US EditionTruth Be Told: How tattoos are flagging Venezuelans for deportation
- A gay Venezuelan makeup artist, Andry Jose Hernandez, was deported to CECOT last month.
- A report by Charles Cross, Jr., a CoreCivic employee, alleged gang affiliation based on tattoos.
- Charles Cross, Jr., a former Milwaukee police officer with credibility issues, signed the report as "INVESTIGATOR."
- According to Karoline Leavitt, Homeland Security used a 'litany' of criteria; Heidi Altman stated, "People are being rendered to a torture prison."
- The U.S. Government's reliance on tattoos to identify gang members is questioned and is resulting in deportations without due process.
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ICE Used Drunk Driving Ex-Cop to Label Gay Man a “Gang Member”
Tim Miller shares shocking new information on how Trump’s ICE relied on a disgraced former cop to accuse a gay Venezuelan stylist of being a dangerous gang member.Read the whole article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Contact your Senators and Representative and demand justice.Leave a commentAs always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to sh…
Bad Wisconsin cop’s tattoo claim helped deport gay asylum-seeker to Salvadoran prison hellscape: report
A former Wisconsin police sergeant fired for misconduct helped deport a gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker to one of the world’s harshest prisons, according to a new USA Today investigation.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.Charles Cross Jr., who was fired from the Milwaukee Police Department after crashing his car into a home while intoxicated in 2012 and placed on a list of officers with…
Chicago police investigate why officers were asked to report migrant arrests to authorities.
The Chicago Police Department is investigating after officers were ordered to alert federal authorities about “migrant arrests” involving people with tattoos or clothing related to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The directive was included in a daily briefing in October 2023 in the Near West District, where some new arrivals were residing at the time. It emphasized the arrest of a man who had tattoos “depicting the Venezuelan prison gang kno…
Truth Be Told: How tattoos are flagging Venezuelans for deportation
Lawyers for some of the Venezuelans sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador accuse the U.S. government of misinterpreting their clients' tattoos when they used body art to determine who was a member of the Tren de Aragua gang and subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act.Franco Jose Caraballo Tiapa, a married barber living in Texas, has a tattoo of a clock that caught the attention of an immigration enforcement official, said Tiapa's atto…
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