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.”
Watching that press conference with the El Salvador Hitler was infuriating. Bondi says its up to El Salvador, El Salvador says its up to the US, and both throw up their hands and say “Oh, Well, nothing can be done.”
Literally EVERYBODY in the world needed to resolve the issue of an innocent deportee was in that room. Nobody had to say “That sounds like a pretty good deal, let me speak to my boss for approval,” ALL the bosses were right there, and they kept passing the buck to each other.
And yet, not one “journalist” said “Hey, why don’t you guys just resolve this right now?”
Just like on Meet The Press last weekend with Peter Navarro on, and she treated him like a legitimate spokesperson for trade and tariffs, without once asking about how his credentials as an expert were totally made up, using a fake expert that nobody else has every seen or heard, and is an anagram of his own name. Its all I would have asked him about, and yet she was more interested in his feud with Skum, than his obvious fraud.
The White House Press Corps and the Sunday Morning Political Talk Shows are supoosed to be our top tier journalists, and they act like their jobs are to provide a platform for the world’s worst tyrants to spew their propganda to the world, unchallenged.