In the last month, the Trump administration has sent over 200 alleged members of the Venezuelan band in Salvador to be detained in the famous mega-prison with an attempt to violate human rights.
An employee of US immigration and customs admission admitted that “many men have no criminal records in the United States – but said” the lack of specific information for each individual actually emphasizes the risk they represent “and” demonstrates that they are terrorists in respect of whom we lack a complete profile. “
The families of some of the men – who learned about their location by seeing them in promotional videos shared by the governments of El Salvadoran and the United States – denied every belonging of the band in court documents and shared their stories with ABC News. They said they were afraid of the safety of their loved ones and did not know if they would ever return.
Maiker Espinoza Escalona – a sport for Salvador under Title 8 on March 30
Escalona was detained by US authorities last year when he tried to enter the United States to seek asylum with his partner, but still Bernal Inkiarte and their one -year -old baby.
The family was immediately divided, with the escaralon sent to the El Paso detention center, Texas.
On Sunday, Escalona was deported to El Salvador under Title 8, with authorities claiming to be a member of the Venezuelan band Tren de Aragua, an accusation that his family denies.
“They are liars,” said Raida, the mother of the Trump administration. “I can’t believe half of Venezuela is Tren de Aragua. It can’t be.”
The manufacturer Escalona was a barber in Venezuela.
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According to Escalon’s sister, he has entered the United States to pursue a career as a barber and has no criminal record in Venezuela. She suspects that he and his wife were detained based on their tattoos.
“He graduated from high school, he took Barber courses and created his barber in Venezuela. But things got a little difficult in Venezuela, so he emigrated to have a better life,” she said.
Jose Franco Karabalo Tiapa – Sport to El Salvador on March 15
Tiapa, a 26-year-old Venezuelan migrant who was looking for asylum in the United States, was detained by immigration officials during a routine ice registration last month.
His wife, Ivana Sanchez, told ABC News that she believes her husband was one of the hundreds of Venezuelan men, who were sent by plane to Salvador under the Law on Alien enemies earlier this month.
According to Sanchez, the couple crossed the US border in November 2023 and surrendered to the authorities. After seeking asylum and detained for a few days, ICE released them and ordered them to register with the Federal Agency.
Sanchez said the couple went to several of their planned inspections without experiencing any problems. But on February 3, Tiapa was not allowed to return home with his wife, although he was scheduled to appear his first court in his case for asylum in March.
Sanchez provided ABC News documents that confirmed the planned TIAPA appointment with an immigration judge on March 19th. She also provided ABC News documents showing that Tiapa has no criminal record in Venezuela.
“He went to his routine meeting with ice and didn’t go out,” Sanchez told ABC News.
Yvonne Sanchez and her husband Jose Franco Karabalo type are visible in this unpaid photo.
Yvonne Sanchez
Sanchez said that after she was detained in Dallas, her husband was transferred to a detention center in Laredo, Texas, where she was able to talk to him regularly. In the middle of March, she said her husband told her that she believed that she would be transferred and eventually deported, and she now believes that he was detained in the famous Salvador’s Sekot prison.
“He has never done anything, even well, absolutely nothing,” Sanchez told her husband. “We chose this country because it offers more security, more freedom, more peace. But we didn’t know it would become chaos.”
Francisco Garcia Casique – Sport to Salvador on March 15
Kazik Garcia was detained by immigration authorities last month after going to an ice office for a routine meeting, his brother told Abc News.
Kazik Garcia originally entered the United States in December 2023 and surrendered to the authorities, according to his brother Sebastian. After appearing in front of an immigration judge, Kazik Garcia was released with an ankle monitor. A review of the Federal Court records did not establish the cases of criminal courts related to Kazik Garcia.
According to his brother Garcia, Kazik was a professional barber who sought to start a career in the United States.
Francisco Garcia’s Casic is visible in this unpaid photo.
Sebastian Garcia casick
“[He] he hoped for a better future to help us, to help all family members and to look at the situation now, “his brother said.
Earlier this month, Kazik Garcia called his family from the Texas Retention Center, where he was held to inform them that he believed he was deported to Venezuela. A few days later, his family recognizes his brother in a photo posted on the White House social media.
“It’s a nightmare,” his brother told ABC News.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia – Sport to El Salvador on March 15 Due to the “Administrative Error”
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who has two family members and a protected legal status – has been sent to Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison because of an “administrative error”, according to an immigration and customs law enforcement officer.
Abrego Garcia entered the United States in 2011 when he was 16 to escape from the violence of bands in El Salvador, according to his lawyers. He took the form of protected legal status in 2019, married to a US citizen and has a 5-year-old child.
Earlier this month, he was detained by ICE officials who informed him that his immigration status had changed, sending him to a Texas detention center before removing him to Salvador on March 15th.
While the Trump administration claims that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13, which is a “community danger”, his lawyers said that he was “not a member of” and “has no connection with Tren de Aragua, MS-13, or any other criminal or street band” and that the government has never produced Iota support from the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence in the evidence of the evidence in the evidence of the evidence of the evidence in the evidence of the evidence of the evidence in the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence in the evidence of the evidence of the proof of the evidence of the evidence of
Jers Reyes Barios – Sport to El Salvador on March 15
Reyes Barios was a professional football player in Venezuela, who in 2024 crossed the US and Mexico border after being detained and tortured by Maduro’s regime, according to his lawyer Lynette Tobin.
He was immediately detained after the authorities accused him of being a TDA member based on what they said he was related to a band tattoo, and they claim that a photo shows him that he is throwing signs on the band. However, the tattoo in question was a tribute to the logo of Real Madrid’s football team, decorated with a rosary and the word “Dios”, which means God, according to the artist who made the piece.
Barios had no criminal record in Venezuela, according to government records reviewed by ABC News, and he works as a professional football player and children’s football coach.
Police officers in Salvadoran Escort say members of the Venezuelan band Tren de Aragua recently deported by the US government to be imprisoned in prison for terrorism in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, March 16, 2025.
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“He collaborated with schools to teach the children of their techniques. Many children admire him because he is a goalkeeper,” said Ayari del Carmene Pedroza Guerrero in an interview with Ayari del Carmen.
Border King Tom Homan defended the removal of Barios as he pressed against the lack of evidence of his alleged belonging to the band by Jonathan Carl of ABC.
“We have to rely on men and women who do this every day for livelihoods that have defined these people as members of TDA, through, as I said, different methods of law enforcement,” Homan said. “This will be controversial.”
