US EditionAttorneys 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.
- Cristian, a Venezuelan asylum seeker deported to El Salvador in March, was sent back to Venezuela last week in a prisoner exchange deal.
- His deportation violated a 2019 settlement that barred deporting asylum seekers before adjudications, as attorneys argued Cristian was a pawn in this political exchange.
- Cristian, along with approximately 251 other Venezuelan migrants, was held in El Salvador's CECOT prison—designed for suspected gang members—after the U.S. government provided funding to El Salvador to detain them.
- U.S. officials state that the Department of State and embassy are leading diplomatic talks and stand ready to assist Cristian's return if he chooses, but his lawyers have struggled to contact him.
- Cristian’s lawyers plan to request criminal contempt sanctions against the government for repeated violations of court orders, highlighting a complex legal battle over immigration enforcement.
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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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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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