Venezuela, El Salvador and Presidency of Donald Trump
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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.
Three of the Venezuelans who were held in El Salvador's CECOT prison after bring deported from the U.S. say they were beaten and denied access to lawyers.
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.
A singer and a barber were among the former Venezuelan migrants who returned to their families on Tuesday, after spending months detained in a notorious prison in El Salvador before being sent back to Venezuela last week.
The alleged beatings began as soon as the Venezuelans arrived in El Salvador, Yamarte Fernandez said. The men, who were in handcuffs and chains, were immediately removed from the plane and taken to CECOT, where they say they were kicked, beaten and shaved.
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Francisco Javier Casique, one of 252 Venezuelans quietly deported to the mega prison, told Newsweek about their four-month detention in El Salvador.