San Salvador – One of them is an old professional footballer who escaped from Venezuela after being tortured by the authoritarian government of the country, according to his lawyer.
The other is once a shoe dealer and social media impressive who once documented his journey from Venezuela in Tiktok from South America.
Both were apparently among the thousands of political asylum candidates who legally entered the United States from Mexico with a migration process that was scrapped by the Trump administration.
Both were detained in California and deported. Now, in a penalty system, which is widely condemned for human rights violations, they are imprisoned in El Salvador, according to their families left in the dark about their destiny.
“This is a torture, injustice for us,” said Antonia Cristina Barrios De Reyes, the mother of 36 -year -old Jerce Egbunik Reyes Barrios. “My son is not guilty.”
Jerce Egbunik Reyes Barrios, an old professional footballer from Venezuela, was among the gang members who were deported from the US to El Salvador. “My son is not a criminal,” his mother said.
(Jerce Reyes Family)
Social media impressive 32 -year -old Nolberto Rafael Aguilar Rodríguez. Initially, Venezuela’s western neighbor escaped from helplessness.
“We Your campWe come from the fields, ”he said. We left Venezuela because we left hunger. “
Reyes Barrios and Aguilar were among the 261 people who were thrown to El Salvador last week after claiming that most of the Trump administration was connected to Aragua Gang.
The evidence of the gang membership specified by the government is resistant to existentialist, claimed by defense lawyers and is largely based on tattoos and social media advertisements.
Experts say that the use of an infamous oppressive prison system, the administration of the administration, says that the use of external resources is not a precedent.
“The United States now has a tropical gulag,” said Regina Bateson, a political scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, in El Salvador. “The idea that the US government pays millions of dollars to another government to violate their rights.”
El Salvador Operation is part of the agreement between Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukle. The lawyers filed a federal lawsuit that challenged the use of Trump’s Actual Law – a regulation from 1798, which was previously called during the war, to expel most of Trump’s Venezuela gang members.
On Friday, a federal judge in the Washington DC promised to “descend to the bottom” as to whether the Trump administration opposed the order of continuing the deportation of the court.
Many relatives of the border areas denied that their relatives had gang vineyards or criminal records, and said that they were looking for better lives in their turbulent homeland, a part of Exodus, who saw that millions of people have escaped from Venezuela.
Footballer’s uncle Jair Barrios, “Jerce’a we have no idea about what will happen,” he said. “We understand and respect the laws of each country, but at the same time, please, we want to allow justice to be done and really innocent people to be released.”
Reyes Barrios, according to a statement made by his lawyer Linette Tobin, known as the Biden Management Program known as CBP One, Prospective asylum seekers and others, which facilitates the entry to the Biden Management Program, according to the statement to be appointed within the scope of the Biden Management Program, Reyes Barrios was detained in the Otay Mesa border in California in September.
According to Tobin, the train, which mistakenly based on a arm tattoo, was accused of a social media mission, in which the Aragua connection and a hand movement, which US officials call a gang sign.
Tobin, above a football ball, a crown on a football ball – a crown – on a football ball, the word “díos, – actually shows respect for his favorite team, Tobin. The lawyer is that the hand movement creates a popular sign language by the “I Love You”.
Reyes Barrios participated in Antigovernment in Venezuela in February and March 2024. After being released, he fled to the United States and enrolled in a CBP in Mexico.
Tobin wrote Reyes Barrios that he was not accused of crime and that he was a stable employment record as a footballer and a football coach for children and young people ”.
After he was detained in California, Tobin, Reyes Barrios applied for political asylum and other relief. On April 17, a hearing was held at the Migration Court in Otay Mesa.
Reyes Barrios was deported to El Salvador on March 15th.
Deputy Secretary of the Department of Interior Security Tricia McLaughlin defended the government action.
Reyes Barrios wrote to McLawhlin X, not only in the United States, but illegally, not only in the United States. [Tren de Aragua] membership. His social media shows that he is a member of the vicious TDA gang. ”
“DHS intelligence assessments go beyond a single tattoo and rely on our findings.”
Reyes said that Barrios was a “respected person in Venezuela, and his wife, Mariyen Araujo Sandoval, remained with two of the couple’s four children in Mexico.
“It’s unfair to blame someone for tattoo,” he said.
Now he’s cut, he said, his family dream of coming together in the United States. Now he hopes to meet him in Venezuela – if his husband can leave El Salvador.
Orum I’m so scared to even go to the United States, Ara Araujo said, a rose, a rose. “I fear that they will separate me from my daughters and put me in jail.”
Lawyers have no legal application for appeal or release of Venezuelalali sent to El Salvador, and may face an uncertain detention.
“Of course, there is no standard of laws, rules or judges to obtain prisons from external sources in El Salvador, Sal Salvador’s lawyer José Marinero said. “These people have no condemnation to the Salvador Justice System, no debt.”
Activists say the erosion of democracy in the region and the dramatic pressure on the migration pushed by Washington are emphasized.
Michael Ahn Paarlberg, a political scientist who reads Latin America at the University of Virginia Commonwealth, said, “There is no real secure shelter left,” he said.
An image provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office shows the prison guards deported at a facility in Tecoluca on March 16th.
(Associated Press)
The Trump administration acknowledged that most of those who were deported under the Law of Alien Enemies were not a criminal record in the United States. But the government still says they can pose a threat.
“We have sent more than 250 alien enemies, in which El Salvador’s very good prisons will save our taxpayers at a fair price to save our dollars at a fair price,” he said.
Critics say that Trump calls crimes such as Bukele as an excuse to suspend civil freedoms.
“This is particularly using vulnerable people as test cases, Pa Paarlberg said, adding that the message appears: orsa If we can deport people who do not have criminal records, we can deport anyone who escaped from a regime in which almost everyone and the US government accept that they are authoritarian.”
Bukle, a former advertising manager who labels himself as the “world’s coolest dictator ,, sent video teams to record the arrival of Venezuelilar who prevented deportation planes in shackles.
“This is a performer action to scare people not to come, scare people who are paperless here, to scare people from protesting.” Paarlberg said Paarlberg.
In order to determine whether their loved ones were among those who fly to El Salvador, their relatives sent their relatives on video and social media publications.
A photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office shows the prison guards who transferred US discriminants to the speed center of Terrorism in Tecoluca on March 16th.
(Associated Press)
The names of the deported Venezuelilar appeared on a list leaking into the media. In Tiktok, when he documented the trekin from South America to north, Aguilaar, who collects more than 40,000 followers. The food contained images from the intense forest that separates the treacherous Darien GAP, Colombia and Panama.
Jennifer Aguilar described his brother as a hardworking family man who escaped from Venezuela for Colombia in 2013. He has three children: an 11 -year -old girl and a 4 -year -old girl and a boy, 2, Colombia in Venezuela. Aguilar’s sister says he got tattoo, playing cards and membranes to cover a scar from a 16 -year -old accident.
Rodríguez 32 -year -old Nolbel Rafael Aguilar is one of the hundreds of Venezuela immigrants who were detained in the United States and sent to El Salvador.
(Jennifer Aguilar)
According to his sister, Aguilar went to Mexico and made an appointment for the US entrance through CBP One. On June 24, he apparently released a video on a plane on his way to the US-Mexico border.
“Believe in God,” he wrote in a title. “Never put your head on the ground. And trust yourself.”
Jennifer Aguilar said he found a job in a travel agency in California Calexico, California. For uncertain reasons, it was detained by US immigration officials at the end of last year.
Jennifer Aguilar from Colombia, where he lived with his three daughters, wrote about his brother’s situation on social media message and sent a message to Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and Salvador leader Bukele.
Bukele wrote, “He never went to jail in Venezuela or Colombia,” Aguilar wrote. “Believe me, if he was guilty, I would say, ‘Leave him there. Because we were taught to be honest and do well.”
Nolbel Rafael Aguilar Rodríguez chronic his journey from South America to the United States on social media. It is limited and is now held in El Salvador.
(Jennifer Aguilar)
El Salvador’da added that he did not know anyone, adding his sister, “Of course … I tried to be Rafael’s voice,” he said. “If I were there, I would do it. I’m so sorry for I can’t.”
El Salvador has collected and imprisoned approximately 85,000 people since March 2022, when Bukele has declared an emergency that effectively suspends the constitutional process rights. Venezueel people were sent to the border of the famous terrorism center, the center of the mass imprisonment agenda of Bukele.
Times personnel writers reported to McDonnell and Lirthicum, Mexico City, while special reporters Mery Mogollón and Nelson Rauda contributed to Karakas, Venezuela and San Salvador, respectively. Private reporter Cecilia Sánchez contributed from Vidal Mexico City.
