作者：Mike Scarcella
2026年3月24日 美国东部时间晚上8:24 更新于3小时前
Neiyerver Adrian Leon Rengel于2025年7月29日在委内瑞拉加拉加斯接受采访时，他因正式起诉美国政府将其送往萨尔瓦多最臭名昭著的监狱而受到关注。路透社/Gaby Oraa [获取授权，新标签页打开]
华盛顿，3月24日（路透社） – 一名委内瑞拉男子称，他被错误地认定为帮派成员，并在违反美国法院命令的情况下被驱逐至萨尔瓦多一所臭名昭著的监狱，现已起诉美国政府，索赔至少130万美元的损失。
住在得克萨斯州欧文市的理发师Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel于周二在华盛顿联邦法院提起诉讼，指控政府存在非法监禁、玩忽职守等多项指控。
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Rengel声称，2025年3月，他在前往工作地点途中被美国移民官员拘留，当时他被错误地认定为委内瑞拉帮派Tren de Aragua的成员。诉讼称，他被捕时唯一的理由是其纹身被指表明他属于帮派成员。
Rengel的律师Norm Eisen表示：”此案揭示了我国政府高层的一项非法且丧失道德的行动计划，他们公然违抗联邦法院命令，剥夺一名男子的权利，并将其移交给外国政府施以酷刑，以证明其政治立场。Adrián Rengel在极其恶劣、不人道的条件下度过了四个月，因为高级官员选择无视法治。”
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国土安全部称Rengel对公共安全构成威胁
这起诉讼似乎是首位被驱逐至萨尔瓦多该监狱的人员向美国索赔损失的案例。
国土安全部在一份声明中重申，Rengel于2023年从委内瑞拉非法入境美国，并且是Tren de Aragua的关联成员。该机构称Rengel被认定”对公共安全构成威胁”。
特朗普政府将移民打击作为总统第二任期（2025年1月开始）的标志性政策。Rengel是去年被该政府驱逐至萨尔瓦多恐怖监禁中心的252名委内瑞拉人之一。
Rengel在最高安全级别的监狱中度过了四个月，他称萨尔瓦多官员对其实施了身心虐待、羞辱和降级待遇。
作为美国与委内瑞拉之间囚犯交换协议的一部分，他于2025年7月从该中心获释并被遣返委内瑞拉。Rengel于去年正式向美国提出行政投诉，这是提起诉讼的必要前置程序。
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Venezuelan man sues US over deportation to El Salvadoran prison | Reuters
By Mike Scarcella
March 24, 2026 8:24 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago
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Neiyerver Adrian Leon Rengel, who has filed a formal complaint against the U.S. government for sending him to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, claiming he was falsely accused of gang membership by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, looks on during an interview, in Caracas, Venezuela July 29, 2025. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) – A Venezuelan man who said he was wrongfully identified as a gang member and deported to a notorious El Salvador prison in violation of a U.S. court order has sued the U.S. government for at least $1.3 million in damages.
Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, a barber who lived in Irving, Texas, filed the lawsuit, opens new tab on Tuesday in federal court in Washington, accusing the government of false imprisonment, negligence and other claims.
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Rengel alleges he was wrongly identified in March 2025 as a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and detained by U.S. immigration officers while he was heading to work. The lawsuit said the only justification offered at the time of his arrest was that his tattoos indicated gang membership.
“This case reveals an illegal and morally bereft plan of action at the highest levels of our government to defy a federal court, strip a man of his rights, and hand him over to a foreign government for torture to prove a political point,” said Norm Eisen, a lawyer for Rengel. “Adrián Rengel spent four months in abhorrent, inhumane conditions because senior officials chose to flout the rule of law.”
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DHS SAYS RENGEL A PUBLIC SAFETY THREAT
The lawsuit appears to be the first seeking damages from the U.S. by a deportee to the prison in El Salvador.
The Department of Homeland Security, in a statement, reiterated its claim that Rengel entered the country illegally in 2023 from Venezuela and is an associate of Tren de Aragua. The agency said Rengel was deemed “a public safety threat.”
The Trump administration made a crackdown on immigration a hallmark of the president’s second term, which began in January 2025. Rengel was one of the 252 Venezuelans who were deported by the administration to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center last year.
Rengel spent four months in the maximum-security prison, where he said Salvadoran officials subjected him to physical and psychological abuse, humiliation and degradation.
He was released from the center in July 2025 and sent back to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap agreement between the United States and Venezuela. Rengel last year filed a formal administrative complaint against the U.S., a necessary precursor to bringing a lawsuit.
Reporting by Mike Scarcella; Editing by David Bario, Rod Nickel
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