Elenilson Armando Coto Delgado believed that he would be imminently deported to El Salvador when he had a medical emergency in late April while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Coto Delgado feared that the Salvadoran government would send him to a notorious prison called Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, where guards have tortured U.S. deportees. Now he and his family are worried that he will be discharged from the hospital and deported, only to be tortured while still recovering from what he told his family was a stroke.
