ICE Deported Professional Soccer Player After ‘I Love You’ Sign Language Symbol Was Interpreted as Gang Sign: Affidavit

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1. Sending someone to a gulag in El Salvador is not just “deported”

2. Maybe we can prioritize spending on things like making sure people aren’t dying because they can’t afford medical treatment instead of stuff like this?

3. Every day both the stupidity and the cruelty seem to get even worse.

4. They should send Tom Homan to the torture hellscape for doing this.

5. On another episode of when boomer great grandparents take over the government

6. This man was legally seeking asylum in the US because he was tortured, with electric shocks and suffocation, in Venezuela. So the Trump administration send him to a prison in ElSalvador where prisoners are routinely tortured. I fucking hate Trump.

7. Everyone involved in this should be arrested and sent to prison.

8. It’s always projection for the Trump regime.

9. ICE agents are some of the dumbest motherfuckers in law enforcement.

10. Sounds like these racists have itchy trigger fingers. Why am I not surprised.

11. Not like he did Nazi salute

12. Im calling it now, in their haste to be racist they aren’t taking any time to check the people they’re sending, and they are going to spirit away someone with real connections and it’s going to turn this dumpster fire into a volcano eruption level event.

13. That’s too bad. If only there was some sort of constitutional mandate that required due process…

14. We now live in a third world dictatorship. I’m expecting things to continue to get worse over the next few years. 

15. He wasn’t just deported, he was sold into slavery

16. Time to make “Free Jerce Reyes Barrios” protest signs.

    This horrendous and I’m sure there are many others who were not gang members.

17. All the stories coming out are heartbreaking. So many innocent people are hurting.

    Have you heard this reasoning yet: “the fact they’re not convicted criminals just shows how good they were of committing crimes undetected”

    Trump’s authoritarianism, I predict will be the worst we’ve ever seen in the world.

18. Sadly, showing love is probably considered terrorism to these miscreants.

19. Fuck this administration. I wish we could send all of them to this prison.

20. News outlets need to stop normalizing these actions by framing them as normal “deportations”. No, sending a Venezuelan to basically a black site in El Salvador is extrajudicial rendition, like Guantanamo with al Qaeda detainees. Except this guy is a soccer player who sought asylum through the proper channels.

21. Fuck ICE, if Trump goes full fascist, I guarantee they will be his SS.

22. At this point, if this were the plot of a movie, I’d be annoyed at how fucking ridiculous and evilishly cartoonish it is. Alas.

23. He wasn’t deported. This man is from Venezuela and he was sent to a prison in El Salvador. All because the Trump administration sees human beings as fodder.

24. ICE should be sued into oblivion, dismantled and rebuilt. If not, idk, what else are people supposed to do except go after the individuals who work for this odious agency? If something isn’t done soon, this turns into, “well it’s not a problem because they aren’t coming after ME”.

25. It doesn’t even matter if he made gang signs or had gang tattoos all over himself. It’s illegal and insane to deport him.

26. Suddenly “my heart goes out to you” is gang sign

27. First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me

28. My mom knows ASL and would sometimes sign that to me, and of course I’d do it back. This is beyond horrific

29. Omg! We could deport people for that?! How far can you send them for the Hitler salute???

30. He wasn’t deported, he was sent to a slave labor camp to disappear to the outside world without anyone ever hearing from him again

31. They arrest people while interpreting signs from picture in social media while Musk is running free after doing the Nazi salute on national TV in front of everyone.

32. Y’all know conservatives are cheering for this and if you criticize them they’re going to gaslight you.

33. So proof once again that the deporting is being run by idiots?

34. This is wild. Even if it WERE a gang sign, how tf is is legal to simply deport someone without and charge, evidence of a crime or court case. This is extra-judiciary and fucking fascist. Wake the fuck up America!!!

35. “Immigration officials accused Jerce Reyes Barrios of gang membership—based on a tattoo and a hand gesture he made in a photo on social media.

    A former professional player and youth soccer coach, Reyes Barrios was detained by ICE in September 2024 after legally presenting himself at the border through the CBP One app. He had fled Venezuela after he was imprisoned and tortured for his participation in a protest against the authoritarian Maduro regime.”

    He went through the legal channels and this happened.

36. so an I love you sign is a gang sign , but an full on nazi salute is just fine ??.

37. Can we also deport that South African guy who did a Nazi gang sign on stage?

38. This is Oprah Winfrey in the 90s type bullshit.  

    When i was in grade 7 she ran some shows about child orgies and suddenly nobody was allowed to wear friendship or gummy bracelets or safety pins with beads on them because they were apparently advertisements for eating each others’ asses and fellating farm animals. It was 1990 so that was basically the entire school. 

    Then, a few years later in high school all bandanas and coloured shoelaces were banned because it meant our small town Canadian school had a Crips/Bloods problem as well as an infiltration by both militant black supremecists and the Aryan Brotherhood. 

    Now all these fucking koolaid drinkers that believed the “very bad hombres” campaign-on-racism crap think everybody with brown skin and a tattoo is a child trafficking fentanyl slinging job thief. 

39. The history books are going to treat the name ICE in the same way that ‘gestapo’ or ‘SS’ is treated

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