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The US government has admitted to mistakenly deporting Kilmer Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran man who fled his country at age sixteen when his parents were extorted by a gang, and he was threatened with gang violence. In America he was given protected status. He married a US citizen, and he has an American special needs child. He has no criminal record and neither his family nor his attorney have heard from him since March 15. ICE says that he can't be returned to his home country, the United States, because he is now under El Salvadoran jurisdiction, which is sophistry because the US government is paying to "house" him in essentially a concentration camp. Others rounded up and deported to that notorious El Salvadoran prison include a gay Venezuelan makeup artist, known as Andrys, seeking asylum in the U.S. because he faced persecution in his home country for being LGBTQ+, but was instead arrested because of seemingly suspicious tattoos according to his lawyer, Lindsay Toczylowski, who has not had any contact with him since his rendition. Also, a Venezuelan barber, Franco José Caraballo Tiapa, 26, is included in a list of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador on March 15, information which CBS obtained. The cause of his removal were also suspicious tattoos, though he has no criminal record in the U.S. or Venezuela, according to CBS. Further, Venezuelan professional soccer player, Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, was removed to El Salvador when ICE officials alleged his tattoos of a soccer ball and a rosary were linked to gang affiliation, USA Today reported, citing his attorney, Linette Tobin. These men as well as everyone on those planes who were removed to El Salvador require due process to determine guilt or innocence. I cannot begin to imagine the horrific conditions that they must endure. Bring them back as soon as humanly possible. Thank you.