According to Mrs. Casique, her son had no association of gangs and entered the United States to look for asylum at the end of 2023 after several years of working in Peru to support her family at home. During his journey north, he was injured in Mexico after falling from the train, she said.
Mr. García, who turned to the offices on the American border, was detained last year after the tattoo was detained during a routine performance in front of immigration officers, Mrs. Casique said.
Tattoos, which they say include a crown with the word “peace” in Spanish and the names of his mother, grandmother and nurses, led the authorities to build an investigation and call him a suspicious member of Tren de Aragu, according to Mrs. Casique.
Mr. García stayed in Dallas in Dallas for two months, his mother said, but the judge eventually decided that he was not a danger and allowed him to be released if he was wearing an electronic device to follow his movements.
The New York Times could not verify why he was held and released.
After this year’s inauguration Mr. Trump, Mr. García feared, but Mrs. Casique remembered that she had told her son that she had nothing to worry about: the administration said it would be for the first time after criminals.
6 February, however, the authorities arrived at the door of Mr. Garcí and took him into custody.
“I told him to adhere to the rules of the country that he was not a criminal, and at most they deported him,” Mrs. Castique said. “But I was very naive – I thought the laws would protect him.”
Gabriel Labrador He contributed news from San Salvador, Salvador.
