Lindsay Toczylowski

We were able to identify Andry exiting the plane in Venezuela. After 125 days in a torture prison in El Salvador, he has been released & sent back to the country he initially fled. We will keep fighting for justice for Andry. @ImmDef statement: immdef.org/blog/andryrele…

After months detained in El Salvador, Venezuelan make up artist Andry José Hernández Romero is back in Venezuela. He came to the United States fleeing the persecution he faced because of his sexual orientation. However, instead of finding freedom in our country, he was subjected…

ICYMI: Andry Hernández Romero, the gay asylum seeker Trump disappeared to a supermax prison in El Salvador, has been released. Andry's right to due process was violated. He should have never been sent to CECOT, & now he's been sent back to Venezuela—the same country he fled.

JUST IN: A federal judge rules that the Trump administration must reinstate a policy to provide lawyers to people who are deemed mentally incompetent in deportation proceedings. It was terminated without a legally persuasive reason, Judge Ali finds. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/doc1/045111516…

The Trump Administration's terrorizing and racial profiling of hardworking families is cruel and inhumane. It's not making us safer and there is no justification for it, full stop.

Americans largely oppose recent efforts by Donald Trump’s administration to scale up its deportation program, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with a rising majority saying the president has gone too far in carrying out deportations. cnn.com/2025/07/20/pol…

So @nayibbukele deports Venezuelans fleeing dictatorship… while jailing his own political opponents and human rights defenders at home. What’s the difference between Maduro and Bukele at this point? Authoritarianism with better lighting? #ElSalvador #Venezuela #Hypocrisy

On Friday, Andry was sent from El Salvador to Venezuela after spending months in the horrific CECOT prison. @Timodc and @samstein spoke to his lawyer @L_Toczylowski and got her reaction to the news.

“The bitterness is still there,” said a friend of one of the men sent to CECOT about the release. “The anger about what happened to him is still there." ow.ly/snKK50Wsfn8

Thank god this poor man is out of that fucking hellhole

We are so grateful Andry Hernández Romero is alive. He’s back in Venezuela and we are working to make sure he’s safe. He never should have been sent to the CECOT prison and he still deserves due process. We won’t stop fighting for him.

The US-Venezuela-El Salvador prisoner swap stinks to high heaven. It makes no sense on the face of it. Why would Maduro trade US hostages for Venezuelans we are told are hardened gangsters? Probably because a number of them are dissidents. And other reasons we don’t yet know…🧵

Every bad actor government in the world will now have reason to kidnap Americans

I am grateful that Andry Hernandez Romero has been released from the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador. I will continue to monitor his status in Venezuela.

Incredibly powerful moment as some of Neri Alvarado's relatives see him walking off the plane in Venezuela after his release from CECOT. He was targeted because of his tattoos—the largest of which is an autism awareness ribbon featuring his brother's name.

Immigrant Defenders Law Center confirms that on Friday, July 18, 2025, Andry Hernández Romero and over 250 Venezuelan men -- who were denied due process and were disappeared by the U.S. government to El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security CECOT prison on March 15, 2025 -- were…

We don’t know what could happen to those who applied for asylum in the United States and have now been wrongfully returned to the country they are fleeing. They may be free from CECOT, but more details are needed.

The government sent an innocent man who came here legally to a foreign prison for 125 days Thank God for the work @ImmDef is doing

Our client Ysqueibel reuniting with his family after 125 days spent in a torture prison after the US government disappeared him to El Salvador.

Indeed. His case is Exhibit Number 1 for why due process matters. No independent decision-maker, looking at evidence, ever found that he was a gang member. It was all some low-level immigration officers and staff at detention centers. Then suddenly, imprisonment without warning.

His lawyers will now be able to speak with him for the first time in four months. He likely has no idea that his case has made him internationally known. Personally, I hope he can recover eventually from this nightmare; being wrongfully turned into a pawn for political reasons.