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Capital & Main
Kate Morrissey

Nearly Flown to El Salvador, Venezuelan Men Now Locked up in Texas — Their Fates Unknown

Detainees form an SOS with their bodies in the courtyard of the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas on May 12. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images.

A group of Venezuelan men who were almost sent to El Salvador before an overnight Supreme Court decision stopped their flight have been pleading for help as they remain detained in Texas. 

Since President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on March 15 against the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, his administration has sent more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador. The government of El Salvador immediately sent the men to one of its notorious prisons. Human rights experts have called this practice enforced disappearance.

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