Merwil Gutiérrez sent from New York to El Salvador prison although family says he has no criminal history or gang ties

A 19-year-old Venezuelan in New York City reportedly was apprehended by Trump administration immigration authorities and deported to El Salvador despite agents’ realizing he was not whom they meant to arrest in a targeted operation.

Merwil Gutiérrez, whose family opened an asylum case after arriving in the US, was deported from the Bronx to the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador despite his relatives’ insistence that he has no gang ties or criminal history, according to Documented, a newsroom dedicated to telling the stories of immigrants in New York City. The Gutiérrez family says it has been left without information or answers.

The teen was detained alongside 237 other Venezuelans on 24 February by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). His father, Wilmer Gutiérrez, told Documented: “I feel like my son was kidnapped.”

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      Literal Jesus could publicly nail himself back on a cross, beg people for an end to all this hate and the masses would just consider him a hippy poser crying for attention, inconveniencing them because there late on their way to sustain capitalism.

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        the current evangelicals would crucify him the moment they see him right now.

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      Didn’t toddler Jesus smite the neighbour kid for annoying him while he was playing with plants or something?

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        That’s the Gospel of Thomas, and apparently whoever was in charge of deciding what books of the Bible were “god’s word” decided that book didn’t belong. For reasons.