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Friday, April 25, 2025

I understand why Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become the face of Donald Trump's monstrous policy of sending migrants to a gulag in El Salvador. But Abrego Garcia is not alone.

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Hernandez Romero's tattoos freaked out the gringo looms. "During a physical exam ... an officer flagged the crown tattoos he has on each wrist " one with the word "mom" and the other with the word "dad" " and he was sent to Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, run by the private prison company CoreCivic."

As NBC News has reported, Hernndez Romero's tattoos were inspired by his desire to honor his parents and his love of his town's annual Three Kings festival. "He would design and sew his own costumes, and he would do the makeup for all the women in the parade," a childhood friend told NBC, which noted that crown tattoos were a local trend. But two private contractors at Otay Mesa determined that the tattoos marked him as a gang member.

That was apparently enough to consign Hernndez Romero indefinitely to a black hole. (Later, USA Today would reveal that one of the two contractors was Charles Cross Jr., a "disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues" who'd been fired for driving his car into a home while drunk.) "The fact that that is the sole evidence that they have ever produced that landed Andry in that prison cell in El Salvador should shock the conscience of everyone," said his lawyer, Lindsay Toczylowski of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. "It's the reason that due process protections are so important. Because had that evidence gone before an impartial judge, and that was all they produced, and we were given an opportunity to refute it, it would have been so easy to do."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-25 08:35 AM | Reply

Correction: Not "gringo looms" but "gringo loons." As in lunaticos.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-25 08:41 AM | Reply

The Banality of Evil is upon us full force. TwinPac noted the other day that the CECOT is Trumpf's "gas chamber" [sic].

Future historians are going to compare the 2024 Democrats with Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg in 1933: "How did you let this happen?"

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#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-25 08:57 AM | Reply

TwinPac noted the other day that the CECOT is Trumpf's "gas chamber" [sic].

Didn't see that, but it certainly rings true. The way Trumpf and his thugs talk, these people are clearly being disappeared. Which is what Trump asked Bukele to do when he told him to build more prisons for America's "homegrown."

Only MAGAts and mutes will be immune from the Trumpfites' "aiding and abetting" charges.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-25 09:09 AM | Reply

From www.theguardian.com

For as long as anyone can remember Andry Jos Hernndez Romero was enthralled by the annual Three Kings Day celebrations for which his Venezuelan home town is famed, joining thousands of fellow Christians on the streets of Capacho to remember how the trio of wise men visited baby Jesus bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh.

At age seven, Andry became a Mini King, as members of the town's youth drama group Los Mini Reyes were known. Later in life, he tattooed two crowns on his wrists to memorialise those carnival-like Epiphany commemorations and his Catholic roots.

Most Capacheros get crown tattoos, often adding the name of their father or mother. We've lots of people with these tattoos " it's a tradition that began in 1917," said Miguel Chacn, the president of Capacho's Three Kings Day foundation.

The Latin American tradition appears to have been lost on the US immigration officers ... .

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-25 09:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

All investigators have gang tattoo ID manuals (I still have one in storage) and the USG has plenty on their intranet.
ICE agents should be able to discern the tattoos on a suspect because simply having tattoos doesn't make someone a criminal. Just ask Ray Bradbury: "Those are not tattoos! They're skin illustrations!"

Here's an unofficial link on MS-13 tattoos: tacticalinvestor.com

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-25 12:33 PM | Reply

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