Biography
Edinson Calderon, a Venezuelan asylum seeker and human rights advocate, spent four months in ICE detention before founding Una Carta Salva Una Vida, a letter-writing support program.
Edinson Calderon, a Venezuelan asylum seeker and human rights advocate, spent four months in ICE detention before founding Una Carta Salva Una Vida, a letter-writing support program.
The report describes transfers through Arizona and Otay Detention Center in San Diego, and isolation within this four-month episode. It gives no exact custody endpoints or reliable custody year; no year is inferred from his departure from Venezuela.
Source: Immigrant Defense Project / Center for Constitutional Rights, Cruel by Design, February 2022, PDF pages 7, 22, 31. This historical source does not establish present custody status.
Portrait: original illustration published in Cruel by Design, PDF page 7. Report design credited to Luis Mallo & Vlad Archin; the individual portrait artist is not separately credited. This is an illustration, not an unaltered photograph.