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Pedro Camacho

Democratic Lawmakers Who Traveled to El Salvador Say They Didn't Get Proof of Life for Deported Venezuelan Makeup Artist

Democratic US Congressman Robert Garcia speaks during a press conference (Credit: Photo by MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images)

Four House Democrats who recently traveled to El Salvador have formally requested proof of life for Andry José Hernández Romero, a 19-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker deportee who is supposed to be detained at the CECOT maximum security prison.

Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), and Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.), delivered a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador William Duncan, urging immediate action to confirm Hernández Romero's wellbeing after not getting that reassurance.

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