Maiker Espinoza Escalona, his companion Yorely Bernal Inciarte and their 1 year old child went into the USA in 2015 and asked for asylum, really hoping that after transforming themselves in to authorities they would certainly be launched and permitted to start their brand-new life as a family members.
Yet that would certainly never ever occur. The 3 have actually been divided because they transformed themselves in, their family members informed ABC Information. Inciarte has actually been restrained at an apprehension facility in El Paso, Texas, the child has actually remained in federal government safekeeping and Escalona goes to the infamous jail CECOT in El Salvador.
Escalona, according to his family members and the American Civil Liberties Union, had actually been restrained in Texas because Might 2024 and was moved recently to Guantanamo. He was amongst 17 people that were sent out to El Salvador on Sunday by the Trump management under Title 8 authorities, according to a White Residence authorities.
The Trump management charged Escalona of belonging to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, an allegation his family members refutes.
Maiker Escalona and his family members were divided after going into the united state in 2024.
Raida
” They are phonies,” claimed Raida, Inciarte’s mom, of the Trump management. “I can not think that fifty percent of Venezuela is Tren de Aragua. That can not be.”
” For them to be sent out [to El Salvador] you need to check out and show they are what they are being charged of,” Raida included Spanish. “We’re anxious, I do not desire this on any person.”
The Division of Homeland Protection did not instantly reply to ABC Information’ ask for discuss Escalona.
Recently, DHS Assistant Kristi Noem mosted likely to CECOT and claimed in a video clip uploaded to X that the center in El Salvador is “among the devices in our toolkit” the management makes use of versus those that “dedicate criminal activities versus Americans.”
Noem applauded the U.S federal government and El Salvador’s “collaboration” and called the people sent out to CECOT “terrorists.”
Raida informed ABC Information that she learnt that Escalona remained in El Salvador after she saw a video clip uploaded on social networks by Nayib Bukele, the head of state of El Salvador.
” They were cutting his head,” Raida claimed in rips. “They had him worn all white and he got on his knees.”
Raida, that claimed she is caring for Escalona and Inciarte’s 6-year-old child in Venezuela, claimed she thinks the pair were restrained as a result of their tattoos.
Maiker Escalona was a barber in Venezuela.
Raida
” My child has a tattoo of the year I was birthed and the year her papa was birthed. She additionally has the name of her child and some blossoms on her upper body,” Raida claimed. “Maiker is a tattoo musician and he would certainly do her tattoos.”
Marly, that is Escalona’s sibling, claimed her bro was additionally a barber and took a trip to the united state for a far better life.
” My bro is a 25-year-old individual, a daydreamer, like all Venezuelans,” Marly claimed in Spanish. “He likes reducing hair. He ended up secondary school, he enrolled in barbering and established his hair salon in Venezuela. Yet points obtained a little bit challenging in Venezuela, so he emigrated to have a far better life.”
Maiker Escalona’s family members acknowledged him in the infamous in El Salvador on a video clip uploaded to social networks
Gotten by ABC Information
Marly offered ABC Information with records that seem from the Venezuelan federal government proclaiming to united state authorities that Escalona does not have a rap sheet in his home nation.
” He has no rap sheet anywhere, absolutely nothing in any way, he’s totally tidy,” Marly claimed.
Marly informed ABC Information she desires the Trump management to send her bro and his family members back to Venezuela.
” There’s the American desire they discuss, however it’s the American scary,” she claimed.
Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the ACLU, formerly informed ABC Information he has severe worries concerning what he called the federal government’s “unexpected claims” versus Escalona that precipitated him being sent out to CECOT.
” He and others being sent out to the Salvadoran jail needs to be provided due procedure to examine the federal government’s assertions,” Gelernt claimed.
Escalona submitted a vouched statement in very early March in which he mentioned that he was not a gang participant and asked the federal government not to send him to Guantanamo.
