“Detainee Hernandez ports [sic] tattoos ‘crowns’ that are consistent with those of a Tren de Aragua member,” an agent at California’s Otay Mesa detention centre claimed, according to court documents published this week.
Those 16 words appear to have sealed the fate of the young Venezuelan stylist, who friends, family and lawyers say has never committed a crime.
On 15 March, after more than six months in custody in the US, Hernández was one of scores of Venezuelans flown from Texas to a maximum security prison in El Salvador as part of Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. To the horror of their relatives, some detainees were paraded before the cameras and filmed being manhandled by guards and having their heads shaved before being bundled into cells.
“Let my son go. Review his case file. He is not a gang member,” Hernández’s mother, Alexis Dolores Romero de Hernández, pleaded as she came to terms with her son’s disappearance into the notorious Central American “terrorism confinement centre”, known by the Spanish acronym Cecot.
“Everyone has these crowns, many people. But that doesn’t mean they’re involved in the Tren de Aragua … He’s never had problems with the law,” said Hernández, 65, who has not heard from her son since he called on the eve of his transfer to let her know – incorrectly – that he was being deported to Venezuela.
Fascinating statistics - did you know that, according to prisoners in jail, 100% of them were wrongly convicted and are, in fact, innocent?
ReplyDeleteDid you know that Lee Harvey Oswald's mother thought he was a wonderful American hero?
And were you aware that 100% of the Gaza casualties at the hands of Israel were innocent women and children?
That's the kind of reporting to expect from the guardian
DeleteIi think it's time for Canada to arrest stupid idiotic medical professionals and fly them with no rights to a South American jail. Then you can post from there
DeleteWow did you know that most people can not fly without an airplane and that lynch mobs think they are righteous? And that MAGA thinks destroying due process is a virtue and that Trump never makes a mistake!
DeleteKA did you mean it as praise that they report the facts or you are saying it is stupid?
Delete"that 100% of the Gaza casualties at the hands of Israel were innocent women and children?"
DeleteWas the kind of guardian nonsense I was referring to.
Or when they publish Beinart saying that Purim is a wicked genocidal holiday the Jews celebrate and that the Torah is "dark" - but they never say anything against islam
KA so you were lamenting that the Guardian seems to be concerned exclusively with Muslim victims even when reported accurately?
DeleteYes, they rely on Hamas figures.
DeleteHere's a guardian piece
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/jews-gaza-palestine-israel-purim
Indeed, this piece they ran shortly after October 7th, has a "correction" added some time later, which is an admission of their casual blood libels against the Israeli military.
ReplyDeleteBut perhaps you are so used to that from the eidah folk you associate with that it seems normal.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-gaza-palestinians-holocaust