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FREE PRESS IS COMMITTED TO DOCUMENTING THE DISAPPEARED.
We consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide. This article will be updated as long as is necessary.
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (The Bill of Rights)No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
RECENT VICTIMS:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia The Trump administration admitted in a court filing Monday that an "administrative error" and an "oversight" resulted in a Salvadoran man's deportation and imprisonment in a supermax prison in El Salvador, despite a legal order prohibiting his removal there. Story here.
Momodou Taal: U.K. and the Gambia, am a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell.
Returning from honeymoon in Puerto Rico. Story here
Jasmine Mooney: Detained Trying to Renew Visa 2/15. Canadian, sent to Louisiana. Story here
Rómulo Avelica-González: Detained while taking his daughter, Fatima Avelica, to school. He has not yet been released. He is the father of 4 daughters. Story here.
Kevenson & Sherlie Jean. They have lived in the Florida Panhandle since being granted humanitarian parole by the U.S. government in July 2023. Their specific parole program was available to residents of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and it required them, in addition to passing rigorous background checks, to have a financial sponsor. Story here.
Franco Caraballo, CBS News has learned that a barber from Venezuela was among those on the list for the deportation flights even though documents show he has no criminal record. Married, sent to El Salvador. Story here
Andry Hernandez: A Venezuelan asylum seeker, gay man, no gang affiliation, deported to El Salvador. Story here.Mahmoud Khalil : Columbia student, a Palestinian, green card holder, a pro-Palestinian activist. Story here
Yunseo Chung: legal permanent resident and junior who has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school Story here
Mother and 3 children (names not revealed). Taken from a dairy farm in New York to Texas, 1800 miles away. Governor of New York Hochul suspects ICE was looking for an actual criminal.
Story here.