This is the moment Ysqueibel embraced his family for the first time in 125 days — after surviving torture and solitary confinement in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT maximum-security prison. His release is the result of an unrelenting campaign led by his family and legal team, who fought against the unlawful rendition that tore him from his life.
Ysqueibel was one of hundreds of Venezuelan men forcibly disappeared by U.S. authorities and deported without due process, accused without credible evidence of ties to the Tren de Aragua gang. The allegations were as sweeping as they were baseless. Tonight, Ysqueibel is free. But the trauma remains.
“He left Venezuela for a better future, and it turned into a nightmare,” his mother told The Independent.
Margaret Cargioli, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Immigrant Defenders Law Center, added:
“While the Trump administration disappears human beings to countries around the world without due process, it will take all of us — advocates, attorneys, families — across borders, to bring them home and to stop these cruel deportations to dangerous places like CECOT.”
Ysqueibel’s case is not an anomaly. It’s a warning. And a call to act.
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