Los Angeles, CA (Capital & Main)

A group of Venezuelan men who were almost sent to El Salvador before an overnight Supreme Court decision stopped their flight have been pleading for help as they remain detained in Texas.

Since President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on March 15 against the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, his administration has sent more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador. The government of El Salvador immediately sent the men to one of its notorious prisons. Human rights experts have called this practice enforced disappearance.

As the administration prepared to send more Venezuelan men to El Salvador on April 19 from Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, the Supreme Court blocked the flights.

"I'm afraid for my life, truly," said one man wh

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