Andry lives in Capacho, a tiny town in central Venezuela. He's a associate of the theatre troupe, loves to draw and plan clothes. In 2023 he starts working at a tv station in Caracas as a makeup artist. In his work he is fulfilled artistically, but is bullied for both his sexual orientation and his reluctance to the authoritarian government of Nicolás Maduro. In 2024, despite the pleas of Andra's parents, he decides to go to the United States in search of a better life.
Through a government application for migrants, he arranges to meet an American immigration official, which takes place in San Diego, just off the American-Mexican border. Andry seeks asylum in the States and is positively undergoing first verification. Officials say that he proved convincingly that he was threatened by persecution in his own country. However, they draw attention to his tattoos: each of Andry’s wrists contains a crown and under it the words “mama” and “dad” in English. According to the clerk, this indicates that he is simply a associate of the Tren de Aragua gang.
As Andry’s tattoos seem suspicious to officials, they decide to keep him in custody while waiting for the asylum proceeding scheduled for March 13, 2025. 3 months later Pauline Reyes, a lawyer from an immigrant relief organization, agrees to represent Andry pro bono. They regularly talk, both personally and on the phone. all fewer days Andry calls her mom, assures her that everything is fine and is being treated well.
On March 13, Andry does not appear at the trial. The deadline is postponed until March 17. The lawyer can't contact him. He later finds out that Andry managed to call his parent and tell her they're expected to decision him to another facility, but has no thought which one.
On March 14, Andry's lawyer and his household learn that Trump illegally resurrected the Alien Enemies Act. It allows the president to detain and deport legally resident citizens of a abroad country with which the United States is at war. The bill has been utilized 3 times so far: to hold British citizens during the war of 1812, to intern Germans during planet War I and to intern Japanese, German and Italian immigrants during planet War II.
Trump single-handedly decided that the Venezuelan gang of Tren de Aragua infiltrated the US and "conducts irregular warfare", so the administration has the full right to detain and deport Venezuelans without any procedure and ability to assert its rights before a court.
According to the American constitution, only legislature can declare war on another country.
On March 17, Andry does not appear at the trial again. There's no contact. Paulina Reyes intervenes, an immigration justice demands an explanation. A lawyer representing the ICE announces that Andry was deported to El Salvador. “How is that possible if no deportation order has been issued?” the justice asks. “I don’t know” – he hears in response.
Andry did the right thing from the beginning – he registered through a government application and together with his lawyer completed the formalities. From the minute he crossed the border from the United States to the minute he was secretly taken to prison in El Salvador, he was in US custody under the supervision of officials and armed guards. He was no threat. He didn't commit any crime.
A fewer days after Andry's disappearance, Time writer Philip Holsinger published report from the arrival of deported and "disappeared" men to El Salvador. any of the planes seemed stunned to see the sea of soldiers and police waiting on the airfield. After being transported to a maximum safety prison, they were thrown to their knees and shaved their heads. Holsinger's attention was chained by a young, tiny detainee whose guards were beating his face. The man cried and said he was not a gang member, but a stylist and gay. In response, he was struck and thrown to the ground, where the curled 1 began calling for his mother. It was Andry. Photo with a sloppy shave on his head is the last trace left of him.
Ábrego
Ábrego García grows up in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. His father is simply a erstwhile police officer, and his mother, Cecilia, bakes pupusas, popular in El Salvador fried cakes stuffed with beans and cheese. A full family's helping out in a tiny business. The occupation of Ábre and his brother is to store and deliver food to customers.
The local Barrio 18 gang begins to extort the household with extortion, threatening to kill Ábrega's older brother, Cesar. Cesar is fleeing to the United States. The gang starts attacking Ábre by threatening to kidnap him if his parents halt paying always higher amounts. They besides endanger to rape and kill his sisters.
The household closes business and moves away, and Ábrego follows his brother to the United States in search of a better life. He's 16 erstwhile he crosses the border illegally. She hires to work in a construction company, and a fewer years later meets U.S. citizen Jennifer Vasquez Sura, whom she marries and expects to have 2 children.
In 2019, Ábrego is detained by the ICE on the basis of an anonymous tip. The informant claims that the man is simply a associate of the fresh York MS-13 gang division. Ábrego never lived in fresh York. He requests asylum in the United States. The immigration justice rejects the asylum application but grants him protection from deportation to El Salvador due to legitimate fear of gang persecution.
Ábrego reports to the ICE all year, extending his work permit. He joins the union and works full-time as a metallic man. She and her wife rise 3 children: 2 of her own and 1 of Jennifer's erstwhile relationships.
On 12 March 2025, ICE agents detain Garcia in Baltimore. His son's in the car. Agent ICE calls Jennifer and gives her 10 minutes to choice up the baby. This time Ábrego doesn't get a chance to talk to the judge. He is transported to an immigrant center in Louisiana, and from there he is taken to El Salvador.
García has no criminal evidence in the United States or El Salvador. He is transported to the notorious violent and inhumane conditions of CECOT prison, full of members of the same gangs that persecuted his family. He goes there against the judge's decision.
CECOT prison in El Salvador. photograph DHSgovGarcía's household and lawyers file a suit against Ábre's unlawful expulsion from the country. The Department of Justice's lawyer admits that he was deported wrongly, on the basis of a "administrative error", and the territory justice issues a warrant to bring García back to the US by 7 April.
That should have been the end of it. The government organization admitted that it had made a mistake by which an innocent man went to prison, so the mistake must be corrected.
Not in Trump America.
A Justice Department lawyer who admits a mistake has been made is suspended. Trump Administration makes an appeal which the appeal court rejects, arguing that the government has no right to deport legally resident in the United States without due process. Administration does not let go – it appeals to the ultimate Court of the United States and one more time fails – on April 10, the ultimate Court unanimously decides that the government must let García to return to the US.
Trump Administration is not limited to making an appeal. Her lying representatives say they have no tools to release García. This is apparent nonsense – the United States has signed an authoritative deal with the Government of El Salvador, according to which they pay him $20,000 a year for holding all deported man. This is simply a perfectly coordinated action of both administrations. It would take 1 telephone call to get García's wrongfully imprisoned to come home.
Trump mocks the courts
These lies and, it would seem, incomprehensible attempts to fight the judgments of the court, are intended to make fear among the people of the United States – here the power kidnaps innocent people off the street, sends them to a monstrous prison in a abroad country and claims that there is no slightest desire or chance to bring them back. Trump and his people want their cruelty and indifference to all standards to be seen in full swing: already at the beginning of illegal exports, the White home placed on X a video of prisoners chained up, bearing the signature "ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight" – just in case individual wants to relax with calming sounds of human rights violations.
On 14 April Trump met the president of El Salvador at the White home Nayibem Bukele. In consequence to a journalist's question of García's return, both presidents mocked the powerlessness of the American courts, attempting to intervene on innocent people who became victims of Trump's deportation mania.
CECOT prison in El Salvador. photograph DHSgov
Visit of American national safety secretary Kristi Noem to Salvadorian camp for alleged gang members and terrorists. photograph DHSgov"How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I won't do it," Bukele mocked erstwhile asked if he would aid Ábre García return.
“Why don’t you just say it’s large that we keep criminals distant from our country? Can't you say that? That's why no 1 watches you anymore," he addressed writer Trump. And he continued: “I would go further. We've got our own criminals who push people under the subway or punch old women in the head with a stick. I'd like to get out of the country, too. But I do not know what the law says about this, we must abide by the law" - he said.
Just before the authoritative gathering of the presidents began, they were recorded talking with low voices. “These national people are next,” asks Trump to Bukele. "You must build 5 more specified prisoners." “No problem, we have a place,” he says with a smile, and the assembled members of the administration burst with laughter.
As a consequence of a journalistic investigation of the CBS station, it was revealed that 75 percent of the men already exported to El Salvador had no and had no convictions or criminal record. According to a high-ranking ICE official, no evidence makes them even more suspicious. Apparently, they hid their crimes cleverly.
Trump's fantasy of moving American citizens where there is no return should be taken seriously. ICE kidnappings are not limited to immigrants with an unregulated legal status.
On Monday 14 April, the services detained Mohsen Mahdawa, a student at the University of Colombia. Mahdavi's had a green card for 10 years. He was arrested during a gathering at the office, which was to be the next step on the way to gain American citizenship. He was guilty of organizing pro-Palestinian protests at his college.
A period ago, a akin destiny happened to Mahmoud Khalil, besides a student and a green card holder. ICE agents detained Khalil, announcing that his student visa was revoked in connection with the organisation of protests. erstwhile Khalil informed the service that he had a green card, the surprise of the agent did not take long: “Then we're taking it back, too,” said Khalil.
It's scary. recordingOn which a Ph.D. student at Tufts University is detained in the mediate of the street by six agents in civilians who drag her into an unmarked vehicle. Her crime active co-authoring a column in which she criticized the university's consequence to protests against the Gaza War.
Both Andry and Ábrego – if they live – have no thought that they have become symbols of the cruelty and lawlessness of the Trump administration. The García case is kind of a test for Trump and proves that there are no rules. On April 14, he officially ignored and mocked the ultimate Court's ruling, at the clapping applause of members of his cabinet, and his guest falsely called an innocent man a terrorist. And even if García were a terrorist, he would have the right to a fair trial. present it is absolutely clear that Trump never intended to follow the law.
There is simply a constitutional crisis in the United States. The President-in-Office officially opposed the execution of the ultimate Court's judgement and usurped the right to detain and “disappear” anyone he considers a terrorist without any evidence, regardless of the legal position of the detainee. And according to Trump's fulfilling desire, the lawyer General Terror is besides the demolition of Tesla.
