Internal DHS and FBI documents question the effectiveness of using tattoos to identify Venezuelan members of Tren de Aragua.

Often the only information they do have to identify individuals is alleged gang tattoos. In the case of the recent deportation flights, Robert Cerna, the acting field office director of ...

There's no statute outlawing mere membership in a gang, but there are ways for people to be charged collectively.

“These are common in Venezuela and bear no exclusive association with gang affiliation,” his lawyer said in a filing with the judge. ICE says its deportations are based on more than tattoos ...

Those are some of the everyday tattoos that defense lawyers say helped lead to the sudden weekend deportation of roughly 200 Venezuelan men who are accused of being members of the ruthless gang ...

A former Outlaw motorcycle gang member, now a part of the Mongols ... When Walker, who had Mongol tattoos on his neck, was arrested he refused to talk to police and said he would not make a ...

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Those are some of the everyday tattoos that defense lawyers say helped lead to the sudden weekend deportation of roughly 200 Venezuelan men who are accused of being members of the ruthless gang ...

FILE - A doctor, using a laser, removes tattoos from an ex-gang member deported from Los Angeles at a clinic in San Salvador, Wednesday, June 6, 2007. A crown over a soccer ball. An eyeball that ...