According to the document, any migrant who admitted to being a member of the gang was assigned 10 points, meaning that they were automatically deemed to belong to the group and were subject to immediate deportation under the Alien Enemies Act.
But the document also asserts that officials can assign four points to a migrant simply for having "tattoos denoting membership/loyalty to TDA" and another four points if law enforcement agents decide that the person in question "displays insignia, logos, notations, drawings, or dress known to indicate allegiance to TDA."
Moreover, the document says that officials can identify members of Tren de Aragua merely if they are "dressed in high-end urban street wear" — especially basketball jerseys from the Chicago Bulls or its former star player Michael Jordan.
Lawyers for the Venezuelan migrants have repeatedly claimed that officials have used the existence of tattoos to falsely accuse several people of belonging to Tren de Aragua and deporting them to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador.
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