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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

The Trump administration accused him of being a gang member and deported him. His family says it’s all made up

Francisco Javier Garcia Casique, one of the hundreds of Venezuelans deported by the Donald Trump administration over the weekend, has no criminal record in either the United States or his country of origin, his family has insisted.

Casique, 24, was reportedly among the 238 people believed to have connections with the notorious Tren de Aragua criminal gang that were taken to El Salvador as part of an agreement between Trump and the country’s president Nayib Bukele on Saturday.

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