They were called gang members and deported. Families say their only crime was having tattoos

[Christopher Hitchens]

Four years of a Democrat Biden Administration wasn’t easy enough? Take your fucking meds Eric.

I know these brownies rattle you but try to think straight, read my comment again, you are missing the point. I said reform so it can happen legally. We need to make it easier to come here legally. Biden didn’t reform, and legalize the process, he just continued this wave of illegal migration.

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

They committed a crime, by entering the US ILLEGALLY, all these cunts need locking up, maybe then they will stop breaking the law 🤷‍♂️

So to you due process doesn’t matter either. They are doing something illegal so just throw them into a black hole mega prison in El Salvador with no redress.

Also you commit crimes, so we should just lock you up, fuck it youre doing illegal shit, just put you in a federal prison with no due process. Would that be ok to you?

 

[45cal1911]

I know these brownies rattle you but try to think straight, read my comment again, you are missing the point. I said reform so it can happen legally. We need to make it easier to come here legally. Biden didn’t reform, and legalize the process, he just continued this wave of illegal migration.

Eric. Why do you think The Biden Administration left the border wide open?

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

What’s with the US shaking hands with Ukraine flag?

 

[PetrusWayne98]

Yes it is if you confirm it with other sources which you can.

It isn’t reliable in the sense that it has a leftist bias. And forgive my temerity here, but what is your end goal when it comes to regurgitating leftist nonsense?

 

[45cal1911]

What’s with the US shaking hands with Ukraine flag?
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His ignorance is beyond comprehension.

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

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His ignorance is beyond comprehension.

That one at least kinda makes sense, since they’re beefing with each other. But US isn’t fighting with Ukraine …

 

[45cal1911]

That one at least kinda makes sense, since they’re beefing with each other. But US isn’t fighting with Ukraine …

From that perspective…Do you think the jews will actually stop killing the Palestinians?

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

From that perspective…Do you think the jews will actually stop killing the Palestinians?

Eventually. There won’t be enough left (hopefully) to kill.

 

[mrln]

Because these people aren’t going to stop coming for one, and we need them to a certain extent. Our populations are aging in the west, we need new young people. We should work to legalize this so it can be regulated and so rule of law is respected instead of this game back forth between democrats and republics, using this issue to rile people up and get votes, and never actually doing the reform we so desperately need. Id be more ok with these deportation if Trump was also going to reform the immigration laws to give some these people a chance to come here legally. I will add that the real gang members and criminals he is deporting I have no problem with that and like that and I do think it’s a bit insane how in some places we don’t deport people we just release them back into the state.

true people arent gunna stop coming here. but stop them from just walking in and spreading all out sounds like a plan! vet them and quarantine them also. while there,they can start to fill out paper work for residency or the military. this way they are getting checked out in their criminal status as well. if heyre a criminal with a recent precord,back they go! if theyre wanted for something,back they go!
we only "need them" because laziness. people think the work they do is beneath them. again,its the job for a low level low risk inmate as a work release program. that way they can have a job when they get out. because americans would rather be (failed) gamers. theres the younger people you speak of. there will always be younger generations to take over the aging populace. its a matter if they want to or not.

 

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LA Times full article:

SAN SALVADOR — One is a former professional soccer player who, according to his lawyer, fled Venezuela after being tortured by the country’s authoritarian government.
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The other, also from Venezuela, is a onetime shoe salesman and social media influencer who documented his journey from South America on TikTok.

Both were apparently among thousands of political asylum aspirants who entered the United States from Mexico legally via an immigration process scrapped by the Trump administration.

Both were detained, one in California, and deported. Now they are imprisoned in El Salvador, according to their families, who have been left in the dark about their fates in a penal system widely condemned for human rights abuses.

“This has been a torture for us, an injustice,” said Antonia Cristina Barrios de Reyes, mother of Jerce Egbunik Reyes Barrios, 36, the former professional goalkeeper. “My son is not a criminal.”

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The social media influencer is Nolberto Rafael Aguilar Rodríguez, 32. He initially fled to Colombia, Venezuela’s western neighbor, out of desperation, said his sister, Jennifer Aguilar.



“We’re campesinos, we come from the fields,” she said. “We left Venezuela because we were starving.”



Reyes Barrios and Aguilar were among 261 people — the vast majority Venezuelans — expelled to El Salvador last week after the Trump administration alleged that most were affiliated the Venezuela-based Tren de Araguagang, which President Trump has declared a terrorist group.

The evidence of gang membership cited by the government is typically flimsy to nonexistent, defense lawyers allege, and largely based on tattoos and social media postings.

Experts say the administration’s outsourcing of detained migrants to a nation with an infamously repressive prison system has no precedent.

In El Salvador, “the United States now has a tropical gulag,” said Regina Bateson, a political scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder. “The notion that the U.S. government is paying millions of dollars to another government to violate these people’s rights is horrifying.”
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The El Salvador operation is part of a deal between the Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. Advocates have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act — a statute from 1798 previously only invoked during wartime — to expel most of the alleged Venezuelan gang members.

On Friday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., vowed to “get to the bottom” of whether the Trump administration defied his order to hold off on the deportations while lawsuits challenging the expulsions played out in court.

Many relatives of the deportees deny their kin have gang ties or a criminal record, saying they were simply searching for better lives or escaping persecution in their turbulent homeland, part of the exodus that has seen millions flee Venezuela.

“We have no idea what’s going to happen to Jerce,” said Jair Barrios, uncle of the soccer player. “We understand and respect the laws of each country; but at the same time, we ask that, please, let justice be done and truly innocent people be released.”

Reyes Barrios was detained at the Otay Mesa border post in California in September, according to a statement from his attorney, Linette Tobin, when he appeared for his appointment under the Biden administration program known as CBP One, which facilitated U.S. entry for prospective asylum applicants and others.

According to Tobin, he was mistakenly accused of Tren de Aragua affiliation based on an arm tattoo and a social media post in which he made a hand gesture that U.S. authorities called a gang sign.

The tattoo — a crown atop a soccer ball, with a rosary and the word “Díos” — is actually a homage to his favorite team, Real Madrid, Tobin wrote. The hand gesture is a popular sign language rendering of “I Love You,” the lawyer added.

Reyes Barrios participated in antigovernment demonstrations in Venezuela in February and March 2024, Tobin wrote, and was subsequently arrested and tortured, enduring electric shocks and suffocation. After his release, he fled for the United States and registered for CBP One while in Mexico.

Tobin portrayed Reyes Barrios as a law-abiding person who had never been charged with a crime and wrote that he had “a steady employment record as a soccer player, as well as a soccer coach for children and youth.”

Once in custody in California, Tobin wrote, Reyes Barrios applied for political asylum and other relief. A hearing had been set for April 17 at immigration court in Otay Mesa.

Reyes Barrios was deported to El Salvador on March 15.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, defended the government action.

Reyes Barrios was “not only in the United States illegally,” McLaughlin wrote on X, “but he has tattoos that are consistent with those indicating TdA [Tren de Aragua] membership. His own social media indicates he is a member of the vicious TdA gang.”

She added that “DHS intelligence assessments go beyond a single tattoo and we are confident in our findings.”

Reyes Barrios is a “respected person” in Venezuela, said his wife, Mariyen Araujo Sandoval, who has remained in Mexico with two of the couple’s four children.

“It’s unjust to criminalize someone because of a tattoo,” said Araujo, 32. She said she recognized her husband in the online videos of Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador.

Now dashed, she said, is her family’s dream of a reunion in the United States. She now hopes her for a reunion in Venezuela — if her husband can ever get out of El Salvador.

“I’m too scared to even try to go to the United States,” said Araujo, who noted that she also has a tattoo, of a rose. “I’d be afraid that they would separate me from my daughters and put me in jail.”



The Venezuelans dispatched to El Salvador have no legal recourse for appeal or release, attorneys say, and may face indefinite detention.

“There is, of course, no law, rule or judicial standard in El Salvador to outsource the prisons,” said José Marinero, a Salvadoran lawyer. “These people have ... no conviction, no debt to the Salvadoran justice system.”

Their predicament, activists say, highlights the erosion of democracy across the region, as well as the dramatic crackdown on migration pushed by Washington.

“There’s no real safe haven left,” said Michael Ahn Paarlberg, a political scientist who studies Latin America at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The Trump administration has acknowledged that many of those deported under the Alien Enemies Act have no criminal records in the United States. But the government says they may still pose a threat.

“We sent over 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua, which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who brokered the deal with Bukele, declared on X.

Critics say that Trump, like Bukele, invokes crime as an excuse for suspending civil liberties.

“They’re using these particularly vulnerable people as test cases,” said Paarlberg, who added that the message appears to be: “If we can deport people who don’t have criminal records, people who are fleeing a regime that pretty much everyone and the U.S. government agrees is authoritarian, then we can deport anyone.”

Bukele, a former advertising executive who labels himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” dispatched video crews to record the arrival of the Venezuelans, who were led off deportation planes in shackles and had their hair shorn.

“This is a performative act of cruelty ... to scare people into not coming, to scare people who are here without papers, to scare people away from protesting,” Paarlberg said.

News of the deportations has sent relatives of the expelled Venezuelans poring over videos and social media posts in an effort to determine if their loved ones were among those flown to El Salvador.

The names of the deported Venezuelans appeared on a list leaked to the media. Included was Aguilar, who garnered more than 40,000 followers as he documented his northbound trek from South America on TikTok. His feed included images from the treacherous Darien Gap, the dense jungle separating Colombia and Panama.

Jennifer Aguilar described her brother as a hard-working family man who fled Venezuela for Colombia in 2013. He has three children: an 11-year-old girl in Venezuela and a 4-year-old girl and boy, 2, in Colombia. Aguilar’s sister says he got his tattoo, of playing cards and dice, to cover up a scar on his forearm from an accident he had at age 16.
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According to his sister, Aguilar made his way to Mexico and secured an appointment for U.S. entry via CBP One. On June 24, he posted a video of himself boarding a plane, apparently en route to the U.S.-Mexican border.

“Have faith in God,” he wrote in a caption. “Never put your head down. And trust yourself.”

Jennifer Aguilar said he got a job in a travel agency in the California border city of Calexico. For reasons that remain unclear, he was detained by U.S. immigration authorities late last year.

From Colombia, where she lives with her three daughters, Jennifer Aguilar has written about her brother’s plight on social media message and sent messages to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and to Bukele, the Salvadoran leader.
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Aguilar “has never been to prison in Venezuela or in Colombia,” she wrote to Bukele. “Believe me, if he was guilty I’d say: ‘Leave him there.’ Because we were taught to be honest and do good.”

“I’ve tried by all means ... to be Rafael’s voice,” said the sister, adding that she doesn’t know anyone in El Salvador. “If I could be there, I would. I’m deeply sorry that I can’t.”

El Salvador has rounded up and imprisoned some 85,000 people — the equivalent of 1.5% of the nation’s population — since March 2022, when Bukele declared a state of emergency that effectively suspended constitutional due process rights. The Venezuelans were dispatched to the infamous Center for Terrorism Confinement, the centerpiece of Bukele’s mass incarceration agenda.



Link: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-03-23/deportation-trump-venezuelans-el-salvador

Fucked/Funny part is they can't/never say which gangs exactly. Just a region, or they blaim it on the Cartels who are scary and well versed in America but they are not the boogie man around every single corner.

 

[thebully08$]

Fucking kill em all
Let God sort it out at the gates!

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

It isn’t reliable in the sense that it has a leftist bias. And forgive my temerity here, but what is your end goal when it comes to regurgitating leftist nonsense?

Idk even know what that first sentence means. Every news source has a bias. A bunch of media has a right wing bias. So fucking what it doesn’t prove what they are saying untrue. Like i said you can see if the same story is on other sites and check as well as you can.

How is it this leftist nonsense? I don’t have an end goal, I post news stories here and of course I knew this would piss off some people here because any story that talks about migrants in any way sympathetically or as if they are humans will piss some people off. But that’s not my problem if it pisses people off anyway.

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

Fucking kill em all
Let God sort it out at the gates!

You literally have a medieval mindset.

That saying of “kill them all let god sort it out” type saying comes from a pope, Innocent III, in the Middle Ages in France sending his armies to kill the Albigensians and they sacked their homes and cities the army were instructed to kill all Albigensians by the popes envoy, the military asked how will we know who is Albigensian.

The popes envoy said “kill them all and god will know his own”. So you have the mentality of a dark age barbarian I must say.

For reference here is the incidence I referenced:Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

What’s with the US shaking hands with Ukraine flag?
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To show my solidarity with Ukraine and also to show my countries solidarity especially recently with the outrageous behavior of our president. It’s a way of showing I’m with Ukraine in their struggle and I want my country to be with Ukraine in this as well.

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

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His ignorance is beyond comprehension.

Yea you misunderstood what I was saying so you gotta try to turn the tables on me and call me ignorant. Why do you think I’m ignorant I’m curious, I’ll tell you why you’re wrong, as usual.

 

[45cal1911]

Yea you misunderstood what I was saying so you gotta try to turn the tables on me and call me ignorant. Why do you think I’m ignorant I’m curious, I’ll tell you why you’re wrong, as usual.

Eric. Illegals are replacing you. Have you tried to man up? Settle down, Find a good woman, buy a home etc etc.

They are drinking your milkshake. I stand for any American before any illegal.

 

[Soul Shiver]

"families say this" I don't give a fuck, I say that shit is funny.

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

That one at least kinda makes sense, since they’re beefing with each other. But US isn’t fighting with Ukraine …

Yea that’s why I did that one. I think Hamas shouldnt have control of Gaza for the Palestinians sake even more so than Israelis so I’m not against a war with Hamas. BUT I am for two states living peacefully next to eachother and both peoples stop claiming all the land is theirs and I’m with the people on both sides trying to carry that out.

Seems like a long way away though that goal. Actually the United States is in that Trump and his goons are fighting with Ukraine. As I’m sure you saw in the Oval Office debacle recently. So like it hold you it’s to indicate that I am with them and we (the USA) should be with them.

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

Eric. Illegals are replacing you

Wow you really are propagandized dude. What media do you watch I’m curious how this happened?

. Have you tried to man up? Settle down, Find a good woman, buy a home etc etc.

what does this have to do with illegal immigration first off, but secondly I don’t care what the standard “normal” life path is or if I’m following. I go my own way and do what is good for me and what makes me happy and what is principled and honest. I’m working on myself and life after years of drug and alcohol abuse and I’m mature and intelligent enough to realize I’m not ready to have a relationship right now. Also who cares about buying a house, there are better investments than that.

They are drinking your milkshake. I stand for any American before any illegal.

It doesn’t have to be either immigrants wellbeing or Americans wellbeing. cowboy. You have a one side wins the other loses mindset that’s very common for humans to have but it’s false in this case. Both Americans and the immigrants can benefit eachother.

Like the example I gave, I forgot who, but we are an aging population. We need more young people and Americans aren’t having them.