Patricia hasn’t heard from her son Rafael since the U.S. deported him to El Salvador in the spring of last year.
The Salvadoran woman, who asked not to be fully identified out of fear of retribution in her own asylum case, said that as soon as Rafael’s deportation flight landed in El Salvador, officials there imprisoned him. The 24-year-old never had a hearing or the ability to speak with an attorney, Patricia said, and he had committed no crime.
