Gay Asylum Seeker One of Many Illegally Sent to Concentration Camp by Trump

Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay Venezuelan man requesting asylum in the US due to persecution in his home country, was disappeared to an El Salvador concentration camp on 3/15/2025 by the Trump regime without any due process.

Andry José Hernández Romero

On March 15th,  a 31-year-old gay Venezuelan man named Andry José Hernández Romero was sent to an El Salvador concentration camp with hundreds of other male migrants by the Trump regime. His crime? Requesting asylum due to persecution for his political views and sexual orientation in his home country. Oh, and he has artistic tattoos that were deemed gang-like, and this was used as a pretext for the cruelty Donald Trump has become so well known for. Authorities concluded Andry, a makeup artist and hairdresser, was a member of the Tren de Aragua gang.

Andry's tattoos. Photograph from US DoJ immigration court.

This illegal deportation occurred without any due process and in violation of a court order that the plane Andry was on should immediately turn back to the United States. Andry was being held in detention in California and had a scheduled asylum hearing when the Trump regime essentially disappeared him and shipped him to a notorious El Salvador concentration camp known for its housing of violent criminals and human rights violations. Authorities have admitted Andry is now out of the United States and have refused to help facilitate any contact between him and his attorney because he is now outside of the United States, which is mindblowing dystopian reasoning. 

Andry is now essentially in a legal black hole, betrayed by a Trump regime that abandoned the promises America makes to those who wanted a better life here and believed in our highest ideals. Even worse, Andry is not even close to the only victim of the mass deportation of migrants on March 15th. New stories are being released almost daily about migrants who have been wrongly sent to the same El Salvador concentration camp without due process either the same day as Andry or later in March, including a man who ended up there due to an "administrative error." 

How did we get here? Not to get too far into the weeds, but in November 2024 a number of Americans voted for a liar, a criminal, and a conman to hurt people they did not like. And that is what Trump is doing. He is hurting people. 

On March 15th, our American tin pot dictator decided to illegally invoke a 1798 law that can only be used by POTUS when a war has been declared by Congress as a pretext to take due process away from legal asylum seekers and other immigrants before sending them to a concentration camp in El Salvador. Trump did this to cover the illegality of these very actions and give his victims no legal recourse because they are now technically outside of United States' jurisdiction. These are the purposefully cruel actions of a man and a regime that are only beginning to strip those in America of their rights, and Trump's net will expand over time to illegally punish others.

Andry and those like him are people, and America has betrayed them by devaluing their humanity and abandoning its values. We must never forget these are people with rights under our Constitution, regardless of citizenship. In a just society, everyone who has been illegally deported to the concentration camp in El Salvador would be immediately returned to the United States for a fair and honest hearing about their legal status. Unfortunately, the Trump regime has shown it is capable of obscene cruelty worthy of a wholesale totalitarian state and refuses to concede anything improper has been done in the American people's name.

All Americans should consider they could easily be treated like Andry tomorrow if such outrages are tolerated today.

DOGE is an Unconstitutional and Fascist Hostile Takeover of Federal Government

DOGE, Elon Musk, and the Trump regime are violating Article I of the Constitution, the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, and a 1975 Supreme Court ruling determining the president has to spend the money allocated by Congress.

Corporate welfare queen, oligarch, and enemy of the people Elon Musk (above).

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has absolutely no authority to exist under the Constitution. Its actions have actually violated the constitutional order, a 1974 law limiting presidential impoundment of funds authorized by Congress, and a 1975 Supreme Court ruling that determined Nixon did not have the authority to hold back lawfully appropriated federal funding by Congress. This means the unelected, Nazi-saluting billionaire bureaucrat Elon Musk, the autocratic Donald Trump, and Congressional Republicans who support DOGE, which is not a department lawfully authorized by Congress, are all partners in a quite brazen unconstitutional dismantling of the federal government.

DOGE overtly violates the Constitution, which gives Congress the power of the purse. Article I, Section 9 gives Congress the sole power to order appropriations. The power to appropriate federal funds logically comes with the legal authority to mandate the funds are to be spent in the manner Congress has decided. To have it any other way would mean the president could set the spending priorities instead of Congress, which is not how the Constitution is written

This is why Congress passed the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) in 1974, which was passed after President Nixon withheld (or impounded) funds for programs he opposed. The ICA says the president is required to spend the money appropriated by Congress. Under the ICA, the president can propose holding back appropriated funds and give Congress 45 days to pass a new law agreeing to such a holdback. However, if Congress does nothing after that period of time, the money appropriated must be spent by the executive branch. 

The Supreme Court ruled against the Nixon Administration the following year in Train v. City of New York (1975) when federal funds were held back and not spent as Congress had directed, reinforcing the limits on the executive branch to impound funds appropriated by Congress.

DOGE is as illegal and unconstitutional as it can get. The question is whether the conservative Supreme Court with 1/3 of its justices appointed by Trump will actually do its job in good faith and reach the same conclusion when DOGE inevitably ends up in front of it. 

Even if the Supreme Court does uphold the strict limits on impoundment, will the Trump monster it has created and emboldened with its disastrous presidential immunity ruling even abide by the ruling? How much of a federal bureaucracy will even be left by then?

Last Updated @ 4:58AM on 4.1.2025