Soccer coach's Real Madrid tattoo got him sent to Salvadoran prison: lawyer

His passion for football led him to become a professional player and coach of lower categories. His passion for Real Madrid led him to tattoo an image that reminded him of the club's shield of his loves. That tattoo could be what has now taken him to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, is one of the 238 Venezuelans that Donald Trump deported from the United States to the Central American country in an expeditious ma…

A tattoo with Real Madrid's coat of arms, his favorite team, seems to have sufficed for the Donald Trump administration to decide that the professional Venezuelan footballer Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, was a dangerous terrorist member of the criminal band Tren de Aragua. The child football coach was expelled to El Salvador on one of the flights that last Saturday deported more than 200 Venezuelans to whom a war law had been applied three centuries …

Trump Admin Deported And Imprisoned Asylum Seeking Migrant Over Soccer Tattoo, Attorney Says to Court

AP Photo/Alex Brandon ABC News reported on Thursday that an immigration attorney representing a migrant sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration told a court on Wednesday that her client had no gang affiliations, prior criminal record, and was legally seeking asylum in the United States. “Linette Tobin is representing Jerce Reyes Barrios, a professional soccer player from Venezuela who protested the Maduro regime in …

Soccer coach's Real Madrid tattoo got him sent to Salvadoran prison: lawyer

The Venezuelan national was reportedly on board the U.S. deportation flights a judge tried to stop over the weekend.

Trump deports footballer Jerce Reyes Barrios to El Salvador for tattoo similar to Real Madrid badge

Donald Trump's mass deportations to El Salvador by Nayib Bukele seem to have claimed a victim who should not have been. That's what the lawyer for Jerce Reyes Barrios cla

Venezuelan Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, is a professional footballer and youth football coach who was deported by the U.S. government to the prison of the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot) in El Salvador on March 15 for having a tattoo of Real Madrid. The man fled the country after being “arrested and tortured by shock and asphyxiation” after marching in demonstrations against the government of Nicolás Maduro, revealed his lawyer Linet…