Andry, Gay Man Disappeared By Ice Under the Alien Enemies Act

Andry a gay asylum seeker / Photo Lindsay Toczylowski

The asylum seeker who was disappeared by ICE has been identified as Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela. Andry entered the US legally seeking asylum but was detained by ICE for lack of any other reason because he is gay and from Venezuela.

We have learned that Andry was one of the Ice Detainees who were illegally sent to a notorious El Salvatorian prison when Trump ignored a court order halting those flights

This is our @immdef.bsky.social client, Andry, who has been disappeared by Trump admin. Tonight, he is in a Salvadoran prison notorious for human rights violations. He is also a brother & a son, a makeup artist, & like many of us, he has tattoos. Thank you @maddow.msnbc.com for lifting up his story

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— Lindsay Toczylowski (@l-toczylowski.bsky.social) March 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Lindsay Toczylowski, president of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, shares a photo of her client publicly for the first time and talks with Rachel Maddow about the difficulty of getting answers about her client who the Trump administration, through ICE, has accused without evidence of being a gang member and summarily deported to a prison in El Salvador with no due process or opportunity to defend himself.

Trump ‘deletes evidence’ of Putin's adduction of 35,000 Ukrainian children

An international effort to trace and rescue tens of thousands of children kidnapped from Ukraine to Russia and prosecute those responsible has been crippled by the US state department’s deletion of evidence.

The Trump administration cut funding to Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which was compiling a database of alleged Russian war crimes, including the abduction of an estimated 35,000 children from occupied areas of Ukraine, last month.

Using satellite imagery and other surveillance systems provided through the US government, the Yale researchers were monitoring 116 sites in Russia.

A Yale source said the US state department deleted the evidence which would have been used as part of rescue efforts to get the children home to Ukraine. It would also have been used to prosecute those behind their abductions – including Russian president Vladimir Putin.

”It is unclear whether it was by accident or intent, but it may reveal or it may cause potential criminal liability for the Trump administration, given international prohibitions against the destruction of war crimes evidence,” the Yale insider told The Independent.