"Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation." www.bbc.com/news/article... - ThreadSky

froomkin.bsky.social • 2 days ago

"Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly22xm8kx1o

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sadworld.bsky.social•2 days ago

@jessicatarlov.bsky.social

eagleneedle.bsky.social•2 days ago

The simple answer is just don't come to the US.

psychohollic.bsky.social•1 day ago

@treacletatts.bsky.social uhhhhh

photoline.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is what happens when you let evangelicals do cop cosplay.

kb3hae.bsky.social•2 days ago

So sad you are probably correct.

mssmithy.bsky.social•2 days ago

So DHS just posted some random tattoos and said "be on the lookout" sounds about right for this administration.

thetimchannel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Administrative error. Our band of closeted gay Nazi’s can’t shoot straight.

elonsamuskydouche.bsky.social•2 days ago

It just goes to show you that what the administration put out was a photo pulled off the internet. They told ppl it ws a photo from ICE agent but it wasn't, so they are lying about everything. If there was ever a time for ppl to embrace their 2nd amendment rights against a tyrannical govt its now

defeatthefascists.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cops have be even doing this for-EV-er. It needs to stop. https://voiceofsandiego.org/2023/07/26/sdpds-use-of-gang-database-is-under-the-microscope/

sablue52.bsky.social•1 day ago

A sane government wouldn't have a guy with Christo nationalist tattoos as the head of defense.

dinainmaine.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mr Benton, I would definitely cancel that trip to Miami.

not2early.bsky.social•2 days ago

WHY hasn’t he cancelled his planned trip to the US already?

Immigration officials are circulating a photo of a TATTOO ON HIS ARM and claiming it means he’s in TdA.

Not a tattoo LIKE his tattoo. It is HIS ARM.

He’s in danger if he comes to the US.

notamole.bsky.social•2 days ago

No kidding. CPB and ICE really don't seem to care if they put away innocent people.

deedle21.bsky.social•2 days ago

And "our government" says we can't get them back once these folks are deported to hellholes.

lauragraceweldon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Every day, more stupid oozes out of the Trump administration.

nosleepnseattle.bsky.social•2 days ago

@60minutes.bsky.social

portfoliocarmel.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

authorhillin.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sorry folks, the people currently in charge never do their homework.

amberbrainz.bsky.social•2 days ago

My dude cancel your trip ffs!! ICE is not smart enough to not flag you just bc you did an interview. Hell they would probably flag you for having any tattoos much less the one they use in their propaganda. Good lord we need to get better at letting travelers know the extreme danger they are in here

falllight.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤦‍♀️

kentclarke.bsky.social•2 days ago

How much you wanna bet the dim bulbs at DHS asked their DOGE bros for pictures of gang tattoos (cuz they’re so smart), which promptly got plugged into Grok which spewed more AI hallucinating nonsense.

And none of them are embarrassed by this in the least. Move fast and break things. Shameful.

cindyruiz10.bsky.social•2 days ago

Peaceful Protest APRIL 19!
Please repost

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

cindyruiz10.bsky.social•2 days ago

We’re so grateful to all Law Firms AND Judges standing up to this administration and for our democracy! We NEED YOU!

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/law-firms-trump-law-student-recruiting-00007900

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues

banjeau.bsky.social•2 days ago

Interesting approach to identifying a possible criminal - a tattooed body part that looks ominous. What about Hegseths chest? That looks very threatening and reminiscent of the nazi era….

xraynaqueen.bsky.social•2 days ago

wtf

bajr2.bsky.social•2 days ago

DO NOT come sir. Miami is not what it's cracked up to be - heck neither is the US (to foreigners) anyway.

meretevondoe.bsky.social•2 days ago

Meanwhile, Pete Hegsett looks like this:

meretevondoe.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

catcan.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you have a rose tattooed anywhere on your body, best to laser it!🤣

rawrtigerlily.bsky.social•1 day ago

A woman manager I had at a former job had this same clock tattoo on her elbow.

barnswallowdrawing.bsky.social•2 days ago

More proof that Trump's deportation plan is based on fiction, none of those Venezuelan Americans belong in El Salvador.

smrhere.bsky.social•2 days ago

Need to put Hegseths tattoos in there. This is all so sick. Wish we could deport Trump and his regime.

matthewie.bsky.social•1 day ago

This man should 100% be in jail for being British. No one likes that shit.

djsubterrain.bsky.social•2 days ago

He should sue them

grumpydoc19.bsky.social•1 day ago

Stupidity manifest at the top of the US government is also manifest in the bureaucracy. It is known as “trickle down,” and started in the Reagan Administration in the Irangate scandal, I believe.

mrspop.bsky.social•2 days ago

The trump regime is beyond sloppy and stupid. Just amazingly dumb

blondejustice.bsky.social•2 days ago

Omg DHS and the State Dept. are just making this shit up.

tobellz.bsky.social•2 days ago

They didn't make it up, come on.

They asked Chat-GPT.

andreamnelson.bsky.social•2 days ago

when will the madness end

andreamnelson.bsky.social•2 days ago

cool tattoo

juliwat.bsky.social•2 days ago

These people have no idea what they are doing. What will be tomorrow’s excuse for why they have disappeared someone?

aayayay.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'd answer that but they are probably scraping the feed for new ideas.

stephenseidel35.bsky.social•2 days ago

99montez34.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not even one? :)

stephenseidel35.bsky.social•2 days ago

lol

june-6-bug.bsky.social•2 days ago

Where did they get this tattoo list anyway?? The first example is clearly about Michael Jordan, and others are a generic crown, a common star shape and the front of a train. I bet the AK-47 is popular with American gun nuts.

ekhepp.bsky.social•2 days ago

The incompetence of this administration is mind numbing.

meretevondoe.bsky.social•2 days ago

They're just plain evil 😨

kimoco.bsky.social•2 days ago

The racist bastards in this administration are just making shit up in order to scare the hell out of all immigrants.

annmariethurmond.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is this a Monty Python skit?

lfillingham.bsky.social•2 days ago

We live in surreal times, and this man's tattoos are beautiful.

knancy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hey, Pete Belton, 44, (and family) of Ilkeston, do NOT come here now. Your literal arm is being used as a reason to send people to gulags. There are plenty of Miami-like places in the world where your family wouldn't have to watch you be dragged off to El Salvador.

itzmekatherine.bsky.social•14 hours ago

‘DHS said it was confident in its law enforcement's intelligence and that its "assessments go well beyond just gang affiliate tattoos and social media.’ Confident in it’s assessments ?!

Bigger fool is this guy give if he steps foot in the USA.

kenhes.bsky.social•2 days ago

There doesn't seem to be any intelligence in this administration.

galekrn.bsky.social•2 days ago

None, zero, milch, not a hint of it.

bluecjp.bsky.social•2 days ago

Surprised that DHS uses tattoos to identify criminals. Bet a check of 77 million Trump voters tattoos might get many deported too! Tattoos should not be considered!!

jillco.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope he doesn't have any vacation or business plans to visit the US...

sbpnw.bsky.social•2 days ago

Are fascistic authoritarians always this incompetent?

meretevondoe.bsky.social•2 days ago

They don't care if they're right or wrong.
They just want to throw some people out of the USA. 😟

moxiegrrl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or maybe, just maybe, we should start looking at this list of tattoos closer and we'll find out that it was all made up to give them a reason to start trafficking these people.

namehereguy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes.

Unlike some gangs, TdA *does not use tattoos as identifiers*. They're just picking random tattoos that are popular in Spanish-speaking populations.

ninawilson.bsky.social•1 day ago

The BBC article on this showed all the tattoos on the list. They're just using tattoos that are popular in general. Some are just quite basic shapes. It seems that when they've arrested TdA members, if a few of them have the same tattoo, they get on the list.

jaminsky.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oi, mate, that’s me bloody arm!

kjridin.bsky.social•2 days ago

US admin and their A-team remind me of those students in college where you just dreaded being put on a group project with them. You know the ones. 🤦‍♀️

spijkerschrift.bsky.social•2 days ago

Some of the other tattoos 'flagged' are of Michael Jordan and nautical stars. 🤷‍♂️

meretevondoe.bsky.social•2 days ago

And that crown could symbolize anything or anyone.
Some might even be fans of actual royalty.

skorpeo.bsky.social•2 days ago

This whole administration is like a 3rd grader trying to write a book report of a book he’s never read.

vigeo93.bsky.social•2 days ago

How stupid do you have to be to work for trump?

aayayay.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ever feel like you're losing brain cells just by reading what this admin is doing?

miatcooper.bsky.social•1 day ago

You are nuts if you don't cancel your trip. Go somewhere else for God's sake. Even if they don't identify you as TdA, you can be detained in a jail in some state other than where you landed, for weeks, or months. Don't do that to your family. It's already happening for more innocuous reasons.

sfjulio415.bsky.social•2 days ago

I also have a few basically the exact same tattoos that they put in those pics, I woke up that day and saw that like uhhhh wtf. They just googled something and put random tats in there. Insane, dumb shit that means nothing that I got 15 years ago lol, calling random ass tattoos gang tats smh 🤦‍♂️

texastoe.com•2 days ago

Sue the shit out of them. Most valuable tat ever now.

gaiking68.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dhs hacks. Lol

njm-kl.bsky.social•1 day ago

If he’s fuckin stupid enough to take his family to Miami, then he deserves the risk of el salvador.

acroray.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good gods, the USA is so fucking stupid.

ghostcat13.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nobody should be visiting this country from anywhere outside the US right now - it's not safe to do so.

normp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh NO way those DHS geniuses targeted people wrongly based on a UK persons tattoos
🤦‍♂️

Tattoos as was already said by the FBI to NOT be evidence of anything

DUH

agora01619.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤦🏾‍♀️

odd-bunny.bsky.social•1 day ago

Every basic white man has a clock tattoo 😂 next they're gonna say forest and lion forearm tattoos. Y'all better watch out

alayenisilvermist.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have a Medusa sleeve, and I’m a little worried, I won’t lie.

saukfish.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, looks like Pam Bondi is going to need to schedule a press conference in which she screeches that just because Belton is a normal white guy living in Ilkeston doesn’t, as she put it the other day, “legitimize him from being a gang member."

99montez34.bsky.social•2 days ago

She will be looking to extradite next. :(

blimbi.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s almost as if they’re bad at their job and hate being told how bad at their job they are so much that they are willing to kill you for it.

keikiokaaina.bsky.social•2 days ago

So Pete will be going to Tenrife instead of Miami this spring?

henkevoneichwald.bsky.social•2 days ago

Will probably not visit the US anytime soon...

cribis.bsky.social•2 days ago

We should all agree that a tattoo is not evidence to send someone to a hell hole in El Salvador forever.

erin-g2025.bsky.social•2 days ago

ICE took screen shots off the internet to build their “Tren de Aragua” tattoo collection. Odd thing, TdA stopped using specific tattoos for this very reason. Too easy to be identified. Google it.

sunnieskye.bsky.social•14 hours ago

But this f..kers tats are fine…

catc3.bsky.social•2 days ago

suggest cancelling his family's trip- why take that chance? & makes you wonder, what search engine did they use to create that doc.. omg!

swedenord.bsky.social•2 days ago

Shocked

aeirould.bsky.social•1 day ago

genericuser12345.bsky.social•1 day ago

Remember when people freaked out about no-fly lists and all the false positives that were wrongly barred from flying? And do you remember how these people got ignored? Yeah, this is basically the evolution. Kafkaesque, inscrutable security apparatus that blindly follows instructions on screens.

swarmoh.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/erosalie.infoepi.com/post/3lmlraq5dpd2y

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