Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was taken into immigration custody after he was released pending a criminal trial, has asked an immigration judge to reopen his immigration proceedings and is seeking asylum in the United States, his lawyer said during a court hearing Wednesday. Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, told a federal judge overseeing a legal …
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‘It was a nightmare’: Venezuelans deported from US describe conditions in Salvadoran prison
Facebook Tweet Email Link For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement. “(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically,” said José Mora, one of 252 Venezuelan migrants recently held at the notorious mega-prison known as Cecot, after being …
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U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ The Washington Post ‘I’m free now’: Venezuelans held in El Salvador reunite with families Reuters Prisoner Swap Frees Americans in Venezuela for Migrants in El Salvador The New York Times Attorneys for wrongly deported Venezuelan asylum seeker will seek criminal contempt proceedings after prisoner swap CNN Lawyers say Venezuelan migrant ordered returned to US sent …
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