Venezuela’s Maduro calls US deportation of migrants to El Salvador a ‘kidnapping,’ backs calls for their return

Letter: Robbed of their humanity

We were appalled to read the news stories in the March 17 and 18 issues of the Freeman on the deportation of several hundred Venezuelans, allegedly members of a Venezuelan criminal gang, against a U.S. court order, and at our expense — not to Venezuela but to El Salvador, for detention in a prison center by a government notorious for its violence against its own dissident citizens. Included were pictures of the deportees robbed of their humanity…

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