Families of men who were deported say they were a gang members who called them wrong

San Salvador – One of them is a former professional soccer player, according to his lawyer, who fled from Venezuela after being tortured by the authoritarian government in the country.

The other, also from Venezuela, is a shoe seller simultaneously and influencing social media and documented his journey from South America on Tijok.

Both apparently among thousands of political asylum ambition who entered the United States from Mexico legally through a migration were canceled by the Trump administration.

Both were detained, one in California, and he was deported. Now they were imprisoned in El Salvador, according to their families, who were left in the dark about their destinies in a large -scale sanctions system due to human rights violations.

“This was a torture for us, an injustice,” said Antonia Christina Parius de Reyes, the mother of Jersus Epsonik Reyes, 36 years old, former professional goalkeeper. “My son is not a criminal.”

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“He was PeasantsShe said, “We came from the fields.”

Reyes Barrius and Eldar were among the 261 people-the vast majority of Venezuelans-who were expelled to El Salvador last week after the Trump administration claimed that most of them belonged to the Venezuela Treen de Aragoa gang, which President Trump announced a terrorist group.

The evidence of the gang membership mentioned by the government is usually weak on the defense lawyers that are not present, and is largely based on tattoos and social media.

Experts say that the use of external sources of the administration for immigrants detained to a nation with a badly repressive prisoner system has no previous.

In El Salvador, “The United States now has a tropical Gollage,” said Regina Bitson, a political scientist at the University of Colorado Bolder. “The idea that the US government pays millions of dollars to another government to violate the rights of these people is horrific.”

El Salvador is part of a deal between the Trump administration and the President of Salvadori Nayyib P.O.. Defenders filed a federal lawsuit that challenges Trump’s use of the law of foreign enemies – a law of 1798 that was protested earlier only during the war period – to expel most of the alleged Venezuelan gangs members.

On Friday, a federal judge in Washington, DC, pledged to “reach the bottom” about whether the Trump administration challenged his order to be deported while the lawsuits that defied the expulsion in court were.

Many of the relatives of the deportees deny that their relatives have gang ties or criminal record, saying that they were simply looking for a better life or the escape of persecution in their troubled homeland, which is part of the exit that witnessed millions of Venezuela.

“We have no idea what will happen to Jerce,” said Gear Barius, the uncle of the football player. “We understand and respect the laws of each country, but at the same time, we ask, please, let us complete justice and really release innocent people.”

Reyes Barius was held at the Border Post Autai Missa in California in September, according to a statement issued by his lawyer, Linette Tobin, when he appeared to be appointed as part of the Biden Administration program known as CBP One, which facilitated the entry into the United States for potential asylum applicants and others.

According to Tobin, he was mistakenly accused of Trine de Aragua’s affiliation based on his arm tattoo and the social media center in which he made a handy of the American authorities described as a gang brand.

Topne wrote that the tattoo – the crown above a soccer ball, with a rosary and the word “Dios” – is actually in honor of his favorite team, Real Madrid, Topin wrote. The lawyer added that the hand of the hand is the language of a popular sign “I love you.”

Reyes Barius participated in anti -freedom demonstrations in Venezuela in February and March 2024. After his release, he fled to the United States and scored at CBP One while he was in Mexico.

Topin Reyes Barius’s photos as a person committed to the law who has never been accused of committing a crime and wrote that he “recorded a fixed employment as a football player, as well as a football coach for children and youth.”

Once he was detained in California, Topin wrote, Reyes Barris applied for political asylum and other relief. A April 17 session was appointed to the Migration Court of Autai Missa.

Reyes Barius was deported to El Salvador on March 15.

Tricia McLeulin, Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Security, defended the government lawsuit.

McLeulin wrote on X, but he has a tattoo that corresponds to those who refer to TDA [Tren de Aragua] membership. Private social media indicates that he is a member of the evil TDA gang. ”

She added that “DHS’s intelligence reviews go beyond one tattoo and we are confident in the results we have reached,” she added.

“His wife, Marien Araojo Sandoval, who remained in Mexico with two of the four couple’s children.

“It is not fair to criminalize a person because of the tattoo,” said Araojo, 32.

She said that her family’s dream is in the United States. She now hopes to reunite in Venezuela – if her husband can get out of El Salvador.

“I am very afraid of trying to go to the United States,” said Araujo, who has noticed that she also had a tattoo, a rose. “I am afraid to separate me from my daughters and put me in prison.”

Lawyers say that the Venezuelan who have been sent to El Salvador does not have legal resort to appeal or release, and they may face unspecified detention.

“There is, of course, a law, ruling, or judicial standard in El Salvador to use external sources of prisons,” said Jose Marino, a Salvadori lawyer. “These people have no conviction, nor a religion of the Silvadorian justice system.”

Activists say their predicament highlights the erosion of democracy throughout the region, as well as the impressive campaign that Washington pushed.

“There is no real safe haven.”

The Trump administration acknowledged that many of those who were deported under the Law of Foreign Enemies do not have criminal records in the United States. But the government says it may still pose a threat.

“We have sent more than 250 foreign enemy members in Tren de Aragua, which El Salvador agreed to keep in their good prisons at a fair price that would also provide taxpayers dollars.”

Critics say that Trump, like an agent, calls for crime as an excuse to suspend civil freedoms.

“They use these people who are particularly vulnerable as testing cases,” Barlaberg said.

Bukele, a former executive official of the advertisement that describes himself “the most amazing dictator in the world”, sent the video sets to record the arrival of the Venezuelan, who were transported from deportations in covers and made their hair.

“This is a work of performance … to intimidate people not to come, to intimidate the people here without papers, to intimidate people away from protest,” said Barleraberg.

The news of the deportation sent the relatives of the invading Venezuelan who hold videos and social media in an attempt to determine whether their loved ones were among those who were transferred to El Salvador.

The names of the deported Venezuelan appeared in a list that leaked to the media. Agilar, who received more than 40,000 followers while documenting his journey to the north of South America, included Tijook. His summary included pictures of the treacherous Daryn Gap, and the dense forest separating Colombia and Panama.

Jennifer Aguilar described her brother as a hard family working from Venezuela to Colombia in 2013. He has three children: a 11 -year -old girl in Venezuela, a 4 -year -old girl, 2 years old, in Colombia. Agilar’s sister says he got tattooed and played paper and dice, to cover up a scar on his forearm from an accident he was 16 years old.

According to his sister, Aguilar made his way to Mexico and got a date to enter the United States via CBP One. On June 24, he posted a video of himself as a plane, and he appears to be on his way to the US -Mexican border.

“Iman God”, he wrote in a comment. “Don’t put your head down. Trust yourself.”

Jennifer Agilar said he had a job at California, California, Calixico. For reasons that are still unclear, he was detained by the US immigration authorities late last year.

From Colombia, where she lives with her three daughters, Jennifer Agilar wrote about the ordeal of her brother on the social media message and sent messages to Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and Bouquelle, the leader of El Salvadori.

“He did not go to prison in Venezuela or in Colombia,” Agilar wrote. Believe me, if he is guilty, I will say: “Leave him there.” Because we learned to be honest and do good. “

The sister said: “I tried by all means … to be the voice of Raphael,” she said, adding that she does not know anyone in El Salvador. “If I can be there, I will do it. I’m so sorry that I cannot.”

El Salvador collected and imprisoned about 85,000 people – equivalent to 1.5 % of the country’s population – since March 2022, when the emergency agent that actually suspended the rights of constitutional constitutional procedures announced. The Venezuelans were sent to the famous center for terrorism, which is the axis of the collective prison schedule in the agent.

She mentioned the Times McDonel and Lingcom team from Mexico City, while special correspondents Miri Mogolon and Nelson Roda contributed, respectively, from Caracas, Venezuela and San Salvador. Special correspondent Cecilia Sanchez Vidal of Mexico City contributed.