An immigrant from Venezuela who was sent to El Salvador’s mega-prison CECOT by the Trump administration has filed a $1.3 million claim against the U.S. government over his wrongful detention. Twenty-seven-year-old Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel was among the more than 250 Venezuelan immigrants flown to El Salvador from the U.S. in March as Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. They were released and returned to Venezuela in a surprise prisoner swap with the U.S. Rengel was taken by federal agents from the parking lot of his apartment in Irving, Texas, with immigration officials wrongfully claiming his tattoos proved he was affiliated with the Tren de Aragua gang. Rengel came to the U.S. in 2023 and worked as a barber. He described being brutally beaten by guards at CECOT.