Franco Jose Caraballo Tiapa, a 26-year-old Venezuelan with several tattoos, was detained by US immigration officials who incorrectly assumed his tattoos signified gang affiliations with Tren de Aragua. Despite having no criminal record, an official document labeled him as a gang member. His attorney, Martin Rosenow, challenged this assertion, emphasizing that the tattoos do not indicate gang membership, noting that experts on Venezuelan gangs have confirmed there are no distinctive tattoos that link members to Tren de Aragua.
It's specious there's no basis [for this conclusion], he said. Experts in Venezuela who study the gang have all stated that there are no tattoos that associate gang members.
For when the father of two was detained by US immigration officials... they appear to have taken those tattoos as proof that he was a member of Venezuela's most notorious gang.
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