Tattoos of crowns, a clock and other symbols have been used by the Trump administration to allege Venezuelan men deported from the U.S. are members of the Tren de Aragua gang. But experts and ...

Tattoos of crowns, a clock and other symbols have been used by the Trump administration to allege Venezuelan men deported from the U.S. are members of the Tren de Aragua gang. But experts and ...

This time around, the second Trump administration appears to be relying more heavily on tattoos to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants that it says are members of the gang Tren de Aragua ...

Family members and advocates say immigration authorities are using tattoos of Spanish soccer teams, family members, crowns and the detainees' professions to tie them to the Tren de Aragua prison gang.

"Moreover, it has no structured presence in the United States, and its members cannot be identified [by] tattoos or hand gestures." Before 2024, few Americans had likely heard of Tren de Aragua.

“Any of us who have tattoos, they think that we are Tren de Aragua,” said Evelyn Velasquez, 33-year-old Venezuelan woman, told The New York Times in September. “I’ll go apply for a job and ...

Federal authorities are using tattoos to identify and deport Venezuelan migrants suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Internal documents reveal doubts within Homeland Security ...

Here are the tattoos that ICE declared were evidence that Andry, a gay make-up artist who came to a port of entry seeking asylum from Venezuela, was a member of the vicious gang "Tren de Aragua." ...

Sanchez said her husband had multiple tattoos, including roses, a clock with his daughter's birth time, a lion and a shaving razor, and said he has never been a member of Tren de Aragua.

To justify the deportations, the federal government has relied heavily on clothing and tattoos to identify people as Tren de Aragua, for purposes of summary deportation — which eliminates the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last Saturday night, 238 Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S., in apparent violation of a federal court order, arrived in El Salvador and were ...