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Everyday tattoos got men ID’d as gang members and deported, lawyers say

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About 200 Venezuelan men accused of being members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were flown out of the U.S. before they could meet with their attorneys.

Lawyers say tattoos were repeatedly used to argue that the men belonged to the gang.

Tattoos are signals of membership in some Latin American gangs, with the facial tattoos of the El Salvadoran group MS-13 perhaps the best known.

Experts say tattoos, hugely popular all over the world, are often nothing more than body art.

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