Over 200 Venezuelans were flown from the United States on March 16 to a maximum security prison and forced labor camp in El Salvador, after President Donald Trump invoked wartime powers to expel alleged gang members.
The Trump administration argues that the 238 were members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, and at the very least illegal immigrants to the United States.
“How come so many people said they were coming to Venezuela and today they are in El Salvador?” demanded Gladys Coromoto Rojas, grandmother of deportee Kenlyn Rodriguez.
The family of 36-year-old Maikel Rojas Olivera explained that he had been in touch to tell them he was coming home to Venezuela on Saturday, only to be shipped to El Salvador.
He was initially held at a detention center in California until March 7, when he was transferred to Texas, to be flown on to El Salvador.
The protest was joined by about 80 people, including relatives and neighbors of the migrants.
The Venezuelan government has called the detention of Venezuelan migrants in El Salvador a kidnapping and announced the hiring of a law firm to manage their return to the country.
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