A crown tattoo identified Jerce Reyes Barrios as a member of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang. He was deported from the US in a mass expulsion that is at the heart of a showdown between President Trump and the courts.
The removal of 238 “terrorist” Venezuelans to one of El Salvador’s vast prisons, under a $6 million deal with its government, made for compelling social media images of the men, dressed in white prison gear, being led by guards and bent over to have their heads shaved.
It suggested dramatic progress towards Trump’s campaign pledge of reversing what he called an invasion of criminal migrants under President Biden.
However, Barrios’s family say he was not a gang member but a professional footballer and coach
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