The exuberant homecoming was in stark contrast to the welcome he received in March at El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, where ...

A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts ...

Jerce Reyes Barrios was falsely identified as a gang member because of his tattoo, his lawyer said — echoing a claim that numerous lawyers and families of the expelled migrants have asserted in ...

Among the deported men with no apparent criminal record was Jerce Reyes Barrios, a 35-year-old Venezuelan and former professional soccer player who had sought asylum in the U.S. after he was ...

Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, was sent to the Central American country after U.S. authorities misinterpreted a tattoo of his that they thought was linked to a Venezuelan gang ...

Jerce Reyes Barrios, a 35-year-old Venezuelan man, has now claimed that he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador prison in the Donald Trump administration's latest deportation of around 200 members ...

Jerce Reyes Barrios, a 36-year-old professional soccer player and coach from Venezuela, was among the deportees. His attorney Linette Tobin told Morning Edition he followed all the rules when ...

The two most important things in Jerce Reyes’s life, according to those who know him best, are family and soccer. The former professional soccer player’s tattoos are a testament to those passions: of ...

Reyes Barrios entered the United States, after making an appointment on the CBP One cellphone app and presenting himself to immigration officials. He’s applied for asylum and relief under the ...

However, he ended up being taken into custody. Venezuelan soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, has been deported from the U.S. to El Salvador after agents mistook his tattoo for a gang symbol ...