Tattoo artist who agreed to return to Venezuela was sent to El Salvador prison, family says

The brother of Jhon Chacin, a Venezuelan asylum-seeker, is seeking answers as the Venezuelan government calls for the deportees' release from an El Salvador prison.

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Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador had signed paperwork to go home

Families and activists say deportees signed documents to return to Venezuela but were sent to Salvadoran jail instead
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Family members of migrants deported to El Salvador mega prison speak out

Family members who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador's mega prison fear they are wrongly being accused of being members of a Venezuelan gang. NBC News' Julia Ainsley has the details ...
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Families of deported Venezuelans are distraught their loved ones were sent to El Salvador

Relatives of recently deported Venezuelan immigrants said they were anguished and shocked to discover their loved ones were sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador after they recognized them ...
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Venezuela Says It Will Resume Accepting U.S. Deportation Flights

The Venezuelan government attributed a willingness to receive the flights to the plight of Venezuelan migrants sent to notorious prisons in El Salvador with little to no due process.
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Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations to El Salvador

The news that hundreds of migrants were headed to an El Salvador prison caused panic for some Venezuelans, who worried that their loved ones might be among them.
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What to know about the El Salvador mega-prison where Trump sent deported Venezuelans

The US has sent hundreds of migrants to El Salvador to be held without trial in Cecot, a controversial prison known for its harsh conditions. The US has sent hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants ...
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Trump Officials Say Deportees Were Gang Members. Few Details Were Disclosed.

Families and immigration lawyers argue not all of the deportees sent to a prison in El Salvador over the weekend had ties to gangs.
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Why the men sent to El Salvador's mega-prison may never make it out

Hundreds of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador from the U.S. may face long or indefinite detention in a prison system known for human rights abuses.
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Venezuelans deported last week included 8 women who were returned to US, filings say

The alleged Venezuelan gang members who were deported to El Salvador last week included eight female detainees who were later returned to the U.S., according to filings.
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Lawyers say some deported by ICE weren't gang members, were targeted for tattoos

In several sworn declarations, attorneys and relatives have pushed back on the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
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Trump: Tesla vandals should face 20 years in jail, be sent to El Salvador

President Donald Trump seemed to issue a warning to individuals who participate in Tesla vandalisms, as reports of destruction of vehicles surge across the country.
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‘We don’t know how any of this will play out’: what’s next for US deportees in El Salvador

Political scientist Mneesha Gellman on the deportees’ fates, dire prison conditions and Bukele-Trump parallels. The Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison that ...
The Guardian - 5d
‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims

Brother of Francisco Javier García Casique spotted him in a video showing scores of Venezuelan prisoners being taken to notorious El Salvador prison. Donald Trump ’s White House has described the ...
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Think before you ink: 20 tips for beautiful tattoos you’ll never regret – from the professionals

How do you choose a design you will love for life? And what can you do to cover up an old flame’s name? Top tattooists, including David Beckham’s artist, reveal all. “My customers generally come to ...
The Guardian - Mar. 13
Here are the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador

CBS News has obtained an internal government list of the names of the Venezuelans the Trump administration deported to El Salvador.
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Trump floats sending Tesla attackers to El Salvador prisons as White House rallies to defend Musk

Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, the world's richest man, donated more than $250 million toward President Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign.
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Videos of Shackled Venezuelan Migrants Have History in El Salvador

A video showing rough treatment of deportees over the weekend was an extraordinary depiction by U.S. standards, but not by El Salvador’s.
The New York Times - 6d
How one photojournalist documented US deportees' arrival in El Salvador

Photojournalist Philip Holsinger talks about documenting Venezuelan migrants flown to El Salvador.
ABC News - 2h
Judge demands answers from White House on deportation flights to El Salvador

Jeb Boasberg instructs Trump administration to explain how refusal to return flights did not violate court order. A federal judge instructed the Trump administration on Thursday to explain why its ...
The Guardian - 4d
Man gets prison in U.S. for helping pressure Chinese expat to return home

A real estate businessman who aided a Chinese effort to pressure an expatriate to return home has been sentenced to over a year in a U.S. prison.
NBC News - 4d
White House denies defying judge's order over deportations to El Salvador

An order to halt the removal of 261 people came too late and had "no legal basis" anyway, the White House says.
BBC News - Mar. 17
White House denies violating judge’s order with Venezuela deportations

Trump administration used Alien Enemies Act to deport about 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador. US politics live – latest updates The White House has denied allegations that it engaged in ...
The Guardian - Mar. 17
New York fires 2,000 prison guards who refuse to return to work after wildcat strike

New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state’s correctional system.
NBC News - Mar. 11
Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says

One detained man’s lawyer says he is gay artist who had fled persecution in his home country, not a gang member. A lawyer for one of the Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious mega ...
The Guardian - Mar. 18
Man who escaped Puerto Rico prison in 1987 is caught in Florida

A man who escaped from a Puerto Rican prison in 1987 has been arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, where authorities say he had been living under a different name.
CBS News - Mar. 10
Undocumented mom of U.S. citizen girl with brain cancer who was removed to Mexico pleads for family's return

The mother of a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer who was removed to Mexico when her parents, who are undocumented were deported, is pleading for her family’s return to the U.S. for the ...
NBC News - Mar. 13
Second woman is strangled during an overnight visit at California prison

The family of a woman who died of strangulation during an overnight visit with her husband at a California prison is questioning why a man convicted of murdering four people was allowed to have ...
NBC News - 1d
Crossbow killer who murdered 3 women is sentenced to a whole-life order in UK prison

A former British soldier who pleaded guilty to the murder of three women at their family home north of London has been sentenced to a whole-life order, meaning that he would never be released from ...
ABC News - Mar. 11
Trump putting ‘secondary tariff’ on Venezuela

President Trump on Monday announced that Venezuela will be hit with a "secondary tariff," arguing the country has sent migrants that are criminals and gang members into the United States. Beginning ...
The Hill - 1d
Celebrating Love on Miami’s ‘305 Day’

Maria Aguado and Salvador Salazar, who were introduced by a mutual friend, bonded over their upbringings in Venezuela.
The New York Times - 4d
Celebrating Love on Miami’s ‘305 Day’

Maria Aguado and Salvador Salazar, who were introduced by a mutual friend, bonded over their upbringings in Venezuela.
The New York Times - 4d
US deports Venezuelans after judge blocks Trump’s use of wartime law

El Salvador president Nayib Bukele agrees to jail alleged members of Tren de Aragua gang
Financial Times - Mar. 16
US deports 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling to halt flights

Trump invoked 1798 law previously used to detain Japanese Americans in second world war to justify deportations. The US deported more than 250 mainly Venezuelan alleged gang members to El ...
The Guardian - Mar. 16
Tattoos of deported Venezuelans don't necessarily signal gang affiliation, experts say

Nike’s Jumpman, roses and a popular phrase from a Donald Trump-supporting Puerto Rican rapper: These are some of the tattoos defense lawyers and relatives say helped authorities accuse several ...
NBC News - 4d
Teenager who killed family and planned school massacre gets 49 years in prison

A 19-year-old British man who shot and killed his mother and two younger siblings and who wanted to carry out a high-profile school shooting has been told he will not be eligible for parole for at ...
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3/20: CBS Evening News

List names Venezuelans deported by Trump to El Salvador prison; New research suggests universe could one day stop expanding and reverse course
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AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

Jim Sanborn’s inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they’ve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.
Wired - Mar. 7
‘Deported because of his tattoos’: has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art?

US claims tattoos prove membership of Tren de Aragua gang but relatives describe tributes to God, family and Real Madrid. . Like many Venezuelans of his generation, Franco José Caraballo Tiapa is a ...
The Guardian - 4d
'We were in Vegas...' Which pundits have matching tattoos?

Which BBC pundits have matching tattoos on their bottoms? Which pundit was called "the Diego Maradona of world rugby" and who once put a roast dinner in a blender and drank it?
BBC News - Mar. 14

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