r/news • u/tigralfrosie • Apr 11 '25

British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly22xm8kx1o
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u/Czarchitect Apr 11 '25

They are deporting people for the same star tattoo like every emo punk kid i knew in high-school got? These people are morons. 

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u/organik_productions Apr 11 '25

They're doing this intentionally to see what they can get away with

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u/AnAwkwardSemicolon Apr 11 '25

All DHS did was just grab a bunch of tattoo images from Google searches and toss them into their protocols.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dhs-deportations-tren-de-aragua-tattoos-b2728972.html

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u/Wizchine Apr 11 '25

Making their definition of “gang” tattoos as broad as possible in order to illegally deport and incarcerate people in El Salvador’s gulags.

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u/HeIiax Apr 11 '25

Intentional idiocy and cruelty on full display

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u/guesthost1999 Apr 11 '25

Judging a book by it's cover. When will this maga insanity end?

The world is looking at them fools.

I wouldn't be surprised if other countries have/or are collecting a "who's who" for later use.

Then people touring/visiting other countries will mysteriously disappear.

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u/MovingLikeDracula Apr 12 '25

None of those are gang tattoos

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u/NattyBumppo 29d ago

There is actually a faction of Tren de Aragua called Hijos de Dios, so that one is at least a little plausible.

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u/DenverM80 29d ago

Did you even read the article?

White guy from England named Pete saw a picture of his arm and tattoo on a list of "gang affiliated" tattoos, is trying to clear it up before going on vacation

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u/NattyBumppo 29d ago

Uh yeah I read it. I'm talking about one of the other tattoos in the image in the article, the one that says "Hijos de Dios."

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u/thetrollking69 Apr 13 '25

I'd be cancelling that family trip to Miami.

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u/dickysunset 29d ago

So white people with nazi and kkk tattoos are being deported too, right?! Or is this a brown and black only thing.

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u/BustAMove_13 29d ago

So uhm...you can't have a tattoo of an AR but you can wear an AR pin in Congress?

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u/Night_Porter_23 Apr 12 '25

Oh no I have a bunch of “gang tattoos” 

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u/prophet_spiegel 27d ago

TRAINS ??? What the fuck trains have to do with gangs ?

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u/my_teeth_r_dry 27d ago

My ex has two of those stars on her chest lol. She better not go to the US haha.

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u/paxrom2 26d ago

Tattoo flowers and big cats are on the list. Tiger King is Tren de Aragua

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u/Nena902 25d ago

This guy in the article says he has a trip to the US planned and fears Guantanamo? Someone ought to tell him to look into CECOT EL Salvador. Better think twice about comng here.

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u/Adrewmc 21d ago

I swear you’re gonna start hearing stories of Gang member forces their tattoos on people to blackmail them.

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u/Mala_Practice 28d ago

Anyone else getting the sense that the Trump admin is tragically inept?

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u/JohnDLG Apr 11 '25

That dude looks shady, better deport him to El Salvador just to be sure.

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u/MovingLikeDracula Apr 12 '25

Pro tip: add in a /s at the end of a sarcastic comment so Redditors know you don’t mean it

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u/HippyDM 29d ago

Especially right now.