Did tattoos land Venezuelan migrants in a Salvadoran mega-jail?
Raw Storyby Patrick Fort in Caracas with Margioni Bermudez in Maracaibo and Moises Avila in Houston Lawyers and relatives of Venezuelans flown from the United States to a brutal jail in El Salvador believe the men were wrongly branded as gang members because of their tattoos. At the detention center where Chacin was held before being deported, "ICE agents told him he belonged to a criminal gang because he had a lot of tattoos," she told AFP. - Soccer ball and horns - US authorities have not said what evidence they have to support claims that the 238 deportees are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, designated a "terrorist" organization by the Trump administration. Senior ICE official Robert Cerna said Monday "many" of the expelled men had no criminal records, but claimed that was because "they have only been in the United States for a short period of time." Days after taking power in January, he warned that gang members with "tattoos all over their faces" were "pouring in" to the United States.
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