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The curious case of Ricardo Prada Vasquez: The Trump administration has misplaced a Venezuelan migrant they deported. His household can not monitor him down, and the administration has not given any indication as to the place he went. He is not on lists of individuals deported to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Heart, or CECOT. He is not within the Immigration and Customs detainee database. ICE confirms he is been despatched in another country, however no one can say the place.

Ricardo Prada Vasquez, a 32-year-old supply man working in Detroit, made a incorrect flip onto the Ambassador Bridge, which connects the U.S. and Canada, whereas he was making an attempt to ship a McDonald’s order in late January. When he tried to reenter the U.S., he was detained by American authorities, as he was solely allowed one entry into the nation: In November of final 12 months, he had been admitted at a port of entry after ready for a very long time in Mexico to get an appointment via the CBP One app, now shuttered below President Donald Trump.

First, he was held on the Calhoun County Correctional Heart in western Michigan. “An immigration decide granted a postponement on Feb. 3, after Mr. Prada had requested extra time to search out authorized illustration,” reviews The New York Occasions. “He did not safe a lawyer…and was ordered deported on Feb. 27. He was transferred to an ICE facility in Ohio after which to the El Valle Detention Facility in South Texas.” Then, he was deported in another country, however no one can say the place he was despatched.

“On March 15, he instructed a buddy in Chicago that he was amongst a variety of detainees housed in Texas who anticipated to be repatriated to Venezuela. That night, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador” to the infamous CECOT jail (the place Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held), claiming they had been Tren de Aragua gang members. However Prada just isn’t on the checklist of the greater than 200 individuals deported to El Salvador that day. “We all know nothing, nothing,” says his brother. “He has merely disappeared,” says his buddy in Chicago, the final individual he spoke to. His 4-year-old son and son’s mom, dwelling in Venezuela, have not heard from him both. “He fell off the face of the earth,” his son’s mom tells the Occasions. 

The Division of Homeland Safety’s X account says the Occasions‘ account is fake, that Prada is a “confirmed member of Tren de Aragua” and a “designated a public security menace,” and that he has been deported to El Salvador. DHS doesn’t say the place in El Salvador, nor has it confirmed whether or not he’s held in CECOT or defined why he would not seem on lists of people deported to El Salvador. There’s probably not any substantiation of the concept he is a Tren de Aragua member, and his relations and associates interviewed by the Occasions contest that.

Observe that relations didn’t get a response from DHS till The New York Occasions printed an investigation into Prada’s whereabouts:

And so they nonetheless have not heard from their father, brother, son.

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