Trump administration deports gay make-up artist to maximum security prison in El Salvador

Andry José Hernández Romero (Image: Facebook)

A gay makeup artist who arrived in the US last year in search of asylum has been flown to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

Andry José Hernández Romero was one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration on 15 March, reports CBS News.

The news follows a deal brokered between President Trump and El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele allowing the US to send deportees to the central American’s country maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, located in Tecoluca.

“We have grave concerns about whether he can survive”

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared. One day he was there, and the next day we’re supposed to have court, and he wasn’t brought to court,”

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