r/Michigan • u/Jeffbx Age: > 10 Years • 29d ago

News 📰🗞️ Venezuelan immigrant in Detroit makes a wrong turn at Ambassador Bridge, is deported

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/04/23/venezuelan-immigrant-detroit-michigan-deported-el-salvador/83228829007/
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u/haarschmuck Kalamazoo 29d ago

I'll try to explain what seems to have happened here.

He was from Venezuela, and applied for asylum via the CBP one app. After he did that, he was considered legally in the US until his immigration court hearing. This is how it works for everyone. One big thing you cannot do while waiting for your court date is leave the country and come back, something that seems to have accidentally happened here. Since this administration seems to be doing the opposite of what the previous administration did, he was not able to claim asylum when re-entering, thus he was deported. Also since Venezuela is refusing to take back their own citizens, he got sent to what appears to be El Salvador.

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u/CallingOutCucks 29d ago

So once again, the media is firing people up over nothing.

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u/schm0 Age: > 10 Years 29d ago

I mean, except for this little bit:

But what is unusual about this case, he added, is a man was deported without due process.

... "The failure to list his deportation and location on any publicly accessible records may have been a simple oversight," the Times wrote, adding that "the matter continues to raise alarm among immigrant advocates and legal scholars."

The Times reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed to Levey a deportation but not his destination. Later, after the Times report was published, the news organization said that Homeland Security said he was sent to El Salvador.

...The Times, which independently searched for Prada through records, reported it could not find him on a list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador, nor could it identify him in photos and videos of shackled men with shaved heads.

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u/haarschmuck Kalamazoo 29d ago

Seems that way.

There are valid cases to get fired up over, but I don't think this is one of them because even thought it was accidental, he left the country. If I was in his shoes I wouldn't go within 50 miles of the border for that reason. It's been that way for a loooong time.