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RETRO FIND: Filipinos preserved dying language through tattoos in 1999
In 1999, Filipinos in San Francisco found a more permanent way to keep the Baybayin language around. Many went under the ...
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An inside look at the El Salvador prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was moved
Rather than tattooed gang members in brightly lit ... director of the Human Rights Institute at the Central American University in San Salvador. “Why was he moved?” Santos said.
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An inside look at the El Salvador prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was moved
Rather than tattooed gang members in brightly ... in Centro Industrial prison in Santa Ana El Salvador, in April 2025. (NBC News) Get top local San Diego stories delivered to you every morning ...
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Trump-appointed judge orders return of 2nd migrant deported to El Salvador
The judge in the case referenced the similar case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan man ...
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Photo Trump shared of Abrego Garcia's tattoos real but altered; no evidence they're gang-related
Although the original image held by Trump in the photo was genuine, it had been edited to insert the text "MS-13" above the symbols tattooed on Abrego Garcia's hand. What's False There is no clear ...
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Nayib Bukele: the Salvadoran ally in Trump's deportation machine
In March 2025, the Trump administration announced it had deported hundreds of men, who it falsely claimed were all members of a gang called Tren de Aragua, to El Salvador. To accomplish this ...
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Rep. Garcia returns from El Salvador with a sliver of hope for deported gay hairdresser
Robert Garcia said he raised the case of Andry José Hernández Romero directly with the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador and received ... our southern border at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in ...
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ICE’s focus on tattoos is part of a long tradition of profiling
These are a few of the tattoos that some lawyers for deported ... disappearances to a notoriously brutal mega-prison in El Salvador. And yet, in recent weeks, expert after expert has ...
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Democratic lawmakers travel to El Salvador on behalf of Maryland man who was mistakenly deported
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Four House Democrats have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to the plight of a man the Trump administration deported to a Salvadoran prison and has refused to ...
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Donald Trump’s altered Abrego Garcia photo: Why gang experts dismiss MS-13 link to finger tattoos
President Donald Trump posted an image of himself holding a photograph of what he said was the tattooed hand of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whom the government deported to El Salvador in March ...
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How We Reported “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”
Instead, tattoos are more associated with El Salvador’s MS-13 gang. In court filings and public statements, US officials have disputed the idea that they have relied primarily on tattoos—or ...