Hundreds rallying at Supreme Court demand Trump return disappeared gay asylum-seeker Andry Hernández Romero

In front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday, about 300 people gathered to demand the return of someone the U.S. government erased.

Andry Hernández Romero — a 31-year-old gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker, actor, and makeup artist — fled to the United States legally in 2024 to escape homophobic persecution. He passed a credible fear interview and was preparing for his asylum hearing. But before that hearing could take place, the Trump administration deported him under a 2025 executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act — a law from 1798 once used to imprison Japanese Americans during WWII.