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Tom Phillips and Clavel Rangel

‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims

a person holds up a sign reading 'Volverán a casa!!'
People stage a rally against the imprisonment of Venezuelans in a Salvadorian jail in Caracas on Tuesday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.

But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook.

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