A Texas judge this week dismissed a misdemeanor trespassing case against a man who was arrested by state troopers upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and accused of being a Venezuelan gang member — a designation that led federal authorities to send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador, court records show.
Despite the dismissal, it appears Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, a 28-year-old from Venezuela with no known criminal record, remains in the maximum security prison known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.
