The Trump administration despatched a Venezuelan nationwide with no legal document to a Salvadoran megaprison based mostly on an administrative error, according to The Miami Herald.
Frengel Reyes Mota, 24 years previous, was deported to El Salvador earlier this month together with lots of of different Venezuelan males whom the Trump administration falsely claims to be Tren de Aragua gang members. Trump invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to bypass any judicial resistance (which has come anyway within the type of Judge James Boasberg). However Reyes Mota’s immigration information include a number of errors, together with marking him as a girl, utilizing a unique final identify, and submitting two ID numbers for him.
Reyes Mota has dedicated no crime—both in Venezuela or the US—and has not one of the tattoos that the Trump administration is absurdly alleging determine Tren de Aragua members. Actually, he has no tattoos in any respect. He had a pending asylum case earlier than he was disappeared to El Salvador and not using a day in courtroom.
“We face a novel and intensely regarding state of affairs the place folks’s immigration courtroom proceedings are nonetheless pending however they’re being disappeared from the US with none lawful elimination order,” stated Mark Prada, Retes Mota’s lawyer. “That is an affront to the rule of regulation.”
The Trump administration continues to say {that a} DHS file notes that Reyes Mota “could also be a Tren de Aragua affiliate.” However his lack of legal document is talked about in the exact same file.
Extra bleak tales like this are certain to return, because the Trump administration doubles down on its indiscriminate deportations of tattooed Latino males below the guise of battle.
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