Father fighting to get son returned from CECOT prison after immigration raid

Father fighting to get son returned from CECOT prison after immigration raid

When 19-year-old Merwil Gutierrez was swept up in a raid in the Bronx while his father was at work, his dad thought the worst that would happen was that he'd be deported back to Venezuela.

During an event of his 100 days as president of the United States, Donald Trump, screened a video showing the transfer of prisoners belonging to the criminal group Tren de Aragua to the Center for the Confining of Terrorism (CECOT), in El Salvador. The sequence was used by Trump as an example of firm policies against organized crime and violence, within the framework of his discourse focused on national security and crime control. The video show…