This is Frizgeralth De Jesus Cornejo Pulgar (25). He left Venezuela to escape gang violence, and came to the USA with his family who all had court appointments after being vetted through the CPB-One app. Despite allowing his other family members being permitted into the US on temporary protected status, Frizgeralth was kept in detention.
“They detained him just because he has tattoos,” De Jesus’ sister said. “From the beginning, they asked constantly about his tattoos. They would ask him if he was a member of the criminal gang, Tren de Aragua, and he always said no.” “He is a good kid. He has never committed a crime; he doesn’t have a criminal record,” she said as she cried uncontrollably. “He is young, hard-working and an athlete.”
Like other men who were disappeared to the torture prison in El Salvador, Frizgeralth and his family were told he was being deported and would be released. They only discovered through scouring the footage of the men being herded while shackled through the CECOT prison, that Frizgeralth had instead been sent to El Salvador.
Joseph Giardina, an attorney based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who is representing Frizgeralth in his asylum case, was stunned to learn his client had been deported to El Salvador. The final hearing in his asylum case was scheduled for April 10. When Giardina heard Fritzgaralth had been deported, he checked online and saw that his asylum hearing was still pending. He thought there must have been a mix-up. “With a pending asylum application and a trial, that would make absolutely no sense,” Giardina said. “I’ve been doing this for years. That’s not how it works.” “He has been in proceedings for months. The government has never filed an I-213, which would indicate any criminal background. They have never filed any evidence of any kind of criminal history,” Giardina said.