Nolberto Rafael Aguilar Rodríguez, 32

 Nolberto registered with a CBP One for legal entry into the US and had a scheduled appointment. While waiting in Mexico, he got a job in a travel agency in the California border city of Calexico

 Nolberto has a tattoo, of a deck of cards and dice, to cover up a scar on his forearm from an accident he had at age 16.

 On TikTok, Nolberto documented his trip from Columbia to the Unites States and had 40,000 followers

 He has an 11-year-old daughter in Venezuela. Nolberto moved immigrated from Venezuela to Colombia and worked as a shoe salesman. He has 4-year-old girl and 2 year old son in Colombia.

 When the LA Times interviewed his sister (who is currently living in Columbia) she said: “We’re campesinos, we come from the fields… We left Venezuela because we were starving.”

Nolberto’s sister also wrote to the President of El Salvador on behalf of her brother and told Bukele: “Believe me, if (my brother) was guilty I’d say: ‘Leave him there.’ Because we were taught to be honest and do good.”

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LA Times staff writers McDonnell and Linthicum reported from Mexico City while special correspondents Mery Mogollón and Nelson Rauda contributed, respectively, from Caracas, Venezuela, and San Salvador. Special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez Vidal contributed from Mexico City.