Rosme Alexander Colina Argüelles is from the community of El Hatillo, Guzmán Guillermo parish, Miranda municipality in Venezuela. He left for the USA, October 31, 2023, hoping to find a more stable future for himself and his family because of the terrible, and worsening, economic conditions in Venezuela.“
My son left with his wife and his two children who are now sixteen years old. They went through the jungle,” said Maira Colina, Rosme’s mother.Rosme arrived with his family in Dallas, Texas in October 2024, where he worked in construction, and then at in a moving company. He had two ICE check-ins without incident, but at his third ICE check-in, he was detained and accused of belonging to the "Tren de Aragua" criminal gang.
His mother denies that her son has ties to the gang."He has two tattoos, the one with his daughter's name and mine," Maira Colina said. Despite US Customs and Immigration using tattoos to identify Tren de Aragua gang members, experts on the gang say tattoos do not identify members of that criminal organization.
"The last thing we heard was that they offered him a voluntary departure in which he had to pay for his return ticket and he agreed.” That was on March 13, 2025. “He was going to let us know when he was coming, but we didn't hear anything more until today when he appeared on the list of deportees to El Salvador," said the mother on March 20th, 2025, when the list of names of the men in the torture prison, CECOT, was released.
Maira Colina says this experience is a “nightmare that she implores to end soon.”Rosme is in a very dangerous prison and his life is at risk. Please share Rosme’s story and demand that he is charged with a crime and offered a fair trial, or given his freedom.
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