Pedro Escobar Blanco, one of two hundred and thirty-eight Venezuelans deported by the Trump Administration to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador on March 15th, never met the lawyer who is representing him in U.S. immigration court. They haven’t spoken by phone...
The government of a tiny Latin American nation is once again enthralling an outsized number of foreign fans, using them to scrub its international image, and encouraging them to take bits and pieces of its authoritarian model home to their own countries. For decades,...
CRUELTY IS THE POINT The hundreds of migrant detainees the U.S. sent to Central America should be kept in Salvadoran jails “for the rest of their lives,” according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in an April interview. This is despite the fact...
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...
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, all of 16, called his older brother in distant Maryland with startling news. He had made it to the Texas border. He had escaped. In his family’s telling, this is how his American journey began. They say that for years in El Salvador, a...
American labor unions are calling on El Salvador to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S., calling his deportation by the Trump administration an “egregious violation of our brother’s rights.” Last month immigration officials wrongly sent Abrego Garcia, an...
