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Immigration officials link tattoos to gangs. Artists say that’s wrong
When federal authorities deported 238 immigrants from a Texas prison to El Salvador in March, Neri Alvarado was among them.
Kilmar Abrego García’s tattoos alone do not prove MS-13 membership, experts say
Experts are divided over whether knuckle tattoos highlighted by President Trump suggest the wrongly deported man may be ...
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Trump doubled down on his tattoo claim in an ABC interview. Terry Moran and experts call it bogus.
Experts say the tattoos aren’t linked to MS-13 — and they don’t appear in other verified photos of Ábrego García’s hand ...
Venezuela tattoo parlors lose clients as people fear being seen as gang members in U.S.
Hailand Pernía, a tattoo artist here in one of the biggest cities in western Venezuela, started warning his clients in March ...
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Photo Trump shared of Abrego Garcia's tattoos real but altered; no evidence they're gang-related
Although the original image held by Trump in the photo was genuine, it had been edited to insert the text "MS-13" above the symbols tattooed on Abrego Garcia's hand. What's False There is no clear ...
Experts cast doubt on Trump's claim that Abrego Garcia's finger tattoos prove MS-13 membership
Gang experts and researchers said that while tattoos could carry gang-related meaning, they aren't enough to prove gang ...
Kilmar Abrego García’s tattoos do not prove MS-13 membership, experts say
President Trump has repeatedly cited tattoos on the mistakenly deported man’s knuckles as proof that he is an MS-13 gang ...