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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: ICE was to send a TEENAGER to El Salvador because they mistook a water pistol w/ a real gun
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WOW.
@tanvi.bsky.social reports ICE was going to send a TEENAGER to be imprisoned in El Salvador without a trial because an officer thought a blue and white water pistol was a real gun!
He has NO criminal record, was attending school, has a pending asylum hearing, and has never gotten into trouble!
April 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WOW.
@tanvi.bsky.social reports ICE was going to send a TEENAGER to be imprisoned in El Salvador without a trial because an officer thought a blue and white water pistol was a real gun!
He has NO criminal record, was attending school, has a pending asylum hearing, and has never gotten into trouble!
April 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lo26rt2hs22a
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The Guardian - ‘He’s just a kid’: the Maryland teenager swept into Trump immigration dragnet
A last-minute supreme court intervention prevented Javier Salazar from getting deported, but the battle is far from over
Tanvi Misra in New York
Wed 30 Apr 2025 11.00 EDT
When 19-year-old Javier Salazar was loaded on to a bus from an immigrant detention center in northern Texas, he had no idea where he was being taken.
He wondered if he was being transferred to another facility or maybe deported back to his native Venezuela. He and the other passengers, their hands and feet shackled, settled into a tense silence. Then a terrifying possibility crept into Salazar’s mind.
“My fear was being sent to El Salvador,” he said, to the brutal prison where the Trump administration has dispatched more than 200 Venezuelans into a legal black hole. They are accused of being violent gang members, but reportedly on flimsy evidence for most, deported without even a court hearing.
Salazar became stressed “because we’d been listening to the news and the other people at the facility”, hesaid in a telephone interview from detention.
/snip
A last-minute supreme court intervention prevented Javier Salazar from getting deported, but the battle is far from over
Tanvi Misra in New York
Wed 30 Apr 2025 11.00 EDT
When 19-year-old Javier Salazar was loaded on to a bus from an immigrant detention center in northern Texas, he had no idea where he was being taken.
He wondered if he was being transferred to another facility or maybe deported back to his native Venezuela. He and the other passengers, their hands and feet shackled, settled into a tense silence. Then a terrifying possibility crept into Salazar’s mind.
“My fear was being sent to El Salvador,” he said, to the brutal prison where the Trump administration has dispatched more than 200 Venezuelans into a legal black hole. They are accused of being violent gang members, but reportedly on flimsy evidence for most, deported without even a court hearing.
Salazar became stressed “because we’d been listening to the news and the other people at the facility”, hesaid in a telephone interview from detention.
/snip
