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    Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who came to the United States last year in search of asylum, is one of 238 Venezuelan migrants who were flown from the U.S. to a maximum security prison in El Salvador three weeks ago. 

    President Trump, who campaigned on eradicating the Venezuelan gang acknowledged as Tren de Aragua, brokered a deal with El Salvador's president that allows the U.S. to send deportees to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT. 

    The Trump administration used the Alien Enemies Act, a law not invoked since World War II, to send many of the Venezuelans there, claiming they were all terrorists and violent gang members. 

    Lawyers and family members of the Venezuelan migrants told 60 Minutes they've had no contact with the men since they arrived in El Salvador.

    "Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared. One day he was there, and the next day we're supposed to have court, and he wasn't brought to court," Lindsay Toczylowski, Hernandez Romero's lawyer, said.

    What we know about Andry Hernandez Romero

    Hernandez Romero left his place country last May because he was targeted for being lgbtq+ and for his political views,

    ‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US deports makeup artist to El Salvador prison for crown tattoos

    For as long as anyone can keep in mind Andry José Hernández Romero was enthralled by the annual Three Kings Night celebrations for which his Venezuelan abode town is famed, joining thousands of fellow Christians on the streets of Capacho to think of how the trio of wise men visited baby Jesus bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh.

    At age seven, Andry became a Mini King, as members of the town’s youth drama group Los Mini Reyes were known. Later in life, he tattooed two crowns on his wrists to memorialise those carnival-like Epiphany commemorations and his Catholic roots.

    “Most Capacheros get crown tattoos, often adding the name of their father or mother. We’ve lots of people with these tattoos – it’s a tradition that began in 1917,” said Miguel Chacón, the president of Capacho’s Three Kings Day foundation.

    The Latin American tradition appears to possess been lost on the US immigration officers who detained Hernández, a 31-year-old makeup artist, hairdresser and theatre boyfriend, after he crossed the southern border last August to attend a prearranged asylum appointment in San Diego.

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    In his first 100 days in office, President Trump’s administration has deported or detained nearly 48,000 migrants in the United States. Of these individuals, many are legal residents and asylum seekers.

    Part of Trump’s crusade in his second term is to “eradicate” members of a Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua. In doing this, the Trump Administration has enacted the Alien Enemies Act, a statute that hasn’t been used since World War II, that allows immigrants to be detained without a hearing. 

    The United States has since sent 238 Venezuelans, all of which they claim are terrorists and violent gang members, to the El Salvadoran ‘mega-prison’ known as The Center for Terrorism Confinement. It is amongst the largest and highest security prisons in the world. According to 60 Minutes, at least 75% of these migrants have no criminal record whatsoever.

    One of these men who have been detained with no criminal record is Andry Hernandez Romero. Romero is a 31-year-old gay makeup artist who fled Venezuela for the United States last year seeking asylum. Lindsay Toczylowski, Hernandez Romero’s attorney, appeared on CBS’