Mikael Alejandro Fernandez Subero is a tattoo artist and barber. He left Nueva Esparta state of Venezuela for the United States on September 11, 2023, traveling through the Darien jungle in Panama. He eventually arrived in Mexico, where he remained for a month awaiting his immigration appointment, which would grant him legal approval to enter the United States. This appointment was scheduled for December 9, 2023.
Once he entered the U.S., Mikael settled in New York City with his partner, Glorybet Acosta. Mikael worked as a barber in the US. The couple was doing well, but in February of 2023, Mikael was arrested by ICE.
Glorybet posted a video that describes how Mikael was arrested:
“On February 13, 2025, when I was leaving work at 8 a.m., officers from ICE, the police, and the DEA arrived. They were asking about a person who supposedly lived here where we live. They showed me a photo and said he was Dominican. I told them I didn’t know who he was, and they asked the other person who was with me, and he didn’t know him either. They then asked if they could come into the house to check if it was the person they were looking for. I said it was fine, so I went in and woke up my partner [Mikael] because he was sleeping.
When I woke him up and told him to get dressed, they immediately entered the house, handcuffed him, handcuffed me, and didn’t explain why they were doing this. They didn’t say anything, they just said they were investigating because they were looking for someone involved with mafia activities and crimes.
So, they took him to investigate. After they took him, they did everything they needed to do and it turned out he had no criminal record, wasn’t involved with any mafia, and didn’t owe any tickets—he was clean. But even so, they kept him under ICE custody. After that, they transferred him to Pennsylvania, to a correctional facility.
[Mikael] stayed [in the Pennsylvania detention center] for almost a month. During that month, he became ill, had a fever, and they still didn’t tell us why he was detained. After some time, they transferred him to Texas. When he was transferred to Texas, he called me one Thursday, [March 13, 2025], and told me they were going to send him to Venezuela. I told him that was fine, to stay calm, that nothing would happen. At that time, we still didn’t know why he was detained.
Three days later, I didn’t hear from him until I found out through a video on Sunday, March 16, that he was in El Salvador. When he was transferred to El Salvador, the lawyer sent me some papers saying they were implicating him with the Tren de Aragua.
Thank God Mikael has never committed any crime, he has never been incarcerated. The last time I communicated with Mikael was Saturday, March 15, [2025] before he was transferred to El Salvador. He had a fever, had been sick for days, with a headache and stomach pain. The treatment Mikael received was always harsh, always.
They would tell him, “Sit down, don’t stand up,” and they pushed him since he left my house. After they took him, I didn’t hear from him again. The things he told me were that the treatment was very racist, they wouldn’t give him food unless they felt like it, even though he liked the food, they wouldn’t let him have seconds, they yelled at him. They were literally racist just because he was Venezuelan.”
We demand justice! We want justice for Micael Alejandro Fernández Subero. We want justice for him and for all those people who are being implicated with the Tren de Aragua without any evidence.
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