• Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’m covered in tattoos. I have many of those depicted as gang signs including a five pointed nautical star, a crown and the number 13 in numerous locations from various artists I respect as it is a tattoo tradition. I’d be fucked if I was American. So would my wife.

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        Yeah my understanding is tattoos in el salvador is automatic jail. American is well on its way to that.

        A Venezuelan soccer player who was in the U.S. awaiting a ruling on his asylum claim was deported to El Salvador under suspicion of being a member of a dangerous gang in what his attorney said was a misinterpretation of a tattoo the tattoo – a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary and the word “Dios,” which means God in Spanish – was designed to look like the logo for Reyes Barrios’ favorite soccer team,