'Mistakenly Driving To Canada Leads To Venezuelan Man Being 'Disappeared' To Notorious El Salvador Prison'
"In Detroit, it's surprisingly easy to accidentally end up in Canada via the Ambassador bridge...Sure, there are lots of signs over the freeway and even painted on to the road, but with constant construction and high traffic in the area — the bridge is responsible for 27% of trade between Canada and the U.S. — it is downright a common occurrence to end up at the Ambassador Bridge without meaning to."
"Ricardo Prada Vásquez fled his home country of Venezuela and was seeking asylum in the U.S. He was here legally via the CBP One app: an app asylum seekers use to notify Customs and Border Patrol of their intention to seek legal status while escaping repressive and violent regimes. He'd been in the U.S. for four months and was working as a food delivery driver when, on January 15, he accidentally entered the Ambassador Bridge plaza...Once you're in that complex there is no place to turn around: you have to go to Canada."
"From the New York Times: 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."
"'He has simply disappeared,' said Javier, a friend in Chicago, the last person with whom Mr. Prada had contact. The friend spoke about Mr. Prada on condition that he be identified only by his middle name, out of fear that he too could be targeted by the immigration authorities."
https://www.jalopnik.com/1842673/venezuelan-immigrant-crosses-canadian-border-deported-el-salvador/