Merwil Gutiérrez sent from New York to El Salvador prison although family says he has no criminal history or gang ties
A 19-year-old Venezuelan in New York City reportedly was apprehended by Trump administration immigration authorities and deported to El Salvador despite agents’ realizing he was not whom they meant to arrest in a targeted operation.
Merwil Gutiérrez, whose family opened an asylum case after arriving in the US, was deported from the Bronx to the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador despite his relatives’ insistence that he has no gang ties or criminal history, according to Documented, a newsroom dedicated to telling the stories of immigrants in New York City. The Gutiérrez family says it has been left without information or answers.
The teen was detained alongside 237 other Venezuelans on 24 February by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). His father, Wilmer Gutiérrez, told Documented: “I feel like my son was kidnapped.”
It’s going to get a lot worse because now they know that they are able to deport/jail literally anyone without facing any resistance. If a case gets too big on the media, they can shift responsibility around in a circle, e.g. USA says it can’t do anything, El Salvador has to do something. And El Salvador says sorry can’t do anything. And so nothing is done, both USA and El Salvador get what they want and the justice system and the victims can’t do anything.
This will soon become routine because they will expand their list of “unwanted” persons constantly. First “gang members” and “criminals”, then sexual and other non-criminal minorities, then non-criminal political opposition, then potentially everyone who’s not super loyal to the fascist administration (aka cult).
What worries me is how fast it descends into madness. Any innocent American citizen should probably sooner, rather than later, be prepared to fight for themselves and their loved ones against injustice, because there might be no one left in the system doing it for them when the system itself has become unjust and/or dysfunctional. I hope that you somehow manage to turn the wheel around but when looking at the speed of Project 2025 and the Trump administration becoming increasingly more vile, I don’t think there’s much time left. Fascism is growing at insane speed, fueled by disinformation/propaganda and fake news on the web and social media, and backed by obscenely rich oligarchs who never really liked the previous government and laws anyway.
And this is all happening in a time when humanity should work together, rather than continue fighting among themselves. Instead, humanity chose the worst path forward possible, the path which accelerates the problems and has no solutions at all. So now we don’t have anything against climate change and this will cause massive problems and completely new wars world-wide over land, food, water. And it’s not far out. If you’re young today, you’ll probably live to experience it. It’s probably the right time to prepare for the worst and adjust to a pre-apocalyptic mindset. Because we’re definitely not solving this if we can’t even solve fascism in Western democracies in 2025.
Watching that press conference with the El Salvador Hitler was infuriating. Bondi says its up to El Salvador, El Salvador says its up to the US, and both throw up their hands and say “Oh, Well, nothing can be done.”
Literally EVERYBODY in the world needed to resolve the issue of an innocent deportee was in that room. Nobody had to say “That sounds like a pretty good deal, let me speak to my boss for approval,” ALL the bosses were right there, and they kept passing the buck to each other.
And yet, not one “journalist” said “Hey, why don’t you guys just resolve this right now?”
Just like on Meet The Press last weekend with Peter Navarro on, and she treated him like a legitimate spokesperson for trade and tariffs, without once asking about how his credentials as an expert were totally made up, using a fake expert that nobody else has every seen or heard, and is an anagram of his own name. Its all I would have asked him about, and yet she was more interested in his feud with Skum, than his obvious fraud.
The White House Press Corps and the Sunday Morning Political Talk Shows are supoosed to be our top tier journalists, and they act like their jobs are to provide a platform for the world’s worst tyrants to spew their propganda to the world, unchallenged.
Anyone who has the option to leave the Untied States, should
It really does feel like the beginning of the end
It’s WW2, but with nuclear weapons and climate change on top, as you said