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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

LGBT+ community outraged after gay makeup artist with no criminal history is deported to mega-prison in El Salvador

The Trump administration’s deportation of a gay asylum seeker to a brutal Salvadoran prison has outraged LGBT+ communities rallying for his return.

Makeup artist Andry Jose Hernandez Romero, 31, fled Venezuela for California in 2024, fearing persecution under Nicolas Maduro’s regime and has no criminal history or gang ties, according to his family and attorneys.

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