{"id":66355,"date":"2026-02-14T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/venezuelan-deportee-welcomes-chance-of-us-return-but-fears-repeat-of-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:54:50","slug":"venezuelan-deportee-welcomes-chance-of-us-return-but-fears-repeat-of-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/venezuelan-deportee-welcomes-chance-of-us-return-but-fears-repeat-of-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan deportee welcomes chance of US return but fears repeat of ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Mu\u00f1oz Pinto, 27, who was sent to notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador would like to clear his name after US judge\u2019s ruling<\/p>\n<p>A US federal judge\u2019s order that some of the Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a notorious prison in El Salvador must be allowed to return to the United States to fight their cases has been greeted with hope and a sense of vindication \u2013 but also fear \u2013 by one of the deportees.<\/p>\n<p> US district judge James Boasberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/judge-orders-return-venezuelans-formerly-detained-el-salvador-choose-c-rcna258755\">ruled<\/a> on Thursday in Washington DC that the Trump administration should facilitate the return of deportees who are currently in countries outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/venezuela\">Venezuela<\/a>, saying they must be given the opportunity to seek the due process they were denied after being illegally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/16\/deportation-alleged-gang-members-el-salvador\">expelled from the US<\/a> last March.<\/p>\n<p>Boasberg added that the US government should cover the travel costs of those who wish to come to the US to argue their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usimmigration\">immigration<\/a> cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/14\/venezuelan-illegally-deported-return-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Mu\u00f1oz Pinto, 27, who was sent to notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador would like to clear his name after US judge\u2019s ruling A US federal judge\u2019s order that some of the Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a notorious prison in El Salvador must be allowed to return to the United &#8230; <a title=\"Venezuelan deportee welcomes chance of US return but fears repeat of ordeal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/venezuelan-deportee-welcomes-chance-of-us-return-but-fears-repeat-of-ordeal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Venezuelan deportee welcomes chance of US return but fears repeat of ordeal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}