Tattoos of crowns and roses are popular among everyone – not just members of Tren de Aragua, as law enforcement has claimed. Marc Atkins/Getty Images The United States deported 238 Venezuelan men on ...

In its sweeping deportation campaign against Venezuelan immigrants, the Trump administration has repeatedly relied on tattoos to determine whether someone is a member of the feared criminal syndicate ...

The United States deported 238 Venezuelan men on three flights to El Salvador on March 15, 2025, claiming that they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang that originated in Venezuela. Immigration ...

Hailand Pernía, a tattoo artist here in one of the biggest cities in western Venezuela, started warning his clients in March to be aware that certain images inked on their skins could be a problem if ...

When people walk into the Clean Slate tattoo removal clinic at the University of California San Diego, they carry more than just ink on their skin. Many are justice-impacted adults — people with ...

Prison tattoos, gang tattoos, the famed teardrop on the cheek, all of these are small-time compared to the full-fledged murder scene one Los Angeles-area gangster got inked across his chest, to ...

The most prevalent gang, according to the state in 2017, was the Aryan Brotherhood. Its members often mark themselves with ...

As the Trump administration continues to face mounting legal challenges to its mass deportation of alleged members of Tren de Aragua, who were identified over their supposedly incriminating tattoos, ...