Trump Admin Doc on Identifying Venezuelan Gang Members Features Random Brit Tourist's Tattoo

[babylonsister]

Trump Admin Doc on Identifying Venezuelan Gang Members Features Random Brit Tourist’s Tattoo
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He’s now worried a planned vacation to Miami will become a “six-month all-inclusive stay at Guantanamo.”
Tom Sanders
Reporter
Updated Apr. 11 2025 1:21PM EDT
Published Apr. 11 2025 10:51AM EDT
Pete Belton with a clock tattoo, which was identified by ICE as a possible gang tattoo

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/United States Supreme Court/Instagram


A tattoo belonging to a self-described “average middle-aged man” from Britain was included in a U.S. government guide on how to identify members of a deadly Venezuelan gang.

Pete Belton, 44, told the BBC he has no connection to Tren de Aragua (TdA)—whose members are currently being hunted down and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration.

The nearest he comes to it is that he does work for a train company.

Belton said he was shocked to learn that a picture of his tattoo—a clock face displaying the time and date of his daughter’s birth—was featured in a Department of Homeland Security document on “detecting and identifying” TdA members that was revealed in court filings.

“[It was] a bit strange, bit funny at first,” Belton told the BBC. The father—who lives in the former mining town of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, a largely rural English county—added that he’s now worried a family vacation to Miami in August could become “a six-month all-inclusive in Guantanamo.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-doc-on-identifying-venezuelan-gang-members-features-random-brit-tourists-tattoo/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump has no interest in identifying gang members.

He just kidnaps random people for show.

[regnaD kciN]

2. I would STRONGLY advise him to cancel that vacation...

Odds are, it wouldn’t be a “six-month all-inclusive in Guantanamo,” but a lifetime all-inclusive in El Salvador.

[Solly Mack]

3. Any old excuse will do when you are intent on attacking people no matter what.

[struggle4progress]

4. A libel suit would be in order