A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where?

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html

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In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful.

The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela.

That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world.

But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.

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[Ilsa]

1. So Trump, Noem, et al, lost this raping, murdering

gang member and can't find him? Protect your wimmin! Protect your ... whatever!

Seriously, I hope he shows up somewhere that isn't a hole in the ground or buried in concrete. You can't trust ICE agents to be truthful or nonviolent.

[markodochartaigh]

2. And more than 1,000 of the children separated from their families by

Trump have never been found. This is a feature, not a bug, of the terror inherent in authoritarian states. It is nothing new, and one of the reasons that habeas corpus is a cornerstone of a just and civilized society.




https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/16/us-lasting-harm-family-separation-border

[FirstLight]

5. Thank you for pointing THIS out!

I knew there were still families suffering... It's literally gonna take YEARS to undo the damage done by this man and his goons...

[FSogol]

3. Better question: Who is running and profiting off of secret detention centers in the US?

[marble falls]

4. Well certainly we can't expect people dummer than Mango Jebus to be able to keep track ...

... of every Venezuelan, can we?

JIC - (sarcasm)

We really can't expect these idiots to keep track of every Venezuelan. After all, how many children have they lost that still haven't been found from his last term's round-up?