‘He’s just a kid’: the Maryland teenager swept into Trump immigration dragnet

A last-minute supreme court intervention prevented Javier Salazar from getting deported, but the battle is far from over

When 19-year-old Javier Salazar was loaded on to a bus from an immigrant detention center in northern Texas, he had no idea where he was being taken.

He wondered if he was being transferred to another facility or maybe deported back to his native Venezuela. He and the other passengers, their hands and feet shackled, settled into a tense silence. Then a terrifying possibility crept into Salazar's mind.