[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 62 (Monday, April 7, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1444]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PROTECT DUE PROCESS

  (Ms. BALINT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BALINT. Mr. Speaker, this week we learned that 75 percent of the 
men on that plane to El Salvador, the men who President Trump claimed 
were the worst of the worst, were, in fact, not hardened criminals.
  Are we surprised that it was another example of optics over evidence?
  Mr. Speaker, 75 percent of these men had no criminal charges in the 
United States. One of these men is 31-year-old Andry Hernandez Romero 
who was snatched off the streets and put on a plane to El Salvador to 
rot in a prison there.
  Andry is not a gang member. He is not a terrorist. He is a threat to 
no one. He is a son, a brother, a makeup artist, and a hairdresser. He 
is a man who fled his home country to come to the United States because 
he feared for his life because he is gay.
  We are being lied to. These kinds of cruel tactics are not necessary 
to keep us safe. This is about taking away due process and intimidating 
us into silence and submission. If this administration will do this to 
Andry, then they will do it to anyone. We are all at risk.
  Protect due process.

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