The son of El Salvadors top Anglican leader is facing deportation from the U.S. back to his home country, where his father says gang members have threatened to murder him.

Bishop David Alvarados son, 34-year-old Josue Alvarado, is currently in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a detention center in Ohio, Reuters reports . The bishop told the Episcopal News Service that his son sought refuge in the U.S. in 2016 after being kidnapped and receiving death threats from gangs in El Salvador.

We are sad and worried because he can be deported and he is in great danger here in the country, Alvarado told ENS on Friday.

Gang members forced the bishops son, who worked as a taxi driver, to drive them around and distribute weapons and drugs, his father told Reuters. When the younger Alvarado refused to continue, he received death threats, the bishop said. His son eventually filed a complaint with the police, Reuters reports.

Gang violence in El Salvador, a legacy of the countrys U.S.-backed civil war and U.S. deportation policies in the 1990s, is pervasive . While the countrys homicide rate has dropped sharply in recent months, it is still among the highest on the planet, according to The Associated Press .

We live here under a structure of violence going back many years because of the gangs, the elder Alvarado told Reuters.

Its also hard for migrants especially poor migrants from El Salvador and other Central American countries to obtain visas allowing them to come to the U.S. legally, the AP reports .