Over the last month, the Trump management has actually sent out over 200 claimed Venezuelan gang participants to El Salvador to be restrained in a well-known mega-prison with a record of civils rights misuses.
An authorities with the united state Migration and Traditions Enforcement has actually recognized that “several” of the males do not have rap sheets in the USA– yet stated that “the absence of details details regarding each specific really highlights the danger they position” and “shows that they are terrorists when it come to whom we do not have a total account.”
The households of several of the males– that discovered their location by seeing them in advertising video clips shared by the El Salvadoran and USA federal governments– have actually rejected any kind of gang association in court filings and shared their tales with ABC Information. They stated that they are afraid for the security of their liked ones and do not understand if they will certainly ever before return.
Maiker Espinoza Escalona – Deported to El Salvador under Title 8 on March 30
Escalona was restrained by united state authorities in 2014 when he attempted to get in the USA to look for asylum with his companion Yorely Bernal Inciarte and their 1 year old child.
The household was right away divided, with Escalona sent out to an apprehension facility in El Paso, Texas.
On Sunday, Escalona was deported to El Salvador under Title 8, with authorities declaring he belonged to Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua– a complaint his household rejects.
” They are phonies,” stated 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.”
Maiker Escalona was a barber in Venezuela.
Raida
According to Escalona’s sibling, he got in the USA to go after an occupation as a barber and does not have a rap sheet in Venezuela. She believes he and his other half were restrained based upon their tattoos.
” He ended up senior high school, he enrolled in barbering and established his hair salon in Venezuela. However points obtained a little bit challenging in Venezuela, so he emigrated to have a much better life,” she stated.
Jose Franco Caraballo Tiapa – Deported to El Salvador on March 15
Tiapa, a 26-year-old Venezuelan traveler that was looking for asylum in the united state, was restrained by migration authorities throughout a regular ICE check-in last month.
His other half Ivannoa Sanchez informed ABC Information she thinks her partner is among the thousands of Venezuelan males that previously this month was sent out by airplane to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.
According to Sanchez, the pair went across the united state boundary in November 2023 and gave up to authorities. After asserting asylum and being restrained for a couple of days, ICE launched them and purchased them to sign in regularly with the government company.
Sanchez stated the pair had actually mosted likely to numerous of their set up check-ins without experiencing any kind of concerns. However on Feb. 3, Tiapa was not enabled to return home with his other half regardless of being set up to have his very first court look in his asylum situation in March.
Sanchez supplied ABC Information with records that verified Tiapa’s set up visit with a migration court on March 19. She additionally supplied ABC Information with records that reveal Tiapa does not have a rap sheet in Venezuela.
” He mosted likely to his regular ICE visit and he really did not appear,” Sanchez informed ABC Information.
Yvonna Sanchez and her partner Jose Franco Caraballo Tiapa are seen in this undated image.
Yvonna Sanchez
Sanchez stated that after being restrained in Dallas, her partner was moved to an apprehension facility in Laredo, Texas, where she had the ability to talk to him routinely. In mid-March, she stated her partner informed her that he thought he was mosting likely to be moved and potentially deported, and she currently thinks he is restrained in El Salvador’s infamous CECOT jail.
” He has actually never ever done anything, not also a penalty, definitely nothing,” Sanchez stated of her partner. “We selected this nation due to the fact that it supplies extra protection, even more flexibility, even more assurance. However we really did not understand it would certainly become turmoil.”
Francisco Garcia Casique – Deported to El Salvador on March 15
Garcia Casique was restrained by migration authorities last month after mosting likely to an ICE workplace for a regular visit, his bro informed ABC Information.
Garcia Casique initially got in the USA in December 2023 and gave up to authorities, according to his bro Sebastian. After showing up prior to a migration court, Garcia Casique was launched with an ankle joint screen. An evaluation of government court documents located no criminal lawsuit related to Garcia Casique.
According to his bro, Garcia Casique was a specialist barber that desired begin an occupation in the USA.
Francisco Garcia Casique is seen in this undated image.
Sebastian Garcia Casique
“[He] was wishing for a much better future to aid us, aid all the relative, and take a look at the scenario currently,” his bro stated.
Previously this month, Garcia Casique called his household from the apprehension facility in Texas where he was being held to allow them understand that he thought he was being deported to Venezuela. A couple of days later on, his household acknowledged his bro in an image published on social media sites by the White Residence.
” It’s a problem,” his bro informed ABC Information.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia – Deported to El Salvador on March 15 as a result of ‘management mistake’
Abrego Garcia– a Salvadoran nationwide that has 2 united state relative and secured lawful standing– was sent out to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT jail as a result of an “management mistake,” according to a united state Migration and Traditions Enforcement authorities.
Abrego Garcia got in the USA in 2011 when he was 16 to leave gang physical violence in El Salvador, according to his legal representatives. He obtained a kind of secured lawful standing in 2019, wed a united state person, and has a 5-year-old youngster.
Previously this month, he was restrained by ICE authorities that educated him that his migration standing had actually altered, sending him to an apprehension facility in Texas prior to being eliminating him to El Salvador on Mar. 15.
While the Trump management has actually said that Abrego Garcia is a MS-13 participant that is a “threat to the neighborhood,” his lawyers stated that he “is not a participant of” and “has no association with Tren de Aragua, MS-13, or any kind of various other criminal or road gang,” which the united state federal government “has actually never ever created a trace of proof to sustain this misguided complaint.”
Jerce Reyes Barrios – Deported to El Salvador on March 15
Reyes Barrios was a specialist football gamer in Venezuela that went across the U.S.-Mexico boundary lawfully in 2024 after being restrained and hurt by the Maduro program, according to his lawyer Linette Tobin.
He was right away restrained after authorities implicated him of belonging to TdA based upon what they stated was a gang-affiliated tattoo, and they declared an image revealed him regurgitating gang indications. Nonetheless, the tattoo concerned was a tribute to the Actual Madrid football group logo design embellished with a rosary and words “Dios” implying God, according to the musician that did the item.
Barrios did not have a rap sheet in Venezuela, according to federal government documents examined by ABC Information, and he functioned as a specialist football gamer and kids’s football trainer.
Salvadoran law enforcement agents companion affirmed participants of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua just recently deported by the united state federal government to be put behind bars in the Terrorism Arrest Facility jail, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, acquired Mar. 16, 2025.
Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia by means of Reuters
” He works together with the colleges to instruct kids his methods. A great deal of kids appreciate him due to the fact that he’s a goalkeeper,” his member of the family Ayari del Carmen Pedroza Guerrero stated in a meeting with ABC Information.
Boundary czar Tom Homan safeguarded Barrios’ elimination when pushed regarding the absence of proof concerning his claimed gang association by ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
” We reached rely on the males and ladies that do this each day for a living, that marked these individuals as a participants of TdA, via, like I stated, different police techniques,” Homan stated. “This will certainly be prosecuted.”
