Make-up artist 'mistakenly sent to hellish El Salvador prison with bloodthirsty gangsters'

A makeup artist seeking asylum in the US after fleeing Venezuela claims he was wrongly identified as a gang member and sent to a hellhole prison in El Salvador.

Andrys Cedeno-Gil, 31, crossed the border into California from Tijuana last year to escape persecution for his homosexuality, his lawyers said.

He waited months in detention for an immigration court hearing on March 13, but instead was put one of three planes with 237 other migrants and deported.

But Cedeno-Gil was not sent back to Venezuela. Instead he was flown to El Salvador and detained at the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).

He and the others on board are accused by the Trump Administration of being members of Tren de Aragua, a fearsome Venezuelan gang active in the US.