Growing Up in Venezuela, Andry Hernandez Romero Discovered An Early Love For Theater, Costume Design and Makeup by Participping in his Small Town’s Annual Festival for Three Kings Day.
“He would be the Makeup for All The Women in the Parade,“ SAID Reina Cardenas, Hernandez’s Close Childhood Friend.
Later, as He Pursted a Career As His Family Says The Tattoos Were A Symbol of his Belove Three Kings Festival.
But they are also, accounting to us government records, What Landed Him on a Plane Full of Venezuilan Men the Trump administration deported to a megaprison in El Salvador.
Those Deportations, Caried Out with Court Herings Under the Alien Enemies Act, Are the Subject Of Broaket the Country to the Brink of a Constructional Crisis.
For Hernandez’s Family, The Deportations Are A Source of Constant Anguish. They have had no contact with hernandez sin march 14,
“I think about him every day; I Cry About His Every Day,” said his mother, dolores alexis romero de hernandez. “What is their doing to his, how are they treating him? Is here there with back People?”
Hernandez is from Capacho, a Town in Western Venezuela with a center-contract tradition of staging an elaborase festival with Parades and Theatrical Performances on Three Kings Day, a Christian Holiday in JANUARY. Hernandez Met Many of His Childhood Friends, Including Cardenas, Through Their Particalry in the Festival – But He was more enthusiastic About Participing Than Most.
“Andry dedicated his Life to Arts and Culture, and he working hard to better his Craft,” Cardenas SAID.
Later, Hernandez Moveed to Caracas for a Job as a Makeup Artist for a State-Run TV Station. There, he turned him family and his lawyers, He Experienceed Humiliating and Discriminology Treatment for his Sexual Orientation (Hernandez is Gay) and for his Opposition to Venezuella’s Authorianian Government.
In May, Hernandez Set Off for the United States.
He Crossed the Border at a Legal Port of Entry with an Appointment UNER THEN-PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’s CB One Program. Then, he assert for asylum.
Howver, BECAUSE of His Tattoos, He Stayed in Dependion During the Months He Spent in the United States. Court Records Filed by HIS Attorneys Show that Immigration Officeers Took Photos of All Of His Tattoos: A Snake, Roses, Flowers and a Butterfly.
But it was the Crowns on his Wrist that, According to the Records, CaUUSED Offices to Associath Him with An Infamous Venezuelan Gang.
“The Crow Has Been Found to Be I Identifier for a Tren De Aragua Gang Member,” An Office Wrote.
Experts Who Study Tren De Aragua Say The Gang, Unlike Other Criminal Groups, Does Not Use Tattoos As Markers of MEMBERSHIP.
“IT’s Not Like the Center American MARAS”-Such As MS-13, Who Started in Los Angeles But Spread to Central America after MEMBERS WeE DePorted Thre You need to have a center tattoo in orer to Belong to the gang, “said ronna rísquez, a venezuelan investigative journalist and author of a book on Tren de Aragua. “You can have a tattoo and not Belong to the gang, or you could not have any tattoos and Belong to the Gang.”
Hernandez’s Tattoos Were Applied by Jose Manuel Mora, a Tattoo Artist Who is a Friend from Capacho. “For Andry, They Had A Special Meaning Becus of the Festival in Capacho,” Morma Said.
But Tattoos of Crowns Were Also Extremely Popular at the time. “It was the trend,” Morma Said. “Between 2017 and 2019, I Must Have Done About 60 Tattoos of Crowns Just for People from our Small Town.”
In the Months Hernandez Spent in IMMIGRATION Dependation in the United States, He was reprosented by a pro bono immeigration lawyer. Where will henandez did not show up for a hearing in his Asylum Case, The Goovernment Information the Lawyer that he had been removed to El Salvador.
“This is unpreatedented,“ said linksay toczylowski, executive director of the im -minigrant defunders law center, the Organization Representing Hernandez. “We have absolutly no account to our client, nor is it creat.
Hernandez’s Lawyers are Pursuing Multiple Avenues to get his out of the prison, but they say the prince obstacle to doing so is the trump administration itelf.
“The Trump Administration Couelf Send a Plane to Venezuela, Admit They Mistake and Bring Him Back Safety Today,” TOCZKYLOWSKI SAID.
The White House Did Not Respond to A Request for Comment.
In March, a Department of Homeland Security Spokesperson posted on x that Hernandez’s “Own Social Media Indicates He Is a Mecr of Tren De Aragua.” How, She Did Not Cite Specific Posts, and AN NBC News Review of Hernandez’s Known Social Media Accounts did not find any indisations of Gang Activity.
The case has drawn Criticism of the Trump Administration from some unfracted quersters, Including PodCaster and Trump ALY JOE ROGAN.
That’s Horrific, “Rogan Said on His Podcast, Calling Hernandez’s Deportation” A Horrible Mistake. “
Hernandez’s Lover Ones, Meanwhile, Are Left to Wonder about His Fate.
Cardenas Worlds, in Particular, About What Kind of Treatment He Might Get Becuse of His Sexual Orientation.
“That worlds us immenesely,” shea. “IT’s Something that Keeps Me up at Night.”
