ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Apartment. Now His Son Is In Bukele’s Mega-prison In El Salvador

A familiar story from Documented:

“On March 15, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained [a Venezuelan father’s] 19-year-old son, Merwil Gutiérrez, and another 237 Venezuelans. He had no criminal record, neither in Venezuela nor the U.S., nor did he have any tattoos — one of the features that the U.S. police used to link them to the Tren de Aragua gang. But none of that stopped him from being arrested. “

“I feel like my son was kidnapped,” said [Wilmer] Gutiérrez in Spanish. “I’ve spent countless hours searching for him, going from one precinct to another, speaking with numerous people who kept referring me elsewhere. Yet, after all this, no one has given me any information or provided a single document about his case.”

KJ