Not Gang Members
Whatever the legal basis used for their deportation, however, the lawyers say their clients simply aren’t gang members. One of the men deported is Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, a professional soccer player from Venezuela who has no criminal record or gang ties, according to a declaration by his lawyer, Linette Tobin. She said he fled to the US last year and applied for asylum after marching in protest of President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
Barrios was picked up by US immigration authorities in a raid this month and accused of being a gang member. Tobin said the authorities gave two reasons. He had a tattoo, which she said is a crown sitting on top of a soccer ball circled by a Catholic rosary and the word Dios, or God. And a social media post shows what authorities said was him flashing gang signals. Tobin said he was using sign language to say “I love you” and “Rock & Roll.”
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I mean, yeah, no shit. Same administration that lost the parents of kids who they separated at the border last time around.
Yeah, obviously. The gang in question has like a couple hundred members in the U.S. It was never about crime, just about putting more brown people on planes.
That’s what a gang member lawyer would say!! /s