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"A 19-year-old Venezuelan living in New York City was arrested by federal immigration authorities and deported to El Salvador despite officers realizing he was the wrong target, according to his family.
Bronx teenager Merwil Gutierrez was among more than 200 other Venezuelans deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison under President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, which labeled alleged Tren de Aragua gang members “alien enemies” who can be summarily removed from the country.
Gutierrez has no criminal history or gang ties, his family and attorney told Documented, an immigration-focused nonprofit news outlet in New York.
His father says Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents acknowledged that his son was “not the one” when they arrested him just steps away from his apartment on February 24.
...“It is unconscionable that Trump is usurping due process — and our justice system entirely — to disappear people to the CECOT torture camp in El Salvador,” New York Immigration Coalition president Murad Awawdeh told The Independent.
“A New Yorker who was never charged with a crime was one of the people that Trump disappeared to CECOT, separating him from his loving family,” he added. “Merwil Gutierrez must be immediately released and returned to New York. At the federal, state and local level, all New York elected officials must stop turning a blind eye to this atrocity.”
The family made the arduous journey from Venezuela to seek asylum in the United States in 2023.
“The Gutierrez family entered the United States legally as asylum seekers from Venezuela, only to be subjected to the same type of authoritarian cruelty they fled from,” New York state Senator Gustavo Rivera said in a statement."
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"Subjected to the same type of authoritarian cruelty they fled from" Indeed.
Bronx teenager Merwil Gutierrez was among more than 200 other Venezuelans deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison under President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, which labeled alleged Tren de Aragua gang members “alien enemies” who can be summarily removed from the country.
Gutierrez has no criminal history or gang ties, his family and attorney told Documented, an immigration-focused nonprofit news outlet in New York.
His father says Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents acknowledged that his son was “not the one” when they arrested him just steps away from his apartment on February 24.
...“It is unconscionable that Trump is usurping due process — and our justice system entirely — to disappear people to the CECOT torture camp in El Salvador,” New York Immigration Coalition president Murad Awawdeh told The Independent.
“A New Yorker who was never charged with a crime was one of the people that Trump disappeared to CECOT, separating him from his loving family,” he added. “Merwil Gutierrez must be immediately released and returned to New York. At the federal, state and local level, all New York elected officials must stop turning a blind eye to this atrocity.”
The family made the arduous journey from Venezuela to seek asylum in the United States in 2023.
“The Gutierrez family entered the United States legally as asylum seekers from Venezuela, only to be subjected to the same type of authoritarian cruelty they fled from,” New York state Senator Gustavo Rivera said in a statement."
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"Subjected to the same type of authoritarian cruelty they fled from" Indeed.
