#wrongful-detention

#wrongful-detention

Due to his "lack of experience," he said, he had misunderstood federal immigration jargon and believed that De La Garza's residency bid had been denied - though it hadn't. He repeated his misunderstanding on a form that government attorneys cited in court to justify the detention. On the same form, he also wrongly reported that De La Garza had admitted to illegally entering the country in 2015.

Like hundreds of thousands of others, Brayan Palencia decided to migrate to the United States to financially support his family. He didn't earn much in Colombia and had a daughter to look after. He crossed the Darien Gap with an injured knee; he paid bribes to cartels in Mexico so that he would be allowed to continue his journey. Even so, he emphasizes, nothing compares to what he experienced at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the mega-prison in El Salvador built by President Nayib Bukele.

Dahud Hanid Ortiz was convicted by a Venezuelan court for the murders of three individuals in Spain, receiving a 30-year prison sentence in 2024.

Khalil alleges the Trump administration unlawfully imprisoned him and maliciously prosecuted him for his activism, seeking $20 million in damages for wrongful detention.