Flawed deportation 'checklist' targets Venezuelans using tattoos as one gang identifier. But experts say Tren de Aragua doesn't use tattoos for member identification.
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Because that’s not what it’s really about. The Tren de Aragua is a smoke screen to hide their racist intentions. They simply want to oppress Latinos irregardless of being gang members, or barbers.
Buying an AK-47 without any background check ok for fear of "government over reach," but a tattoo gets incarceration: deportation? Got it🦅Weaving geniuses in charge by a small margin of fearful and apathetic Americans🦅
Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country. They're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office.
Your oppression is their profession.
The whole thing was a farce and most of us (I guess not NPR) knew it at the time. This was all show. Many if not most of those men were/are innocent. The Musk/Trump show seems to fool far too many people. We have due process for a reason. Now, WTF happens to the innocent people caught up in this?
All people should live on this earth, regardless of their gender, religion or race. We Arabs are not less than human beings, and we have the right to live without seeing all this killing to which we are exposed. Because of this silence, dozens are killed every day for no reason.
Imagine being an innocent person and with no due process sent to a prison in another country that does not treat people humanely. What is our country doing in our name? What have we become?
Illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants by ICE are a human rights violation and apparently flawed in its tactics! Tattoos are not identifiable nor affiliated to the gangs in that country.
Orwell is too sophisticated for these Berzelius Windrips: “…couldn’t care less…” has become the actual motto of the Project MAGA-DOGE 2025 Zombie Cult.
The Venezuelan government just received 960 of those prisoners, according to a Venezuelan official, only 16 of them had criminal records and ZERO of them were suspected members of Tren de Aragua. You need to keep up with the reporting.
Even El Salvador says they’re not gang members. Homeland security is literally kidnapping innocent people, and sending them to concentration camps in another country.
Yep. I think it’s something insane like $100,000 a week for each prisoner
Mind you the prisoners, don’t have a blanket or a sheet or a pillow. So it’s pure profit for the evil company who probably kicks back some of that money to the regime.
I read the U.S. government was paying El Salvador $6,000,000 for housing those 260-ish kidnapped young men. That would be $23,000 a year per prisoner. But they shouldn’t be there at all!!
Extraordinary rendition is still happening - in violation of court orders. Sunday night another planeload of people were sent to El Salvador. Please report on what measures the judge can do to hold them to account.
WTF! This is terrible. This is why oversight is so important. I'm looking at YOU -- Repubs in Congress. The judicial branch needs to respond speedily to provide "justice" and relief. In addition, citizens need to wake-up to the mis-management and purposeful destruction that Trump has initiated.
“Under this administration; we see federal agents empowered to violate our civil rights, raids that target immigrants without criminal records, the detention of veterans and citizens, deportation of children with cancer, and the division of families who are now in pain and scared.” - Noemi Avelar
“The end to the due process of the law leads to situations where a government official can argue that the lack of a criminal record for someone perceived to be an enemy of those in power just proves that person is a criminal.” - Heather Cox Richardson
Better yet, most of the tattoos pictured in the “guide” used by ICE were lifted from a British tattoo artist’s instagram. They have nothing to do with gangs or Venezuela.
@npr.org I love you guys….however, the cutline under the photo you used: “17 members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang and members of the MS-13 gang…” is NOT accurate. There is no proof they are gang members at all. Perhaps “Government sources claim these are….but this could not be verified.” Tnx.
What kind of evil administration can continue to persist with these policies....I worry for the innocent who are being victimized on so many levels in so many countries, including the US.
Dude…one had a rainbow puzzle ribbon because his brother has autism! Something tells me that even if they did offer tattoos to their gang members that wouldn’t be one of the ones being offered
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Your oppression is their profession.
Does the govt truly think these people are idiots?
https://www.aclu.org/documents/frequently-asked-questions-about-arizona-racial-profiling-law
Trump
Elon
Vance
Marco
Bondi White House
is still trying to decide if its favorite flavor is
Dumb As Rocks
or Deliberate Evil
Or a scoop of both
No worries Boys & Girls
It all comes off as incompetent
Not that big Golden Era after all
Illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants by ICE are a human rights violation and apparently flawed in its tactics! Tattoos are not identifiable nor affiliated to the gangs in that country.
It’s a bunch of lies.
LIES!
Trump's racist target is and will always be "brown" people.
There's a whole lot of folks in D.C. who need to be on the next plane down to CECOT so, having lorded over the same star for years in Congress!
but if Latinos have them, pack a bag ...............quickly!
You're going away!
January 20, 2029, 12.01pm immediate disbandment of ICE.
DUE PROCESS!!!!!!!
DUE PROCESS!!!!!!!
DUE PROCESS!!!!!!!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
G🐍R🐍E🐍E🐍D
Mind you the prisoners, don’t have a blanket or a sheet or a pillow. So it’s pure profit for the evil company who probably kicks back some of that money to the regime.
#dueprocess
They all need to be brought back to the US immediately, and given due process individually. No exception.
https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/193382/marco-rubio-donald-trump-broke-law-deportations
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-accidentally-sent-maryland-041939189.html
Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos and the Crusading Obsession of the Far Right
"A closer look at the history of these particular images produces an undeniable picture of militant Christianity"
https://newlinesmag.com/essays/pete-hegseths-tattoos-and-the-crusading-obsession-of-the-far-right/
Due process NOW!
That kind of stuff gets in the way of his agenda.