Venezuelan Family Feels Full Force of Trump's Crackdown
- In mid-March, immigration officials from the United States apprehended Mervin Yamarte in Irving, Texas, and swiftly deported him to a prison in El Salvador, where he remains held without communication.
- The arrest followed a Trump administration designation linking Mervin and 251 others to the Tren de Aragua, classified as a terrorist group.
- Mervin’s family says his tattoos, including his mother’s name and the number 99 from his soccer jersey, do not indicate gang affiliation.
- Mercedes Yamarte described her son as being on his knees, gazing upward with an expression that seemed to ask, "Where am I, and how did I end up here?" during the arrest.
- Mervin’s arrest split the family, with one brother self-deported to Mexico and another living in hiding, highlighting the ongoing effects of immigration enforcement.
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Mercedes Yamarte’s family is shattered by the deportations ordered by Donald Trump. His three sons left for the United States in search of a better life. Now one is imprisoned in El Salvador, another self-deported to Mexico and the third lives in fear, hidden.
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