MS-13 informant faces deportation

MS-13 informant faces deportation

An MS-13 gang member who became an informant is now facing deportation. He and his lawyer say he was sold out by authorities and now he faces almost certain death. "Henry" told his story to ProPublica, an independent nonprofit news organization. Currently, he is being held at an ICE facility in New Jersey and faces deportation back to El Salvador. Henry says he joined the MS-13 gang at about age 12. After he was forced to a kill a man or be killed himself he fled El Salvador, pleaded for asylum and entered the U.S. legally, hoping to escape the gang. He settled in Brentwood, Long Island, where his mother was living, and enrolled in high school.

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