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Attorneys for Wrongly Deported Venezuelan Asylum Seeker Will Seek Criminal Contempt Proceedings After Prisoner Swap

VENEZUELA, JUL 22 – Lawyers plan to seek criminal contempt charges against the Trump administration for violating court orders after deporting a Venezuelan asylum seeker to a prison in El Salvador.

  • Last week, Cristian returned to Venezuela in a prisoner swap, with Venezuela releasing 10 U.S. citizens for 252 deportees.
  • Earlier this year, US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher found his March deportation violated a settlement protecting young migrants with pending asylum claims; she ordered the government to facilitate his return to the US.
  • Seeking criminal contempt, Kevin DeJong told the court, noting they will file a request within 10 days for egregious violations of the settlement agreement.
  • Ruth Ann Mueller argued the government claimed compliance, while Judge Gallagher said she saw no evidence of efforts to send Cristian directly to the U.S.
  • In upcoming days, attorneys will seek sanctions, while Gallagher ordered the government to file weekly status reports.
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Daniel Lozano-Camargo fled Venezuela as a minor. He crossed the southern border of the United States alone and irregularly at the age of 17 in 2022. He was in a juvenile detention center until he reached the age of majority, and, on leaving, filed an asylum application. The young man was protected from deportation while that petition remained open, but last March he was deported to El Salvador by the Donald Trump government without his case bein…

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Cristosal, a humanitarian organization that closed operations in El Salvador because of the “repressive escalation” of the Nayib Bukele government, said Tuesday that migrants deported from the United States (USA) were unjustly detained in the Salvadoran prison system before being sent to Venezuela. READ ALSO “We had to eat like animals”: ICE abuses against migrants in Florida, USA. “Although they were sent back to Venezuela, the situation of peo…

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By Devan Cole and Molly Reinmann, CNN Lawyers for a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker who was wrongly deported earlier this year will ask a federal judge in the coming days to consider criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for "serious violations" of its orders.

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Noticias al Día y a la Hora | Últimas Noticias del día de hoy… broke the news in on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
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