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Most Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Had No Criminal Record: CBS News 60 Minutes

  • The Trump administration deported over 200 Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador, asserting they had criminal records, but an investigation reveals that most did not have any actual crimes listed against them.
  • Out of 238 Venezuelan men, approximately 75% or 179 men had no criminal history, according to CBS News' findings.
  • Lindsay Toczylowski represents Andry Hernandez Romero, who lacks a criminal record and argues against his deportation, highlighting the case on social media.
  • A CBS News investigation reveals that most Venezuelans deported to El Salvador had no criminal records, contrary to the Trump administration's claims.
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The NGO Human Rights Watch denounces the violation of the human rights of those deported from the United States to El Salvador. A Bloomberg research shows that about 90 percent of the deportees have no criminal record.

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(April 09, 2025. El Venezolano).- Officials of the Trump administration have described the men deported to prisons in El Salvador last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting that they were gang members involved in murders, rapes and kidnappings. The reality is that of 238 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, who the authorities accused of belonging to the Aragua Train gang and expelled to the Central American country in mid-March, only a small f…

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CBS News broke the news in on Sunday, April 6, 2025.
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