A clock, a train, the Air Jumpman logo by Michael Jordan are one of the most recognizable tattoos that the American law enforcement has used to identify members of the notorious Venezuelan gang of the Aragua.
However, the body markings can disappear quickly, because the leadership of the criminal organization now warns its members to stop getting the ink that announces them to the authorities.
Federal Law Enforcement Sources confirm to DailyMail.com The fact that the Aragua leadership is already carrying the Aragua leadership.
The tattoos of Tren de Aragua have become a flash point in recent days – because the Trump administration leaned heavily on skin markings to Venezuelan migrants as gangsters and they deport to a supermax prison in El Salvador.
President Donald Trump justified the deportations, who did not follow the normal legal proceedings in which judges sign that every person removed from the US, using the controversial alien enemies act.
Since American courts decide whether Trump is even legally able to apply the law to Venezuelan migrants, his accusations surfaced that the few deportees were wrongly accused of tren to be the Aragua by tattoos that were suspected for the insignia of the gang.
One deportee had made an autism -conscious ribbon made of puzzle pieces, according to the Guardian.
Another had a clock that showed the time of birth for his daughter, but the men's lawyers insist that there are no gang members.
Tren the Aragua Gang tattoos (shown above) were part of a bulletin from the Ministry of Domestic Security shared with federal agents in 2023
But the recent confusion about tattoos could soon be a dispute, because TDA, because the group is known in law enforcement, prohibits them.
“Now we see the fact that they don't get tattoos because they are aware that this is an identification for us,” Tim Sullivan, the most important patrol agent for Special Operations in US Border Patrol, told El Paso Station KFOX TV.
TDA, known as incredibly adaptive and organized, issued the body's ban on the body after the members with Border Patrol and other federal agencies had dealt with in the US.
“They try to learn as much from us as we learn from them, and that is what also made them a certain point, a difficult target to assess,” FBI explained John Morales in the leadership of El Paso.
“While we try to do our work and we interview them at the border … They sent that information back and told their people:” Do not do it, do not b, don't do C, do not bring this or the other, “so that we could not detect or identify them.”
In the past year, the police in the US used the tattoos as a starting point to mark them to potential gang members.
It is not surprising that a train tattoos is a meaningful sign, because Tren is the Aragua Spanish for 'Train of Aragua'- the Venezuelan province where the group comes from.
Crowns and sentences with regard to royalty could also be branded on gang members, as the criminals operated as foot soldiers for the dictator of Venezuela, believed they were unassailable.
Tren de Aragua is now active in 21 states in the US
A suspected TDA gangster arrested in El Paso, Texas. This suspected gangster even had the meaningful signs of the criminal organization, such as the Clock Tattoo on his chest
Two of the 19 people arrested during the raid on October 19 in the Palatia Apartments in San Antonio, where the authorities say that Tren had operated on the Aragua
El Salvador's Presidium Press Office shows the arrival of alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren The Aragua in the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in the city of Tecoluca, El Salvador
'Hijos de Dios' who is Spanish for 'sons of God' or the shorter version 'HJ' can also be found on their bodies.
The gang also has affinity for the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan, often with sweaters, hats and the color red.
But even the Karmozijnrode Shadow has a draw for the origin of the gang- It is the color of the illegal president of the Venezuela party, Nicholas Maduro, is from.
Sullivan added that body art is just a way in which TDA criminals are linked to their criminal network in Venezuela.
“It has just been good police work that has been able to identify them through interviews after the judgment and the joint operations we have performed,” he said.
Those interviews are done in detail now that the border crossings have plummeted, Border Patrol confirms.
In addition, American federal agencies cross reference information with South American law enforcement officials to classify a Venezuelan migrant such as Tren the Aragua branch.
