Immigrant detainees sound the alarm on the Trump administration that deportes them

The lawyers of a group of Venezuelan immigrants arrested at the Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, Texas, presented emergency habeas requests on Friday after the reports of the interior of the prison indicated that the Trump administration was about to eliminate them, potentially to the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador.

The undocumented Venezuelan immigrants held in Bluebonnet received documents that told them that they would be deported and pressured to sign forms that affirm their alleged membership in the Trena de Aragua gang, according to a legal presentation asking a federal judge in the northern district of Texas to block their removals.

The habit request presented on Friday in the case of AARP v. Trump seeks the protection of the entire class for all detainees in Bluebonnet, who the administration states that they are subject to elimination under the alien enemies law.

On March 14, President Donald Trump declared that the Venezuelan gang of Aragua was involved in an “invasion” of the USA. And that all members of the 14 -year -old gang and more would be classified as “alien enemies” subject to summary elimination without ordinary legal protections. The Administration led to more than 250 Venezuelan and Salvadoran immigrants to Cecot in El Salvador on March 15, largely under the authority of the Alien Enemies Law.

The federal courts intervened to block future removals, but the Supreme Court reversed them and authorized continuous removals. However, the Supreme Court said that those considered “alien enemies” must have an adequate warning of their removal and that they are allowed to present habit requests in the jurisdiction of their detention to dispute their designation as “alien enemies” and their moving.

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The lawyers for those in imminent danger of being sent to the prison in El Salvador declared that the Administration had not provided its clients or others in enough time to adequately present the habit claims or be heard by the courts, as ordered by the Supreme Court.

“These removals could … occur before this matter can be heard and before the government’s response within 24 hours,” establishes the request for a temporal restriction order.

The potentially imminent elimination of Venezuelans held in Bluebonnet came to light after the detainees informed their lawyers and relatives that they were being pressed to sign forms only provided in English that would affirm their alleged membership in train of Aragua.

The client of a lawyer, FGM, “was contacted by ICE officers, accused of being a member of Aragua’s train, and told him to sign documents in English, but the MGF, which only speaks Spanish, refused,” says a statement from his lawyer, Karene Brown.

“An English -speaking Venezuelan man,” he told FGM that the notice “classified the MGM as a member of the TDA gang” and said “that they will be deported today or tomorrow to Venezuela.”

The wife of a detained Venezuelan contacted the immigration lawyer Michelle Brané on Thursday to affirm that her husband called from Bluebonnet and said that “Bluebonnet Venezuelans receive notices accusing them of being by a train of Aragua and saying they will be deported.” The arrested man also shared a Tiktok video of the detainees who told what was happening inside the detention center.

“They are taking us and making us look like foreign enemies, such as the Aragua train,” says a man in Spanish in Tiktok’s video. “They do not let us call our family, we are talking here because someone lent us a phone quickly. They tell us that they do not know where they will send us. They tell us that we have to be eliminated quickly because we are a threat to the country.”

“We are not members of El Train de Aragua. We are normal, civil, says another detainee. “They are making us sign a mandatory deportation. If we sign or will not be deported anyway. We exhort the president to help us.”

“We don’t have a deportation order. I have all my documents/documents in order,” he continued. “I have American children. They arrested me without a deportation order and want to deport me. It’s an injustice.”

“We are not part of El Train,” says a third detainee, who identifies as Rodriguez. “Share this message on social networks, family members, please, let their names fall, we are really being badly treated in this country.”

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The presentations in the case looking for its extraction show that the administration is based on defective indicators to claim the membership by train of Aragua as it has done in its previous removals. These include tattoos, clothing, publications in social networks and, in a new revelation, the use of emojis.

WMM, who appears in the application of Habeas with AARP, “fled from Venezuela after the Venezuelan army harassed him and assaulted him because they believed he did not support the Maduro regime,” according to his habit request.

“At his audience on the order, the government alleged that WMM is affiliated with ADD based on emojis used in the feeding of WMM social networks, and a comment left by another person in a publication on social networks,” says the petition.

The Government also alleges that WMM is a member of a gang because it was arrested in a residence with another alleged member of Aragua train, although he was never accused of a crime.

Another detainee, YSM, a 19 -year -old Venezuelan arrested with his father, was labeled as a member of the Government’s train because a photograph published on Facebook showed him with another person holding a gun. However, the weapon “was in fact a water gun”, a statement by YSM lawyers.

The Government states that AARP, who fled in a similar way, Venezuela after he was “persecuted there” for his “political beliefs and for publicly protesting against the current Venezuelan government”, he is a member of the Aragua train due to tattoos, including “a clock that shows the date and time of the birth of his son, a cross and the virgin Mary.”

It was discovered that only 10% of the 238 immigrants sent to CECOT on March 15 have serious criminal charges, such as assault, illegal possession of a firearm or robbery, against them, a Bloomberg report found. The rest was simply cited by immigration or traffic violations.

The judge of the James Wesley Hendrix district court, appointed by Trump, ordered the government to respond to Friday’s request before April 23. Thursday, Hendrix denied The request of the petitioners of a temporary restriction order that prevents its elimination under the alien enemies law before their habeas requests can be heard in stating that the government states that they are not at “imminent risk of summary elimination.”

Since Hendrix did not authorize an immediate temporary restriction order, lawyers representing Venezuelan detaine of mistakes of the law of the country.