When Mario Guevara's family tried to pay the $7,500 bond last week, ICE didn't accept it, and he has since been shuffled among three other jails, his lawyer said.
The revelation was contained in court filings Monday by lawyers for more than 100 migrants who are seeking to challenge their deportations to CECOT, El Salvador’s mega-prison.
A group of immigrants allege that terminating their temporary legal status was, at least in part, motivated by racial animus and violated the Constitution.
The action, effective Sept. 6, will end Temporary Protected Status for about 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans; the State Department warns against travel to the two countries.
Residents have decried the "aggressiveness" of immigration raids in a U.S. territory without permanent detention centers, as immigrants are flown across the ocean to the mainland.
According to the legal group MALDEF, Ph.D. student Job Garcia was tackled and thrown to the ground by agents, arrested and held for more than 24 hours.