Kilmer Armando Abrego-Garcia had been in the U.S. legally for more than five years when ICE agents scooped him up on March 12.

Abrego Garcia “left El Salvador when he was around sixteen years old, fleeing gang violence,” according to the complaint. “Beginning around 2006, gang members had stalked, hit, and threatened to kidnap and kill him in order to coerce his parents to succumb to their increasing demands for extortion.”

Family members of some of the more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members who have been deported to El Salvador share their stories.