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BumRushDaShow

(158,625 posts)
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:41 AM Jul 25

Man Plans To Sue Trump Administration For Sending Him To El Salvador Prison

Source: Huff Post/AP

Jul 24, 2025, 05:55 PM EDT


WASHINGTON (AP) — A migrant from Venezuela deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador has taken the first step toward suing the U.S. government, saying he was wrongly sent to a notorious prison in the Central American country where he was beaten by guards and kept from contacting his family or an attorney.

Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, 27, has filed a claim for $1.3 million with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, his attorneys with Democracy Defenders Fund said Thursday. Rengel is among more than 250 migrants from Venezuela sent to El Salvador in March, out of the jurisdiction of U.S. courts, after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Immigration agents took Rengel into custody on March 13 in the parking lot of his apartment in Irving, Texas, wrongly claiming his tattoos reflected an affiliation with Tren de Aragua, according to his claim. He had entered the U.S. in 2023. He worked as a barber and was scheduled to appear before an immigration judge in 2028.

Homeland Security said in an email that Rengel was a “confirmed associate” of the Tren de Aragua gang — though it did not specify how it reached that conclusion — who had entered the country illegally. It called his claims a fake “sob story.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-trump-deportations_n_6882aa0ce4b036c6e702683b

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Man Plans To Sue Trump Administration For Sending Him To El Salvador Prison (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jul 25 OP
This is the first in a torrent of lawsuits that is coming. alwaysinasnit Jul 25 #1
Supreme Court will back Trump's crimes. Irish_Dem Jul 25 #2
$1.3 mill? BaronChocula Jul 25 #3
Hooray for the pushback on horrific immigration policies. steventh Jul 25 #4
How can you sue someone that has total immunity according to SCOTUS? doc03 Jul 25 #5
They are suing the agency BumRushDaShow Jul 25 #6
Trump is completely litigation proof. Miguelito Loveless Jul 25 #7
Only for official acts. They need to pierce cpamomfromtexas Jul 25 #8
The Thomas court Miguelito Loveless Jul 28 #9
As he should Scott Alan Swaggerty Jul 28 #10

steventh

(2,170 posts)
4. Hooray for the pushback on horrific immigration policies.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 06:46 AM
Jul 25

Let's hope there are lots more of these filings. It will give the DOJ something better to do with their time defending such cases rather than hiding Epstein information.

This is a great time for lawyers. There's so much lawless activity to address.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,140 posts)
7. Trump is completely litigation proof.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:29 AM
Jul 25

The Thomas Court granted him absolute immunity for all "official" acts. So, whether that applies to acts by his administration, will have to go back to Thomas so he can rule for them again.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,140 posts)
9. The Thomas court
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 11:18 AM
Jul 28

is perfectly happy to declare anything he does "official". Then they will declare anything a Democrat does as "not official".

They are no longer pretending to care about the law.

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