{"id":38556,"date":"2025-04-11T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/homeland-security-apparently-used-british-mans-tattoo-to-identify-alleged-gang-members\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:51:10","slug":"homeland-security-apparently-used-british-mans-tattoo-to-identify-alleged-gang-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/homeland-security-apparently-used-british-mans-tattoo-to-identify-alleged-gang-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland security apparently used British man\u2019s tattoo to identify alleged gang members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Average man from Derbyshire\u2019 shocked to find photo of tattoo celebrating child\u2019s birth was used to deport migrants<\/p>\n<p>A British man was shocked to discover that a photo of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/tattoos\">tattoo<\/a> was included in a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to identify alleged members of a notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/venezuela\">Venezuelan<\/a> criminal gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, 44-year-old Pete Belton, who lives in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/england\">English<\/a> county of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/derbyshire\">Derbyshire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cly22xm8kx1o\">told the BBC <\/a>that he was stunned to find a photo of his forearm tattoo featured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.67.21.pdf\">DHS document<\/a> among nine images of tattoos intended to assist in \u201cdetecting and identifying\u201d TdA members.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/11\/dhs-british-tattoo-identify-alleged-gang-venezuela\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Average man from Derbyshire\u2019 shocked to find photo of tattoo celebrating child\u2019s birth was used to deport migrants A British man was shocked to discover that a photo of his tattoo was included in a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to identify alleged members of a notorious Venezuelan criminal gang, Tren de &#8230; <a title=\"Homeland security apparently used British man\u2019s tattoo to identify alleged gang members\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/homeland-security-apparently-used-british-mans-tattoo-to-identify-alleged-gang-members\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Homeland security apparently used British man\u2019s tattoo to identify alleged gang members\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}