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Astonishing and also that it was the ACLU that got the doc. The govt was not the party that made this Public?

They got it from the government in the course of a lawsuit.

Did they get it from the govt? It’s not clear. The Declaration accompanying it simply says upon “information and belief” it is being used. It doesn’t say the government sent it to them

Either that or someone leaked it to them.

I rembember something similar from the Patriot Act. This is just horrible.

There better be consequences for the gestapo. They don't get to keep living peacefully in this society when this is all over.

Consequences delivered by whom? (Don't answer on a nonsecure platform, but also don't minimize the seriousness of where we are now.)

Assuming there will be a day when we have to put things back where they were etc...once we have a functional govt again.

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I agree! This isn't "due process," this is simply Gestapo methodology. It's Nazism, folks. It's arrived in the US.

It’s been here since the patriot act. It’s just being used with reckless abandon now

Trains crowns and clocks are, uh, subversive symbols? Model RR enthusiasts, fans of the King, and horologists, leave the U.S. now, you're targeted.

"Loyalism will not be tolerated"

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Reminds me of a 1930s nazi chart on how to determine if a person was of pure enough ‘aryan blood’ Much like the squiggly crazy models of the solar system in Galileo’s time, trying to reconcile observations of the night sky with their preconceived notion of themselves as center of the Universe

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Thank you for your analysis, much appreciated. @unroll.skywriter.blue Thank you

oh that's pretty slick... can anyone use this?

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Thank you for this- when I saw several articles that mentioned “fitting the profile” I wondered what that meant precisely. What “profile” was being provided as guidance. This is exactly as expected- absolutely absurd.

@skyview.social Please unroll. Thank you.

Can we pause a moment and reflect on the idea of a gang having a constitution or bylaws? The scoring system was copied from some corporate document associated with industrial espionage or something.

Oh, they do. Some are structured like corporations. Unfortunately, they don’t file anything with the Secretary of State ;)

The “validation” in the title is the EXCUSE TO INVOKE THE ALIEN ENEMIES ACT.

Well I learned something new. Apparently gang constitutions are a thing, at least for some organizations. www.peterleeson.com/Criminal_Con...

Sounds a lot like the New Day Co-op youtu.be/hGo5bxWy21g?...

Oh 100%. That was something the ACLU/Democracy Forward actually called out in their brief.

So EVERY PERSON on those planes should have a signed and validated sheet? So we can know exactly who kidnapped people and sent them to prison in El Salvador?

They just make. shit. up. It's bonkers. Dems need to send a delegation to El Salvaldor. They need to collect the folks that are down there without cause. Immediately before they get killed.

No, they need to collect them ALL. Bring them back and provide due process to ALL.

I agree. EVERYONE.

KInda happy I don't have any tattoos now. Nice work on this Aaron

Guilt by association was used in the McCarthy era, too.

Great work! Thank you

It also says “only the last five years” but that one woman divorced her husband, an alleged member, 10 years ago, and was still classified “a senior member” based on that.

Yes, this seems quite likely. It becomes a self-reinforcing cycle. Once one person is declared a gang member, everyone they associate with becomes suspect and may be deemed gang members on the basis of associations. So bad information can propagate through social systems.

And destroy entire communities. Which is likely the goal.

Exactly! Then all this applies in the racist pyramid scheme bsky.app/profile/reic...

Insane. Thomas Aquinas actually made this argument to explain why the Church should *not* excommunicate people just because they have interacted with people who have already been excommunicated. In the 13th Century they saw through this!

I like the mention in your bio about the 80s; it's been there all along hasn't it?

Yep!

When the goal is to jail anyone, without trial, on a whim, there is always some clever little method to achieve it.

Combining this with Venmo public records is quite a scary thought. They’ll have families and entire communities wiped out in no time.

Yep. Take a look under “Association” — Those three 2 point lines could be his mother. Seriously.

something tells me that effect is, if not intended, then at least a useful side-effect of the regimes incredibly mentally incurious laziness

This is how it'll work when they crack down on the "terrorist antifa gang" too.

What makes this so insidious is the existing link between criminals and popular culture and the appeal of gangster chic. Hip-hop style taking cues from urban gangs, weekend warrior motorcycle clubs adopting the look of outlaw bikers, etc. Trying to be cool and a bit edgy is a risk now.

Six degrees of Tren de Aragua separation. EVERYONE IS A GANG MEMBER!!!! 🤪

Not sure you'd even need all six degrees...

This compounding effect hadn't even occurred to me, but seems blatantly obvious... all so Trump/ICE can post all sorts of "big numbers" of deportations of "dangerous criminal gang members". It's stomach turning to think how many innocent ppl could suffer. Bet El Salvador has agreed occupancy rates.

Adding some more context here: The document linked above also has an unclassified ICE HSI list of some Tren de Aragua tattoos and "identifiers." Wearing a Michael Jordan jersey can get you halfway to being deemed a TDA member, and having a nautical star tattoo can get you the rest of the way!

Pete Hegseth getting his ASSAULT RIFLE tatoo. Just sayin'

Half of the proud boys about to get deported (by the other half)

Came here to SCREAM THIS into the void.

But it's a proper *American* assault rifle, so it's okay! /s

It’s a weapon for children. A twelve year old could shoot one of these well enough. And they do. A good hunting rifle is a far better tool for adjusting governments.

Figures they’d go after a Chicago team.

Wait, doesn’t Hegseth have some of these tattoos? 🧐 (I’m only partly joking)

no, he has Nazi ones.

Ah. So much better.

HJ = hijo de Dios. That's not true, at least in spanish

Trains? They’re going after autists?

This is like a law enforcement guide to identifying Satanists during the 1980s Satanic panic.

if trump's ICE start going after people carrying d20 dice I will sue in the name of every D&Der out there.

I am SHOCKED that a Venezuelan might wear a jersey of a team with another Venezuelan on it. SHOCKED!

Teams with Venezuelan nationals? That’s almost the entirety of MLB. According to Baseball Reference, there are 49 Venezuelan-born players who have at least one AB in their careers who have appeared in an MLB game in 2025. If you’re a Venezuelan, over 14, and wear an MLB jersey, you get 4 points.

Not even a jersey, just attire.

www.baseball-reference.com/bio/Venezuel...

Then what about the non-Venezuelans and women who have been sent. This is about racism, cruelty, and power trips more than anything.

jump man shoe

Well a Michael Jordan tattoo means you're a gang member?

Oh boy, then I guess the LA Sheriffs are going to Venezuela?

I'm surprised the skull with gas mask, usually used as a neonazi tattoo referencing the gas execution chambers, is listed as a gang thing and not as "ally of the government" and "exemplary citizen".

MAGA: Why stop at checking girls’ panties before sports and women’s uteri before traveling out of state? Let’s strip brown people and take pictures of frequently bad art.

clocks are so common it’s considered cliche. my tattooer won’t even do them anymore.

One could say he's just out of time.

Jesus everloving Christ

LOL

The Republican members wear ak47 pins in lieu of a tattoo. Disappear them to El Salvador.

Wearing a Michael Jordan jersey and … Not having white skin.

In contrast, being a member of the terrorist organization, the Proud Boys, and ransacking the Capitol, gets you a pardon from this illegitimate and lawless administration.

I mean idk but Hegseth has a gun tattoo that looks like that.🗽

Lol ‘real hasta la muerte’ likely means you’re a fan of a specific Puerto Rican reggaetonero.

Doesn’t Hegeseth have some of these tattoos? Ffs, this is ridiculous.

They just redo the same scoring system they used in college to rank dates?

Have they checked out #HatePigseth? #WhiskeyLeaks has some #Absolut White Supremacist tats. #Kakistocracy #KrasnovHasTheKeys #OustTeamFelon47

So homeland security investigations Chicago office says that Chicago Bulls jerseys especially Michael Jordan ones are indicative of tda? They might find a crap ton of false positives for that in the Chicago area.

Isn't this something Michael Jordan's lawyers would care to know about? Unsure what, if anything, they could do about it, but I'm a finance brain not a law brain.

This is like half of California's white male population over 45. Not mention stars and crowns were popular with girls in the late 90s

How does the autism awareness tattoo qualify someone for deportation to a gulag?

Lots of those look like the tattoos cops have

Whelp, I guess I'm a gang member. I have the ✯ tattoo. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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this seems to confirm that the guy who got sent to El Salvador for a Real Madrid tattoo got called a gang member because the Real Madrid logo includes a crown

Pete Hegseth has an AK-47 tattoo.

Same pics are used in this document from the Texas DPS. Dunno who used them first.

So what if someone sports their ancestral Royal House emblem like mine that I was thinking of doing. Are the Montagues now Manx Gangsters? Oh Glory be if America is overrun with Norman Elitists

The more I learn about this situation that more angry I get, if that’s possible. I’m enraged that our government has done this.

Pretty sure Pete Hegseth has some of these exact tattoos… #lockhimup Also, many gay men have the stars (though this regime is probably happy to round up the gays as collateral damage)

I love how they left out the English word "real" in the "Real Hasta la Muerte" tattoo. Because that changes the meaning to "real until death" Also, stars?! I have multiple star tattoos & it's nothing to do w/ gangs/violence. It's cuz I have an infatuation w/ space, the universe, & stars in general

Pretty sure it's better translated as "true till death," which apparently nobody would ever have tattooed on their bodies as a declaration of romantic love or familial love or friendship.

Google is free

And translation is an art.

The fact that this is from the Chicago field office 😶

Jesus, these tattoo themes are so freaking common you could arrest half of American white males on this pretext. I’m gonna get a tattoo of Michael Jordan wearing a crown and jumping over a train.

I'm going to report everyone with both a MAGA bumper sticker and an AK-47 decal to ICE.

Man a lot of navy vets are halfway to being TdA members if the nautical star is all it takes

Not to mention a bunch of people who work at yacht clubs I’m sure

Those stars are very common in the military. 🙄

Adding more context: these examples were stolen from Instagram Pages of actual Tattoo Artist in The UK…

Explains the crown

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March 2, 2009....🤔

With the dove below it, it seems like it might be a memorial tattoo.

Could be, the stopwatch stopped at 10:11?

Reading further, it looks like the date/time of his child being born (the tattoo artist who did it and the actual guy who has the tattoo have seen the pictures).

www.onthisday.com/date/2009/ma...

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Also (maybe this is my football (soccer) fan brain) but "Real hasta la muerte" may be a reference to Real Madrid indicating that the person is a fan of the club. (reports that one of the deportees had a tattoo of the club crest or something resembling it because he was a fan. Deemed "gang")?

There’s also a well know Latin Recording Artist that popularized it. I read some about that when I did the deep dive at 1am one night

Ah.... I've seen plenty of "[team] til i die" tattoos over the years (and I'm UK based). I'm sure I've also called Real Madrid cheating gangsters at times when they've beaten my team but I don't mean it literally. So many of the others seem quite generic!

The underlying theme is that all of these tattoos are common and by themselves shouldn’t indicate anyone of anything. Sure, some bad people may have similar tats but we used to call that Racial Profiling

Quite. As someone in the thread said, it's not the ink, it's the skin beneath it. Absolute madness.

Bet someone googled "tattoos" and picked a bunch of random image results

Bet they used AI 🙄

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The NY Post originally claimed to have obtained them from DHS in early 2024. By March, Texas put this PDF out and NO ONE questioned it at the time.

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The Train is actually on a White guy in the Uk. He trains in MMA. The HJ is from Thailand In all honesty, none of the examples were from known TDA members. Not a single one.

This girl must be scared as fuck. www.instagram.com/h.j.tattoo/?...

The Post is his WH press secretary.

I have a theory that this was all orchestrated by MAGA in late 22. There’s a known X Boarder Reporter that was right in the middle of it and if she hasn’t deleted the posts, they were still up two weeks ago. She knew the Laken Riley suspects name hours before it was released. It smelled off to me.

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The J for Dios was hard to believe. Grateful for your international tattoo knowledge.

Seconded

There was another story I’m not going to repost because I fear that they may use a “new tattoo” to tag people. Someone was arrested and has the exact same neck tattoo that one of my favorite CURRENT baseball players from Venezuela has. It’s not one of the tattoos in the current list but they used it

Has this been written up somewhere?

The media are wholly owned conspirators

It took me a few hours of rabbit hole research and help from a few people on BSKY. I am small so no one saw my posts.

Great OSINT!

I’m just a dude with a smart phone, ADHD and a belief in Due Process regardless of what your accused of. It just felt weird how quickly we went from basically never hearing of this gang to “Executive Orders” and concentration camps… This isn’t American period.

We are all fighting in our own ways and you’re doing awesome stuff! Thank you!

Nope.

If you happen to have links to the other ones, I’d be highly grateful. Or can they just be found using reverse image search?

I’ve seen screenshots of them going around for years attached to different departments

Here’s the Shop in Spain that did the “Train” lots of clocks as well. www.camaleontattoo.com/galeria-de-t...

I get the tattoo with the identical background through a link found on Pinterest. kr.pinterest.com/pin/33544787...

Use Google Image search. It’s all Bull Shit.

Thank you very, very much.

Wait WOW holy crap I missed this. Was this previous reported somewhere?

nypost.com/2024/02/14/u...

I’ve BEEN SCREAMING IT. I don’t have the reach though

I’ve got links?

Totally off topic, but that artwork is incredible

Yeah, we have a big problem with Tren de Aragua here in the UK. That's northern rail in Spanish right?

"The train now arriving on platform 8 is the 1547 Tren de Aragua service to York"

If you see something suspicious...

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It wasn't about the tattoos... It was the ink in their skin.

What?

The melanin

Note to self. Don't use similes. Speak in simple sentences.

;) you mean metaphor. A simile uses “like” or “as”.

If speak in haiku Confusion you will create Refrigerator (Sorry, felt like we needed a light moment in this dark ass thread)

OMG that made me laugh😂😂😂

Made me laugh too! And it was greatly appreciated.

Thank you Folco Took! A light moment is greatly appreciated! (People are getting testy!)

My sincerest apologies. I've been up since 4:15 a.m. when a tree hit our house in an ice storm. I honestly felt the innuendo was relatively clear. I was obviously wrong.

You mean the color of the skin under the tattoo.

Hello Llwendy, Yes, it was about the colour of their skin and the tattoos that they embellished themselves with. It was a poetic take on a travesty of justice that we are witnessing and a mixture of race and embellishment. I should obviously stick to writing for young adults (unsuccessfully).

Every third person who went through the 90s swing/rockabilly ⭐ revival is TDA

The star they use as an example of the category "stars" is problematic. It looks like a star of Texas, which some people have as a tattoo. How many of the deportees lived in Texas recently or in the past? Notice all the stock images🧵

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @aclu.org @repcasar.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social The example of star tattoos for Tren de Aragua pictured above appears to be a star of Texas. Please read the above thread and investigate 🙏🏻

I'm also under the impression (although I might be incorrect) that this is a popular tattoo choice for Texan Latinos. They might also get this tattoo more often than other groups. I think someone should establish whether that's true or not. If it is, it's even more problematic.

All Trump does is lie. He doesn't deserve to be president if he refuses to tell the truth. He doesn't deserve to be president. Democrats just want him to admit he lost the election and he is still refusing. It's never going to happen. The MAGA Republicans are lying for him. youtu.be/HKYdVSGDIhY?...

Ak-47!? There are a LOT of tacticool bros that are unknowingly members of TdA.

My 7 year old son also loves Michael Jordan, because Michael Jordan is the GOAT. This is absurd and horrifying. (Just to clarify, my kiddo is NOT a gang member, unless you count his group of friends who call each other Team Nice because they don't like bullying).

AK-47 tattoo? The one the MAGAt bros in my town have?! Can't they take them instead...

Also, Michael Jordan jersey's...are you kidding me

“U.S. sports attire with Venezuelan players” surely the only reason a Venezuelan would wear a Miguel Cabrera jersey would be gang affiliation

Can we start rounding up and deporting all the MAGAtwats sporting AK47 tattoos?

Jump man? So Air Jordan tattoos = Venezuelan gang? That's complete bullshit.

"Often wear sports attire from U.S. professional sports teams with Venezuelan nationals on them." That's a lot of Detroit Tigers fans getting kicked out of the country over their Miguel Cabrera jerseys and T-shirts.

Alot of Magas out there with those tatoos.

Do you know how many people I know that have nautical star tattoos?! Those things are all over the Gen Z and Millennial punk scene.

“Wears sports attire from US teams with Venezuelan nationals on them”. When Felix Hernandez was in his hayday, the Mariners gave free T-shirts saying “King Felix” to everyone who sat in the Felix section every f-ing game he started. M’s PR guys put a lot of fans at risk.

MJ jersey + nautical star tat = 1/2 the population of Chicago.

Oh my GOD that makes it even worse. The picture of the clock tattoo (and note that some of the people sent to El Salvador had clock tattoos!) in the HSI document was from 2016 and the UK?!

Having documented the tattoo industry for a long running television series, I can assure you that nautical stars, watches and clocks are extremely common.

His dude should sue.

Dude should sue.

In your professional opinion do you think judges will be thrilled about these parameters as they review the habeas and other similar cases before them?

Trump, Miller, Homan (Hitler probably?) et al are counting on it not mattering. Judges have no actual way to get these people back until the people who put them there are out of power and in jail.

The judges can order reissuance of a visa or something like that. They can also suspend various authorities: in theory can require that every single deportation under any law for any reason be cleared through a judge if they continue to play games.

yeah but whos gonna enforce it if 2/3 of the police force are raging nazis

i mean fair its not like it doesnt help at all. but if you read the article you can see that a lot of the time they just ignore the orders and it works out decently well so far because whos gonna go arrest idk elon musk right? its a mixed bag

I read the article. It’s an ongoing battle. It’s happening on multiple fronts. I’m not a fan of defeatism.

They haven't been openly ignoring or defying orders: they have been pushing the line and disrespecting. That is a really critical difference.

Most govt workers and officers do not want to openly defy a court. 1/5 may be Trump's brown shirts, 1/5 may have a backbone and conscience and 3/5 are just lookkng to do the right thing but need some backing (like a court order).

This is hypothetical. So far they haven't taken these steps, and - even if they did - what proof do we have they would succumb? There are real people currently in CECOT that did nothing wrong, and judges have no real way to get them back.

Legal cases take more than a couple weeks this is not law and order.

I understand, and your perspective is valid but not what I'm stating. While they skirt the differences and pretend there's some grey line they don't understand, they are shipping off more people and I'm not hopeful on any recourse to get them back

they should all get MAGA tattoos inside a clock LOL

Looks like it commemorates either a birth time or the time of someone’s passing.

These ice agents can’t use the excuse they’re following orders! They are complicit.

shut this entire administration down

They're members of the Venezulan gang "Los Observadores del Reloj" Don't believe the internet. Trust your government, even when they lie and bypass laws and the Constitution.

Lol

Manufacturing consent

Trump supporters don’t care as long as Trump kicks as many black and brown people out of the country as possible.

let’s kick the trump supporters out

Trump admin also collapsing the tattoo industry

is it just me or is trump and the GOP gonna piss off every biker / skater gangs of the U.S.?

Well, as Pete Hesgeth is living proof, *some* tattoos are fine and will even get you into high office without any other qualifications.

Another thing is that when I looked up Tren de Aragua on Wikipedia the other day, because I had never heard of it, I found that they mostly do not even tattoos (as it's kind of dumb because you are easily found).

Closing the loop on this thread: more on the tattoos in that HSI document, 7 of 9 of which can be definitely linked to non-TdA sources. bsky.app/profile/reic...

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Trains, clocks, and stars? Ffs.

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Seriously!?! A nautical star is a gang tattoo???

The NHCLU kept a list of all the t-shirt colors that some cop had cited as proof of gang membership. Black, red, white, yellow, green. . . . Plus both gold and silver jewelry.