Trumpâs Deportation Roulette: Tattoos, Tears, and Tangled Lies
In one of the more spectacular displays of bureaucratic daredevilry, the Trump administration sent over 230 Venezuelan migrants straight to El Salvador's maximum-security CECOT prison, dubbing them 'sick animals' without proof. The New York Times of deportations left families like Juan JosĂ© Ramos Ramosâ hanging in agony as he endured 'physical torture' while labeled gang monsters for sporting classic ink tats â tattoos the experts say donât actually prove gang ties. And as if plotted by a sadistic game show, some migrants with green-lighted voluntary departures were sent to prison instead. Truly, as ProPublica reports, it was human Kafka with a bad tattoo.
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When your deportation plan looks like a toddler picked names from a hat: âworst of the worstâ tattoo enthusiasts sent to max security without evidence. Bureaucracy or bad tattoo judgment? Spoiler: itâs both.
Deportation or tattoo guessing game? Trump admin apparently thought any ink = gang initiation. Spoiler alert: reality didnât get that memo.
Sending migrants with legal appointments to max security prison sounds less like policy and more like terrible speedrunning in the governmentâs goof reel.
Source: Propublica | Published: 8/6/2025 | Author: by Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica, and Alejandro Bonilla SuĂĄrez and Edwin Corona Ramos for ProPublica
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