Jesus Alberto Rios Andrade
Jesus Alberto Rios Andrade entered the US in 2023 as an asylum seeker. He is now confirmed to be in CECOT
Coming to the US
Jesus Alberto Rios Andrade left his home in Venezuela at 15 and lved in Colombia where he sold fruit and phone accessories. There he learned to cut hair to work in barbershops, and cleaned stoves in restaurants. In 2023 he entered the USin 2023 seeking asylum. Although he listed a Maryland address on his asylum application, Jesus stayed in texas after meeting his wife, Angie Gonzalez, who is a US citizen. They were married on september 10, 2024. Jesus received a GPS tracking bracelet and had to report daily with a photo. He had applied for permanent residency, temporary protected status, and a work permit when he was detained. It had been three weeks since Angie had sent in Form I-130 which is a petition for an alien relative. According to his wife, Jesus had an appointment on February 2, 2025 for biometric data capture regarding his I-130 form.
Detained and Expelled
On February 1, 2025, Jesus stepped outside to help his wife load laundry baskets in the car to take to the laundry mat. Immigration officers arrested him, telling Angie that they had an arrest warrant. Jesus was sent to a detention center in New Mexico where he was able to communicate with Angie who kept tabs on his location through ICE’s detainee tracker. From New Mexico he was transferred to the El Paso and El Valle detention centers in Texas. The last time Angie spoke to her husband was on March 15 when he told her he was getting ready for the plane that he assumed would take him to Venezuela. The next day he disappeared from the detainee tracking system. She confirmed he was in El Salvador when his name appeared on the list of men who had been expelled to CECOT. Angie believes the reason he has been classified as a member of Tren de Aragua because of a rose tattoo on his neck. He has no criminal record.
Angie Gonzales’ efforts to have Jesus returned
Angie has written to her Congresswoman, Veronica Escobar, to appeal for help. She has sent the Congresswoman a letter of appeal that includes the following statement, “This is not just about my husband. It is about whether the US Government is following due process or conducting mass deportationsin secret that violate fundamental human rights. If ICE cannot provide concrete, verifiable evidence that my husband was a danger to public safety, then he and others like him are being detained in a foreign prison under false pretenses.”
Source: https://elfaro.net/en/202505/el_salvador/27806/us-wife-of-cecot-deportee-he-was-seeking-asylum-hellip-sometimes-i-think-he-rsquo-s-dead
