyers say

New court filings detail his ordeal after his deportation became a flashpoint in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Al Jazeera

New legal filing details graphic ‘torture and abuse’ of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador prison

The wrongfully deported Salvadoran father experienced ‘severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture’ inside notorious CECOT, lawsuit says

The Independent UK

Anti-ICE protests start forming in New York City, Austin and Santa Ana

More cities seeing clashes between activists and law enforcement over opposition to Trump administraton’s raids on undocumented migrants

The Independent UK

As American as Due Process

Those accused of wrongdoing have the right to challenge the evidence against them before the government takes away their liberty.

Reason

A Federal Judge Orders Relief for Alleged Gang Members Deported and Imprisoned Without Due Process

Without such intervention, he warns, the government "could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action."

Reason

Due Process Concerns Mount as Courts Reportedly Dismiss Immigration Cases of Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador

Attorneys are raising alarms around the fact that U.S. immigration courts are dismissing the cases of Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, effectively denying them due process.

Latin Times

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Marco Rubio Now 'Committed' to Returning Wrongly Deported Man From El Salvador Months After Trump Ignored Court Order: Court Docs

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has voiced that he is devoted to ensuring the return of a Venezuelan man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador after the Department of Homeland Security requested it.

Latin Times

Venezuelans Deported To El Salvador Are Getting Cases Dismissed And Advocates Say It's To 'Complete Their Disappearance'

At least 14 migrants deported to El Salvador have seen their asylum cases dismissed in the U.S. Advocates say the goal is completing their "disappearance" of the country's legal system

Latin Times

Trump Admin Asks for More Time to Locate Venezuelan Man Reportedly Sent to CECOT After Judge Demands Answers

Widmer Agelviz-Sanguino was granted refugee status but detained upon arrival in Houston after authorities accused him of gang ties based on his tattoos.

Reason

Report: 50 Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Entered the U.S. Legally, Contrary to White House Claims

"It's not just one or two administrative errors," says the Cato Institute's David Bier.

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Latin Times

At Least 50 Venezuelan Migrants Deported to El Salvador Prison Had The Entered U.S. Legally: Report

At least 50 Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador had entered the United States legally, according to a new report

Texas Observer

Shipped to El Salvador: An Austin Immigration Lawyer on Her Teen Client’s Forced ‘Disappearance’

“Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our legal system was not allowed to work.”

Latin Times

El Salvador Insists 'Ball Is In' Trump's Court to Bring Abrego Garcia Home: 'The U.S. Is Paying to Keep Them There'

Sen. Chris Van Hollen pressed Salvadoran VP Félix Ulloa on the continued detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia despite the Supreme Court ruling demanding his return.

The Independent UK

Deported inmates taunt and mock Matt Gaetz and GOP delegation visiting El Salvador mega prison for OAN show

‘Americans are paying for the Tren de Aragua incarceration. It’s a bargain at $6 million,’ Matt Gaetz declared during his OAN report

Euronews

Trump needs prison space - can Europe help him out?

As the European Union scrambles to find bargaining chips for future trade talks with the Trump administration, there is something Brussels could offer to catch the US president’s attention: prison space.

Texas Observer

The Perils of Offshoring Justice

Texas and the U.S.–El Salvador Prison Pipeline

The Independent UK

Two-year-old girl marooned in foster care in U.S. after parents deported to countries 1,500 miles apart

Mother returned to Venezuela by Trump administration and father jailed in El Salvador, leaving infant daughter in U.S. and government accused of ‘abduction’

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