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Jerce Reyes Barrios, described by his attorneys as a professional soccer player and a youth soccer coach, fled Venezuela for the United States after he was arrested and “tortured” by “election shocks and suffocation” for marching in demonstrations protesting Nicolas Maduro’s regime.

He doesn’t have a criminal record, and a judge is scheduled to hear his asylum claims next month, according to his attorney.

But last week, Barrios was put on a plane with dozens of other Venezuelan men and sent to a prison in El Salvador. His family and lawyer have now “lost all contact with him and have no information regarding his whereabouts or condition,” according to a sworn declaration in court filings.

Barrios is not alone. Statements from attorneys for some of the men who were deported to El Salvador — many of whom have no criminal record whatsoever, had no orders for their removal from the United States, and were scheduled to have their asylum claims heard in upcoming court dates — detail their abrupt arrests.

They are now in a notorious El Salvador prison, accused of being members of the very same gang they fled Venezuela to escape.

The filings were included in a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s administration for his use of the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport