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Venezuelan Deported to El Salvador Files $1.3 Million Claim Against US Immigration Agencies
UNITED STATES, JUL 25 – Neiyerver Adrian Leon Rengel alleges wrongful deportation under the Alien Enemies Act and seeks $1.3 million in damages for suffering abuse in El Salvador's CECOT prison.
- On March 13, 2025, Neiyerver Adrian Leon Rengel, a 27-year-old Venezuelan, submitted an administrative complaint after being forcibly removed by U.S. authorities and sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
- The complaint alleges federal employees wrongfully removed Rengel without due process and falsely told him he was going to Venezuela instead of El Salvador.
- Rengel was taken into custody in Irving, Texas, based on allegations of affiliation with a notorious Venezuelan criminal organization and was subsequently removed from the U.S. in March 2025 under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a measure invoked by the Trump administration.
- A representative from the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, stated that Rengel is considered a security risk due to his links with Tren de Aragua, emphasizing that the administration is committed to preventing foreign terrorist threats from putting Americans at risk.
- Rengel seeks $1.3 million in damages through a government complaint, marking the first legal challenge among 252 deported Venezuelans, amid ongoing judicial scrutiny and prisoner swaps returning detainees to Venezuela.
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The Trump administration deported 252 alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison. After their release, several of them are now testifying about the hell in the facility. "It was beating after beating. So much violence, both physical and psychological," released Ysqueibel Penaloza told ABC News.
Man Deported to El Salvador Files Legal Action Against US
A Venezuelan man is taking legal steps against the US government, saying he was wrongly deported and detained in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, 27, filed an administrative claim Thursday with the Department of Homeland Security, the required precursor to a federal lawsuit, the New York...
A Venezuelan man took Thursday the first step to sue the United States for what he says was an erroneous arrest and transfer to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, 27, spent four months at the Center for Confining Terrorism, or Cecot, where he said he was beaten and mistreated. On Thursday he filed an administrative complaint with the Department of Homeland Security, accusing U.S. immigration agencies of expelling hi…
By CNN en Español A Venezuelan migrant who was imprisoned at Cecot, El Salvador's maximum-security prison, said in an interview with CNN that he was "brutally beaten" there three days before being deported to Venezuela and that he has a hand injury. Luis Alfredo Núñez Falcón is one of more than 200 Venezuelan citizens sent in March by the Trump administration as part of its deportation policy to the prison built by the government of his colleagu…
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